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Insight Editions Van Gogh Almond Blossoms Deluxe Journal
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£26.99
Insight Editions Van Gogh Letters Stationery Set
Book SynopsisShare your ideas and feelings with family and friends with this stunning deluxe stationery set inspired by Van Gogh’s eloquent words and exceptional artwork.Vincent van Gogh was not only one of the most well-known, beloved artists of all time; he was also a prolific and insightful letter writer. Over the course of his life, he wrote thousands of letters to his brother, Theo, as well as other loyal friends and supporters. Be inspired by Van Gogh''s passion for letter writing as you sit down to write letters of your own. 20 SHEETS AND ENVELOPES: A comfortable A5 letterhead size and coordinating envelopes provide space to correspond with family and friends and are decoratively embellished with both Van Gogh''s artwork and quotes from his letters. Take in the late master''s views on art, passion, love, and so much more. INCLUDES EVERYTHING YOU NEED: Also included in this set are components to decorate your letters and upgrade your writin
£37.80
Pennsylvania State University Press Without God Michel Houellebecq and Materialist
Book SynopsisAddresses the religious, metaphysical, and existential dimensions of French novelist Michel Houellebecq’s work. Argues that Houellebecq is the foremost contemporary chronicler of the spiritual anxieties of Western and specifically French modernity.Trade Review“A superb book that shows how Houellebecq—like Nietzsche before him—is the best diagnostician and therapist for the deepest ills that beset our culture. Another ‘canary in the mineshaft’, he ‘sees the end in everything’, and drags us—kicking and screaming—to face intelligently the social priorities we have been induced to commit to.”—Patrick Madigan Heythrop Journal“A timely and valuable addition to the growing critical corpus.”—Russell Williams French Studies“Betty’s book is an admirable contribution to American literary criticism, as it is the first study of its kind to be produced by an American scholar, but more importantly, it will prove to be an invaluable contribution to the study of Houellebecq writ large. By recognising that Michel Houellebecq is a fundamentally post-secular thinker, Betty offers readers a key to unlocking his fiction, opening doors of understanding that had remained closed until now, and reveals that the author poses a robust challenge to the new materialisms gaining ascendency in the Western academy.”—Andrew Ball Literature and Theology“Entirely brilliant from a methodological point of view, Without God sheds a great deal of light on the work of Michel Houellebecq. Given its very broad perspective and the importance of the issues at stake, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers.”—Bruno Viard,Université de Provence“Michel Houellebecq is the most important novelist writing about religion today, and Louis Betty has written the first book to explore Houellebecq’s views on religion. Betty guides the reader through Houellebecq’s oeuvre, makes French discussions of Houellebecq accessible to English-speaking audiences, and situates Houellebecq’s work in the context of recent scholarly discussions about the secular. This book should be of broad interest to scholars of religion and literature as well as to those interested in contemporary French thought.”—Vincent Lloyd,Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsCONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION: THE HOUELLEBECQUIAN WORLDVIEWMaterialist Horror and the Question of CapitalismChapter SummariesHouellebecq as Character: A Brief ConsiderationCHAPTER ONE: MATERIALISM AND SECULARISMHouellebecquian Materialism: A Qualified Case?Quantum UncertaintiesLifting the Sacred CanopyMaterialism and Suicide: Logical Consequences of the Death of GodMaterialist Horror and Moral SecularizationCHAPTER TWO: THE FUTURE OF RELIGIONThe Return of ReligionCan a Cloning Cult Be a Religion?Elohimism, Islam, and the Question of Religious DisciplineCHAPTER THREE: RELIGION AND UTOPIAThe Fresh Ruins of FranceAbandoned UtopiasCHAPTER FOUR: MATERIALIST HORRORDangerous CredibilityLovecraft, Pascal, HouellebecqCHAPTER FIVE: LIBERALISM IS GOD AND THE WEST IS ITS PROPHETThe Modern Western Woman: A 200-Year Disaster in the MakingAs Goes France, So Goes FrançoisA Conversion au conditionnelReaction, Romanticism, or Something Else?NOTESWORKS CITEDINDEX
£26.06
Insight Editions Supernatural Join the Hunt Hardcover Journal
Book SynopsisChronicle your own demon-hunting adventures with this deluxe hardcover journal inspired by the world of Supernatural™ featuring an intricate metal devil’s trap sigil on the front cover and exclusive content from John Winchester’s journal QUALITY CONSTRUCTION: This journal was crafted with the highest quality and detail and features a durable hardcover case, a molded metal emblem of the devil’s trap symbol, archival paper throughout, and an attached satin ribbon bookmark to keep your place. EXCLUSIVE CONTENT AND 192 RULED PAGES: The inside cover of this journal contains exclusive art showcasing John Winchester’s notes, sketches, and advice gathered from decades of hunting, plus ruled pages to give plenty of journaling space for any wayward son and daughter who plans on sticking with the Winchesters to the last hunt. CONVENIENT SIZE: Measuring 5.25 x 8.25 inches, this journal is a perfect size for travel
£24.00
Insight Editions Game of Thrones: House Stark Ruled Pocket Journal
Book SynopsisEnter the epic fantasy world of HBO’s Game of Thrones with this pocket-size notebook featuring the sigil of House Stark. Noble, stoic, resilient, and known for the motto “Winter Is Coming,” House Stark has endured some of the darkest periods in the history of Westeros. The Stark family’s notably grim outlook on life acts as a necessary shield against the brutalities of the Seven Kingdoms. Displaying the direwolf on their sigil, the Starks are just as loyal and fierce as the creature itself, making them perhaps the most honorable family in the land, and as a result, often the most maligned.
