![]() Then he meets a young novice who goes by the name of Evanjalin who says the prince lives and there is hope of reclaiming Lumitare from the impostor king who butchered the royal family. He was only a child at the time of the murders of his friend Prince Balthazar and the rest of the royal family, but Finnikin struggles with feelings of guilt related to a cryptic prophecy. Summary: Exiled from his homeland after the royal family was slaughtered and a dying woman cursed the land, Finnikin is determined to find a new home for his people. ![]() Rating: 4/5 Stars Series: Lumatere Chronicles #1 Format: Audiobook/Book on CD Genre: High Fantasy/Epic Fantasy Audience: Young Adult/Adult Crossover ![]()
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![]() ![]() He describes his three-step process for composing a photograph and shows how good composition is an organic process that begins with rules but ultimately transcends them. Additionally, this second edition takes into account how Randall’s techniques have changed and evolved since the first edition published-from photographic practices to how he uses smart phones and apps as important and powerful tools for landscape photography.Īfter discussing photographic essentials, Randall focuses on the art of landscape photography. ![]() ![]() This fully updated edition of the best-selling first edition includes nearly all new imagery throughout the book, as well as a new first chapter, “Photographic Essentials,” to help beginners to landscape photography get up to speed quickly. Author Glenn Randall is an experienced wilderness photographer, and whether you want to venture into the mountains for once-in-a-lifetime shots of raw nature, or simply hone your landscape photography skills from the safety of your back deck, Randall explains the art, science and craft behind creating stunning landscape photographs. The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography, 2nd Edition teaches photographers how to convert their visual peak experiences-moments of extraordinary natural beauty that evoke a sense of wonder and awe-into stunning images that elicit the same awestruck emotion in their viewers. ![]() Ordering, Shipping & Returns Information. ![]() ![]() ![]() This franchise bible elevates and celebrates the films and is a must-have for fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Avengers. William Shakespeare’s Avengers: The Complete Works reimagines all four films as plays by the Bard of Avon, complete with authentic meter and verse, stage directions, and entertaining Easter eggs. The lavish two-column format recalls Shakespeare’s folios, and dozens of vibrant illustrations capture all the iconic movie moments. Readers will experience their favorite scenes, characters, and lines in a fresh-yet fully faithful-way, through soliloquies and dialogue by everyone from Captain America to Groot (“’Tis I!”). The first play, Assemble, Ye Avengers, is only 66 pages total, due to the nice, wide pages and double column format. What if the most epic cinematic franchise of all time had been penned by the greatest playwright of all time? Wonder no more! In William Shakespeare’s Avengers, the best-selling author of the William Shakespeare’s Star Wars series has reimagined the Avengers films as plays penned by the Bard himself, including:Īuthentic meter and verse, stage directions, and clever Easter eggs will delight fans of the Avengers and Shakespeare alike. William Shakespeare's Avengers, The Complete Works is a compilation of four five-act plays in iambic pentameter with excellent illustrations that correspond to the four Avengers movies. Assemble, Ye Avengers! All four Avengers films are presented as Shakespearean plays in this must-have for Marvel fans. ![]() ![]() ![]() We say to girls you can have ambition but not too much. We teach girls to shrink themselves to make themselves smaller. In 2013, Chimamanda’s TEDx speech on feminism got sampled in the song Flawless by Beyoncé. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change, but in addition to being angry, I’m also hopeful because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better. Gender, as it functions today, is a grave injustice. Citing the injustice resulting from gender equality, Chimamanda stressed displeasure for how society shoved women to the sideline. In her talk titled ‘We Should All Be Feminists,’ Chimamanda shared her experiences as an African feminist. ![]() From Olanna to Kainene, Chimamanda has made female characters in her books stand out as symbols of strength, resilience, and intelligence. Through her novels, she voiced gender equality and women empowerment. As an African woman who struggled to find her place in society, Chimamanda began speaking up supporting women’s empowerment.Ĭhimamanda is a feminist and the author of ‘ Purple Hibiscus,’ ‘Half of a Yellow Sun,’ and ‘Americanah.’ However, Chimamanda has also made her stance known regarding gender equality. Chimamanda is an author who has never shied away from voicing her opinions regarding feminism and racism. ![]() ![]() Repeated Connections and Disconnections on Pneumatic Control Panels.Circuit identification by coloured rings (on request) Markets:.Protection of individuals by maintaining pressure if necessary.Energy and time saving during maintenance operations. ![]()
