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Chronicle Books Letters to My Baby
Book SynopsisThe must-have baby shower gift!Share memories, love, and words of wisdom with your bundle of joy with this unique and inspiring book of letters. Part of the blockbuster bestselling Letters to . . . series! The perfect gift for an expecting mom, a new dad, or any parent seeking to create a deeply personal baby keepsake, this set of 12 letter templates will inspire reflection and connection between parent and child. Your baby will always be your baby. Whether you're pregnant or a new parent, fill these envelopes with memories and hopes for your baby. Then postdate, seal, and save the letters to gift to your child at a later date. Included are 12 letters that each begin with a unique prompt, such as: On the day you were born ... My wishes for you are ... Your first home was like this ... Seal letters with the included stickers before giving this to your chil
£12.48
Knock Knock Knock Knock Today`s Plan of Attack Great Big
Book SynopsisSmall sticky notes are great for brief missives, but sometimes you've got a little (or a lot) more to say. Enter the newest addition to our sticky family. They're kind of a great big deal. • Tackle tasks with military precision • Cool office supplies for the daily grind • 4 x 6 inches, 60 sheets
£6.78
Galison Mudpuppy Kaleido Beetles 500 Piece Family Puzzle
Book SynopsisKaleido-beetles 500 Piece Family Puzzle features a gorgeous illustration of colorful beetles arranged in a pattern inspired by the dazzling view through a kaleidoscope. Mudpuppy puzzles are packaged in matte-finish sturdy boxes, perfect for gifting, reuse, and storage.- 500pc puzzle: 20 x 20, 51 x 51 cm- Box: 8 x 8 x 2, 20 x 20 x 5 cm- Ages 8-99- Puzzle greyboard contains 90% recycled paper. Packaging contains 70% recycled paper. Printed with nontoxic inks.
£12.48
Princeton Architectural Press Stampville: 25 stamps + 2 ink pads
Book SynopsisYou are the architect, planner, designer and builder with this set of rubber stamps and two coloured ink pads. The matchbox-style box contains twenty-five woodbacked stamps in an assortment of shapes and textures, all the essential building blocks needed to create a simple house, a whimsical village, or a towering architectural marvel-the combinations are infinite and immediately gratifying.
£17.99
Galison Judgy Fish Sticker Book
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£7.98
Knock Knock Knock Knock Pads Make a Decision Pad
Book SynopsisThe agony and sleeplessness wasted on resolving dilemmas of import are time and energy you'll never get back. Fortunately, there's now a tool to alleviate these woes. Walk through the steps of 'Make a Decision' and you'll never equivocate again. Give good guidance—whether it's a commonplace or life-altering choice Reduce your chances of regret by more than 83.4 percent 6 x 9 inches; 60 sheets
£6.95
St Martin's Press One Question a Day
Book SynopsisA simple guided journal that offers one question per day, to be answered on the same day for five years in a row. The questions range from the prosaic (What did you have for lunch today?) to the contemplative (Can people really change?), giving readers a comprehensive look back at their thoughts and feelings over a five-year span. For anybody who has ever given up journaling after being intimidated when facing a blank page, this book makes it easy to take a snapshot of your inner life in just a few minutes each day. The beauty of this daily journal is that it enables readers to track their emotional growth as well as keep track of memories, and provides an interesting walk down memory lane a few years later. The simple one-question prompts make this book to journaling as adult coloring books are to art a gateway product with built-in creative inspiration. The specially-sized package features a printed flexi-bound cover, four-color endpapers, quality paper, and bookma
£12.34
Sixth & Spring Books Color Odyssey: A Creative Coloring Journey
Book SynopsisEmbark on your own creative journey with the beautiful Color Odyssey. Stunningly intricate black and White designs are inspired by nature and penned by professional tattoo artist and former reality TV star Chris Garver. With the world discovering the meditative power of adult colouring, pick up the pens and make sure you don't get left behind on this Odyssey.
