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]]> 54479 252 Jules Verne 014044906X Peterk 3 3.95 1872
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]]> 102576 STEP INTO A NIGHTMARE WORLD OF HELLISH HORROR...

Crawling, clawing, sliming horror, seeping from the night-tipped pen of that Grand Master of heart-stopping supernatural terror - H.P. LOVECRAFT

Sample a dark universe peopled with gods best forgotten and strange races best left undiscovered. Shudder in the dank breath of an ages-old evil blowing icily from the dusk-shrouded eons of a time before history. Savour, in this classic collection of masterpieces of the weird and eerie, the grave-fresh tang of total fear. Here is horror to set your skin crawling from your spine's base to your scalp - and back again.

Cover illustration by Tim White.

Content:

Introduction, by August Derleth

--Dagon
--The Tomb
--Polaris
--Beyond the Wall of Sleep
--The Doom that came to Sarnath
--The White Ship
--Arthur Jermyn
--The Cats of Ulthar
--Celephais
--From Beyond
--The Temple
--The Tree
--The Moon-bog
--The Nameless City
--The Other Gods
--The Quest of Iranon
--Herbert West - Reanimator
--The Hound
--Hypnos
--The Festival
--The Unnamable
--Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
--He
--The Horror at Red Hook
--The Strange High House in the Mist
--In the Walls of Eryx
--The Evil Clergyman

Early Tales

--The Beast in the Cave
--The Alchemist
--Poetry and the Gods
--The Street
--The Transition of Juan Romero

Fragments

--Azathoth
--The Descendant
--The Book
--The Thing in the Moonlight

--Supernatural Horror in Literature (less)]]> 512 H.P. Lovecraft 0586063242 Peterk 5 4.12
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]]> 6443834 ¤½¤·¤Æ2009Äê¡¢¡º1²Ï84¡»¤ÏÄæ¤Î·½Ïò¤«¤é1984Äê¤òÃ褤¤¿½ü¹ýȥСÕh¤Ç¤¢¤ë¡£
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˽¤¿¤Á¤¬Éú¤­¤Æ¤¤¤ëÏÖÔÚ¤¬¡¢¡¸¤½¤¦¤Ç¤Ï¤Ê¤«¤Ã¤¿¤«¤â¤·¤ì¤Ê¤¤¡¹ÊÀ½ç¤Ç¤¢¤ë¤Î¤È¡¢¤Á¤ç¤¦¤Éͬ¤¸¤è¤¦¤Ë¡£±Õ±Õ> 554 Haruki Murakami 4103534222 Peterk 4 4.02 2009
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]]> 58973
The book was originally released in 1977 by Schlangekraft, Inc. in a limited edition hardback printing, followed by a paperback release by Avon Books, and a subsequent paperback release by Bantam Books.

Levenda did acknowledge working on the book with Simon. Ian Punnett made a reference to interviewing "Simon" and mentioned similarities with Peter Levenda and asked Peter to "say hello to Simon for him, next time he saw him", to which Peter laughed and said that he would.]]> 288 Simon 0380751925 Peterk 5 3.20 1977
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How can you not give 5 stars to the Necronomicon? The stars are right for the Law of Fives! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu F'htagn!
]]> 35178226
Fukase¡¯s haunting series of work was made between 1975 and 1986 in the aftermath of a divorce and was apparently triggered by a mournful train journey to his hometown. The coastal landscapes of Hokkaido serve as the backdrop for his profoundly dark and impressionistic photographs of ominous flocks of crows. The work has been interpreted as an ominous allegory for postwar Japan.]]> 148 Masahisa Fukase Peterk 5 photography 4.82 1986
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What a superb dark & sad tale... Blew me away and will probably continue to do so for many years.
]]> 16286 The Magus is Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who accepts a teaching position on a remote Greek island, where he befriends a local millionaire. The friendship soon evolves into a deadly game, in which reality and fantasy are deliberately manipulated, and Nicholas finds that he must fight not only for his sanity but for his very survival.]]> 656 John Fowles 0316296198 Peterk 5 fiction 4.06 1965
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]]> 14577509 192 Christopher Bonanos 1616890851 Peterk 3 3.85 2012
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]]> 34445370 272 Rhiannon Adam 0500544603 Peterk 4 4.16
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]]> 50323
"Every one of these cartoons is just something that drifted into my head when I was alone with my thoughts. And, for better or worse, I 'jotted' them down. It was only later, when perhaps I received an angry letter from someone, that it struck me: Hey! Someone's been reading my diary!"

Gary Larson, from the preface to The Complete Far Side

Revered by its fans as the funniest, most original, most "What the ... ?"-inspiring cartoon ever, The Far Side? debuted in January 1980 and enjoyed an illustrious 14 years on the worlds comics pages until Gary Larson's retirement in 1994.

The Complete Far Side celebrates Gary's twisted, irreverent genius in this ultimate Far Side book, a lavish production, which takes its place alongside collector's-edition art books.

A masterpiece of comic brilliance, The Complete Far Side contains every Far Side cartoon ever syndicated over 4,000 if you must know presented in (more or less) chronological order by year of publication, with more than 1,100 that
have never before appeared in a book. Also included are additional Far Side cartoons Larson created after
his retirement: 13 that appeared in the last Far Side book,
Last Chapter and Worse, and six cartoons that periodically ran as a special feature in The New York Times Science Times section as The Far Side of Science.

Creator Gary Larson offers a rare glimpse into the mind of The Far Side?in quirky and thoughtful introductions to each of the 14 chapters. Complaint letters, fan letters, and queries from puzzled readers appear alongside some of the more provocative or elusive panels. Actor, author,and comedian Steve Martin offers his pithy thoughts in a foreword, and Gary
Larson's former editor describes what it was like to be "the guy who could explain every Far Side cartoon."

The Complete Far Side ? 2003 by FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
The Far Side ? and the Larson ? signature
are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.]]> 1272 Gary Larson 0740721135 Peterk 0 currently-reading 4.68 2003
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]]> 7381647 The Book of Awesome is a high five for humanity and a big celebration of life's little moments:

? Popping Bubble Wrap
? Wearing underwear just out of the dryer
? Fixing electronics by smacking them
? Getting called up to the dinner buffet first at a wedding
? Watching The Price Is Right when you're home sick
? Hitting a bunch of green lights in a row
? Waking up and realizing it's Saturday

Sometimes it's easy to forget the things that make us smile. With a 24/7 news cycle reporting that the polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are swirling in the seas, wars are heating up around the world, and the job market is in a deep freeze, it's tempting to feel that the world is falling apart. But awesome things are all around us-sometimes we just need someone to point them out.

The Book of Awesome reminds us that the best things in life are free (yes, your grandma was right). With laugh-out-loud observations from award- winning comedy writer Neil Pasricha, The Book of Awesome is filled with smile-inducing moments on every page that make you feel like a kid looking at the world for the first time. Read it and you'll remember all the things there are to feel good about.

