The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver (Scanlin Tommye McClure)(Paperback)

The Nature of Things: Essays of a Tapestry Weaver (Scanlin Tommye McClure)(Paperback)

The Nature of Things weaves together a life full of happiness and sorrow. In these fourteen collected essays, Tommye McClure Scanlin reflects on her artistic journey and how crafting and life are interwoven, two threads that comprise a larger picture. Readers will find themselves lost in Scanlin's

The Top of the Stairs: A Spiritual Memoir (McClure Joshua A.)(Paperback)

This spiritual memoir is a recounting of Joshua McClure's journey from early childhood to adulthood, spanning over eight decades from birth in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York to the present in Bradford, Rhode Island. Included are images of youthful challenges, church, family roots, siblings, Sunday

On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)(Paperback / softback)

Evocative Objects - Things We Think With(Paperback / softback)

Autobiographical essays, framed by two interpretive essays by the editor, describe the power of an object to evoke emotion and provoke thought: reflections on a cello, a laptop computer, a 1964 Ford Falcon, an apple, a mummy in a museum, and other 'things-to-think-with.'For Sherry Turkle, 'We think

Mexican Soundings: Essays in Honour of David A. Brading (Deans-Smith Susan)(Paperback)

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state-building in nineteenth century

The Bayeux Tapestry: The Life Story of a Masterpiece (Hicks Carola)(Paperback)

One of Europe s greatest artistic treasures, the Bayeux Tapestry depicts the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings in 1066. For all its fame, its origins and story are complex and somewhat cloudy. Though many assume it was commissioned by Bishop OdoWilliam s ruthless half-brotherit may also

White Blood: A History of Human Milk (Weaver Lawrence)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking history of human milk White Blood explores how the nature and properties of human breast milk were conceived within the fluctuating frameworks of distinct historical periods. For example, in the ancient world, human milk was thought to be blood diverted from the womb to the breast,

What Is Art? (Tolstoy Leo)(Paperback)

This profound analysis of the nature of art is the culmination of a series of essays and polemics on issues of morality, social justice, and religion. Considering and rejecting the idea that art reveals and reinvents through beauty, Tolstoy perceives the question of the nature of art to be a

The Nature of Things (Lucretius)(Paperback)

The acclaimed new translation of the classic poem at the heart of Stephen Greenblatt's The Swerve Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things combines a scientific and philosophical treatise with some of the greatest poetry ever written. With intense moral fervour he demonstrates to humanity that in

Nature and Other Essays (Emerson Ralph Waldo)(Pevná vazba)

A collection of essays from the father of the American transcendentalism, including 'Nature,' 'Self-Reliance,' 'Love,' and 'Art.' Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay 'Nature' declared that understanding nature was the key to understanding God and reality, and laid the groundwork for

Roots Home (Clarke Gillian)(Paperback)

A collection of essays on nature and the environmental crisis from the former National Poet of

Secret Network of Nature - The Delicate Balance of All Living Things (Wohlleben Peter)(Paperback / softback)

Known and Strange Things (Cole Teju)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. It comes with pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and literature. It covers subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf, W G Sebald, Instagram, Barack Obama and Boko

The Essays: A Selection (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after

Mystery of Things (Grayling Prof A.C.)(Paperback / softback)

Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top

The Second Siege: Book Two of the Tapestry (Neff Henry H.)(Paperback)

A fast-paced, genre-blending adventure--now in paperback!The Tapestry series continues to weave threads of fantasy, mythology, science fiction, and mystery into a wholly original adventure that appeals to fans of everything from Harry Potter to Lord of the Rings to The X-Men. Genre-blending and

A Collection of Essays (Orwell George)(Paperback)

A clear-eyed, uncompromising collection of essays from the 'conscience of his generation' and the author of 1984 (V. S. Pritchett). One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentieth century, George Orwell fought the injustices of his time with singular vigor through pen and

The Great Tapestry of Scotland Colouring Book (Crummy Andrew)(Paperback)

Kensho: The Heart of Zen (Cleary Thomas)(Paperback)

Kensho is the transformative glimpse of the true nature of all things. It is an experience so crucial in Zen practice that it is sometimes compared to finding an inexhaustible treasure because it reveals the potential that exists in each moment for pure awareness free from the projections of the

The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback)

A collection of the finest essays written by one of the greatest essay writers in the English

End of the End of the Earth - Essays (Franzen Jonathan)(Paperback)

Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays (Solnit Rebecca (Y))(Pevná vazba)

A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing

Tapestry Weaving (Glasbrook Kirsten)(Paperback)

Kirsten Glasbrook demonstrates the ancient art of tapestry weaving using wool yarn, fine linen and cotton on simple rectangular frames with notches, or purpose-built looms for larger tapestries. She shows step by step how to weave gorgeous tapestries, from choosing colours and winding warps through

Travelling Home - Essays on Islam in Europe (Murad Abdal Hakim)(Paperback / softback)

These eleven theological essays explore the origins and nature of Islamophobia in Europe and the steady rise of national populism across the