£13.90
HarperCollins Publishers The Times Super Fiendish Su Doku Book 1
Book SynopsisChallenge yourself at home with word and number puzzlesA new title in the Fiendish Su Doku series, concentrating entirely on the more difficult Super Fiendish puzzles. These are previously unpublished quality Su Doku grids from the puzzle providers to The Times, and help to develop you to take on Extreme Su Doku.The 200 puzzles in this collection of treacherously difficult puzzles will stretch even the most advanced Su Doku enthusiast. You will need to use all of your best solving techniques to get to the end of this testing challenge.The puzzles in the collection are of the highest quality and are perfect for the advanced solver in need of a constant supply of ultra-difficult puzzles.Guaranteed to provide hours of mind-stretching entertainment.
£7.59
Moleskine srl Moleskine Soft Large Squared Notebook Black
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£18.89
The University of Michigan Press Academic Writing for Graduate Students 3rd
Book SynopsisCoverage includes understanding the intended audience, and academic genres; the use of task-based methodology, analytic group discussion, and genre consciousness-raising; how to write summaries and critiques; and helping students position themselves as junior scholars in their academic communities.
£22.75
Chronicle Books Little Letters of Thanks
Book SynopsisA magnificent new format in the bestselling (Oprah's favourite) Letters series! Little Letters are tiny and irresistible, perfect for celebrating the little things in life.
£10.79
Crossway Books Dark Clouds Deep Mercy
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£10.79
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Adlard Coles Nautical Log Book
Book SynopsisA logbook in which to keep all the specific notes that need constant referral during a long voyage--a sailing record of the boat, ports visited, interesting sights, and people invited aboard.This logbook is not only a convenient place for captains to keep all the specific notes that need constant referral during a long voyage, but also a comprehensive sailing record. The perfect gift for sailors and boat-owners. This revised edition includes new material relating to the advent of GMDSS.
£15.29
Pomegranate Communications Inc,US SKB WILLIAM MORRIS
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£8.21
Duke University Press Sylvia Wynter
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[On] Being Human as Praxis is a major contribution to growing efforts to bring Sylvia Wynter’s critical thought to the fore of contemporary critical social theory. The collection secures Wynter’s status as a heretical intellectual insisting on the relevance of the radical Black/Caribbean decolonial tradition to the systemic crises of the early 21st century planet." -- Anthony Bayani Rodriguez * Antipode *"In their combination, and in their resonance with Wynter’s intricate and expansive opening meditation on race, science, and human being, these essays present a complex and coherent intellectual project, at once deeply rooted and generously rhizomic." -- Kaiama L. Glover * Contemporary Women's Writing *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix 1. Yours in the Intellectual Struggle: Sylvia Wynter and the Realization of the Living / Katherine McKittrick 1 2. Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations / Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick 9 3. Before Man: Sylvia Wynter's Rewriting of the Modern Episteme / Denise Ferreira da Silva 90 4. Sylvia Wynter: What Does It Mean to Be Human? / Walter D. Mignolo 106 5. Still Submerged: The Uninhabitability of Urban Redevelopment / Bench Ansfield 124 6. Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science / Katherine McKittrick 142 7. Strategic Anti-Essentialism: Decolonizing Decolinization / Nandita Sharma 164 8. Genres of Human: Multiculturalism, Cosmo-politics, and the Caribbean Basin / Rinaldo Walcott 183 9. From Masquerade to Maskarade: Caribbean Cultural Resistance and the Rehumanizing Project / Carole Boyce Davies 203 10. "Come on Kid, Let's Go Get the Thing": The Sociogenic Principle and the Being of Being Black / Demetrius L. Eudell 226 Bibliography 249 Contributors 275 Index 277
£20.69
Duke University Press The Queer Art of Failure
