Facsimile of the famous first edition of 1847.

Red, yellow, blue - and of course black - are the colours that Oliver Byrne employs for the figures and diagrams in his most unusual 1847 edition of Euclid, published by William Pickering and printed by Chiswick Press, and which prompt the surprised reader to think of Mondrian. The author makes it clear in his subtitle that this is a didactic measure intended to distinguish his edition from all others: "The Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners." Byrne is not content to trust solely in the supposed intuitive "logical" structure of Euclid's axioms and theorems - who doesn't know the first famous sentences of Euclid's Elements: "I. A point is that which has no parts. II. A line is length without breadth"? -, but translates them into colourful diagrams and symbols. He thereby thinks in terms of the school classroom: he compares his colours to the dyed chalks in which figures are drawn on the blackboard.

Oliver Byrne (c. 1810-c. 1880) was an Irish author and civil engineer. Little is known about his life, though he wrote a considerable number of books. As Surveyor of Her Majesty's Settlements in the Falkland Islands, Byrne had already published mathematical and engineering works, but never anything like his edition on Euclid. This remarkable example of Victorian printing has been described as one of the oddest and most beautiful books of the 19th century.

Each proposition is set in Caslon italic, with a four-line initial, while the rest of the page is a unique riot of red, yellow and blue. On some pages, letters and numbers only are printed in colour, sprinkled over the pages like tiny wild flowers and demanding the most meticulous alignment of the different colour plates for printing. Elsewhere, solid squares, triangles and circles are printed in bright colours, expressing a verve not seen again on the pages of a book until the era of Dufy, Matisse and Derain.

Portretfotos van de bekende modefotograaf (geb. 1920).

Als een jonge leraar bij een Haagse middelbare school in dienst treedt, wordt hij ernstig in zijn verwachtingen teleurgesteld.

Hoe is het met uw middelbareschoolkennis gesteld? Kunt u de Duitse voorzetsels nog moeiteloos opzeggen? En weet u nog wat de stelling van Pythagoras precies inhoudt? Bekende Nederlanders en Vlamingen hebben in het populaire VARA- en TVI- programma HEREXAMEN die test al ondergaan. Dat ging hun niet altijd even gemakkelijk af. Als u benieuwd bent naar wat u nog weet van de middelbare school, dan kunt u nu zelf thuis HEREXAMEN spelen. Dit boek bevat veel boeiende en leerzame vraagstukken. Met behulp van de handige spelformulieren kunt u het spel alleen, maar ook samen met anderen spelen. U wordt aan de tand gevoeld over elf vakken, waaronder Frans, Engels, wiskunde, geschiedenis en biologie. 'Doe nu zelf HEREXAMEN' is samengesteld door Jan Meulendijks en Bart Schuil, de bedenkers van het programma. Durft u de confrontatie aan? Aarzel dan niet, pak een pen en doe nu zelf HEREXAMEN!

From pre-trip planning to pre-empting and dealing with challenges when away, The Rough Guide to Travel with Babies and Young Childrenis the ultimate comprehensive guide to hassle-free family travel. With the low-down on everything from planning your itinerary and accommodation to what to bring and how to pack it, the guide is packed with tips on painless travel by plane, car, bus or train, as well how to deal with delays, queues and travel sickness. Insiders' tips from destinations all around the globe ensure you'll know what to expect when you arrive. You'll find thoroughly researched and accessible advice on coping with the challenges once you're there, from eating out with toddlers to getting enough sleep. Ideal for busy parents, the guide comes complete with listings of resources, websites and further reading, plus handy checklists, first-hand stories and advice from travel industry experts and parents who've been there and done it.

Eerlijk, makkelijk, gezellig en snel klaar Hoe kan ik makkelijk een rollade maken? Hoe begin ik aan een lekkere bouillon? Welk deel van de kip gebruik ik in mijn wok? Of hoe krijg ik een krokant korstje aan de vis? Omdat niet iedereen als kind naast zijn moeder in de potten stond te roeren, geeft Ilse D’hooge in Easy@home. Back to Basic naast 50 gloednieuwe recepten ook de basis van het koken mee, en helemaal passend in onze huidige leefwereld. Geen uren in de keuken, maar toch verfijnde gerechten door op de juiste manier te werk te gaan.