The Book of Awesome reminds us of all the little things that we often overlook but that make us smile. With touching, warm, and funny observations, each entry ends with the big booming feeling you'll get when you read through them: AWESOME!]]> 393 Neil Pasricha 0399156518 Peterk 0 to-read 3.78 2010
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]]> 41014989 Stephen Fry tackles alternate history, What if Hitler had never been born?
?
Michael Young is a graduate student at Cambridge who is completing his dissertation on the early life of Adolf Hitler. Leo Zuckerman is an aging German physicist and Holocaust survivor. Together they idealistically embark on an experiment to change the course of history. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours¡ªbut in most ways even worse. Fry¡¯s sci-fi-tinged experiment in history makes for an ambitious and deeply affecting novel.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 594 Stephen Fry 1616955260 Peterk 0 to-read 3.89 1996
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]]> 17899948 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.]]> 449 Daphne du Maurier 0316323705 Peterk 0 to-read 4.28 1938
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]]> 29952074


Looking at the outside of things such as architecture, anatomy, or vehicles does not usually reveal much about their internal structures and functions. To learn more, we need to see inside them. Look Inside features infographics that cut up or take apart their subjects and make them transparent. The resulting cross sections and interior views present precise detail in multiple layers.



Look Inside starts with a discussion of Arnhem Land, the earliest known cutaway illustrations, showing that even 28,000 years ago, humans had a fascination with how things internally the processes that are hidden from the human eye. Including work from both centuries past and the cutting-edge present, Look Inside is an unparalleled compendium of cutaway techniques and their wide-ranging applications. Works from Jewish-German physician Fritz Kahn¡¯s imagine the human body as a mechanized factory; Kahn¡¯s visual metaphors show conveyor belts and offices instead of veins and valves. Exploded images of classic sports cars allows Fabian Oefner to show every piece of the automotive puzzle from the body shell to individual tiny screws. Richard Orr¡¯s scientific pieces represent the natural world and continue in the genre¡¯s traditional thread of handmade illustrations; whether a beaver lodge or an arctic circle landscape, Orr presents a vivid natural world or layers and scientific hierarchies. The luxurious collection within Look Inside was curated by renowned information designers and creative directors, Samuel and Juan Velasco. The Velasco brothers have provided invaluable and inspirational insight in the history and theory of cutaway illustrations and visual storytelling.]]> 256 Juan Velasco 3899556399 Peterk 0 to-read 4.30
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]]> 49933576 'Highly stimulating ... Kraftwerk is a pleasure to read' Jon Savage, New Statesman

The story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape

'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock traditions, experimenting in near-total secrecy in their D¨¹sseldorf studio, Kraftwerk fused sound and technology, graphic design and performance, modernist Bauhaus aesthetics and Rhineland industrialisation - even human and machine - to change the course of modern music. This is the story of Kraftwerk the cultural phenomenon, who turned electronic music into avant-garde concept art and created the soundtrack to our digital age.]]> 336 Uwe Sch¨¹tte 0141986751 Peterk 3 non-fiction 3.65 2018
author: Uwe Sch¨¹tte
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]]> 100085 NIGHTMARE STORIES FROM THE LAND OF TOTAL FEAR

Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft produced works of enduring power. Now gathered together into this omnibus volume are seven classics of screaming supernatural terror and vilest horror...

Front cover illustration by Tim White.

Contents:

- Introduction: H. P. Lovecraft's Novels by August Derleth
- At the Mountains of Madness
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
- The Dreams in the Witch-House
- The Statement of Randolph Carter
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- The Silver Key
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key]]> 552 H.P. Lovecraft 0586063226 Peterk 5 4.17 1964
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]]> 35960238
Using letters as the basic elements, the book demonstrates how all repeat pattern-making comes out of four simple operations: translation, rotation, reflection, and glide reflection. It will provide the definitive one-stop pattern-making resource for professional designers and students across disciplines, from textiles and fashion to graphic design and architecture.]]> 160 Paul Jackson 178627129X Peterk 0 to-read 4.09
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]]> 42461093
Using a variety of examples, each chapter contains a detailed description of the procedure from form analysis to setting up design rules and their application. Both a workbook and a source of inspiration, this publication provides designers and architects with the tools they need to find analytical forms¨Danalog, algorithm-based, exploratory but never of arbitrary origin.

The procedures described allows for an almost infinite number of possibilities. The designer is thus transformed from inventor to interpreter or curator, who assesses individual forms for logos, fonts or patterns on the fly and ensures that the design process is always efficient and goal-oriented.]]> 304 Christoph Gr¨¹nberger 3037785934 Peterk 0 to-read 4.41
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]]> 17847853
If you've ever thought that mathematics and art don't mix, this stunning visual history of geometry will change your mind. As much a work of art as a book about mathematics, Beautiful Geometry presents more than sixty exquisite color plates illustrating a wide range of geometric patterns and theorems, accompanied by brief accounts of the fascinating history and people behind each. With artwork by Swiss artist Eugen Jost and text by math historian Eli Maor, this unique celebration of geometry covers numerous subjects, from straightedge-and-compass constructions to intriguing configurations involving infinity. The result is a delightful and informative illustrated tour through the 2,500-year-old history of one of the most important branches of mathematics.]]> 208 Eli Maor 0691150990 Peterk 0 to-read 3.88 2013
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]]> 29150489 Images are omnipresent in our digital age, but they're worth a closer look. Many of them can tell us stories in new and surprising ways. Photoviz reveals how infographics and data visualization are currently impacting photography and points to innovative possibilities for the future.
Today, data is being visualized through photographic techniques such as long and multiple exposures. Insightful information is being communicated by making a single image out of several different shots or using a 3D perspective. The work featured in Photoviz, to cite only a few compelling examples, makes invisible Wi-Fi fields visible, allows airport flight activity from a full day to appear as if it were happening at once, and illustrates the average selfietaking behavior of an entire city.]]> 240 Nicholas Felton 3899556453 Peterk 0 to-read 4.30
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]]> 34353812
Filled with photographs, models, drawings and diagrams, Deployable Structures is packed with inspirational ideas for architecture students and practitioners.]]> 160 Esther Rivas Adrover Peterk 0 to-read 4.75
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]]> 32073508
This book looks at every facet of the subject, examining the different types of air structure: super pressure buildings, air beam structures, buoyant structures, inflatable structures, and many more. It also looks at the construction methods that use air, such as air-inflated steel, aerated concrete and blow moulding.

Filled with photographs, models, drawings, and diagrams, this is the ideal book for curious students, designers and architects.]]> 160 Will McLean Peterk 0 to-read 4.00 2015
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]]> 30364396 160 Asterios Agkathidis 1780679475 Peterk 0 to-read 3.91
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]]> 25752376
This attractive, pocket-sized book uses 12 different architectural projects to explore how generative design processes can integrate digital as well as physical design tools and techniques to produce innovative forms that cohere with structural and material principles, performance, and context.

