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Bursting with inspiring activities, the revised and expanded Meet the Artist series of activity books introduces children to internationally renowned artists in a fun and engaging way. Every book includes a brief introduction to the artist’s life followed by a series of activities that explore prominent themes in the artist’s work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of key artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, every book in the Meet the Artist series encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences through art-making. Born in 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe was a trailblazing artist known for her magnified paintings of flowers, bones, and desert landscapes. Today she is regarded as an American icon and pioneer of twentieth-century art.

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'A rich jewel of a story, full of desire and danger' - Julie Cohen. A dark tale of love and obsession, perfect for fans of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and The Wicked Cometh. London, 1853. Annie Stride has nothing left to live for - she is a penniless prostitute, newly evicted from her home and pregnant. On the night she plans to cast herself from Waterloo Bridge into the icy waters of the Thames, her life is saved by Francis Maybrick Gill, a talented pre-Raphaelite painter - and her world is changed forever.Francis takes Annie as his artist's muse, elevating her from fallen woman to society's darling. With her otherworldly beauty now the toast of London, her dark past is left far behind. But Annie's lavish new life is not all it seems - and there are some who won't let her forget where she came from...'A thrilling tale of love, lust and revenge' The Lady'A captivating gothic blend of mystery and romance' Sunday Mirror'Exquisite...this is historical fiction at its best' - Book Literarti Reviews'Gothic, dark [and] rich with atmosphere' - Louise Loves books'A glorious story of art and passion' - Tea Party Princess'Dazzling' Goodreads Reviewer'Captivating' Goodreads Reviewer

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Are you ready for a weekend away at the Hotel of Seduction?Grace has won the man of her dreams - and her fantasies. Brooding, sensual, wealthy and handsome, their days and nights are filled with pleasure. But can this enigmatic man truly love her?Together they have set up a secret, exclusive hotel for adventurous couples, designed to open their guests' eyes to the darker, deeper side of desire. But one of the visitors has an agenda, and David is becoming distracted by a new arrival.As they explore the delights on offer, Grace realises this is a test: if she fails, she will lose David to his next passing fancy. If she succeeds, she will secure his love for ever, and he will finally invite her into his world . . .Take some time away and allow yourself to be seduced by the Hotel of Seduction.

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Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and Christian imagery about ethereal beings is embedded in a logic of the imagination, clothing spirits in the languages of air, clouds, light and shadow, glass, and ether itself. Moving from Wax to Film, the book discusses key questions of imagination and cognition, and probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception; it uncovers a host of spirit forms -- angels, ghosts, fairies, revenants, and zombies -- that are still actively present in contemporary culture. It reveals how their transformations over time illuminate changing idea about the self. Phantasmagoria also tells the accompanying story about the means used to communicate such ideas, and relates how the new technologies of the Victorian era were applied to figuring the invisible and the impalpable, and how magic lanterns (the phantasmagoria shows themselves), radio, photography and then moving pictures spread ideas about spirit forces. As the story unfolds, the book features many eminent scientists and philosophers who applied their considerable energies to the question of other worlds and other states of mind: they staged trance séances in which mediums produced spirit phenomena, including ectoplasm. Phantasmagoria shows how this often surprising story connects with some of the important scientific discoveries of a fertile age, in psychology and physics, and continues to influence contemporary experience.

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La especie humana es un híbrido de biología y cultura, y este sorprendente y original libro le da todo el protagonismo no a la genética, sino a la historia de la evolución cultural, a través de un recorrido que explora el desarrollo del arte, la política, las instituciones sociales, las religiones, los sentimientos y la tecnología; un apasionante viaje por la inagoable inteligencia creadora.

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Es primavera y mamá rana ha dado a luz 999 renacuajos en un campo de arroz. Un día, mientras las 999 hermanas ranas juegan al escondite, son acechadas por una serpiente enorme y hambrienta que quiere comerse a la hermana mayor.Ken Kimura y Yasunari Murakami nos adentran con esta deliciosa historia en la saga de las 999 hermanas ranas, siendo éste el primer libro de la triología que iniciamos en 2011 con el segundo de los cuentos: 999 hermanas ranas se mudan de charco.

