Bestiary
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Pre-Columbian Bestiary
An encyclopedic collaboration between award-winning Mexican American scholar Ilan Stavans and illustrator Eko, A Pre-Columbian Bestiary features lively and informative descriptions of forty-six religious, mythical, and imaginary creatures from the...
The Animated Bestiary: Animals, Cartoons, and Culture
Cartoonists and animators have given animals human characteristics for so long that audiences are now accustomed to seeing Bugs Bunny singing opera and Mickey Mouse walking his dog Pluto. The Animated Bestiary critically evaluates the depiction of...
Illustrated Bestiary
Author and spiritual wellness guide Maia Toll turns the insight and wisdom that birthed The Illustrated Crystallary and The Illustrated Herbiary - her best-selling volume on the mystical power of plants - to the mysteries of the animal kingdom. Sh...
Mao's Bestiary
Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoono...
Bestiary
A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style. 'Julio Cortázar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories' Kevin BarryA...
Christmas Bestiary
In the wintry season, when we all delight in joyful thoughts of family, presents, and sugarplums, we mustn't forget that the night is dark and full of terrors. Thankfully, bold adventurers Benni Bodker and John Kenn Mortensen have journeyed far and wide to comb through ancient tomes, listen to folk tales, and spy upon loathsome lairs to catalog the most frightful creatures of the netherworld that appear around Christmastime. A Christmas Bestiary is an essential guidebook to all the horrors that await us during the darkest time of the year, from common creatures such as Baba Yaga and the Krampus to the less encountered (but quite deadly) Yule Wight and Gryla. Bodker's brief text entries include the lore and background of each creature, plus handy info such as danger level that will help you survive (but no guarantees ). Mortensen's gothic, pen-and-ink renderings bring these bone-chilling beasts to life on the page. Eerie, playful, and practical, A Christmas Bestiary is the perfect
Bestiario / Bestiary
-Hay que ser desmesuradamente revolucionario en la creacion, y quiza pagar el precio de esa desmesura. Se que vale la pena.- Julio Cortazar 'Bestiario' es el primer libro de relatos que Julio Cortazar publica con su autentico nombre. Pero no hay en estas ocho obras maestras ni el menor balbuceo ni resacas juveniles. Estos cuentos, que hablan de objetos y hechos cotidianos, pasan a la dimension de la pesadilla o de la revelacion de un modo natural e imperceptible. Sorpresa o incomodidad son, en cada texto, un condimento que se agrega al placer indescriptible de su lectura. Sus relatos nos desazonan porque poseen una caracteristica muy rara en la literatura: se nos quedan mirando, como si esperaran algo de nosotros. Este e-book incluye, en exclusiva, la historia de la creacion de Bestiario contada a traves de las cartas de Julio Cortazar y una guia para leer al autor. Resenas: -La verdadera revolucion de Cortazar esta en sus cuentos. Mas discreta pero mas profunda y permanente, porque
Illustrated Bestiary Collectible Box Set
This collectible box set combines the second book in Maia Toll's Wild Wisdom series, The Illustrated Bestiary, with a freestanding deck of 36 large, gilt-edged oracle cards and a cloth carrying bag for keeping animal wisdom close at hand. Together...
Bestiary
Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters - half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures - from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and ch...
Yokai Bestiary
Learn how to draw a bestiary of supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore, and discover their origins as you go. Yokai is a Japanese term for mystical beings that encompasses a range of supernatural phenomena, including demons, monsters, ghost...
Dark Crystal Bestiary
The Dark Crystal Bestiary¿is the definitive in-depth exploration of the flora and fauna found in the world of Thra. Created by Jim Henson for his 1982 puppet masterpiece, Thra is a remarkable realm in which all living things are connected and the ...
Dracopedia - The Bestiary
Unleash the Beasts! For millennia historians, artists and scientists have chronicled their ideas and discoveries of mythological and magical monsters in encyclopedias known as bestiaries. From Asia to America, Japan to the jungles of South Africa,...
Spook's Bestiary
"My name is John Gregory. What follows is my Bestiary - my personal account of the denizens of the dark I've encountered, together with the lessons I have learned and the mistakes I have made. I have held nothing back, and my hope is that the...
Unofficial Harry Potter Bestiary
From Acromantulas to Thestrals, this beautiful book details ever monster, beast or creature that has ever appeared in any official Harry Potter film, book or theatrical production. Readers will find more than 200 fascinating, magical creatures in ...
