Neil LaBute: Plays 2 The Shape of Things; Fat Pig; In a Dark Dark House; In a Forest, Dark and Deep

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Forbidden Forest Cold Fire Publishing LLC

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Born in shame. Cast from society. Shape Shifter/Elf hybrid, Forest must fight for any respect she can get. Targeted in her youth by a vampire noble who placed an illegal slave mark on her, she is forced to obey him, no matter what.Slipping the grip of her

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Dragon Adventure 3: A Kaleidoscopia Coloring Book: Dragons and Friends Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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Imagination is everything. Look at the clouds and see the shape of dragons and phoenixes in flight; look in the shape of leaves and sunlight and see a school of fish swimming through the forest. See the beauty of patterns and shapes, beasts and beings in t

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Natasha's Dance Penguin

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Orlando Figes

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20 rubli, Bajki Narodów Świata - 12 miesięcy, 2006 Mennica Polska: Numizmatyka

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Seria: "Bajki Narodów Świata" "Coins of the Fairy Tales of the Peoples of the World Series" Kraj: Republika Białoruś Emitent: Narodowy Bank Republiki Białoruś Producent: Mennica Polska S. A. Stan zachowania: I (menniczy) Nominał: 20 rubli Srebro: Ag 925 Techniki dodatkowe: srebro oksydowane, czerwona cyrkonia Stempel: zwykły Średnica: 38,61 mm Waga: 28,28 g Nakład: 20.000 szt. Data emisji: 16.02.2006 r. Piękno tkwi w szczegółach, a ta moneta ma ich wiele, zachwycając ciekawym projektem i niebanalnym tematem. Dołącz ją do swojej kolekcji już dziś, nim ubiegną Cię inni, ze względu na niski nakład tej wyjątkowej monety ! Rewers: w centralnej części monety znajduje się ognisko z czerwoną cyrkonią w środku, przy którym, w baśni siedziało dwanaście miesięcy. Po lewej stronie, obraz koszyka z przebiśniegami symbolizującymi wiosnę. Część kwiatów wypada z niego, tworząc półokrąg i przekształcając się z żywych kwiatów w kwiatowe wzory, jakie tworzy mróz na szybie, a dalej w śnieżną zawieję i śnieżki nad zimowym lasem. W dolnej części monety, półkolisty napis w języku białoruskim:

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Songs Of Trees Penguin Putnam Inc

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"Here is a book to nourish the spirit. The Songs of Trees is a powerful argument against the ways in which humankind has severed the very biological networks that give us our place in the world. Listen as David Haskell takes his stethoscope to the heart of nature - and discover the poetry and music contained within."-- Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of TreesThe author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - treesDavid Haskell's award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim for eloquent writing and deep engagement with the natural world. Now, Haskell brings his powers of observation to the biological networks that surround all species, including humans.Haskell repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world to stop, listen, and look, exploring each tree's connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants, and demonstrating how the lives of trees and people are deeply interwoven. Several trees, including a balsam fir in Ontario and an Amazonian ceibo, are located in areas that seem mostly natural, but which are affected by industrial development and climate change. Haskell also turns to trees in places where humans seem to have subdued "nature" - a pear tree on a Manhattan sidewalk, an olive tree in Jerusalem - demonstrating that wildness permeates every location.We have much to learn from trees, says Haskell; they show us how to thrive and participate in nature's networks. Roots communicate with neighboring fungi and bacteria, sending chemical messages through the soil. Twigs have memories of light, gravity, heat and minerals. Plant cells in leaves use airborne odors to attract caterpillar-eating insects. Haskell pays particular attention to the sounds that emerge from or surround trees; behind each sound are fascinating stories of how tree lives are joined to other lives.With its deep understanding of the complexity of trees and the way they shape their ecosystems, Haskell's book will make you look at trees in an entirely new way.

