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Why The Face?
2018 || Hardcover || Jean Jullien e.a. || Phaidon
A hilarious guessing game of facial reactions created by the author of bestselling This Is Not A BookJean Jullien tickles the funnybone once again with a book of facial overreactions. Faces are presented first, allowing the reader to wager predictions of what may have prompted such an expression, before the dramatic answer is revealed. Why the face? reads the text alongside an agitated boy with eyes and nose scrunched up.
Pick up the full-page flap to reveal a whole mess of smelly items, from...
Human capital
In the fitness and active leisure sector
2018 || Hardcover || Jan Middelkamp e.a. || BlackBoxPublishers || met inkijkexemplaar
HUMAN CAPITAL
IN THE FITNESS and ACTIVE LEISURE SECTOR
Human capital is defined in multiple ways, for example the skills the labour force possesses and is regarded as a resource or asset. In most definitions it encompasses the notion that there are investments in people (e.g. education, training, development), and that these investments increase an individual's productivity, as well as the collective productivity and uniqueness of a company or group of people.
The fitness sector has grown tre...
Sharon Hayes
2018 || Paperback || Julia Bryan-Wilson e.a. || Phaidon
The first comprehensive publication to capture Hayes's unique blend of performance and social engagement which has been at the forefront of questions of feminist history, queer time, and protest culture for over a decade American artist Sharon Hayes uses photography, film, video, sound, performance, and text to interrogate the intersections between the personal and collective sphere. Her deeply affective and queer approach to history and politics draws particular attention to the language of ...
Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty
2023 || Paperback || Stefan Sagmeister e.a. || Phaidon Press Limited
ASML's architects
The story of the engineers who shaped the world's most powerful chip machines
Hardcover || René Raaijmakers || Techwatch Books || met inkijkexemplaar
ASML’s Architects
In the 1980s the American heavyweights Perkin-Elmer and GCA came under incredible fire from their Japanese competitors Canon and Nikon in the chip lithography market. As a result, the US lost its two-decade monopoly on this key technology, which is the driving force behind Moore’s law.
Meanwhile, an obscure, inconsequential lithography company in the Netherlands was taking its first steps. This company, ASML, is now an unparalleled success. It is the world’s biggest a...
Ellsworth Kelly
2022 || Hardcover || Tricia Y. Paik || Phaidon Inc Ltd
Now available in a new accessible format - the definitive monograph on one of the most revered artists of our time
Every Day A Word Surprises Me
2018 || Hardcover || Phaidon Editors || Phaidon Inc Ltd
Advice, strong opinions, and personal revelations by the world's greatest writers - exclusively researched for this new book Featuring the most inspirational and insightful collection of quotes by writers through the ages and across the globe, Every Day a Word Surprises Me is the ideal keepsake for readers, writers, and everyone who appreciates the exquisite power of words. This carefully curated book, packed with original research, is a go-to resource for thoughts on a variety of subjects, i...
Design for Children
Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, Sleep
2018 || Hardcover || Kimberlie Birks e.a. || Phaidon
A comprehensive, genre-defining survey of children's product and furniture design from Bauhaus to todayDesign for Children, a must-have book for all style-conscious and design-savvy readers, documents the evolution of design for babies, toddlers, and beyond. The book spotlights more than 450 beautiful, creative, stylish, and clever examples of designs created exclusively for kids - from toys, furniture, and tableware, to textiles, lights, and vehicles. Contemporary superstars and twentieth-ce...
The German Cookbook
2022 || Hardcover || Alfons Schuhbeck || Phaidon Press Limited