Illustrated with drawings, computer images, and models, this stimulating, accessible handbook of ideas provides a guide for students as well as an inspiration for practicing architects.]]> 160 Asterios Agkathidis 1780676913 Peterk 0 to-read 3.95 2016
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]]> 26196056 #thefastguidetoarchitecturalform]]> 144 Baires Raffaelli 9063694113 Peterk 0 to-read 4.45 2016
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]]> 13592090
This approach was devised, tested, and applied to architectural studio instruction by Anthony Di Mari and Nora Yoo while teaching at Harvard University's Career Discovery Program in Architecture in 2010. As instructors and as recent graduates, they saw a need for this kind of catalogue from both sides - as a reference manual applicable to design students in all stages of their studies, as well as a teaching tool for instructors to help students understand the strong spatial potential of abstract operations.]]> 144 Anthony di Mari 9063692897 Peterk 0 to-read 4.13 2012
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]]> 22248996 60 Anthony di Mari 9063693656 Peterk 0 to-read 4.17 2014
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]]> 38799981 A guidebook to the wild world of communist minimalism in Tito's Yugoslavia

Spomenik--the Serbo-Croat/Slovenian word for monument--refers to the memorials built in Tito's Republic of Yugoslavia from the 1960s to the 1980s, marking the horror of the occupation and the defeat of Axis forces during World War II. Hundreds were built across the country, from coastal resorts to remote mountains. Through these imaginative forms of concrete and steel, a classless, forward-looking socialist society, free of ethnic tensions, was envisaged. Instead of looking to the ideologically aligned Soviet Union for artistic inspiration, Tito turned to the West and works of abstract expressionism and minimalism. This allowed Yugoslavia to develop its own distinct identity through the monuments, turning them into political tools, articulating Tito's personal vision of a new tomorrow.

Today, following the breakup of the country and the subsequent Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, some have been destroyed or abandoned. Many have suffered the consequences of ethnic tensions: once viewed as symbols of hope, they are now the focus of resentment and anger.

This book brings together the largest collection of spomeniks published to date. Each has been extensively photographed and researched by the author, making this book the most comprehensive survey of this obscure and fascinating architectural phenomenon. The inside of the book's dust jacket opens out as a map, giving the exact geographic coordinates for each monument.]]> 208 Donald Niebyl 0995745536 Peterk 0 to-read 4.60 2018
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]]> 825481 His subject matter ¨D the leaves, buds, stems, seed pods, tendrils, and twigs of plant life ¨D sparkles with an honest simplicity and clarity that discloses not only the wonder and science of nature, but also the distinct similarities between the form developed by nature and that produced by man. In the infinite variety of form in the plant world, Blossfeldt found many examples of shape and structure that, when photographed his way, resemble the forms of man's artistic (particularly architectural) styles ¨D from Gothic through Art Nouveau. His images imply that man's art mirrors nature and suggest that nature, in its continuous reproduction and adaptation, also creates its own art.
Blossfeldt's exquisite and historically important photographs continue to be prominently exhibited and acclaimed throughout the world. Painstakingly reproduced for this edition, his 120 unretouched plates will delight artists and illustrators, naturalists and philosophers, photographers, and anyone who is intrigued by the beauty, form, and design of nature.]]> 128 Karl Blossfeldt 0486249905 Peterk 0 to-read 4.25 1928
author: Karl Blossfeldt
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]]> 1723212 128 Karl Blossfeldt 0486400034 Peterk 0 to-read 4.33 1998
author: Karl Blossfeldt
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]]> 26889858
Beginning with an introduction charting the rise of prototyping in design history, this cutting-edge volume for students and professionals presents an extensive range of prototyping techniques, followed by a selection of 30 projects by leading contemporary international architects.

Jane and Mark Burry explain how prototyping at a miniature scale helps communicate complex spatial ideas; how prototyping empowers the architect-designer to test and prove a building¡¯s feasibility; and how additive (3D printing) or subtractive (robotic milling) prototyping can lead to exciting new design possibilities. A reference section, which includes a glossary of technical terms, offers further information and clarification. 500+ color illustrations]]> 272 Jane Burry 0500343055 Peterk 0 to-read 4.20 2016
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]]> 20544285 336 Farshid Moussavi 1940291305 Peterk 0 to-read 4.64 2014
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]]> 3273850 280 Tomoko Sakamoto 8496540790 Peterk 0 to-read 4.06 2008
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]]> 9615038
Recently, however, digital design tools and massive computer processing power, along with an increasing interest in physics and pure mathematics, have given architects the means to describe and build spatial constructs that would have been inconceivable even ten years ago.

This carefully researched survey of some forty international projects¨Dlargely built¨Doffers an overview of how different strategies are being employed through accessible illustrations and clear text. Each section presents case studies of projects by globally recognized architects through diagrams, photographs, and texts. 300 color and 200 black-and-white photographs and illustrations]]> 272 Jane Burry 0500342644 Peterk 0 to-read 4.04 2010
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]]> 17368305
Through a detailed description of various parametric, generative, and algorithmic techniques, this book provides a practical guide to generating geometric and topological solutions for various situations, including explicit step-by-step tutorials that will enable the reader to understand both general concepts and specific computational algorithms. While the techniques and algorithms can be generalized to suit to any parametric environment, the book illustrates its concepts using the scripting languages of one of the most powerful 3D visualization and animation design software systems (Autodesk 3ds Max MAXScript), one of the most popular open-source Java-based scripting environments (Processing), and a brand new language specifically tailored for parametric and generative design (Autodesk DesignScript).

This clear, accessible book will have a wide appeal to students who would like to experiment more with parametric techniques but lack the skills and knowledge to do so. Includes a foreword by Robert Woodbury and an afterword by Brian Johnson.]]> 208 Wassim Jabi 1780673140 Peterk 0 to-read 4.23 2013
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]]> 34761126 Physically Based Modeling and Animation goes behind the scenes of computer animation and details the mathematical and algorithmic foundations that are used to determine the behavior underlying the movement of virtual objects and materials. Dr. Donald House and Dr. John Keyser offer an approachable, hands-on view of the equations and programming that form the foundations of this field. They guide readers from the beginnings of modeling and simulation to more advanced techniques, enabling them to master what they need to know in order to understand and create their own animations

Emphasizes the underlying concepts of the field, and is not tied to any particular software package, language, or API. Develops concepts in mathematics, physics, numerical methods, and software design in a highly integrated way, enhancing both motivation and understanding. Progressively develops the material over the book, starting from very basic techniques, and building on these to introduce topics of increasing complexity. Motivates the topics by tying the underlying physical and mathematical techniques directly to applications in computer animation.]]> 404 Donald H. House Peterk 0 to-read 0.0
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]]> 1323272 830 Kenny Erleben 1584503807 Peterk 0 to-read 3.20 2005
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]]> 2845024
Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates¡ªat the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious "extras" in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was "collected." But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change.

Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros¡ªa threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose¡ªas, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world¡ªas he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.]]> 937 Neal Stephenson 0061474096 Peterk 0 to-read 4.16 2008
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name: Peterk
average rating: 4.16
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]]> 24967817 Sapiens neemt Yuval Noah Harari ons mee op een fascinerende reis door de geschiedenis van de mensheid. Wie zijn we? Waar komen we vandaan? En hoe zijn we zo geworden als we nu zijn? In zijn aanstekelijke relaas laat Harari ons kennismaken met het meest dominante wezen op aarde: de mens.]]> 410 Yuval Noah Harari 9400403283 Peterk 4 non-fiction 4.07 2011
author: Yuval Noah Harari
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> 25329850 Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, things are explained in the style of Up Goer Five, using only drawings and a vocabulary of the 1,000 (or "ten hundred") most common words. Explore computer buildings (datacenters), the flat rocks we live on (tectonic plates), the things you use to steer a plane (airliner cockpit controls), and the little bags of water you're made of (cells).]]> 64 Randall Munroe 0544668251 Peterk 3 non-fiction 4.14 2015
author: Randall Munroe
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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]]> 23692271 512 Yuval Noah Harari Peterk 4 non-fiction 4.33 2011
author: Yuval Noah Harari
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2011
rating: 4
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]]> 25405 176 Jostein Gaarder 1858817692 Peterk 5 3.87 1993
author: Jostein Gaarder
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1993
rating: 5
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]]> 300946
Feelings too complex for words are rendered into an imaginary landscape where the child wanders, oblivious to the glimmer of promise in the shape of a tiny red leaf.

Everything seems hopeless until the child returns to her room and sees the red tree. At that perfect moment of beauty and purity, the child smiles and her world stirs anew.

With sensitivity and wonder, Shaun Tan's evocative images in The Red Tree open a window to our inexplicable emotions and tell a story about the power of hope, renewal and inspiration.]]> 32 Shaun Tan 0968876838 Peterk 5 comic-graphic-novel 4.51 2001
author: Shaun Tan
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.51
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rating: 5
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]]> 18325450 Learn to Program with Scratchshows just how much you can do with Scratch and teaches you essential, universal programming concepts along the way.

In Learn to Program with Scratch, author Majed Marji takes you on a tour through Scratch's surprisingly powerful features to teach programming concepts like procedures, variables, loops, recursion, decision making, and lists. You will use your new-found skills to create science simulations, math projects, and even some fun arcade games! Each chapter offers a summary and practice exercises at the end to make sure the lessons stick.

Scratch is an incredibly fun and easy language to learn, plus you can do some seriously potent programming with it. Learn to Program with Scratch will help you get the most out of Scratch and begin your journey into the world of programming.]]> 288 Majed Marji 1593275439 Peterk 3 non-fiction 4.21 2014
author: Majed Marji
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> 22522805
The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.

Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.

Included on TIME Magazine's "THE 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME"]]> 317 Kazuo Ishiguro 030727103X Peterk 0 to-read 3.56 2015
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name: Peterk
average rating: 3.56
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]]> 39916
Epileptic gathers together and makes available in English for the first time all six volumes of the internationally acclaimed graphic work.

David B. was born Pierre-Fran?ois Beauchard in a small town near Orl¨¦ans, France. He spent an idyllic early childhood playing with the neighborhood kids and, along with his older brother, Jean-Christophe, ganging up on his little sister, Florence. But their lives changed abruptly when Jean-Christophe was struck with epilepsy at age eleven. In search of a cure, their parents dragged the family to acupuncturists and magnetic therapists, to mediums and macrobiotic communes. But every new cure ended in disappointment as Jean-Christophe, after brief periods of remission, would only get worse.

Angry at his brother for abandoning him and at all the quacks who offered them false hope, Pierre-Fran?ois learned to cope by drawing fantastically elaborate battle scenes, creating images that provide a fascinating window into his interior life. An honest and horrifying portrait of the disease and of the pain and fear it sowed in the family, Epileptic is also a moving depiction of one family¡¯s intricate history. Through flashbacks, we are introduced to the stories of Pierre-Fran?ois¡¯s grandparents and we relive his grandfathers¡¯ experiences in both World Wars. We follow Pierre-Fran?ois through his childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, all the while charting his complicated relationship with his brother and Jean-Christophe¡±s losing battle with epilepsy. Illustrated with beautiful and striking black-and-white images, Epileptic is as astonishing, intimate, and heartbreaking as the best literary memoir.

Contents:
Tome 1, 1996, pp. 1-52
Tome 2, 1997, pp. 53-112
Tome 3, 1998, pp. 113-164
Tome 4, 1999, pp. 165-216
Tome 5, 2000, pp. 217-276
Tome 6, 2003, pp. 277-362]]> 362 David B. 0375714685 Peterk 3 comic-graphic-novel 3.88 1996
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name: Peterk
average rating: 3.88
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]]> 270763
It is not apparent whether the eponymous character is a hero, an antihero or simply a definitive example of the surreal Fantasy and Science Fiction storytelling made popular by French comics magazine M¨¦tal Hurlant and its English language counterpart Heavy Metal. What it is apparent is that Moebius has created a truly unique world populated by strange and fascinating characters.

Arzach is recognizable by his cone-shaped hat, his flowing cloak, and the stern yet gentle expression on his wind-burned face. He rides a creature that resembles an albino pterodactyl across bleak desert landscapes, where he encounters remnants of lost civilizations. His experiences are both dramatic and absurd, and his meandering journeys are as mystifying as they are humorous.]]> 72 Jean 'Moebius' Giraud 0871352796 Peterk 5 4.34 1976
author: Jean 'Moebius' Giraud
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.34
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]]> 1552769 The Long Tomorrow (written by Dan O'Bannon), Variation #4027 on The Theme and Is Man Good? by Jean "Moebius" Giraud.]]> 64 M?bius 2731605537 Peterk 4 4.05 1988
author: M?bius
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> 23267014 Kom hier dat ik u kus is een roman over Mona, als kind, als vierentwintigjarige, en als vijfendertigjarige. Een verhaal over waarom we worden wie we zijn, geschreven met humor, scherpte en veel schaamteloze eerlijkheid. Over ouders en kinderen. Over kapotte mensen en hoe zij ongewild anderen ook kapotmaken. Over waar verantwoordelijkheid eindigt en schuld begint. Over geheimen en eenzaamheid. Over ziekte en zwijgen. Over de gevaren van sterk zijn. Over vergeten en niet kunnen vergeten. Over jezelf durven redden. En natuurlijk ook nog over de liefde. Omdat dat alles is wat we hebben, of toch bijna.]]> 382 Griet Op de Beeck 9044623109 Peterk 4 fiction 3.97 2014
author: Griet Op de Beeck
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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]]> 34890015 Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.

When asked simple questions about global trends¡ªwhat percentage of the world¡¯s population live in poverty; why the world¡¯s population is increasing; how many girls finish school¡ªwe systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective¡ªfrom our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).

Our problem is that we don¡¯t know what we don¡¯t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn¡¯t mean there aren¡¯t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.

Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future. ]]> 342 Hans Rosling 1473637465 Peterk 5 non-fiction 4.34 2018
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name: Peterk
average rating: 4.34
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Nothing short of brilliant - definitely one of the rare occasions where I feel literally EVERYBODY should read this. Tastes in literature may differ, but when it comes to the critical and compassionate mind, no exceptions can be allowed. The insights from Hans are communicated in a way no deep dive in statistics has to be made, and it is humbling to see that even as a well educated human being, a lot of what you (think you) know about the world is plain wrong.
]]> 17364 Er hat die Quantenphysik revolutioniert und war einer der ersten Popstars der Physik. Seine Autobiografie zeigt Richard P. Feynman als talentierten Geschichtenerz?hler mit Sinn f¨¹r Witz und Tiefgang.


Theoretische Physik ist staubig? Ein Professor denkt nur an den Nobelpreis und seine Forschung? Nicht so Richard P. Feynman! In zahlreichen Schriften und B¨¹chern hat der Magier der Quantenelektrodynamik schon Mitte des vergangenen Jahrhunderts bewiesen, dass Wissenschaft spannend, lustig und auch ein Abenteuer f¨¹r Laien ist.


?Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!? versammelt autobiografische Anekdoten aus dem Leben des Vordenkers zu einem witzigen Einblick in den Aufstieg und die Karriere des nonchalanten Wissenschaftlers.


Feynman-Fans und -Einsteiger lernen einen Menschen kennen, der von Anfang an der ?berzeugung gewesen ist, dass Wissenschaft nicht zum Selbstzweck existiert und es keinen Grund gibt, nicht ¨¹ber sich selbst zu lachen.


?Ich w¨¹rde nicht zwei Mal sterben wollen. Es ist so langweilig.? ¨C Richard P. Feynman


Einen Nobelpreistr?ger f¨¹r Physik erlebt man selten als derart mitrei?enden Geschichtenerz?hler. ?Sie belieben wohl zu scherzen, Mr. Feynman!? begeistert Leser authentischer Biografien genauso wie Neugierige und aufstrebende Wissenschaftler.]]> 350 Richard P. Feynman 009917331X Peterk 4 non-fiction 4.29 1985
author: Richard P. Feynman
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.29
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]]> 337116 Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant - diplomat and spy. Their adventure begins with the discovery of a box of punched Engine cards of unknown origin and purpose. Cards someone wants badly enough to kill for...

Part detective story, part historical thriller, The Difference Engine is the first collaborative novel by two of the most brilliant and controversial science fiction authors of our time. Provocative, compelling, intensely imagined, it is a startling extension of Gibson's and Sterling's unique visions - in a new and totally unexpected direction!]]> 429 William Gibson 055329461X Peterk 4 fiction 3.49 1990
author: William Gibson
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.49
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> 22040598 what? to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the 11th hour isn't making it any easier!?

This is a story of desire taken to the edge of reason and beyond; of the frantic, clumsy dance steps of young love; and a gorgeous, street-level portrait of the world's greatest city. It's about the small, warm, human moments of everyday life¡­and the great surging forces that lie just under the surface.?Scott McCloud wrote the book on how comics work; now he vaults into great fiction with a breathtaking, funny, and unforgettable new work.]]> 488 Scott McCloud 1596435739 Peterk 4 comic-graphic-novel 3.99 2015
author: Scott McCloud
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> 28465052 289 Giorgia Lupi Peterk 4 job 4.23 2016
author: Giorgia Lupi
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> 12093849 The photographs of Alex Webb (born 1952) have appeared in a wide range of publications, including "The New York Times Magazine," "Life," "Stern" and "National Geographic," and have been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is a recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence (2000) and the Premio Internacional de Fotografia Alcobendas (2009). A member of Magnum Photos since 1976, Webb lives in New York City.]]> 204 Alex Webb 1597111732 Peterk 5 photography 4.62 2011
author: Alex Webb
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.62
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]]> 17289061 Vele hemels boven de zevende vechten vijf uiteenlopende figuren meer met zichzelf dan met elkaar in dit bestaan dat belachelijk mooi en geweldig lastig is, allemaal tegelijk.]]> 271 Griet Op de Beeck 9044622803 Peterk 4 4.05 2013
author: Griet Op de Beeck
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.05
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]]> 22929563
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street is a sweeping, atmospheric narrative that takes the reader on an unexpected journey through Victorian London, Japan as its civil war crumbles long-standing traditions, and beyond. Blending historical events with dazzling flights of fancy, it opens doors to a strange and magical past.]]> 318 Natasha Pulley 1620408333 Peterk 0 to-read 3.72 2015
author: Natasha Pulley
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> 3 309 J.K. Rowling 0439554934 Peterk 4 fiction 4.47 1997
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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]]> 17343569
Ian Stewart ziet het al vele jaren als zijn taak om wiskunde bij het grote publiek toegankelijk en populair te maken. Voor zijn werk ontving hij de Michael Faraday Medal en hij werd fellow van de Royal Society in 2001. Hij is adviseur wiskunde van New Scientist en hoogleraar wiskunde aan de universiteit van Warwick. Hij schreef meer dan 20 boeken op het gebied van wiskunde]]> 353 Ian Stewart 9088030227 Peterk 3 non-fiction 3.18 2007
author: Ian Stewart
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.18
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> 21413662 xkcd comic ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?

In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by his signature xkcd comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)

In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. The result is 10x the adventure of scientific inquiry. Featuring brand-new 2-color annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition is far more than a book for geeks, What If? explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much smarter for having read.]]> 303 Randall Munroe 0544272994 Peterk 3 non-fiction 4.13 2014
author: Randall Munroe
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2014
rating: 3
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]]> 26881626
?Pod ziemi?, pod wod?¡± to na?adowana informacjami ksi?ga pe?na ogromnych ilustracji i szczeg¨®?owych przekroj¨®w. Poprowadz? was one w g??b naszej planety, pokazuj?c, co kryje si? pod powierzchni? l?d¨®w i w¨®d. B?dziecie schodzi? coraz g??biej i g??biej ¨C od cienkiej warstwy gleby tu? pod stopami do gor?cego j?dra Ziemi, od sk?panych w s?o¨½cu raf koralowych do pogr??onego w ciemno?ci i ch?odzie najg??bszego miejsca ocean¨®w.

Znajdziecie tam zwierz?ta ?yj?ce pod ziemi? i dziwne g??binowe stworzenia, najg??biej si?gaj?ce korzenie i pl?taniny podziemnych rur, sensacyjne wykopaliska i skamienia?e ko?ci dinozaur¨®w. Zajrzycie do podziemnych nor i norek, zapu?cicie si? w labirynty jaski¨½ i zjedziecie na dno najg??bszej kopalni ?wiata. Wypr¨®bujecie zabytkowe okr?ty podwodne, zanurkujecie w podmorskiej studni i odwiedzicie wrak Titanica. Odkryjecie tajemnice podziemnego i podwodnego ?wiata.