£14.04
Pennsylvania State University Press Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R.
Book SynopsisExamines the ghost stories of writer and academic Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936). Focuses on the intersection between his scholarly work and his fiction, arguing that his two careers are intriguingly intertwined.Trade Review“Any Jamesian will be surprised at how much new light Murphy casts on these eerie tales of revenants and demons.”—Michael Dirda Washington Post“Demonstrates a kind of scholarly curiosity that one hopes M. R. James himself would have approved.”—A. S. G. Edwards Times Literary Supplement“Murphy's interesting book shows that perhaps M.R. James’ stories were more than just idle pieces of entertainment.”—John DeNardo Kirkus Reviews“For anyone interested in James, the scholar, this book is an essential read; it presents much that is new, is fascinating throughout, and offers perceptive analysis of James’s unparalleled wisdom in the field.”—Peter Bell Ghosts & Scholars M. R. James Newsletter“This book is a pleasure to read: beautifully written and presented. It is never less than thoroughly eloquent.”—David Matthews Review of English Studies“In this thorough, eloquent, and convincing study, Patrick Murphy sheds important new light on one of the most renowned medievalists of the early twentieth century and on the means by which the Middle Ages continue to remake, and be remade by, popular culture.”—Karl Fugelso,editor of the journal Studies in Medievalism“This book goes further than any other in making sense of M. R. James’s dual identity as a medieval scholar and a ghost-story writer. In elucidating some of the hidden meanings in James’s classic ghost stories, Patrick Murphy makes ingenious connections between antiquarian fiction and the emergence of medieval studies in the early twentieth century.”—Shane McCorristine,author of The Hand of Glory: Folklore, Crime, and Fiction“The very best part of this book is the way in which both authors—Patrick Murphy and M. R. James—unravel puzzles that others have avoided or perhaps not even recognized as significant. Readers will admire the scholarship behind the solving of these puzzles and will also take great pleasure in following Murphy’s line of reasoning, which reveals what the subtle scholar-storyteller James is after. Reading this book is like following the adventures of those on a quest, or the unraveling of clues in a really good mystery novel.”—Marijane Osborn,coauthor of Beowulf: A Likeness“There are some seminal studies that have shed light on the genesis and development of medieval studies: Ulrich Wyss’s work on Jacob Grimm, Tom Shippey’s on J. R. R. Tolkien, and Michelle Warren’s on Joseph Bédier. Patrick Murphy’s book completes these other studies by telling the story of M. R. James, a fascinating medievalist forefather working at the exact moment of transition from English antiquarianism and extra-academic medievalist enthusiasms to a medieval studies almost entirely exclusive of writers, artists, and musicians. Murphy’s meticulously researched narrative provides ample proof that both enterprises, the creative and the scholarly reception of medieval culture, should not be viewed as mutually exclusive but richly symbiotic.”—Richard Utz,president, International Society for the Study of the History of Medievalism“Patrick Murphy’s deeply researched and wittily written book puts James’s work in the context of the development of medieval studies and, more broadly, an academic culture in transition and the great loss and unimaginable changes wrought by the Great War. By delineating the entanglement of various competing timelines—antiquarian, professional, and institutional, for example—in James’s endeavors, Murphy compellingly illuminates a profound disquiet haunting this liminal figure and his famous ghostly tales.”—Carolyn Dinshaw,author of How Soon Is Now?: Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time“Until comparatively recently, the prevailing critical consensus on James’s fiction could be characterised by Julia Briggs’s insistence that, though masterfully entertaining and obviously the work of a learned scholar, his tales were superficial edifices with little to offer the serious literary critic. Perhaps paradoxically, in resolutely laying bare the sheer elusiveness of James’s fictions—their absolute refusal to settle into one final ‘meaning’—Murphy has fashioned a rich, allusive study, which demonstrates just how fertile a field for theoretical and historical enquiry these endlessly fascinating tales can be.”—Dewi Evans Irish Journal of Gothic & Horror StudiesTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Terror and ErrorChapter 2: Recasting the AntiquaryChapter 3: Ex CathedraChapter 4: A Desideratum of WingsChapter 5: To the CuriousAfterword: Professions of ReticenceNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
£26.06
Knock Knock Knock Knock Therapy Notes Pad Pastel Version
Book SynopsisTherapy is a great tool for handling stress and emotional challenges—and besides, where else can you talk about yourself nonstop for an hour? This pad of therapy session notes helps you remember topics to bring up at your next session, write down insights during your session, and record your “assignments” for the coming week! Now go forth and talk about your childhood (or whatever) Like an emotional wellness pad and therapy journal in one! 6 x 9 inches, 60 sheets
£999.99
Pennsylvania State University Press Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle
