This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists Tanizaki's eye ranges over architecture jade food toilets & combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight & women in the darkness of the house of pleasure The result is a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors & the dazzling light of the modern age ...

To call this collection 'verse' is a misnomer obverse reverse converse adverse or diverse maybe Raised on a diet of ' The Goon Show' it's a Square world' & the ' Goodies' the author has permitted this mix to ferment between his ears then added the scribbling from a thousand lavatory walls to produce a work of nonsense that must rival the very best edicts that the European Parliament can offerand at least his rhymes! ...

This show-all romp through design-world darling Jessica Hische&s sketchbook reveals the creative & technical process behind making award-winning hand lettering See everything from Hische&s rough sketches to her polished finals for major clients such as Wes Anderson NPR & Starbucks The result is a well of inspiration & brass tacks information for designers who want to sketch distinctive letterforms & hone their skills With more than 250 images & metallic silver ink printed throughout to represent her penciled sketches this highly visual book is an essential--and entirely enjoyable--resource for those who practice or simply appreciate the art of hand lettering ...

Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life Naturalist conservationist & passionate lover of poetry he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures to their observation to singing their praises & to ensuring their survival Based on fifty years of detailed diaries In Pursuit of Butterflies is the chronicle of this life Oates leads the reader through a lifetime of butterflying across the mountain tops the peat bogs sea cliffs meadows heaths the chalk downs & great forests of the British Isles Full of humour zeal digression expertise & anecdote this book provides a profound encounter with one of our great butterfly lovers & with a half-century of butterflies in Britain ...

A unique combination of travelogue current affairs & history showing how Russia's

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ANNE BRONTE the youngest & most enigmatic of the Bronte sisters remains a best-selling author nearly two centuries after her death The brilliance of her two novels
- Agnes Grey & The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- & her poetry belies the quiet yet courageous girl who often lived in the shadows of her more celebrated sisters Yet her writing was the most revolutionary of all the Brontes pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable This revealing new biography opens Anne's most private life to a new audience & shows the true nature of her relationships with her siblings in particular with her sister Charlotte

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He was one of the hardest most controversial footballers of his generation the GBP20million man who became the first professional player to go to jail for an offence committed on the field of play 336 pages 1 x 8pp bw Pattullo Alan ...

In Search of Excellence has long been a must-have for the boardroom business school & bedside table & continues to influence the thinking of leaders & managers across the globe today Based on a study of forty-three of America's best-run companies from a range of sectors
- consumer goods technology services
- the book identifies eight common 'attributes of excellence' that made these organisations successful Though many of the profiled companies have since lost their edge (or disappeared completely) these eight management principles each highlighted in a chapter in the book have shown themselves to be timeless These simple business truths so eloquently encapsulated by Peters & Waterman are proof that the fundamentals of management
- a focus on people customers & value entrepreneurship & excellence
- ring as true today as they ever did In Search of Excellence is a seminal business book worthy of a place on the bookshelves of anyone who wants to understand how effective management works in practice



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An unexpected inheritance from her grandmother offers Libby Pulford the opportunity to escape her abusive marriage & return to her Lancashire roots with her young son Ned But her domineering husband Steven won't let her go so easily She turns to her new neighbour for help former police detective Joss Atherton to whom Libby feels a growing attraction But Joss has troubles of his own Emily Mattison is trying to make contact with the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption so many years before People's lives are destined to intertwine in ways they could never have imagined ...

This is a journey in search of the traces of eight legendary lost books The clues are fragile the hope of finding these pages scarce Yet maybe somewhere they still exist They exist as a rumour or a fading memory They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace lost to fire censorship theft war or deliberate destruction yet those who seek them are convinced they will find them This is the story of one man's quest for eight mysterious lost books Taking us from Florence to Regency London the Russian Steppe to British Columbia Giorgio van Straten unearths stories of infamy & tragedy glimmers of hope & bitter twists of fate There are among others the rediscovered masterpiece that he read but failed to save from destruction; the Hemingway novel that vanished in a suitcase at the Gare du Lyon; the memoirs of Lord Byron burnt to avoid a scandal; the Magnum Opus of Bruno Schulz disappeared along with its author in wartime Poland; the mythical Sylvia Plath novel that may one day become reality As gripping as a detective novel as moving as an elegy this is the tale of a love affair with the impossible of the things that slip away from us but which sometimes live again in the stories we tell ...