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Daimon Verlag Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow: Laurens van der Post
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£36.74
Daimon Verlag Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow: Laurens van der Post
Book SynopsisSir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, humanitarian, explorer, conservationist... the list goes on and on. His extraordinary curiosity, his love for the small and the great, and his tremendous feeling and concern for his surroundings and all that they included, set him travelling the lands and the waters of the world, a messenger in search of meaning. He touched and inspired many along the way, some of whom are to be found in the pages of this book. A true man of his time, Sir Laurens was born in 1906 in the interior of South Africa, served in the British forces during World War II, including three-and-a-half years in Japanese captivity, and lived and worked since that time in London, where he died just after celebrating his 90th birthday in December, 1996. ''The Rock Rabbit and The Rainbow'' was originally conceived as a Festschrift, or gift collection of writings, for Sir Laurens by several of his friends and then evolved into its present form, which includes numerous original contributions by Sir Laurens himself.
£32.39
Daimon Verlag North Wind & the Sun: and Other Fables of Aesop
Book SynopsisFor 2,500 years, adults and children alike have been listening to the stories of Aesop. Originating in the folk wisdom of rural Asia Minor, these popular fables have been retold, repurposed, and altered over the centuries; in the process, they have sometimes been changed so much that they bear little resemblance to their simple forebears, which ask their listeners and readers to think for themselves, to supply their own conclusions. In this collection, Gregory McNamee draws on the Greek originals to provide Aesop''s fables in a form that Aesop himself might recognise -- ones in which fleas and foxes converse, people sometimes learn from their errors, and things are not always what they seem.
£31.50
V & Q Books Putin's Postbox: 2022
Book SynopsisEight essays on literature, language, art, Europe and life from one of Germany's most revered living writers. After a visit to Putin's old postbox, the reader is taken to Dresden and Brixton, Gdansk and Minsk, diverted to birds, bees, stray cats and pet dogs, confronted with Stasi and KGB, Proust and Jah Shaka, puzzled by overcoats and anoraks, Francis Bacon and Vermeer, and lost (then found) in service stations and memorial centres. Throughout, Marcel Beyer forges unexpected links and makes unpredictable leaps. "I work from the margins, partly very literally as I build my sentences, for instance when I start with the name of a colour rather than a noun, to explore how the sentence might be steered from there to a subject. In my reading, I am drawn to the outliers or, as malicious claims would have it, to the obscure. Central books: that is, those everyone can agree on, have never much interested me. I am rarely tempted to explore the centre of my world in writing, and even if I did want to encroach upon a centre, I would have to choose a path from the outside. But outside, too, one advances to the heart of things." Inspired by the great W. G. Sebald, Beyer's playful literary investigations wend through the high points and horrors of Europe's artistic history, towards a profoundly personal conclusion. "Reading Beyer, you begin to look more closely at the things around you and to be more patient in trusting your own associations and digressions." Literarische Welt; "In the geographical movement eastwards, the decades after 1989 take shape in a wealth of acoustic, visual and atmospheric perceptions: fonts, posters, buildings, modes of transport are witnesses as important as the people themselves." Suddeutsche Zeitung; "Beyer traces similarities, adjacencies, succeeding over and over in interrelating ostensibly disparate themes and objects, words and images." Deutschlandfunk; "Marcel Beyer is a wonderfully clear- sighted storyteller. His writing is breezy and intelligent and always carries its double and deeper meaning with it." Bayern 2 RadioTrade Review"Everyone should read this melancholy examination of cross-border phenomena." Adam Thirlwell
£11.69
Bayreuth African Studies Texts and Theories in Transition: Black African
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£15.29
Broken Dimanche Press Sanding Down Gravestones
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£10.80
Vitra Design Museum Plastic: Remaking Our World: Remaking Our World
Book SynopsisPlastic has shaped our daily lives like no other material. Originally associated with convenience, progress, even revolution, today plastic seems to have lost its utopian appeal. Plastic is everywhere, yet most conspicuous as waste and as a key factor in the global environmental crisis. This book examines the success story of plastic in the twentieth century and at the same time presents the different discourses on how we should manage the waste the material produces and also find solutions that take into account its entire life cycle in the future. Mark Miodownik, Susan Freinkel, and Nanjala Nyabola each contribute an essay that sheds light on the history of plastics from 1850 to today. A material-rich visual chronology illustrates how consumers’ perception of plastics has changed over the decades. Brief descriptions of a selection of 50 objects examine the importance of plastics for material culture. Reprints of fundamental texts about the history of plastics—for example by Alexander Parkes and Roland Barthes—provide a context from the history of ideas. The book reflects the current discourse and state of research on plastic with numerous individual interviews and panel discussions that were held with designers, representatives from industry, researchers, and environmental activists. Underpinning these conversations are comprehensive data visualizations on plastic production and consumption, recycling.