Book SynopsisAddresses the question of how and why Horace Walpole and the men of his circle promoted the Gothic style in art, architecture, and literature in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Trade Review“Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole is thoroughly researched and wonderfully illustrated; it contributes to the richness of current interest in the histories of interiors, architecture, and design, particularly those that foreground subjective qualities of lived experiences. This is why it is important that Matthew M. Reeve has situated Horace Walpole, his character and personality, at the centre of this study, explaining how Strawberry Hill signifies the summation of his complex, homosocial, and singular life.”—Helen McCormack Journal of Design History“Echoing the prodigious propagation of architectural offspring of the book’s subject, it seems clear that Reeve’s deeply researched, critically engaged and massively compelling study of Strawberry Hill will be the progenitor of many fascinating studies to come.”—Freya Gowrley Art History“The lavish publication is reflected in the high standard of Reeve’s research. His prose is Daedalian in its eloquence but firmly maintains the threads of coherence sometimes abandoned by scholarly theorists, resulting in a work which is accessible and pleasing for all. The range of subject matter will interest an array of audiences, including medievalists; early modernists; historians of art, architecture, and literature; anthropologists; and queer theorists.”—Nele De Raedt, Frances Sands, Erin J. Campbell, Vanessa Vanden Berghe Architectural Histories“In this imaginative, erudite, and lavishly illustrated book, Reeve delineates the connections between style, subjectivity, and sexuality in Horace Walpole’s vision of the Gothic—and as a general matter for the study of visual and material culture—with force, clarity, and nuance. Deeply researched and elegantly written, the book will interest historians of the Middle Ages and of the eighteenth century, art and architectural historians, queer theorists, students of medievalism, and many other readers. It is a stunning achievement of historical imagination and moral eloquence.”—Whitney Davis,author of Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond“This book makes a brilliant and substantive contribution to research on eighteenth-century Gothic. In keeping with Walpole’s own interdisciplinary leanings, Reeve cuts through the disciplinary boundaries that have tended to shape previous studies of Walpole and his circle. Rightly, he treats Walpolean Gothic as a thoroughly multimedia enterprise. In so doing, Reeve raises the critical discourse on medievalism and queer aesthetics to a new level of sophistication.”—Robert Mills,author of Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment in Medieval Culture“Reeve’s book is careful and precise at the same time that it is far-reaching and inspiring! It builds on earlier works with enormous care, and it takes Walpole studies to a new location entirely.”—George E. Haggerty,author of Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form“Horace Walpole was an important cultural innovator in both gothic literature and architecture. Although he saw these interests as complementary it has been scholars in literary studies who have most extensively explored his sexual subjectivity. This book is, therefore, a welcome and pioneering study of the queer architectural passions of Walpole and his circle of intimate friends.”—Dominic Janes,author of Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900“Bridging queer theory, medieval studies, architectural history, and histories of Georgian architecture, Reeve’s compelling interpretation shows that in Walpole’s circle, the Gothic Revival was a sign that alternative masculinities were not merely surviving, but thriving.”—Ayla Lepine West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material CultureTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface: Medievalism, Modernity, and the History of SexualityAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The New Medievalism: Constructing the Gothic in the Circle of Horace Walpole2. Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill3. Queer Family Romance in the Strawberry Hill Collection4. Dicky Bateman and the Gothicization of Old Windsor5. “The Spirit of Strawberry-Castle”: Donnington Grove, The Vyne, and Lee Priory6. From Strawberry Hill Gothic to the Gothic RevivalNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
Chronicle Books The Work Wellness Deck: 60 Simple Practices to
Book SynopsisBanish burnout with this deck of 60 easy-to-do-anywhere prompts that encourage sanity, serenity, and wellness in your place of work, wherever that may be. Burnout is common in today's work culture. Whether due to long hours, excessive workloads, or lack of work-life balance, we all know someone who has felt overwhelmed at work. Enter The Work Wellness Deck: 60 actionable suggestions that will restore a sense of well-being in the workplace and banish burnout once and for all. Packaged in a portable format, the deck is organized into three categories: REFRESH (mental health), FLOW (physical health), and CONNECT (work relationships). Prompts include office stretches that help your posture, breathing exercises to manage stress, a gratitude practice to focus on the positive, and networking ideas to build meaningful relationships. Individuals can keep the deck on their desk or in their bag, pulling a card to start the day or as a midday mindfulness break, teams can use the cards to set a group intention, and company leaders can distribute this deck to employees as a wellness perk. No matter how it's used, The Work Wellness Deck will help people in all industries build resiliency, improve productivity, communicate effectively, and forge connection—no matter where they work. BURNOUT IS COMMON: Whether you work from home and struggle to delineate work and personal time, or you work long hours at an office, it is common to feel overworked and overwhelmed at one point or another. The Work Wellness Deck is an effective tool in preventing and/or diminishing feelings of burnout. PERFECT FOR COMPANIES: Small businesses, company leaders, and HR reps in every industry—tech, finance, healthcare, law, media, nonprofits, retail, and more—can distribute this deck to their employees as a way to encourage them to prioritize their health and wellness. LITTLE-PUBLISHED SLICE OF WELLNESS: Wellness is a huge trend, but beyond self-help books on the topic, there isn't much accessible publishing on wellness in the workplace. This one-of-a-kind format is practical but still giftable, and fills that gap. Perfect for: • People who work and want to prioritize their own wellbeing • Anyone who feels burned-out • Job-changers • New graduates • HR reps and company leaders (for themselves or their employees); especially as a welcome gift for new hires, or a gift for a workplace anniversary or promotion
£17.33
Chronicle Books Make It Happen Dice
