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Flex those mental muscles! Grab a pencil and prepare to tackle these extra-large New York Times crossword puzzles that'll keep your brain sharp. Features: -120 easy to hard puzzles -Easy on the eyes: two whole pages for each puzzle -Puzzles edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz

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When Wharton Esherick built his famous studio in 1926, it was situated near two tulip poplar trees. These trees became "witness trees," witnessing the history Esherick made there. In the late 1970s, one of these trees was struck by lighting. In 2010, this mighty witness came down. As Esherick himself had made great use of poplar boards, the Museum invited over 40 select artists to create artwork from the fallen poplar. Since Esherick was influenced by hobbyists and professional artists, the Wharton Esherick Museum invited established, emerging, and student artists alike. Captured here in 120 brilliant color photos are the resulting works of art. Among them are furniture, furnishings, woodcut prints, a poplar splint basket, ceramics finished with a poplar wood-ash glaze, and, true to Wharton Esherick, a wide range of functional sculpture.

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This manual describes current methods for designing dike revetments of pitched blocks & block mattresses. The use of such revetments on river & canal banks is also considered briefly. Guidelines are discussed for preparing designs for new revetments; Methods are also given for checking existing revetments. The manual is aimed at the practical application of the result of basic research into block pitching. Pitched dike revetments include following revetments systems: Basalt & other natural rock; Concrete blocks & column & other small cement concrete elements; & Block mattresses.

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In the last five decades the popularity of outsider art – works by artists working outside of the art establishment – has grown exponentially. Museums, galleries, and the public worldwide have embraced these powerful works. Victor Keen’s Collection at the Bethany Mission Gallery, Philadelphia, is one of the leading outsider art collections in the U.S. Gathering masterful artworks from Victor Keen’s collection, Outsider & Vernacular Art presents pieces from more than forty outsider artists, including such luminaries as James Castle, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, Howard Finster, William Hawkins, Martín Ramírez, Bill Traylor, and George Widener. In addition to these outsider artworks, the book also features folk art and vernacular art, including one of the best collections of delightful colourful Catalin radios from the 1920s to the 1940s. The more than two hundred colour images of these works are accompanied by essays from Frank Maresca, Edward Gómez and Lyle Rexer. Published to accompany a major exhibition at the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center in Pueblo, Colorado, in October 2019 – the first station of a travelling exhibi-tion – Outsider & Vernacular Art offers an exciting look at this universally beloved and revered art form.

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An original and comprehensive look at what it is we seek when we set off on an adventure abroad - and at how we can travel better, so that our experiences overseas become truly transformative and memorable. Going travelling is one of the few things we undertake in a direct attempt to make ourselves happy - and frequently, in fascinating ways, we fail. We get bored, cross, anxious or lonely. It isn't surprising: our societies act as if going travelling were simple, just a case of handing over the right sum of money. But a satisfying journey isn't something we can simply buy: it's the result of an art that has to be learnt. This is the guide: not to any one destination but to travel in general. It talks to us, among other things, about how we should choose a place to go, what we might do when we get there, how we should make good moments stick in our minds and why hotel rooms can be such liberating places... In a succession of genial essays, we become students of an unexpected but vital topic: how to understand and more fully enjoy (what should be) some of the finest experiences of our lives. What people are saying about How to Travel: "How to Travel helped me narrow down where I want to travel to, why I want to travel there, and who I want to travel with. The blank pages included gave me room to respond to the questions posed in the essays, which made the reading experience that much more enjoyable. I highly recommend this book to anyone who dreams of experiencing a culture or world outside of their own but can't decide on a place." Larysa "A lovely collection of thought provoking short essays with note pages for jotting down things like 'useful foreign phrases' or to 'give drawing a go'. This book is very well presented with interesting quotes, images and photographs on different coloured pages on quality paper. It therefore has a nice feel and is really easy to read, no complex theories here. However, each piece on different aspects of travel is written well and makes you think which has real value...So enjoyable, and a perfect gift for someone preparing to travel." Sue "In classic School of Life form, the content is compellingly presented in an uncommon way, playful while authoritative." Rick "Has little pockets and fill in spaces that are so useful." Joana

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A soothing gallery of artworks and photography to guide us on a journeytowards calm.

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A blank notebook with a soft back with rounded corners, bellyband & elastic closure.

