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Rizzoli International Publications Kelly Wearstler: Evocative Style
Celebrated for luxurious interiors that capture the swankiness of old-world Hollywood with a modern pop sensibility, Wearstler is known for her decadent designs of residences and boutique hotels, such as the line of Viceroys and the tastemakers Maison 140 and Avalon. Her ornate interiors are distinctive for layers of bold textures, patterns, and rich colors juxtaposed with lustrous surfaces, adding up to a whimsical and elegant look that has been called mod baroque. Here Wearstler shares her creative world, profiling in detail her latest residential and commercial designs (several previously unpublished) and her sumptuous new San Francisco Proper Hotel, as well as her creative process. Full of ideas and with beautiful images of many never-before-photographed interiors, Kelly Wearstler: Evocative Style is an inspirational look at the designer s inventive work. Filled with new work, this volume is a must for other designers and homeowners looking for elegant design inspiration and ideas.
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Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. The Art of Rock
From the 1950s through today, here is the - complete - visual history of the rock concert poster: the funkiest bills advertising Elvis, B.B. King, and Howlin'' Wolf; the multicoloured psychedelic hallucinations promoting the Grateful Dead, Dylan, and the Doors; the deliciously tasteless art for the Sex Pistols, Crime, and the Clash. From the Red Dog Saloon in San Francisco, where the psychedelic scene started, to CBGB, New York''s punk Mecca, and beyond. 1,500 images searched out world-wide from clubs, attics, and bedroomsas well as more formal collectionsare reproduced in their original blazing colours. Replete with firsthand historyincluding exclusive interviews with scores of insiders, poster artists, musicians, and promotersthis is the ultimate high for the rock music fan, required reading for the poster collector, a treasure trove for the graphic artist, and a riotous feast for anyone who digs pop culture.
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Little, Brown Book Group The Historian: The captivating international bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick
THE SUMPTUOUS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. 'A smart retelling of the Dracula story' New Yorker'Quite extraordinary....Kostova is a natural storyteller....She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner' - San Francisco ChronicleBreathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe-in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world.'Filled with fascinating details of archaic vampire lore, the splendours of the Ottoman Empire and the beauty of the Romanian countryside' - Times Literary Supplement
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LID Editorial Empresarial, S.L. Patologas en las organizaciones
La obra recorre una extensa relación de las enfermedades más comunes en las organizaciones para que el lector encuentre aquéllas que aquejan a su empresa y pueda poner el remedio adecuado. Cada una de las patologías recogidas ha sido observada, tratada, o incluso sufrida en primera persona tanto en España como en múltiples países de Europa, América o África, donde los autores han trabajado.El libro, fundamentado en el modelo del profesor Javier Fernández Aguado, ha sido desarrollado por él mismo junto a Marcos Urarte y Francisco Alcaide.
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Scarecrow Press Historical Dictionary of Honduras
Honduras, one of five original Central American states, became a separate republic in 1839 following independence in 1821. It is perhaps least-known of the five. Located centrally in the isthmian area, pre-historic Honduras was the site of a swirling encounter of major cultures-Nahua, Maya, Chibcha. A similar maelstrom has been the bloody internecine warfare of the past century and a half. Mountainous, long inaccessible, exploited rather than developed, Honduras nevertheless possesses a remarkable cultural history, and its share of distinguished leaders such as Francisco Morazan, often compared to George Washington and Simon Bolivar. Honduras has a wealth of natural resources, from minerals amd timber to agriculture and fisheries. Literally devoted to banana culture, its political and military patterns have earned the term "banana republic"; its poverty is second only to that of Haiti in the Western hemisphere. Events of the 1980's decade brought Honduras to the fore-front of world attention because of the Contra-Sandinista border encounters and the extensive United States military build up, economic power, and political influence.
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La novela corta contemporánea
Se ofrece un estudio sobre la novela corta española desde mediados del siglo xx hasta las dos primeras décadas del siglo xxi. Desde las perspectivas histórica y teórica se enfrenta a los veri cuetos de ese género narrativo: tras delimitar el estado de la cuestión, se examina su lugar en las historias de la literatura, sus problemas terminológicos, sus salidas editoriales y sus características propias (como el tratamiento narrativo y descriptivo, tiempos y espacios, temas y personajes, juegos experimentales e intergenéricos). Ilustrada con numerosos ejemplos de escritores contemporáneos, la panorámica se complementa con un primer plano sobre tres autores diferentes en el periodo abarcado: Francisco Ayala, Enrique VilaMatas y Andrés Barba. Se buscará la aguja en el pajar: la novela corta española contemporánea en los recovecos de las historias de la literatura española, tras los espejismos terminológicos del idioma, a través de los pasadizos de la edición literaria y los premios, dentro
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and Theophilus Brown
In reaction to the widespread pursuit of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Paul Wonner and William “Theophilus” Brown were among the artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who began to re-engage with the visible world, applying the gestural style of action painting to depictions of people, landscapes, and still lifes. Together, the couple aligned themselves with this new direction and became leading practitioners of the style known today as Bay Area Figuration. Over time, both artists’ works became less gestural and more overtly representational. Brown became known for his psychologically evocative landscapes with classic bathers, as well as for his lonely urban scenes. Wonner received greatest acclaim for his “baroque” still lifes laden with everyday objects, animals, and flowers. Published to accompany the most comprehensive exhibition of the artists’ work ever mounted, this exquisite publication offers an in-depth study of these trailblazing artists. Exhibition at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (30 April-27 August 2023) travels to the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (14 October 2023-7 Jan 2024); and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN (28 January-30 March 2024).