Book SynopsisProposes "low theory" as a means of recovering ways of being and forms of knowledge not legitimized by existing systems and institutionsTrade ReviewA lively and thought-provoking examination of how the homogenizing tendencies of modern society might be resisted through the creative application of failure, forgetting, and passivity, actions generally deemed of little value within today's capitalist models of success. . . . [A]s a close reader of popular culture, she is exemplary, and as a valiant attempt to find value in positions and attitudes such as negativity that our modern success-oriented society disdains, this study is never less than thrilling.” - Publishers Weekly“Queer Theory using Spongebob Squarepants? Totally there... Underdogs and shoddy queers can take wordy, erudite solace in Halberstam’s words.” - Gay Times“[H]ere is a book well worth the time and attention it takes to read it and to consider its implications. Most especially in that Judith Halberstam writes not only with authority, but also with genuine wit, which leaves the reader laughing out loud from time to time, something quite unknown until now in books of queer theory. Further, Ms. Halberstam presents her case with deep insight into human nature, and into our deepset cultural need to simplify our definition of the word success—and, up until now, our seeming need to ignore the creative implications of failure.” - Vinton Rafe McCabe, New York Journal of Books“‘All losers are the heirs of those who have lost before them.’ The Queer Art of Failure narrates hilarious and swerving outlaw comedies of refusal, absurdity, and exuberant being, acting in solidarity with its resident artists—from SpongeBob SquarePants to Yoko Ono. But the book hums a dark tone, too. The arts of normative style, playing out on sexual, racialized, gendered, and colonial bodies and landscapes, are painful to witness, even here. No artist or critic can repair the damage, erasing history, but Judith Halberstam wields all of the weapons that intelligence (and cartoons) can bring against the harsh work of conventionality.”—Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism“The Queer Art of Failure is a manifesto for cultural studies. It self-consciously risks being dismissed or trashed in order to rescue alternative objects of analysis, methods of knowing, and ways of communicating. Its stakes are clear. It’s not attempting to argue for the recovery of its materials from obscurity; it values forgetting and obsolescence. It’s not claiming to retool our understanding of major work; it traffics unapologetically in the minor. And it doesn’t pretend to comprehensive scholarship; it offers up plot summaries and allegorical readings with glee.”—Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories“The Queer Art of Failure is inspired, provocative, and hilarious. More significantly, it is a deft evisceration of the regulative rigidities of disciplinarity and the pretensions of ‘high theory.’ Judith Halberstam’s advocacy of ‘silly archives’ and ‘low theory’ is much more than a carnivalesque skewering of the earnest self-seriousness of much academic scholarship; it is a populist clarion call for expansive democratic visions of what it is we are writing about and for whom we think we are writing.” —Lisa Duggan, author of The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy“Failure abounds all around us: economies collapse, nation-states falter, and malfeasance rules. In the face of our dismal situation, Judith Halberstam distills and repurposes the negative in order to think outside the tyranny of success. The Queer Art of Failure finds a new vitality in not winning, accumulating, doing, or knowing. Both counterintuitive and anti-anticipatable, this compelling book pushes beyond many of the impasses and blockages that limit our critical horizons today.”—José Esteban Muñoz, author of Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity“Because Halberstam uses pop-culture examples, The Queer Art of Failure is an ideal text for introducing queer theory to beginners. The politics of heteronormativity and sexual dissidence has never appeared as lucid as it does now that we have SpongeBob SquarePants as our guide.” -- Chase Dimock * Lambda Literary Review *“Before the Stonewall Riots, ‘queers’ lurked in the cultural shadows, and Halberstam finds that environment to be fruitful and even revolutionary. This book is guaranteed to be controversial. It would make a good basis for discussion after seeing one of the movies, performances, or bodies of visual pieces that analyzed in its pages.” -- Jean Roberta * Gay & Lesbian Review *“Declaring her intent to celebrate failure in its many forms, Halberstam invigorates this potentially droopy topic with a flair that feels almost inspirational.” -- Monica Nolan * Bitch *“Judith Halberstam . . . is insightful and intellectually brave in places, and makes a significant intervention in the development of queer theory. The Queer Art of Failure is also utterly charming.” -- Robert