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At the vanguard of fashion, design and art, Another Magazin ... Read more

At the vanguard of fashion, design and art, Another Magazine has, over the past decade, become known for its signature fusion of fashion photography and classic portraiture: a sultry Uma Thurman, for instance, half of her face covered with a delicate butterfly mask, or Christina Ricci defiantly taking a pair of scissors to her own ponytail. Published bi-annually, each cover is instantly iconic, featuring portraits of cultural figures as they've never been seen before. Another Portrait Book includes a stellar selection of these celebrity shots--Nicole Kidman, Jodie Foster, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow among them, as well as portraits of figures from the worlds of music, literature and art, such as Gore Vidal, Bjork, Lucian Freud, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful and Kate Moss, captured by the world's most iconoclastic photographers. Another Portrait Book is the second of a three-volume set published by the popular periodical. Following Another Fashion Book, this edition will in turn be followed by Another Art Book, to be released in the spring of 2010. This Another Books series is edited by Jefferson Hack, co-founder of the Dazed Group, which publishes Dazed & Confused, Another Magazine and Another Man. Minimize

From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I Remember) creat ... Read more

From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I Remember) created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence. In The Nancy Book, Joe Brainard's Nancy traverses high art and low, the poetic and pornographic, the surreal and the absurd. Whether inserted into hypothetical situations, dispatched on erotic adventures, or seemingly rendered by the hands of artists as varied as Leonardo da Vinci, R. Crumb, Larry Rivers, Pablo Picasso, and Willem de Kooning, Brainard's Nancy revels in as well as transcends her two-dimensionality. A beguiling balance of mischief and innocence, irreverence and wonder, spontaneity and calculation, Brainard's Nancys accumulate into a complex work of great originality and wit, equal parts surprise and subtlety. The Nancy Book includes 78 full page reproductions in color and b/w and features collaborations with poets Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Robert Creeley, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, and James Schuyler. The Nancy Book also includes a reminiscence by Ron Padgett as well as an original essay by Ann Lauterbach that locates, with poetic and critical acumen, the matrix of relationships that informed Brainard s work, illuminating the Nancy works in particular. Minimize

Bottle Biology - If you combine science with a two-liter so ... Read more

Bottle Biology - If you combine science with a two-liter soda bottle what do you get? An entire curriculum full of integrated projects that use recycled containers to help students learn more about their world - that's what! -- They build a decomposition column to learn how this essential process works, create a sedimentation bottle to examine different soil characteristics, design a fruit fly trap to observe predator-prey relationships or they can tackle any of the fifteen other bottle biology projects. -- Each project comes with step by step explanations, materials list, experiments, additional reading sources and background information. Many of the activities emphasize forming hypotheses and experimental design. For those educators seeking new ways to "do" science on a budget, this book is a must-have. 127 pp., spiral-bound. Minimize

The Polaroid camera combined two of Andy Warhol's obsession ... Read more

The Polaroid camera combined two of Andy Warhol's obsessions -- the disposible nature of modern consumerism and the photograph as a ready-made. He was an inveterate and relentless user of Polaroid cameras and during the 1970s he made thousands of instant photographs. The near-instant nature of the Polaroid process meant that the photographs could be passed around, admired, sometimes written on moments after the event had been captured. It was a useful tool for a somewhat shy character, one that encouraged interaction and collaboration. In addition to his many portrait commissions, Warhol's Polaroids were used for such Grammy-winning designs as the Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" album cover in 1971.Between 1970 and 1976 Warhol established a rigorous system of cataloguing. He would take home the Polaroids, edit and sequence them and then enter them in individual red Holson Polaroid albums. These albums, with Warhol's original sequence and themes, have remained intact.Red Books is a cardboard box containing 11 of the Holson photo albums of Polaroids. These thoughtfully-ordered small albums, selected and sequenced by Warhol himself, tend to cover one event, be it a weekend in Montauk with the Kennedy and Radziwill kids, a portrait sitting with Palomo Picasso or Bridgid Berlin and Larry Rivers staging an impromptu 'performance' at the Factory, and there is a freshness and intimacy that one does not usually associate with the 'cool and detached' Andy Warhol. A separate black book contains a text by François-Marie Banier explaining the significance of these albums within Warhol's oeuvre and how they act as a diary of his work and offer unrivalled insight into his working procedures. Minimize