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Oro Editions Dreyfuss + Blackford: Seventy Years
With offices in San Francisco and Sacramento, Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture has 48 employees and has been in continuous operation since 1950. The firm achieved international recognition early on with the design of several notable game-changing landmark structures, including the recently rehabilitated SMUD Headquarters Building in Sacramento, CA. This project recently received the California Preservation Foundation’s 2020 Preservation Design Award as well as the Trustee’s Award for Excellence. Now in their seventh decade, they continue to be one of the preeminent architectural firms in the region, providing architecture, planning, and interiors services to a broad spectrum of public and private sector clients. Their unwavering commitment to design excellence is reflected in the quality of their built work. They believe great planning is about more than how people use the spaces they create — it’s how they feel inside of them. Positive experience provides the space for engagement and positive communication — resulting in an opportunity for making change in the world through the sharing of knowledge and collective experience. When they combine this understanding with a consistent pattern of outstanding design and efficient construction, the structures can provide lasting aesthetic quality and durability for generations. The firm has been recognised for design at local, state, and national levels with more than 150 awards over its 71-year history. This book celebrates 70 years of outstanding design by Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture. It starts with historical milestones, shows some examples of process and practice, and concludes with a few consequential recent projects.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 With the dramatic rise of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, art played a fundamental role in its practice, rhetoric, and global dissemination, while Freemasonry, in turn, directly influenced developments in art. This mutually enhancing relationship has only recently begun to receive its due. The vilification of Masons, and their own secretive practices, have hampered critical study and interpretation. As perceptions change, and as masonic archives and institutions begin opening to the public, the time is ripe for a fresh consideration of the interconnections between Freemasonry and the visual arts. This volume offers diverse approaches, and explores the challenges inherent to the subject, through a series of eye-opening case studies that reveal new dimensions of well-known artists such as Francisco de Goya and John Singleton Copley, and important collectors and entrepreneurs, including Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Baron Taylor. Individual essays take readers to various countries within Europe and to America, Iran, India, and Haiti. The kinds of art analyzed are remarkably wide-ranging—porcelain, architecture, posters, prints, photography, painting, sculpture, metalwork, and more—and offer a clear picture of the international scope of the relationships between Freemasonry and art and their significance for the history of modern social life, politics, and spiritual practices. In examining this topic broadly yet deeply, Freemasonry and the Visual Arts sets a standard for serious study of the subject and suggests new avenues of investigation in this fascinating emerging field.
£27.99
Alianza Editorial Acreedores la ms fuerte
Escrita en 1888, el mismo año que " La señorita Julia " , August Strindberg (1849-1912) se inspiró en su experiencia matrimonial para alumbrar " Acreedores " , una de sus obras favoritas, en la que en el ambiente intenso, despiadado y claustrofóbico que caracteriza sus teatro, llevó a la escena la pugna entre el marido y el exmarido de una mujer (uno y otro encarnación de sendas facetas de la personalidad del autor), ejemplificando de paso en la obra sus ideas sobre la lucha de cerebros y el asesinato psíquico. Completa el volumen " La más fuerte " , breve pieza en un acto escrita por el autor sueco especialmente para su esposa Siri von Essen y considerada hoy en día uno de los más brillantes monólogos de la historia del teatro.Traducción de Francisco J. Uriz
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Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Carmilla Volume 2 The Last Vampire Hunter
Hoping to put her life back together, Athena travels to San Francisco''s Chinatown on a quest to uncover the secrets of hermysteriousfamily history. But her journey escalates into a nightmare when she''s violently introduced to a new, ruthless gang of Asian American vampires and its unlikely leader, who hold shocking truths. As she navigates this dangerous territory, Athena can''t escape the ghost of Carmilla... and neither can the vampires. Athena must decide - whose side is she on? Inspired by the gothic novel that started the vampire genre, this queer, feminist murder mystery graphic novel is a tale of identity, obsession and fateful family secrets.
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Grub Street Publishing The Greens Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine
The Greens Cookbook is a rarity; it is a book that created a revolution in cooking when it first appeared in 1987. It has now become a classic and had been unavailable in the UK for many years. Here are the recipes that helped to create the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant on San Francisco Bay.
£22.50
Alba Editorial El anticuario
En El anticuario (1816), una de las obras maestras de Walter Scott ?en nueva traducción de Francisco González, Arturo Peral y Laura Salas?, la imaginación romántica despliega espectacularmente todos sus personajes, paisajes y conflictos: desde imprevistas subidas de marea en una playa al borde de un acantilado hasta duelos en las ruinas de un monasterio, pasando por tesoros enterrados, cultos secretos y apariciones fantasmales. La galería de figuras es impresionante: mendigos por vocación, condes lánguidos con un espantoso secreto en su pasado, capitanes pendencieros, baronets en la ruina, nigromantes alemanes y una muchacha enamorada que cree que es su deber no casarse por debajo de su condición. Es ésta una novela, sin embargo, en la que no es romántico todo lo que lo parece, y en la que el humor y la lucidez brillan con genialidad.
