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| Put your plates up, pour yourself a cupper Rosie, and have a butcher's. Come again? This illustrated playing-card sized deck features a Cockney phrase--rhyming slang meant to be impenetrable by its originators--on one side of each card, definitions and examples of usage on the other. Highly entertaining, this 48 card deck pays service to this rude, ribald, poetic and sometimes wildly funny language of which only a few scraps have seeped into mainstream English in the past couple of centuries. |
Comprising several city-states and colonies united by a common language and culture (and, periodically, by formal alliance), ancient Greece held considerable sway even before Alexander the Great conquered most of the known world; its influence continues to this day. From the Greeks, we have inherited many of our fundamental ideas about art, architecture, literature, government, and law, not to mention the Olympic games and the most poetic of mythologies. This deck of Knowledge Cards draws on the vast resources of the British Museum to present an illuminating glimpse into the cradle of Western civilization. Each of the forty-eight cards features a color photograph of an antiquity--a sculpture, pottery vessel, architectural fragment, or other Greek artifact--that relates to a particular topic, addressed in a concise essay on the back of the card. Text and images introduce you to important personages (both real-life and mythical), historical periods, aspects of daily and ceremonial life, neighboring peoples, and masterpieces of classical Greek culture. |
| PO-187 Cockney Rhyming Slang
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PO-188 Ancient Greece
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| A testament to humanity’s potential and its frailties, ancient Rome has become a metaphor for both unparalleled dominion and fallen greatness. This deck of Knowledge Cards examines Rome’s intriguing history, from its rise to regional hegemony as a monarchy to its eventual collapse as an unwieldy bipartite empire, by way of forty-eight antiquities from the British Museum. One side of each card features a color photograph of a Roman artwork or artifact; a concise essay on a related topic appears on the other side. Notable rulers (including Caesar, Nero, and Constantine), outlying provinces (Britannia, Judaea), popular deities and religious practices (both native and imported), technological feats (from innovative horseshoes to architectural marvels like the Colosseum), and favorite Roman pastimes (such as gladiatorial games, chariot races, and public bathing) are among the subjects discussed in this engaging look at one of the world’s first superpowers. |
Every variation on extreme human behavior could be seen between 1939 and 1945: the Nazi wolf savaged Europe, while Tojo’s Japan sought to found an empire on bloodstained ground. The eventual Allied victory over the Axis called for commensurate extremes of determination, sacrifice, and judicious ferocity. People an ocean away from the front lines wept and exalted over the uncertainties, losses, and successes of their cause. No news source brought the daily progress of World War II to Americans like The New York Times. This deck of Knowledge Cards addresses 48 major wartime events in quiz form: each card features a partial headline (e.g., Chamberlain Resigns, ? Premier). The answer and an excerpt from the attending article appear on the opposite side. These cards offer fascinating contemporary coverage of a twentieth-century cataclysm, presented with the Times’s characteristic accuracy and intelligence. |
| PO-189 Ancient Rome
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PO-190 Headlines From the New York
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| So, you think you or someone you know has problems? Want to know more about the terms you hear from the talking heads on television? What are all those odd behaviors mentioned in the magazines? Have we got some help for you! And from such an expert: in these Knowledge Cards, psychotherapist and excellent writer Alistair Highet analyzes forty-eight of the most interesting syndromes, disorders, mechanisms, feelings, complexes, phobias, compulsions, and yes, even pharmaceuticals. The front of each card presents the term or phrase; the back offers a concise but thorough explanation. Highet introduces us to Jung and Freud, Ellis and Reich, Kohut and Mahler as he explains Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy condition, borderline personality disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychosis, to mention only four of the psychological expressions current these days. Here is an enjoyable primer to help you easily attain an overview of the workings of the wondrous human mind in all its permutations. | London has accumulated millions of raucous and touching, scandalous and ennobling stories in its two thousand years. Some of those episodes were of more lasting resonance than others, and the concise essays in this deck of cards deal with events that have both prominent and obscure places in history. One side of each card features part of a London map, with a pointer to the location where a memorable event took place. The card’s other side yields an eclectic charivari of well- and little-known facts about the event’s circumstances, dnouement, and historic effects. There’s an additional pleasure to be found in these cards. Lay them out in four rows of twelve, and you have an elderly map of London. If you don’t know the city now, you will by the time you’re done! |
| PO-191 Shrink Rap: Psychological
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PO-192 What Happened Here? London
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