Albrecht Durer's prints & drawings have inspired hundreds of artists, both during his life & after his death. Yet his talent as a painter & colorist, & his enthusiasm for the scientific world have not been widely appreciated. Durer's influence was both international & intergenerational-indeed Picasso claimed to have been inspired by the 16th-century artist. Reproduced in stunning detail & including illustrations of Durer's most famous prints & drawings, a catalog raisonne of his paintings, & biographical research, this book presents a Durer for the 21st century. Producing more self-portraits than any other artist of his day; mass marketing his best-selling prints; even inventing his own monogram logo; Albrecht Du rer was commercially astute long before today's generation of self-promoting & financially-savvy artists. There are 55 extant Durer paintings, of which 17 are in dispute. Using scientific research, this book puts all arguments to bed resulting in the definitive catalog raisonne of the paintings. Drawing on in-depth research, this book reveals the truth behind Durer & his art. ...

The Second Spanish Republic (193136) was the only new liberal democratic regime to emerge in Europe during the 1930s. Historians, however, have focused primarily on the Civil War of 193639 that followed, devoting much less attention to the parliamentary regime that preceded it. This book deals with the history & failure of the democratic polity in Spain through a detailed examination of the initiatives of its president, Niceto Alcala Zamora. As civil servant, lawyer, politician & writer, by 1931 he had become one of the most successful men of Spain. He played the leading role in the downfall of the monarchy & the inauguration of the Republic, which he served for eight months as initial prime minister & then as the first president. Stanley Paynes study argues that the failure of the Republic was not inevitable but depended on the policy choices of its president & the key party leaders. Alcala Zamoras professed goal was to center the Republic, stabilizing the new regime while avoiding extremes, but he failed altogether in this project. The Constitution of 1931 stipulated the double responsibility of parliamentary government both to the president & to a voting majority. Though Alcala Zamora resisted strong efforts from the left to cancel the results of the first fully democratic elections in 1933, he subsequently used his powers recklessly, making & unmaking governments at will, refusing to permit normal functioning of parliament. This first critical scholarly account of the presidency of Alcala Zamora casts new light on the failure of democracy in interwar Europe & on the origins of the Spanish Civil War. ...

The definitive resource for the NRS II exams--three complete courses in a book Alcatel-Lucent is a world leader in designing & developing scalable systems for service providers. If you are a network designer or operator who uses Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 family of service routers, prepare for certification as an A-L network routing specialist with this complete self-study course. You'll get thorough preparation for the NRS II exams while you learn to build state-of-the-art, scalable IP/MPLS-based service networks. The book provides you with an in-depth understanding of the protocols & technologies involved in building an IP/MPLS network while teaching you how to avoid pitfalls & employ the most successful techniques available. Topics covered include interior routing protocols, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), Layer 2/ Layer 3 services & IPv 6. The included CD features practice exam questions, sample lab exercises, & more.* Prepares network professionals for Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing Certification (SRC) exams 4A0-101, 4A0-103, 4A0-104 & NRSII4A0* Covers content from Alcatel-Lucent's SRC courses on Interior Routing Protocols, Multiprotocol Label Switching, & Services Architecture* Specific topics include MPLS (RSVP-TE & LDP), services architecture, Layer 2/ Layer 3 services (VPWS/VPLS/VPRN/IES/service inter-working/IPv 6 tunneling), & OSPF & IS-IS for traffic engineering & IPv 6.* CD

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Experience haunted places as you've never seen them before-up close & personal! YOU CHOOSE the path you will take through some of the most famous prisons, castles, & ships. Follow the path of a modern-day visitor in these thrilling narrative non-fiction titles. ...

On his thirteenth birthday, Alcatraz
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- gets a bag of sand in the mail which purports to be his 'inheritance'

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Monty Bannerman's father is a leading genetic scientist, & Nobel Prize winner, whose company has just been taken over by what will soon be the world's biggest pharmaceutical giant. He had some misgivings about their company ethics
- but ultimately, he needs their money, & they need his mind. Then a journalist comes to Monty's door, with a far-fetched story about the pharmaceutical company. She doesn't believe what she's being told for a moment
- but within a few short weeks, events are making the apparently fantastic claims look horrifyingly like the truth. Behind the respectable facade of the multi-national company which calls itself the ' World's Most Caring Company' lies an outrage against the whole human race...

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Monty Bannerman's father is a leading genetic scientist, & Nobel Prize winner, whose company has just been taken over by what will soon be the world's biggest pharmaceutical giant. He had some misgivings about their company ethics
- but ultimately, he needs their money, & they need his mind. Then a journalist comes to Monty's door, with a far-fetched story about the pharmaceutical company. She doesn't believe what she's being told for a moment
- but within a few short weeks, events are making the apparently fantastic claims look horrifyingly like the truth. Behind the respectable facade of the multi-national company which calls itself the ' World's Most Caring Company' lies an outrage against the whole human race...

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The second gripping instalment of The Mercian Trilogy by paranormal sensation K J Wignall.



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This new & completely redesigned edition creates a colourful & vibrant guide to the secret art. Klossowski de Rola elucidates the mysterious language & polyvalent symbolism from a variety of perspectives practical, spiritual, elemental & historical & explains how the true alchemist differs from the modern chemist & the false practitioner. Gold is only a by-product & emblem of the Great Work of the alchemist. The latter part of the book comprises the full text of a seventeenth-century exposition upon an alchemists dream-poem, & five richly illustrated Themes sections, reproducing full sequences of alchemical thought, art & paraphernalia. ...

Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the 'real life' story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying 'fact.' Where does that leave the imagination? & who gets to define the parameters of 'reality' & 'fiction' anyway? Five writers debate the limits of materialism & realism, in art & literature
- & offer a passionate defence of the alchemical imagination in a fact-based world.
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