An introduction to Picasso. It tells the true story of Antony Penrose, son of the photographer Lee Miller and the painter and writer Roland Penrose and his childhood friendship with the great artist. It features some sixty-five illustrations, including Picasso's most appealing artworks, as well as archive photography by Lee Miller.

Follows a child's hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought as he decides to make a clone of himself - and starts to ponder what makes him.

Includes an array of cat characters take the starring roles in a variety of instantly recognizable settings. This compilation features feline re-imaginings of scenes from art, theatre, opera, ballet and films.

Inspired by feline reimaginings of famous scenes from art, theatre, opera, ballet and film, this volume includes three small ruled notebooks and a boxed collection of 20 different notecards with envelopes.

As well as vividly exploring the tales, the author brings her expertise in the archaeology of the Iron Age and particularly shamanism to bear on the mythical worlds she describes, with evidence as diverse as the Gundestrup Cauldron and the famous bog bodies. She also asks how the myths survived the Christianization of Europe.

Teaches over 400 of the most used and useful Chinese characters, phrases and sentences. Organized into eleven themes that reflect our daily lives, this book brings the stories and myths behind the characters to life, providing a unique perspective into Chinese history and culture.

Learning Chinese is notoriously difficult and has long put off even the most linguistically savvy Westerners. The author has used her entrepreneurial and software background to unpick Chinese characters and create a simple system for quickly understanding the basic building blocks of the written language.

The Chinese language is traditionally taught through a series of between roughly 180 and 215 radicals. These radicals are then used to form the characters of the Chinese language. This title offers a collection of characters into their basic and recurring forms, allowing students to learn simpler radicals that we have termed building blocks.