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| "Syntax : A Generative Introduction" |
| "Andrew Carnie s bestselling textbook on syntax has guided thousands of students through the discipline of theoretical syntax; retaining its popularity due to its combination of straightforward language comprehensive coverage and numerous exercises In this third edition topics have been updated new exercises added and the online resources have been expanded Supported by expanded online student and instructor resources including extra chapters on HPSG LFG and time-saving materials for lecturers including problem sets PowerPoint slides and an instructors manualFeatures new chapters on ellipsis auxiliaries and non-configurational languagesCovers topics including phrase structure the lexicon Case theory movement covert movement locality conditions VP shells and controlAccompanied by a new optional workbook available separately of sample problem sets which are designed to give students greater experience of analyzing syntactic structure"
Price: 37.99 |
| "Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave (British Museum) Hardcover" |
| "Hokusai created sublime works during the last thirty years of his life right up to his death at the age of ninety Publications have hitherto presented his long career as a chronological sequence This book takes a fresh approach based on innovative scholarship thematic groupings of works are related to the major spiritual and artistic quests of Hokusai&39;s life Hokusai&39;s personal beliefs are studied here through major brush paintings drawings woodblock prints and illustrated books The book gives due attention to the contribution of Hokusai&39;s daughter Eijo (Oi) an accomplished artist in her own right Hokusai continually explored the mutability and minutiae of natural phenomena in his art His late subjects and styles were based on a mastery of eclectic Japanese Chinese and European techniques and an encyclopaedic knowledge of nature myth and history Mount Fuji was the most significant model for Hokusai in his quest for immortality This collection of Hokusai&39;s works draws on the finest to be found in Japan and around the world making this the most important publication for years on Hokusai and a uniquely valuable overview of the artist&39;s late career"
Price: 23.49 |
| "Graphic Design: A Concise History" |
| "The story of graphic design is one of the most exciting and most important in the history of 20th-century visual culture Created to inform identify and promote graphic design has evolved from its roots in the development of printing to become a profession and a discipline in its own right This authoritative documentary history begins with the poster and goes on to chart the development of word and image in brochures and magazines advertising corporate identity television and electronic media and the effects of technical innovations such as photography and the computer A new final chapter in this revised edition covers the international development and leading practitioners in graphic design over the past ten years exploring in particular the revolutionary impact of digital technology Designers and companies discussed here include Tibor Kalman David Carson Jeffrey Keedy Edward Fella Pierre di Sciullo Fontshop Tomato LettError Design Writing Research Gerard Unger Fred Smeijers and Cornel Windlin"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Art Since 1989" |
| "The years since 1989 have seen a complete untethering of what art can be who makes it and where it can be found which has been matched by a reassessment of art's appropriate place in society and the financial value that should be attached to it In this new book in the World of Art series Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art practice worldwide since 1989 going in search of those artists who have undertaken to shape a fresh visual vocabulary and whose work reflects on these turbulent years The book's ten chapters examine the key themes in contemporary art from portraiture in the age of face transplants and facial recognition software to political activism science and religion Artists discussed include Jeff Koons Louise Bourgeois Damien Hirst George Condo Marlene Dumas Sean Scully Cindy Sherman Banksy Ai Weiwei Antony Gormley Christo and Jean-Claude Jenny Holzer Chuck Close and Cornelia Parker The final chapter a timeline traces the evolution of art practice in this period by looking closely at one key artwork from each year"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Animation: The Global History" |
| "Maureen Furniss surveys the cultural political and economic context of how this dynamic industry evolved emphasizing both artistic and technical achievements from around the world - from Hollywood to Tokyo from Moscow to Sydney Featuring a timeline for each of its six parts Animation The Global History provides readers with a clear and accessible chronology of events A 'Global Storyline' highlighting the major themes of the era opens each chapter and an end-of-book glossary defines key terms used throughout the book"
Price: 34.49 |
| "Magnum Magnum" |
| "Here is the popular yet complete paperback edition of the hugely acclaimed Magnum Magnum which was an instant sellout on first publication in 2007 It celebrates sixty years of the vision imagination and brilliance of Magnum photographers in over 400 photographs by the acknowledged greats of photography in the 20th century and the rising stars of our time Each photographer is represented by six of their works as chosen by and including a critical text by another member Including biographies of the featured photographers a history of Magnum Photos by Brigitte Lardinois and a bibliography of Magnum books Magnum Magnum makes available to a wider audience one of the greatest photography anthologies of recent years an essential book for anyone interested in photography or the world depicted by it"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Chineasy Everyday : The World of Chineasy Characters" |
