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Abaratby Clive BarkerISBN 0002259524 (0-00-225952-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Abarat'Book summary:With Abarat, Clive Barker begins an ambitious sequence of fantastic novels aimed at a young audience as well as his adult fans. There is as much sense of threat to the world here as there was in the horror novels with which he made his name. But the worst almost never happens here--and there is whimsy and charm along with a carefully judged and measured sense of the nightmarish. Young Cindy Quackenbush finds herself transported from the boredom of a Mid-Western chicken-packing town to the 25 islands of the Abarat--islands torn between the evil magician Christopher Carrion and the equally power-hungry rational capitalist Pixler. Each of the islands has a nature determined by an hour of the day--part of the pleasure of the book is seeing how Barker works this conceit out as Cindy travels from peril to peril. The book is literally a book of hours--in the Medieval sense; it's lavishly illustrated with over a hundred of Barker's striking paintings--much of its imagery was conceived of pictorially and then reinvented as story. This is a fine book--it is also a beautiful and charming object. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Collins Measurements & ConversionsISBN 000716551X (0-00-716551-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
Find This BookBook summary:Systems of measurement were created to quantify natural phenomena and to allow us to deal more effectively with everyday life, and have been used since the earliest times. From those early measurements, many other units have been developed, each designed for a particular purpose. This book covers units used both in everyday life and in scientific subjects, complete with explanations, conversion equations and conversion tables.[via]More editions of Collins Measurements & Conversions:
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Course in General Linguisticsby Ferdinand De Saussure, Albert Riedlinger, Charles Bally, Albert SechehayeISBN 000633606X (0-00-633606-X)
Hardcover, Fontana
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Course in General Linguistics'Book summary:The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.[via]More editions of Course in General Linguistics:
The Prophetby Kahlil GibranISBN 000100039X (0-00-100039-X)
Softcover, Laurier Books Ltd
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The Time Shipsby Stephen BaxterISBN 0007117922 (0-00-711792-2)
Softcover, HarperCollinsPublishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Time Ships'Book summary:What if the time machine from H.G. Wells' classic novel of the same name had fallen into government hands? That's the question that led Stephen Baxter to create this modern-day sequel, which combines a basic Wellsian premise with a Baxteresque universe-spanning epic. The Time Traveller, driven by his failure to save Weena from the Morlocks, sets off again for the future. But this time the future has changed, altered by the very tale of the Traveller's previous journey. [via]
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