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100 Things to Know about Numbers, Computers and Coding by Alice James; Eddie Reynolds; Minna Lacey; Usborne; Rose Hall; Federico Mariani (Illustrator); Parko Polo (Illustrator); Shaw Shaw Nielsen (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: 100 Things to Know Ser.
Did you know there's a single spot on your brain that recognizes numbers? Or that the first computer bugs were actual insects and that most of the internet is under water? This fascinating book is filled with 100 fascinating facts, bright, infographic illustrations, a glossary and index, and links to sp ...Show more
Bacchae and Other Plays - Iphigenia among the Taurians; Bacchae; Iphigenia at Aulis; Rhesus by Edith Hall (Introduction by); James Morwood (Edited and Translated by); Euripides
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
The four plays newly translated for this volume are among Euripides most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with th ...Show more
Blackwater Sound by James Hall
Category: Fiction
The Braswells stand to gain greater wealth upon the sale of an invented electronic jamming device. The problem is, the prototype has disappeared and Lawton Rafferty unwittingly has possession of it. Thorn finds himself irresistibly drawn to protect him and his daughter.
Blackwater Sound by James Hall
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Action and suspense in the Florida Keys and Bahamas. The Braswells had everything: money, looks and power. When their eldest son, the family’s shining light, was killed in a freak fishing accident, he took with him a secret so dark that it could destroy the family. Ten years later, in the steamy shal ...Show more
Coffee with Michelangelo by James Hall
Category: Stationery & Gift | Series: Coffee with... S.
The most illustrious men and women of the past would have much to teach us if only, by some miracle of time travel, we could borrow an hour or so of their time - and get them to tell us just what it was that really mattered to them, what really made a difference in their lives, and what their strongest ...Show more
Coffee with Michelangelo by James Hall
Category: Art Books | Series: Coffee With...Series
How would it feel to stand in the Sistine Chapel as Michelangelo painted? To watch him create his breathtaking sculptures? James Hall, an art critic, historian, and lecturer, puts us in that amazing position, and in the process reveals intriguing details on the master artist's life and thoughts. Despite ...Show more
Francis Bacon: Human Presence by Martin Harrison (Text by); Carol Jacobi (Text by); John Maybury (Text by); Sophie Pretorius (Text by); Gregory Salter (Text by); Gerogia Atienza (Text by); Tanya Bentkey (Text by); Rosie Broadley (Editor); Richard Calvocoressi (Text by); James Hall (Text by)
Category: Art
Featuring works from the 1950s onwards, this book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre. From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public c ...Show more
Heracles and Other Plays by Eurípides (Editor); Robin Waterfield (Translator); Edith Hall (Other); James Morwood (Other)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: World's Classics Ser.
Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are imbued with an atmosphere of violence, while the fourth, Cyclops, is our only surviving example of a genuine satyr play, with all the crude and slapstick humor t ...Show more
James Hall on the Self-Portrait by James Hall
Category: Art and Design | Series: Pocket Perspectives Ser.
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by writers and thinkers who have shaped the conversation across the arts, visual culture, and history. Celebrating the undiminished vitality of their ideas today, these covetable and collectable littl ...Show more
Michelangelo and the Reinvention of the Human Body by James Hall
Category: History
A brilliant critical analysis and explanation of Michelangelo's obsession with the human body. Michelangelo's art is exhilarating, but also bewildering. What is the source of his incomparable power? In this bold and absorbing study, the art critic James Hall explores the body-language of Michelang ...Show more
Mutiny on the Bounty (Classics Illustrated) by Kenneth W. Fitch; Charles Nordhoff; Morris Waldinger (Illustrator); Jon Brooks; Henry C. Kiefer (Illustrator); R. M. Ballantyne; James Norman Hall
Category: Children's Books | Series: Classics Illustrated Ser.
Nordhoff and Hall's account of the 1789 mutiny on board HMS Bounty, perpetrated by Fletcher Christian and the crew, against the tyrannical Captain William Bligh and his officers. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger r ...Show more