| "ShaoLan Hsueh a Taiwanese entrepreneur based in London couldn't find an effective way of teaching her children Chinese so she developed a groundbreaking visual method to make reading characters fun and easy By learning the most commonly occurring characters - the building blocks of the entire language - readers of all ages can swiftly grasp basic concepts and words Chineasy(TM) Everyday teaches over 400 of the most used and useful Chinese characters phrases and sentences Organized into eleven themes that reflect our daily lives it brings the stories and myths behind the characters to life providing a unique perspective into Chinese history and culture 'Learning Mandarin just got Chineasy(TM)May revolutionize the teaching of Chinese around the world' The Sunday Times"
Price: 14.49 |
| "Russian Art of the Avant-Garde : Theory and Criticism" |
| "During the first third of the 20th century Russian art went through a series of dramatic changes reflecting the political and social upheavals of the country and producing - for a brief exciting period - a body of avant-garde work whose influence would eventually be felt throughout the rest of the world Eagerly breaking with the past and absorbing the innovations of Europe a new generation of young artists developed a host of fresh ideas and original styles such as Neo-primitivism Rayonism Suprematism and Constructivism John Bowlt has collected and translated manifestos articles and declarations by the principal artists and critics of the era including Kandinsky Lissitsky Malevich Goncharova and Rodchenko as well as many lesser-known but nonetheless key players Illustrated with more than 100 rare photographs and facsimiles and supplemented by clear introductory essays up-to-date biographical information and copious notes this is the essential sourcebook for a clear understanding of the motivations and struggles that produced an extraordinary seminal period in Russian art"
Price: 13.99 |
| "Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays by Alaina Lemon (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Since the Cold War Americans and Russians alike have cultivated a special fascination with the workings and failures of communication Each has accused the other of media jamming and propaganda posed competing claims to expression and creativity and even released mirroring rumors of telepathic connections and interstellar contacts Technologies for Intuition explores the ways in which people hone techniques to discern and describe channels and contacts including those that seem weak and failed or blocked and invisible Specifically it explores stagings of communicative energy through paranormal experiments in telepathy drills to build theatrical empathy and other phenomena The author examines settings where media and performance professionals encounter neophytes where insiders mix with foreigners and where skeptics debate naifs Moving back and forth across geopolitical borders the book shows how the phenomena at hand have developed through historical events and relations in conflict and in conversation The author suggests that Cold War preoccupations and strategies have marked theoretical models of communication and mediation even while infusing everyday practical technologies for intuition"
Price: 20.99 |
| "Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course by Paul Horowitz, Thomas C. Hayes (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "This introduction to circuit design is unusual in several respects First it offers not just explanations but a full course Each of the twenty-five sessions begins with a discussion of a particular sort of circuit followed by the chance to try it out and see how it actually behaves Accordingly students understand the circuit's operation in a way that is deeper and much more satisfying than the manipulation of formulas Second it describes circuits that more traditional engineering introductions would postpone on the third day we build a radio receiver; on the fifth day we build an operational amplifier from an array of transistors The digital half of the course centers on applying microcontrollers but gives exposure to Verilog a powerful Hardware Description Language Third it proceeds at a rapid pace but requires no prior knowledge of electronics Students gain intuitive understanding through immersion in good circuit design"
Price: 43.49 |
| "Essential BULATS with Audio CD and CD-ROM by John O. E. Clark, Cambridge ESOL (Mixed media product, 2005)" |
| "Essential BULATS is for anyone preparing to take the BULATS test (Business Language Testing Service) and can be used at home or in class The book is organised by paper type and covers all parts of the BULATS test Practice material prepares students for each part of the test and this is followed by a sample practice test section from Cambridge ESOL which offers the most authentic test preparation available"
Price: 24.49 |
| "Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical stage and screen interpretations This second edition of Macbeth provides a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays In his introduction A R Braunmuller explores Macbeth's immediate theatrical and political contexts particularly the Gunpowder Plot and addresses such celebrated questions as do the Witches compel Macbeth to murder; is Lady Macbeth herself in some sense a witch; is Macduff morally culpable? A new and well-illustrated account of the play in performance examines several cinematic versions such as those by Kurosawa and Roman Polanski as well as other dramatic adaptations Several possible new sources are suggested and the presence of Thomas Middleton's writing in the play is also proposed"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Hacker by Malorie Blackman (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "MESSAGE This is the system operator Who is using this account? Please identify yourself When Vicky's father is arrested accused of stealing over a million pounds from the bank where he works she is determined to prove his innocence But how? There's only one way - to attempt to break into the bank's computer files Even if Vicky is the best hacker in the world will she find the real thief before they find her?"