Book SynopsisStuck in a rut on work, chores, homework, or creative projects? Shake yourself out of it with Make It Happen Dice, a decision dice set with over 35 combinations to get you back on track! We all have trouble getting things done sometimes, and this dice set is the perfect tool to get us going! Make It Happen Dice is a set of two dice featuring six ways to approach your tasks and six ways to reset your brain when you’re stuck. Let the dice give you the tips and structure you need to get any task done. The dice feature short phrases that are explained and expanded on in the accompanying booklet. The fun and useful explanations of the dice options will help you accomplish a wide variety of tasks, from housework to homework, creative projects to work tasks, and more!FUN MOTIVATION: Two 6-sided dice provide more than 35 inspiring ways to quit procrastinating or boost productivity. The accompanying 32-page bookle
£13.30
Pennsylvania State University Press Ivan Illich An Intellectual Journey
Book SynopsisExamines the life and writings of Roman Catholic Church reformer Ivan Illich (1926-2002) in the context of the wider field of cultural criticism that took shape in the 1960s and beyond.Trade Review“This opus represents many, many evenings of intelligent, friendly, and finally life-changing dialogue that culminate in a near-symphonic quality. Cayley’s deep understanding and clear prose pull a complex, balanced harmony out of themes that to the casual reader of Illich could seem eclectic.”—Marcus Rempel Clarion: Journal for Religion, Peace, and Justice“David Cayley, who conducted two lengthy radio interviews-turned-books with Illich (in 1988 and 2000) and had a decades-long friendship with him, has written a gripping and unconventional biography of this deeply unconventional man.”—Michael J. Sauter Front Porch Republic“As a friend of Illich, Cayley’s book carries forward and, in many ways, completes the vision Illich had not the time in his relatively short life to fully elaborate and explain.”—Robert Inchausti Angelus“Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey can itself be seen as an act of love, restoring Illich to his rightful place among the significant social and religious thinkers of our time.”—Brian C. Anderson First Things“Ivan Illich’s work offers us a much needed intellectual and spiritual balm in a time distinguished by the untidy dissolution of certainties. But such a balm is not purchased by cheap grace. It is costly; it requires a new visioning. David Cayley’s retrieval of this “vanishing clergyman” offers a way forward in a darkening landscape.”—Michael W. Higgins Literary Review of Canada“A crucial contribution to Illich’s rediscovery.”—Geoff Shullenberger American Affairs“After years of reading Illich, Cayley’s genealogy—richly documented and carefully argued—provides the definitive account of how to make sense of one of the last great polymaths and cultural critics.”—Myles Werntz Reading Religion“Cayley convincingly illuminates how Illich’s thought developed and how it revolves around certain central insights: complementarity, the vernacular, incarnation, and a reading of history that sees the West as a deviation from the Gospel. In so doing, Cayley reconnects Illich with the work of important contemporary social theorists—Latour, Agamben, Milbank, and others—and shows how Illich anticipated their work in many ways. This book is unique, much needed, and masterfully executed.”—William Cavanaugh,author of Field Hospital: The Church's Engagement with a Wounded World“No other book yet published summarizes and synthesizes Illich’s life and thought at this length and in this detail. It is a much-needed intervention with sustained political, social, philosophical, and theological resonance. Cayley’s book should now form the starting point for all future critical conversation around Illich’s varied, generative, challenging, and often surprising ideas.”—Simon Ravenscroft,Magdalene College, University of Cambridge“Illich provides a vocabulary for identifying both the core assumptions underwriting these responses (from systems thinking to the imperatives of medically defined ‘life’) as well as challenging counterproductive interventions and their ‘well-intended’ justifications. For the contemporary legibility of his life and thought in this way - and innumerable ways for readers to discover – we owe a debt of gratitude to David Cayley.”—Oscar Krüger Environmental ValuesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ivan Illich as I Knew HimPrologue: Early Life1. Exile2. Cuernavaca3. Church4. Deschooling Society5. Illich as Revolutionary6. Disabling Professions7. Certainties8. Gender9. Embodiment/Disembodiment10. “A Bulldozer Lurks in Every Computer”: On Reading, Writing, and Language11. To Hell With Life12. Corruptio Optimi Pessima13. Apocalypse14. Illich’s Way of LifeEpilogue: The Art of SufferingConclusion: An Intellectual JourneyNotesIndex
£34.16
Flame Tree Publishing Uematsu Hobi Box Decorated with Chrysanthemums
Book SynopsisNew title in the lighter-weight Flame Tree Soft Touch Journals collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with gold-foiled page edges, gloss detailing and lined pages. Perfect as a gift, or a personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds.Soft Touch Journals, the new paperback notebook series from Flame Tree featuring a range of popular designs by artists and Illustrators, are lightweight journals with the same high-quality production as our hardback journals. Our trademark blend of the practical and beautiful, with gold-foiled page edges, gloss detailing on the tactile matt cover, and lined pages, they’re perfect for notes, creative writing, poetry, doodles and lists. Easy to slip into your bag, a pleasure to use. Simply, they feel good! This beautiful box is designed by lesser-known artist Uematsu Hobi. It was decorated with blossoming chrysanthemums and the poem, tsuyu no ma ni, the letters of which are
£10.79
Flame Tree Publishing Bee Brown Folk Owl Foiled Journal
Book SynopsisNew title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift, or personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds.A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.THE ARTIST. Bee Brown is a freelance illustrator based in Warwickshire in the UK. She has over 25 years’ experience in delivering her own brand of whimsical and colourful illustration to clients all over the world. Whether she is drawing animals, people, places or her own style of hand-drawn lettering, she is always trying to infuse her work with charming details, plenty of personality and a generous helping of joy!THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
£11.87
Pennsylvania State University Press The Moving Statues of SeventeenthCentury