£37.50
Holzwarth Publications Andre Butzer - Exhibitions Galerie Max Hetzler
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Spector Books Kathi Hofer: Bottle Village
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£16.00
Spector Books Listen to Lists: DNA #2
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Spector Books Looking at Music: DNA #8
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£11.81
Spector Books Artificial Music: DNA #13
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£11.81
Spector Books DNA #18: Channel Power
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£9.50
Spector Books Ceremony: Burial of an Undead World
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£28.90
Spector Books Christopher Dell: Dialogue Concerts: Conceptual
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£25.60
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany Art on the Frontline: Mandate for a People's
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£10.80
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany The Everyday and Everydayness: Two Works Series
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£10.80
Severus Lehrbuch der Liebe und Ehe
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£21.74
Prodinnova Maximes et Réflexions morales
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£10.40
Errant Bodies Listen: Jeph Jerman in Conversation with Aram
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£21.25
Japan & Stuff Press Walden: Containing Economy and Where I Lived and What I Lived for
£11.38
Yayasan Lontar Two Essays
Book SynopsisFew Indonesian essayists can compete with Nirwan Arsuka in his ability to pull together different strands of thought, periods of history, and fields of knowledge in a cohesive unit that is easy-to-read. Nirwan exercises a remarkably dexterous hand when it comes to bringing characters from the distant past back to life.
£12.56
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El Manto / The Mantle
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£14.36
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial A viva voz / Speaking Out Loud
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£15.96
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Tiempo mexicano / Mexican Time
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£10.76
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El hombre rebelde / The Rebel: An Essay on Man in
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Prh Grupo Editorial Vuelo sobre las profundidades Flight Above the
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£11.86
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Cervantes o la crítica de la lectura / Cervantes:
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£15.16
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Overol cuaderno de lecturas Overall a Reading
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£13.29
Nostra Ediciones Jorge Luis Borges
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Malpaso Editorial Continuación de Ideas Diversas
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£12.63
Malpaso Editorial Temperamentos
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£11.19
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La mujer incierta The Uncertain Woman
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£17.15
Twisted Spoon Press Dreamverse
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£17.55
Twisted Spoon Press Responses * Kafka's Prague
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£14.40
Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Indian Writing in English
Book SynopsisThis is a bible for aspiring Indian writers who wish to use English as a medium to communicate. The author has detailed all the important aspects of taking up writing in English to produce work that is avant-garde but is based on the same old principles. It helps an aspiring writer to know what to look out for when he takes up writing in English and also what things to refrain themselves from. It has been widely appreciated for its clear concepts of explanation and ease of understanding it offers its reader.
£13.49
Gyan Publishing House Distant Echoes
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£18.75
Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd The Writer's Feast: Food and the Cultures of
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£22.49
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Kama Sutra
Book SynopsisThe Kama Sutra was written approximately eighteen hundred years ago. In its unabashed, fearless and uninhibited approach to sexual passion, it is more enlightening than the theories of modern day erotologists.
£11.63
Minerva Press India Pvt Ltd Time After Time: It All Happened
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£8.55
Taemeer Publications Science Nama: (Essays in Urdu)
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£22.49
