Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) was a great pioneer of botanical photography yet he was neither a professional photographer nor a botanist A professor at the Academy of Applied Arts in Berlin he was a sculptor & amateur photographer & his interest in the plant world was originally educational Fascinated by the structure of plants whose apparently artistic forms were created by biological expediency he realized that photography could be a useful teaching tool allowing his students to see & compare many natural forms Blossfeldt worked with a homemade camera & gathered & photographed his own plant samples magnifying them by up to 45 times From around 1898 onwards he shot some 6000 images which he used primarily as visual aids in his classes Eventually published as Art Forms in Nature (1928) & Art Forms in Nature Second Series (1932) his photographs had a lasting impact on the art of his day & were enthusiastically embraced by both the Surrealists & the New Objectivity movement His books brought him overnight fame & are still considered landmarks in the history of art & photography This volume brings together a remarkable collection of Blossfeldt's strikingly austere yet poetic portraits of plants capturing their timeless beauty in intimate detail ...

Having worked with Leo Abrahams on the Brian Eno-led Pure Scenius project Underworld frontman Karl Hyde revives the partnership on Edgeland a deliberately more spontaneous & organic project compared to his work with Underworld Lyrically & conceptually inspired by the hinterlands & hidden corners of the city the nine-track album was also co-produced by Abrahams ...

Tracklist A1 The Armed Man Written-By Based On L' Homme Arm 1450-63 ? Anon Trad 625 A2 The Call To Prayers (Adhaan) Composed By ? Traditional Soloist Meuzzin ? Mohammed Gad 204 A3 Kyrie Soloist Treble ? Tristan Hambleton Words By Ordinary Of The Mass ? Traditional 812 A4 Save Me From Bloody Men Words By The Bible ? Traditional 142 B1 Sanctus Words By Ordinary Of The Mass ? Traditional 700 B2 Hymn Before Action Words By ? Rudyard Kipling 238 B3 Charge! Words By Song For St Cecilia's Day ? John Dryden Words By To The Earl Of Oxford After Horace ? Jonathan Swift (2) 726 C1 Angry Flames Translated By ? Richard H Minnear Words By ? Togi Sankichi 444 C2 Torches Words By The Mahbhrata ? Traditional 258 C3 Agnus Dei Words By Ordinary Of The Mass ? Traditional 339 C4 Now The Guns Have Stopped Words By ? Guy Wilson 325 D1 Benedictus Soloist Cello ? Guy Johnston Words By Ordinary Of The Mass ? Traditional 736 D2 Better Is Peace Words By From In Memorium A A H ? Alfred Lord Tennyson Words By Le Morte D'arthur ? Sir Thomas Malory Words By The Book Of Revelations From The Bible ? Traditional 933 D3 For The Fallen (In Memoriam Alfryn Jenkins) (Bonus Track) Words By ? Laurence Binyon 441 ...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2017'A deeply original & illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century a profound reappraisal & a gripping read' Christopher Clark author of The Sleepwalkers As the nineteenth century unfolded its inhabitants had to come to terms with an unparalleled range of political economic religious & intellectual challenges Distances shrank new towns sprang up & ingenious inventions transformed the industrial landscape It was an era dominated by new ideas about God human capacities industry revolution empires & political systems
- & above all the shape of the future One of the most distinctive & arresting contributions to this debate was made by Karl Marx the son of a Jewish convert in the Rhineland & a man whose entire life was devoted to making sense of the hopes & fears of the nineteenth century world Gareth Stedman Jones's impressive biography explores how Marx came to his revolutionary ideas in an age of intellectual ferment & the impact they had on his times In a world where so many things were changing so fast would the coming age belong to those enthralled by the events which had brought this world into being or to those who feared & loathed it? This remarkable book allows the reader to understand as never before the world of ideas which shaped Marx's world
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You may already have seen trailers for the Doctor Strange film which opens across Europe in the last week of October
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The bald-headed buffoon with a head like an orange attempts to broaden his beautiful Manc mind by traversing the globe in search of the new seven wonders of the world experiencing some of the many delights that foreign cultures have to offer from extreme naked yoga to scorpions on a stick! Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant are outraged that Karl has written off the Seven Wonders claiming they&re all "a bit st" having never seen any of them with his own eyes They&ve thrown down the gauntlet to send him around the globe to force him out of his comfort zone Stephen wants the experience to broaden Karl&s mind & change his outlook on the world Ricky wants Karl to hate every minute of it for his own amusement Despatched on what many would term a journey of a lifetime the &little Englander& will be putting his misgivings to one side as Karl finds out for himself what the fuss is about He will travel to the Great Wall of China Christ the Redeemer in Brazil Petra in Jordan Machu Picchu in Peru Chichen Itza in Mexico the Taj Mahal in India & the Great Pyramids of Egypt Meanwhile Gervais & Merchant will be keeping a watchful eye from London monitoring every step of Pilkington&s journey Actors Karl Pilkington Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Languages English ...

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions & the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism This biography shows how the major personal & historical events of his life transformed him from a bourgeois radical into a Christian socialist but also informed his ambivalent stance on social democracy communism the New Deal & the shifting intellectual scene of postwar America The book begins with Polanyi's childhood in the Habsburg Empire & his involvement with the Great War & Hungary's postwar revolution It connects Polanyi's idealistic radicalism to the political promise & intellectual ferment of Red Vienna & the horror of fascism The narrative revisits Polanyi's oeuvre in English German & Hungarian

Includes:: exhaustive research in five archives & features interviews with Polanyi's daughter students & colleagues clarifying the contradictory aspects of the thinker's work These personal accounts also shed light on Polanyi's connections to scholars Christians atheists journalists hot & cold warriors & socialists of all stripes Karl Polanyi A Life on the Left engages with Polanyi's biography as a reflection & condensation of extraordinary times It highlights the historical ruptures tensions & upheavals that the thinker sought to capture & comprehend & in telling his story engages with the intellectual & political history of a turbulent epoch

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Tracklist After Mr Morrison Little Lucy I Want You Glass Eye Hang Our Bodies Crotchets Slow Short Story I Know Julia Voices Everything ...

Elemental beings such as gnomes & fairies exist in many folk & spiritual traditions & Rudolf Steiner also discussed their significance to our world Some people are able to engage & even communicate with elementals Ursula Burkhard was one such person Blind from birth she experienced gnomes & other elementals from early childhood When as she grew older her parents tried to dissuade her she was puzzled why should she believe in the 'real' things she was unable to see & ignore what she knew to be true? In this readable little book she describes her remarkable experiences & in particular her relationship with a special gnome Karlik The book was a bestseller in Germany in the 1980s bringing the world of the elementals into the mainstream ...