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The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel,moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form and a memorytheatre, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization and precise craftsmanship.However, their apparent minimalism belies a deeper complexity.In Zen Landscapes

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Written by the author of The Zen Book and Zen Cards, Zen Life is a compilation of 108 Zen stories and aphorisms, ancient and modern, which are meant to be opened at random and consulted for their wisdom and insights.

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Technologically enhanced assassin Peter Caswell has been dispatched on a top-secret assignment unlike anything he's ever faced. A spaceship that vanished years ago has been found, along with the bodies of its murdered crew-save one. Peter's mission is to find the missing crew member.

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The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore and primitive superstition to become the dominant image of the undead today. In contemporary visions of global apocalypse, such as the films 28 Days Later, I Am Legend and World War Z and the phenomenally successful TV series The Walking Dead

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Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature looms large; thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and zoos as we know them has been so poorly documented. This addresses this gap.

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This volume reprints the Bevington edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream with four sections of primary documents and illustrations.

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Following the success of Spoon in 2002, & Fork presents 10 leading design experts' choice of 100 of the most important young product designers from around the world. The result is a comprehensive, must-have survey of today's most innovative international product design.

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Pottery is one of the earliest and most widespread of human activities and its history can be traced back to the Stone Age. This title surveys ceramic art and production worldwide, since prehistory. It begins with the earliest civilizations of the Near and Middle East and follows the production of pottery chronologically around the globe.

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Every once in a while, an idea comes along that makes the entire world sit up and take notice. In this book, former "BBC Focus" magazine editor explores 100 of the most forward thinking, far-reaching and downright inspired ideas and inventions in history, each nominated by experts from all fields of science and engineering.

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A sequel to the popular "AD 410: the Year that Shook Rome", this book reveals the tragic romance between Antony and Cleopatra, boldly characterising the central charismatic personalities of the time.

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A box set containing the "Object in Focus" titles on five of the most famous and iconic objects at the British Museum. It includes: "The Rosetta Stone"; "The Gayer-Anderson Cat"; "The Sutton Hoo Helmet"; "The Lewis Chessmen"; and, "Hoa Hakananaia".

(Hardback, Revised and updated edition)

The BP Portrait Award is the worlds leading showcase for painters working in portraiture. This revised and updated edition of 500 Portraits brings together more than 500 portraits from twenty-five years of the Award. Featuring works by the worlds leading figurative artists, this book celebrates our enduring fascination with the human face.

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Did you know that the ancient Aztecs invented football (but they sacrificed the losing team to the gods) How did they get the squishy bits out of the insides of mummies in ancient Egypt Did you know that ancient Greek men did athletics in the nude (and didn't let girls watch) What were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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A comprehensive survey of textile art and production worldwide, from prehistory to the present day. Using line drawings and close-up colour details from actual textiles, it shows how people from many different traditions have made and decorated cloth through the centuries.

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What if teleportation was really possible While Clara is off blowing their spending money, Richie wanders aimlessly, chewing on a veggie-burger, ending up in a gift-shop where he finds himself standing in front of an instant transporter machine.

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When Hugh is given a new cupboard, little does he know the secret it holds or how it will affect him and all his friends. Because the cupboard changes things - sometimes dangerously - and if it has the power to change a wallet into a pig, imagine what it can turn Hugh's friend Penn into! . . . And then there are Hugh's dreams;

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At the end of the English Civil War, Gerrard Winstanley and his comrades, known as Diggers, went to St George's Hill, to farm the common land and to distribute the food for free amongst themselves. This title examines Winstanley's work and argues that, as we face a greater enclosure of the commons, he can inspire us to turn our world upside down.

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The first book in the Bonded To Beasts duology - a fast-paced, seductive series that flawlessly blends searing romance, political intrigue, elemental magic and of course, dragons.

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A decadent regency romance for fans of EL James and Sylvia Day

When eighteenth-century young lady Bella Rushdale finds herself fiercely attracted to handsome landowner Lucerne Marlinscar, she does not expect the rival for her affections to be another man.