Record all of your fun thoughts in these cool Imaginary Animal Blank Notebooks. Featuring a variety of quirky imaginary animals & creatures from artist Carla Sonheim, author of How to Draw & Paint Imaginary Animals, these journals are ideal for recording memories, favorite"es, lists, phone numbers, or creating your own imaginary animals! ...

Inspired by the surreal accounts of the explorer & `man of a million lies` Marco Polo, Imaginary Cities charts the metropolis & the imagination, & the symbiosis therein. A work of creative nonfiction, the book roams through space, time & possibility, mapping cities of sound, melancholia & the afterlife, where time runs backwards or which float among the clouds. In doing so, Imaginary Cities seeks to move beyond the cliches of psychogeography & hauntology, to not simply revisit the urban past, or our relationship with it, but to invade & reinvent it. Following in the lineage of Borges, Calvino, Chris Marker & Kenneth White, the book examines the city from global macrocosm to the microcosm of its inhabitants` perspectives. It proceeds through opium dreams, sea voyages, the hallucinations of prisoners, nocturnal decadence, impossible Soviet skyscrapers, marauding golems, subterranean civilisations, apocalyptic prophecies & the work of architectural visionaries such as Antonio Sant` Elia, Archigram & Buckminster Fuller. It rethinks the ideas of utopias & dystopias, urban exploration, alienation & resistance. It claims that the Situationists lacked ambition when they suggested, ” Beneath the paving stones, the beach.” Instead, beneath the paving stones, we may just be able to discern the entire universe. Imaginary Cities demonstrates that each city dreamt up by artists, writers, architects & lunatics has a real-life equivalent & that the great Marco Polo was no liar. Imaginary Cities need not simply exist in fiction or the mind. We already inhabit them. ...

An extraordinary collaboration between Irish Children`s Laureate, Eoin Colfer, & picture book superstar, Oliver Jeffers! Sometimes, with a little electricity, or luck, or even magic, an imaginary friend might appear when you need one. An imaginary friend like Fred... Fred floated like a feather in the wind until a lonely little boy wished for him & found a friendship like no other. The perfect chemistry between Eoin Colfer`s text & Oliver Jeffer`s artwork make for a dazzlingly original colour gift book. ...

WINNER OF CHILDREN`S BOOK OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS An extraordinary collaboration between Irish Children`s Laureate, Eoin Colfer, & picture book superstar, Oliver Jeffers! Sometimes, with a little electricity, or luck, or even magic, an imaginary friend might appear when you need one. An imaginary friend like Fred... Fred floated like a feather in the wind until a lonely little boy wished for him & found a friendship like no other. The perfect chemistry between Eoin Colfer`s text & Oliver Jeffer`s artwork make for a dazzlingly original colour gift book. ...

An exquisite, small format gift edition of this extraordinary collaboration between Irish Children`s Laureate, Eoin Colfer, & picture book superstar Oliver Jeffers! Sometimes, with a little electricity, or luck, or even magic, an imaginary friend might appear when you need one. An imaginary friend like Fred... Fred floated like a feather in the wind until a lonely little boy wished for him & found a friendship like no other. The perfect chemistry between Eoin Colfer`s text & Oliver Jeffer`s artwork make for a dazzlingly original colour gift book. ...

` Never have we all, child & grown-up child, needed this more, the words & the song in our hearts, lifting our spirits, giving us hope, & determination too to find the road to understanding, conciliation & peace.`
- Michael Morpurgo `lovely to read to your child during these troubled times`
- Children`s Book of the Week, the Sun Join one little pigeon on her mission to spread the word of peace around the world. Set to the lyrics the iconic song Imagine, this book brings John Lennon`s enduring message of peace & tolerance to a new generation. A royalty from every copy sold will go to charity Amnesty International.

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A unique portrait of Turkey`s legendary city, through the eyes of world-renowned photographers (Ara Guler, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Henri Cartier-Bresson), & their young colleagues (Ali Taptik, Ahmet Polat, Bieke Depoorter) & a strong group of visual artists. Imagine Instanbul shows the artistic fascination for Turkey`s most legendary city. Throughout the book, the photographs of Istanbul will take your breath away, & the key figure is the great Ara Guler, ` The Eye of Istanbul`. He is joined by other contemporary photographers, but also actors, film directors, musicians & visual artists, with both existing & new work. ...

Poetry was Louis de Bernieres` first literary love & Imagining Alexandria is his debut poetry collection. Here the author of the much-loved Captain Corelli`s Mandolin returns us to the vivid Mediterranean landscape of his fiction. De Bernieres was introduced to Greek poetry while in Corfu in 1983, & since then he has always travelled with a book of Cavafy`s poetry in his pocket. Not surprisingly, his own poems about the distant past, the erotic & the philosophical owe much to the influence of the great Alexandrian poet. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings by Donald Sammut, this is a collection rich in sensuality, nostalgia, & music. ...

In ” Imagining India” we see a fascinating new perspective for the twenty-first century, Nandan Nilekani
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Imagining the Arctic explores the culture & politics of polar exploration & the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention & persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, & manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts & striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes & the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written & richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration & its pull on the public imagination. ...