Eaglestone * Times Higher Education *“[H]ere is a book well worth the time and attention it takes to read it and to consider its implications. Most especially in that Judith Halberstam writes not only with authority, but also with genuine wit, which leaves the reader laughing out loud from time to time, something quite unknown until now in books of queer theory. Further, Ms. Halberstam presents her case with deep insight into human nature, and into our deepset cultural need to simplify our definition of the word success—and, up until now, our seeming need to ignore the creative implications of failure.” -- Vinton Rafe McCabe * New York Journal of Books *“Queer Theory using Spongebob Squarepants? Totally there... Underdogs and shoddy queers can take wordy, erudite solace in Halberstam’s words.” * Gay Times *A lively and thought-provoking examination of how the homogenizing tendencies of modern society might be resisted through the creative application of failure, forgetting, and passivity, actions generally deemed of little value within today's capitalist models of success. . . . [A]s a close reader of popular culture, she is exemplary, and as a valiant attempt to find value in positions and attitudes such as negativity that our modern success-oriented society disdains, this study is never less than thrilling.” * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xii Introduction: Low Theory 1 1. Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation 27 2. Dude, Where's My Phallus? Forgetting, Losing, Looping 53 3. The Queer Art of Failure 87 4. Shadow Feminisms: Queer Negativity and Radical Passivity 123 5. "The Killer in Me Is the Killer in You": Homosexuality and Fascism 147 6. Animating Failure: Ending, Fleeing, Surviving 173 Notes 189 Bibliography 193 Index 201
£19.94
GMC Publications 52 Assignments: Photographic Exposure
Book Synopsis52 Assignments: Exposure is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for conceiving and composing powerful images. From capturing sunsets and creating dramatic silhouettes to freezing fast-moving action scenes, all the assignments in this book have been written to inspire you to play with light, both natural and artificial, to convey mood, evoke emotion and tell a story. If you feel you are in the dark about exposure, this book will throw new light on your photography, regardless of your chosen subject. AUTHOR: Antony Zacharias is an award-winning photographer based in London who is particularly known for his vivid architectural images and his unique perspectives on cities ranging from New York to London. His work has been commissioned by Toyota US and Sky Atlantic, and published by the BBC, Guardian, Times and Ecologist. His titles published by Ammonite Press include Mastering Long Exposure and Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Taking Better Photographs.
£11.04
Galison Mudpuppy Frank Lloyd Wright City By The Sea 1000 Piece
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£16.19
Pearson Education Limited Power Maths Year 3 Pupil Practice Book 3A
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£5.64
Galison Mudpuppy Winter Snow Globe 500 Piece Puzzle 500 piece
Book SynopsisGet into the holiday sprirt with the Winter Snow Globe 500 Piece Foil Puzzle from Galison. Piece together this puzzle to reveal a snowy village with festive trees and forest friends like deer and cardinals all inside a snow globe. Puzzle and box are embellished with foil for an extra festive flair. All Galison puzzles are packaged in a sturdy, matte-finish box perfect for gift giving and storage. Image by Joy Laforme- Box: 8 x 8 x 2'' , Puzzle: 20 x 20 - Contains informational insert about artist and image
£12.59
Running Press Harry Potter Hogwarts Christmas Wreath and Wand
Book SynopsisAdd the magic of the Wizarding Worlds to your holidays with this one-of-a-kind light-up Hogwarts wreath, activated by Harry Potter's wand,. Specifications: 3 inch Harry Potter Christmas wreath with Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry crest at center Lights Up: Wreath has a light-up feature that adds a magical touch Doubles as an Ornament: This wreath is perfect for hanging on a tree or elsewhere Harry Potter's Wand: A 4 inch replica of Harry Potter's wand, which when pointed closely in front of crest activates lights on wreath Book Included: A 2 1/2 x 3 inch 48 page book on Christmas in the Wizarding World, featuring full-color photos from the films throughout Perfect gift: A perfect Christmas and holiday gift, stocking stuffer, or any time self purchase for Harry Potter fans Officially licensed: Authentic Harry Potter collectible Requires two AAA batteries (not included).