Book SynopsisExplores the visual and cultural history of Amsterdam in the early modern era, focusing on the doolhoven: winding mazes behind pubs and taverns that featured pleasure gardens, waterworks, wax galleries, and automata.Trade Review“This valuable book, written in an engaging storytelling mode that never sacrifices rigor, teaches us much that we did not know about Amsterdam’s doolhoven. Before its publication, those enriched, dynamic display environments were nearly lost to us. Now, thanks to Vanhaelen, we at last have a clear vision of them.”—Arthur Di Furia The Historians of Netherlandish Art“A fascinating and convincing exploration of an undeservedly forgotten phenomenon, and a challenge to re-examine our perceptions of the Dutch ‘Golden Age.’”—Kirsten Tambling Apollo Magazine“Vanhaelen’s book, like the doolhof itself, is full of so many surprises that simply are too good to give away...”—Christopher Heuer Architectural Histories“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam is an entirely original study of Amsterdam’s pleasure palaces, or doolhoven, and a fascinating read that delights and instructs in a manner akin to the spaces it deftly analyzes. Vanhaelen’s text considers courtyard fountains, labyrinths, automata, waxworks, and clockworks, moving beyond standard descriptions of wonder to reflect on the nature of the city, the body, and knowledge itself in the early modern period.”—Stephanie Porras,author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam is highly original and will be fascinating to almost everyone with an interest in early modern visual culture. The book guides the reader on a dazzling tour with surprises at every corner. This fascinating study reveals the early modern park of public entertainment as a site of learning and lively debate.”—Hanneke Grootenboer,author of The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam articulates a position that becomes increasingly convincing as one wanders further into the book. An amazing study about mazes indeed.”—Joseph Wachelder Technology and Culture“This valuable book, written in an engaging storytelling mode that never sacrifices rigor, teaches us much that we did not know about Amsterdam’s doolhoven. Before its publication, those enriched, dynamic display environments were nearly lost to us. Now, thanks to Vanhaelen, we at last have a clear vision of them.”—Arthur Di Furia The Historians of Netherlandish Art“A fascinating and convincing exploration of an undeservedly forgotten phenomenon, and a challenge to re-examine our perceptions of the Dutch ‘Golden Age.’”—Kirsten Tambling Apollo Magazine“Vanhaelen’s book, like the doolhof itself, is full of so many surprises that simply are too good to give away...”—Christopher Heuer Architectural Histories“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam is an entirely original study of Amsterdam’s pleasure palaces, or doolhoven, and a fascinating read that delights and instructs in a manner akin to the spaces it deftly analyzes. Vanhaelen’s text considers courtyard fountains, labyrinths, automata, waxworks, and clockworks, moving beyond standard descriptions of wonder to reflect on the nature of the city, the body, and knowledge itself in the early modern period.”—Stephanie Porras,author of Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam is highly original and will be fascinating to almost everyone with an interest in early modern visual culture. The book guides the reader on a dazzling tour with surprises at every corner. This fascinating study reveals the early modern park of public entertainment as a site of learning and lively debate.”—Hanneke Grootenboer,author of The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking“The Moving Statues of Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam articulates a position that becomes increasingly convincing as one wanders further into the book. An amazing study about mazes indeed.”—Joseph Wachelder Technology and Culture
£30.56
Flame Tree Publishing Charcoal Artisan Sketch Book
Book SynopsisNew title in the colourful Artisan Sketch Book collection by Flame Tree Studio, in a range of hues to suit the mood and the moment, and crafted with decorated edges overflowing with petals, teasing vines and patterns.Artisan Sketch Books from Flame Tree come in a range of hues to suit the mood and the moment. They’re hand crafted with decorated edges overflowing with petals and teasing vines. And, with flexible, soft touch faux leather covers, they’re easy to slip into your bag and a pleasure to use. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for artists, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
£13.25
Flame Tree Publishing Jenny Zemanek Freedom Flight Butterflies Foiled
Book SynopsisNew title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift, or personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds.A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.THE ARTIST. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Jenny Zemanek is a lifelong lover of all things creative. What started with happy scribbles at a young age grew into a pursuit of photography and graphic design before she found a home with illustration and hand-lettering. Jenny revels in the joys of small decorative details, finding ways to add personality to her work.THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
£11.87
Flame Tree Publishing Pieter van den Keere Antique Map Greeting Card
Book SynopsisGorgeous foiled, handmade pack of 6 greeting cards, blank inside and shrink-wrapped with a gold envelope, printed on FSC paper and wrapped in biodegradable cellobag, perfect for all occasions!Sold in packs of 6. Gorgeous, foiled, handmade greeting cards, blank inside and shrink-wrapped with a gold envelope. Themed with our art calendars, foiled notebooks and illustrated art books, our greeting cards are printed on FSC®-certified paper and wrapped in a biodegradable cellobag. This example features an antique map by Pieter van den Keere.Pieter van den Keere (1571-c. 1646) was a Flemish engraver, publisher and globe maker who came to England as a Protestant refugee. Settling in Amsterdam in 1593, he continued to work and began engraving a series of miniature county maps for the British Isles Atlas in 1599. His works also include a map of Ireland, urban panoramas of Utrecht, Cologne, Amsterdam and Paris, as well as a collection of world maps.
