The British Year in 72 Seasons
Offering a unique perspective on the traditional almanac, this gift edition serves as a comprehensive guide to the British seasons, celebrating all 72 of them. It blends seasonal insights with engaging content, making it an ideal companion for anyone interested in the rhythms of nature throughout the year.
The story follows fourteen-year-old Sophie Gordon as she grapples with the devastating loss of her mother to depression. With her father turning to alcohol for solace, Sophie struggles to cope with her grief, leading her to seek comfort in food. This ultimately spirals into a cycle of compulsive dieting, highlighting her battle with emotional turmoil and the quest for stability in a fractured family dynamic.
A fresh take on the traditional almanac, here is a companion to the British seasons - all 72 of them.
With One Eye Open is about Henry's journey to a pleasant sleep. He is able to sleep with his eyes shut tight because he knows he is looked after. This is not the case for the other characters in the story who all have a reason to keep 'one eye open'.
This updated edition is ideal to support students when studying and revising for the new A level English Literature exams.
This updated edition is ideal to support students when studying and revising for the new A level English Literature exams.
This updated edition is ideal to support students when studying and revising for the new A level English Literature exams.
Large-size figures of unfired clay, that grotesquely exaggerate the characteristic traits and trademarks of female sexuality such as breasts, calves, and buttocks, have made a name for British artist Rebecca Warren. * * Warren's œuvre frankly references a veritable array of masters from the history of art: Degas, Rodin, Boccioni, Picasso, Fontana, the German Expressionists and Neo-Expressionists as well as cultural figures such as Robert Crumb. It also brings to mind works by Martin Kippenberger, Fischli & Weiss' clay sculptures, and the hostile and eye-catching aggressiveness but substantive subtlety of Sarah Lucas' works. Rebecca Warren's art likewise unites popular culture and advanced civilization, feminist and psychological debate. * * Published with the Kunsthalle Zürich.
Parkett 78 features the artists Ernesto Neto, Olaf Nicolai and Rebecca Warren. Neto's drooping, opaque lycra installations envelop the viewer in a fog of fabric, a cushion for the gaze, their milky skins leaving children ecstatic and adults in a Fredric Jamesonian "Hyperspace." Olaf Nicolai's concept-driven art, like much of the avant-garde work of the last half-century, remains set on integrating art with daily life. We experience this "blurring" in his randomly arranged pre-fabricated Pantone colors, ornamental stones taken from a 1960s Dresden shopping mall and wall text reading, "A short catalogue of things that you think you want…" Rebecca Warren makes vulgar, lumpy plasticine figures that show the influence of Giacometti and R. Crumb alike. As Neal Brown writes, her figures are, "fingered and improperly squeezed into something that is compulsively-chaotic-masturbatory-fat-ugly-disfigured-repressed-incontinent-excretory-bestial-bulimic…" The issue also features Erwin Wurm, Andro Wekua and Vito Acconci, with texts by Yuko Hasegawa, Paulo Herkenhoff, Charles Esche, Vincent Pécoil, Catherine Lampert, Marjorie Perloff and Kate Fowle, among others.
Faszination Ozean! Das Wissen über die Weltmeere in einem spektakulären Band: von der Entstehung der Ozeane bis zum Ökosystem Meer, von den bislang kaum erforschten Tiefen bis zu den Küsten der Weltmeere. Über 2000 faszinierende Bilder in außergewöhnlicher Qualität werden durch verständlich aufbereitete Sachinformationen hochkarätiger Wissenschaftler ergänzt. Neueste Forschungserkenntnisse stehen dabei ebenso im Mittelpunkt wie interessante geschichtliche Fakten. Über 500 lexikalische Einträge zeigen mit fundierten, übersichtlichen Porträts die Vielfalt der Meeresbewohner. Ein umfassender Kartenteil, der einen detaillierten Überblick über die Weltmeere erlaubt, rundet dieses einzigartige Nachschlagewerk ab. Mit einem Vorwort von Fabien Cousteau, dem Enkel der Meeresforscher-Legende Jacques-Yves Cousteau.