£10.06
HarperCollins Publishers The Times Beginners Guide to Bridge
Book SynopsisA one-stop practical guide on how to play and master the fascinating and rewarding game of bridge with expert advice throughout from Andrew Robson, the Times bridge correspondent, the world’s most famous and successful player and teacher of bridge.Trade Review“No one else has the capacity to explain Bridge more clearly than Andrew.”Omar Sharif “If you want to be better, buy the book.”The Spectator
£8.20
Moleskine Moleskine Extra Large Dotted Softcover Notebook
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£23.68
MOLESKINE Passion Journal Books
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£23.99
Knock Knock Knock Knock Honest Acronyms: Sticky Note Packet
Book SynopsisThe demand for stickies knows no end, so we've created the ultimate portable sets. Tucked inside these tidy folios you'll find a generous selection of stickies to keep you honest and organised, with witty sentiments to get you through the week and acronyms that tell it like it is. According to our maths, if one sticky pad is great, six pads are 8.42 times as good. 6 pads, 40 sheets each with repositionable adhesive.
£10.75
HarperCollins Publishers The Times Killer Su Doku Book 16
Book SynopsisChallenge yourself at home with word and number puzzlesThe latest volume in the hugely popular Killer Su Doku series from The Times, featuring the highest-quality puzzles with an extra element of arithmetic.This addition to the successful Times Killer Su Doku series will test your skills to the limit, adding the challenge of arithmetic and taking Su Doku to a new and even deadlier level of difficulty.The puzzles use the same 9x9 grid as Su Doku but with an added mathematical challenge. The aim is not only to complete every row, column and cube so that it contains the numbers 1-9, it is also necessary to ensure that the outlined cubes add up to the same number as well.With 200 new Moderate, Tricky, Tough and Deadly Killer Su Doku puzzles, there is no chance to ease yourself in with simple puzzles. For those who like to live dangerously and pushbeyond their mental comfort zone, steel yourself for The Times'' next, terribly tough instalment.
£8.20
Bonnier Books Ltd Bedtime Book for Bump: the perfect gift for
Book SynopsisThis gorgeously presented keepsake is the perfect gift for expectant parents, enabling mums- and dads-to-be to bond with their unborn baby.By the third trimester your baby's ears are ready to hear! Featuring expert insights, a gentle rhyme to read to bump, beautiful illustrations and pages to personalise.With an introduction by Dr Kimberley Bennett (@the_psychologists_child) about reading to children, even before they are born, expectant parents will learn the importance of sound and rhythm for their child's development in utero. There are pages to personalise, with a letter to be written to baby ahead of their birth and a page to record their name, weight and date of birth, making this book a treasured heirloom to pass on to the child. To the back of the book is a secure envelope where parents can keep scan photos and other treasured items.The rhyming text which follows is a beautiful, lyrical poem which touches on the emotions of pregnancy and the hopes and dreams of life with a new child. Parents are encouraged to read the poem aloud to bump, creating a loving, bonding routine which enables the unborn baby to become familiar with their parents' voice - whether they are the birthing parent, or not. The poem is accompanied by the stunning illustrations of Anneli Bray, featuring parent and baby animals, curled up together.Bedtime Book for Bump is the perfect pregnancy gift for baby showers, Mother's Day, Father's Day... or just because!
£11.69
University of Chicago Press On Close Reading
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£16.00
GMC Publications Crocheted Mythical Creatures
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£13.59
Avonside Publishing Ltd Lingerie Calendar 2025 Square Sexy Girls Glamour
Book SynopsisOur Lingerie 2025 premium calendar features 13 pages in total 4-monthsfrom the previous year at the start on a planner page Included within are 13full colour images Featuring a large grid for entering important dates Multilingual grid, English, French, German, Italian & Spanish 24 inch x 12inch (610mm x 305mm) open - 12 inch x 12 inch (305mm x 305mm) closed Thisattractive premium quality calendar is a UK publication, PRINTED ON FSC PAPER .
