Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders Simone Weil's short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle. Published posthumously The Need for Roots was a direct result of this collaboration. Its purpose was to help rebuild France after the war. In this her most famous book Weil reflects on the importance of religious & political social structures in the life of the individual. She wrote that one of the basic obligations we have as human beings is to not let another suffer from hunger. Equally as important however is our duty towards our community: we may have declared various human rights but we have overlooked the obligations & this has left us self-righteous & rootless. She could easily have been issuing a direct warning to us today the citizens of Century 21. ...

UFOs remain essentially a military & intelligence problem
- & one demanding unprecedented security & deception with access to information
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When Flora & Ruby suddenly become orphans they have no choice but to move far away from home & live with their grandmother. Luckily Camden Falls is a very welcoming place & they discover that rebuilding their lives wont be an impossible task after all
- especially with the help of new friends. But having spent a happy summer in their grandmothers sewing shop the girls now face a new challenge: the first term at their new school & a classroom full of new children...
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Renowned embroiderer Trish Burr passes her creative secrets on to stitchers--especially beginners--who want to take their needle painting skills to the next level. In 15 projects organized in three levels from novice to intermediate Trish provides expert easy-to-follow guidance on techniques for surface stitching that provide subtle shadings & a soft paintlike blending of colors. Sections on materials the long & short stitch & helpful practice motifs lead to gorgeous projects like Burgundy Rosebuds a Wild Pansy & a Racquet-tailed Roller. ...

The Needlecraft Style Directory is a comprehensive & accessible guide to stitch craft for crafters of all levels. The book reveals exactly what each type of needlecraft involves the basic stitches needed & the common characteristics of each stitch allowing the reader to select the best technique for their designs. Divided into two main sections the first part of the book explores an extensive variety of needlecraft styles covering everything from candlewicking to crewel sashiko quilting to smocking & needlepoint to needle felting. Galleries of finished pieces provide inspiration & ideas for creative new projects. Outlining the basic technique tools materials & common applications each entry also highlights the most common stitches used for each style while cross referencing these stitches in section two. Guaranteed to prove useful to all crafters the second part of the book is organized as a stitch directory complete with easy to follow diagrams that show readers how to work each individual stitch required for their chosen needlecraft style as well as featuring overviews that present the stitches worked in various styles on finished pieces. An extensive glossary concludes the book clarifying & demystifying a wide range of terms that can often prove confusing to even the most experienced of needlecrafters. The Needlecraft Style Directory is the ultimate reference for embroiderers sewers quilters & needlecraft enthusiasts of all levels. ...

In the third House of Night novella the secret history we've all been waiting for is finally revealed. Neferet the Tulsa House of Night's darkly seductive High Priestess wasn't always a powerful vampyre but she has always been beautiful. Raised in turn-of-the-century Chicago in a motherless home her beauty makes her the prey of unwanted attention & abuse leaving her with scars that will never heal
- & a Darkness that will eventually need to find its way out. But when she is Marked & gains strength both physical & magickal she turns her anger into power & looks for a way to regain what was stolen from her. From victim to High Priestess beautiful young woman to powerful seductress Neferet's journey begins.. .
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When the Crown Prince of Egypt needs a wife the beautiful charismatic ambitious & connected Nefertiti is his mothers first choice. She quickly becomes accustomed to the opulence of her new life. As Queen of the worlds first great empire at the height of its power all her dreams are realised. Beguiling & wilful Nefertiti is soon as powerful as the Pharaoh himself. But when her husband breaks with a thousand years of tradition defying the priests & the military it will take all Nefertitis wiles to keep the nation from being torn apart. Watching from the shadows her sister Mutny detests the back-stabbing nature of palace life & as she dreams of a simple life in the countryside she records her sisters transformation from teenage girl to living goddess. But Nefertitis star quality can only take her so far & when shes prepared to sacrifice her sister to strengthen her power the two women become locked in a feud which only death can break... ...

For over a decade Nefertiti wife of the heretic king Akhenaten was the most influential woman in the Bronze Age world; a beautiful queen blessed by the sun-god adored by her family & worshipped by her people. Her image & her name were celebrated throughout Egypt & her future seemed golden. Suddenly Nefertiti disappeared from the royal family vanishing so completely that it was as if she had never been. No record survives to detail her death no monument serves to mourn her passing & to this day her end remains an enigma
- her body has never been found. Joyce Tyldesley here provides a detailed discussion of the life & times of Nefertiti Egypt's sun queen set against the background of the ephemeral Amarna court.
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Clive James power as a poet has increased year by year & there has been no stronger evidence for this than Nefertiti in the Flak Tower. Here his polymathic learning & technical virtuosity are worn more lightly than ever; the effect is merely to produce a deep sense of trust into which the reader gratefully sinks knowing they are in the presence of a master. The most obvious token of that mastery is the books breathtaking range of theme: there are moving elegies a meditation on the later Yeats a Hollywood Iliad odes to rare orchids wartime typewriters & sharks -- as well as a poem on the fate of Queen Nefertiti in Nazi Germany. But despite the dizzying variety James poetic intention becomes increasingly clear: what marks this new collection out is his intensified concentration on the individual poem as self-contained universe. Poetry is a practice he compares (in Numismatics) to striking new coin; & Nefertiti in the Flak Tower is a treasure-chest of one-off marvels with each poem a twin-sided perfect human balance of the unashamedly joyous & the deadly serious whose play of light pays tribute to the dark. Praise for Angels Over Elsinore: The new poems again apply faultless technique to subject matter that ranges in weight from helium to promethium.. . These poems are dazzling Prospect There is a casually rich mix of cultural allusions but the most important quality is complete clarity Independent ...

This book covers the key themes in Virilios work: speed; society; virtuality; new technology. Negative Horizon" is Paul Virilios most original & unified exploration of the key themes & ideas running through his thought. Provocative & forceful it sets out Virilios theory of dromoscopy: a means of apprehending speed & its pivotal
- & potentially destructive
- role in contemporary global society. Applying this theory to Western political & military history Virilio exposes a compulsion to accelerate & the rise of a politics of time
- encapsulated in the importance accorded to speed
- over territorial politics of space. Moving through human history from the cave paintings at Lascaux that depict the first hunters to the stealth technologies deployed in contemporary warfare Virilio shows how resistance to speed & movement has consistently been eroded & the physical world adapted in order to satisfy the urge to move further & faster. In exposing what he believes to be the consequences of this constant acceleration for human sensory perception & ultimately global democracy Virilio offers a vision of history & politics as disturbing as it is original. These books are seminal works of the finest minds in Western thought including Adorno Badiou Derrida Heidegger & Larkin. They are works of such power that they changed the cultural mind when they were written & continue to resonate today
- landmark texts in the fields of philosophy literature popular culture politics & theology
- strikingly designed accessibly priced."





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