Disney scrapped the songs and talking animals for its secon ... Read more

Disney scrapped the songs and talking animals for its second version of Rudyard Kipling's classic novel, an old-fashioned boy's adventure that more resembles the classic Korda brothers' lush original than Disney's own animated musical. In this live-action version, Jason Scott Lee (the hunky star of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) is the grown Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and taught the ways of the jungle by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Fascinated by Englishwoman Lena Heady, whom he spots marching through the jungle on a safari, he follows her to the city. She teaches him the ways of polite society while a greedy British soldier (a sneering Cary Elwes) plots to discover the fabled lost city, where a fabulous fortune awaits. At this point the film becomes more Tarzan than Kipling. Lee's rippling form, back in the freedom of a loin cloth, is on display running through the jungle, swinging on vines, and going mano a mano with snooty Englisher Elwes. His charm and sex appeal has made this film a favorite of many adult women, but it is a family adventure, after all, with colorful locations, grand sets, and plenty of fun-loving animal moments. Sam Neill is his usual figure of moral strength as Heady's explorer father, and John Cleese imparts a little deadpan humor as the safari's absent-minded professor. Director Stephen Sommers went on to direct the 1999 action fantasy hit The Mummy. Ages 6 and up. --Sean Axmaker Minimize

Dig In! Hands-On Soil Investigations - Developed by the Nat ... Read more

Dig In! Hands-On Soil Investigations - Developed by the National Resources Conservation Service in collaboration with the NSTA, "Dig In!" was designed to introduce younger students to the mysteries and wonders of soil in an enjoyable and educational way. -- It is filled with interdisciplinary activities that help students gain a greater appreciation of the value of soil. They learn what soil is, who uses it, what lives in it and where it is going. -- Each lesson plan has been teacher tested and included background information, times, objectives, materials list, evaluation, reproducible hand-outs and SciLInks (internet links that provide additional topic-related resources). Includes maps for learning, glossary, resources. 129 pp., softcover. Minimize

Neither Anne nor Emily remembered choosing the book at the ... Read more

Neither Anne nor Emily remembered choosing the book at the library, but when as they read it, the boundary between their world and the one described in the book disappears. Suddenly they are in Sherwood Forest, where they join Robin Hood's band. The further adventures that await Anne, Emily, and their brother, Will, are the kind they had always dreamed about. They had yearned for magic as strong as the spell cast by the stories they loved best. But then an uninvited guest turns up at their parents' garden party. The sinister man snatches the book with the intention of using its powers for evil, and the siblings find themselves engaged in a battle to regain possession of the book.Richly detailed black-and-white drawings enliven this intriguing literary fantasy, which pays homage to some of the heroes of the author's childhood, among them E. Nesbit, Edward Eager, and Leo Tolstoy. Minimize

The scene of this entertaining story is laid in a charming ... Read more

The scene of this entertaining story is laid in a charming English village. The plot centres round Miss Barbara Buncle, a maiden lady who was obliged to write a book because - as she naively explained - her dividends were so poor. Unfortunately, Miss Buncle had no imagination, so she wrote about her friends - quite kindly and truthfully, of course, for she was a benevolent and veracious soul. The reactions of her friends to Miss Buncle's book, however, were a little surprising, and the far-reaching and unexpected results of its publication caused quite a stir. Minimize

Book Description: "A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; coll ... Read more