£14.69
Pennsylvania State University Press Jews of Iran A Photographic Chronicle
Book SynopsisA photographic exploration of life in the Jewish communities of Iran.Trade Review“The eclectic photographs in this attractive coffee-table volume run the gamut from two Jewish carpet merchants working in their shop in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to a group of Jewish boys playing football at a Hebrew school. Still other photos illuminate the diversity of Jewish life in contemporary Iran.”—Sheldon Kirshner Times of Israel“Jews of Iran: A Photographic Chronicle is a timely reveal of one of the most beautiful and complicated untold stories of contemporary Iran.”—James A. Cox Midwest Book Review“A remarkable feat—Jews of Iran is a vivid portrayal of the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel, documenting a group rendered invisible by global geopolitics.”—Kamin Mohammadi,author of The Cypress Tree: A Love Letter to Iran“A rare glimpse into the lives of a community that has survived in Iran through thick and thin for 2,700 years, bringing together identities that are distinctively Jewish yet thoroughly Iranian.”—Jim Muir,BBC Iran correspondent, 1999–2004“This remarkable collection of photographs beautifully captures the daily life of Iranian Jews under the Islamic Republic. It shows how survival involves daily compromise, and how this dwindling community has maintained its cultural and religious identity against all odds.”—Janet Afary,author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution“If ‘one picture is worth more than a thousand words,’ this book captures the complex world of the Jews of Iran. With sensitivity and artistic talent, Sarbakhshian and Vahidmanesh reveal their humanity, which is too often hidden from view.”—David Menashri,author of Post-Revolutionary Politics in Iran: Religion, Society and Power“This text will certainly fill a gap in both research and synagogue/Jewish community center library collections of material on Iranian Jewish history and culture.”—Mindy C. Reiser Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews
£22.46
Flame Tree Publishing Bex Parkin Red Poppies Greeting Card Pack
Book SynopsisGorgeous foiled, handmade pack of 6 greeting cards, blank inside and shrink-wrapped with a gold envelope, printed on FSC paper and wrapped in biodegradable cellobag, perfect for all occasions!Sold in packs of 6. Gorgeous, foiled, handmade greeting cards, blank inside and shrink-wrapped with a gold envelope. Themed with our art calendars, foiled notebooks and illustrated art books, our greeting cards are printed on FSC®-certified paper and wrapped in a biodegradable cellobag. This example features Bex Parkin''s luxurious artwork Red Poppies.Bex Parkin is an incredibly talented illustrator. Having spent many years based in London working in a range of artistic jobs, she now lives in rural Staffordshire. Her passion for print, pattern and colour was largely inspired by her work sourcing vintage and antique textiles for the fashion industry, which can be seen throughout her artworks.
£14.69
Knock Knock Knock Knock Notey Notes Sticky Note Thingy
Book Synopsis It's a Sticky Thingy! This note-tastic sticky ball-thing looks cool and has 325 colorful sticky notes for all your notational needs. Now that's noteworthy! 13 sticky pads, 25 sheets each 5.5 inches diameter x 5 inches high File under: exceptionally cute sticky notes, office sticky notes
£15.89
Pennsylvania State University Press Sensorial Investigations
Book SynopsisDavid Howes's sweeping history of the senses in the disciplines of anthropology and psychology and in the field of law lays the foundations for a sensational jurisprudence, or a way to do justice to and by the senses of other people. In part 1, Howes demonstrates how sensory ethnography has yielded alternative insights into how the senses function and argues convincingly that each culture should be approached on its own sensory terms. Part 2 documents how the senses have been disciplined psychologically within the Western tradition, starting with Aristotle and moving through the rise of Lockean empiricism and cognitive neuroscience. Here, Howes presents an anthropologically informed critique of experimental and cognitive psychology, sensory science, and phenomenology. In part 3, he introduces the paradigm of the historical anthropology of the senses and sensation and applies it to the analysis of trade relations between Europe and China in the early modern period, to the treaty-makinTrade Review“David Howes is a leading figure in sensory studies. In this masterful work, he addresses an extraordinary array of topics and theories in uncovering the history of the legal, anthropological, and psychological dimensions of the senses. In showing how the senses are made, not given, Howes offers an expansive analysis that both links and extends each of these disciplines in unexpected ways.”—Deborah Lupton,SHARP Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales Sydney“This engaging and erudite book reminds us that the academy suffers, to a greater or lesser extent, from sensory deprivation. For David Howes, history and anthropology invite a crossing of cultures and disciplines through the senses. For the law, Howes advocates a ‘cross-cultural jurisprudence’ in which song, dance, and smell coexist with the written word. Sensorial Investigations celebrates ‘con-sensus’ rather than ways of knowing tied exclusively, and senselessly, to words on a page.”—Nicholas Kasirer,Justice, Supreme Court of Canada“In Sensorial Investigations, David Howes shows how an anthropology of the senses deepens and expands our understanding of human history and potential. Meticulously exploring varieties of sensory experience, and challenging the universalizing reductions of social science, this book helps us learn more from difference. The investigations described and prescribed open an exciting vista for a sensorial mode of attention in the human sciences.”—Judith Farquhar,Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago“Sensorial Investigations is a timely, exciting, and vitally important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies, especially sensory anthropology and sensory history. Erudite and wide-ranging in scholarship, it is inventive in its argument and written in lively, engrossing prose by a leading light in the field.”—Peter Denney,author of The Senses in World History“‘Neuroscientists need to get out of their own heads,’ David Howes says in introducing his rich and thought-provoking exploration of the sensorium. His bold project of crossing disciplines, cultures, and historical periods delivers a vision of the senses that takes us far beyond the narrow explorations of philosophy and the sciences.”