Price: 5.49 |
| "The Sorceress: Book 3 by Michael Scott (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Dr John Dee has destroyed Paris in his mission to find Nicholas Flamel and Sophie and Josh Newman The two missing pages of the book of Abraham the Mage are still with them and the Dark Elders need them for the Final Summoning They will not rest until they are in power and the human race has been destroyed Nicholas Flamel knows he must protect Josh and Sophie and the pages from the Dark Elders For this he must rely on Clarent - the sister sword to Excalibur - and the sword's evil power makes it nearly impossible to use without darkness seeping into the soul of whoever wields it What will be the price to pay for the twins to remain protected and the Dark Elders to be defeated?"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Looking at the Stars by Jo Cotterill (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "What if the only thing you had left were the stories in your head?Amina's homeland has been ravaged by war and her family is devastated The women of the family - Amina her two sisters and their mother - have no choice but to leave their home town along with thousands of others and head for a refugee camp But there are even more challenges ahead"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "Four Quartets is the culminating achievement of TS Eliot's career as a poet While containing some of the most musical and unforgettable passages in twentieth-century poetry its four parts 'Burnt Norton' 'East Coker' 'The Dry Salvages' and 'Little Gidding' present a rigorous meditation on the spiritual philosophical and personal themes which preoccupied the author It was the way in which a private voice was heard to speak for the concerns of an entire generation in the midst of war and doubt that confirmed it as an enduring masterpiece"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Translations by Brian Friel (Paperback, 1981)" |
| "The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers making the first Ordnance Survey For the purposes of cartography the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group Brian Friel skilfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers Goldberg and McCann An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmareThe Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic produced and studied throughout the world"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Tales from Ovid Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes, Ovid (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "When Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995 Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding He had shown that rare translator's gift for providing not just an accurate account of the original but one so thoroughly imbued with his own qualities that it was as if Latin and English poet were somehow the same person Tales from Ovid which went on to win the Whitbread Prize for Poetry continued the project of recreation with 24 passages including the stories of Phaeton Actaeon Echo and Narcissus Procne Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe In them Hughes's supreme narrative and poetic skills combine to produce a book that stands alongside his Crow and Gaudete as an inspired addition to the myth-making of our time"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Annie Dunne" |
| "Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland All about them the old green roads are being tarred cars are being purchased a way of life is about to disappear Like two old rooks they hold to their hill in Kelsha cherishing everything When Annie's nephew and his wife are set to go to London to find work their two small children a little boy and his older sister are brought down to spend the summer with their grand-aunt It is a strange chance of happiness for Annie Against that happiness moves the figure of Billy Kerr with his ambiguous attentions to Sarah threatening to drive Annie from her last niche of safety in the world The world of childish innocence also proves sometimes darkened and puzzling to her and she struggles to find clear ground clear light - to preserve her sense of love and place against these subtle forces of disquiet A summer of adventure pain delight and ultimately epiphany unfolds for both the children and their elderly caretakers in this poignant and exquisitely told story of innocence loss and reconciliation"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Slab Boys Trilogy" |
| "Spanning the 1950s to the 70s the plays capture the rebellious mood of a post-war generation growing up to a backdrop of James Dean Elvis sharp-suited glamour hope and despairJohn Byrne takes the slab room he worked in and makes it pure theatre the scams the dreams the aloof but gorgeous girl the despair of life back home the obligatory tormenting of the office 'weed' and the mandatory boy chat and pranks all help the day to pass Phil and Spanky explode onto the stage in a classic vaudeville double-actNow considered one of Scotland's defining literary works of the twentieth century the Slab Boys Trilogy premiered at the Traverse back in the late 1970s and early 80s taking Scotland then Britain and then Broadway quickly by stormThe Traverse revived the Slab Boys Trilogy for the theatre's fortieth anniversary in November 2003"
Price: 8.99 |
| "No Angel : The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone" |
