Never before published in Kerouac`s lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama`s life and works. "Wake Up" recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha`s royal upbringing and his father`s wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father`s palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenment. Written at the end of Kerouac`s career, when he became increasingly interested in Buddhist teachings, and collected for the first time in one book, this fresh and accessible biography is both an important addition to Kerouac`s work and a...
ISBN: 978-0-14-118946-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
This elegant alphabet board book will teach little ones all about nature. Following two children on a day in the countryside, beautiful illustrations and visual storytelling bring a narrative feel to this simple book for very young readers.
ISBN: 9780857636164
Издательство:
Nosy Crow
Дата выхода: январь 2020
God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world`s longest continuous footpath - The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, "A Walk in the Woods"...
ISBN: 978-0-307-27946-0
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: август 2011
Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) This is the story of an Aboriginal boy and two American children in the Australian desert. When they meet the boy, Mary and Peter learn about the desert. They follow him to food and water. But they are lost. Can they finish their journey and find their way home?
ISBN: 978-1-4058-8172-2
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Based on "The Walking Dead" graphic novels/comic books and the series starring Andrew Lincoln ("Teachers", "This Life and Love", and "Actually") and written/produced by Frank Darabont whose previous credits include "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile", this is a new trilogy of books written by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga, author of "Perfect Victim" and "Shattered". Set in the world created by Robert Kirkman, this standalone trilogy is fast-paced, action-packed storytelling about the lengths some men will go to survive. With new characters, new storylines and with the same in-depth character-based plotting that has made the television series such an immediate hit, this trilogy of novels is sure to be a hit with those who...
Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych - obsessive, satirical, elegiac - in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place and psyche to explore some of our deepest fears and anxieties with characteristic fearlessness and jagged humour. `Very Little` is ostensibly the account of a curative journey to Canada and the USA, but in fact the record of a nematode`s progress, as the worm of obsession - with scale and packing and the `stuff` of our lives - bores through a mind in extremesis. `Walking to Hollywood` is an extreme satire on celebrity, in which the narrator believes that everyone he meets is played by a famous actor, and that only he can solve the mystery of who murdered the movies. `Spurn Head` leads Self...
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0994-5
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
To `walk in Pimlico` is, according to the Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang, the colloquial expression `to be handsomely dressed`. Comedian, clog dancer, comic vocalist, actor and all-round funny fellow Corney Sage is treading the boards at the Constellation in Whitechapel when he stumbles across the body of an actress outside the theatre and catches sight of the killer as he escapes. Corney was not the only witness. Fellow actress Lucy Strong also saw what happened and when the murderer returns to the scene of the crime that same night, both fear for their lives. Corney and Lucy flee London separately, keeping in touch with each other through a series of advertisements in the trade paper, the Era. Certain they have escaped the same...
ISBN: 978-1-84854-174-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: август 2011
By the author of "Canal Dreams" and "The Wasp Factory", this novel is about three men - Graham Park, Steven Grant and Quiss. No trio of people could be further apart, but their separate courses are set for collision.
ISBN: 978-0-349-10178-1
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it`s squatting in the Tate or New York`s Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. If you look hard enough, you`ll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work...
Features Wall-E, the last little robot left on Earth, whose role in life is to help clean up the rubbish left behind from a civilisation devastated by unchecked consumerism. But he is not alone. When he meets Eve he discovers the true meaning to his life. What happens to Wall-E in this extraordinary journey and who does he meet along the way?
ISBN: 978-1-4053-2885-2
Издательство:
АСТ
Дата выхода: август 2011
What is Gromit really thinking? Now you can find out, with the novelization of A Matter of Loaf and Death, which retells the story from the characters’ own points of view. It’s released almost two months before the film is on TV, so will be a must for those fans who just can’t wait. A grand companion to the film - and easier to read in the bed or the bath!
A celebration of walled gardens worldwide, from the Far-East to North America, and from Britain and Europe to North Africa. Includes the work of such celebrated designers as Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Terence Conran, Beatrix Farrand and Christopher Bradley-Hole. An invaluable resource for garden designers, horticultural students and all garden lovers.
ISBN: 978-1-85894-363-3
Издательство:
Merrell Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Wallpaper has never been more desirable. Throughout their 300-year history, patterned paper wallcoverings have alternated wildly between being absolutely `of the moment` or totally out of fashion. Recently, after more than a decade of blank white walls and minimalism, wallpaper has made a grand comeback - and its popularity shows no signs of abating. In this stunning book - the ultimate guide to wallpaper - Charlotte Abrahams gets to the heart of the exciting contemporary wallpaper scene. Dividing the book into the three main areas of design - pasted pictures, fabulous florals and architectural illusions - she starts each section with what is happening now, then traces the history back through the key moments, developments, designers and...
ISBN: 978-1-84400-741-7
Издательство:
Quadrille Publishing
Дата выхода: июль 2011
At first glance, Walton Ford`s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era. But a closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the `operatic` nature of traditional natural history themes. The beasts and birds populating this contemporary artist`s life-size paintings are never mere objects, but dynamic actors in allegorical struggles: a wild turkey crushes a small parrot in its claw; a troupe of monkeys wreak havoc on a formal dinner table, an American buffalo is surrounded by bloodied white wolves. The book`s title derives from The Pancha...
ISBN: 978-3-8228-5237-8
Издательство:
TASCHEN
Дата выхода: январь 2000
Wanderlust is the story of Audrey Driscoll. Orphaned young, Audrey has grown up caring for her eccentric millionaire grandfather and her demanding younger sister, Annabelle, who assume she will always be there for them. Sheltered yet restless, responsible beyond her years yet hungering for experience, Audrey is hopelessly bound until she herself makes the daring decision to leave. As the 1930s unfold, alone, camera in hand, she will shock friends and outrage family as she plunges headlong into the wider world. Crossing the Atlantic aboard the luxurious "Queen Mary", Audrey meets James and Violet Hawthorne, who will draw her into a sophisticated circle of artists and expatriates. And it is they who will introduce her to Charles...