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We’re hugely dependent on language to express how we really feel, and yet words often feel curiously vague or frustratingly inaccurate. There are lots of moods, needs and feelings that our own language has not yet properly pinned down. The perfect word - even if it comes from abroad - helps us explain ourselves to other people, and its existence quietly reassures us (and everyone else) that a state of mind is not really rare, just rarely spoken of. This set of cards define some of our favourite words from the world’s languages and married them up with complementary images to create cards that bring some of our most important feelings into focus. We’ve created them to prompt greater reflection about the nature of language and the emotions. Example Cards: DUENDE (Spanish): A heightened sense of emotion created by a moving piece of art. FORELSKET (Norwegian): The euphoric feeling at the beginning of love. We can’t believe someone so perfect has wandered into our lives. They enhance and complete us. We might report: ‘I was overpowered by forelsket as our fingers interlaced…’

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Typically, we stumble on fascinating conversation topics a little bit by chance. Shyness can hold us back. Too often, we revert to polite, but not especially inspired, staples. Arranged to accompany each course, these twenty beautifully designed Conversation Menus lead us artfully to some of the most fascinating and revealing conversation topics. They invite us to open up about themes such as love, money, travel ambition, self-knowledge and the meaning of life. They contain questions and invitations to discussion that will raise smiles, build friendships and foster the best kind of intimacy, ensuring that our meals together can be everything we hoped. Questions Include: What do you blame your parents for? What do you wish your partner could forgive you for? Have you ever sabotaged your own success? Who did you have a rush on during your school years? Describe your first memorable encounter with another culture. What should children learn about the adult world? In what ways is your family especially odd? Who have you had to eject from your social life – and why? How would you like to be remembered? What shaped your attitudes to money?

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An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence. The difference between success and failure often comes down to an ingredient that we are seldom directly taught about and may forget to focus on: confidence. Here is a supreme guide to a fatefully neglected quality – made up of a series of short essays that encourage us into a new and more fruitful state of mind. We hear why we should dare to try, why the past doesn’t have to dictate the future, why we can alter the way we speak to ourselves and why there are so many reasons to keep faith with our most ambitious aspirations. The images that accompany each essay are there to ensure that we aren’t merely intellectually stirred to change our lives but are also given the best kind of visual assistance. Within its modest size, this book succeeds at a mighty feat: unlocking our latent powers and edging us on with kindness and creativity to become the best version of ourselves.

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Are you up for the challenge? Many puzzle fans love the deviously difficult New York Times Friday and Saturday crosswords. They're the hardest puzzles around, and once you've conquered them, you're a true puzzlemaster! Features: - 50 New York Times Friday and Saturday crosswords - Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Spiral binding for convenient lay-flat solving

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Sit back and relax with this fun-filled compilation of 100 easy New York Times crossword puzzles. These Monday and Tuesday puzzles are simple and satisfying for any crossword solver to enjoy. Features: - 100 of the easiest puzzles from the Times - Puzzles edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Convenient portable paperback size for on-the-go solving

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The Sunday New York Times crossword has been a beloved fixture for over seventy-five years. It's America's favorite-and most famous-crossword puzzle. The clues in these extra-large Sunday puzzles are bigger and better than ever: easier on the eyes for stress-free solving! Features: - 50 New York Times Sunday crosswords edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz - Bold, fun series cover design - Covered spiral binding for easy, lay-flat solving

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For solvers who want more of the fun and less of the challenge of solving the legendary New York Times crossword comes a new collection of light and fun puzzles. All the puzzles in this book originally appeared in Monday editions of the paper-the easiest of the week-and they're fun to do while still providing the same high standards that have always been the mark of the New York Times and its crossword editor, Will Shortz. Features: - Fifty of the Times's Monday crosswords - Puzzles that are fun and totally solvable by all puzzlers, from beginner to expert - Covered spiral binding for convenient, lay-flat solving

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The Sunday New York Times crossword has been a beloved fixture for over seventy-five years. It's America's favorite - and most famous - crossword puzzle. The clues in these extra-large Sunday puzzles are bigger and better than ever: easier on the eyes for stress-free solving! Features: - Fifty New York Times Sunday crosswords edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz - Bold, fun series cover design - Covered spiral binding for easy, lay-flat solving

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When the going gets tough, pick up a crossword puzzle! If you crave the challenge that comes with the New York Times Friday and Saturday puzzles, you've met your match with this collection of 200 difficult crosswords. - 200 Friday and Saturday puzzles from the Times - Puzzles edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Convenient portable paperback size for on-the-go solving