£11.13
Insight Editions Marvel The Mini Book of XMen
Book SynopsisDiscover the secret identities, origin stories, and fun facts of over 100 Marvel mutants with this pocket-sized, collectable guide!Marvel: The Mini Book of X-Men is the ultimate on-the-go handbook to the incredible X-Men of the Marvel Universe. Flip through fun quotes, origin stories, stunning artwork, and more with this unique miniaturized book, perfect for fans who want to learn the ins and outs of their favorite mutants—heroes and villains alike. From the most iconic X-Men like Professor X, Beast, Iceman, and Wolverine, to Sunspot, Banshee, and Iceman, this book truly has everything you need to know about the X-Men. CELEBRATE THE CHARACTERS: This book includes bios, fun facts, and iconic quotes for each mutant STUNNING ART AND IMAGES: Experience the X-Men like never before with key images and gorgeous illustrations that bring every mutant to life COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: Fill your bookshelf with your favorite
£9.49
Pan Macmillan The Greatest SelfHelp Book is the one written by
Book Synopsis''An incredible book that helps to unlock your life lessons.'' Dr Lalitaa Suglani, @dr.lalitaa''A creative, compassionate and loving guide.'' Dr Tasha Bailey, @realtalk.therapistPrepare to go on a journey of self-exploration with the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Good Vibes, Good Life and Healing is the New High, Vex King and social media star, Kaushal, as the husband and wife duo come together on their first ever project with The Greatest Self-Help Book, a game-changing daily journal that allows you to write your own self-help book.Filled with exercises, activities and visual prompts, this journal will help you to understand and regulate your emotions, build and maintain routines and habits that work for you, shift negative mindsets and cultivate positive thought patterns, track personal growth, build self-awareness and carve out time to practise self-love and gratitude.A journal like no other, expect Trade ReviewThis is such a creative, compassionate and loving guide. Whether you’re new to journalling or a veteran, Kaushal and Vex gently walk with you along the jury so that you’re never left alone and stuck with the process. * Tasha Bailey, @realtalk.therapist *The Greatest Self Help Book - the one written by you is an incredible book that helps to unlock your life lessons. * Dr. Lalitaa Suglani, @dr.lalitaa *
£21.12
Galison Colors Of The French Riviera 1000 Piece Puzzle in
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£14.40
PYRAMID INTERNATIONAL STUDIO CANAL Le Journal dun curé de campagne
Book SynopsisSTAR WARS (STORMTROOPER) MINI COLA BOTTLE.
£11.39
Galison A Tiny Fart Diary
Book SynopsisAnd by tiny. . .we mean really tiny. These 2.75 by 3.75 journals will help you remember the important moments of your lifeyou know, like those notable farts. That''s right. Finally. The Tiny Fart Diary is here. Every page will include space to date, rate, and evaluate your latest fart. Think of all of the memories your grandchild will share as they flip through this window to your gastrointestinal history. That''s only one in our series of tiny diarieswe''ll do others based on similar ''activities.'' Features 112 pages Perfect-bound, foil stamped felt cover with gold edged pages. Book measures 2.56 wide by 3.69 tall (65mm x 93.7mm)
£7.00
Chronicle Books One Drawing A Day: A Yearlong Sketchbook for
Book SynopsisA fun and inspiring daily drawing journal from beloved artist and author Lisa Congdon! With 365 creative prompts and enough space for a whole year's worth of drawings, this is the perfect tool for starting or switching up your daily drawing practice. Who better than Lisa Condon, bestselling author and inspiring illustrator, to guide you on a yearlong journey to find and refine your own artistic voice. Practice every day, experiment with different styles and approaches, and make new discoveries on every page! Congdon's encouraging and meaningful drawing prompts give you a springboard to draw from each day, all wrapped up in a beautiful package featuring her gorgeous cover art and a ribbon bookmark for keeping your place. By the end of the year, you'll have a lovely keepsake that shows all your progress, how much you've learned about your own artistic voice, and all the fun along the way.
