Seventeen year old Artemisia is a budding artist in 17th Century Italy where women are forbidden to study painting much less paint nude models She persuades her father to let her watch & learn from the great painter Agostino Tassi Tassi however has plans other than teaching art & he attacks Artemisia French dialogue with subtitles ...

Artful presents in book form four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted
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- by a former lover the writer of a series of lectures about art & literature Full of both the poignancy & humour of fiction & all the sideways insights & jaunty angles you would expect from Ali Smith's criticism it explores form style life love death mortality immortality & what art & writing can mean Part fiction part essay Artful is a revelation of what writing can do & a reaffirmation of Ali Smith's unmatched literary powers' Playful full of insight & humanity constantly surprising another genuine attempt to bust open the boundaries of literary form' Jonathan Coe Metro' Joyful & optimistic Will be entertaining reading for anyone interested in the art of writing also of living well' New Statesman' Glittering inventiveness Not just a ghost story but also a love letter As emotionally freighted as a piece of storytelling as intellectually rigorous as an academic's essay' Independent' An insight into an author who is in love with books invention & words in all their depth & shiny surface' Herald 'A revelation a new kind of book altogether a book that defies categorisation & leaps out of every box anyone could try & put it in; a book that marries fiction to nonfiction literary criticism to essays; a book that is as serious as it is witty as light as it is enlightening Artful makes you glad to be alive' Observer Books of the Year' One of the marvelous things about this book is its reconciliation of the serious
- both in the form of this crumbling smelly guest & in its ardent advocacy of art
- & light Smith whose love of words & skill at wordplay has already been made apparent in her stories & novels performs dodge after dodge after dodge what Smith has done with Artful is to invent a new form apart from form to build a kind of Frankenstein's monster inside the act of art' LA Review of Books ' Smith is a trickster an etymologist a fantasist a pun-freak an ontologist a transgenrenatrix A wordsmith to the very smithy of her soul she is at once deeply playful & deeply serious Artful in which she tugs at God's sleeve ruminates on clowns shoplifts used books dabbles in Greek & palavers with the dead is a stunner' New York Times' These brief acrobatic lectures perform spectacular feats of criticism Each is as playful as it is powerful as buoyant as it is brilliant' NPR' Contemplative electrifying' Publishers Weekly



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Fifty years after a time traveler brings science & technology to the medieval ages corporations have replaced kingdoms & the future teeters on a bleak precipice Agents & assassins hired for their specialties by the rivaling companies stem the flow of information with the flow of blood But the current system can't hold & the balance of power is shifting This print edition of Artful Daggers Fifty Years Later created by writers Adam P Knave (Amelia Cole) & Sean E Williams (Fairest) & artist Andrew Losq

Includes:: a foreword by Michael Avon Oeming (POWERS Mice Templar & The Victories) a preface by Jacques Lamarre (Director of Communication & Special Projects Mark Twain House) & pin-ups by some of the top artists in comics

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Learn to use simple design principles to create unique improvisational quilts Without using patterns learn 5 easy piecing techniques to add to your improvisational toolbox-angled stripes circles blocks curved strips & inset strips-and watch the art unfold before your eyes Focus on colour combos & negative space to discover your personal style & then add dazzling texture with freemotion stitching With finished art quilts as unique as you are you'll want to hang one in every room! ...

Award winning author & comics legend Peter David brings the adaptation of his novel Artful to Action Lab! Artful is the dark funny & action-packed story of one of the most fascinating characters in literary history the Artful Dodger from the classic Oliver Twist this time with a twist Vampires About the Author Peter Allen David often abbreviated PAD is an American writer of comic books novels television movies & video games His notable comic book work

Includes:: an award-winning 12-year run on The Incredible Hulk as well as runs on Aquaman Young Justice Supergirl & Fallen Angel His Star Trek work

Includes:: both comic books & novels such as Imzadi & co-creating the New Frontier series



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Did you know that the catch-all term 'arthritis' actually consists of six different disease groups? over-the-counter pain relief medication could speed up the progress of arthritis? some treatments for arthritis could have life-threatening side effects? surgery does not guarantee healing & could lead to more serious conditions? In the traditional Western medical world most patients aren't told the full story of arthritis & how to get better Nor are they told about some of the limitations of conventional treatments In this book the team at What Doctors Don't Tell You the internationally respected health magazine & website draws on 27 years of research into conventional & unconventional treatments & presents its findings to help you make informed decisions about your health & the health of your family This ground-breaking book explains that you don't have to accept arthritis as an unwelcome consequence of growing older It reveals a wide array of options to relieve pain improve movement & even reverse the condition including dietary changes complementary medicines supplements & mind-body therapies
- many with a proven track record of success This is a must-read for anyone with arthritis who has been told that nothing can be done to help them
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Now a major TV series starring Martin Clunes Arsher Ali & Art Malik From the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011 an extraordinary true-life tale about a long-forgotten mystery Arthur & George grow up worlds apart in late nineteenth-century Britain Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age while George remains in hard-working obscurity But as the new century begins they are brought together by a sequence of events that made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages This is a novel about low crime & high spirituality guilt & innocence identity nationality & race Most of all it is a profound & moving meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe what we know & what we can prove ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In 1906 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle having lost his first wife was overcome with grief; even Sherlock Holmes & Dr Watson refused his call It was only when his secretary Woodie presented him with an apparent real-life miscarriage of justice that he could be roused to action The case in question was that of George Edalji a Parsee solicitor who was imprisoned for writing obscene letters & killing livestock in Great Wyrley Staffordshire George needed Arthur’s help to clear his name However as the twists & turns of the case unfold Arthur himself questions George’s innocence It is only by finding the true culprit that Arthur can finally put the case & his grief to rest; whilst simultaneously becoming influential in a major reform to the English judicial system ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A young Celtic warrior & a hermit wizard must unite to defeat an evil druid ...

& Fascinating A stimulating contribution to our never-ending fascination with Holmes himself & even more perhaps his genial creator& Sunday Times A medical student at the University of Edinburgh Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient&s occupation hometown & ailments from the smallest details of dress gait & speech Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon he was cultivating essential knowledge that would help him to define the art of the detective novel From Doyle&s early days surrounded by poverty & violence through to his first days as a surgeon Michael Sims traces the circuitous yet inevitable development of Arthur Conan Doyle as the father of the modern mystery The incomparable Sherlock Holmes emerges as a product of Doyle&s varied lessons in the classroom & professional life ...