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Jasper Knight

By: Jasper Knight,Ken McGregor,Jenny Zimmer

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Jasper Knight

By: Jasper Knight,Ken McGregor,Jenny Zimmer

Jasper Knight is a young artist who belongs to that group of individuals sometimes described as 'junk poets'. He gathers his inspiration and builds his art from the throwaway detritus of urban society. In a sense, his art is both a celebration and a critique of consumerism. Most of Knight's iconography can be found in the decaying areas of once thriving industrial docklands. He skilfully depicts the old trucks, the discarded heavy earthmoving equipment and the smashed bodies of expensive motor vehicles. The rusting iron structures that once supported heavy industry, old piers and cargo wharfs, the ferry landings around well-used harbours, the crumbling facades of derelict buildings, lonesome chimneys, cranes and other abandoned machinery are his subjects. Knight has painted the docklands of Melbourne and the piers and ferries of Sydney Harbour. In 2006 he painted fourteen works that were exhibited in London under the title 'An Island in the Sun'. This series was painted in and around the old discarded Renault car factory at Ile Seguin, an island in the River Seine at Boulogne- Billancourt on the western edge of Paris.

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Macmillan Education AU

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192139403X

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9781921394034

Old Stone

By: Paul Jasper

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Old Stone

By: Paul Jasper

In an ancient land, two friends sneak away from the safety of their kingdom to get a glimpse of a legendary battle between beast and man. The results forever change the world as the two friends split their ideologies and branch out on their own. Kingdoms battle each other over the rise of this "new world" while the two friends are caught in between the ever changing fantasy landscape.

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Lulu.com

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1387075098

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9781387075096

Early Riser

A Novel

By: Jasper Fforde

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Early Riser

A Novel

By: Jasper Fforde

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “hilarious” (The Guardian), “blindingly inventive,” (The Seattle Times) and “wonderfully weird dystopian thriller” (Shelf Awareness) from the author of The Constant Rabbit and the Thursday Next series “A cause for celebration . . . Fforde writes witty, chewy sentences, full of morsels, and delivers them deadpan. . . . [His] relentless imagination and his affection for his characters are contagious and irresistible.”—The New York Times Book Review Every Winter, the human population hibernates. During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, devoid of human activity. Well, not quite. Your name is Charlie Worthing and it’s your first season with the Winter consuls, the group responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses. You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams, which you dismiss as nothing more than an artefact born of the sleeping mind. When the dreams start to kill people, it’s unsettling. When you get the dreams too, it’s weird. When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity. But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping, and stamp collecting; ensure you aren’t eaten by Nightwalkers; and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical Wintervolk. But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you’ll be fine.

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Penguin

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0698170342

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9780698170346

The Freemasons

A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society

By: Jasper Ridley

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The Freemasons

A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society

By: Jasper Ridley

“Captures the organization's fundamental outlook, and its morality. . . . Ridley is an enchanting storyteller.”—The Wall Street Journal

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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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1611450101

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9781611450101

The Fourth Bear

A Nursery Crime

By: Jasper Fforde

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The Fourth Bear

A Nursery Crime

By: Jasper Fforde

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Enter the seedy underbelly of nursery crime, where characters are never as they seem, in this “brilliantly, breathlessly odd” (USA Today) novel from the renowned author of The Big Over Easy and the Thursday Next series. “Like the best novels of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, Fforde goes beyond his genre.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “Jasper Fforde is able to write diabolically. . . . Outrageous satirical agility is his stock in trade.”—The New York Times Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary long to collar the Gingerbreadman—psychopath, sadist, criminal genius, cookie—who’s at large in Reading. Instead, they’re demoted to searching for missing journalist Henrietta “Goldy” Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive three bears, and Jack thinks something’s odd about their story. How could that porridge be too hot, too cold, and just right if it was poured at the same time? The question is: was there a fourth bear?

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Penguin

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1101158522

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9781101158524

A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5

By: Jasper Fforde

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A Thursday Next Digital Collection: Novels 1-5

By: Jasper Fforde

Enter the first five novels in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series—over one million copies in print!—and follow literary detective Thursday Next as she adventures through her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England. “What keeps this series humming is Fforde’s lively engagement with books and the indefatigable woman he’s created to defend them.”—People “It’s easy to be delighted by a writer who loves books so madly.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times The Eyre Affair: Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “delightfully clever,” this riotous novel follows Detective Thursday Next as she tracks down the villain who plucked Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë’s novel—and averts a heinous act of literary homicide. Lost in a Good Book: Thursday fights to save the love of her life, navigating the works of Kafka and Austen and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies. But when she discovers a new play from the Bard himself and finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, she realizes the stakes are far higher than she could have predicted. The Well of Lost Plots: Thursday is ready for a break. She heads to the depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside, to lose herself in a cliché-ridden pulp mystery. What was supposed to be a well-deserved reprieve turns into chaos as Thursday discovers the Well’s dark underbelly, a veritable linguistic free-for-all. To top it off, a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel and nobody is safe—least of all Thursday. Something Rotten: It’s back to reality for Thursday—and fiction never looked so good. But as she travels with the dithering Danish prince Hamlet, she becomes wrapped up in an outlaw fictioneer’s plot for absolute power. Can Thursday find a Shakespeare clone to stop this hostile takeover? First Among Sequels: Thursday grapples with a host of problems in the Book World, but her biggest challenge is motivating her sixteen-year-old son, Friday, to follow his destiny as a member of the ChronoGuard. As she juggles the trials of motherhood and saving the Book World, Thursday finds she must face down her most vicious enemy yet: herself.