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Visor libros, S.L. Suavemente ribera
ANTONIO MANILLA (León, 1967) es autor de los libros de poemas Una clara conciencia (1997), Canción gris (2003), Momentos transversales (2008), Broza (2013), El lugar en mí (2015), Sin tiempo ni añoranza (2016) y En caso de duda y otros poemas de casi amor (2016). Ha obtenido, entre otros, los premios de poesía Emilio Prados, José de Espronceda y Ciudad de Salamanca, así como el premio de periodismo Francisco Valdés. En prosa, ha publicado la biografía Un empresario Modelo, sobre el magnate hispano- mexicano Antonino Fernández, y el ensayo Ciberadaptados. Hacia una cultura en Red.Vemos sucederse las páginas en blanco de los días mientras llega el anochecer de todo un mundo vuelto sobre sí mismo, transformándose en secreto infierno a través de la soledad y el abandono: signos que ponen ante la perspectiva de la muerte, que siempre es una tierra extraña. Cuanto avanza hacia la inexistencia tiene cabida en estas páginas en las que el curso epigramático del tiempo revela espacios despob
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Alianza Editorial Introducción a la filosofía de los griegos
" Introducción a la filosofía de los griegos " es el título de un libro inconcluso, redactado por Xavier Zubiri, en el que se recogían sus últimas enseñanzas universitarias en Barcelona, correspondientes al curso 1941-1942, y que el filósofo retomó en los meses siguientes en unas lecciones privadas que impartió para un grupo de amigos en Ameixenda (Galicia) y en Madrid. A ellas asistieron su esposa Carmen Castro, Pedro Laín Entralgo y Francisco Javier Conde, cuyos apuntes se recogen en el apéndice de este volumen. Zubiri nos conduce en este libro a los albores del pensamiento filosófico en la Jonia de Tales y Anaximandro. Lo que allí nace no es un saber liberado del mito (Nestle), ni una ontología (Hegel), ni una ciencia de la naturaleza (Burnet), ni una teología (Joel, Petterich), sino una nueva forma de sabiduría que aspira a intimar con las cosas, para que se muestren ellas mismas en su raíz, sentido y constitución. En " Introducción a la filosofía de los griegos " Zubiri reinterpre
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Biblioteca Autores Cristianos Dios y las criaturas
San Buenaventura es un poeta; pero, sobre todo, es un metafísico por temperamento. Por eso recurre para expresar las experiencias franciscanas a las resplandecientes fórmulas de la ?sophia?, al ejemplarismo, a los vestigios, imágenes y semejanzas de Dios y a los reverberos divinos, en la parte superior de nuestra alma. Es, pues, cosa clara que San Buenaventura suspira por la luz y suspira por el amor, pero subordinando la luz al amor. Todos sus esfuerzos se dirigen, ante todo, a cultivar la ?centellita de la sindéresis?, ese dulce peso del alma al bien, que si en el orden natural se manifiesta imperfecta e insuficientemente, en las almas deificadas por la gracia halla gradual y colmada perfección hasta convertirse en la fruición plena y beatificante de la gloria. Más aún: las obras de San Buenaventura son vida, y vida exuberante que brota de su comunicación con Dios. A veces nos ofrecen vistas panorámicas de insuperable belleza desde el monte altísimo de las ideas ejemplares de Dios, y
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El UVA Ultraloca Velocidad Automotora Ol Mortadelo 167
Número 167 de la colección Olé Mortadelo, la más longeva hasta la actualidad.Mortadelo y Filemón tienen la misión de descubrir quién está detrás de los sabotajes para hacer fracasar la UVA (Ultraloca Velocidad Automotora), el proyecto de tren de alta velocidad.En España se están construyendo nuevos tramos del UVA (Ultraloca Velocidad Automotora). El nuevo tren pretende ser uno de los mejores y más rápidos del mundo, pero alguien quiere que fracase y está saboteando las obras. La T.I.A. manda a Mortadelo y Filemón a investigar.Este tebeo narra, en forma de parodia, los problemas que hubo en España en la construcción del nuevo tramo del AVE que unió Madrid con Lérida en 2000.Ibáñez caricaturiza en este cómic al antiguo presidente de gobierno José María Aznar, así como al Ministro de Fomento Francisco Álvarez Cascos.Sobre la colección:La colección Olé! nació en 1971 en Bruguera y se convirtió rápidamente en uno de los mayores éxitos de
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WW Norton & Co The Obituary Writer: A Novel
On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, obsessed with the glamour of Jackie O, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless marriage or follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier, in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien not only helps others cope with their grief but also begins to understand the devastation of her own terrible loss. The surprising connection between Claire and Vivien will change the life of one of them in unexpected and extraordinary ways. Part literary mystery and part love story, The Obituary Writer examines expectations of marriage and love, the roles of wives and mothers, and the emotions of grief, regret and hope.
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Eland Publishing Ltd The Japanese Chronicles
Nicolas Bouvier was an image merchant and photographer as well as a writer. The Eland edition of "Japanese Chronicles" will be accompanied by many of his startling images of Japan. "The Japanese Chronicles" is a distillation of Bouvier's lifelong quest for Japan and his many travels, so that the reader is able to discover the country through the eyes of both a passionate young man, the sensual appeciation of a middle-aged artist and the serenity of an experience writer. 'Like other great literature, [Bouvier's] Chronicles pulls the reader into a timeless dimension where all is transformed and there is no separation between the reader and the work' - "San Francisco Review of Books". 'Some of the most resonant and perceptive travel writing in recent years'. - "Kirkus Reviews". 'Bouvier's distinguished accomplishments have culminated here in a book that succeeds in transforming personal experiences into a series of epiphanies for the reader'. - "Booklist".
