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Walking With Dinosaurs (DVD)
Charlie Rowe, Angourie Rice; Contributions by John Collee, Mike Devlin, Amanda Hill, …
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Discovery Miles 330
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Neil Nightingale and Barry Cook direct this adventure feature,
based on the 1999 BBC documentary series, which projects
computer-animated dinosaurs into live action settings to tell the
story of a young Pachyrhinosaurus. Patchi and his siblings Scowler
and Juniper are born into the dangerous world of the Cretaceous
period, where predators such as Gorgon the Gorgosaurus would be
only too happy to make a meal of them. Can Patchi make it to
adulthood and overcome the many hurdles required to become herd
leader? The voice cast includes Charlie Rowe and Angourie Rice.
Full of intriguing facts and literary quotations, this fun,
engaging and beautifully illustrated book explores the role of
money and medals in Shakespeare's world and works. Deniers and
ducats, groats and guilders, crowns and cruzados, the author
reveals how coins and medals illustrate the personalities and
events that shaped Shakespeare's world. Through lively and
informative text the reader will discover the role of money in
Shakespeare's life and career; how much people were paid and how
much things cost looking in detail at the theatre and currency and
how it changed. Shakespeare used coinage in his plays to give
crucial information on status and character, as a plot device and
to add local colour. Money provoked and motivated Shakespeare's
characters and this book engages with his monetary references to
reveal the meaning behind the metaphors and the significance of the
issues the playwright was addressing.
The study of Byzantine coins is essentially the study of
communications and movement of people and ideas, within and outside
Byzantium. This highly illustrated and accessible volume, winner of
the Royal Numismatic Society Lhotka Prize 2007 and nominated for
the Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award 2007,
focuses on over 50 coins to explore the empire's political and
socio-economic development and cultural relations with its
neighbours. It looks variously at city markets and the exchange of
goods between different parts of the Byzantine Empire; at
Byzantines travelling to the West; including trade between the
Svear and the Romans and trade with Britain; Byzantines travelling
to the East, including Armenia, Anatolia and China; the Byzantine
legacy in the Islamic world, including the cult of Alexander the
Great; and Western merchants in the East, particularly Venetians.
The study concludes with the story of the late Byzantine emperors
travelling to the West, and the impact their journeys had on
western European art.
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