Cz??ci ?Pod ziemi?¡± i ?Pod wod?¡± zaczynaj? si? po przeciwnych stronach ksi??ki, by spotka? si? w ?rodku, na rozk?ad¨®wce po?wi?conej j?dru Ziemi.]]> 110 Aleksandra Mizieli¨½ska 8363696544 Peterk 4 children-s-books 4.83 2015
author: Aleksandra Mizieli¨½ska
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.83
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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]]> 30814097 Niemand ontspringt de dans in dit verhaal waarin de auteur breed aangenomen grens tussen goed en kwaad betwist en dat hij laat resoneren met de eenentwintigste eeuw.]]> 334 Jeroen Olyslaegers 9023498437 Peterk 0 to-read 3.82 2016
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name: Peterk
average rating: 3.82
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]]> 7187728
The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever.

Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!]]> 540 Terry Pratchett 0552153370 Peterk 0 to-read 3.92 2009
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name: Peterk
average rating: 3.92
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]]> 11566956
Alison Bechdel¡¯s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel¡¯s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother¡ªto a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.]]> 290 Alison Bechdel 0618982507 Peterk 0 to-read 3.71 2012
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name: Peterk
average rating: 3.71
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]]> 20784197
Featured are 139 contact sheets from sixty-nine photographers, as well as zoom-in details, selected photographs, press cards, notebooks, and spreads from?contemporary publications including Life magazine and Picture Post . Further insight into each contact sheet is provided by texts written by the photographers?themselves or by experts chosen by the members¡¯ estates. Many of the acknowledged greats of photography are featured, including Henri Cartier-Bresson,?Elliott Erwitt, and Inge Morath, as well as such members of Magnum¡¯s latest generation as Jonas Bendiksen, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Alec Soth. The contact sheets cover over seventy years of history, from Robert Capa's Normandy landings and the Paris riots of 1968 via Bruno Barbey, to images of Che Geuvara by Ren¨¦ Burri,?Malcolm X by Eve Arnold, and portraits of classic New Yorkers by Bruce Gilden. 446 illustrations, 240 in color]]> 524 Kristen Lubben 050054431X Peterk 5 photography 4.80 2011
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name: Peterk
average rating: 4.80
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rating: 5
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]]> 22471145 160 Henri Cartier-Bresson 3869307889 Peterk 5 photography 4.66 1952
author: Henri Cartier-Bresson
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.66
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]]> 70401 307 Jack Kerouac 0140042598 Peterk 5 fiction 3.63 1957
author: Jack Kerouac
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.63
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rating: 5
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A radically different way of living than my own life, but what a rollercoaster ride this is. Love how this combines with Robert Frank's "The Americans", the images make so much more sense now I've read "On the Road".
]]> 585707 179 Robert Frank 3931141802 Peterk 5 photography 4.16 1958
author: Robert Frank
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.16
book published: 1958
rating: 5
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]]> 6393891
The new book by the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is a hilarious take on the philosophy, theology, and psychology of mortality and immortality. That is, Death. The authors pry open the coffin lid on this one, looking at the Big D and also its prequel, Life, and its sequel, the Hereafter. Philosophers such as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre have been wrestling with the meaning of death for as long as they have been wrestling with the meaning of life. Fortunately, humorists have been keeping pace with the major thinkers by creating gags about dying. Death¡¯s funny that way¡ªit gets everybody¡¯s attention.

Death has gotten a bad rap. It¡¯s time to take a closer look at what the Deep Thinkers have to say on the subject, and there are no better guides than Cathcart and Klein.]]> 224 Thomas Cathcart 0670020834 Peterk 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.58 2009
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name: Peterk
average rating: 3.58
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]]> 180995 200 Thomas Cathcart Peterk 0 to-read, non-fiction 3.75 2007
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name: Peterk
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]]> 13429746
Also available from Christoph Sunday Sketching and I LEGO N.Y.

Praise for Abstract City :

¡°Everyday experiences¡ªfrom looking at leaves to riding city subways¡ªare funny and fresh and often a source of wonder when depicted by this brilliant graphic designer.¡± ¡ª Readers Digest

¡°I will call Christoph when anything awful happens to me. And he will make me laugh like crazy about the whole thing. Because he is insanely funny and completely tenderly true. I love every column he did and will do.¡± ¡ªMaira Kalman, author/illustrator of And the Pursuit of Happiness

¡°Christoph Niemann is the best illustrator alive. Every single time I come across a piece of his work, which is often as he either works all the time, or worse, draws incredibly fast, it is wonderful. While the rest of us are lucky to get a proper piece out here and there, Christoph produces hit after hit after hit. If he wasn¡¯t such a genuinely sweet man, we¡¯d surely hate his ass a lot.¡± ¡ªStefan Sagmeister, author of Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far

¡°Few books have more probingly and humorously gotten inside the mind and day-to-day experience of an artist.¡± ¡ªNPR.org

"What¡¯s terrifying (to me, certainly, and possibly to many of his peers) is that nearly every idea he has seems to be equally well formed . . . once again, performing neat, virtuosic circles around the rest of us, to our delight." ¡ª PRINT magazine

"Irresistible." ¡ª Very Short List

¡°A masterpiece of sophisticated humor, this is a brilliant one-of-a-kind work.¡± ¡ª Library Journal , starred review]]> 256 Christoph Niemann 1419702076 Peterk 0 Still have to read this... 4.22 2012
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name: Peterk
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2012
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Still have to read this...
]]> 13447030
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????????? ?? ???? ??????? ??? ??? ???? ??? ????? ??????, ????? ??????, ????? ?????. ?? ????? ??? ????? ??????? ???? ????? ??? ??? ???? ???? ?????? ?? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ?? ??? ???? ?????

??? ??? ???? ?????? ???? ?? ????? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ??? ????? ???????, ?????? ?? ??? ?? ???? ???? ?? ?????? ???????? ????????? ????? ?????? ??????? ??? ???? ????? ???? ?????? ??? ????? ???? ???? ???????

??? ???? ????? ??????? ?????? ??? ????? ??????? ???? ???? ????, ????????? ??????? ?? ?????? ??? ?? ????????? ?????? ??? ?? ??? ?????????? ??? ??? ??? ???? ??????? ???? ????? ?????????? ??? ?????? ????? ??? ??? ????? ???? ???? ??? ????

????? ?????? ??????? ???? ????? ?????? ?? ????? ??? ??????, ???? ????? ??? ?? ?????? ????? ??????? ????? ???????? ?? ????????? ??? ????? ???? ?? ???? ????? ??? ?????. ???? ????? ????? ?? ?????? ?????? ?? ?????????, ?????? ?????? ?? ??? ????? ??? ??????, ??? ???? ?????? ?? ???????, ???? ??? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ????.]]> 447 Yuval Noah Harari 9655520404 Peterk 0 to-read 4.31 2011
author: Yuval Noah Harari
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> 11468377 Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities¡ªand also the faults and biases¡ªof fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation¡ªeach of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.

Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives¡ªand how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Thinking, Fast and Slow will transform the way you think about thinking.]]> 499 Daniel Kahneman 0374275637 Peterk 0 non-fiction, to-read 4.17 2011
author: Daniel Kahneman
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> 24612531
For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't just sit around and do nothing. To get him back, Violet throws caution to the stars and sets out with a group of misfit friends on a quest to find him. But space is vast and dangerous, and she soon discovers that her dad is in big, BIG trouble. With her father's life on the line, nothing is going to stop Violet from trying to rescue him and keep her family together.Visionary graphic novel creator Craig Thompson brings all of his wit, warmth, and humor to create a brilliantly drawn story for all ages. Set in a distant yet familiar future, Space Dumplins weaves themes of family, friendship, and loyalty into a grand space adventure filled with quirky aliens, awesome spaceships, and sharp commentary on our environmentally challenged world.]]> 316 Craig Thompson 054556543X Peterk 5 comic-graphic-novel 3.82 2015
author: Craig Thompson
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2016/08/14
date added: 2016/08/17
shelves: comic-graphic-novel
review:
Awesome artwork and a really clever blend of an sf setting, grand themes like poverty & pollution and a truckload of humor. Radically different from Thompson's earlier work as far as the story line subject goes, as this is oriented twoards a much younger public, but still shows what a massive amount of talent this guy boasts. Splendid work - again!
]]> 9844623 Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster. Ottaviani tackles the bad with the good, leaving the reader delighted by Feynman's exuberant life and staggered at the loss humanity suffered with his death. Anyone who ever wanted to know more about Richard P. Feynman, quantum electrodynamics, the fine art of the bongo drums, the outrageously obscure nation of Tuva, or the development and popularization of the field of physics in the United States need look no further than this rich and joyful work.

? One of School Library Journal's Best Adult Books 4 Teens titles of 2011
? One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011]]> 266 Jim Ottaviani 1596432594 Peterk 2 comic-graphic-novel 3.80 2011
author: Jim Ottaviani
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2011
rating: 2
read at: 2016/08/17
date added: 2016/08/17
shelves: comic-graphic-novel
review:
Knew almost everything in the comic already, as most of it can be found in Feynman's "Surely you?re joking, Mr. Feynman" with much more context. Still, not an unenjoyable read, though the flow is unclear at several points. An OK book but it could've been so much better...
]]> 3869
Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and ¡°arrows of time,¡± of the big bang and a bigger God¡ªwhere the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. With exciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.]]> 226 Stephen Hawking 0553380168 Peterk 3 non-fiction 4.22 1988
author: Stephen Hawking
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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]]> 375802
But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails.]]> 324 Orson Scott Card 0812550706 Peterk 0 to-read 4.31 1985
author: Orson Scott Card
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1985
rating: 0
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]]> 25542140
Following in the lineage of Borges, Calvino, Chris Marker and Kenneth White, the book examines the city from global macrocosm to the microcosm of its inhabitants¡¯ perspectives. It proceeds through opium dreams, sea voyages, the hallucinations of prisoners, nocturnal decadence, impossible Soviet skyscrapers, marauding golems, subterranean civilisations, apocalyptic prophecies and the work of architectural visionaries such as Antonio Sant¡¯Elia, Archigram and Buckminster Fuller. It rethinks the ideas of utopias and dystopias, urban exploration, alienation and resistance. It claims that the Situationists lacked ambition when they suggested, ¡°Beneath the paving stones, the beach.¡± Instead, beneath the paving stones, we may just be able to discern the entire universe.

Imaginary Cities demonstrates that each city dreamt up by artists, writers, architects and lunatics has a real-life equivalent and that the great Marco Polo was no liar. Imaginary Cities need not simply exist in fiction or the mind. We already inhabit them.]]> 576 Darran Anderson 0992765595 Peterk 5 fiction 3.78 2015
author: Darran Anderson
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2016/07/23
date added: 2016/08/10
shelves: fiction
review:
Quite a reading challenge (with a gazillion footnotes) - but most excellent food for thought!
]]> 28929111 295 Ben Miller 0748128514 Peterk 4 non-fiction 3.92 2016
author: Ben Miller
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2016/06/08
date added: 2016/06/08
shelves: non-fiction
review:
A tad too little explanation on the chemistry side of things for me, and a tad too much elaboration on the math side - but that's obviously just personal. Other than that: a fun & interesting read on a topic that at first seems less subject to scientific research than it actually is. I learned quite a few things while reading this book and enjoyed myself while doing so - mission accomplished.
]]> 14201
Proceeding to London, he raises a beautiful woman from the dead and summons an army of ghostly ships to terrify the French. Yet the cautious, fussy Norrell is challenged by the emergence of another magician: the brilliant novice Jonathan Strange.

Young, handsome and daring, Strange is the very antithesis of Norrell. So begins a dangerous battle between these two great men which overwhelms that between England and France. And their own obsessions and secret dabblings with the dark arts are going to cause more trouble than they can imagine.]]> 1006 Susanna Clarke Peterk 4 fiction 3.84 2004
author: Susanna Clarke
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2016/04/16
date added: 2016/04/16
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]]> 19288239 A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84

Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ¡®red pine¡¯, and Oumi, ¡®blue sea¡¯, while the girls¡¯ names were Shirane, ¡®white root¡¯, and Kurono, ¡®black field¡¯. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it.

One day Tsukuru Tazaki¡¯s friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again.

Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through life, unable to form intimate connections with anyone. But then he meets Sara, who tells him that the time has come to find out what happened all those years ago.]]> 386 Haruki Murakami 0385352107 Peterk 4 fiction 3.82 2013
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> 13356020
In Super Scratch Programming Adventure!, kids learn programming fundamentals as they make their very own playable video games. They'll create projects inspired by classic arcade games that can be programmed (and played!) in an afternoon. The book's patient, step-by-step explanations of the code and fun programming challenges will have kids creating their own games in no time.

This full-color comic book makes programming concepts like flow control, subroutines, and data types effortless to absorb. Packed with ideas for games that kids will be proud to show off, Super Scratch Programming Adventure! is the perfect first step for the budding programmer.]]> 176 The LEAD Project 1593274092 Peterk 0 to-read 4.16 2012
author: The LEAD Project
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> 24855246
Meet Scratch. A brand new, FREE computer programming application that allows children 10 and up to express themselves creatively by developing their own stories, cartoons, games, and more¡ªall while learning computer programming!

Created by Mitchel Resnick, and the ¡°Lifelong Kindergarten¡± group in the MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a self-study program that teaches children all about computers and programming, in some of the most fun ways possible.

Complete with cartoon animation, Scratch allows children to interact and play with various objects on the screen and then develop forms of interaction between them. Think digital, multi-colored blocks kind of like Lego. Each chapter consists of 20-30 minutes of study, and covers topics like how to make funny cartoons and games.

Give your child an insight into one of the fastest growing fields in the world, and let them have fun at the same. Choose Scratch today!]]> 321 Denis Golikov Peterk 0 to-read 4.49 2015
author: Denis Golikov
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> 17912916 413 Foster Provost 1449361323 Peterk 4 job 4.13 2013
author: Foster Provost
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> 17262382 Travel the world without leaving your living room.