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Pushkin Press Fat City
'Tremendous' Geoff Dyer 'A pitch-perfect account of boxing, blue-collar bewilderment and the battle of the sexes' San Francisco Chronicle A major cult film directed by John Huston Stockton, California: a town of dark bars and lunchrooms, cheap hotels and farm labourers scratching a living. When two men meet in the Lido Gym - the ex-boxer Billy Tully and the novice Ernie Munger - their brief sparring session sets a fateful story in motion, initiating young Munger into the "company of men" and luring Tully back into training. Fat City is a vivid novel of defiance and struggle, of the potent promise of the good life and the desperation and drink that waylay those whom it eludes. This acclaimed American classic tells of their anxieties and hopes, their loves and losses, and the ephemeral glory of the fight.
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Fordham University Press After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic
Translation—from both a theoretical and a practical point of view—articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates the circulation of modern poetry and poetics across the Atlantic. It rethinks the theoretical paradigm of Anglo-American “modernism” based on the transnational, interlingual, and transhistorical features of the work of key modern poets writing on both sides of the Atlantic— namely, the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa; the Chilean Vicente Huidobro; the Spaniard Federico Garcia Lorca; the San Francisco–based poets Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Robin Blaser; the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite; and the Brazilian brothers Haroldo and Augusto de Campos.
£39.00
Burning Eye Books Talk You Round Till Dusk
Every one of us is a complex and beautifully woven fabric of stories, and whether we tell them or not, there are no measuring tapes or weighing scales to speak of their worth. Talk You Round Till Dusk is a collection of tiny stories and big ideas celebrating the wonder of the moment. It''s about those journeys in a car driving across a desert, or walking from the bedroom to the kitchen, where we discover that what we have is enough. Stories so small they fit in the palm of a hand, yet carry the weight of the world with them.Talk You Round Till Dusk is a collaboration between spoken word artist Rebecca Tantony and illustrator Anna Higgie. In a mix of flash-non-fiction, short stories, poetry and 16 full page colour illustrations, Rebecca and Anna take us on on a philosophical road trip from Bristol to Andalucia, Nicosia, India, San Francisco, Death Valley and Mexico.
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Heyday Books The Trees of California Note Card Box
The newest note card set from renowned printmaker Tom Killion!With this stunning note card set, celebrated woodblock printmaker Tom Killion presents a series of his artworks that delight in the enchantment and majesty of California’s forests. Printed on fine white stock, these faithful reproductions of Killion’s signature multicolor woodcut prints highlight iconic trees framed by striking California landscapes, from Miter Basin to the High Sierra. The Trees of California Note Card Box contains twelve white envelopes and twelve blank note cards.This set includes 3 each of the following 4 images: Coast Live Oak, Big Sur Giant Sequoias Twin Lodgepole Pines Moonlit Sierra Pines Previous Note Card Sets in this Series: California's Wild Coast Muir Woods and Mt. Tam Northern California Coast High Sierra San Francisco Bay Sierra Winter
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Ghost Stories and Legends of Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland
Alameda, Oakland, and Berkeley, California (across the bay from San Francisco), don't have much in common at first glance—until after dark. Visit with none-too-friendly ghosts of the Pardee Home Museum who, even now, still talk to visitors. Learn about the poltergeist in a medical office that levitates ashtrays and throws typewriters. Read about a threatening, smoky wraith that glides across the gym at the Alameda High School. Explore Mound Street, former Native American burial grounds, and the cemetery ghosts of Mills College. A psychic shares her impression of an Alameda restaurant. Find out how a dead neighbor communicated through a computer screen. Public buildings and private homes, and even a student co-op are not immune from spirits haunting Alameda, Berkeley, and Oakland. To those of us who believe, ghosts are everywhere; these cities are no exception.
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City Lights Books Stranger in Town
The fourth installment of our Spotlight poetry series, Stranger in Town is the second full-length collection by San Francisco poet Cedar Sigo. Reflecting queer identity while eschewing all cliches, Stranger exudes an urban mysticism redolent of the SF Renaissance--particularly John Weiners--as it collages the fragmented experiences of contemporary culture. Born in 1978 on the Suquamish Indian Reservation in Washington state, Cedar Sigo studied at Naropa under Anne Waldman and Lisa Jarnot. His first book, Selected Writings (2003), was reprinted in a revised edition in 2005. A writer on art, literature, and film, Sigo recently blogged for SFMOMA's Open Space.
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Rowman & Littlefield California Summits: A Guide to the 50 Best Accessible Peak Experiences in the Golden State
California Summits guides readers to 50 beautiful, attainable peak hikes. Hikers can summit most in a day, and sometimes in just a few hours, with a minimum of experience and gear. Everyone from families to experienced peak-baggers will find something to love. Hike up scenic Mount Tamalpais overlooking San Francisco Bay, Yosemite National Park’s grand Clouds Rest with its incomparable view of Half Dome, and snowcapped Mount Shasta, the state’s northern jewel, among others. Stunning color photography and detailed hike descriptions provide inspiration and information for hikers of all ages and experience levels.
