Fire your imagination with these fun storytelling cards. Reviving the Victorian craze for `myrioramas`, the 20 picture cards can be placed in any order to create seamless scenes. Almost infinite combinations of cards provide endless storyscaping possibilities. London, 1900. A brilliant scientist leaves the world above to create his own world below, determined to prove his radical theory
- that gravity is a geometric property of spacetime. What happens when time is bent, space is collapsed &

Dimensions overlap? Descend into the shadow world to find out. With many games to play & millions of stories to tell, each turn of the card is a new adventure. Where will the story take you?


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Shake Shack`s first-ever cookbook, with 70 recipes & plenty of stories, fun facts, & pro tips for the home cook & Shack Fan, as well as 200 photographs. Follow Shake Shack`s journey around the world; make your own Shack Burgers, crinkle-cut fries, & h&-spun frozen custard shakes at home; & get a glimpse into the culture, community, & inner workings of this global phenomenon. ...

The Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations & inspirational"es. Covering every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night & As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar & Hamlet, plus lost plays & less well-known works of poetry. Easy-to-understand graphics & illustrations bring the themes, plots, characters & language of Shakespeare to life. This

Includes:: illustrated timelines which offer an at-a-glance summary of the action for each play. With detailed plot summaries & an in-depth analysis of the major characters & themes, this is a brilliant, innovative exploration of the entire canon of Shakespeare plays, sonnets & poetry. Whether you`re a Shakespeare scholar or a student of the great Bard, The Shakespeare Book offers a fuller appreciation of his phenomenal talent & lasting legacy.

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The Shakespeare Treasury is a fascinating collection of facts on Britain`s greatest playwright & insights into the enduring popularity of his work. Delving into the inspirations behind his masterworks & the influences of generations of performers, it reveals the incredible variety of ways Shakespeare`s plays have been adapted for stage & screen. Commemorating the 400th anniversary of his death, this quirky volume looks at the facts & myths of Shakespeare`s life & times as well as revealing little known stories about his plays & poems, including: The inspiration behind some of his best-loved characters, which actor played Hamlet over 500 times, &, the unusual item that Shakespeare left his wife Anne on his death. ...

The culture of the Shan peoples of Burma & their rulers is extensively explored in this volume. Shan courts flourished in the late British colonial period & in this book rare early photographs, never before published, document life in the courts & in the hill regions of Shan dominion. Susan Conway focuses again on dress & the use of textiles in the Shan states, as well as on historical chronicles, to define a fascinating people of old Burma. Lavish illustrations bring to life a rich cultural tradition of mainland Southeast Asia. ...

From one of Brazil`s foremost literary voices comes a gripping, visceral new novel about youth, power & the nature of manhood A man rises at 5 a.m. & leaves his home. He does not wake his wife or child to bid them goodbye. He starts his car
- an SUV filled with survival gear
- but does not drive to his friend`s house as planned. Instead, gliding through the sleeping streets of Porto Alegre, he is haunted by ghosts of himself: the fearless boy riding a battered stunt bike, the silent adolescent fascinated by violence, the obsessive young surgeon, the distant husb&. As the dawn comes on & people slowly fill the streets, the man drives unthinkingly, inexorably, back to the old neighbourhood of his youth. What is pulling him back there? Perhaps the need to make something happen, perhaps just nostalgia. Or perhaps he is looking for absolution
- from a crime he has carried in his heart for fifteen years.


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The Shape of the Ruins by the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vasquez, whose recent novel, the best-selling Sound of Things Falling won Spain`s Alfaguara Prize, Italy`s Von Rezzori Prize & the 2014 Dublin IMPAC literary Award, was published to acclaim in Colombia last year & has just appeared in Spain. It takes the form of personal & formal investigations into two political assassinations
- the murders of Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, the man who inspired Garcia Marquez`s General Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude, & of the charismatic Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, the man who might have been Colombia`s J.F.K., gunned down on the brink of success in the presidential elections of 1948. Separated by more than 30 years, the two murders at first appear unconnected, but as the novel progresses Vasquez reveals how between them they contain the seeds of the violence that has bedevilled Colombia ever since. The Shape of the Ruins is Vasquez`s most ambitious, challenging & rewarding novel to date.
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The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers & prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers & shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner`s verdict is death from natural causes
- refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise & as scathing to fools & villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case
- even though he`s being pressured by Vigata`s police chief, judge, & bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, & carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter.

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The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri`s wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. This edition with a stunning redesigned cover. The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site still known as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sort flourishes: drug dealers & prostitutes of every flavour. But their discreet trade is upset when two employees of the Splendour Refuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer Silvio Luparello, one of the local movers & shakers, apparently deceased in flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner`s verdict is death from natural causes
- refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But Inspector Salvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise & as scathing to fools & villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is not ready to close the case
- even though he`s being pressured by Vigata`s police chief, judge, & bishop. Picking his way through a labyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendetta firepower, & carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can be relied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of the matter. The Shape of Water is followed by the second in this phenomenal series, The Terracotta Dog.

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Designed by the internationally renowned architect Renzo Piano & developed by Irvine Sellar, The Shard is one of the worlds most striking new skyscrapers & is now, at 310m, the tallest building in Western Europe. Almost twice the height of any other viewing gallery in London, the View on floors 68, 69 & 72 offers visitors a 360-degree, 40-mile view over one of the worlds most historic & exciting cities. Organized spread by spread, easy to navigate & as elegantly designed as the building itself, the official guidebook sets The Shard in the context of Southwark, before outlining the design principles & construction story of the building. Also included are Q& As with both the architect & the developer & fascinating facts & stats relating to this extraordinary building. Central to the books purpose as the official guidebook is a series of twelve double-page panoramic photographs of the view from The Shard, all of them new to this edition. An informative souvenir for visitors to The Shard, the book will also be available in the trade, making it available to all Londoners & visitors to the capital. ...