£14.39
Duke University Press Raving
Book SynopsisMcKenzie Wark takes readers into the undisclosed locations of New York’s thriving queer rave scene, showing how raving to techno is an art and technique at which queer and trans bodies might be particularly adept, but which is for anyone who lets the beat seduce them.Trade Review"The book’s charm is in the autofiction, where the reader gets to inhabit Wark’s sense of liberation. It’s an unusually hopeful depiction of late midlife as a phase of discovery." -- Emily Witt * The New Yorker *"McKenzie Wark is one of today’s finest critics on the subject of bodies, sex, gender, and, as of now, the venue that brings them all together: the rave. . . . Few are better than Wark at capturing how it feels to be in a body with so much intelligence and humor. Here, she argues for raving as a vital trans aesthetic, a way to dance — literally — over the crumbling foundations of capitalism." -- Isle McElroy * Vulture *"A well-tooled topic on which only a writer as sharp as Wark could induce me to pick up another book. . . . Wark is a master of brevity and precision, and Raving is no exception; her easy prose avoids the self-indulgent nostalgia that often afflicts writing on this subject matter." -- Sean Burns * Frieze *"Wark’s entry into Duke University Press’s Practices series, which spotlights the activities that make us human, invites us into the underground queer and trans rave scene of New York City. A bombastic collision of sound and movement, raving is, to Wark, the ideal activity for 'this era of diminishing futures.' An avid raver herself, she blends academic analysis with her own first-hand accounts, all relayed with sensual, staccato prose." -- Sophia M. Stewart * The Millions *"Wark paints a vivid series of vignettes attempting to build a shared language around raving as a technological and social practice—and trying to make sense of the role it plays in the late-capitalist hellscape we now find ourselves in." -- Janus Rose * Vice *"Wark’s new book, Raving, is both a chronicle and a critique of her experience—a queer, trans, cripped, middle-aged one—articulated over the course of six essays, which put her friends and intellectual influences in conversation on the dance floor. To read it as a raver is to feel understood. To read it as anyone else is to get a glimpse of a world, enclosed and artificial, that, after the course of a loud, damp night, can leave its marks on everything outside." -- Zoë Beery and Geoffrey Mak * The Nation *"From the way it’s structured alone, you can tell Wark poured her soul into this work. Her writing is phantasmagoric, vivid, and sharp. . . . Something I appreciate about Wark is her effort to hold herself accountable and criticize the culture she’s participating in. . . . Wark opened my eyes to a brand new world, and I’m sure she can open yours too." -- Lily Alvarado * Autostraddle *"In some ways, Raving is Wark’s aesthetic boiled down to its essence: a short primer on nightlife and sex that’s explained in concepts and theory, and told in a slightly fictionalized series of bursts. It moves from dancefloor to dancefloor, deftly avoiding the classroom and academy. Raving is very much a book that only Wark could have written. I’m glad she did." -- Roz Milner * Live in Limbo *"What emerges in Raving . . . is a mode of writing that is deliberate but impressionistic, systematic but dissociative, theoretical but personal. . . . Like a DJ reigning over a club, Wark maintains a sense of order throughout her book while also remaining open to chance and spontaneity, her “set” containing as many twists, turns, and patterns as that of a master selector. Though she is in many ways driven by a critical impulse, she utilizes a playful, autofictional style, one that allows her to foreground sensorial experience and act as a contemporary Virgil guiding readers through the nine beautiful circles of rave hell." -- Will Harrison * Cleveland Review of Books *"Wark’s aptly-named Raving takes readers on a journey through New York’s thriving, underground queer rave scene—exploring how techno is an artform particularly suited for apocalyptic-feeling times." -- Claire Valentine * W Magazine *"Wark is the professor of the rave, reimagining the philosophical framework for understanding raving as a means of temporary freedom. With her quirky encyclopedia of made-up vocabulary and cheeky anecdotes from her experiences on the dance floor, Raving is at once theoretical and personal, sweet and nihilistic." -- Alessandra Schade * Alternative Press *"Thank god for this book, I love it so. Wark, a professor at the New School in New York City, documents her return to the rave scene after a cool couple decades away, and shows how raving, as she practices it, is love, healing, rebellion, community care, queer and trans joy, and also just a gorgeous good time." -- CJ Hauser * The Week *"Part autofiction, part ethnography, Raving mirrors the complex and collective aspects of rave experiences. Like a practiced deejay, Wark blends genres to take us on a larger journey. Some critics who shared their thoughts with Wark when she was dancing and researching appear momentarily and nudge us gently toward something new." -- Craig Jennex * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Rave as Practice 2. Xeno-euphoria 3. Ketamine Femmunism 4. Enlustment 5. Resonant Abstraction 6. Excessive Machine Notes on the Images Glossary of Concepts Notes Bibliography
£12.34
HarperCollins Publishers The Bicentennial Man
Book SynopsisTwenty of the finest science fiction short stories from one of the genre's greatest writers, Isaac Asimov.
