Questo gioco da tavolo - The New Game of the Ascent of Mont Blancriproduce la prima di quattro edizioni pubblicate nell'arco di circa vent'anni. Fu ideato da Albert Smith come ricordo del suo spettacolo, messo in scena all' Egyptian Hall di Londra. Basato sui disegni del paesaggista William Beverley e stampato in litografia a colori, nelle diverse edizioni declinava, con alcune varianti, il racconto dell'ascensione al Monte Bianco che Smith compì nel 1851. La prima versione fu pubblicata poco dopo il 1855 e venduta, come le successive, nel foyer dell'Egyptian Hall e in diversi negozi. Il gioco, tipo gioco dell'oca, è composto da una tavola con percorso a spirale costituito solamente da cinquanta delle sessantatre caselle abituali. Nella sua confezione originale era venduto all'interno di una cartellina rigida in tela, con titolo impresso in oro, contenente la tavola intelata e ripiegata e il libretto di regole. Quest'ultime, scritte dallo stesso Smith, prevedono che sulle caselle i giocatori paghino o ricevano ricompense, secondo le situazioni e i luoghi rappresentati, o siano obbligati a tornare indietro. Il percorso combina i viaggi di Smith a Chamonix del 1838 e del 1851. L'itinerario parte da Londra e arriva fino alla cima del Monte Bianco, passando per Parigi, attraverso le montagne del Giura e lungo il lago di Ginevra fino a Martigny, per arrivare, dopo il superamento del Gran San Bernardo. all'albergo di Tairraz a Chamonix; all'ascensione vera e propria sono dedicate solo le ultime quindici caselle.

Developing Your Design Process is your primary source for acquiring knowledge of how and why you design. It will help you understand how architects think as well as learn why you should educate yourself about design culture. You'll explore the spark of imagination that leads to a strong concept, realize the importance of sketching and rough drafts, focus your original concept to make your abstract idea visible, and finally step away for a moment to critically question your concept by identifying its strengths and weaknesses. You'll also be introduced to the language of design, architectural terminology, historic precedents, and designers, in addition to the why, what, and how of the design process.

The book is illustrated throughout with international examples of work by professionals and students in the discipline of architecture, and other related design professions.

As if the reader were riding shotgun, this intensely vivid novel captures a life on the lam. “L’astragale” is the French word for the ankle bone Albertine Sarrazin’s heroine Anne breaks as she leaps from her jail cell to freedom. As she drags herself down the road, away from the prison walls, she is rescued by Julien, himself a small-time criminal, who keeps her hidden. They fall in love. Fear of capture, memories of her prison cell, claustrophobia in her hideaways: every detail is fiercely felt.

Astragal burst onto the French literary scene in 1965; its fiery and vivacious style was entirely new, and Sarrazin became a celebrity overnight. But as fate would have it, Sarrazin herself kept running into trouble with the law, even as she became a star.

She died from a botched surgery at the height of her fame. Sarrazin’s life and work (her novels are semi-autobiographical) have been the subject of intense fascination in France; a new adaptation of Astragal is currently being filmed. Patti Smith, who brought Astragal to the attention of New Directions, contributes an enthusiastic introduction to one of her favorite writers.

A new chapter in the epic GREEN LANTERN saga begins! Green Lanterns Guy Gardner, Kilowog and Arisia explore the unknown sectors of the galaxy, determined to shine their emerald light in the darkest corners of the uncharted to bring order to the universe. But what is Guy's secret mission for the evil Red Lantern, Atrocitus, that brings him into conflict with Hal Jordan? This new collected edition of GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD WARRIORS leads directly into the epic WAR OF THE GREEN LANTERNS event!

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Ideal for students, pastors, and instructors familiar with the biblical languages, A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible saves time and effort in studying the Bible. Definitions for Greek and Hebrew words that occur less frequently appear as footnotes on every page, allowing the user to read the text quickly and to focus on parsing and grammatical issues (rather than paging through lexicons!). Presented in beautiful fine-grain black European leather.

