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  Lost Federations - The...

  A. J. Black

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  "An innovative and unusual account of Star Trek’s lost voyages that makes for a fascinating alternate history." — Brian J. Robb in Sci-Fi Bulletin
  
  SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE WERE ALMOST THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE.
  
  We think we know the history of Star Trek. Born at the height of 1960s popular culture, the five-year mission of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew faced early cancellation, bounced back with a series of beloved movies in the 1980s and gave way to a fleet of successful sequels and spin-offs that kept on exploring strange new worlds.
  
  In Lost Federations: The Unofficial Unmade History of Star Trek, author A. J. Black tells a different story. This is an alternate history of the franchise, one filled with roads not taken, from early 1960s feature-films and spin-offs, the original sequel Star Trek: Phase II in the 1970s, via epic planned movies such as Planet of the Titans and into many untold episodes, arcs and character stories from The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, all the way through to the modern era.
  
  Bringing together pre-existing material over decades for the first time in one space, plus some new reflections from Star Trek writers and analysis of how it all fits into the wider cultural trends of the last sixty years, Lost Federations invites you to boldly explore a history you may not already know...

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  Obey the Flower - Tales of a...

  Kimerer LaMothe

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  In 2005 Kimerer LaMothe moved with her family to a dilapidated dairy farm in upstate New York. She was living her dream – eager to dance and write surrounded by the beauty of the natural world. Her children decided they wanted to be farmers. 
  With ample doses of honesty, wisdom, and wonder, Kimerer chronicles her adventures in creative living with her life partner, their four then five children, and a barnyard of animals. 
  In a series of essays spanning twelve years, Kimerer asks: Is dance a vital art? Can you teach creativity? Why milk a cow? Is nature for or against us? Must we feel pain? Why isn’t good sex easy? How do you parent warring siblings? Is the Earth sacred? Above all, how should we live? 
  "The book is such a gift. It will be a touchstone for many who are on a quest for something they can't yet name." – Philip Ackerman-Leist, Author of Up Tunket Road and Rebuilding the Foodshed 
  "Obey the Flower is about life as a powerful creative act, or as historian Mircea Eliade says, 'founding the world' as sacred. Each vignette demonstrates a way - a way of love, integrity and grit. Yes, dance, movement and embodiment figure most of all from this dancing, Ph.D philosopher, but it's not only art as performance. It details the potential for creativity to be in everyone's life every day... It's truly a book 'of life' well worth a slow, contemplative read." – Dr. Deborah Welsh, Creative Art/Dance Movement Therapist

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  Printing Birds and Wildlife In...

  Michelle Hughes

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  This beautiful book explains how to capture the joy of nature in the versatility of linocut. From a simple idea or sketch, it guides you through the process of planning designs, carving and then successfully printing your work. Projects with detailed step-by-step instructions further demonstrate the process with one-colour and jigsaw prints, before advancing to reduction and multi-block prints. All are shown with the most endearing images that capture the enchanting characteristics of our much-loved British birds and wildlife.

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  The technical object on stage

  Julia Gros de Gasquet, Julie Valero

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  At once strange and familiar, bearer of a narrative and initiator of a relationship, the theatrical object has a status in its own right within the performance, and constantly encourages the actor to reassess the quality of his relationship with his immediate environment. This book proposes to turn our attention to a specific type of object: the “technical” object, i.e. the technological apparatus, now digital, as it is put into play on contemporary theatrical stages. More than an exhaustive panorama, L'Objet technique en scène attempts to formulate several questions about the possibilities opened up by these new kinds of objects, through a number of case studies (Marina Bollaín, Simon McBurney, Rabih Mroué, Heiner Goebbels, Dries Verhoeven, Robert Lepage, Agnès de Cayeux, Christiane Jatahy...) and interviews with artists whose production bears witness to an interest in this technical object.

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  The Five Chapters of Ravi Vilo

  Tapy Lekaw

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  Ravi Vilo; distinguished painter, art critic, analyst and teacher, recognised that his formative years, the 1920s, fell into a sequential series of phases that he referred to as the 'Chapters' of his life's ideas, ambitions and relationships.
  
  Each was played out on a different stage, starting in Bombay, where he received his schooling and initial art education. He then travelled to England by ship through the Suez Canal, on which he made a friendship that coloured his social and working relationships throughout the rest of his life. In London he received a graduate degree in painting, culminating in his masterpiece, which placed him at the forefront of Modern Art in Britain.
  
  At the breakup of the group of friends with whom he lived with his partner, he left Europe for South America, where they settled in Popayán, Colombia, conducting a programme of community culinary, health, and artistic development that drew international attention, taking him to Paris in the early 1930s.

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  Man Bites Dog - Hot Dog Culture...

  Bruce Kraig, Patty Carroll

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  Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American culture? Man Bites Dog explores the transformation of hot dogs from unassuming street fare to paradigms of regional expression, social mobility, and democracy. World-renowned hot dog scholar Bruce Kraig investigates the history, people, décor, and venues that make up hot dog culture and what it says about our country.  These humble sausages cross ethnic and regional boundaries and have provided the means for plucky entrepreneurs to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Hot dogs, and the ways we enjoy them, are part of the American dream. Man Bites Dog celebrates the power of the hot dog through a historical survey and profiles of notable hot dog purveyors. Loaded with stunning color photos by Patty Carroll, descriptions of neighborhood venues and flashy pushcarts from New York to Los Angeles, and recipes for cooking up hot dog heaven at home, this book is the u

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