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Book Synopsis Puzzling Portmeirion by : Craig Conley
Download or read book Puzzling Portmeirion written by Craig Conley and published by High Brow Pencil Press. This book was released on 2008-01-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portmeirion village is a whimsical seaside tourist destination on the west coast of Wales, attracting 250,000 visitors annually. A retirement project by an eccentric British architect named Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, this "home for fallen buildings" is a fascinating architectural garden for day visitors and an elaborate resort for overnight guests. Portmeirion is famous as the shooting location for the 1960s cult television series "The Prisoner," starring Patrick McGoohan. Puzzling Portmeirion is an involving, insightful guidebook that explores Sir Clough's trailblazing experiments in virtual reality, his subtle but powerful time-warping and space-folding tricks, the little-known myths and legends echoing down every footpath, and the myriad restless spirits at play. Eccentric globe-trotters will have their eyes opened, curiosities piqued, intellects tickled, feet motivated, and pens recording the most fascinating entries in their travel diaries, bar none.
Book Synopsis Atlas of Improbable Places by : Travis Elborough
Download or read book Atlas of Improbable Places written by Travis Elborough and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlas of Improbable Places shows the modern world from surprising new vantage points that will inspire urban explorers and armchair travellers alike to consider a new way of understanding the world we live in.
Download or read book Portmeirion written by Jan Morris and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Times called Portmeirion 'the last folly of the Western World' while the Guardian saw it as 'a giant gnomes' village'. For eccentric architect Clough Williams-Ellis, the man who designed and built the resort, it was 'propaganda for good manners,' a statement of how planned development could enhance rather than destroy its environment. And for the quarter of a million visitors a year who make the trip to this Italianate village in North-West Wales, it's quite simply one of the most magical places on Earth. It was here Noel Coward wrote his comedy Blithe Spirit , Patrick McGoohan filmed the legendary 1960s TV series The Prisoner and George Harrison celebrated his 50th birthday. It's the kind of place where Larry Adler gave informal concerts to other guests and hotel staff, Ingrid Bergman could be found talking movies with Bertrand Russell, and where royalty - from Edward VIII to King Zog of Albania - would join the general public in seeking escape from the modern world. Here too was born the world-famous Portmeirion Pottery, founded by Clough's daughter, Susan William-Ellis, and still one of Britain's leading ceramics companies nearly a half-century on. The book Portmeirion is published to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the opening of the resort in 1926. Lavishly illustrated with many unpublished and rare photographs, plans and drawings, it is the first book to cover the whole story of the village, the extensive gardens both at Portmeirion and Plas Brondanw, the Williams-Ellis family home, Portmeirion Pottery as well as Clough himself. 250 colour & 63 b/w illustrations
Download or read book Wales written by Brian Bell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wales written by Insight and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Oxford Essential Guide for Puzzle Solvers by :
Download or read book The Oxford Essential Guide for Puzzle Solvers written by and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game players in search of a difficult answer, a clue, or a helpful hint to master crossword puzzles can turn to this guide for the answers--arranged by number of letters--in a wide range of categories, from science and technology to literature and the arts. Listed are rhyming pairs, double meanings, palindromes, acronyms, and more.
Download or read book I Am (Not) a Number written by Alex Cox and published by Oldacastle Books. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormously puzzling TV series The Prisoner has developed a rapt cult following, and has often been described as "surreal" or "Kafkaesque." In I Am (Not) a Number, Cox takes an opposing view. While the series has surreal elements, he believes it provides the answers to all the questions which have confounded viewers: who is Number 6? Who runs The Village? Who—or what—is Number 1? According to Cox, the key is to view the series in the order in which the episodes were made, not in the order of the UK or US television screenings. In this book he does exactly that, and provides an entirely original and controversial "explanation" for what is perhaps the best, and certainly the most perplexing, TV series of all time.
Download or read book Patrick McGoohan written by Roger Langley and published by Tomahawk Press (GA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick McGoohan Danger Man or Prisoner, is the definitive tribute to one of Britain's brightest stars, affirming his cult status as a guiding light in international film, television and theatre.
Download or read book Portmeirion written by Robin Llywelyn and published by Gomer Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bilingual booklet telling the fascinating story of the Italianite village of Portmeirion in North Wales. Contains full-color illustrations and interesting facts on every page. Ideal for all ages.
Book Synopsis The Prisoner, a Televisionary Masterpiece by : Alain Carrazé
Download or read book The Prisoner, a Televisionary Masterpiece written by Alain Carrazé and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prison Breaks written by Tomas Max Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison escapes. Drawing on firm empirical evidence from places like India, Tunisia, Canada, the UK, France, Uganda, Italy, Sierra Leone, and Mexico, the authors show how escapes not only break the prison, but are also fundamental to the existence of such institutions: how they are imagined, designed, organized, justified, reproduced and transformed. The chapters are organised in four interconnected themes: resistance and everyday life; politics and transition; imaginaries and popular culture; and law and bureaucracy, which reflect how escapes are productive, local, historical, and equivocal social practices, and integral to the mysterious intransigence of the prison. The result is a critical and theoretically informed understanding of prison escapes – which has so far been absent in prison scholarship – and which will hold broad appeal to academics and students of prisons and penology, as well as practitioners.