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Penguin

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1101525088

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9781101525081

The Great Troll War

By: Jasper Fforde

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The Great Troll War

By: Jasper Fforde

The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved . . . Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness). Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using him to achieve supreme power and domination - an ambition that has been four hundred years in the planning and which will ultimately leave the Earth a cold cinder, devoid of all life. Nothing has ever looked so bleak, but Jennifer, assisted by a renegade vegan Troll, a bunch of misfit sorcerers, the Princess (or is she now the ruler?) of the UnUnited (or are they now United?) Kingdoms, and Tiger, must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, and along the way discover the truth about her parents, herself, and what is in the locked glovebox of her VW Beetle . . .

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444799959

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9781444799958

Black Fallen

The Dark Ink Chronicles

By: Elle Jasper

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Black Fallen

The Dark Ink Chronicles

By: Elle Jasper

Blood Mark After surviving life-threatening bites from three powerful strigoi vampires, tattoo artist Riley Poe has absorbed their powers and is stronger than ever. Just as she’s learning to harness her newfound abilities, she and her vampire guardian fiancé, Eli Dupré, agree to join the elite Worldwide Unexplained Phenomena team. This task force, composed of vampires, druids, werewolves, and otherbeings, has been assigned to take down the Black Fallen, a powerful race of fallen angels consumed by the darkest magic. These dangerous creatures are searching for the ultimate source of power in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Riley will be the WUP team’s secret weapon to take them down. She must be careful, though, or their dark power could engulf her—and her heart, too....

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Penguin

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1101607335

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9781101607336

Literature and Religion

A Dialogue between China and the West

By: Ou Guang-an,David Jasper

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Literature and Religion

A Dialogue between China and the West

By: Ou Guang-an,David Jasper

How does one culture 'read' another? In Literature and Religion, two scholars, one from China and one from the West, each read texts from the other's culture as a means of dialogue. A key issue in such an enterprise is the nature of religion and what we understand by that term in a world in which ancient religious customs seem to be dying or under threat. Does a comparative study of religious literature offer a way towards mutual understanding - or merely illustrate our differences? Underpinned by their own friendship, these two partners in conversation show what is possible.

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Lutterworth Press

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0718896289

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9780718896287

Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Minnesota

By: Jasper N. Searles

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Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Minnesota

By: Jasper N. Searles

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368171666

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9783368171667

Lost in a Good Book

A Thursday Next Novel

By: Jasper Fforde

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Lost in a Good Book

A Thursday Next Novel

By: Jasper Fforde

The second installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England—from the author of The Constant Rabbit The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with New York Times bestselling author Jasper Fforde’s magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next. When Landen, the love of her life, is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative of Jurisfiction—the police force inside the BookWorld. She is apprenticed to the man-hating Miss Havisham from Dickens’s Great Expectations, who grudgingly shows Thursday the ropes. And she gains just enough skill to get herself in a real mess entering the pages of Poe’s “The Raven.” What she really wants is to get Landen back. But this latest mission is not without further complications. Along with jumping into the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Thursday finds herself the target of a series of potentially lethal coincidences, the authenticator of a newly discovered play by the Bard himself, and the only one who can prevent an unidentifiable pink sludge from engulfing all life on Earth. It’s another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment for fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse. Thursday’s zany investigations continue with The Well of Lost Plots.

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Penguin

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0142004030

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9780142004036

Why Communism Failed

By: Jasper Becker

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Why Communism Failed

By: Jasper Becker

Communism was destroyed not from without, but from within-by a persistent failure to make its economic theories work in practice. But what exactly did go wrong with its central planning? Until the last moment, top western economists claimed that Communism was superior to western models. Even now, centralized Marxist planning retains its admirers, especially among the young. With the benefit of new archival research, we can finally grasp how falsified and manipulated statistics blindfolded Communist governments and confused western leaders, leading to staggering errors of judgement. Both sides believed that East Germany had a stronger economy than West Germany; that North Korea would overtake South Korea; that Mao's China was a paradise for its starving peasants. Those who warned that a dearth of reliable economic data would condemn central planning to irrational misallocation of investment and labor were ignored or belittled. But, ultimately, they were vindicated. Jasper Becker answers the big question: what accounts for the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union, China and everywhere else? And why don't present debates acknowledge that failure? This unconventional history of Communism and the Cold War explains why the same old clash of theories is continuing to shape the world today.