£7.99
Carousel Calendars Mountains Square Wall Calendar 2025
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£9.89
Fox Chapel Publishing SelfCare Journal
Book SynopsisOne of the most important things a person can do is nurture their physical and mental health. Encouraging self-discovery, this self-care journal asks just the right questions to allow you to reflect and recharge your soul. It reminds you to let go of what you can''t control, be honest with yourself, declutter your heart and your home and encourages the breaking of old habits, and ways to stay positive. Some of the 50+ chapters include Positive Power, Own Your Feelings, Let it Go!, Self-Esteem, Find Your Center, 5 Helpful Hobbies, Sleep Tight, and You Did It! The more you read and write and contemplate, the better focused and driven you will feel.
£12.48
Harvard University Press Ukraine War Love
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£15.26
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc Nutrition with Navigate Advantage Access
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£142.20
Moleskine srl Moleskine Large Watercolour Album Black
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£22.49
American Psychological Association Psychology for Kids The Science of the Mind and
Book SynopsisThis exciting book introduces kids to the science of psychology, with chapters on the brain, personality, intelligence, emotions, social relationships, and more. Accompanied by colorful illustrations of psychology?s big ideas, and lots of hands-on experiments to try at home, there?s no better way to dive into the fascinating science of the mind. Why do we sleep? What are feelings? How do we make decisions, and how do we learn from them? Psychology helps us ask and answer these big questions about ourselves, others, and the world around us.Trade ReviewThis kid-friendly introduction to psychology describes what the science is, what psychologists do, and how they do it. Chapter by chapter, the authors, who are clinical psychologists, cover a broad range of topics including the brain, cognition, gender and identity, learning and growing, personality, intelligence, emotions, managing stress, and relationships. In short, readable, colorfully illustrated segments adorned with ample text boxes, they explain concepts and issues, offer examples of research, and suggest ways readers can do their own investigations… A useful and engaging overview of the science of mind and behavior. * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsPart One: Exploring Psychology 1. What Is Psychology? 2. Where’s the Proof?Part Two: Mind and Body Working Together 3. Is Putting On Your Socks a Superpower? 4. How Does the Brain Work?Part Three: The One and Only Me 5. What Makes Me “Me”? 6. What Does It Mean to Be a Boy or a Girl?Part Four: Learning and Growing 7. How Did You Learn That? 8. What Does It Mean to Be Smart? 9. How Do You Remember? 10. How Do We Think? 11. How Do You Change As You Grow?Part Five: Understanding Feelings 12. How Do You Feel? 13. What Motivates You?Part Six: Caring for Yourself 14. What Is Stress? 15. Why Spend So Much Time Sleeping?Part Seven: Taming Emotions 16. What Helps People Do Well? 17. What About When It All Feels Like Too Much?Part Eight: Living With Others 18. Why Are Other People So Important? 19. How Can You Understand Other People’s Experiences? 20. Is Conflict Part of Being Human?Part Nine: Planning for a Better World 21. Can Psychology Help Save Planet Earth? Glossary Index About the Author
£18.99
Haynes Publishing Group VW Beetle 1200 54 77 Haynes Repair Manual
Book SynopsisSaloon. Petrol: 1.2 litre (1192cc).
£28.80
Haynes Publishing Group Yamaha XV Virago 8103 Haynes Repair Manual
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£26.25
CABI Antarctic Whaling
Book SynopsisAntarctic Whaling explores how British whalers came to claim so large a share of the whales taken from the Southern Ocean in the first half of the twentieth century, and, more particularly, where, when, how and why the British Government came to play so large a part in whaling history through its endeavour to regulate the whaling grounds.
£58.50