Book Description: "A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to an alleged metaphysical spirit or supernatural being.The fairy is based on the fae of medieval Western European (Old French) folklore and romance. Fairies are often identified with related beings of other mythologies (see list of beings referred to as fairies). Even in folklore that uses the term "fairy," there are many definitions of what constitutes a fairy. Sometimes the term is used to describe any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes: at other times, the term only describes a specific type of more ethereal creature.Fairies are generally described as human in appearance and as having magical powers. Their origins are less clear in the folklore, being variously the dead, or some form of angel, or a species completely independent of humans or angels. Folklorists have suggested that their actual origin lies in a conquered race living in hiding, or in religious beliefs that lost currency with the advent of Christianity. These explanations are not always mutually incompatible, and they may be traceable to multiple sources. Much of the folklore about fairies revolves about protection from their malice, by such means as cold iron (fairies don't like iron and will not go near it) or charms of rowan and herbs, or avoiding offense by shunning locations known to be theirs. In particular, folklore describes how to prevent the fairies from stealing babies and substituting changelings, and abducting older people as well. Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature." (Quote from wikipedia.org)Table of Contents: Publisher's Preface; Preface; Notes On Welsh Pronunciation; The Lady Of The Lake; Arthur In The Cave; The Curse Of Pantannas; The Drowning Of The Bottom Hundred; Elidyr's Sojurn In Fairy-land; Rhys And Llywelyn; Lowri Dafydd Earns A Purse Of Gold; The Llanfabon Changeling; Why The Red Dragon Is The Emblem Of Wales; Llyn Cwm Llwch; The Adventures Of Three Farmers; Cadwaladr And His Goat; The Fairy Wife; Einion And The Lady Of The Greenwood; The Green Isles Of The Ocean; March's Ears; The Fairy Harp; Guto Bach And The Fairies; Ianto's Chase; The Stray Cow; Bala Lake; The Forbidden Mountain; Tudor Ap Einion; The Fairy Walking Stick; Dick The Fiddler's Money; A Strange Otter; Fairy Ointment; Pergrin And The Mermaiden; The Cave Of The Young Men Of Snowdonia; Einion And The Fair Family; St. Collen And The King Of Faery; Helig's Hollow; Owen Goes A-wooing; The Fairy Reward; Why Deunant Has The Front Door In The Back; Getting Rid Of The Fairies; The Mantle Of Kings' Beards; Pedws Ffowk And St Elian's Well; Magic Music; Sili Go Dwt; Another Changeling; A Fairy Borrowing; Treasure Seeking; The Richest Man; St. Beuno And The Curlew; The Cat Witches; The Swallowed Court; What Marged Rolant Saw; Ned Puw's Farewell; Pennard Castle; The Man With The Green Weeds; Goronwy Tudor And The Witches Of Llanddona; Robin's Return; The Harper's Gratuity; Six And Four Are Ten; Envy Burns Itself; The Bride From The Red Lake; A Fairy Dog; Grace's Well; The Fairy Password; St. Winifred's Well; The Ancients Of The World; Nansi Llwyd And The Dog Of Darkness; An Adventure In The Big Bog; The Pwca Of The Trwyn; Johnny Gethin And The Candle; Fetching A Halter; Dai Sion's Homecoming; Melangell's Lambs; Syfaddon Lake; The Power Of St. Tegla's Well; The Men Of Ardudwy; The Parti-coloured Cow; Striking A Corpse Candle; Hu Gadarn; The Devil's Bridge; The Martyred Hound; Twm Of The Fair Lies; Black Robin; Llyn Llech Owen; A Ghostly Rehersal; A Phantom Funeral; Why The Robin's Breast Is RedAbout the Publisher: Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Clas Minimize

Once regarded by historians as a period of intellectual sta ... Read more

Once regarded by historians as a period of intellectual stagnation, the Middle Ages were actually a time of extraordinary cultural and technological innovation. This entertaining romp through the inventions of the period tells the story of the first appearance of dozens of items and ideas of lasting significance. From this misunderstood age we get our buttons, our underwear, and our trousers; we entertain ourselves with medieval playing cards, tarot cards, and chess. It was during the Middle Ages that domesticated cats first found their way into our houses, along with glazed windows, dining tables and chairs, and fireplaces. Numerous labor-saving devices originated then as well, including the wheelbarrow, the windmill and watermill, and the effective use of the horse. War became more deadly with the introduction of gunpowder, while travel over water became less so thanks to the compass and the rudder. Time itself emerged into recognizably modern form, with the advent of clocks -- based on the escapement mechanism -- that measured hours of equal length independent of the changing seasons. More cosmic notions of time developed as well, as the new realm of purgatory broke the traditional dichotomy of heaven and hell. Even Santa Claus first captured the imagination of children during the Middle Ages.Ranging from the invention of eyeglasses (by a now-forgotten layperson who sought to keep his methods secret, the better to profit from them) to the creation of the fork (at first regarded as an instrument of diabolical perversion but embraced when it helped people handle another invention of the age, pasta), this beautifully illustrated volume is a fitting tribute to an era from which we still benefit today. Minimize

