A painterly dialogue with humanist values at the Doge's Palace in Venice Can there be such a thing as a public art founded on universal values? This was the question that the German artist Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) tackled while conceiving his installation for the Doge's Palace in Venice. Invited to participate in the celebration of the city's 1600th anniversary, Kiefer developed a project specifically for the Chamber of the Ballot, an immense room inside the Gothic palace: a series of paintings in dialogue with the heroic values inscribed in the chamber's 33 artworks by the Italian masters Tintoretto, Andrea Vicentino and Palma the Giovane. The series, These writings, when burned, will finally cast a little light , takes its title from the writings of the Venetian philosopher Andrea Emo. This volume gathers a series of philosophical and art historical responses to Kiefer's installation, featuring essays by Janne Sirén, Gabriella Belli and Hans Ulrich Obrist, among others.

Anselm Kiefer

Variant: Anselm Kiefer

Warehouse 200

Press out and make your own Viking ship model, based on one of the most famous Viking ships ever to be found. Use the punch out pieces to build your ship and place your crew at the helm, ready for an adventure on the sea. Attractively re-packaged with easy to follow instructions for assembly, this ship model kit is fun for all the family, and even contains a brief introduction to Viking ships, in particular the Oseberg ship of the ninth century AD, upon which this model is based. (Carries EU Toy Safety Directive 'CE' logo).

Make Your Own Viking Ship

Variant: Make Your Own Viking Ship

Does climate change cause conflict? Did it cause the Syrian uprising? Some policymakers and academics have made this claim, but is it true? This study presents a new conceptual framework to evaluate this claim. Contributing to scholarship in the fields of critical security, environmental security, human security, and Arab politics, Marwa Daoudy prioritizes non-Western and marginalized perspectives to make sense of Syria's place in this international debate. Designing an innovative multidisciplinary framework and applying it to the Syrian case, Daoudy uses extensive field research and her own personal background as a Syrian scholar to present primary interviews with Syrian government officials and citizens, as well as the research of domestic Syrian experts, to provide a unique insight into Syria's environmental, economic and social vulnerabilities leading up to the 2011 uprising.

The Origins of the Syrian Conflict

Variant: The origins of the Syrian conflict

This Companion presents a new understanding of the relationship between music and culture in and around the nineteenth century, and encourages readers to explore what Romanticism in music might mean today. Challenging the view that musical 'romanticism' is confined to a particular style or period, it reveals instead the multiple intersections between the phenomenon of Romanticism and music. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches, and reflecting current scholarly debates across the humanities, it places music at the heart of a nexus of Romantic themes and concerns. Written by a dynamic team of leading younger scholars and established authorities, it gives a state-of-the-art yet accessible overview of current thinking on this popular topic.

The Cambridge Companion To Music and Romanticism

Variant: The Cambridge companion to music and romanticism

For eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors such as Burke, Constant, and Mill, a powerful representative assembly that freely deliberated and controlled the executive was the de?ning institution of a liberal state. Yet these ?gures also feared that representative assemblies were susceptible to usurpation, gridlock, and corruption. Parliamentarism was their answer to this dilemma: a constitutional model that enabled a nation to be truly governed by a representative assembly. O?ering novel interpretations of canonical liberal authors, this history of liberal political ideas suggests a new paradigm for interpreting the development of modern political thought, inspiring fresh perspectives on historical issues from the eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. In doing so, Selinger suggests the wider signi?cance of parliament and the theory of parliamentarism in the development of European political thought, revealing how contemporary democratic theory, and indeed the challenges facing representative government today, are historically indebted to classical parliamentarism.

Parliamentarism

Variant: Parliamentarism

Victor and Maya travel to Chile, South America to visit their friend, Natalia. The kids explore the mountain side looking for gold, jewels and a chance to spot a rare Andean Cat. Local legend says seeing an Andean Cat can bring good luck. The kids enter an abandoned mine where they encounter an Andean Cat who is trapped. As they free the Andean Cat, an earthquake shakes rocks loose, that trap Maya in the mine. See how God leads her to safety. Will she get out? Can the Andean Cat bring luck and help save Maya?

Chilean Mines

Variant: Chilean mines

From a scaly little alligator hatchling to a long-legged zebra foal, children will delight in interacting with these 26 adorable baby animals. Filled with eye-catching photos of animals in their natural surroundings paired with playful rhymes, these books will instill a love of nature while teaching the ABCs.

Baby Animals First ABC Book

Variant: Baby animals first ABC book

In Gypsy Magic , Romany author Patrinella Cooper shares some of the amazing Gypsy secrets that are passed down from generation to generation. Discover: - Simple Gypsy spells and charms for health, wealth, happiness and love - The art of fortune-telling, including palmistry, the tarot, dreams, reading the tea-leaves and using a crystal ball - How to read nature's signs and omens - Natural remedies, healing herbs and holistic treatments for health and beauty A book that readers will want to dip in to again and again - whether to read their fortune in the cards or simply cure a cough - Gypsy Magic is the closest that most of us will ever get to running away with the gypsies.

