The first and most comprehensive step-by-step guide on the subject, "Watchmaking" has become a classic in its own right. This new edition is updated to include a new section which discusses and illustrates a variety of the author's own watches. The au…
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell's entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from…
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The author of the acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller "The Next 100 Years" now focuses his geopolitical forecasting acumen on the next decade and the imminent…
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The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. He worked with nonprofessional actors models, as he called them and deployed a starkl…