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Penguin Random House Children's UK The Necromancer: Book 4
Sophie and Josh have returned to San Francisco. They must protect themselves from the Dark Elders, but they've not yet mastered the magic they'll need to do so. Their trust in Nicholas Flamel is shaken, and their friend Scatty is missing. Unbeknownst to the twins, John Dee has amassed an enormous army of foul creatures, with which he plans to battle Nicholas and his wife, Peronelle. In order for his plan to work, he must train a necromancer to raise the Mother of the Gods from the dead. The twins of legend will make the perfect pupils in his diabolical scheme.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Don't Forget to Write for the Elementary Grades: 50 Enthralling and Effective Writing Lessons (Ages 5 to 12)
Creative strategies for getting young students excited about writing Don't Forget to Write for the Elementary Grades offers 50 creative writing lesson plans from the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing labs. Created as a resource to reach all students (even those most resistant to creative writing), the lessons range from goofy fun (like "The Other Toy Story: Make Your Toys Come to Life") to practical, from sports to science, music to mysteries. These lessons are written by experts, and favorite novelists, actors, and other celebrities pitched in too. Lessons are linked to the Common Core State Standards. A treasure trove of proven, field-tested lessons to teach writing skills Inventive and unique lessons will appeal to even the most difficult-to-reach students 826 National has locations in eight cities: San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, and Washington DC 826 National is a nonprofit organization, founded by Dave Eggers, and committed to supporting teachers, publishing student work, and offering services for English language learners.
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Big Finish Productions Ltd Hamlet
Following the death of his father, the King of Denmark, young prince Hamlet returns home to find his mother married to his uncle: the late king's brother, Claudius. When he is later visited by the ghost of his own dead father, Hamlet learns how he was actually murdered by his own brother, and vows to take revenge. However, Hamlet's contemplative nature works against him, breeding doubt and hesitation at every turn, until the only certainties he has left are madness, betrayal and murder. Alexander Vlahos stars in this three-hour production of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. This release also includes twenty-five minutes of roundtable interviews with the cast as they discuss the production Alexander Vlahos stars in this three-hour production of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy. CAST: Alexander Vlahos (Hamlet), Miles Richardson (Claudius), Tracey Childs (Gertrude), Terry Molloy (Polonius), Daniel Brocklebank (Horatio), Deirdre Mullins (Ophelia), Samuel Barnett (Laertes), Jolyon Westhorpe (Rosencrantz), Geoffrey Breton (Guildenstern), Barnaby Edwards (The Ghost), Youssef Kerkour (Barnardo), Alex Jordan (Francisco) and James Joyce (Marcellus).
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University of California Press Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972
In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-be important artists) on her dance deck on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. Within two years, Forti's conceptually forceful Dance Constructions had premiered in Yoko Ono's loft and Rainer had cofounded the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theater. Radical Bodies reunites Halprin, Forti, and Rainer for the first time inmore than fifty-five years. Dance was a fundamental part of the art world in the 1960s, the most volatile decade in American art, offering a radical image of bodily presence in a moment of revolutionary change. Halprin, Forti, and Rainer-all with Jewish roots-found themselves at the epicenter of this upheaval. Each, in her own tenacious, humorous, and critical way, created a radicalized vision for dance, dance making, and, ultimately, for music and the visual arts. Placing the body and performance at the center of debate, each developed corporeal languages and methodologies that continue to influence choreographers and visual artists around the world to the present day, enabling a critical practice that reinserts social and political issues into postmodern dance and art. Published in association with the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. Exhibition dates: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara: January 17-April 30, 2017 New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: May 24-September 16, 2017 Events: Pillowtalks, Jacob's Pillow, Becket, MA: July 1, 2017
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Inter-Varsity Press Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource For The Worldwide Church
The Global Dictionary of Theology' is inspired by the shift of the centre of Christianity from the West to the global South. But it also reflects the increase in two-way traffic between these two sectors as well as the global awareness that has permeated popular culture to an unprecedented degree. 'The Global Dictionary of Theology' has approximately 250 articles written by over 100 contributors representing a global spectrum of theological perspectives. The full range of standard theological topics are represented, but in addition to the Western tradition the GDT canvasses the array of theologies that are currently being worked out around the globe. Many articles are composite in nature and achieve a sort of conversation between more than one global perspective. The GDT surveys, describes and classifies the rich variety of theological perspectives that have grown in local and diverse soils around the globe. In an age of unprecedented global awareness, the GDT will become a standard launching point of theological research that will enrich every student's understanding of theology. Moving beyond mission theology, it explores the local and global theological fruit of the inculturation of the gospel.
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Liberty Fund Inc Conversation with Manuel Ayau / Una Conversación con Manuel Ayau DVD
Manuel Ayau is the founder and former rector and teacher of economics at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. In addition to being a successful businessman, he is a former chairman of the Guatemala Stock Exchange, was a member of the Guatemala House of Representatives, and served as President of the Mont Pelerin Society. It is conducted in English and Spanish. Approximate running time: 69 minutes
£19.80
CABI Publishing Food and Wine Tourism: Integrating Food, Travel and Terroir
This established textbook explores how regions, and food industry, travel and hospitality companies present themselves to tourists experiencing the culture, history and ambience of a location through the food and wine it produces. It provides practical suggestions and guidelines for establishing a food-related tourism destination and business, discussing the environment, understanding the food tourist, supply issues, tours and tasting sessions, themed itineraries, planning and developing the tourist product, marketing and best practice strategies. It also includes numerous case studies from around the world and plentiful pedagogical features to aid student learning. The second edition: - Contains updated chapters throughout, to form a complete and current overview of food and wine tourism. - Reviews new emerging destinations, and food and wine tourism from a business perspective. - Includes new global case studies discussing aspects such as transforming an Indian area into a wine-producing region, promoting a destination through a social media campaign, chocolate tourism in Belize, planning an international food fair, and making San Francisco a food capital. - Presents successful international professionals' experiences and tips, catching trends and setting the tourism phenomenon in an even more international context. If food and wine tourism is well planned, managed and controlled, it can become a real economic resource. Suitable for students in tourism and leisure subjects, the practical application provided in this book also makes it an ideal resource for those operating in the food and wine sector.