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The New York Times Sunday crossword is the undisputed king of crossword puzzles. This collection features 100 of them, all edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz and sure to put the "fun" in your Sunday Funday! Features: - 100 themed New York Times Sunday crosswords - Portable packaging for solving on the go - Smart, fresh vocabulary, fun themes, and pop-culture references

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The Sunday New York Times crossword has been a beloved fixture for over seventy-five years. It's America's favorite-and most famous-crossword puzzle. Now the clues in these extra-large Sunday puzzles are bigger and better: easier on the eyes for stress-free solving! Features: - Fifty New York Times Sunday crosswords edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz - Bold, fun series cover design - Covered spiral binding for easy, stay-flat solving

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A NEW day-of-the-week series in a convenient spiral bound package Hate picking a side? Lucky you: This collection of 50 not-too-easy, not-too-hard Wednesday crossword puzzles will get you through the mid-week slump like a champ. Features: - 50 New York Times Wednesday crosswords - Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Convenient spiral binding for easy solving

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A NEW day-of-the-week series in a convenient spiral bound package Let's face it: the week really begins once Monday's finally over. If Tuesdays are your favorite, this collection of 50 Tuesday crossword puzzles will be the highlight of your week. Features: - 50 New York Times Tuesday crosswords - Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz - Convenient spiral binding for easy solving

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The next in our new series of New York Times Sunday crosswords with bigger, more readable clues! The Sunday New York Times crossword has been a beloved fixture for over seventy-five years. It's America's favorite-and most famous-crossword puzzle. Now the clues in these extra-large Sunday puzzles are bigger and better: easier on the eyes for stress-free solving! Features: - Fifty New York Times Sunday crosswords edited by puzzlemaster Will Shortz - Bold, fun series cover design - Covered spiral binding for easy, stay-flat solving

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On the fence? You must be a Wednesday crossword puzzle solver! This great big collection of 200 not-too-easy, not-too-hard crossword puzzles from The New York Times will get you through the midweek slump in no time. Features: -200 medium-level Wednesday puzzles -Sturdy size and great value -Puzzles edited by crossword legend Will Shortz

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Why stress out when you could take it easy? Here's another great big volume of easy breezy New York Times crossword puzzles to pass the time. Like its popular predecessors, this collection features: - 200 Monday and Tuesday puzzles - The easiest crosswords published in The New York Times - Big grids for easy solving

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If you love to think outside the little black-and-white boxes, the witty New York Times Thursday crossword puzzle is for you! This collection of 100 pun-fueled crossword puzzles from The New York Times is full of head-scratchers and funny-bone ticklers to liven up your week. Features: -100 medium-level Thursday puzzles -Bold, fun series cover design -Edited by crossword legend Will Shortz

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The online version of Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50 is free to download here. Alternatively, print copies can be purchased for just GB£7 / US$10 here. ******************************************************************************** To celebrate Antipode’s 50th anniversary, we’ve brought together 50 short keyword essays by a range of scholars at varying career stages who all, in some way, have some kind of affinity with Antipode’s radical geographical project. The entries in this volume are diverse, eclectic, and to an extent random, however they all speak to our discipline’s past, present and future in exciting and suggestive ways Contributors have taken unusual or novel terms, concepts or sets of ideas important to their research, and their essays discuss them in relation to radical and critical geography’s histories, current condition and possible future directions This fractal, playful and provocative intervention in the field stands as a fitting testimony to the role that Antipode has played in the generation of radical geographical engagement with the world

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Our societies frequently proclaim their enormous esteem for culture. Music, film, literature and the visual arts enjoy high prestige and are viewed by many as getting close to the meaning of life. But what is culture really for? This book proposes that works of culture were all made, in one way or another, with the idea of improving the way we live. The book connects a range of cultural masterpieces with our own pains and dilemmas around love, work and society, and invites us to see culture as a resource with which to address the complex agonies of being human. It provides us with enduring keys to unlocking culture as a way of transforming our lives.