![]() ![]() Thea’s about to discover just how long and hard this handsome drummer can play. David’s determined to prove he’s worth the risk, and willing to court her, step by exquisite step. What she doesn’t know is that David is a one-woman man…and he’s madly in love with her. Even if his sexy smile ties her up in knots. Emotionally scarred by a cheating ex, she’s not about to risk her heart with a man who has groupies buzzing around him like flies. Only problem is, Thea doesn’t date clients–or musicians. ![]() What happens when the Gentleman of Rock decides to play dirty?Ī drummer for the hottest rock band on the planet, David has a single, powerful weakness: Thea, the band’s publicist and the woman who steals his breath away with her every move. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s new contemporary romance novella is pure hard rock and scorching heat… Publisher: TKA Distribution (30th September 2014) Genre: Contemporary, Erotic Romance, New Adult Title: Rock Courtship (A Rock Kiss Novella, 1.5) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He decides to keep the most corrupt staff member, Serge “the Duke” Leduc, the former No. But Gamache makes a questionable decision in choosing to fight fire with fire. By taking the job as commander of the Sûreté Academy, he can clean the rot from its wealthiest source-the impressionable minds of cadet trainees. But he can’t pass up the chance to complete his yearslong fight to end corruption within the Sûreté. He’s not back to active investigating-not after finally having the chance to heal in the Québécois village of Three Pines. In Penny’s 12th Gamache novel, the former chief inspector takes up a new post. But does this training create people highly capable of committing them? Within a police force, some members must be trained in the science, and art, of solving murders. ![]() ![]() ![]() It represents the whole cycle of crime and punishment. It is both a Dante-esque circle of hell and the deadly routine of prison life. The ballad form, as he adapts it, encases paradox and story in a tight, encircling ring. Perhaps he found another in the hypocrisy of the prison system itself, destroying the souls and bodies of those it would reform. Wilde loved paradox, and he found some essential symbol of it in the man who murdered his wife. Judas, of course, is on his mind: the poem refers to the kiss of Caiaphas, the latter being the priest who participated in Christ's betrayal. That would certainly seem to have been true of his relationship with "Bosie", Lord Alfred Douglas, seemingly a spoiled brat further spoiled by Wilde's adulation. ![]() What does Wilde mean? Perhaps he is saying that love itself corrupts or alters its object. It is a revelation, and its structure is part of that revelation.Įveryone can quote the refrain: "For each man kills the thing he loves." Poetically, it's unquestionably powerful, and, intellectually, it's powerfully questionable. The Ballad is an indictment of the death penalty and the whole penal system, but it is much more than a protest poem. Around this narrative core, whose genre might be described as gothic realism, Wilde builds a meditation on the paradoxes of morality. The poem is dedicated to the memory of the "sometime" Royal Horse Guards trooper, Charles Thomas Wooldridge, and the central incident is Wooldridge's execution for the murder of his wife. ![]() ![]() ![]() As before, the saga of how our world commingles with the dream-sea world of Quiddity-and the wondrous, sometimes malevolent lands and beings that lie beyond its shores-provides the British author with a vast canvas on which he paints a riot of Boschean images. Horror's wunderkind returns with a spectacular sequel to his masterpiece of dark fantasy, The Great and Secret Show. ![]() Grotesqueries, dazzlements and titanic battles between humans and nonhumans abound as, in the present, several men, women and creatures, many returning from the prequel, are caught up in the… ( tovább) Still, most will be swept away by his marvels, begining with the horrific decimation of a party of Old West pioneers by an interloper from the parallel world of Quiddity. So complex are Barker's imaginings-from a celestial hierarchy that toys with human affairs a geometry in which a pyramidic city can balance on its tip-that readers new to his cosmos could use a glossary or map that, alas, the publishers do not provide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Appropriately, Samori’s studio is a reappropriated, ancient church near Byzantine Ravenna-clearly an inspiring setting for such haunting work. ![]() Enigmatic and classically beautiful, his paintings tell half stories and are wonderfully dramatic in their pose, chiaroscuro lighting and atmosphere. Each delicately painted image is defaced by glutenous gloops, scratches or vicious brushes of raw paint, systematically destroying the work underneath. ![]() Samori’s Baroque influence is plain and skilfully referenced in his elegant work which ignores contemporary subjects in favour of classical faces, bodies and clothes. Nicola Samori’s incredible deconstructed interpretations of classical compositions simultaneously preserve a deeply familiar and intrenched technique of painting and physically destroy it’s rules and conventions. ![]() |