In nature, we often hear the sound of a bird or an animal b ... Read more

In nature, we often hear the sound of a bird or an animal before we can see it. Our new Hear and There Books have the same effect. After reading a short riddle, children are asked "What am I?" By pushing a color-coded button on the sound strip, they can hear the call of the bird or the animal. When they pull the tab on the right page, the animal is revealed. To find out more about the featured bird or animal, readers can lift the flap on the left-hand page for more detailed information on its habitat, its young, and its behavior. Written by a professional naturalist, these books are beautifully illustrated, fun to listen to, and filled with interesting facts! Have you ever wondered what a certain sound was outside your window at night? As children play the calls of these nocturnal creatures, they will be fascinated to read and learn about the coyote, spring peepers, great horned owl, American toad, whippoorwill, field cricket, bullfrog, and katydid. Minimize

Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Track listing: 1. Main ... Read more

Limited edition of 1,000 copies. Track listing: 1. Main Title (01:32) 2. The Jungle (02:49) 3. Animals of the Jungle (04:47) 4. Natoo runs away (02:33) 5. The Wolf Cave and Mowgli's Lullaby (02:08) 6. Shere Khan Chases Gorofli From the Jungle (02:27) 7. Jungle Lullaby (01:23) 8. Mowgli's Mother (01:46) 9. Among Men (01:05) 10. Mowgli and Mahalla Go to the Jungle (02:37) 11. The Lost City (02:15) 12. The White Cobra (03:24) 13. Shere Khan and the Stampede (04:39) 14. Kaa the Rocksnake (05:14) 15. Night in the Jungle (01:04) 16. The Murder (03:07) 17. Fury of the Jungle (02:22) 18. Mowgli Saves his Mother (03:17) 19. The Fire (04:03) 20. The End (01:36) 21. Excerpt of Interview with Miklós Rózsa and Rudy Behlmer (6/1/74) (22:28). Total Duration: 01:16:36 Minimize

Japanese artist Mario Tauchi invites you to join a transcen ... Read more

Japanese artist Mario Tauchi invites you to join a transcendental trip through the deepest and magical parts of the artist s brain with his incredible MarioMandalas, 108 free-floating cosmic forms in white space. The reader brings the final dimension to each unique and intriguing black and white drawing, by being able to color in their weird and wonderful shapes and forms. Discover the magic of nature in art too, as before you swim organic creations inspired by sea urchins, mushrooms, corals and anemones. This book can appeal to nearly anyone with an interest in art either as a technique or as a finished work, and to adults and children alike, as the MarioMandalas return generous award regardless of technical ability. Perforated pages mean that after or before a work is finished it can be taken out and put up on the wall. Children will be transfixed, and adults too, when they start to colour in, all ages will be creatively encouraged in this artistic collaboration. Psychiatrist Carl Jung saw the mandala as a representation of the unconscious self, and believed his paintings of mandalas enabled him to identify emotional states and disorders and work towards wholeness in personality. For Jung, this identification of the id, and its transience, was a fundamental tool in his understanding of personality. Dynamically, this volume of MarioMandalas goes beyond a passive recognition of the intricate mandala designs, leading readers to develop their own interpretation of their personality and contribute towards the entity of the mandala form. Once a mandala has been coloured in and detached from the book, each becomes a unique work of art that has been created in its own colors and design. The final mandala is thus a creation of personal interaction with the artist, and a wider connection with the universal language of color and shape through the unconscious. Beautiful and mesmerising everyone should discover the wonders of the MarioMandala Coloring Book. Minimize

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a work of litera ... Read more

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a work of literary nonsense written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, considered a classic example of the genre and of English literature in general. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantastic realm populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgson's friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre (see Works influenced by Alice in Wonderland).The book is commonly referred to by the abbreviated title Alice in Wonderland. This alternative title was popularized by the numerous film and television adaptations of the story produced over the years. (Quote from wikipedia.org)About the AuthorLewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer.His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense.His facility at word play, logic, and fantasy has delighted audiences ranging from children to the literary elite, and beyond this his work ha Minimize