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1 $, Motyle - Paź królowej (Papilio machaon), 2011 Mennica Polska: Numizmatyka

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Seria: "Motyle" "Butterflies" series   Emitent: Niue Island Producent: Mennica Polska S. A. Stan zachowania monety: I (menniczy) Nominał: 1 dolar (1 dollar) Prawny środek płatniczy w Nowej Zelandii Srebro: Ag 925 Stempel: lustrzany Zdobienie: tampondruk Wymiary: 38,61 mm Waga: 28,28 g Wielkość emisji: 8.000 szt. Data emisji: 10.10.2011 r. Projektant: Dobrochna Surajewska W zestawie: srebrna moneta kolekcjonerska w kapsule ochronnej, dwujęzyczny certyfikat autentyczności Mennicy Polskiej Oto on! Przepiękny okaz natury - motyl Paź królowej (Papilio machaon). Ten ciekawy kolorystycznie owad został uwieczniony na niskonakładowej, srebrnej monecie z dodającym uroku tampodrukiem z urzekającej serii "Motyle".   Mennica Polska prezentuje nową serię monet  pamiątkowych

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Norman Maclean Reader The University of Chicago Press

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In his eighty-eight years, Norman Maclean (1902-90) played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, which won him enduring fame and critical acclaim - as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. Though the 1976 collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories" was the only book Maclean published in his lifetime, it was an unexpected success, and the moving family tragedy of the title novella - based largely on Maclean's memories of early twentieth-century Montana - has proved to be one of the most enduring American stories ever written. The posthumous publication in 1992 of "Young Men and Fire", Maclean's deeply personal investigative account of a deadly forest fire, only added to his reputation, reacquainting readers with the power of his spare, evocative prose.With "The Norman Maclean Reader", the University of Chicago Press is proud to add a fitting final volume to Maclean's celebrated oeuvre.Bringing together previously unpublished materials with incidental writings and selections from his two masterpieces, the Reader will serve as the perfect introduction for readers new to Maclean, while offering longtime fans new insight into his life and career.Much of the pleasure of "The Norman Maclean Reader" lies in the rounded picture it gives of Maclean the man. A series of witty, perceptive personal essays present Maclean from a variety of angles: in "This Quarter I Am Taking McKeon," the master teacher distills the lessons of decades in the classroom; in "The Pure and the Good: On Baseball and Backpacking," Maclean the scholar turns his attention to poetic rhythm and the importance of craft; in "Retrievers Good and Bad," we see Maclean the memoirist first beginning to draw on his wealth of family stories.A generous selection of letters, as well as excerpts from a 1986 interview, serve to flesh out the Reader's portrait of Maclean, showing us a writer fully aware of the nuances of his craft, and a man as at home in the recondite atmosphere of the University of Chicago as in the quiet hills of his beloved Montana.The letters find Maclean corresponding about fishing with Nick Lyons, the first significant reviewer of "A River Runs Through It"; about literature and teaching with Marie Borroff, a former student who had become a professor of literature at Yale; about the Mann Gulch fire with Lois Jansson, the widow of one of Maclean's sources; and about General Custer with historian Robert Utley.Maclean's writings on Custer comprise the most extensive unpublished material in the Reader. Fascinated by Custer's tragic end and posthumous fame, Maclean dedicated years in the late 1950s to studying the general, and though he was never able to shape his chapters on the topic into a complete book, to read them now is revelatory: as he explores the man and myth of Custer, we see Maclean groping toward the rigorous yet personal hybrid form of historical storytelling that he would employ to such effect in "Young Men and Fire".Multifarious and moving, the works collected in "The Norman Maclean Reader" serve as both a summation and a celebration, giving readers a chance once again to hear one of American literature's most distinctive voices.

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Wild Flowers of North America Prestel

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Now available in a new, large single volume with an appendix also listing the modern plant names, this classic collection by "the Audubon of botany" features more than 250 exquisite reproductions of Walcott's celebrated watercolors of wildflower life in the United States of America and Canada.What does it take to paint a wildflower that blooms for a single day in a deep forest? For Mary Vaux Walcott, it involved spending up to seventeen hours a day out of doors with her paintbox to capture the shape, movement, and colors of delicate petals and leaves. Originally published in 1925 to enormous acclaim in five, oversized volumes, Walcott's sketches introduced the diversity and beauty of North American plants to the general public. A selection of some of the most stunning illustrations are now available in a single volume, these illustrations have lost none of their beauty or realism. Walcott's technique involved precise attention to detail, color, light, and perspective. Her art can also be appreciated as the work of a woman scientist battling the prejudices against her sex of the day. She was an intrepid explorer, skilled mountaineer, and generous benefactor to the Smithsonian Institution at a time when women's accomplishments were often overlooked or misattributed. As inspirational and informative as they are a pleasure for the eyes, this bouquet of nature's fleeting gifts is a lasting treasure of botanic and scientific artistry.Published in association with the Smithsonian Institution

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Bending Solid Wood To Form Fredonia Books (NL)