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Das Nachschlagewerk bietet ausführliche Informationen rund um die Themen Haut, Haare, Nägel, Nagelmodellage, Beauty-Medizin und Gerätekunde. Die Autorin listet kosmetische Inhaltsstoffe mit ihrer gültigen INCI-Bezeichnung auf, beschreibt und bewertet diese und gibt darüber hinaus Schmink- und Pflegetipps. Der Band liefert verständliche Erläuterungen zu insgesamt 11.500 Stichworten, die wichtigsten englischen und französischen Fachtermini sind übersetzt. Die Autorin wurde 2006 für ihr profundes Wissen mit dem Christine-Schrammek-Preis ausgezeichnet.

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This volume covers the cultural history of race in ‘the long 19th century’ – the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which a modern world had been forged and complex and hierarchical imperial formations were challenged by the emerging national norm. The concept of race emerged as a dominant epistemology in the context of the conflicting entanglement of empire and nation as two alternative but quite compatible forms of social imaginary. It penetrated all spheres of life under the novel conditions of the emerging mass culture and mass society and with the sanction of anthropocentric and positivistic science. Allegedly primeval and parasocial, ‘race’ was seen as a uniquely stable constant in a society in flux amid transforming institutions, economies, and political regimes. But contrary to this perception, there was nothing stable or natural about ‘race.’ The spread of racializing social and political imagination only reinforced the need for constant renegotiation and readjustment of racial boundaries. Therefore, avoiding any structuralist simplifications, this volume looks at specific imperial, nationalizing, and hybrid contexts framing the semantics and politics of race in the course of the long 19th century. In different parts of the globalizing world, various actors were applying their own notions of ‘race’ to others and to themselves, embracing it simultaneously as a language of othering and personal subjectivity. Consequently, the cultural history of race as told in this volume unfolds on many levels, in multiple loci, and in different genres, thus reflecting the qualities of race as an omnipresent and all-embracing discourse of the time

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INITIAL COORDINATES meditates on Monika Herceg's earliest childhood memories in a small rural village near Petrinja in central Croatia as war breaks out in the 1990s. It can be read as a magical realist novel in verse, exploring the history of a family through financial hardships, domestic violence, animal abuse, and the overall decline of village life. Drawing directly on Croatian mythology, this bold, unforgettable work mimics oral traditions, reflecting the people whose lives helped shape Herceg's voice and perspective, one very much rooted in the resilience of nature's rhythms.

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The handbook interactively takes up all relevant topics in Latin didactics and constantly encourages readers to think along. As a workbook with tasks, suggestions and explanations, the volume contains all the basics that are necessary for teaching Latin. It is therefore particularly suitable for the basic development of the subject didactic sub-areas during the training phase. Solutions for the subject didactic interactive parts and concrete teaching examples can be found in the download area below in the media library.

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This lyrical non-fiction picture book celebrates the simple joys of football, whatever your background or ability. Rather than focusing on rules, skills, superstars, big clubs and record-breaking feats, this uplifting book for young children celebrates the planet's best-loved sport and shows how the world's most accessible game – where the only equipment needed is something that rolls – has evolved into a force for unity, and a sport for absolutely everyone. Spreads cover how football can be played by all ages, genders, and abilities, whatever your racial, cultural or economic background, and whether you’re in a state-of-the-art stadium or just a simple patch of scrubland.

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In 1994, 21 years after her disappearance, Lucy Partington's remains were discovered in Fred and Rosemary West's basement at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester. In this powerful and lyrical book, Lucy's elder sister, Marian, reclaims Lucy from the status of victim and finds an authentic and compassionate response to her traumatic loss. Her inspiring narrative of healing draws on Buddhist and Quaker practices and culminates in restorative justice work in prisons.