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What role does theory play in academia today? How can feminist theory be made more relevant to the very real struggles undertaken by women of all professions, races, and sexual orientation? How can it be directed into more effective social activism, and how is theory itself a form of practice? Feminist theory and political activism need not—indeed cannot—be distinct and alienated from one another. To reconcile the gulf between word and deed, scholar-activists from a broad range of disciplines have come together here to explore the ways in which practice and theory intersect and interact. The authors argue against overly abstract and esoteric theorizing that fails its own tests of responsible political practice and suggest alternative methods by which to understand feminist issues and attain feminist goals. They also examine the current state of affairs in the academy, exposing the ways in which universities systematically reinforce social hierarchies and offering important and intelligent suggestions for curricular and structural changes. Is Academic Feminism Dead? marks a significant step forward in relating academic and social movement feminism. It recognizes and examines the diverse realities experienced by women, as well as the changing political, cultural, and economic realities shaping contemporary feminism.

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150 inspiring and authentic Italian recipes for meat, poultry, and game – from the world's most trusted authority on Italian cuisine.The Italian approach to cooking with meat is to keep things straightforward and maximize the flavour. This book showcases simple, hearty dishes that are true to this tradition, from chicken cacciatore and braised beef with Barolo to osso buco and Roman lamb. With more than 150 recipes, most published for the first time in English, it's comprehensive and authoritative, demystifying the different cuts, cooking methods, and techniques unique to each meat type - along with the side dishes that best complement them.

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Had he known the hour of his death, the wealthy Harry Goldman might have arranged his day differently. Instead, he finds himself plunged into a nightmare in which his life of violence and ruthless greed is laid bare before him. Accompanied by a disreputable-looking but likeable tramp, who bears a striking resemblance to Jesus, Goldman sets out on a quest to save his soul. But, confronted by the shattering reality of hell, he becomes convinced all is lost . . .

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Challenge yourself at home with number puzzles For anyone who loves the challenge of Su Doku but manages to solve them within minutes, you can now enjoy the extended mental workout and ultimate endurance test of a five grid interlinked system. This is Su Doku multiplied: every column, row and 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 to 9. Where the puzzles overlap, the rows and columns do not go beyond their usual 9x9 length but the interlocking boxes give you more clues – and more complexity. With another 100 new Samurai puzzles to vex you for hours, lose yourself in the four levels of this book: 10 Easy40 Mild40 Difficult10 Super difficult Even the speediest of Su Doku solvers will be agonising over these ultra-complex, extended brainteasers. These are the most difficult Su Doku puzzles in The Times range.

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Challenge yourself at home with word and number puzzles Give your memory a workout, stimulate your brain and hone your general knowledge with 80 definition-style puzzles from The Times2 section. Covering a wide range of topics from geography to literature, history and culture, this collection will test your word power and boost your general knowledge to boot. Compiled by the Times2 Crossword Editor, John Grimshaw, these quick accessible puzzles are utterly absorbing and addictive, yet concise enough to be completed on the move. The Times is an excellent-quality crossword provider. With clues that are satisfyingly skilful and solutions helpfully provided at the back of the book, Times2 Crossword Book 15 is guaranteed to entertain your brain. Previously published as The Times T2 Crossword book 15.

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Quiz your family at home with crosswords, puzzles and games. A collection of 200 Difficult Su Doku puzzles of the highest quality from The Times newspaper. Perfect for the intermediate Su Doku solver in need of a constant supply of challenging puzzles, this book is guaranteed to provide hours of absorbing, brain-stretching entertainment. Since the first Su Doku puzzle appeared in The Times in 2004, they have become a phenomenon, with over 5 million copies of The Times Su Doku books sold worldwide. You don't need to be a mathematical genius to solve these puzzles; it is simply a question of logic. Each puzzle has a unique solution – and there's no guesswork required. The Times Su Doku remains the original, the best and the market leader.

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Many of us find ourselves in the odd situation of not believing in religion – but nevertheless being interested in it, moved by it and sympathetic to some of its aims. We may enjoy religious art and architecture, music and community, and even some of the rituals – while being unable to believe in angels, divine commandments or stories about the afterlife. This book is about those feelings and what we might do about them. The School of Life is a secular organisation fascinated by the gaps left in modern society by the gradual disappearance of religion. We’re interested in how hard it is to find a sense of community, how rituals are dying out and how much we sometimes crave the solemn quiet you find in religious buildings. This book lays out how we might absorb the best lessons of religion, update them for our times and incorporate them into our daily lives and societies – without taking on the supernatural or doctrinaire elements. This book tries to rescue some of what remains wise and useful from all that no longer seems (to many of us) to be quite true.

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