This sweet, soft and stackable first cloth book is the perfect way to introduce babies to the wild world of dinosaurs! This beautiful dinosaur-themed cloth book features colourful, high-contrast illustrations on a coloured background, which will help babies develop their hand-eye coordination as they play with these wonderful and tactile books. Babies are born with undeveloped vision and researchers have found that they strongly prefer high-contrast images that stand out in their blurry new world. They can marvel at the brightly-coloured prehistoric creatures of all kinds on these soft cloth pages. The small and chunky cubed format makes it easy to grasp and play with. Babies can turn the cloth pages one by one, or seamlessly line up or stack the pages to create a bonus puzzle game! Little ones will be enthralled by these delightful and giftable books as they develop their vision and language skills, as well as hand-eye coordination. Other titles available in this series of beautiful cloth books are Ocean, Farm and Jungle.

This sweet, soft and stackable first cloth book is the perfect way to introduce babies to the animals around the farm! This beautiful farm-themed cloth book features first animal names and colourful, high-contrast illustrations on a coloured background. Babies are born with undeveloped vision and researchers have found that they strongly prefer high-contrast images that stand out in their blurry new world. They can marvel at the brightly-coloured farm animals of all kinds on these soft cloth pages. The small and chunky cubed format makes it easy to grasp and play with. Each book in the series sits inside a sturdy, reusable box featuring atmospheric illustrations. The boxes can be stacked and arranged to form different patterns as a bonus puzzle game! Little ones will be enthralled by these delightful and giftable books as they develop their vision and language skills, as well as hand-eye coordination. Other titles available in this series of beautiful cloth books are Dinosaurs, Ocean and Jungle.

This sweet, soft and stackable first cloth book is the perfect way to introduce babies to the ocean and all its creatures! This beautiful ocean-themed cloth book features first animal names and colourful, high-contrast illustrations on a coloured background. Babies are born with undeveloped vision and researchers have found that they strongly prefer high-contrast images that stand out in their blurry new world. They can marvel at the brightly-coloured ocean animals of all kinds on these soft cloth pages. The small and chunky cubed format makes it easy to grasp and play with. Each book in the series sits inside a sturdy, reusable box featuring atmospheric illustrations. The boxes can be stacked and arranged to form different patterns as a bonus puzzle game! Little ones will be enthralled by these delightful and giftable books as they develop their vision and language skills, as well as hand-eye coordination. Other titles available in this series of beautiful cloth books are Dinosaurs, Farm and Jungle.

This sweet, soft and stackable first cloth book is the perfect way to introduce babies to the animals of the jungle! This beautiful jungle-themed cloth book features first animal names and colourful, high-contrast illustrations on a coloured background. Babies are born with undeveloped vision and researchers have found that they strongly prefer high-contrast images that stand out in their blurry new world. They can marvel at the brightly-coloured jungle animals of all kinds on these soft cloth pages. The small and chunky cubed format makes it easy to grasp and play with. Each book in the series sits inside a sturdy, reusable box featuring atmospheric illustrations. The boxes can be stacked and arranged to form different patterns as a bonus puzzle game! Little ones will be enthralled by these delightful and giftable books as they develop their vision and language skills, as well as hand-eye coordination. Other titles available in this series of beautiful cloth books are Dinosaurs, Ocean and Farm.

One of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra A Penguin Classic When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust. Landing at the Havana doorstep of a trio of wealthy, eccentric Creole orphans, he sweeps them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, whose enslaved Africans he frees only then to exploit them in his fight against the British for colonial sovereignty. What ensues in Alejo Carpentier’s swashbuckling, magical realist masterpiece is an explosive clash between the New World and the Old World, and between revolutionary ideals and the corrupting allure of power.

Spend a day in France counting the dogs un-deux-trois, taking Doudou out for a walk, and playing until it's time for bonne nuit. Author Evelyne Holingue and illustrator Margaux Carpentier draw on their young lives in France to create an authentic picture of modern French life.