Gypsy Magic

Variant: Gypsy magic

Would you like to create more abundance in your life and experience financial freedom? Have better success in choosing the right business and personal relationships? Reach a higher expression of your creativity and ingenuity? And live a healthier, more fulfilling life? In this immensely practical and insightful book, Sharon Klingler helps you to open the door of possibility by learning to listen to a voice that doesn't even make a sound - the voice of your intuition. In three clear sections, you can discover:--What intuition is and how to identify your intuitive voice--How notable people past and present have used intuition to inform their most important decisions--Your current I. Q. or Intuition Quotient from answering a simple questionnaire--The A, B, Cs of Applied Intuition and how to create the intuitive experience at will

Intuition and Beyond

Variant: Intuition and beyond

The fast-track guide for the smart traveller Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider's checklist of all you need to know about the world's most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we've done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars and hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores and sites, and the most enticing architecture and design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city's landscape and the satisfaction you've seen all that you should. In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer.

Singapore

Variant: Singapore

This baby is not comforted by a teddy bear or toy. This baby wants only one thing: milk! When baby is hungry, neither his teddy bear, his ball, nor even his shiny tambourine will soothe him. This tribute to the nursing baby - and even more so, to the breastfeeding mother - will read as conventional to babies and toddlers but as taboo-busting to parents. Celebrate the natural magic of growing a baby with this simply worded, expertly illustrated, and shockingly honest shaped board book. Perfect for nursing babies, older siblings, and expectant parents. A sure-to-be favorite baby shower gift! Ages 0-2

What Does Baby Want?

Variant: What does baby want?

______________ THE FIRST BOOK IN A BRAND NEW TRILOGY BY Bestselling author Mary Wood writing as Maggie Mason The next instalment - Blackpool Sisters - is available to PRE-ORDER NOW! 'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson' Jean Fullerton on Blackpool Lass ______________ Blackpool, 1893 Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a small but comfortable home, a loving, handsome husband, two beautiful little'uns - Babs and Beth - and she earns herself a little money weaving wicker baskets. Life is good. Until the day Tilly returns home to find a policeman standing on her doorstep. Her Arthur won't be coming home tonight - nor any night - having fallen to his death whilst working on Blackpool tower. Suddenly Tilly is her daughters' sole protector, and she's never felt more alone. With the threat of destitution nipping at their heels, Tilly struggles to make ends meet and keep a roof over her girls' heads. In a town run by men Tilly has to ask herself what she's willing to do to keep her family together and safe - and will it be enough? The perfect read for fans of Mary Wood, Kitty Neale, Val Wood and Nadine Dorries

Blackpool's Angel

Variant: Blackpool's angel

This revised edition, originally published as Stories of the Amautalik , shares two spinetingling tales of the dreaded ogress of the tundra, a creature that carries away unsuspecting children on her back! New illustration in this edition bring the amautalik to life in even greater, creepier detail than the original. Revised text and additional content make this new edition a must-buy for young readers who are intrigued with the dark and dreaded beings of Inuit mythology!

The Dreaded Ogress of the Tundra

Variant: The dreaded ogress of the tundra

The Activity Book reinforces and extends the language, concepts and skills from the Pupil's Book. The activities recycle and extend language, providing extensive writing practice and additional activities. Designed for use after children have completed the relevant Pupil's Book lesson, the Activity Book can be used in class or for homework.

Learning Stars Level 1 Activity Book

Variant: Learning Stars Level 1 Activity Book

Little fibs can lead to big trouble! Julian hates bicycles. He thinks they are boring and stupid . . . and maybe just a little bit scary. But his best friend, Gloria, has just got a new bike, and all she wants is to go cycling with him. Julian needs to think of an excuse, and fast. Surely anything is better than braving a bicycle. Even if it means sweeping floors, weeding the garden and doing chores all summer . . .

Julian's Glorious Summer

Variant: Julian's glorious summer

Follow a little fish on her epic journey downriver as she travels out into the unknown. With stunning artwork from Hanako Clulow, a lyrical narrative and a magical 'swimming fish' on every page, this is a book to treasure and revisit time and again.

