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Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.' This is a captivating meditation on culture, language, time, memory and the nature of human experience. 'Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose... The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island' Jeanette Winterson 'Touches inexhaustibly on the essence of the human urge to create cities, be in cities, speak of cities' Guardian 'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times
The region of Rough Cilicia (modern area the south-western coastal area of Turkey), known in antiquity as Cilicia Tracheia, constitutes the western part of the larger area of Cilicia. It is characterised by the ruggedness of its territory and the protection afforded by the high mountains combined with the rugged seacoast fostered the prolific piracy that developed in the late Hellenistic period, bringing much notoriety to the area. It was also known as a source of timber, primarily for shipbuilding. The twenty-two papers presented here give a useful overview on current research on Rough Cilicia, from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period, with a variety of methods, from surveys to excavatio...
More than 100 extraordinary desserts—with photos and meticulous instructions—by the creator of the internationally acclaimed blog Cafe Fernando: “Superb.” —David Lebovitz, bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen Written, styled, photographed, and designed by Cenk Sönmezsoy, The Artful Baker shares the inspiring story of a passionate home baker, beginning with his years after graduate school in San Francisco and showcasing the fruits of a baking obsession he cultivated after returning home to Istanbul. Sönmezsoy’s stories and uniquely styled images, together with his original creations and fresh take on traditional recipes, offer a window into the life of this luminary artist. Th...
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“Ne geçmiş vardır ne gelecek; sadece sonsuz bir şimdi vardır.” A. Cowley Önünüzde birden fazla yol ve tek bir hedef olduğunu düşünün. Bu yolları doğru ya da yanlış yapan nedenler nelerdir? Seçiminizi yaparken aklınıza ilk önce bildiğiniz veya en kalabalık yola girmek gelir. Bunun nedeni kişisel ve toplumsal alışkanlıklarımız. Alışkanlık hem kötü hem de iyi yanlarımızı dışarı yansıttığımız davranış biçimleridir. Alışkanlıklarımızın doğruluğu ya da yanlışlığı bizim değerlerimize ve çevremize göre değişir. Nasıl tek bir doğru yoksa, tek bir yanlış da olamaz. Bundan dolayı bir şeyi alışkanlık haline getirmeden önce k...
A manual for verbal self-defense explains how to transform hostility, eliminate aggression, handle tormenters, control emotion, and promote harmonious conversation
An exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form. In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative ...
Accompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.
Size anlatılan her hikayenin bir yalan olduğunu öğrenseydiniz ne hissederdiniz? Ya sizi yönetenlerin sadece dolandırıcı, hırsız ve katillerden oluştuğunu? Ya siz kanunlara uyup, onlara para sağlayan gönüllü kölelerken, onların şatafatlı yaşamları kanunlardan azadeyse? Atlas'a dönen Sam ve Alex yeni problemlerle yüzleşirken şehir başka zorluklarla karşılaşıyor... Çünkü kaosun özü olan fırtına Atlas'ın içinde ilk rüzgarlarını vermeye başlıyor. Artık kimse tarafsız kalamayacak...