In MONARCH you play as an heir to the throne Your mother the Queen has lived out her years & will soon pass on the crown The time has come for you & your siblings to demonstrate your intelligence compassion bravery & strength as leaders Out perform your siblings to demonstrate your ingenuity & strength Choose strategies that will bring prosperity to the land & glory to your court Defend the realm from threats & famine Only the player with the most majestic court will be named heir in this family strategy game for 2 to 4 players ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Complete collection of popular TV drama based on the novels of Compton Mc Kenzie Archie Mac Donald (Alastair Mac Kenzie) a budding London restaurateur receives word from his home in the Highlands that his father Hector (Richard Briers) has been taken ill Archie returns home to discover the family estate in dire trouble & is hoodwinked into staying on A never-ending series of obstacles including indignant employees his mother Molly&s (Susan Hampshire) gambling debts the eventual death of his father affairs of the heart with Lexie (Dawn Steele) & parsimonious city bankers intent on foreclosure dog his every step ...

Monasticism is a social & religious phenomenon which originated in antiquity & which still remains relevant in the twenty-first century But what exactly is it & how is it distinguished from other kinds of religious & non-religious practice? In this Very Short Introduction Stephen J Davis discusses the history of monasticism from our earliest evidence for it & the different types which have developed from antiquity to the present day He considers where monasteries are located from East Asia to North America & everywhere in between & how their settings impact the everyday life & worldview of the monks & nuns who dwell there Exploring how monastic communities are organized he also looks at how aspects of life like food sleep sex work & prayer are regimented Finally Davis discusses what the stories about saints communicate about monastic identity & ethics & considers what place there is for monasticism in the modern world ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable ...

In Mondo players compete against each other while also racing against the clock Each player has a small world board with empty spaces on it & all players simultaneously pick tiles depicting different animals & environments from the middle of the table & place them on their world board trying to create complete areas of the same environment A new tile must be placed next to an already placed tile but the environmental borders don&t have to match (These errors will earn negative points when the board is scored) When the timer runs out players score bonus points for each animal & each completed environment & score negative points for volcanic tiles empty fields on the world board & mismatched tiles (for example a tile with a forest border connecting with a tile with a water border) Mondo

Includes:: three degrees of difficulty in addition to additional goals & ways to achieve (and lose) bonus points as well as rules for solo play 48 landscape tiles & swift hands are all you need You can either play it as an independent game or combine it with the popular board game Mondo in order to achieve even more variation

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Tracklist A1 Plastic Soul Written By
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A key figure in the international avant-garde Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter & art theoretician whose influence is as profound today as it ever was For Mondrian "the emotion of beauty is always hindered by particular appearance of an &object&; the object must therefore be abstracted from any figurative representation" After coining the term " Neo-plasticism" he pursued painting composed only of the most fundamental aspects of primary color (red yellow blue) against a grid of black vertical & horizontal lines & a white base background Mondrian&s vision was that this essential painting would help to achieve a society in which art as such has no place but rather exists for the total realization of &beauty& To contemporaries Mondrian represented an artist not only of absolute modernity but also of great integrity Today he remains one of the most distinctive practitioners in all of modern art the star of exhibitions around the world & an abiding inspiration for fashion art architecture & design from White Stripes album covers to Yves Saint Laurent dresses ...

Explore the incomparable reach of the most beloved of impressionist masters Claude Monet Working en plein air Monet's dappled renderings of the reality taking place between the motif & the artist emphasized the ephemeral moment & with it became eternal markers of burgeoning modernism 96 pages Heinrich Christoph ...

Claude Monet's Impressionist technique still inspires to this day Whether it's his stunning Water Lilies series or genre-defining ...

This is the story of John Self consumer extraordinaire Rolling around New York & London he makes deals spends wildly & does reckless movie-world business all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites alcohol tobacco pills pornography a mountain of junk food & more Ceaselessly inventive & thrillingly savage this is a tale of life lived without restraint; of money the terrible things it can do & the disasters it can precipitate ...

In 2013 MONEY released their acclaimed debut album The Shadow Of Heaven & now two years on their new album Suicide Songs takes you deeper into their sound & vision It feels more advanced & yet simpler more perfected & yet more open It is by turns a tender barren cavernous smouldering despairing & inspirational piece of work It’s a long day’s journey into night but it pays huge dividends when you arrive drawing you in & casting a spell that won’t let go The album finds the band gelling as never before framing Jamie’s poetic vision with an intuitive grasp of the album’s dignified & despairing themes There are strings & brass gospel-style backing vocals & the (Indian stringed) dilruba on the opening ‘I Am The Lord’ This collectively adds more divine

Dimensions to the band’s sound embellishments that MONEY didn’t have the confidence to try out on their debut Out of a renewed richer palate of sound a sense of greater self-belief has emerged But as its title suggests Suicide Songs doesn’t shirk from the emotional truths that birthed it “I wanted the album to sound like it was ‘coming from death’ which is where these songs emerged” Jamie explains “ The record is morbid & bleak & never resolves itself The only real kind of triumphant realisation is being able to express the morbidity of the situation I found myself in”

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