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Wood bending is an ancient craft that is of key importance in many industries today, especially in those that manufacture furniture, boats and ships, agricultural implements, tool handles, and sporting goods. Of the several methods commonly used to produce curved parts of wood, bending is the most economical of material, the most productive of members of high strength, and perhaps the cheapest. Long experience has evolved practical bending techniques and skilled craftsmen to apply them. Yet commercial operations often sustain serious losses because of breakage during the bending operation or the fixing process that follows. There is a longfelt need for more reliable knowledge about: (1) Criteria for selection of bending stock; (2) better methods of seasoning and plasticizing wood for bending; (3) more efficient machines for the bending operation; (4) techniques for drying and fixing the bent part to the desired shape; and (5) the effect of bending on the strength properties of wood.

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Land Art Crescent Moon Publishing

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LAND ART: POCKET GUIDE A fully illustrated pocket guide to land and environmental art. This book explores all of the major land, environmental and earthwork artists of the past 40 years, including James Turrell and his vast volcano site . Hans Haacke's Conceptual art . Michael Heizer's Mid-West earthworks . Robert Smithson and his giant spiral, entropic earthworks . Christo's wrapped buildings and islands, . Robert Morris's environments . Walter de Maria's Romantic Lightning Field . David Nash's stoves, stones, trees and North Wales environments . Hamish Fulton's walks and words . Dennis Oppenheim's concentric snow circles . Richard Long and his art of walking . Andy Goldsworthy's natural, spontaneous, eco-friendly sculptures . Alice Aycock's mysterious underground mazes . Mary Miss's sunken pools and pavilions . Wolfgang Laib's delicate, luminous pollen spreads . Nancy Holt and her observation sculptures . and the enigmatic floor sculptures of Carl Andre. For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land artist ranges over the whole globe. A desert, a beach, a field, a forest becomes a studio, a place of creative activity. This means the very texture and colour and shape and dampness and springiness and strength and size of moss, for instance. Or a stone. Or a crevice in a rock formation. The way the light falls on a patch of grass, the little bits of dead, yellowish grass on top of the newer, green grass. Pine cones, closed-up. Flowers turning sunward in the late afternoon. These are the things land artists deal with in making art. These are the actualities that artists employ when they create artworks. ż Fully illustrated, with a newly revised text for this edition. Bibliography and notes. ISBN 971861714039. 280 pages. www.crmoon.com William Malpas has written books on Richard Long and land art, as well as three books on Andy Goldsworthy, including the forthcoming Andy Goldsworthy In America. Malpas's books on Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy are the only full-length studies of these artists available.

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Land Art in Close-up Crescent Moon Publishing

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LAND ART A fully illustrated survey of land and environmental art. For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land artist ranges over the whole globe. A desert, a beach, a field, a forest becomes a studio, a place of creative activity. This means the very texture and colour and shape and dampness and springiness and strength and size of moss, for instance. Or a stone. Or a crevice in a rock formation. The way the light falls on a patch of grass, the little bits of dead, yellowish grass on top of the newer, green grass. Pine cones, closed-up. Flowers turning sunward in the late afternoon. These are the things land artists deal with in making art. These are the actualities that artists employ when they create artworks. ? This new book explores all of the major land, environmental and earthwork artists of the past 40 years, including James Turrell and his vast volcano site . Hans Haacke's Conceptual art . Michael Heizer's Mid-West earthworks . Robert Smithson and his giant spiral, entropic earthworks . Christo's wrapped buildings and islands, . Robert Morris's environments . Walter de Maria's Romantic Lightning Field . David Nash's stoves, stones, trees and North Wales environments . Hamish Fulton's walks and words . Dennis Oppenheim's concentric snow circles . Richard Long and his art of walking . Andy Goldsworthy's natural, spontaneous, eco-friendly sculptures . Alice Aycock's mysterious underground mazes . Mary Miss's sunken pools and pavilions . Wolfgang Laib's delicate, luminous pollen spreads . Nancy Holt and her observation sculptures . and the enigmatic floor sculptures of Carl Andre. Here are towers, stars, stones, pools, tunnels, pipes,maps, chasms, ladders, mounds, scars, mirrors, cones, furrows, mazes, circles, hills and gardens. ?