Scampi’s op tafel: elke dag een beetje feest! Scampi’s zijn een echte publiekslieveling in onze keuken: je maakt er makkelijke gerechten mee die snel klaar zijn en niet eens zo duur. Scampi’s zijn ook het perfecte ingrediënt om mee te experimenteren, en ze zijn echt in staat je gerechten net die extra twist te geven. In dit Scampi-kookboek staan makkelijke familierecepten van bij ons en uit de wereldkeuken, voor elke smaak, voor jong en oud: van de heerlijke Italiaanse risotto met scampi’s over de knapperige Vietnamese lenterolletjes met scampi’s en een pittige Peruviaanse ceviche tot een hartverwarmende Scandinavische soep met scampi’s. Scampi’s: niet moeilijk te bereiden en succes verzekerd!

Geschiedenis, grillen en groei van Amerikaanse vrouwelijke rockmusici.

This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning with an overview of the changing fortunes of the practice, followed by explorations of individual prima donnas and their relationship with particular insertion arias. Carolina Ungher s difficulties in finding a perfect aria to introduce into Donizetti s Marino Faliero; Guiditta Pasta s performance of an aria from Pacini s Niobe in a variety of operas, and the subsequent fortunes of that particular aria. Maria Malibran s interpolation of Vaccai s final scene from Giulietta e Romeo in place of Bellini's original setting in his I Capuleti e I Montecchi; and Adelina Patti's mini-concerts in the lesson scene of Il barbiere di Siviglia. The final chapter provides a treatment of a short story, Memoir of a Song, narrated by none other than an insertion aria itself, and the volume concludes with an appendix containing the first modern addition of this short story, a narrative that has lain utterly forgotten since its publication in 1849. This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of music criticism through the period.

Presents an overview of the life and work of the groundbreaking artist Man Ray (1890-1976) who broke down the boundaries between photography and graphic design with his innovative techniques. This collection of famous, lesser known, and unknown works illustrates Man Ray's singular visionary power.

A collection Dorothy Norman's photography that traces the development of her work of from her photographs of New York City architecture, to her sensitive portraits of many artists of her day. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

"Nine fresh views, by varied authors, of male-female friendships in 19th-century America. These are fascinating mini-biographies of such famous men and less famous women as Edgar Allan Poe and Frances Sargent Osgood, Walt Whitman and Fanny Fern, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Sherwood Bonner. Each essay breaks down the stereotypical view, accepted by generations of scholars, that the woman was always 'less bright, less talented, a protZgZe, a lovesick lady.' . . . An important . . . contribution to the reintroduction of works by women into the canon of American literature."ÐÐKirkus Reviews

"Of the many books that currently invite us to reassess the literary history of nineteenth-century America this is among the most provocative in the problems it poses and the revision it achieves. The author's use of gender as a category of analysis produces responsible, revealing, and sometimes startling results, collectively providing a widereaching model for further reassessments of this kind."ÐÐAmerican Literature

"[Explores] mentorial relationships to see how they functioned, what form the assistance took, what it meant to be a protZgZe, what the gains and losses were for both and what happened if and when the protZgZe broke away."ÐÐWomen's Review of Books

Looking at travel writing by British women from the seventeenth century on, Karen R. Lawrence asks an intriguing question: What happens when, instead of waiting patiently for Odysseus, Penelope voyages and records her journey--when the woman who is expected to waitsets forth herself and traces an itinerary of her own?

Lawrence ranges widely, discussing both fiction and nonfiction and traversing the genres of travel letters, realistic and sentimental novels, ethnography, fantasy, and postmodern narrative. In examining works as dissimilar as Margaret Cavendish's rendition of the Renaissance adventure narrative and Christine Brooke-Rose's postmodernist Between, she explores not only the significance of gender for travel writing, but also the value of travel itself for testing the limits of women's social freedoms and restraints.

Lawrence shows how writings by Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sarah Lee, Mary Kingsley, Virginia Woolf, and Brigid Brophy reconceive the meanings of femininity in relation to such apparent oppositions as travel/home, other/self, and foreign/domestic. Despite the differences-historical, generic, political-among these writers, Lawrence maintains, they share common insights. Their accounts overturn the dichotomy between adventure and domesticity, demonstrating something illusory within both the stability of home and the freedom of travel.

