Rudolf Steiner's beautiful meditative verses for the yearly cycle have been used by countless people over the years Their purpose is to awaken a feeling of unity with nature & at the same time to stimulate a discovery of self In listening to the changing language of the year & awakening a profound sympathy for it we can in turn discover our own individual nature Steiner's original & unique meditations facilitate this process leading to a healthy feeling of being at one with the natural world This edition features Anne Stockton's 52 celebrated & evocative paintings which are a wonderful complement to Steiner's text Steiner's words are newly translated for this edition by John Thomson ...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client Soon afterwards various bizarre incidents unfold in England an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; & the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the ' Master' & his imminent arrival In Dracula Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires & vampire hunters & also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality & desire ...

The middle decades of the twentieth century saw an extraordinary flourishing of the illustrated pictorial dust jacket From the 1920s as the potential for the book&s protective wrapping to be used for promotion & enticement became clear artists & illustrators on both sides of the Atlantic applied their talents to this particular art form Rising to the wide-ranging challenges posed by format & subject matter leading artists & illustrators including John Piper Edward Bawden & John Minton in the UK & Ben Shahn Edward Gorey & George Salter in the USA brought their unique personal vision to bear on the world of books Many of their designs reflect the changing visual styles & motifs of the period including Bloomsbury Art Deco Modernism postwar neo-romanticism & the Kitchen Sink School Martin Salisbury has selected over fifty of the artists & illustrators who were active in the period 1920-1970 in the UK & USA as well as others such as Tove Jansson & Celestino Piatti & discusses their life & work A selection of dust jackets
- both known & too long forgotten
- for each artist reveals how far the book as an artefact had travelled from the days of the plain wrapper in the nineteenth century

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The beauty & drama of the bird world brought to breathtaking life in a new edition From hummingbirds weighing less than a coin to monkey-eating eagles this is a unique celebration of birds photographed & studied in their natural environments around the world Explore the complete bird story from their origins to up-to-date information on flight anatomy feeding communication breeding habitat migrations & life cycles Spectacular features on the most impressive birds plus a huge catalogue that profiles nearly fifteen hundred different species makes this a must-have for every bird enthusiast Published with Birdlife International the world's leading avian authority ...

Terry Pratchett's hilarious take on the Faust legend stars many of the Discworld's most popular characters Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker The trouble is he's not very good at it All he wants is the usual three wishes to be immortal rule the world & have the most beautiful woman fall madly in love with him The usual stuff But what he gets is Rincewind the Disc's most incompetent wizard & Rincewind's Luggage (the world's most dangerous travel accessory) into the bargain The outcome is an outrageous adventure that will leave Eric wishing once more
- this time quite fervently
- that he'd never been born

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' Peake's books are actual additions to life; they give like certain rare dreams sensations we never had before & enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience' CS Lewis Enter the world of Gormenghast The vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl Titus Groan is Lord & heir Titus is expected to rule this Gothic labyrinth of turrets & dungeons cloisters & corridors as well as the eccentric & wayward subject Things are changing in the castle & Titus must contend with a kingdom about to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue treachery manipulation & murder ...

Use this guide to weed out what dyslexia means for you & discover the tools you need to blossom! Dyslexia comes to life with visual imagery & colourful text in this new book on what dyslexia means how it feels what to do about it & how to learn to embrace it There are advantages to being dyslexic including an aptitude for design literacy & innovative thinking although these can be obscured by its challenges This beautifully designed book complete with stunning visuals & gentle humour approaches the subject of dyslexia in a simple & encouraging way for all age groups By showing what dyslexia is & asking the reader how it applies to them this book offers a fun & engaging means of working out how dyslexia affects the individual specifically with a multitude of learning tools & tips & a gallery of inspirational dyslexics who have used their particular skills to do something amazing with their lives ...

This is football comic-ery but not as you know it Welcome to the inimitable work of illustrator David Squires Football & comics Once a hearty Saturday combination to match cartoons & cereal in recent years they've drifted apart Thankfully for us Squires is here to change all that In The Illustrated History of Football his first book Squires relives some of football's most glorious moments & meets its greatest figures In a sport full of handsome paycheques & corporate sponsors he also casts a critical eye over corrupt backroom workings & helps pierce football's overblown balloon Funny good-looking & preternaturally astute this book is everything Sepp Blatter wishes he could be ...

A fresh look at the beautiful game'
- NMEWelcome back to the inimitable work of illustrator David Squires Most football fans can
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Dolphin adores her mother Marigold She's got wonderful clothes bright hair & vivid tattoos all over her body
- a colourful lady
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