New Releases by Richard Doyle

The story of Jack, the intrepid boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants, has been told to children for hundreds of years. In 1842, when he was just 18, Richard Doyle, whose natural talent for draftsmanship was matched by imaginative invention and a passion for legend and the grotesque, created a picture-book version of Jack the Giant Killer, with hand-written text and a watercolor within a pictorial border decorating every page. It has remained one of the most beloved versions of this timeless tale.In this new Everyman''s edition, Doyle''s vivid, wonderfully engaging illustrations have been enlarged and the text has been given greater legibility. It is a book that will satisfy both the child''s delight in scariness, wonder, and magic, and the collector''s pleasure in classic Victorian illustration.

Sixteen boldly rendered scenes, displaying the clever and imaginative work of Richard Doyle (1824-1883) display wood elves and winged creatures at play, pixies and imps nestled in the leaves of a flowering plant, fairies afloat on a lily pond, and other captivating images. The full-page designs glow with life when placed near a light source.

Victorian artist Richard Doyle (1824-1883) is famous for his charming illustrations of elves, fairies, and gnomes. For this coloring book, Marty Noble has skillfully adapted 29 of the English''s artist''s most delightful watercolors created for his book with Andrew Lang, The Princess Nobody: A Tale of Fairyland.

Four large temporary tattoos of wee folk astride a snail, riding a flying insect, chatting with a feathered friend, and crowning a bird.

What do biologists study when they study "life" today? Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was enabled by crucial rhetorical "softwares." Metaphors such as the genetic "code" made possible a transformation of the very concept of life, a transformation that often casts organisms as information systems. With careful readings of key texts from the history of molecular biology—such as those of Erwin Schrödinger, George Gamow, Jacques Monod, and François Jacob—the author maps out the complex relations between the practices of rhetoric and the technoscientific triumphs they accompanied, triumphs that bolstered a "postvital" biology that increasingly elides and questions the boundary between organisms and machines. There have been many popular books, and a few academic ones, on the Human Genome Initiatives. On Beyond Living is a genealogy of these initiatives, a map of how we have come to equate human beings with "information." Melding contemporary theory with scientific discourse, it is certain to provoke discussion (and controversy) in the fields of cultural studies, theory, and science with its penetrating inquiries into the relations between rhetoric and technoscience.

The Osborne Collection of Early Childrens Books. Originally published by Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, London, 1870.

Imperial 109 was one of the Empire class flying boats of Britain''s Imperial Airways. From Durban in South Africa in the spring of 1939, to New York. The journey traces the passage of desert storms and mountain crossings, romance and intrigue, theft, blackmail and murder.