Loreland Bestiary
Turn your gaze toward the skies Where wyvern, lung, and phoenix fly. As mermaids swim through oceans blue Under Arctic ice, past coral hues. Accounts arise from here and there, Of manticores in hidden lairs, And faeries dance 'round mushroom caps ...
Calabi-yau Manifolds: A Bestiary For Physicists
Calabi-Yau spaces are complex spaces with a vanishing first Chern class, or equivalently, with trivial canonical bundle (canonical class). They are used to construct possibly realistic (super)string models and are thus being studied vigorously in ...
Pathfinder Bestiary 2 (P2)
More Monsters, More Mayhem! More than 300 menacing monsters and fearsome foes await within this compendium of creatures from the world of Pathfinder! From classic adversaries like giants, dragons, and the jabberwock to potential allies and servant...
Chinese Bestiary
A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains des...
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 5
Inside Bestiary 5 lurk hundreds of new monsters ready for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. You'll find the death-dealing grim reaper, menacing deep ones, and the ground-shaking wood colossus. Alongside such terrors, there are also allies to...
Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 (P2)
With more than 300 classic and brand-new monsters, this 320-page beautifully illustrated hardcover rulebook completes the collection of creatures begun in the first two Pathfinder Bestiary volumes. From classic creatures like clockworks and tooth ...
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 6
Bow down in Fear! Monsters have long stalked us in the darkness. Within this book, you'll find a host of these creatures for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Face off against archdevils and the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, planar dragons and...
Supernatural - The Men of Letters Bestiary Winchester
Supernatural - The Men of Letters Bestiary Winchester
Kurt Jackson Bestiary
Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). For this book, Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work a...
Battlezoo Bestiary: Strange & Unusual (5e)
Encounter over 150 award-winning monsters for 5th Edition from the 2021 RPG Superstar Contest. Inside, you'll also find the aberrant soul, slowly transforming into an aberration, as well as strange and unusual new backgrounds. Craft strange and un...
Star Wars Bestiary, Vol. 1
Explore the creatures of Star Wars in the first of two books, this one featuring beautiful illustrations of the wondrous non-sentient species from a galaxy far, far away. From Naboo to Hoth, Tatooine to Kashyyyk, and beyond, Star Wars is packed wi...
Runequest Bestiary
Runequest Bestiary
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF FALL: WASHINGTON POST, CBS, BOSTON GLOBE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE & MORE - From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Rundell comes a 'rare and magical book' (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world 'Extraordinary...For anyone whose capacity for wonder could use a jumpstart, Rundell's essays are essential reading.'--Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air 'In times like these, terror and rage will carry us only so far. We will also need unstinting, unceasing love. For the hard work that lies ahead, Ms. Rundell writes, 'Our competent and furious love will have to be what fuels us.' This is a book to help you fall in love.' --Margaret Renkl, The New York Times The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing
Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 (Special Edition) (P2)
With more than 300 classic and brand-new monsters, this 320-page beautifully illustrated hardcover rulebook completes the collection of creatures begun in the first two Pathfinder Bestiary volumes. From classic creatures like clockworks and tooth ...
Diablo Bestiary - The Book of Adria
Sanctuary is home to some of the most dangerous creatures to pull themselves from the pits of hell. Tread lightly, and never fall prey to monsters with the Diablo Bestiary. A celebration of the corrupted beasts and grotesque enemies that players h...
Bestiary of Monsters in Greek Mythology
Greek myths abound in images of beauty and perfection: charming gods, attractive goddesses, and handsome heroes, all of them standards of physical and spiritual flawlessness. However, the ancient Greeks were not fond of absolutes. No god or hero i...
Theater, Garden, Bestiary - A Materialist History of Exhibitions
Proposing a history of exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions. This volume gathers and expands upon the results of the research project 'Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions,' held at ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne, and proposes a history of exhibitions sourced from a wide corpus reaching beyond the framework of art institutions. It undertakes a transdisciplinary history at the nexus of art history, science studies, and philosophy, exploring the role the exhibition played in the construction of the conceptual categories of modernity, and outlines a historiographical model that conceptualizes the exhibition as both an aesthetic and an epistemic site. Contributors Etienne Chambaud, Elitza Dulguerova, Anselm Franke, Tristan Garcia, Fabien Giraud & Rapha l Siboni, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Yuk Hui, Pierre Huyghe, Sami Khatib, Jeremy Lecomte, St phane Lojkine, Rafael Mandressi, Vincent Normand, Peter
Grand Medieval Bestiary (Dragonet Edition)
As the 587 colourful images in this magnificent volume reveal, animals were a constant-and delightful-presence in illuminated manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. They were illustrated not only in bestiaries-the compendiums of animal fact and f...