Download or read book Walking English written by David Crystal and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed linguist, “part travelogue, part memoir, and part meditation on the intellectual and emotional underpinnings of language. . . . Priceless.” (Booklist) In this discursive jaunt through the groves and thickets of the English language, David Crystal creates an entertaining narrative account of his encounters with the language and its speakers. Woven from personal reflections, historical allusions, and observations of travelers, this fascinating journey through the language we use every day will have readers thinking twice about each word they speak. Starting in Wales and moving from England to San Francisco by way of, yes, Poland, Crystal encounters numerous linguistic side roads that he cannot resist exploring, from pubs to trains to Tolkien. Walking English is a captivating exploration of language by “one of England’s greatest living language commentators.” (The New Statesman) “In a conversational style that includes plenty of quirky facts, Crystal captures the exploratory, seductive, teasing, quirky, tantalizing nature of language study, and in doing so illuminates the fascinating world of words in which we live.” —Publishers Weekly “An informative, transformative trip into the mysterious, mutating, magical thicket of English.” (Kirkus Reviews) “Like passing the afternoon with a knowledgeable uncle.” —The Wall Street Journal “The Dr. Johnson of our age.” —The Sunday Herald “The book reads like a donnish Bill Bryson, a Bryson possessed with a maniacal passion for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language! . . . [A] compelling guide.” —Independent “Crystal proves an entertaining companion! It is pleasant to ramble with him along the byways of language.” —The Tablet
Book Synopsis Practically Useless Information on Weddings by : Norman Kolpas
Download or read book Practically Useless Information on Weddings written by Norman Kolpas and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate gift book for the bride, her mother, bridesmaids, friends, and the occasional groom. Fascinating facts include the world's longest wedding ceremony, shortest ceremony, and most-watched ceremony (on television). Also included is vital information on diamond engagement rings, gift guidelines for each anniversary, the significance of rice, the meaning of flowers used in bouquets, and the story behind traditions and sayings like "something old, something new." The book will be equally popular as a gift and curiosity for the nearly wed or as a resource for those hard-to-find facts that provide the background on much of the traditional wedding lore. A complete index provides access by topic.
Download or read book Find the Dragon! written by Huw Aaron and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colourful 32 page, A4 book for children and adults. Packed with lively double-page illustrations of amusing Welsh scenes, the task is to find the little dragon hiding in each scene, as well as many other bizarre objects and characters listed at the back of the book. Guaranteed to provide hours of fun for all the family!
Book Synopsis Practical Projects for Photographers by : Tim Daly
Download or read book Practical Projects for Photographers written by Tim Daly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert photographer and instructor Tim Daly presents over 20 practical projects for the budding photographer to develop their technical and research skills.Each project is a ready-made resource - the assignments vary in size and complexity, exploring a wide range of outputs (print, photobook, blog) and are mindful of limited resources, travelling distances and access to expensive equipment. Within each section are examples of notable photographers from around the world, suggested responses, practice tips, readings from key thinkers and further resources. This book blends understanding of context and technique to help photographers find new ways to work through the creative process.
Download or read book Johan. written by Melanie Martins and published by Melanie Martins LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While he won her heart, mine was already secretly his." - Hannah Hannah Johan once promised me a future together, but when the time came, he chose duty over love, leaving me heartbroken and confused. His sweet words about us now feel like a distant echo, drowned out by the responsibilities that pulled him away. As I try to piece my life back together, the mystery of my great-aunt Amelia resurfaces, dragging me into a web of secrets and intrigue that I can't ignore. Cambridge was supposed to be a fresh start, but it’s filled with reminders of Johan and the life we almost had. Amidst the chaos, there’s Conrad—Johan's best friend. He’s been a steady presence, always showing interest, always there for me since the moment we met. Maybe it’s time to give him a chance, to see if the spark between us can light a new path forward. But with Amelia's secrets looming larger than ever and my heart still tangled in the past, I’m torn between the familiar ache of lost love and the possibility of something new. Will I find the strength to move on and give Conrad a chance, or will the ghosts of my past pull me back into Johan’s orbit?
Download or read book The New Heretics written by Andy Thomas and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most balanced and well-reasoned investigation available into why people believe today’s highly divisive conspiracy theories, from COVID and QAnon to 5G scares, fake news and more. Through their part in some huge controversies, conspiracy theorists are being branded the Number One Enemies of our times – the new heretics. They are seen to threaten the very fabric of modern society, spreading doubts and fears that result in Washington Capitol invasions, transmission mast burnings or the spread of anti-vaxx material. Yet the theorists prefer to call themselves "truth seekers" and see the mainstream establishment as the real disruptor, treating its increasingly harsh censorship as direct validation of their views. In truth, the new heretics, whose numbers are swelling, are symptoms of a wider polarization splitting apart much of the world in ideological divisions. Many have lost trust in politicians and the media, while nuanced debate is crushed and information overload and manipulation breeds uncertainty, civil unrest and mental health issues. How does the age old strategy of divide-and-rule play out in such an environment? Using his extensive experience of negotiating disputes between cynics and truth seekers, Andy Thomas explores the proliferation of conspiracy thinking, peeling back unhelpful layers of biased thinking on all sides to find more insightful ways to bridge the polarised divides and create a better way forward.