Much more than an ordinary atlas, this book of maps is a visual feast for readers of all ages, with lavishly drawn illustrations from the incomparable Mizielinskis. It features not only borders, cities, rivers, and peaks, but also places of historical and cultural interest, eminent personalities, iconic animals and plants, cultural events, and many more fascinating facts associated with every region of our planet.]]> 112 Aleksandra Mizieli¨½ska 0763668966 Peterk 5 children-s-books 4.56 2012
author: Aleksandra Mizieli¨½ska
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at:
date added: 2015/10/26
shelves: children-s-books
review:
My 8yo got this (well, the Dutch version) over a year ago and still reads in it from time to time to discover new things. So I 'read' it too. Can't recommend this enough.
]]> 4738841 96 Andreas 2840550202 Peterk 4 comic-graphic-novel 3.47 1993
author: Andreas
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.47
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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date added: 2015/10/03
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]]> 24557357 96 Lucy Letherland Peterk 4 children-s-books 4.23 2014
author: Lucy Letherland
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2014
rating: 4
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date added: 2015/09/08
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]]> 12154802 80 M?bius 2203345233 Peterk 4 comic-graphic-novel 4.00 1994
author: M?bius
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> 12154803 The Gardens of Aedena, The Unfaithful Body and Hit Man by Jean "Moebius" Giraud]]> 64 M?bius 2203345217 Peterk 4 comic-graphic-novel 4.04 1988
author: M?bius
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1988
rating: 4
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]]> 9969571 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

IN THE YEAR 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win¡ªand confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape.]]> 480 Ernest Cline 030788743X Peterk 0 to-read 4.21 2011
author: Ernest Cline
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> 23172116 120 Dirk De Wachter 9401421331 Peterk 5 non-fiction 3.57 2014
author: Dirk De Wachter
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2015/04/27
date added: 2015/04/27
shelves: non-fiction
review:
Een schitterend pleidooi tegen de drang naar alsmaar meer, alsmaar beter en alsmaar sneller, tegen de prestatiemaatschappij en het geloof in kicks. En ook een pleidooi voor het waardevol zijn van het gewone, het alledaagse. Gedurfd en prachtig!
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author: Haruki Murakami
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2010
rating: 4
read at: 2012/07/06
date added: 2015/03/09
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¤½¤³¤ËÃ褫¤ì¤Æ¤¤¤ë¤Î¤Ï¡¸¤³¤¦¤Ç¤¢¤Ã¤¿¤«¤â¤·¤ì¤Ê¤¤¡¹ÊÀ½ç¤Ê¤Î¤À¡£
˽¤¿¤Á¤¬Éú¤­¤Æ¤¤¤ëÏÖÔÚ¤¬¡¢¡¸¤½¤¦¤Ç¤Ï¤Ê¤«¤Ã¤¿¤«¤â¤·¤ì¤Ê¤¤¡¹ÊÀ½ç¤Ç¤¢¤ë¤Î¤È¡¢¤Á¤ç¤¦¤Éͬ¤¸¤è¤¦¤Ë¡£±Õ±Õ> 397 Haruki Murakami 4103534230 Peterk 4 4.10 2009
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2012/04/19
date added: 2015/03/09
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]]> 22374 216 Grant Morrison 1401204252 Peterk 3 comic-graphic-novel 4.12 1989
author: Grant Morrison
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1989
rating: 3
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]]> 59980 The Dark Knight Returns!

In 1986, Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli produced this groundbreaking reinterpretation of the origin of Batman¡ªwho he is and how he came to be.

Written shortly after The Dark Knight Returns, Miller's dystopian fable of Batman's final days, Year One set the stage for a new vision of a legendary character.

This edition includes the complete graphic novel, a new introduction by writer Frank Miller and a new illustrated afterword by artist David Mazzucchelli. Completing this collection are over 40 pages of never-before-seen developmental material such as character and layout sketches, sample script pages, sketches and more that provide a glimpse into the making of this contemporary classic.

This volume collects Batman #404¨C407.±Õ±Õ> 144 Frank Miller 1401207529 Peterk 4 comic-graphic-novel 4.24 1988
author: Frank Miller
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1988
rating: 4
read at: 2011/05/28
date added: 2015/01/23
shelves: comic-graphic-novel
review:
I am not as convinced that the artwork is as genius as was expressed in a lot of reviews but the story line really is nice with a Batman torn between emotions and ratio. One of the better comics I read to date!
]]> 59960
Crime runs rampant in the streets, and the man who was Batman is still tortured by the memories of his parents' murders. As civil society crumbles around him, Bruce Wayne's long-suppressed vigilante side finally breaks free of its self-imposed shackles.

The Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their level of violence. He is soon joined by this generation's Robin¡ªa girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.

But can Batman and Robin deal with the threat posed by their deadliest enemies, after years of incarceration have made them into perfect psychopaths? And more important, can anyone survive the coming fallout of an undeclared war between the superpowers¡ªor a clash of what were once the world's greatest superheroes?

Over fifteen years after its debut, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns remains an undisputed classic and one of the most influential stories ever told in the comics medium.

Collecting Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4]]> 197 Frank Miller 156389341X Peterk 4 comic-graphic-novel 4.26 1986
author: Frank Miller
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1986
rating: 4
read at: 2011/06/21
date added: 2015/01/23
shelves: comic-graphic-novel
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]]> 20724592 112 Jenny Broom 0763675083 Peterk 5 children-s-books 4.44 2014
author: Jenny Broom
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> 1641409
The photographs are arranged chronologically into five major periods, from his first photographs made in Yosemite and the High Sierra in 1916 to his work in the National Parks in the 1940s up to his last important photographs from the 1960s. An introduction and brief essays on selected images provide information about Adams' life, document the evolution of his technique, and give voice to his artistic vision.

Few artists of any era can claim to have produced four hundred images of lasting beauty and significance. It is a testament to Adams' vision and lifetime of hard work that a book of this scale can be compiled. Ansel 400 Photographs is a must-have for anyone who appreciates photography and the allure of the natural world.]]> 440 Ansel Adams 0316117722 Peterk 4 photography 4.35 2007
author: Ansel Adams
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.35
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> 17310215 240 Andreas 908988047X Peterk 5 comic-graphic-novel 4.38 2012
author: Andreas
name: Peterk
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2013/02/02
date added: 2014/12/23
shelves: comic-graphic-novel
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]]> 16567800
Mit rauschhaften Visionen und grafischen Grenzg?ngen erzeugt Andreas seine typische Atmosph?re. Das monumentale Werk des Kult-Autors enth?lt in zwei Sammelb?nden auch einige unver?ffentlichte Rork-Geschichten.

Enth?lt: Geister / Fragmente / Passagen / Die Vergessenen / Friedhof der Kathedralen / Retter der Kreidezeit und ein ausf¨¹hrliches Vorwort.]]> 256 Andreas 9089880380 Peterk 5 comic-graphic-novel 3.89 2012
author: Andreas
name: Peterk
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2012
rating: 5
read at: 2012/12/17
date added: 2014/12/23
shelves: comic-graphic-novel
review:
What can I say? Graphically and wrt scenario complexity an absolute masterpiece. Can't wait for the second volume in 2013 to finally have the full story, as up to now I only had 1 album and some memories from reading fragments (no pun intended) of what is in this first volume. Amazing work!
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