A leather bound edition from the popular series It features a satin-ribbon bookmark decorative stained edging & marbled endpapers ...

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop’s fables in a volume that will delight young & old readers alike Here are all the age-old favourites
- the wily fox the vain peacock the predatory cat & the steady tortoise
- just as endearingly vivid & relevant now as they were for their very first audience This elegant Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of Aesop&s Fables features illustrations by Arthur Rackham the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian period which have been beautifully & sensitively coloured by Barbara Frith This beautiful edition features an afterword by publisher & editor Anna South Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector&s Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector&s Library are books to love & treasure

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The original Aesop Fables introduced by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick Over two hundred familiar tales from & Look Before You Leap& & & The Boy Who Cried Wolf& to much less familiar tales each with its own sharply pointed moral Puffin Classics come with additional end material including author profile things to think about & do a guide to who&s who a glossary & more ...

A collection of eight of Aesop&s best-loved fables retold for children growing in reading confidence Sly foxes thirsty storks & greedy dogs all feature in these fun stories each with its own moral at the end Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University ...

The much-loved tale of The Hare & the Tortoise has been beautifully captured by Monika Filipina's fun quirky illustrations Every page showcases delightful full-bled artwork packed with charm & detail that will enthrall children aged 3 The story has been simply retold to appeal to young readers & listeners alike ...

A collection of eight of Aesop's best-loved fables retold for children growing in reading confidence Sly foxes thirsty storks & greedy dogs all feature in these fun stories each with its own moral at the end Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University The audio CD

Includes:: a dramatic listen-along recording with music & sound effects followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns

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Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse & Max Horkheimer His work has proved enormously influential in sociology philosophy & cultural theory Aesthetic Theory is Adorno's posthumous magnum opus & the culmination of a lifetime's investigation Analysing the sublime the ugly & the beautiful Adorno shows how such concepts frame & distil human experience & that it is human experience that ultimately underlies aesthetics In Adorno's formulation art is the sedimented history of human misery' ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play After saving a fairy-tale kingdom Akatsuki returns to the real world with his prize Miu the busty daughter of the defeated Demon King It's one hell of a happy ending until they're forced to enroll at a school for magic users There Akatsuki can't keep his hands off the girls Miu's constantly ballooning measurements make her a walking wardrobe malfunction & it seems like someone is always plotting against them Actors Nobuhiko Okamoto Yoko Hikasa Atsushi Abe Ayana Taketatsu Kana Hanazawa Directors Rion Kujo Format Animated PALLanguage Japanese English Subtitles English Dubbed English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play After saving a fairy-tale kingdom Akatsuki returns to the real world with his prize Miu the busty daughter of the defeated Demon King It&s one hell of a happy ending until they&re forced to enroll at a school for magic users There Akatsuki can&t keep his hands off the girls Miu&s constantly ballooning measurements make her a walking wardrobe malfunction & it seems like someone is always plotting against them Contains episodes 1-12 Actors Nobuhiko Okamoto Yoko Hikasa Atsushi Abe Ayana Taketatsu & Kana Hanazawa Director Rion Kujo Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen 169 Anamorphic Languages Japanese
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages English Subtitles English Duration 5 hours (approx)
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This volume of lectures on aesthetics given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958 9 formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory widely regarded as one of his greatest works The lectures cover a wide range of topics from an intense analysis of the work of Georg Lukacs to a sustained reflection on the theory of aesthetic experience from an examination of works by Plato Kant Hegel Schopenhauer Kierkegaard & Benjamin to a discussion of the latest experiments of John Cage attesting to the virtuosity & breadth of Adorno's engagement All the while Adorno remains deeply connected to his surrounding context offering us a window onto the artistic intellectual & political confrontations that shaped life in post-war Germany This volume will appeal to a broad range of students & scholars in the humanities & social sciences as well as anyone interested in the development of critical theory ...