Hunter with harpoon
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Published fifty years ago under the title "Harpoon of the hunter", Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal(...)
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Published fifty years ago under the title "Harpoon of the hunter", Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance. Whether revisiting this classic or discovering it for the first time, readers will find in this book a sophisticated coming-of-age tale illustrating a way of life not as it appeared to southerners, but as it has survived in the memory of the Inuit themselves.
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Talk the talk of the country with Julia Rothman's entertaining and informative visual tour of life on the farm. Her drawings, diagrams, step-by-step sequences, and dissections reveal everything from the parts of a milking machine and the anatomy of a pig to how to plow a field and shear a sheep. You'll be delighted by how much there is to discover.
Farm anatomy : the curious parts & pieces of country life
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Talk the talk of the country with Julia Rothman's entertaining and informative visual tour of life on the farm. Her drawings, diagrams, step-by-step sequences, and dissections reveal everything from the parts of a milking machine and the anatomy of a pig to how to plow a field and shear a sheep. You'll be delighted by how much there is to discover.
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In twenty-five illustrated chapters, this volume for general readers and architecture lovers alike identifies the most important advancements in the field of architecture, and demonstrates how these innovations influenced the development of architecture. Chapters focus on topics such as monuments to the dead and places of worship; domes; pillars and arches; towers(...)
Architecture: the groundbreaking moments
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In twenty-five illustrated chapters, this volume for general readers and architecture lovers alike identifies the most important advancements in the field of architecture, and demonstrates how these innovations influenced the development of architecture. Chapters focus on topics such as monuments to the dead and places of worship; domes; pillars and arches; towers from Pisa to Eiffel; stadia and theaters; palaces and skyscrapers. Readers will learn about the introduction of glass, steel, iron, and concrete; how buildings express ideas; and the rediscovery of antiquity. Arranged chronologically, these chapters can be studied individually to deepen our understanding of particular aspects of architecture or as a whole-to appreciate the ever changing patterns of architectural advancement.
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Let's draw fragrant pastas, delicious meats and succulent desserts in Martí Guixé's new book: Food Book! Each page is a tasty graphical suggestion to be "filled in" by each fellow dinner, from the starters to the coffee, satisfying the desires of the very moment or conceiving an elaborate menu.
Food book
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Let's draw fragrant pastas, delicious meats and succulent desserts in Martí Guixé's new book: Food Book! Each page is a tasty graphical suggestion to be "filled in" by each fellow dinner, from the starters to the coffee, satisfying the desires of the very moment or conceiving an elaborate menu.
The sound of things
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In this book, the author – in a combination of drawings, letters, and colors – brings the sound of all kinds of objects visually alive.
The sound of things
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In this book, the author – in a combination of drawings, letters, and colors – brings the sound of all kinds of objects visually alive.
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Ici raconte l'histoire d'un lieu, vu d'un même angle, et celle des êtres qui l'ont habité à travers les siècles. Dans cet espace délimité, les existences se croisent, s'entrechoquent et se font étrangement écho, avant d'être précipitées dans l'oubli. Richard McGuire propose ainsi une expérience sensorielle inédite, puissante et presque magique du temps qui passe.
Ici
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Ici raconte l'histoire d'un lieu, vu d'un même angle, et celle des êtres qui l'ont habité à travers les siècles. Dans cet espace délimité, les existences se croisent, s'entrechoquent et se font étrangement écho, avant d'être précipitées dans l'oubli. Richard McGuire propose ainsi une expérience sensorielle inédite, puissante et presque magique du temps qui passe.
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Mapping cities / catalogue and essay by Naomi Miller, exhibition coordinated by Karen E. Haas.
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92 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Boston, MA : Boston University Art Gallery, ©2000.
Mapping cities / catalogue and essay by Naomi Miller, exhibition coordinated by Karen E. Haas.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Boston, MA : Boston University Art Gallery, ©2000.
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65 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 19 cm
London : H.M. Stationery Off., 1954.
Castles : an introduction to the castles of England and Wales / by B.H. St. J. O'Neil.
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65 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plans ; 19 cm
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London : H.M. Stationery Off., 1954.
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xiii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Writing about archaeology / Graham Connah.
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xiii, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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xi, 241 pages ; 21 cm
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1999, ©1997.
The footnote : a curious history / Anthony Grafton.
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xi, 241 pages ; 21 cm
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1999, ©1997.