Based on the 1999 Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, this book uses the work of the Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers to argue that the specifity of mediums, even modernist ones, can never be simply collapsed into the physicality of their support.

The greatest possible honor for an international lawyer is to be invited to deliver the Hague Academy General Course in International Law. Rosalyn Higgins was so honored and this volume is the revised text of the lectures she delivered there. Its purpose is to show that there is an essential and unavoidable choice to be made between the perception of international law as either a system of neutral rules or as a system of decision-making directed towards the attainment of specific declared values. This book focuses on resolving this in addition to many other difficult and unanswered issues in contemporary international law. The topics she addresses include human rights, allocating competence, self determination, and the individual use of force in international law. This accessible volume will be particularly useful to scholars and students of international law who seek a better understanding of the subject and desire to see how the great web of inter-related concepts which comprise international law are held together as a coherent and cohesive whole.

Out of the Shadow was Rose Cohen first book written about her childhood in Russia and immigration to New York City's Lower East Side. Detailing her coming of age trials with uncommon frankness she shows the daily life in the tenements and the working conditions of the garment sweatshops. Detailing the union activities of the men she shows the aspirations of the entire working class. Vividly illustrating the American experience she takes the reader on a journey that they won't soon forget.

This is a new release of the original 1926 edition.

Step into a world of pure enchantment with "The fairy flute," a cherished collection of poetry from the beloved author Rose Fyleman. This delightful volume gathers a treasury of whimsical verses, inviting readers to discover the magic that lies just beyond the everyday. Rose Fyleman, a master of English children's literature, crafts a spellbinding array of fairy poems that sparkle with imagination and charm. From mischievous sprites to moonlit dances, each poem offers a captivating glimpse into the ethereal realm of fairies, brought to life with her characteristic lightness of touch and evocative language. These enchanting verses celebrate the wonder of the natural world intertwined with the playful spirit of fairy lore. As a seminal work in English children's poetry, "The fairy flute" continues to captivate with its timeless appeal. This classic collection, meticulously prepared for print, offers an enduring journey into a world of wonder. It is a perfect addition for anyone who cherishes imaginative verse, the delicate beauty, and the enduring magic of fairies within classic literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

"The Fairy Green" is an ancient Children's poetry story book written by Rose Fyleman. This amazing story comes within the delusion and fairy story genres, taking young readers on a fable adventure through a wonderful the world complete of fairies, goblins, and other terrific animals. Fyleman's fabulous writing and ingenious storytelling take site visitors to the inexperienced lands of the Fairy Green, wherein wooded area sprites dance below the whole moon and depraved elves play tricks on unsuspecting vacationers. Each of the poems in the collection is a little works of art, full with shiny imagery and charming characters that pique the curiosity and excite the senses. "The Fairy Green" is a ways greater than a collection of poems; it's far a gateway to the lovely women of nature and the strength of the thoughts. Fyleman's eternal memories remind visitors of the importance of marvel and enchantment in some surroundings wherein humans are all too frequently distracted through the commonplace. Through its whimsical appealing people and ageless enchantment, "The Fairy Green" has charmed readers of each technology, motivating destiny generations to trust within the magic that exists simply backstage of fact.

"The book is a collection of poetry about the author's life"--

An examination of the Soviet dissident movement traces the course of the "democratic movement" from Khrushchev's revelations about the crimes of Stalin through the 1970s

The most despicable, oft-repeated lie about hypnosis is that one cannot be hypnotized to think what is untrue or to act against one's own free will. That is flatly untrue. Skilled manipulators have known it forever. The manipulators have guarded this secret carefully, partly by repeating the lie that such influence is impossible. It is not safe to regard hypnosis as a harmless parlor game, or to remain oblivious to how it works. Without awareness of how hypnotic influence works and of how to counter and reduce its influence in oneself and others, even people living in supposedly free societies will become increasingly enslaved to influences largely invisible to them-while simultaneously being hypnotized to regard themselves as free and in charge of their own lives. Based on the author's discoveries about hypnotic influence gathered over more than 60 years, this book seeks to show you how to become less susceptible to past and present hypnotic influences and thus more able to live in true freedom, drawing your energy from what is real and right so that you are fully alive in a healthy sense. Freedom from hypnotic influence, even from influences seeking to get you to do what is right or think what is true, is essential if people are to be able to escape an unhealthy dependence on their manipulators, caregivers, experts and leaders (even the well-meaning among them). Reading this book, watching the hypnosis demonstration video and practicing the recommended exercise will awaken within you a spiritual center from which you will be impervious to improper influence and able to influence the world for the better-as effortlessly as the most skilled martial artist can deal with an opponent.

Blue cover, white lettering on spine. Some shelf and edge wear. tanning to end pages. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Illustrated with diagrams. Has chapters on: motion and force; electricity and magnetism; light; atoms and electrons; atoms in crowds; relativity; quanta, waves and particles; the behavior of atoms; electrons at high speed; the atomic nucleus; and mesons and other new particles.

This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower's text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition-now published in three volumes-will also include color illustrations for the first time.

Peter Diggs first meets Amaryllis at a bus stop next to a sign reading Balsamic, though there is nothing very vinegary about the place. When the bus arrives it towers above them - a gigantic pink, yellow and orange rice-paper bus, candlelit from within like a Japanese lantern. The next time he sees her, he's in the Science Museum fascinated by the convoluted construction of Klein bottles. The first meeting is a dream, the second a reality. 'Trust me, I'm a weirdo,' says Amaryllis, as she and Peter embark on a journey which leaves none of us quiet sure where the nights end and the days begin.

Jim Frog (Ponders)

'Russell Hoban's imagination knows no bounds ... darkly funny and profound' The Times 'You want to buy my death for a million pounds!' Piccadilly Circus tube station is an unlikely location for a pact with the Devil, but this is where Jonathan Fitch first meets Mr Rinyo-Clacton. Devastated after his girlfriend Serafina has left him, Jonathan agrees that this mysterious stranger will pay him a million pounds for a year, if he agrees to die at the end of it. What could possibly go wrong? 'A poignant and engaging fable of ownership and surrender' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday 'Nothing is accidental or optional in this jewelled clockwork egg of a book ... Hoban is a hugely skilled, moving and endlessly entertaining writer' The Times Literary Supplement

Recently widowed and increasingly lonely, Roswell Clark's life had arrived at the point when he felt he needed a tattoo. His ideal image was that of a bat featured on an eighteenth-century bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, but strangely, on a visit to the museum, he encountered a woman called Sarah Varley, who was clearly compelled by the same bat. What did it mean? Sarah dealt in antiques and Roswell soon ran into her stalls in Chelsea and Covent Garden. His calling, which grew out of an obsession with crash-test dummies, was a bit harder to explain. It led from the invention of a popular children's toy to lucrative commissions from a Parisian sybarite for wooden working models with very adult moving parts. Both Roswell and Sarah had lost their spouses and were still grieving in their different ways. And then Christ started putting a hand in - literally - when a fragment of an ancient crucifix fetched up in one of Sarah's antique lots. Between some compulsion conveyed by this hand and Sarah's natural urge to make improvements in people, Roswell's work took a surprising new turn... Russell Hoban's delicious new novel combines much about art - traditional and conceptual - with new angles on Christ, crash-test dummies, antiques, pornography and a charming tale of romance.

From metal-munching dragons, secret-whispering statues and flame-like ghost horses, to the sadness of captive animals and doomed heroic deeds, the poems in this collection blend quirky humour with rhythm and rhyme, imagination with real experience.