British Sculpture and Sculptors of Today, Spielmann M. H.

Автор: Spielmann Katherine, Connell Steve, Marvin J. Neo
Название: Now Is the Time to Invent!
ISBN: 1891241672 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781891241673
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Описание: There are many books about rock music but very few that sum up a whole era, or an entire genre. So when such books do come along, they can really hit home. Our Band Could Be Your Life accomplished this for 80s punk, for example, with sales now over 60,000--and it still sells strongly more than a decade after it was published. Now Is the Time to Invent has the potential to do the same for the indie rock scene that developed in the mid-80s and reached its apex in the 1990s. Drawn from the pages of influential music magazine Puncture, its 60 profiles and interviews trace the creative upsurge of alternative rock during those years.

Lavishly illustrated with many rare photographs, Now Is the Time to Invent offers a scintillating account of a vibrant and hugely significant period in music. It's hard to define a single starting point for indie rock, but here it's found in the brilliant psychodramas Kristin Hersch conjured up for Throwing Muses and the deadpan, genre-busting proto-slacker anthems of Camper Van Beethoven, and followed through to the critical triumphs of Sleater-Kinney and Neutral Milk Hotel more than a decade later. Along the way, it takes in such pioneering artists as Sonic Youth, the Pixies, Meat Puppets, Hole, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Cave, Sebadoh, the Breeders, Jeff Buckley, Fugazi, P.J. Harvey, Guided by Voices, Beck, Cat Power, Pavement, Belle & Sebastian, Will Oldham, Rufus Wainwright, Flaming Lips, the Magnetic Fields, and many more.

Автор: Ender Petra, Spielmann Ellen
Название: Costa Rica
ISBN: 3741920940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783741920943
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Описание: Costa Rica captivates with tropical rain forest, high mountain ranges, volcanoes and fertile high valleys with coffee and fruit plantations. The two coasts of the country boast fine white sandy beaches, coral reefs and palm groves. Of special fascination is the versatile fauna and flora which is protected in twenty-seven natural parks. In 280 photographs, this illustrated book shows the impressive beauty of this green oasis.

Автор: Spielmann Mabel Henriette
Название: The Rainbow Book: [illustrated Edition]
ISBN: 6057861523 ISBN-13(EAN): 9786057861528
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It's all very well--but you, and I, and most of us who are healthy in mind and blithe of spirit, love to give rein to our fun and fancy, and to mingle fun with our fancy and fancy with our fun.

The little Fairy-people are the favourite children of Fancy, and were born into this serious world ages and ages ago to help brighten it, and make it more graceful and dainty and prettily romantic than it was. They found the Folk-lore people already here--grave, learned people whose learning was all topsy-turvy, for it dealt with toads, and storms, and diseases, and what strange things would happen if you mixed them up together, and how the devil would flee if you did something with a herb, and how the tempest would stop suddenly, as Terence records, if you sprinkled a few drops of vinegar in front of it. No doubt, since then thousands of people have sprinkled tens of thousands of gallons of good vinegar before advancing tempests, and although tempests pay far less attention to the liquid than the troubled waters to a pint of oil, the sprinklers and their descendants have gone on believing with a touching faith. It is pretty, but not practical.

But what is pretty and practical too, is that all of us should sometimes let our fancy roam, and that we should laugh as well, even over a Fairy-story. Yet there are some serious-minded persons, very grave and very clever, who get angry if a smile so much as creeps into a Fairy-tale, and if our wonder should be disturbed by anything so worldly as a laugh. A Fairy-tale, they say, should be like an old Folk-tale, marked by sincerity and simplicity--as if humour cannot be sincere and simple too.

"The true Fairy-story is not comic." Why not? Of this we may be sure--take all the true humourless Fairy-stories and take "Alice"--and "Alice" with its fun and fancy will live beside them as long as English stories are read, loved for its fancy and its fun, and hugged and treasured for its jokes and its laughter. The one objection is this: the "true Fairy-story" appeals to all children, young and old, in all lands, equally, by translation; and jokes and fun are sometimes difficult to translate. But that is on account of the shortcomings of language, and it is hard to make young readers suffer by starving them of fun, because the power of words is less absolute than the power of fancy in its merrier mood.

Автор: Spielmann, Rudolf
Название: Art of sacrifice in chess
ISBN: 1861187319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781861187314
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Описание: A Grandmaster shares secrets from 40 years of tournament play, outlining hard-won lessons that enable players to win games by giving up pieces.The first systematic attempt to explain and exploit the theory of chess sacrifice, this guide remains an extremely helpful weapon in the arsenal of players at every level.