Moleskines pocket-sized 12-month weekly diary features a black soft cover with rounded edges a ribbon bookmark & an elastic enclosure to keep everything secure when closed. It also

Includes:: 144 acid-free pages & an expandable inner pocket with 225 adhesive labels to mark important dates & deadlines. The week at a glance is shown on the left while the right side contains a lined area for extra notes & ideas. Covers the year 2014.

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20 photographers 20 locations
- a vision to rebuild our natural home 2020VISION is an all-media enterprise about why wild nature
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We know what we want the world to be like in forty years. We know what the world could be like in forty years if we all did what needs to be done to create a more sustainable future. But what do we know about what the world will actually be like in forty years? Drawing on global forecasting tools his own experience in the sutatinability arena & the predictions
- included in the book
- of more than thirty leading scientists economists futurists & other thinkers Jorgen Randers guides us through the future he feels is most likely to emerge. He examines matters such as: * How many people will the planet need to support? * Will there be enough food & energy? * Will youth revolt under the debt & pension burden of the old? * Which nations will prosper & which will suffer? * Will the race toward renewables succeed? * Will the belief in endless growth crumble? * How will megacities evolve & human communication change? * Will the shift to Chinese economic superiority be peaceful? * Will runaway climate change have taken hold? These are just a few of the questions he deftly probes & there are some surprising answers.

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Arthur C. Clarkes space saga contines in 2061 when an Earth vessel landing on Halleys Comet marks the beginning of another confrontation between Heywood Floyd & David Bowman
- or whatever Bowman has become
- a newly independent HAL & the unseen alien power that controls the destiny of Earth. Arthur C. Clarke one of most popular science fiction writers of the 20th century has written over 50 books including The City & the Stars" " Rendezvous with Rama" " Childhoods End" "2001: A Space Odyssey" & "2010: Odyssey Two"."

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From global wars to the digital revolution explore the world-changing events of the 20th century decade-by-decade with 20th Century". This is history as youve never seen it before
- the events the people & the political & cultural milestones that have shaped our world using a fresh new approach. All the significant happenings of the last century are featured in a unique graphic style with photographic timelines eyewitness photographs & storyboards capturing key historical moments as they unfolded. A fascinating read for the whole family "20th Century" is an ideal one-stop reference."
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This is the most comprehensive book yet published on twentieth century British glass with hitherto unpublished catalogues contemporary photographs & hundred of objects grouped to assist collectors with identification. The majority of the items from private & public collections are illustrated for the first time. The book covers everything from Art Nouveau & Art Deco masterpieces to the now much ignored Pyrex ovenware & everything in between from engraving cameo glass & paperweights. The chapters focus on the effects of the two world wars special features look at individual designers including Keith Murray while major exhibitions including the Festival of Britain in 1951 are fully discussed. Biographical sections look at post-war designers including Geoffrey Baxter Ronald Stennett-Willson & Frank Thrower. ...

Ceramics have kept pace with
- or even led
- new movements in art from Art Nouveau Art Deco the Bauhaus & Futurism through Abstract

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Imogene is young beautiful kisses like a movie star & knows everything about every film ever made. Shes also dead the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater. Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas & a gift for getting his ass kicked. Its hard to make friends when youre the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy picked on; he doesnt have a life a hope a chance. Francis was human once but thats behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him in his subterranean cell is an antique phone long since disconnected.. .but it rings at night anyway with calls from the dead... Meet these & a dozen more in 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS irresistible addictive fun showcasing a dazzling new talent. ...

This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century. The authors both published poets themselves give an overview of each period of history while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context & trace the centurys poetic development. Concise biographies for each poet complete the anthology. By organizing the poems in chronological order readers will see poets in a new light. Here A.E. Houseman for example rubs shoulders with T.S. Eliot showing that traditional forms can hold their own against the modernist orthodoxy. Here are poets rescued from oblivion such as the suffragette who wrote a compelling poem about her mistreatment in Holloway Prison in 1912 or the medical offer who went into Belsen with the British troops producing an eye-witness poem of lasting power. All the major events of the twentieth century are reflected in the choice of poems within these pages. This richly rewarding collection makes invaluable reading for poetry lovers all over the world. ...

This is the indispensable bible of photography in the 20th century. The history of photography began over a century & a half ago but only relatively recently has it been fully recognised as a medium in its own right. Cologne's Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devote a substantial section to international photography. The L. Fritz Gruber collection from which this book is drawn is one of the most important in Germany & one of the most representative anywhere in the world constituting the core of the museum's holdings. This book provides a fascinating insight into the collection's rich diversity; from conceptual art to abstraction to reportage all of the major movements & genres are represented via a vast selection of the century's most remarkable photographs. From Ansel Adams to Piet Zwart over 850 works are presented in alphabetical order by photographer with descriptive texts & photographers' biographical details providing a comprehensive & indispensable overview of 20th century photography. ...