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Land Art Crescent Moon Publishing

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LAND ART A fully illustrated and complete guide to land and environmental art. For the land artist, the whole planet is an artist's studio. The land artist ranges over the whole globe. A desert, a beach, a field, a forest becomes a studio, a place of creative activity. This means the very texture and colour and shape and dampness and springiness and strength and size of moss, for instance. Or a stone. Or a crevice in a rock formation. The way the light falls on a patch of grass, the little bits of dead, yellowish grass on top of the newer, green grass. Pine cones, closed-up. Flowers turning sunward in the late afternoon. These are the things land artists deal with in making art. These are the actualities that artists employ when they create artworks. ? This new book explores all of the major land, environmental and earthwork artists of the past 40 years, including James Turrell and his vast volcano site . Hans Haacke's Conceptual art . Michael Heizer's Mid-West earthworks . Robert Smithson and his giant spiral, entropic earthworks . Christo's wrapped buildings and islands, . Robert Morris's environments . Walter de Maria's Romantic Lightning Field . David Nash's stoves, stones, trees and North Wales environments . Hamish Fulton's walks and words . Dennis Oppenheim's concentric snow circles . Richard Long and his art of walking . Andy Goldsworthy's natural, spontaneous, eco-friendly sculptures . Alice Aycock's mysterious underground mazes . Mary Miss's sunken pools and pavilions . Wolfgang Laib's delicate, luminous pollen spreads . Nancy Holt and her observation sculptures . and the enigmatic floor sculptures of Carl Andre. Here are towers, stars, stones, pools, tunnels, pipes,maps, chasms, ladders, mounds, scars, mirrors, cones, furrows, mazes, circles, hills and gardens. ?

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Book of the Torah, Second Edition Wipf & Stock Publishers

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The first five books of the Bible contain many of its most famous stories, populated by vivid characters altogether human in their triumphs and failings--and an equally complicated deity. Many works of Western art and literature appeal to these stories, from Michelangelo's painting of Adam and Eve to a novel like William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. The three great Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) are rooted here. So is much of Western political theory and constitutional polity, for a good half of these books contains legislation (torah) of various kinds, as indicated by the ancient title: the book of the Torah. Law and narrative together render the character of the ancient covenant community known as Israel, as well as the God who rules over that community. In this revised and expanded version of his popular book of 1988, Mann engages literary criticism and theology in attending both to the composite nature of the Torah (or Pentateuch) and to its final, canonical shape. Mann's study provides a lucid introduction to the heart of the Hebrew Bible, suitable for students and general readers, but also of interest to biblical scholars. "Mann's study of the foundational texts of biblical faith has long been a reliable staple of pedagogy and interpretation. In it he combines a well-honed capacity for critical judgment with an acute theological sensibility, all of which is presented in an accessible format. For these reasons this new edition is a welcome offer. In it he has . . . added materials that could not have been on the horizon in the first edition. This book will evoke many grateful readers." --Walter Brueggemann Columbia Theological Seminary Praise for the first edition: "I would find this volume extremely useful in introducing my students to this basic part of the Old Testament. I am quite excited about this project." --Patrick D. Miller author of Stewards of the Mysteries of God "A sound piece of work. Its holistic, final-form approach reflects the major trend in biblical criticism. It is perceptive, sensitive, thoughtful, and stimulating." --David Gunn coauthor of Narrative in the Hebrew Bible Thomas W. Mann has taught at Princeton Theological Seminary, Converse College, Salem College, and Wake Forest University. For twenty-three years he was also the minister of Parkway United Church of Christ in Winston Salem, North Carolina. He is the author of The Book of the Former Prophets (Cascade Books, 2011), a sequel to this book; Deuteronomy (1995); and God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of God (2004).

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Timm Rautert: Germans in Uniform Steidl Publishers

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Timm Rautert's 1974 series "Germans in Uniform", presenting a range of Germans in their professional attire in both a sociological and ironic manner, was first published in German by Steidl in 2006, and is now available in English in this expanded version. For his project Rautert invited a range of public servants and officials to his Düsseldorf studio, where he photographed them in their work clothes-from a pastor, monk, Red Cross helper and hotel valet, to a more flamboyant drum major, forest warden and even a Santa Claus. Rautert depicts his subjects before the same neutral backdrop with similar framing and perspective, thus emphasizing how they reveal their characters beyond their uniforms. Below each photo are the subject's name, age and profession; at times personal quotes from conversations with Rautert during the shoot are also included. The result today is at once a complex portrait of post-war Germany, a nostalgic historical document, and an expression of the interplay between uniformity and personality that continues to shape society.

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