£42.65
Damiani Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury: Portraits 1967-1968
Elaine Mayes was a young photographer living in San Francisco’s lively Haight-Ashbury District during the 1960s. She had photographed the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and, later that year, during the waning days of the Summer of Love, embarked on a set of portraits of youth culture in her neighborhood. By that time, the hippie movement had turned from euphoria to harder drugs, and the Haight had become less of a blissed-out haven for young people seeking a better way of life than a halfway house to runaway teens. Realizing the gravity of the cultural moment, Mayes shifted from the photojournalistic approach she had applied to musicians and concert-goers in Monterey to making formal portraits of people she met on the street. Choosing casual and familiar settings, such as stoops, doorways, parks, and interiors, Mayes instructed her subjects to look into her square-format camera, to concentrate and be still: she made her exposures as they exhaled. Mayes’ familiarity with her subjects helped her to evade mediatized stereotypes of hippies as radically utopian and casually tragic, presenting instead an understated and unsentimental group portrait of the individual inventors of a fleeting cultural moment. Elaine Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968 is the first monograph on one of the decade’s most important bodies of work, presenting more than forty images from Mayes’ extensive series. An essay by art historian Kevin Moore elaborates an important chapter in the history of West Coast photography during this critical cultural and artistic period.
£36.00
Amazon Publishing The Murmur of Bees
From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family, because when the uncannily gifted child closes his eyes, he can see what no one else can—visions of all that’s yet to come, both beautiful and dangerous. Followed by his protective swarm of bees and living to deliver his adoptive family from threats—both human and those of nature—Simonopio’s purpose in Linares will, in time, be divined. Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution and the devastating influenza of 1918, The Murmur of Bees captures both the fate of a country in flux and the destiny of one family that has put their love, faith, and future in the unbelievable.
£19.99
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Cosmic Theater: The Art of Lee Mullican
Lee Mullican (1919-98) was best known for his inimitable West Coast-inspired explorations in abstraction, infused with mysticism and the transcendent. First exhibited as part of the pivotal exhibition of the Dynaton Group, which Mullican co-founded with fellow artists Gordon Onslow Ford and Wolfgang Paalen, his works are today widely collected and held in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, among many others. The first book in more than a decade to focus on this important figure in twentieth-century American art, Cosmic Theatre: The Art of Lee Mullican surveys a key theme running through the artist's career, framing his unusual hybridisation of symbolic figuration, abstracted landscapes, and abstract space with his long-time fascination with the sky and the galaxy beyond. The book explores the development of the Mullican's work in the context of his time and his biography, looking also at the implications of Jungian philosophy in relation to his admiration of pre-Columbian and Native American cultures. Michael Auping's essay is complemented by fifty full-colour illustrations, featuring major rare paintings and drawings by Mullican from the 1940s to the 1970s.
£31.50
Columbia University Press Sachiko: A Novel
In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were accused of disloyalty to their country.In the 1930s, two young Japanese Christians, Sachiko and Shūhei, are free to play with American children in their neighborhood. But life becomes increasingly difficult for them and other Christians after Japan launches wars of aggression. Meanwhile, a Polish Franciscan priest and former missionary in Nagasaki, Father Maximillian Kolbe, is arrested after returning to his homeland. Endō alternates scenes between Nagasaki—where the growing love between Sachiko and Shūhei is imperiled by mounting persecution—and Auschwitz, where the priest has been sent. Shūhei’s dilemma deepens when he faces conscription into the Japanese military, conflicting with the Christian belief that killing is a sin. With the A-bomb attack on Nagasaki looming in the distance, Endō depicts ordinary people trying to live lives of faith in a wartime situation that renders daily life increasingly unbearable. Endō’s compassion for his characters, reflecting their struggles to find and share love for others, makes Sachiko one of his most moving novels.