The Big Book of Spanish Verb Drills: SERIOUSLY. This is th ... Read more

The Big Book of Spanish Verb Drills: SERIOUSLY. This is the MOST complete, MOST teacher-friendly collection of Spanish verb drills and student exercises ever compiled for classroom use! Handy conjugation charts visually demonstrate verb usage and rules. The book's 24 chapters are packed with dozens of exercises, including verb grids, sentence correction, incorrect usage recognition, crossword puzzles, fill-in-the-blank sentences and word matches--plus teacher answer keys. And just for fun, we've thrown a few fake verbs into the mix for students to find and define! The verb drills cover regular, irregular, stem-changing and reflexive -AR, -ER and -IR verbs in the following tenses / forms: Present Preterite Commands Imperfect Future Conditional Present Subjunctive Past Subjunctive Present Participle (Gerund) Present Progressive Past Progressive Direct & Indirect Object Pronouns Gustar Reproducible. ©2010. Spanish, English. All levels. 8 x 11 inches. Softcover, 441 pages. AND The Complete Spanish Teacher's Handbook A True 'Teacher's Pet'! This indispensable guide to teaching first-year Spanish deserves a permanent place on the desk of every Spanish teacher. All 83 first-year Spanish topics are included. An explanation page that also includes interesting cultural information introduces each topic, while three teacher-created activities provide opportunities for practical application of each concept. The 250 activities include: fill-in-the-blanks crossword puzzles writing exercises mix and match sentence scrambles and much more! Book also INCLUDES a CD of the complete text for easy copying. ©2006. English, Spanish. Beginning level. Middle School, High School. 8 x 11 inches. Hardcover, 378 pages. Minimize

Exploring Color Coloring Book is a hands-on workbook based ... Read more

Exploring Color Coloring Book is a hands-on workbook based on Nita Leland's best-selling book, Exploring Color. Printed on 140# acid-free watercolor paper, the book contains more than forty blank color theory charts, with extra pages for sketching. Users fill in the charts with their choice of medium in the recommended colors or the colors they already have, following instructions on each page. The result is a useful color- reference book in a handy, take-along size (8 1/2" x 11") for students and outdoor painters. The workbook can be used by beginners, as well as teachers and professional artists, by adapting the instructions to almost any medium: acrylics, oils, watercolors, pastels, colored pencils, fibers and collage materials. (Exploring Color, the original text, is helpful, but not required to do the charts.) Minimize

At the vanguard of fashion, design and art, Another Magazin ... Read more

At the vanguard of fashion, design and art, Another Magazine has, over the past decade, become known for its signature fusion of fashion photography and classic portraiture: a sultry Uma Thurman, for instance, half of her face covered with a delicate butterfly mask, or Christina Ricci defiantly taking a pair of scissors to her own ponytail. Published bi-annually, each cover is instantly iconic, featuring portraits of cultural figures as they've never been seen before. Another Portrait Book includes a stellar selection of these celebrity shots--Nicole Kidman, Jodie Foster, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow among them, as well as portraits of figures from the worlds of music, literature and art, such as Gore Vidal, Bjork, Lucian Freud, Patti Smith, Marianne Faithful and Kate Moss, captured by the world's most iconoclastic photographers. Another Portrait Book is the second of a three-volume set published by the popular periodical. Following Another Fashion Book, this edition will in turn be followed by Another Art Book, to be released in the spring of 2010. This Another Books series is edited by Jefferson Hack, co-founder of the Dazed Group, which publishes Dazed & Confused, Another Magazine and Another Man. Minimize

