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Bonnie Fitzgerald's guide to mosaic techniques : the go-to source for in-depth instructions and creative design idea.

New Books - Sat, 04/01/2023 - 2:53am

Author: Fitzgerald, Bonnie, 1956- author.
Published: 2015 2014
Call Number: 738.5
Format: Books
Summary: This complete resource of mosaic techniques and design ideas is sure to become your go-to reference. With clear step-by-step sequences, mosaic artist Bonnie Fitzgerald shows how to draw up an idea, cut and arrange tiles, and lay designs successfully. All tools, materials, and equipment are clearly explained, and you'll find helpful hints on setting up a comfortable workspace, as well as essential information on installing your finished mosaics. Includes 10 project descriptions, such as a mirror frame, table top, house number, and two- and three-dimensional artworks. Plus, you'll find tips and sample mosaics from some of the world's leading mosaic artists throughout the book!

The water margin : outlaws of the marsh

New Books - Sat, 04/01/2023 - 2:53am

Author: Shi, Nai'an, approximately 1290-approximately 1365, author. Jackson, J. H., translator. Lowe, Edwin, 1972- writer of introduction.
Published: 2010
Call Number: F SHINAIAN
Format: Books
Summary: Stories of a group of heroes, who stand for different classes of people daring to struggle against evil. There are 105 men and 3 women in all, who are oppressed by the currupt and unjust official and then rise up. These stories take place at the end of the North Song period, describing various vivid pictures of farmers' uprisings full of love and hate, ties of friendship, kindness and enmity, etc.

Lolita

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Author: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.
Published: 1992
Call Number: F NABOKOV
Format: Books
Summary: With an Introduction by Martin Amis. When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

Flying saucers : a modern myth of things seen in the skies

New Books - Sat, 04/01/2023 - 2:53am

Author: Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961, author. Hull, R. F. C. (Richard Francis Carrington), 1913-1974, translator.
Published: 1991 1978
Call Number: 001.942
Format: Books
Summary: "In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets.... Even people who would never have thought that a religious problem could be a serious matter that concerned them personally are beginning to ask themselves fundamental questions. Under these circumstances it would not be at all surprising if those sections of the community who ask themselves nothing were visited by `visions,' by a widespread myth seriously believed in by some and rejected as absurd by others."--C. G. Jung, in Flying Saucers ? Jung's primary concern in Flying Saucers is not with the reality or unreality of UFOs but with their psychic aspect. Rather than speculate about their possible nature and extraterrestrial origin as alleged spacecraft, he asks what it may signify that these phenomena, whether real or imagined, are seen in such numbers just at a time when humankind is menaced as never before in history. The UFOs represent, in Jung's phrase, "a modern myth."