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Take a tour of the British Isles with this entertaining atlas and 300-piece jigsaw, with hundreds of animals, landmarks and attractions to spot. The sturdy box contains a vividly illustrated jigsaw of a map of Britain and Ireland, plus a 24-page picture atlas showing each region with towns and cities, rivers, flags and other details. (The Picture Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland is also available separately.)
Take a tour of the British Isles with this stylish, fact-filled atlas. Lively illustrations and colourful picture maps allow you to explore famous landmarks, towns and cities, wildlife, customs and history along the way. Illustrations: Full colour throughout
This combination of two key works by the Italian avant-garde writer Giorgio Manganelli (1922-90) is a major addition to the small number of his works available in English. In the 1960s Manganelli was a member, along with Umberto Eco and Eduardo Sanguinetti, of the Gruppo 63 movement, and a close friend of Italo Calvino, who provides an enthusiastic foreword that describes "To Those Gods Beyond" (1972) as a "heraldic bestiary" that "launches into a crescendo of variations on its main theme, the self-aggrandisement of a lucid megalomaniac." Perhaps the best known of his works included here, "An Impossible Love," comprises an epistolary exchange between Hamlet and the Princess of Cleves conduct...
Having spent the early thirties in far-left groups opposing Fascism, in 1937 Georges Bataille abandoned this approach so as to transfer the struggle onto the mythological plane, founding two groups with this aim in mind. The College of Sociology gave lectures attended by major figures from the Parisian intelligentsia - intended to reveal the hidden undercurrents within a society that appeared to be bordering on collapse. The texts in this book comprise lectures given to the College; essays from the Acephale journal and a large cache of the internal papers of the secret society of Acephale.
Pore over each of the world's continents with this entertaining atlas and 300-piece jigsaw, with hundreds of animals, landmarks and attractions to spot and talk about. The sturdy box contains a vividly illustrated 300-piece jigsaw of a world map, plus a 32-page picture atlas (also sold separately as Atlas of the World Picture Book and Sticker Picture Atlas of the World.)
In The Man of Jasmine, Zðrn's vivid descriptive powers make for an unforgettable literary as well as a psychological masterpiece. She describes with disarming lucidity her experience with thirteen years of mental health crises, culminating in her death from suicide in 1970. Zðrn's familiarity with Surrealist conceptions of the psyche, her extraordinary self-possession during horrific experiences, and her compulsion to construct anagrams to make sense of language have let her to be recognised as a great artist, 25 years after the initial publication of this account by Atlas Press.
"Contains essential information needed to understand how the human body moves and maintains posture. There are 40 accurate anatomical illustrations in colour and every part of the moving body is fully described, identified and indexed. In addition there are tables of muscles, joints, posture and movement patterns, definitions of technical terms and a listing of common types of injury. It draws together knowledge from several different areas of medical science, and presents it in a very clear and simple style." --Cover.
A remarkable illustrated text produced by the,author during one of her stays in a mental,institution.,.