Art Poetique by Guillevic is a highly personal account of the process and experience of writing poetry. It was published in Paris in 1989, when, at the age of eighty-two, the poet had behind him a lifetime of reading and writing. One of its distinctive features is its extremely modest tone. It is not a doctrine or a series of rules about what poetry is or should be, but the sharing of that profound experience, the personal research of a poet, his hesitations and doubts: 'Do I see / What I see? / Do I hear / What I hear? Perhaps I see / What I hear, Perhaps I hear / What I see: Perhaps nothing / Of all that, / A wisp of sounds, / Colours, forms.' This fully bilingual anthology, the second volume of poetry by Guillevic to be published by Black Widow Press, is the first translation into English of this work in its entirety. We hope it will help English language readers to further come to know a remarkable poet who is held in great esteem around the world.
Guillevic (1907-1997) is widely recognized as one of the most important French poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. Over thirty volumes of his poems have been published to date. He has been translated into fifty languages and his works are available in some sixty countries. His poetry has inspired countless songs and musical compositions, and over 145 limited edition volumes of his poetry have been illustrated by some of the most renowned artists: Leger, Dubuffet, Cortot, Manessier, and Baltazar among others. Annual symposiums, papers, and books continue to be written on both the poet and his works throughout the world.

The secretive Mysteries conducted at Eleusis in Greece for nearly two millennia have long puzzled scholars with strange accounts of initiates experiencing otherworldly journeys. In this groundbreaking work, three experts—a mycologist, a chemist, and a historian—argue persuasively that the sacred potion given to participants in the course of the ritual contained a psychoactive entheogen. The authors then expand the discussion to show that natural psychedelic agents have been used in spiritual rituals across history and cultures. Although controversial when first published in 1978, the book’s hypothesis has become more widely accepted in recent years, as knowledge of ethnobotany has deepened. The authors have played critical roles in the modern rediscovery of entheogens, and The Road to Eleusis presents an authoritative exposition of their views. The book’s themes of the universality of experiential religion, the suppression of that knowledge by exploitative forces, and the use of psychedelics to reconcile the human and natural worlds make it a fascinating and timely read. This 30th anniversary edition includes an appreciative preface by religious scholar Huston Smith and an updated exploration of the chemical evidence by Peter Webster.

I solitari con le carte e i giochi di pazienza sono fra i passatempi più conosciuti e diffusi. Questo libro descrive e insegna i più famosi: gli appassionati potranno così imparare il Camaleonte, il Napoleone a Sant'Elena, il Ragno, la Granduchessa, la Terrazza e moltissimi altri giochi divertenti e originali, seguendone le regole ufficiali chiaramente esposte e fruendo dei consigli e degli aiuti dati per vincere.

This book takes a modern view of the field of facilities planning and design, along with a unified body of relevant knowledge.  Motivating and illustrating mathematical models wherever possible, the book explores facilities planning, capstone design, and even simulation modelling. A design project incorporates the theoretical aspects of facilities planning and design. The book also covers decision-support methodology and computerized procedures.   For industrial engineers, facilities managers, and plant managers.

Spain in the twentieth century gave birth to an array of astounding artistic and literary talent, including the passionately iconoclastic writer Federico García Lorca. But his works were ill received in the homophobic atmosphere of institutionalized Spanish criticism. Because of this atmosphere, even today's critics have effectively marginalized and disavowed intimations of homo-affectivity and homoeroticism in the great Spanish works. This book first appeared in Spain in 1991 as counter-discourse against those prevailing ideological structures. Before its appearance, no significant work had focused on the position of Spanish culture towards homosexuality or on how homosexuality could affect the works of canonical writers. Engaging with homosexuality as an imperative source of meaning in artistic work, this volume rigorously studies the works of Federico García Lorca and several of his marginalized homosexual contemporaries, including Emilio Prados, Luis Cernuda, Juan Gil-Albert, and Salvador Dalí. The study relies on the textual evidence presented by these authors to define the homosexual culture as one plagued by the realities of rejection, fear of the law, self-doubts, the lack of an authorized language with which to convey emotions, the awareness of disgust around the individual, the need to accept marginality to find sexual or emotional satisfaction, and the knowledge of one's own social divergence, all of which have an enormous influence on any artist's work. With this new and updated translation, this work offers English–speaking readers the opportunity to focus on formal aspects of literary expressions of homosexuality.