This fascinating study explores the pleasures and torments of love and sexuality as depicted in the works of six important French women writers: Rachilde, Colette, Leduc, Wittig, Cixous and Duras. Historically, erotic literature has been dominated by male writers. Feminist critics have argued that its central motifs of voyeurism, sadomasochism, incest and violence to women's bodies are governed by the unconscious fantasies and prejudices of a patriarchal sociocultural order.The contributors question how this sociocultural order has affected the erotic writing of the women writers studied. They explore the opportunities for, and constraints on, women's erotic writing in the early to mid-twentieth century through the works of Rachilde, Colette and Leduc. This is contrasted with the writing of prominent contemporary authors -- Wittig, Cixous and Duras -- to reveal new developments and diversification within the genre. The focus throughout is on how these writers deal with erotic language and rhetoric, their treatment of traditional themes of eroticism, and -- most vital to recent feminist criticism and theory -- their vision of the female body and women's sexual pleasure. The book provides key insights into the development of women's erotic discourse throughout this century and the diversity that characterizes it.

The Sveshnikov Variation is one of the most uncompromising lines of the Sicilian Defence. Black accepts an apparently loose pawn-structure in return for a great deal of piece activity. Decades of experience have shown that it is far from easy for White to neutralize Blacks active play, and the Sveshnikov is now firmly established as a favourite weapon for players who wish to win games as Black. Leading grandmasters who have relied on the Sveshnikov include John Nunn, Michal Krasenkow, Joel Lautier, Miguel Illescas, Alexei Shirov, Peter Leko and, most notably, BGN World Champion Vladimir Kramnik.

Proefschrift Universiteit Utrecht, 2002. Filmgeschiedenis.

In Reizen Waes Europa blijft Tom Waes dichter bij huis en laat hij zien dat je niet naar de andere kant van de wereld hoeft te reizen om onweerstaanbare, fascinerende, mysterieuze, en ja, ook avontuurlijke plaatsen te ontdekken. Hij blijft binnen de grenzen van het Europese continent, neemt je mee naar onbekende maar unieke plekken in Spanje, Azerbeidzjan, IJsland, Groenland, Polen, Isle of Man, Noord-Ierland en Oekraïne, en verrast je als vanouds met straffe verhalen. Want reizen maakt je sprakeloos, en verandert je daarna in een verhalenverteller.

It is the most popular film genre of the moment, and everyone has an opinion about it, whether it’s in the pub, in a café, or at universities. Etienne F. Augé and Barry W. Fitzgerald crossed paths during a panel on superheroes at Erasmus University in Rotterdam a few years back. Barry is a physicist, Etienne a historian. And both of them are big fans of superheroes. In Superheroes, they combine their scientific and historian powers in search of the ultimate answers to the key themes within this vast film genre. What is a superhero? What are the ethical dilemmas within the genre? How realistic is the science of superheroes? And what is the future of the superhero?

Moordverhalen waarin slachtoffers op diverse manieren om het leven worden gebracht maar altijd bij een maaltijd. Ieder verhaal wordt gevolgd door een aantal recepten.

The manager of an exclusive boutique hotel (who shall remain nameless) exposes the low-life styles of the rich and famous in this titillating expose.

The anonymous author has encountered lavish drug parties, gorgeous call girls, naked guests falling out of windows, dlr. 9,000 bottles of wine, astronomical telephone porn bills, bathtubs of Evian, and on more than one occasion, dead sheep. And every dirty word of it is true.

This is a trawl through the decadence and debauchery of the ultimate service industry—where money not only talks, but gets guests the best room, the best service, and also entitles them to behave in any way they please.

Olav Mol kijkt terug op zijn leven, op wat hij meemaakte in de autosportwereld in het algemeen en de Formule 1 in het bijzonder.

Over his five matches for the World Championship against Gary Kasparov, the Closed Spanish was Karpovs most common defence to the kings pawn. Time and again these two great rivals returned to the same dramatic arena armed with new weapons from their laboratories, greatly enriching the theory of these highly fashionable systems and creating a remarkable series of chess masterpieces. The Zaitsev system, devised by Karpovs long-time second and chief analyst Igor Zaitsev, has been the main scene of these contests, and this book also covers a second system, which Karpov developed himself for the most recent match.

Provides a grandmasterly insight into the Kasparov system against the Queens Indian Defence, and named after the World Champion, who popularized the variation in the early 1980s. All the main variations are covered, with complete games illustrating the important ideas. Mikhail Gurevich is a top grandmaster who has represented the Soviet Union in many international events.