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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Family adventure based on the novel by Roald Dahl. The film centres
around an eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp), and
Charlie Bucket (Freddie Highmore), a good-hearted boy from a poor
family who lives in the shadow of Wonka's extraordinary factory.
Most nights in the Bucket home, dinner is a watered-down bowl of
cabbage soup, which young Charlie gladly shares with his mother
(Helena Bonham Carter) and father (Noah Taylor) and both pairs of
grandparents. They all live in a tiny, tumbledown, drafty old house
but it is filled with love. Every night, the last thing Charlie
sees from his window is the great factory, and he drifts off to
sleep dreaming about what might be inside. For nearly fifteen
years, no one has seen a single worker going in or coming out of
the factory, or caught a glimpse of Willy Wonka himself, yet,
mysteriously, great quantities of chocolate are still being made
and shipped to shops all over the world. One day Willy Wonka makes
a momentous announcement. He will open his famous factory and
reveal 'all of its secrets and magic' to five lucky children who
find golden tickets hidden inside five randomly selected Wonka
chocolate bars. When Charlie finds some money on the snowy street
and takes it to the nearest store for a Wonka Whipple-Scrumptious
Fudgemallow Delight he finds a golden ticket. The family decides
that Grandpa Joe (David Kelly) should be the one to accompany
Charlie on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Once inside, Charlie
is dazzled by one amazing sight after another.
The first steps to greatness
The blood tide that swept away the Bourbons in the terror of the
French revolution also heralded the Revolutionary Wars in which
Republican France not only sought to spread its doctrine through
Europe, but also had to initially contend with French Royalist
forces who fought to re-establish the old regime. In 1793, the
coastal town of Toulon in Southern France lay under siege. Its
defenders were French monarchists supported by Spanish, Sardinian
and British forces. Outside the defences, among the guns of his
beloved artillery, was a 24 year old major in the Republican Army.
His genius for war was here given free rein and was instrumental in
breaking the siege and bringing about a decisive victory for the
cause he espoused. Recognition of his achievement elevated him
swiftly to the rank of brigadier general and placed him at the hub
of French power in a Europe then seething with unrest and ripe for
sweeping change. That young man was, of course, Napoleon Bonaparte.
What may have occurred had anyone realised that this single man was
capable of overturning regimes and bathing the Continent in fire
and bloodshed until his eventual downfall over 20 years in the
future we may only speculate. This book explains that pivotal
moment in the history of the Western world as the man who would
become an emperor took his first steps on the path to greatness.
Available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket.
This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the
relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the
twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines
artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from
quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms.
The authors argue that art’s incursion into other intellectual
disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and
postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger
questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of
knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding
of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take
seriously? -- .
This ground-breaking new history of modern art explores the
relationship between art and knowledge from the beginning of the
twentieth century to the present day. Each chapter examines
artistic responses to a particular discipline of knowledge, from
quantum theory and theosophy to cybernetics and ethnic futurisms.
The authors argue that art’s incursion into other intellectual
disciplines is a defining characteristic of both modernism and
postmodernism. Throughout, the volume poses a series of larger
questions: is art a source of knowledge? If so, what kind of
knowledge? And, ultimately, can it contribute to our understanding
of the world in ways that thinkers from other fields should take
seriously? -- .
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