Named "Christian" to avoid hassles (some things never chang ... Read more

Named "Christian" to avoid hassles (some things never change), this is the most famous, the most celebrated astrology book in the English language. It has been prized by students ever since its first publication in 1647. The Horary Astrology in these pages, in the hands of a master, is no mere parlour game. It is demanding and precise, combining science and art. Properly used, it will give answer to any well-defined question. William Lilly, famous throughout England for his almanacs & forecasts (he predicted London's Great Fire of 1666), lived during the English Civil War & was a minor historical figure in it. Into his studio came the rich and poor, nobles and commoners, with problems great and small. This new edition restores Lilly's original page layouts, with marginalia. Modern spelling throughout, this edition includes Lilly's bibliography, his original index & a new glossary. Also includes his original woodblock charts, and their modern versions. This is Lilly's great work as he himself knew it. In this volume: Book 1, An Introduction to Astrology, containing the use of an ephemeris; the erecting of a scheme of heaven; nature of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, of the planets; with a most easy introduction to the whole art of astrology. Book 2, The Resolution of All Manner of Questions, by a most methodical way, instructs the student how to judge or resolve all manner of questions contingent unto man, viz, of health, sickness, riches, marriage, preferment, journeys, etc. Some 35 questions inserted and judged. Minimize

The Rosary is a novel by Florence L. Barclay. It was first ... Read more

The Rosary is a novel by Florence L. Barclay. It was first published in 1909 by G.P. Putnam's Sons and was a bestselling novel for many years running, reaching the number one spot in 1910. (Quote from wikipedia.org)About the AuthorFlorence Louisa Barclay (December 2, 1862 - March 10, 1921) was an English romance novelist and short story writer. She was born Florence Louisa Charlesworth in Limpsfield, Surrey, England, the daughter of the local Anglican rector. One of three girls, she was a sister to Maud Ballington Booth, the Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. When Florence was seven years old, the family moved to Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.In 1881, Florence Charlesworth married the Rev. Charles W. Barclay and honeymooned in the Holy Land where in Shechem they reportedly discovered Jacob's Well, the place where, according to the Gospel of John, Jesus met the woman of Samaria (John 4-5). Florence Barclay and her husband settled in Hertford Heath, in Hertfordshire where she fulfilled the duties of a rector's wife. The mother of eight children, in her early forties health problems left her bedridden for a time and she passed the hours by writing what became her first romance novel titled "The Wheels of Time." Her next novel, The Rosary, a story of undying love, was published in 1909 and its success would eventually see the book translated into eight languages and made into five motion pictures, also in several different languages. According to the New York Times, the novel was the No.1 bestselling novel of 1910 in the United States. The enduring popularity of the book was such that more than twenty-five years later, Sunday Circle magazine serialized the story and in 1926 the prominent French playwright Alexandre Bisson ada Minimize

The definitive collection of Jim Woodring’s mysterious ant ... Read more

The definitive collection of Jim Woodring’s mysterious anthropomorph!Since 1991, Jim Woodring’s lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled readers the world over, and the runaway success of the Frank-co-starring graphic novel Weathercraft and the first true Frank graphic novel Congress of the Animals have only whetted readers’ appetites for more. In honor of Frank’s 20th anniversary Fantagraphics is re-releasing the massive, long out of print Frank Book omnibus, which collected all the Frank material up to the mid-aughts, including several jaw-droppingly beautiful full-color stories, literally dozens of lushly-delineated black-and-white stories, and a treasure trove of covers and illustrations. The Frank Book also features an introduction by one of Frank’s biggest fans (himself a Frank, or almost): Francis Ford Coppola. 32 full-color and 320 black-and-white illustrations Minimize

This revised and enlarged fourth edition features five new ... Read more

This revised and enlarged fourth edition features five new chapters, which treat classical results such as the "Fundamental Theorem of Algebra", problems about tilings, but also quite recent proofs, for example of the Kneser conjecture in graph theory. The new edition also presents further improvements and surprises, among them a new proof for "Hilbert's Third Problem". From the Reviews: "... Inside [this book] is indeed a glimpse of mathematical heaven, where clever insights and beautiful ideas combine in astonishing and glorious ways. There is vast wealth within its pages, one gem after another. ..., but many [proofs] are new and brilliant proofs of classical results. ...Aigner and Ziegler... write: "... all we offer is the examples that we have selected, hoping that our readers will share our enthusiasm about brilliant ideas, clever insights and wonderful observations." I do. ... " AMS Notices 1999 "... the level is close to elementary ... the proofs are brilliant. ..." LMS Newsletter 1999 Minimize

