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(P/B) PLAYS 1
This collection brings together some of the best and most frequently performed plays by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy whose collaboration stems from the political years of the Sixties. The Business of Good Government is a nativity play which develops a sense of a disappearing community; Ars Longa Vita Brevis is composed out of children's games and The Royal Pardon tells the story of the adventures of a group of strolling players who fall in with a deserter from the war in Flanders. Other plays in this collection such as Little Gray Home...
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AD JUJOL
Josep Maria Jujol was born in 1879 in the city of Tarragona, although his parents came from the country. His father was a schoolteacher, who for career reasons moved with the family to Gracia when Jujol was nine years old. Gracia was at that time still a village, and not yet incorporated into Greater Barcelona. The family later moved again, permanently, into the centre of Barcelona proper. Jujol nevertheless felt bound all his life to his parents' native countryside, and his - strongly emotional - relationship with their home region was to...
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AMNESIA
She has an interview with Ike Reuben, a film-maker and novelist whose work has been a constant source of inspiration for her since college. This opportunity triggers Chloe's past in a series of Flashbacks containing memories that may actually threaten to impede her interview. But Ike has a past of his own to address, manifesting itself in the form of dreams, which are the result of some kind of narcolepsy, or uncontrollable "sleep attacks". He is somehow able to slip in between the cracks, laying unconscious in one reality, while living an...
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(H/B) LAST SUPPER
When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve; and while they were eating, he said, 'truly I tell you, one of you will betray me.' And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, 'surely not I, lord?' he answered, 'the one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. The son of man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.' Judas, who betrayed him, said, 'surely not I rabbi?' he r...
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(P/B) THE ALTE PINAKOTHEK, MUNICH (MUSEUM GUIDES)
History of the Collection Early Netherlandish Painting Early German Painting Italian Painting from the 14th to the 16th Century Painting between Renaissance and Baroque 17th-Century Flemish Painting 17th-Century Dutch Painting 17th and 18th-Century Italian Painting 17th and 18th-Century French Painting 16th and 17th-Century Spanish Painting Index of Artists...
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(P/B) A HOUSE FOR THE ARTS
Anyone visiting the LIECHTENSTEIN MUSEUM in Vienna is in for a treat. The building is one of the best-surviving Baroque palaces in Vienna, the last remnant of the bold Utopia of a prince's country seat with the associated formal garden, church and housing for the tenant farmers which Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein had constructed around 1700. The grand Liechtenstein Garden Palace and attached palace church (nowadays Liechtental parish church) are still notionally linked with one another on the old Baroque axis. However, in ...
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF STAGE LIGHTING
Those who do not know who a snuff-boy was or how his job related to stage lighting, or need to understand the difference between motivated light and motivating light, may look among the more than 1500 detailed entries of this encyclopedia, which is ideal for students, teachers, lighting technicians and designers and other theatre professionals." "Some of the numerous topics covered are equipment, methods, concepts, design process, electricity, characteristics of light, and lightboard operations. Where applicable, entries present both the h...
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(P/B) JAZZ GREATS
I was fortunate that as a young employee of the BBC, I was allowed to follow some elaborate hunches and a deep-seated interest, and go off to make a series of jazz documentaries for Radio Three. This involved foolhardy treks across New Orleans in search of Buddy Bolden's home, and hair-raising trips up into Harlem or the South Bronx to seek out some long-forgotten witness to the early jazz era. My colleague in the making of these programmes was Russell Davies, and I am grateful to him both for his unfailing good company and for the excelle...
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THE WORLD OF ORNAMENT
Imagine having an opulent compilation of history's most elegant and beautiful patterns and designs at your fingertips - to use, peruse, admire, and be inspired by. "World of Ornament" brings together the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornament from the 19th century chromo-lithographic tradition: Auguste Racinet's "L'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II" (1875/1888) and M. Dupont-Auberville's "L'Ornement des tissus" (1877). Adapted from historical items dating back to antiquity, such as jewelry, tiles, stained glass, illuminated m...
