Wendy Jones

Este libro contiene siete cuentos clásicos de princesas y magníficas fotografías de estructuras en papel para ilustrarlos. Una cuidada y bella edición para regalar tanto a niños como a adultos.Este libro contiene siete adaptaciones de cuentos clasicos de Charles Perrault, los hermanos Grimm y Hans Christian Andersen con magnificas fotografias de estructuras en papel para ilustrarlos. Los cuentos son: Cenicienta, Las doce princesas bailarinas, La princesa y el sapo, La princesa y el guisante, Blancanieves, Rapunzel y La Bella Durmiente.

An Austen scholar and therapist reveals Jane Austens intuitive ability to imbue her characters with hallmarks of social intelligenceand how these beloved works of literature can further illuminate the mind-brain connection.Why is Jane Austen so phenomenally popular? Why do we read Pride and Prejudice again and again? Why do we delight in Emmas mischievous schemes? Why do we care that Anne Elliot of Persuasion suffers? We care because it is our biological destiny to be interested in people and their storiesthe human brain is a social brain, and Austens characters are so believable that, for many of us, they are not just imaginary beings, but friends whom we know and love. And thanks to Austens ability to capture the breadth and depth of human psychology so thoroughly, we feel that she empathizes with us. Humans have a profound need for empathy, to know that we are not alone with our joys and sorrows. We see ourselves and others reflected in Austens work. Social intelligence is one of the most highly developed human traits when compared with other animals. How did it evolve? Why is it so valuable? Wendy Jones explores the many facets of social intelligence and juxtaposes them with the Austen cannon. Brilliantly original and insightful, this fusion of psychology, neuroscience, and literature provides a heightened understanding of one of our most beloved cultural institutionsand our own minds.

Its 1926 and Wilfred Price, purveyor of superior funerals, is newly married to the beautiful Flora Myfanwy. His brief and painful marriage to Grace is in the past. Hes busy with funerals - and preparing for fatherhood by reading a philosophy book and opening a paint and wallpaper business. As much as he loves Flora, he senses her distance from him - are marriage and fatherhood going to be very different from how Wilfred imagined?Grace has fled to from Narberth to London, where she is working as a chambermaid at the luxurious Ritz Hotel. But Grace has a secret, one that cant be hidden forever, and binds her to her old life in west Wales.Despite Wilfreds earnest effort to embrace the future, he is beginning to wonder if the past has too powerful a hold on him.Praise for The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price:Light, compassionate drama about a small, very tightly bound, ancient corner of the world.The Guardian.Wilfreds sentimental education is wrought so delightfully and affectionately.Sunday Times.A delightful story of great charm, very quirky and original. Jacqueline Wilson.

Everyone has to make decisions about love. Wilfred Price, overcome with emotion on a sunny spring day, proposes to a girl he barely knows at a picnic. The girl, Grace, joyfully accepts and rushes to tell her family of Wilfreds intentions. But by this time Wilfred has realised his mistake. He does not love Grace. On the verge of extricating himself, Wilfreds situation suddenly becomes more serious when Graces father steps in. Up until this point in his life, Wilfreds existence has been blissfully simple, and the young undertaker seems unable to stop the swirling mess that now surrounds him. To add to Wilfreds emotional turmoil, he thinks he may just have met the perfect girl for him.As Wilfred struggles in an increasingly tangled web of expectation and duty, love and lies, Grace reveals a long-held secret that changes everything . . . Wendy Joness charming first novel is a moving depiction of love and secrecy, set against the rural backdrop of a 1920s Welsh village, and beautifully told.

One of the most popular photographers on the planet recounts his life and artWhen Martin Parr was fourteen, his teacher wrote that he was utterly lazy and inattentive in a school report. He went on to become one of the most successful and sought-after photographers in the world. Martin has published over one hundred photobooks on many different subjects, from seaside resorts to smoking, over his career. Now, for the first and only time, Martin has produced a book about himself, telling his own story, in his own words.This autobiography combines over 150 of Martins photographs from his earliest snapshots to the work he is doing today with his recollections and reflections on each image. We meet a boy growing up in suburbia, who collects obsessively and notices everything. We see him exploding into the public consciousness in the late eighties with a series of startling, ultra-saturated colour images of the British seaside and scandalising the photography establishment in the process. We see society changing over the decades, from the demise of steam trains, through the opening of the first McDonalds in Moscow, to the transformations of the post-pandemic world.As Martin shares his story, his distinctive voice delicately captured by his friend, the writer Wendy Jones, he also reveals his approach to work and commissions; his tricks for gaining access and getting the shot; and he divulges his particular passions: for crowds and queues, fetes and placards, bad weather on beaches, and more.This is the definitive account of a great photographers career, curating the work that has defined his life. By looking at the world through his eyes and his lens, we come away seeing Martin Parr and ourselves a little differently.

Every inch of Graysons childhood bedroom was covered with pictures of aeroplanes, and every surface with models. Fantasy took over his life, in a world of battles ruled by his teddy bear, Alan Measles. He grew up. And in 2003, an acclaimed ceramic artist, he accepted the Turner Prize as his alter-ego Clare, wearing his best dress, with a bow in his hair. Now he tells his own story, his voice beautifully caught by his friend, the writer Wendy Jones. Early childhood in Chelmsford, Essex is a rural Eden that ends abruptly with the arrival of his stepfather, leading to constant swerving between his parents houses, and between boys and womens clothes. But as Grayson enters art college and discovers the world of London squats and New Romanticism, he starts to find himself. At last he steps out as a potter and transvestite.