Book Description: "A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; coll ... Read more

Book Description: "A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to an alleged metaphysical spirit or supernatural being.The fairy is based on the fae of medieval Western European (Old French) folklore and romance. Fairies are often identified with related beings of other mythologies (see list of beings referred to as fairies). Even in folklore that uses the term "fairy," there are many definitions of what constitutes a fairy. Sometimes the term is used to describe any magical creature, including goblins or gnomes: at other times, the term only describes a specific type of more ethereal creature.Fairies are generally described as human in appearance and as having magical powers. Their origins are less clear in the folklore, being variously the dead, or some form of angel, or a species completely independent of humans or angels. Folklorists have suggested that their actual origin lies in a conquered race living in hiding, or in religious beliefs that lost currency with the advent of Christianity. These explanations are not always mutually incompatible, and they may be traceable to multiple sources. Much of the folklore about fairies revolves about protection from their malice, by such means as cold iron (fairies don't like iron and will not go near it) or charms of rowan and herbs, or avoiding offense by shunning locations known to be theirs. In particular, folklore describes how to prevent the fairies from stealing babies and substituting changelings, and abducting older people as well. Many folktales are told of fairies, and they appear as characters in stories from medieval tales of chivalry, to Victorian fairy tales, and up to the present day in modern literature." (Quote from wikipedia.org)Table of Contents: Publisher's Preface; Introduction; The Three Green Men Of Glen Nevis; Nursery Stories; The Story Of The White Pet ; The Milk-white Doo ; The Croodin Doo ; The Cattie Sits In The Kiln-ring Spinning ; Marriage Of Robin Redbreast And The Wren ; The Tempted Lady ; The Fause Knight And The Wee Boy ; The Strange visitor ; Rashin-coatie ; Stories Of Animals ; The Fox Outwitted; The Fox Troubled With Fleas; The Fox And The Bag-pipes; The Fox's Stratagem; The Fox And The Wrens; The Fox And The Cock; How The Wolf Lost His Tail; Frog And Crow; The Grouse Cock And His Wife; The Eagle And The Wren ; The Wren's Presumption; The Two Foxes; The Bee And The Mouse; The Two Mice; Alexander Jones; Fairy Tales; The Fairies Of Scotland ; The Fairy And The Miller's Wife ; Sir Godfrey Macculloch ; The Laird O' Co' ; Habitrot ; The Tulman ; The Isle Of Pabaidh ; Sanntraigh ; Water Fairies ; Fairy Transportation ; The Poor Man Of Peatlaw ; The Fairy Boy Of Leith ; "mind The Crooked Finger" ; The Two Young Ploughmen ; The Smith And The Fairies ; The Lothian Farmer's Wife ; Redemption From Fairy Land ; The Fairy And The Bible-reader ; Thom And Willie ; The Gloaming Bucht ; The Fairy's Song ; The Faithful Purse-bearer; The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen, Demons; The Scottish Brownie ; The Brownie Of Bodsbeck ; The Brownie And The Thievish Maids ; The Bogle ; The Doomed Rider ; Graham Of Morphie ; The Fisherman And The Merman ; The Mermaid Wife ; The Seal-catcher's Adventure ; The Mermaid Of Knockdolion ; The Young Laird Of Lorntie ; Nuckelavee ; The Two Shepherds ; Fatlips ; The Silly Mutton; Witchcraft; Macgillichallum Of Razay ; The Witch Of Laggan ; The Blacksmith's Wife Of Yarrowfoot ; The Miller Of Holdean ; Ronaldson Of Bowden ; The Farmer's Wife Of Deloraine ; Laird Harry Gilles ; The Missing Web ; The Witches Of Delnabo ; The Brazen Brogues; Comic Tales; The Wee Bunnock ; The Tale Of The Shifty Lad, The Widow's Son ; Lothian Tom ; The Ploughman's Glory; Or, Tom's Song; The Witty Exploits Of Mr. George Buchanan, The King's Fool ; Literary Tales ; The Haunted Ships ; Elphin Irving ; Cou Minimize

Imagine... ...owning a book printed in 1584 and having a ... Read more

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