The River

Variant: The river

Berlitz Pocket Guides: iconic style, a bestselling brand, this is the quintessential pocket-sized travel guide to the French Riviera, and now comes with a bi-lingual dictionary Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide with new bi-lingual dictionary is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering what to do and see in the French Riviera, from top attractions like Cannes, Monaco, Monte Carlo and Vieux Nice, to hidden gems, including Grasse's perfume factories and the canals of Port-Grimaud. This will save you time, and enhance your exploration of this thrilling region. Compact, concise, and packed with essential information, this is an iconic on-the-move companion when you're exploring the French Riviera Covers Top Ten Attractions and Perfect Day itinerary suggestions, including the Plage de Pampelonne in St Tropez, Matisse's Chapelle du Rosaire, modernist Villa Noailles and the impressive Massif d'Esterel Nifty new bi-lingual dictionary section makes this the perfect portable package for short trip travellers Includes an insightful overview of landscape, history and culture Handy colour maps on the inside cover flaps will help you find your way around Essential practical information on everything from Eating Out to Getting Around Inspirational colour photography throughout Sharp design and colour-coded sections make for an engaging reading experience About Berlitz: Berlitz draws on years of travel and language expertise to bring you a wide range of travel and language products, including travel guides, maps, phrase books, language-learning courses, dictionaries and kids' language products.

French Riviera Berlitz Pocket Guide

Variant: French Riviera Berlitz Pocket Guide

Efim Bogoljubov was one of the world's very strongest players in the 1920s and 1930s. Twice he played Alexander Alekhine for the world championship title (1929 and 1934) and he won the famous Moscow 1925 tournament, ahead of Jose Capablanca, Emanuel Lasker and many other stars. He also won the Soviet championship in 1924 and 1925, as well as a host of other international tournaments. His play featured many sparkling combinations, as well as a deep positional understanding. International Master Grigory Bogdanovich has written a two-volume treatise on Bogoljubov's life and games, covering over four hundred fully annotated games and fragments over both volumes. His analysis of Bogoljubov's games is split into instructive themes, making his treatise a fantastic textbook for learning a huge range of winning techniques. In the present Volume I, which contains 194 games and fragments, Bogdanovich covers the topics of objectivity, imagination, combinational play, piece and pawn sacrifices, play with rook's pawns, pawn phalanxes, restriction play, conversion of an advantage, exchanges and central strategy. Drawing on contemporary sources with the addition of modern computer analysis, the author provides annotations by Bogoljubov himself, Alekhine, Lasker, Mikhail Botvinnik, Aron Nimzowitsch, Savielly Tartakower, Hans Kmoch and many other famous players and teachers. The biographical section will also be of immense interest to chess historians. It contains a number of original documents written by and to Bogoljubov previously unpublished in the West, and in some cases not published at all. They were originally selected by the late Anatoly Matsukevich, who had planned to write his own biography of Bogoljubov and who had obtained these documents from Bogoljubov's personal archive. Topics covered include plans for a match against Capablanca and an earlier match against Alekhine before the latter became world champion, neither of which materialized. The book also contains a number of photos of Bogoljubov, from both chess and family life.

The Creative Power of Bogoljubov Volume I

Variant: The Creative Power of Bogoljubov Volume I

International Master Tibor Karolyi and FIDE Master Tigran Gyozalyan have written a comprehensive two-volume treatise on the life and games of Tigran Petrosian, who was world champion from 1963-1969. The present Volume II takes the reader on a journey from Tigran's victory in the 1963 world title match against Mikhail Botvinnik, when he firmly established himself as the best player in the world, through his next two title matches against Boris Spassky in 1966 and 1969 and subsequent candidates matches against Bobby Fischer, Victor Korchnoi and other world-class players of the era. It covers all his tournaments and matches of the second half of his career, ending with his final games in 1983. Karolyi and Gyozalyan provide deep modern analysis of 175 full games and fragments, and summarise almost all known games played by Petrosian in the period. They also provide considerable background colour on each game, with round-by-round analysis of tournaments and matches in which they were played. Many of these games have not previously been analysed in detail in modern books, and those that were have nevertheless been subjected to considerably improved analysis. Petrosian's opponents in Volume II include world champions and challengers Kasparov, Karpov, Fischer, Spassky, Tal, Smyslov, Botvinnik, Korchnoi, and Bronstein, as well as leading players such as Timman, Larsen, Reshevsky, Beliavsky, Polugaevsky, Portisch, Romanishin, and many others. There is a special focus on his coaches Suetin and Zaitsev. An added bonus is the inclusion of rare photos taken from private collections in Georgia and Armenia, many of which have never before been published in the West.

Petrosian Year By Year

Variant: Petrosian Year by Year

The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic  Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia.  In this colorful documentary from the tenth century, the enigmatic Ibn Fadlan relates his experiences as part of an embassy sent by Caliph al-Muqtadir to deliver political and religious instruction to the recently-converted King of the Bulghars. During eleven months of grueling travel, Ibn Fadlan records the marvels he witnesses on his journey, including an aurora borealis and the white nights of the North. Crucially, he offers a description of the Viking Rus, including their customs, clothing, body painting, and a striking account of a ship funeral. Together, these anecdotes illuminate a vibrant world of diversity during the heyday of the Abbasid Empire, narrated with as much curiosity and zeal as they were perceived by its observant beholder.  An English-only edition.

Anselm Kiefer

Dublog

Delivery

Returns

Dubray Card