Carpenter's Pencil (Rivas Manuel)(Paperback / softback)

Carpenter's Pencil (Rivas Manuel)(Paperback / softback)

It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. Many years later in post-Franco Spain, a survivor of that period, Doctor Daniel da Barca, returns from exile to his native Galicia, and the threads of past memories begin to be

Ta proklatá duše - Manuel Rivas

Manuel Rivas, spisovatel, novinář a esejista, je považován za nejvýraznější osobnost soudobé galicijské literatury, v celosvětovém měřítku se zapsal do povědomí čtenářů i literární kritiky díky autenticitě a něžnosti svých příběhů, stejně jako pronikavé rezonanci

Books Burn Badly - Manuel Rivas

On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruna and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young carefree group of friends are transformed into a broken generation

Three Poems (Sullivan Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

In Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas leads us on a high-wire act of verbal dexterity and inventive syntax in pursuit of a new kind of communication. Set against landscapes fallen just short of paradise, but which retain the possibility of redemption, these poems work intimately with the reader,

Scenic Construction for the Stage: Key Skills for Carpenters (Tweed Mark)(Paperback)

Ruslan Russe 3: Methode Communicative De Russe - Niveau Avance - Manuel D'eleve (Langran John)(Paperback / softback)

Adventures in Stationery - A Journey Through Your Pencil Case (Ward James)(Paperback / softback)

From Bronze Age India to a Surrey Stationers via pencil wars and accidental inventions: a hilarious insight into the familiar yet unexpectedly bizarre world of

Pencil and Paper Activity Book (Maclaine James)(Paperback / softback)

Put your tactics to the test with a variety of classic 'pencil and paper' games and new ones,

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction (Salinger J. D.)(Paperback / softback)

A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'He was a great many things to a great many people while he lived, and virtually all things to his brothers and sisters in our somewhat outsized family. Surely he was all real things to us: our blue-striped

Ordesa (Vilas Manuel)(Paperback / softback)

A man in tumult returns to Ordesa, the small mountain town where he was born, and where his parents have recently died. He sits down to write. Newly sober, his career on the wane, his relationship with his own children strained, what he produces is a dizzying chronicle of his childhood and an

Frolic of His Own (Gaddis William)(Paperback)

A dazzling fourth novel by the author of The Recognitions, Carpenter's Gothic, and JR uses his considerable powers of observation and satirical sensibilities to take on the American legal

Regional Office is Under Attack! (Gonzales Manuel)(Paperback / softback)

The Regional Office and its band of super-powered female assassins protects the world from annihilation. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah - who may or may not have a mechanical arm - fiercely devoted to the organisation that took her in as a troubled young

Assemblage Theory (Delanda Manuel)(Paperback)

Manuel DeLanda provides the first detailed overview of the assemblage theory found in germ in Deleuze and Guattari's writings. Through a series of case studies, DeLanda shows how the concept can be applied to economic, linguistic, and military history as well as to metaphysics, science, and

Heaven (Vilas Manuel)(Paperback)

This is the first translation of Spanish poet Manuel Vilas's two major collections Heaven (El cielo, 2000) and Heat (Calor, 2008) into English. Thematically fuelled with alcohol, death and sex, they go off into freewheeling megalomaniacal flights of fantasy. The poet James Womack has won prizes for

Maps of Desire (Forcano Manuel)(Paperback)

Manuel Forcano, the outstanding Catalan poet, is a great traveller, and the poems in this, his first full-length book in English translation, embrace the cities, the landscapes and the people of the Middle East. Drawn from his four most recent collections, these poems use geographical and

Kiss of the Spider Woman (Puig Manuel)(Paperback / softback)

In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of

Unleashed: An Andy Carpenter Mystery (Rosenfelt David)(Paperback)

Andy Carpenter's accountant, Sam Willis, is stunned to receive a phone call out of the blue from Barry Price, a high school friend he hasn't spoken to in years, pleading for help with something too frightening to discuss on the phone. Barry needs Sam's financial acumen and lawyer Andy Carpenter's

Hard Rain Falling (Carpenter Don)(Paperback)

Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good--a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the

Fangio - The Life Behind the Legend (Donaldson Gerald)(Paperback / softback)

Juan Manuel Fangio's name is indelibly inscribed in the record books and many consider him to be the greatest driver in

Line - An Adventure into the Unknown (Smith Keri)(Paperback / softback)

A deceptively simple adventure into the unknown using only paper, a pencil and a single lineWreck This Journal had a simple premise: destroy the book in all the ways you can imagine.The Line is even simpler: find pencil, start a line.As you move through the pages of Keri Smith's newest book, you'll

Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (Delanda Manuel)(Paperback)

In this groundbreaking book, Manuel DeLanda analyzes different genres of simulation, from cellular automata and generic algorithms to neural nets and multi-agent systems, as a means to conceptualize the space of possibilitiesassociated with casual and other capacities. This remarkably clear

Drawing: Animals in Colored Pencil: Learn to Draw with Colored Pencil Step by Step (Kauffman Yaun Debra)(Paperback)

Learn to create strikingly realistic animal drawings in colored pencil beginning with basic shapes. Drawing: Animals in Colored Pencil shows you how to render a variety of beautiful animals in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing drawing materials, building with basic shapes, and shading and

Fashion Illustration & Design: Methods & Techniques for Achieving Professional Results (Brambatti Manuela)(Paperback)

A design tutorial by Manuela Brambatti, Versace's chief design illustrator, the book is an idea of couturier Flavio Marconi who, impressed by her drawing style, her unique taste designing fashion collections and the precision with which she captures the flow of fabric over the body, convinced her

A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity (Delanda Manuel)(Paperback)

In A New Philosophy of Society Manuel DeLanda offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entities, from small communities to large nation-states would disappear altogether if our cognitive abilities ceased to