| "'I'm no angel' Bernie Ecclestone Born into poverty Bernie Ecclestone has made himself a billionaire by developing the world's second most popular sport - Formula One racing Private mysterious and some say sinister the eighty-year-old criss-crosses the globe in his private jet mixing with celebrities statesmen and sporting heroes His success is not just in creating a multibillion-pound global business but in resisting repeated attempts to snatch the glittering prize from his control Ecclestone has never before revealed how he graduated from selling second-hand cars in London's notorious Warren Street to become the major player he is today He has finally decided to reveal his secrets the deals the marriages the disasters and the successes in Formula One racing in Downing Street in casinos on yachts and in the air Surprisingly he has granted access to his inner circle to Tom Bower described by Ecclestone as 'The Undertaker' - the man who buries reputations - and has given him access to all his friends and enemies All have been told by Ecclestone 'Tell him the truth good or bad' No Angel is a classic rags-to-riches story the unique portrayal of a unique man and an intriguing insight into Formula One racing business and the human spirit Tom Bower is the author of nineteen books including biographies of Robert Maxwell Mohamed Fayed Gordon Brown Richard Branson Conrad Black and more recently Simon Cowell"
Price: 9.99 |
| "The Temporary Gentleman" |
| "From the bestselling author of The Secret Scripture a heartbreaking story of lost love Jack McNulty a former UN observer has worked around the world and seen extraordinary things but as he contemplates his return to Ireland after many years his memories are dominated by his tumultuous marriage to Mai Kirwan A great beauty with a vivid mind Mai was also an elusive and troubled soul stuck in a marriage that couldn't last The Temporary Gentleman is a powerful account of one man's attempt to come to terms with the savage realities of the past"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Constellations by Nick Payne (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "One relationship Infinite possibilities'Let's go for a drink I don't know what I'm doing here anyway One drink And if you never want to see me again you never have to see me again'Nick Payne's Constellations is a play about free will and friendship; it's about quantum multiverse theory love and honeyConstellations premiered at the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre London in January 2012 It transferred to the Duke Of York's Theatre London in November and was awarded the Evening Standard award for Best New Play 2012"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Where the Wild Mums Are" |
| "The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath In this hilarious touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Mums are Dazzled by her party tricks they crown her Queen of the Wild Mums and try to entice her to join their conga But Mum has just remembered who she loves best of all Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers new mums - or any mum who's ever wanted to go on strike"
Price: 7.99 |
| "House of Windows" |
| "'The body is a house of many windows there we all sit showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us' Robert Louis Stevenson Nick hates it when people call him a genius Sure he's going to Cambridge University aged 15 but he says that's just because he works hard And secretly he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic fatherNot that his strategy is working When he arrives at Cambridge he finds the work hard and socialising even harder Until that is he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Beast (Buckmaster Trilogy 2) Paperback" |
| "What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about that now that I have spent a year here watching the layers peel off stripping myself back Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster a man living alone on a west-country moor What he has left behind we don&39;t quite know; what he faces is a battle with himself the elements and with the animal he begins to see in the margins of his vision A creature that will become an obsession "
Price: 5.99 |
| "Say Nothing" |
| "A normal Wednesday afternoon and Judge Scott Sampson is preparing to pick up his six-year-old twins from school His wife Alison texts with a change of plan - she will be collecting them instead But when Alison arrives home later she is alone and denies any knowledge of the textThen the phone rings a voice warns them that if they want to see their children again Scott must do exactly what he is told in an upcoming court case and most importantly they must 'say nothing'"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Bone Gap" |
| "He'd been drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place that the bones of the world were a little looser here double-jointed twisting back on themselves leaving spaces one could slip into and hide Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps - gaps to trip you up gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever So when young beautiful Roza goes missing the people of Bone Gap aren't surprised After all it isn't the first time someone's slipped away and left Finn and Sean O'Sullivan on their own Finn knows that's not what happened with Roza He knows she was taken ripped from the cornfields by a man whose face he can't remember But no one believes him anymore Well almost no one Petey Willis the beekeeper's daughter suspects that lurking behind Finn's fearful shyness is a story worth uncovering But as we like Petey follow the stories of Finn Roza and the people of Bone Gap - their melancholy pasts their terrifying presents their uncertain futures - the truth about what happened to Roza is slowly revealed And it is stranger than you can possibly imagine"
Price: 6.99 |
| "The Snow Sister" |
| "Ever since her sister Agnes died Pearl has a tradition every time it snows She makes a person out of snow A snow sister It makes Christmas feel a little less lonelyOn Christmas Eve her father receives a letter about a long-lost relative's will Is their luck about to change? In anticipation of a better Christmas Pearl goes to beg credit at Mr Noble's grocery to get ingredients for a Christmas pudding But she is refused and chased down the street where she is hit by a hansom cab The snow is falling so hard that they can't take her home She'll have to stay at Flintfield Manor overnight in a haunted room Will Pearl make it home for Christmas?"
Price: 4.99 |