£22.00
Editorial Funambulista S.L. Las constelaciones indiferentes
Esta novela (con ecos de Bowles y Buzzati) cuenta el periplo del africanista Elías Laplace Oria, teniente coronel del ejército franquista destinado en 1935 a la última colonia española: Ifni. Su destino es una mezcla de premio y castigo, pues se siente relegado, pero al mismo tiempo logra sobrevivir allí, en curiosa paz por separado, a toda la Guerra Civil Española y a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ha sido protegido o ha sido condenado por Francisco Franco?En Ifni, Laplace sucumbe al hechizo de esa franja de tierra bajo su mando y siente cómo su autoridad y voluntad se resquebrajan, y por las rendijas de esta quiebra asoman los fantasmas de cuanto dejó atrás (un amor de juventud mal resuelto y una amistad truncada con Franco) y la creciente sospecha de que los astros y el mundo se mueven con distinta lógica en el desierto. Y todo esto nos lo narra, desde el próspero Madrid de 2007, un periodista extranjero a través de la lectura que le hace a su hija pequeña de los diarios de Laplace
£15.66
Cornell University Press To the Far North
This annotated translation of To the Far North presents the diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Russian physician who was part of the 1900 expedition to the Chukotka Peninsula to find gold. No other account so richly details life along the North Pacific Rim before World War I, especially from a Russian perspective. This volume relates the expedition''s formation, development, and aftermath and offers unique insights on the region''s place in both Russian policymaking and geopolitics. The illustrated diary includes picturesque descriptions of San Francisco, the Nome Gold Rush, Chukchi culture, Petropavlovsk, Vladivostok, and Nagasaki, Japan.Andrew A. Gentes''s translation is based on an edition of Akifëv''s book that was published in St. Petersburg in 1904. The diary shows how Russian and American views and cultural values clashed over a territory that is today more geopolitically important than ever. By documenting Akifëv''s personal travels ou
£97.20
University of Massachusetts Press Leaving Pico: A Novel
In the insular Portuguese fishing community of Provincetown, Josie Carvalho's life has been shaped by the annual influx of summer tourists and his great aunt's fervent, if idiosyncratic, Catholicism. The counterweight to these forces has always been Josie's relationship with his grandfather John Joseph, a drunk, clam-poaching old man who is nevertheless a sly and masterful storyteller.After a stranger starts dating Josie's mother and upsets the family's equilibrium, John Joseph heals the rift with the colorful and adventurous stories of their ancestor, Francisco Carvalho, a Portuguese explorer who just may have beaten Columbus to the New World. With the guidance of these obscure but inspired tales, Josie begins to find new ways of understanding his family and the outside world. This new edition of Leaving Pico makes Frank X. Gaspar's award-winning coming-of-age novel accessible to a new generation of readers.
£16.95
Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Talking Machine: An Illustrated Compendium 1877-1929
Antique talking machines are among today’s hottest collectibles. Names like “Edison” and “Victrola” call to mind an era of polished wood, brightly-painted morning glory horns, and fascinating machinery. This revised and expanded second edition of The Talking Machine contains over 525 color photographs showing an incredible variety models, and including over 30 never before published photos. The authoritative text and up-to-date values complement the wealth of visuals, making this book a veritable library of information in one volume! Topping off this award-winning combination is a music CD featuring some of the rarest and most historically important recordings of all time. Hear the voice of explorer Ernest Shackleton describe his perilous expedition to the South Pole. Listen to a dramatic recreation of the San Francisco earthquake recorded mere months after the actual event. Enjoy two different recordings of the voice of the great inventor Thomas A. Edison.
£57.59
Astra Publishing House Heroine's Journey
The third book in the smart, snarky, and action-packed Heroine series completes the "Heroic Trio" as Bea Tanaka joins her sister, Evie, and diva Aveda Jupiter in their quest to free San Francisco from its demon portal problemIf there's one thing Beatrice Tanaka never wanted to be, it's normal. But somehow, her life has unfolded as a series of "should haves." Her powers of emotional projection should have made her one of the most formidable superheroes of all time. And she should have been allowed to join her older sister Evie as a full-fledged protector of San Francisco, pulverizing the city's plethora of demon threats. But Evie and her superheroing partner, Aveda Jupiter, insist on seeing Bea as the impulsive, tempestuous teenager she used to be--even though she's now a responsible adult. And that means Bea is currently living a thoroughly normal life. She works as a bookstore lackey, hangs out with best friends Sam Fujikawa and Leah Kim, and calms her workplace's more difficult customers. Sure, she's not technically supposed to be playing with people's mental states. But given the mundanity of her existence, who can blame her? When a mysterious being starts communicating with Bea, hinting at an evil that's about to overtake the city, she seizes the opportunity, hoping to turn her "should haves" into the fabulous heroic life she's always wanted. But gaining that life may mean sacrificing everything--and everyone--she holds dear...