The best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction by Leonardo Padura A Penguin Classic Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants nothing more than to tear his life up from the root. He soon finds his escape hatch: a university-sponsored mission to South America to look for indigenous musical instruments in one of the few areas of the world not yet touched by civilization. Retracing the steps of time, he voyages with his lover into a land that feels outside of history, searching not just for music but ultimately for himself, and turning away from modernity toward the very heart of what makes us human.

This is the inspiring story of Wangari Maathai, women's rights activist and one of the first environmental warriors. Overcoming great obstacles, Wangari began the Green Belt Movement in Kenya in the 1960s, which focused on planting trees, environmental conservation and women's rights. She inspired thousands across Africa to plant 30 million trees in 30 years, saving many from hunger and poverty. Her remarkable story of courage and determination shows how just one person can change the world. The story shows children how desertification works: how land is eroded and degraded when trees aren't there to hold the soil in place so it's not taken away by winds and heavy rain. It explains how all living things are dependent on each other and if trees are taken away, then you not only lessen the fertility of the soil, but you lose the animals that live there and then the animals that rely on those animals for food and so on. As well as explaining important green issues, the book also talks about Wangari's fight for human rights and shows how important it is to stand up for what you believe. The gripping narrative non-fiction text by Gwendolyn Hooks, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children, hooks readers from the start. Vibrant illustrations from print-maker Margaux Carpentier, one of the featured artists in Taschen's The Illustrator: 100 Best from around the World, vividly evoke Wangari's amazing life story.The consultant, Dr Jane Irungu, grew up in Kenya, but is now a Professor at the University of Oklahoma. She was inspired by Wangari when she was growing up and went on to get a PhD just as Wangari did. 'Carpentier's saturated geometric illustrations emphasize the bold impact of Maathai's actions', Publishers Weekly, May 2021

The Challenge of Complexity gathers in one volume over 32 essays by the esteemed French philosopher and sociologist, Edgar Morin, probably Frances greatest living public intellectual. The essays span six decades of his career, addressing topics such as complexity, sociology, ecology, education, film, biology, and politics. At his centenary (July 2021), Morin holds honorary doctorates from over 20 universities in Europe and Latin America, and recently the Centre dEtudes Transdisciplinaires, Sociologie, Anthropologie, Histoire, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the prestigious French National Research Center, was renamed the Centre Edgar-Morin. He is also the UNESCO Chair of Complex Thought. Several university centres and institutes have been dedicated to advancing his work in Europe and Latin America. He is the author of more than 80 books, translated into 28 languages, and the 1960 documentary Chronicle of a Summer, which he co-directed with Jean Rouch, has become a classic and the first example of cinema verite. Morins work on complexity is distinct from the mathematically driven science of complexity. He argues for an epistemological revolution and focuses on the need to develop complex thought to address the lived complexity of an interconnected, interdependent, uncertain world. Morins contribution in such a wide range of disciplines has been influential because of his ability to bring complex thought to bear on seemingly diverse topics, reflecting on the limitations of how they are approached and articulating a transdisciplinary way that doesnt sacrifice complexity in an effort to find an oversimplified clarity. Morin illuminates the complexity and creativity of the world and of our lived experience, and invites us to participate in the creative process that is existence itself. A substantive overview of Morins philosophical journey by Alfonso Montuori introduces the reader to Morins remarkable work and life. And the work is completed by a substantive Letter from Edgar Morin, putting his lifes work in the context of recent advances in Science and the Humanities.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, economic and historical context, avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.

Telescopes and clocks and trains- all big ideas from human brains! From bridges and boats to medicines and mobile phones, this book takes readers on a journey of discovery through all the amazing inventions human beings have come up with. Learn how rocks and stones helped create the pyramids and how modern materials such as concrete and nylon have changed our lives. Lively rhyming text by James Carter and electrifying illustrations by Margaux Carpentier

Tracing the predominance of Hellenic maternal archetypes in the writings of James Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf back to anthropologist Jane Harrison, this book discusses HarrisonAs influence over the modernist movement (late 19th and early 20th centuries). Myth criticism is established in this analystical text as one of the best apporaches to modernist fiction, most of which sought consciously to incorporate myth and ritual. The book revises what the author considers to be overemphasis on Frazer as the major anthroplogical influence on these writers by illuminating the historical development of comparative anthropology and redefining simplistic definitions of ritual theory. The author analyzes in detail the influence of HarrisonAs work on the works of these authors and shows how HarrisonAs more feminist view of Greek religion was inspirational for Joyce, Eliot and Woolf.

