A timely contribution to the debate about the sincere purpose and practice of art when we urgently need to get things right. A beautifully illustrated collection of essays by an award-winning photographer. Partly autobiographical, it starts with multidisciplinary stories of pictures and photos by such as Da Vinci, Diego Rivera, Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand, sculptures by Michelangelo, novels and books, and describes how an ordinary child from an uncultured home discovered his calling, via ...

This is the story of David, an American photojournalist, targeted to become a martyr by revolutionary ‘friends’ in a dysfunctional, immediately pre-Arab Spring, tin pot dictatorship. David engages in a tense emotional and physical struggle to cope with the treachery, to accept that he must act and then to do so. The events take place across 17 hours; the clock is ticking; this is a thriller. The story is inter-cut with memories of his first 17 years of growing up in the American Midwest an...

One Golden Summer...When Toronto food stylist Leah Carter agrees to run her aunt's bakery in Prince Edward County for two months, she tells herself it's a pit stop—a summer of flour, lake breezes, and an easy escape back to the city.Then she runs into Noah Barrett—her first love, now a rising winemaker with a reputation as "the Prince of the County." His pitch is simple: partner with him for the Harvest Festival, pairing her pastries with his wines. The catch? Three weekend...

The two have been playing a cat and mouse game for months. So far, Lilly has been able to fight down and deny her attraction to Mr Ambrose. But what happens when suddenly, the dark secrets of his past begin to surface and they are forced to go on a perilous journey into the South-American jungle? A journey they can only survive if they band together?Enter the world of Mr Rikkard Ambrose, where the only rule is: Knowledge is power is time is money!

This book is composed of:•50 essays of about 350 words each laid out across from•a full page photograph•and note about the picture itself.THE IDEAThe full-page images thoughtfully relate to the texts. They are not an attempt to illustrate the text but to ask questions about image-making .There are portraits, landscapes, still-lives, and documentary images. The book is 112 pages,218 mm x 218mm, bound to lay flat on ope...

Translated from the Latin by the poet and author of I, Claudius, this ancient Roman novel follows the many adventures of a man who transforms into an ass.Driven by his all-consuming curiosity, a young man of good parentage named Lucius Apuleius takes a trip to Thessaly. Along the way, amidst a series of bizarre adventures, he inadvertently offends a priestess of the White Goddess, who promptly turns him into an ass. How Lucius responds to his new misfortun...

Of all the enemies that our hero has shrunk away from, there was one he feared above them all. By his own admission they gave him nightmares into his dotage. It was not the French, the Spanish, the Americans or the Mexicans. It was not even the more exotic adversaries such as the Iroquois, Mahratta or Zulus. While they could all make his guts churn anxiously, the foe that really put him off his lunch were the Ashanti."You could not see them coming," he complained. "They were well ar...

SPOILER ALERT: This description assumes the reader is familiar with the events that have taken place in the previous books of the series. If you haven't read them, you may not want to read this description.The Banner is in disarray: Giorge is gone. Angus is missing. Hobart and Ortis are unsettled by recent events, but they desperately cling to hope as they search for him. Will they find him? And, if they do, will what they find be him? Or someone—somet...

In order to reclaim his father's kingdom, Jason has been sent on an impossible mission - to take the golden ram's fleece that lies far away, guarded by a dragon. Jason, who is so attractive that women fall instantly in love with him, sets sail in the Argo, along with the greatest heroes of ancient Greece, including the surly (and often drunk) Hercules, the enchanting musician Orpheus and the battling twins Castor and Pollux. As they battle clashing rocks, monsters and seductresses...

The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are 10 stories, the first four of which, "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign", mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in tho...

Warme terugblik op de gouden jaren van de Nederlandse popmuziekMet bands als Cuby + Blizzards, Earth & Fire en The Blue Diamonds waren de jaren ’60 en ’70 de gouden jaren van de Nederlandse popmuziek. Dit boek biedt een overzicht van alle belangrijke bands, onmisbare one-hit-wonders en machtige muzikanten. Ook wordt er beschreven hoe de muziekindustrie destijds in Nederland was geregeld. In samenwerking met Universal Music, die de hits op cd erbij levert, resulteert dit in een ge...

The Golden Years: A Fulfilling Finish is an empowering guide that celebrates the richness of life beyond middle age. Rather than viewing fifty and beyond as a time of limitation, this book reveals it as a season of growth, renewal, and opportunity. Through practical wisdom and motivating insights, it shows how to cultivate physical vitality, emotional well-being, and spiritual strength while building stronger relationships and pursuing long-delayed dreams. With strategies for embr...