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Oxford University Press

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178738988X

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9781787389885

About Sketching

The Art and Practice of Capturing the Moment

By: Jasper Salwey,Leonard Squirrell

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About Sketching

The Art and Practice of Capturing the Moment

By: Jasper Salwey,Leonard Squirrell

Guide by a noted author of art instruction manuals details advantages of many drawing media, from pencil to watercolor, and their application to depictions of interior studies, figures, and landscapes.

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Courier Dover Publications

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0486821048

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9780486821047

The Last Dragonslayer

By: Jasper Fforde

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The Last Dragonslayer

By: Jasper Fforde

As magic fades from the world, 15-year-old Jennifer Strange is having trouble keeping her magician employment agency business afloat, until she begins having visions that foretell the death of the last dragon and the coming of Big Magic.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547738471

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9780547738475

The Second Footman

By: Jasper Barry

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The Second Footman

By: Jasper Barry

Nineteen year-old Max is the duchesse de Claireville's second footman, but he does not intend to endure the indignities of service for long. He has a plan—to find an aristocratic patron who will become his unwitting accomplice in an audacious fraud.It is true that in 1880s' France, despite nearly a century of revolution and social turmoil, the aristocracy is still firmly entrenched in privilege, and the gulf between the salon and the servants' hall is as wide as ever. But Max is handsome, quick to learn and confident of his abilities as a seducer of both men and women.Whether ladling soup into noble plates beneath crystal chandeliers, or reading biographies of the great generals in his squalid footman's dormitory, he is planning his strategy. He, Max, is the man of the future - ruthless, above morality and sentimental attachments.Yet, when, after a couple of false starts, he at last acquires his patron, he finds himself ambushed by instinctive longings—for friendship, for affection—that threaten his grand plan. 'Be true to yourself…' the saying goes. But to which self? And what is 'truth'?

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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178088365X

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9781780883656

A Brief History of the Tudor Age

By: Jasper Ridley

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A Brief History of the Tudor Age

By: Jasper Ridley

From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the death of the great Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, this was an astonishingly eventful and contradictory age. All the strands of Tudor life are gathered in a rich tapestry - London and the country, costumes, furniture and food, travel, medicine, sports and pastimes, grand tournaments and the great flowering of English drama, juxtaposed with the stultifying narrowness of peasant life, terrible roads, a vast underclass, the harsh treatment of heretics and traitors, and the misery of the Plague.

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Robinson

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1472107950

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9781472107954

The Sacred Desert

Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture

By: David Jasper

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The Sacred Desert

Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture

By: David Jasper

The Sacred Desert is a reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.:.; An original reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.; Discusses figures as diverse as Jesus, the early Christian Desert Fathers, T.E. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Georgia O'Keeffe, Wim Wenders and Jim Crace.; Makes connections across millennia of desert literature.; Deepens the reader's understanding of the desert as a real place, as an interior space, and as a textual site,.; Concludes with comments on the recent conflicts in Iraq.; Written in a r.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470777222

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9780470777220

A Negotiated Landscape

The Transformation of San Francisco's Waterfront since 1950

By: Jasper Rubin

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A Negotiated Landscape

The Transformation of San Francisco's Waterfront since 1950

By: Jasper Rubin

A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment. To understand this landscape Jasper Rubin not only explores the built environment but also the major forces that have been at work in its redevelopment. While factors such as new transportation technology and economic restructuring have been essential to the process and character of the waterfront's transformation, the impact of local, grassroots efforts by planners, activists, and boosters have been equally critical. The first edition of A Negotiated Landscape won the 2012 prize for best book in planning history from the International Planning History Society. Much has changed in the five years since that edition was published. For this second edition Rubin provides a new concluding chapter that updates the progress of planning on San Francisco's waterfront and examines debates over the newest visions for its development.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822981440

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9780822981442

The Chronicles of Kazam Collection, Books 1–3

By: Jasper Fforde

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The Chronicles of Kazam Collection, Books 1–3

By: Jasper Fforde

In true Ffordian fashion, New York Times best-selling author Jasper Fforde weaves the wild with wit in this fantasy series for young readers. Read the first three books now! Magic is fading fast in the Ununited Kingdom. The uppity and vain sorcerers might think delivering pizzas by magic carpet or rewiring a house is beneath their talent, but fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, who manages an employment agency for magicians, knows better than to turn up her nose at any job they can get. And then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer. All signs point to Jennifer—and Big Magic. This digital collection includes the novels The Last Dragonslayer, The Song of the Quarkbeast, and The Eye of Zoltar.

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HarperCollins

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0358005957

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9780358005957

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