This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it sometimes works against them. Rethinking social change, mediatisation and regulations are thus significant issues - explicitly addressed in this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection; critical voices matter, but they also face structural limitations. This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost - The Public.

This book is devoted to the theory of legal theory, also referred to as the "meta-theory of law".The aim of this emerging discipline is to determine the objectives, aims and methods of legal theory, and to establish the conditions of possibility as well as the validity criteria for theoretical discourse on law. The contributions in this book provide an overview of these aspects through different perspectives and approaches.The very purpose of legal theory has been disputed and the subject area is currently subject to increasing cross-fertilization between different, and sometimes diverging, traditions. Meta-theory of Law assesses these emerging trends by questioning two basic objects of legal theory, the "nature" and the "science" of law.

Four "Father Brown" short story mysteries by G. K. Chesterton adapted for young readers by Nancy Carpentier Brown and illustrated by Ted Schluenderfritz, featuring: A sapphire cross rescued . . . "The Blue Cross"A set of silverware recovered . . . . "The Strange Feet"A trio of diamonds restored . . . . "The Flying Stars"A magician's puzzle solved . . . . "The Absence of Mr. Glass"Recommended for 4th - 5th grade.

Follow the evolution of plants and animals, from the first living things 6 billion years ago to the animals living in the world today. Darwin's Tree of Life shows how the incredible diversity of life on earth came to be. This beautifully illustrated book starts from the dawn of life and shows the order in which plants and animals evolved, the different branches of 'The Tree of Life', and how plants and animals have changed over time in many amazingly different ways. Find out: * why crabs run sideway * which fish was the first to walk on land * why birds are similar to dinosaurs * why human brains are located in the head and not in our feet. which creatures can survive 30 years without eating * which mammal has the strongest bite of any predator * why hedgehogs have spines Stunningly illustrated by illustrator and print maker, Margaux Carpentier, children will enjoy finding out about a whole world of wonderful animals on our amazing planet Earth. The author, Michael Bright, has worked as an executive producer with the BBC's world-renowned Natural History Unit, based in Bristol, and with its Science Unit in London. He is author of over a hundred books on wildlife, science, travel, and conservation, including many for children. His bestseller Africa: Eye to Eye with the Unknown accompanied the popular television series presented by Sir David Attenborough. He is the recipient of many international radio and television awards, including the prestigious Prix Italia. He is a graduate of the University of London and a corporate biologist and member of the Royal Society of Biology. This book is perfect for the study of evolution, adaptation and inheritance in KS2 and KS2 science and covers topics such as classification, habitats and conservation.

The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our social relations. This book embeds these transformations in a societal, cultural, technological, ideological, economic and historical context, avoiding a naive privileging of technology as the main societal driving force, but also avoiding the media-centric reduction of society to the audiences that are situated within. Audience Transformations provides a platform for a nuanced and careful analysis of the main changes in European communicational practices, and their social, cultural and technological affordances.

This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it sometimes works against them. Rethinking social change, mediatisation and regulations are thus significant issues - explicitly addressed in this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection; critical voices matter, but they also face structural limitations. This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost - The Public.

Originally published in 1946 and never before available in English, Music in Cuba is not only the best and most extensive study of Cuban musical history, it is a work of literature. Drawing on such primary documents as church circulars and musical scores, Carpentier encompasses European-style elite Cuban music as well as the popular rural Spanish folk and urban Afro-Cuban music.

The book combines photography and written text to analyse the role of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case study, the book shows how these memorials often support, but sometimes also undermine, the discursive-material assemblage of nationalism.