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Why our failure to consider the power of animals is to our deep detriment Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, this book threads together news accounts and more in a powerful and timely work of creative, speculative nonfiction that imagines a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a part of it. If the coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that we should pay attention to how we bump up against animal worlds and how animals will push back. Animal Revolution is a passionate, provocative, cogent call for us to do so.Ron Broglio reveals how fur and claw and feather and fin are jamming the gears of our social machine. We can try to frame such disruptions as environmental intervention or through the lens of philosophy or biopolitics, but regardless the animals persist beyond our comprehension in reminding us that we too are part of an animal world. Animals see our technologies and machines as invasive beings and, in a nonlinguistic but nonetheless intensive mode of communicating with us, resist our attempts to control them and diminish their habitats. In doing so, they expose the environmental injustices and vulnerabilities in our systems. A witty, informative, and captivating work—at the juncture of posthumanism, animal studies, phenomenology, and environmental studies—Broglio reminds us of our inadequacy as humans, not our exceptionalism.

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The potential of films to educate has been crucial for the development of cinema intended to influence culture, and is as important as conceptions of film as a form of art, science, industry, or entertainment. Using the concept of institutionalization as a heuristic for generating new approaches to the history of educational cinema, contributors to this volume study the co-evolving discourses, cultural practices, technical standards, and institutional frameworks that transformed educational cinema from a convincing idea into an enduring genre. The Institutionalization of Educational Cinema examines the methods of production, distribution, and exhibition established for the use of educational films within institutions–such as schools, libraries, and industrial settings in various national and international contexts and takes a close look at the networks of organizations, individuals, and government agencies that were created as a result of these films' circulation. Through case studies of educational cinemas in different North American and European countries that explore various modes of institutionalization of educational film, this book highlights the wide range of vested interests that framed the birth of educational and nontheatrical cinema.

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With the crisis of the global capitalist economy, the topic of global culture is regaining its importance and needs to be revisited from both theoretical and practical standpoints. How do we make sense of this rapid flow of global consumer culture across national borders? What is the role of corporations, governments and social movements in shaping these flows? How do these flows of money, people, culture, goods and services work in practice? Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and people oppose, resist and re-centre globalisation.

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...Yo he vivido tres o cuatro vidas diferentes: hombre, mujer y siempre en los extremos, confiesa el abate de Choisy. Bajo un barniz frivolo y ligero, el abate describe esa vida extremosa en sus memorias, en las que aborda cuestiones tan importantes como la búsqueda de la identidad sexual y la realización del deseo por encima de cualquier prohibición, y cómo el individuo pierde el equilibrio emocional cuando la sociedad se empeña en contrariar inclinaciones tan naturales. Lo que hace a las memorias de Choisy doblemente preciosas es que, si bien otros personajes de su tiempo buscaron transformarse en mujeres -entre ellos el hermano de Luis XIV, Felipe de Orleans- sólo Choisy se atrevió a rasgar el velo secreto y a escribir sobre su asombrosa transformación en madame de Sancy y en la condesa Des Barres. Lo hizo de un modo absolutamente sincero a petición de una virtuosa dama, la señora de Lambert, de la que era consejero espiritual, pero nunca llegó a publicar su confesión e incluso quem

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La elaboración de comidas en el bar-cafetería tiene unas características propias basadas en un servicio muy rápido, en la variedad de horarios con elaboraciones apropiadas a cada hora y en una oferta ininterrumpida a lo largo del día.;Este manual constituye una guía útil para reconocer y utilizar las materias primas con las que se trabaja en el bar-cafetería, las cualidades nutritivas de cada una de ellas y las técnicas adecuadas de conservación y regeneración. Se proponen elaboraciones sencillas y rápidas, de calidad y con una gestión económica acertada. Además, se presenta la utilidad de la maquinaria y los utensilios específicos para la elaboración de comidas en el bar-cafetería, se incide en la necesidad de cuidar la barra como escaparate del establecimiento, lugar de reclamo y consumo, y de realizar la exposición de comidas variadas de manera atractiva y cuidando de la seguridad alimentaria.;La obra responde fielmente al contenido curricular previsto para el módulo formativo MF104

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Baba Yaga es una serie de cuentos tradicionales rusos, con argumentos rápidamente reconocibles. Son sencillos y no resultan difíciles de entender. Son cuentos infantiles, cuentos mágicos y cuentos de escritores consagrados como Pushkin y Tolstoi. Todos vienen acompañados de ilustraciones y ejercicios que le ayudarán al estudiante a comprender su significado. Al final del libro, en el glosario, se podrán buscar las palabras que no se conozcan.

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