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  Eccentric Painter and Artist...

  Bert Alexander Petzold

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  Why do melting clocks and burning giraffes still haunt us today, and why does Dalí's world feel like a mirror of our own dreams? This non-fiction book shows you how Salvador Dalí turned the unconscious into images you never forget - and how a young provocateur became the best-known Surrealist of the twentieth century. Anyone who knows Dalí only as an eccentric figure will discover here the precise thinker behind the pose: an artist who blended reality, delirium and advertising so deftly that an entirely new visual language emerged.
  
  Ants, crutches, soft forms and crystal-clear light: this is not mere effect, it is Dalí's language. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was born in Figueres and showed an exceptional talent for drawing early on. At the art academy in Madrid he met Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel, clashed with authority, and was expelled for insubordination. In Paris he connected with the Surrealists and developed his famous paranoiac-critical method - a technique of exact looking in which a single motif could transform into multiple meanings. With the small painting 'The Persistence of Memory' he created an icon that made time itself go soft.
  
  The book takes you into Dalí's work and his self-fashioning - from the twisted moustache to performances in which art and stage fused. It shows the role Gala played as muse, partner and manager, and how Dalí became an international star between Portlligat, Paris and New York. You explore his boundary-crossings into film: the collaboration with Buñuel on 'Un Chien Andalou', the dream sequence for Hitchcock's 'Spellbound', and the project 'Destino' with Walt Disney. You also encounter key images in which Dalí made desire, fear and memory into visible riddles - such as 'The Enigma of Desire' or 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony'. Along the way it becomes clear why his motifs are so powerful: they function like dream-sentences, logical yet uncanny, familiar yet slipping away.
  
  After returning to Spain, Dalí fused religion, mysticism and atomic physics into a new pictorial world. Works such as 'Leda Atomica' and 'Christ of Saint John of the Cross' stand for this phase, as do his experiments with photography, optical illusions and spatial staging. Anyone who wants to see how Dalí translated his art into architecture will also find the route here to the 'Teatro-Museo Dalí' in Figueres - a total work of art that feels like a brain you can walk through. The result is a complete portrait that neither romanticises Dalí nor reduces him to spectacle, but explains him: as painter, media professional and master of attention.
  
  Bert Alexander Petzold takes you on a richly factual cultural journey - clear, entertaining and well structured. You gain solid foundational knowledge that sticks, and connections that illuminate: ideal for British pupils preparing for GCSEs and A levels (especially in Art, Art History, or related humanities subjects), and equally valuable for sixth-form and university study as well as for anyone with a serious interest in art. Afterwards, anyone speaking about Surrealism will have images, concepts and context at their fingertips - and will recognise just how modern Dalí's ideas remain today. 
  
  Secure this book and step into Dalí's dream-world with a clear-eyed gaze. Understand the motifs, the method and the myth - and experience why Surrealism after Dalí was never the same again.

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  The Pine Barrens

  John McPhee

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  Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. 
   
   
   
  The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. On all sides, however, developments of one kind or another have gradually moved in, so that now the central and integral forest is reduced to about a thousand square miles. Although New Jersey has the heaviest population density of any state, huge segments of the Pine Barrens remain uninhabited. The few people who dwell in the region, the "Pineys," are little known and often misunderstood. Here McPhee uses his uncanny skills as a journalist to explore the history of the region and describe the people—and their distinctive folklore—who call it home.

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  Dialogue with a Somnambulist -...

  Chloe Aridjis

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  Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now presents her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy 
   
   
   
  Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this collection of works, we meet a woman guided only by a plastic bag drifting through the streets of Berlin who discovers a nonsense-named bar that is home to papier-mâché monsters and one glass-encased somnambulist. Floating through space, cosmonauts are confronted not only with wonder and astonishment, but tedium and solitude. And in Mexico City, stray dogs animate public spaces, "infusing them with a noble life force." In her pen portraits, Aridjis turns her eye to expats and outsiders, including artists and writers such as Leonora Carrington, Mavis Gallant, and Beatrice Hastings. 
   
   
   
  Exploring the complexity of exile and urban alienation, Dialogue with a Somnambulist showcases "the rare writer who reinvents herself in each book" (Garth Greenwell) and who is as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction.

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  René Meulensteen: United Sir...

  René Meulensteen

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  Manchester United enjoyed their greatest generation under Sir Alex Ferguson. The rulebook on domestic domination was rewritten as the club became the most successful in British football history. 
   
  For the first time, one of Ferguson’s closest aides lifts the lid on the inner workings at Carrington, as René Meulensteen, one of the game’s greatest minds, shares all the stories and secrets that contributed and illuminated the most glittering managerial era in football history. 
   
  Meulensteen’s story begins in a provincial region of Holland; a student of the game, René explains how he fought through red tape and bureaucracy to establish himself as a coach with principles he firmly believed in, and how those visionary methods saw him land a remarkable position at the world’s biggest club, overseeing the technical development of their most precious department - the youth system. 
   
  Meulensteen talks about working with stars like Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Giggs, before he was called to work with the first team on a more permanent basis. There, he enjoyed notable contributions, transforming Cristiano Ronaldo into a goal monster and featuring heavily in the move that brought Robin van Persie to Old Trafford. From being Ferguson’s right-hand man to going out on his own, Meulensteen explains his philosophy in an inspiring and accessible way. 
   
  Moreover, this autobiography is a compelling and addictive love-letter to the fabric of everything Manchester United stands for. The exploration and explanation of United’s style of play will thrill supporters and stun analysts, as one of the sport’s greatest minds finally shares his fascinating journey in football.

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  Gaddafi's "The Green Book"

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

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  This is the only authorized and official English translation of The Green Book which was distributed globally by the Gaddafi regime. The Green Book is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first published in 1975. It is said to have been inspired in part by The Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao). Both were widely distributed both inside and outside their country of origin, and "written in a simple, understandable style with many memorable slogans." During the Libyan Civil War, copies of the book were burned by anti-Gaddafi demonstrators. 
   
  This audiobook is expertly read by Fajer Al-Kaisi, with audio engineering by Austin Conway. It was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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  Kharku Sangharash Di Sakhi 2 :...

  Daljit Singh

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  Kharku Sangharsh Di Sakhi 2: Sadhan, Sabbab, Sidak Ate Shahadat is second part of book penned by Bhai Daljit Singh. This is one of the bestselling and most read Punjabi/Sikh book of 2023. Author Bhai Daljit Singh has penned Sakhis of the Sikh movement of 1980s-1990s. 
  This book is the second volume in the series titled "Khadku Sangharsh Di Sakhi" (Tales of the Militant Struggle). In this book, the author, who was a part of the Sikh militant struggle of the late decades of the 20th century, presents the truth of that struggle in a unique style. It provides authentic accounts about the spirit of martyrdom, the actions and ethics of the fighters, their sacrifices, patience, unwavering faith, pure love, the intensity of the battles, and the lesser-known or unsung martyrs. These truthful narratives have the potential to deepen the reader's perspective on this struggle. 
  You can order it from Sikh Siyasat and get it delivered anywhere in the world.

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