Using the same innovative production technique & brilliant aesthetic cheered by parents educators & children alike in the acclaimed Touch Think Learn series here is an alphabet that literally adds a new dimension to learning Raised die-cut pieces nestled in mirroring indented cut-outs engage readers on both visual & tactile levels An impressive gift this exquisitely executed design object is above all else a fabulously fun & educationally essential alphabet book ...

Tracklist Flowers & You New Halloween Rapture Displacement Benediction Eight Seconds Palm Dreams Softer Spoken Posing Holy Water Damage Skyscraper ...

Tracklist A1 A2 New Halloween A3 Rapture A4 & Now Its Happening In Mine A5 Uppers Downers A6 Adieux A7 Steps B1 Just Exist B2 Pathfinder B3 Flowers & You B4 Negotiating The Charade B5 The Great Repetition B6 Art Official B7 Displacement B8 Cadence C1 Harbor C2 Palm Dreams C3 Home Away From Here C4 Amends C5 Benediction C6 Banter 1 C7 Is Survived By C8 Condolences D1 Banter 2 D2 Circa 95 D3 Low Beams D4 I?ll Get My Just Deserve D5 I?ll Deserve Just That D6 Honest Sleep ...

Play your cards right from different patterns on the game board Each player tries to form three different patterns while attempting to thwart the other player&s progress Can be played individually or in teams Play your cards right & form different patterns on the game board Combines the fun of a board game with the excitement of a card game Can be played individually or in teams Ages 8 Players 2-6 ...

The anguished & volatile intensity associated with the artistic temperament was once thought to be a symptom of genius or eccentricity peculiar to artists writers & musicians Kay Jamison's work based on her study as a clinical psychologist & researcher in mood disorders reveals that many artists subject to exalted highs & despairing lows were in fact engaged in a struggle with clinically identifiable manic-depressive illness Jamison presents proof of the biological foundations of this disease & applies what is known about the illness to the lives & works of some of the world's greatest artists including Byron Van Gogh Schumann & Woolf ...

Oscar nominees Ed Harris & Robert Forster star in self-taught identical twin filmmakers Logan & Noah Miller's autobiographical family drama about a pair of twin brothers who return to their small town after failing to find success as major league baseball players Their dreams of becoming professional athletes dashed the brothers attempt to rethink their lives while reconciling their love for their homeless father (Harris) Deeply shamed by their derelict dad's chronic shameful behavior the brothers find themselves in a personal crisis after going to work at the local rock quarry & having to contend with their ne'er-do-well friends ...

Touching the Rock is a unique exploration of that distant infinitely strange 'other world' of blindness John Hull writes of odd sounds & echoes of people without faces of a curious new relationship between waking & dreaming of a changed perception of nature & human personality He reveals a world in which every human experience
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- is transformed' The incisiveness of Hull's observation the beauty of his language make this book poetry; the depth of his reflection turns it into phenomenology or philosophy' Oliver Sacks neurologist & bestselling author (1933-2015)' He lets us see with no trace of self-pity or self-praise how blindness has become for him a genuine acquisition an unforeseeably rich gift that has made from him what so few of us are excellent watchers & hearers of the world triumphant in the teeth of ruin' Reynolds Price American novelist (1933-2011) Notes on Blindness a feature film & virtual reality experience by Peter Middleton & James Spinney based on John's original audio diaries The project is an Archer's Mark Production in association with Fee Fie Foe Films & 104 Films in co-production with Agat Films & Cie Ex Nihilo wwwnotesonblindnesscouk

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Touching the Void is a heart-stopping true account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes He & his climbing partner Simon reached the summit of the remote peak Siula Grande A few days later Simon staggered into base camp exhausted & frost-bitten with news that Joe was dead What really happened to Joe makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Kevin Mac Donald&s (&A Day in September&) docu-drama is based on a true story In 1985 two ambitious young British mountaineers Joe Simpson & Simon Yates set off to scale the treacherous west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes They reached the summit on day three but shortly after starting the descent Simpson fell & broke his leg badly This accident turned their daring expedition into a desperate fight for survival when Yates had to decide whether to stay with Simpson & wait to be rescued (and possibly die) or leave him behind to save his own life ...

The book behind the BAFTA award-winning film Winner of the NCR Award for non-fiction & the Boardman Tasker award Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes He & his climbing partner Simon reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995 A few days later Simon staggered into Base Camp exhausted & frost-bitten with news that that Joe was dead What happened to Joe & how the pair dealt with the psychological traumas that resulted when Simon was forced into the appalling decision to cut the rope makes not only an epic of survival but a compelling testament of friendship ...