£15.00
University of California Press Diego Rivera's America
Diego Rivera’s America revisits a historical moment when the famed muralist and painter, more than any other artist of his time, helped forge Mexican national identity in visual terms and imagined a shared American future in which unity, rather than division, was paramount. This volume accompanies a major exhibition highlighting Diego Rivera’s work in Mexico and the United States from the early 1920s through the mid-1940s. During this time in his prolific career, Rivera created a new vision for the Americas, on both national and continental levels, informed by his time in both countries. Rivera’s murals in Mexico and the U.S. serve as points of departure for a critical and contemporary understanding of one of the most aesthetically, socially, and politically ambitious artists of the twentieth century. Works featured include the greatest number of paintings and drawings from this period reunited since the artist’s lifetime, presented alongside fresco panels and mural sketches. This catalogue serves as a guide to two crucial decades in Rivera’s career, illuminating his most important themes, from traditional markets to modern industry, and devoting attention to iconic paintings as well as works that will be new even to scholars—revealing fresh insights into his artistic process. Published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with University of California Press Exhibition dates: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: July 16, 2022—January 1, 2023 Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas: March 11—July 31, 2023
£45.00
University of California Press Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire
Founded in the first century BCE near a set of natural springs in an otherwise dry northeastern corner of the Valley of Mexico, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan was on a symbolic level a city of elements. With a multiethnic population of perhaps one hundred thousand, at its peak in 400 CE, it was the cultural, political, economic, and religious center of ancient Mesoamerica. A devastating fire in the city center led to a rapid decline after the middle of the sixth century, but Teotihuacan was never completely abandoned or forgotten; the Aztecs revered the city and its monuments, giving many of them the names we still use today. Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire examines new discoveries from the three main pyramids at the site-the Sun Pyramid, the Moon Pyramid, and, at the center of the Ciudadela complex, the Feathered Serpent Pyramid-which have fundamentally changed our understanding of the city's history. With illustrations of the major objects from Mexico City's Museo Nacional de Antropologia and from the museums and storage facilities of the Zona de Monumentos Arqueologicos de Teotihuacan, along with selected works from US and European collections, the catalogue examines these cultural artifacts to understand the roles that offerings of objects and programs of monumental sculpture and murals throughout the city played in the lives of Teotihuacan's citizens. Published in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Exhibition dates: de Young, San Francisco, September 30, 2017-February 11, 2018 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), March-June 2018
£56.70
Little, Brown Book Group The Angel of History
'A profoundly beautiful novel that infolds the political with the personal in unexpected and new ways . . . An extraordinary book' Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2016''His stories take the reader into the labyrinth that is the mind . . . The Angel of History is digressive and daring' the Economist'Alameddine has created a scintillating, original work whose moral complexity and detail of observation are wholly contemporary and entirely his own' SpectatorSet over the course of one night in the waiting room of a psych clinic, The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is also attended to by 14 saints. Set in Cairo and Beirut; Sana'a, Stockholm, and San Francisco; Alameddine gives us a charged philosophical portrait of a brilliant mind in crisis. This is a profound, philosophical and hilariously winning story of the war between memory and oblivion we wrestle with every day of our lives.'Here is a book, full of story, unrepentantly political at every level. At a time when many western writers seem to be in retreat from saying anything that could be construed as political, Alameddine says it all, shamelessly, gloriously and, realised like his Satan, in the most stylish of forms' the Guardian
£8.99
Alianza Editorial La República
En plena madurez, Cicerón (106-43 a.C.) alumbra " La república " , un debate filosófico en el que aplica las especulaciones teóricas de los sabios griegos a la constitución política romana. En la obra plantea la necesidad de regenerar las decadentes instituciones de una Roma con un vasto imperio, pero abrumada por una profunda crisis interna que desembocaría, poco después, en las guerras civiles que acabaron con el sistema republicano y la vida del propio autor. Un gobierno sin contrapesos, que consiente la injusticia y la posibilidad de ejercer el poder absoluto está condenado. El último libro de los seis que integran este tratado culmina con el breve e influyente apólogo conocido como ?El sueño de Escipión?, transmitido desde la Antigüedad como texto independiente.Traducción y prólogoFrancisco Miguel del Rincón Sánchez
£13.86
Omnidawn Publishing Train Music – Writing / Pictures
A poet and a book artist take a train across the United States, creating and conversing along the way. Late in the fall of 2017, poet C. S. Giscombe and book artist Judith Margolis boarded an Amtrak train in New York City and, four days later, stepped off another train at the edge of San Francisco Bay. Giscombe was returning home to California to address an all-white audience on the problem of white supremacy, and expatriate Margolis, accustomed to a somewhat solitary existence, was visiting the United States and making collages. Traveling together, they each turned their train quarters into writing and drawing “studios” where they engaged in conversations and arguments and shared experiences of the discomforts and failures of recent times. Their original intention had been to travel west and document, in journals and sketchpads, the complex, charged American landscape, but as the trip progressed—and in the months afterwards—the project took on a new shape. Train Music, the book that resulted, recollects and explores the century’s racial and gendered conflicts—sometimes sensually, sometimes in stark images, sometimes in a “mixed economy” of poetry and prose.
£16.00
McGill-Queen's University Press Local Government and Metropolitan Regions in Federal Countries: Volume 6
While local government is found in all federal countries, its place and role in the governance of these countries varies considerably. In some countries, local government is considered an essential part of the federal nature of the state and recognized in the constitution as such, whereas in others it is simply a creature of the subnational states/provinces. When referring to local government it is more correct to refer to local governments (plural), as these institutions come in all shapes and sizes, performing widely divergent functions. They range from metropolitan municipalities of mega-cities to counties, small town councils, and villages. Their focus is either multi-purpose in the case of municipalities or single purpose in the case of special districts and school districts. What unites these institutions of state is that there is no level of government below them. That is also their strength and the source of their democratic claim - they are the government closest to the people. Political science experts from across the globe examine local governments by drawing on case studies of Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Switzerland, Spain, South Africa, and United States. Contributors include Martin Burgi (Ruhr-University Bochum), Luis Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Jaap de Visser (University of Western Cape), Habu Galadima (University of Jos), Sol Garson (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) Boris Graizbord (National College of Mexico), Rakesh Hooja (HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration, India), Andreas Kiefer (European Affairs Office of the Land Salzburg), Andreas Ladner (Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration), George Mathew (Institute of Social Sciences, India), Mike Pagano (University of Illinois at Chicago), Graham Sansom (University of Technology Sydney), Franz Schausberger (Salzburg University), Nico Steytler (University of Western Cape), Francisco Velasco Caballero (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), and Robert Young (University of Western Ontario).
£92.70