—Raymond Tallis,author of Seeing Ourselves: Reclaiming Humanity from God and Science“Sublime and magisterial, Sensorial Investigations is a critical assemblage and rereading of Wittgenstein, Arendt, Simmel, and many others. At once provocative, accessible, and poignant, Howes deftly charts the intellectual trajectory of the senses anew and pronounces nuanced and interdisciplinary approaches that both make and unmake the senses. A must-read for researchers and students of sensory inquiry.”—Kelvin E. Y. Low,Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore“David Howes is a leading figure in sensory studies. In this masterful work, he addresses an extraordinary array of topics and theories in uncovering the history of the legal, anthropological, and psychological dimensions of the senses. In showing how the senses are made, not given, Howes offers an expansive analysis that both links and extends each of these disciplines in unexpected ways.”—Deborah Lupton,SHARP Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales Sydney“This engaging and erudite book reminds us that the academy suffers, to a greater or lesser extent, from sensory deprivation. For David Howes, history and anthropology invite a crossing of cultures and disciplines through the senses. For the law, Howes advocates a ‘cross-cultural jurisprudence’ in which song, dance, and smell coexist with the written word. Sensorial Investigations celebrates ‘con-sensus’ rather than ways of knowing tied exclusively, and senselessly, to words on a page.”—Nicholas Kasirer,Justice, Supreme Court of Canada“In Sensorial Investigations, David Howes shows how an anthropology of the senses deepens and expands our understanding of human history and potential. Meticulously exploring varieties of sensory experience, and challenging the universalizing reductions of social science, this book helps us learn more from difference. The investigations described and prescribed open an exciting vista for a sensorial mode of attention in the human sciences.”—Judith Farquhar,Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago“Sensorial Investigations is a timely, exciting, and vitally important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of sensory studies, especially sensory anthropology and sensory history. Erudite and wide-ranging in scholarship, it is inventive in its argument and written in lively, engrossing prose by a leading light in the field.”—Peter Denney,author of The Senses in World History“‘Neuroscientists need to get out of their own heads,’ David Howes says in introducing his rich and thought-provoking exploration of the sensorium. His bold project of crossing disciplines, cultures, and historical periods delivers a vision of the senses that takes us far beyond the narrow explorations of philosophy and the sciences.”—Raymond Tallis,author of Seeing Ourselves: Reclaiming Humanity from God and Science“Sublime and magisterial, Sensorial Investigations is a critical assemblage and rereading of Wittgenstein, Arendt, Simmel, and many others. At once provocative, accessible, and poignant, Howes deftly charts the intellectual trajectory of the senses anew and pronounces nuanced and interdisciplinary approaches that both make and unmake the senses. A must-read for researchers and students of sensory inquiry.”—Kelvin E. Y. Low,Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore
£22.46
Knock Knock Knock Knock Kids Sticky Art Frames Pad
Book Synopsis Ta-dah! It's your very own art gallery! Showcase your creativity with this fancy-pants art pad. Each page comes with a snazzy gold frame printed right on itplus, they're sticky! Just draw or color your masterpiece, peel the sheet off, and stick it on the wall. (Beret not included.) Voilà, it's an instant art display for kids artwork right under your roof! Who knew giant sticky notes could be so chic & museum-worthy? 10 x 8 inches; 40 adhesive sheets; 10 each of 4 frame designs
£15.89
Flame Tree Publishing Kate Heiss Busy Pollinators Foiled Journal
Book SynopsisNew title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift, or personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds.A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious, the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red endpapers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3D masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.THE ARTIST. Kate Heiss is a contemporary British printmaker who creates limited edition screen prints and linocuts on paper. After graduating with an MA in Textile Design from the Royal College of Art in 1997, she worked as a textile designer across a wide range of fashion brands before setting up her own printmaking studio in 2011. Kate creates dynamic and vibrant prints inspired by her love of nature, the flowers and birds in her garden, rural landscapes and her love of bold, colourful floral patterns found in textiles. Her work is handmade in her studio in Hertfordshire and is regularly exhibited across the UK.THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
£11.87
Penn State University Traces of a Jewish Artist
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£25.46
Flame Tree Publishing Jenny Zemanek Blossoming Boldly Foiled Journal
Book SynopsisNew title in the Flame Tree Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production, with lined pages, a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift, or personal choice for notetakers and journal users of all kinds.A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.THE ARTIST. Based in Columbus, Ohio, Jenny Zemanek is a lifelong lover of all things creative. What started with happy scribbles at a young age grew into a pursuit of photography and graphic design before she found a home with illustration and hand-lettering. Jenny revels in the joys of small decorative details, finding ways to add personality to her work.THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
£11.87
Flame Tree Publishing Kate Heiss Sunflower Fields Foiled Pocket Journal