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(P/B) J' AIME CHERI SAMBA
The Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain has decided to present forty-two works of a highly distinctive artist. Cheri Samba represents himself in a variety of portraits, compelling us to look at him. "I don't see any harm in singing my own praises." This is the assertion of an independent artist. Cheri Samba has always been stimulated by the desire to show himself to others and that of showing his art to the wider world, including both his colleagues and friends of Kinshasa as well as a larger international public. Cheri Samba thwart...
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(P/B) AFRICA
Africa: Arts and Cultures explores both the antiquity of Africa and its contemporary arts and cultures, considering the continent as a whole. It combines general regional introductions to African material culture with discussions of specific pieces by eminent anthropologists, artists, and art historians, many of whom are themselves African. [...] (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) FRANCE FROM THE AIR
In this aerial tour over France is tantamount to a fantastic journey in time and space. The great variety of the French landscape reflects not only the nation's rich history, but its immense natural beauty as well. Within the French interior lies a vast network of rivers and streams. It is along the banks of these rivers that the great centers of France, rich with splendid historical buildings, grew up: not only Paris on the Seine, but the Loire Valley. This "garden of France," the heart of the French Renaissance, features the fabulous roy...
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(H/B) TREASURES OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM JERUSALEM
The treasures of the Israel Museum are themselves housed in a treasure chest, the Museum complex. Situated on a hill amidst ancient olive trees, overlooking the Knesset, the Hebrew University campus, and the venerable Monastery of the Cross, the Museum has become an architectural landmark. The modular concept of the building, designed by Israeli architects Al Mansfeld and Dora Gad, has enabled the Museum to grow gallery by gallery, pavilion by pavilion. The distinctive dome of the Shrine of the Book, conceived by Armand Bartos and Frederic...
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(P/B) PLAYS 2
When Breaking the Silence first opened in London in October 1984, a lot of people seemed rather surprised. I had spent much of the previous ten years writing about the urban world, and had become strongly associated with appalling hamburger bars, subterranean discos, early versions of Karaoke, neon and violence. Therefore, a tragi-comic tale set on a train just after the Russian Revolution may have come as a bit of a shock. On New Year's Eve 1993 my film Century opened. A period drama that takes place during the last weeks of the nineteent...
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(H/B) REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
In this conclusion to this section of Proust's classic, the summer on the beach winds down and the adolescent Proust is increasingly smitten by the young beauties his age he passes by but never gets to meet. . . until a well-known painter gives him that very chance. The romantic anticipation, the teasing sensations, the fantasized expectations mixed with the summer sun, the sea breeze. . . Some things never change. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) HAPPY HALLOWEEN, LI'L SANTA

(H/B) REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST
An important social question is to know whether the pane of glass will always the feast of the marvelous beasts and if the obscure people peering at them through the night will not come and pick them out of their aquarium and eat them. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) DRAGONHENGE 2
Following on from the huge success of Dragonhenge, also published by Paper Tiger, this beautifully illustrated new fantasy reunites the award-winning creators, artist Bob Eggleton and writer John Grant, to take you on a magical journey through the cosmos with those mysterious creatures, the stardragons. Filled with specially commissioned artwork from one of the world's leading dragon artists, this is a wonderful book to appeal to readers of all ages, fantasy art connoisseurs, and dragon enthusiasts! (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HENRY IV (PART ONE)
Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV, spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John Falstaff. But when the kingdom is threatened by rebellious forces, the prince must abandon his reckless ways. Taking arms against a heroic enemy, he begins a great and compelling transformation - from irresponsible reprobate to noble ruler of men. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) GABRIEL FAURE
Faure's magic is, to me, quite unique. With his Redon-like sense of ineffable beauty, the knife-edge balance of purity and sensuality and the passionate elan which sweeps him forward in a torrent of winds and waterfalls, Faure gets under the skin like nobody else. His world, too, is a source of endless fascination. Writing this book was a chance to re-immerse myself in an era that has always held tremendous magnetism for me. The music of Debussy, Ravel, Chausson and many others; the fiction of Proust and Ivan Turgenev; the fascinating circ...
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