Book SynopsisA new title in the Flame Tree Pocket Notebook collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production and featuring a pocket at the back, two ribbon bookmarks and a solid magnetic side flap. Perfect for personal use, handbags and make a dazzling gift.A FLAME TREE POCKET NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year.BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red endpapers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk or table.PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: a pocket at the back for scraps and receipts; two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list; robust ivory text paper, printed with lines; and when you need to collect other notes or scraps of paper the magnetic side flap keeps everything neat and tidy.THE ARTIST. Kate Heiss is a contemporary British printmaker who creates limited edition screen prints and linocuts on paper. After graduating with an MA in Textile Design from the Royal College of Art in 1997, she worked as a textile designer across a wide range of fashion brands before setting up her own printmaking studio in 2011. Kate creates dynamic and vibrant prints inspired by her love of nature, the flowers and birds in her garden, rural landscapes and her love of bold, colourful floral patterns found in textiles. Her work is handmade in her studio in Hertfordshire and is regularly exhibited across the UK.THE FINAL WORD. As William Morris said, Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
£9.11
Penn State University The Problematic Public
£26.96
Flame Tree Publishing Vincent van Gogh Cafe Terrace Foiled Quarto
Book SynopsisA new title in the Flame Tree Foiled Quarto Journal collection, combining beautiful art with high-quality production: bleed-proof, acid-free FSC pages, a pocket, ribbon bookmarks and a magnetic flap. Perfect as a gift or for all notetakers, list-makers and journal users. A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the Foiled Quarto Journals combine high-quality production and FSC pages with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, list-makers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artworks published throughout the year. A NEW SERIES. The Quarto format is named after the earliest form of European printed publication, dating back to the 1400s when Gutenberg invented the first moveable-type printing press, heralding a revolution in mass communication, spreading ideas of literature, science and philosophy of the Renaissance. We celebrate this with our range of fine art and contemporary illustrations. BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED. The highly crafted covers are printed on foil paper, embossed then foil stamped, complemented by the luxury binding and rose red end-papers. The covers are created by our artists and designers who spend many hours transforming original artwork into gorgeous 3d masterpieces that feel good in the hand, and look wonderful on a desk, table, in the hand and in your bag. PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE. Flame Tree Notebooks come with practical features too: the high-quality, 120-gsm lined pages are FSC, Acid Free and Bleed Proof - suitable for all pen types, such as gel and rollerball. A pocket at the back for scraps and receipts, two ribbon markers to help keep track of more than just a to-do list, and a magnetic side flap helps keep everything neat and tidy. THE ARTIST. Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the world''s greatest painters, his work having had a huge and far-reaching influence on 20th-century art as well as remaining visually and emotionally powerful to this day. In this painting the brightly lit café radiates with warmth and inviting light, becoming a beacon of yellow set against the rich, dark blue of a night sky, which in turn is illuminated by myriad bright stars. Van Gogh attached the colour yellow to feelings of religious inspiration, light and happiness.
£14.39
Penn State University Persuasions of God
£28.76
Flame Tree Publishing Gustav Klimt Set of 3 Midi Notebooks
Book SynopsisThe Gustav Klimt Set of 3 Midi Notebooks features a collection of three midi, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: The Kiss, Fulfilment and Adele Bloch-Bauer I. With a sturdy cover and rounded corners, they are perfect to be carried everywhere! Gustav Klimt is renowned as a quintessential artist of the art nouveau movement and was a founder of the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His extravagant work, was an obsessive manifestation of the dazzling intellectual society of his time and he painted very large canvases combining oils with gold foil. This Collection presents three of his most iconic paintings, perfect for all art lovers! Flame Tree: The Art of Fine Gifts.
£10.25
John Wiley & Sons Our Subversive Voice
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£23.39
Penn State University Disenchanting Albert the Great The Life and
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£41.36
John Wiley & Sons Tomboy
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£15.19
John Wiley & Sons Adam Smiths Islands New Zealands Incomparable
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£35.10
Penn State University Cartographies of Exclusion AntiSemitic Mapping
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£78.16
John Wiley & Sons The Translating Subject
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£27.90
Penn State University Animal Sightings
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£71.36
John Wiley & Sons Letters from the Afterlife
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£25.19
John Wiley & Sons Religious Inventions
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£30.60
Pennsylvania State University Press Ivan Illich An Intellectual Journey
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£22.46
John Wiley & Sons Tradition and Tension
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£26.99
John Wiley & Sons The Wild Word Animals in the Gospels
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£21.59
Penn State University Delacroixs Moroccans
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£60.31
John Wiley & Sons FutureGeneration Government
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£25.19
Knock Knock Knock Knock Work Stuff Life Stuff Perforated Pad
Book SynopsisYou can't be two places at once, but this magic pad can. At first glance, it's an ordinary shopping list and to do list. But wait! Look closer and tearthen divide and conquer. For go-getters and couch potatoes alike!Get it done, two times over6 x 9 inches; 60 sheets
£9.64
Penn State University Visions of the Future
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£88.36
Chronicle Books Botanical Fantasy 10 Colored Pencils
Book SynopsisImmerse yourself in a neon wonderland with the Botanical Fantasy stationery line featuringMirel Fraga's shimmering folk-art-inspiredplantscapes.
£15.25
Penn State University Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish
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£78.16
