Trafalgar Square Spring 2021 The Ice Palace(2nd Edition) Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan Summary In rural Norway, one evening after school, 11-year-old Siss and Unn strike up a deep and unusual bond. When the next day Unn sets off into the wintry woods in search of a mysterious frozen waterfall, known locally as the "ice palace," and does not return, a devastated Siss takes it upon herself to find her missing friend. The Ice Palace is one of the most memorable achievements in modern literature thanks in large part to Vesaas's unique command of a sparse, figurative, and fragmentary style. As part of the new and improved Peter Owen Cased Classics series, this edition features a false die cutting in the shape of an ice shard on the dust jacket, while printed on the cover board is the work of acclaimed contemporary artist Kaye Donachie. Contributor Bio Tarjei Vesaas (1897–1970) was a Norwegian poet and novelist whose sparse, poetic, and figurative style won him international acclaim and three separate nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Best known and best loved of his works are The Ice Peter Owen Publishers Palace, for which he won The Nordic Council's Literature Prize; The Birds; and The 9780720620146 Pub Date: 12/15/2020 Bridges. Vesaas is an enduring literary figure in his native Norway where his home $26.95 Can. has become a site of pilgrimage. Elizabeth Rokkan was awarded the St. Olav Medal Hardcover for her efforts to make Norwegian literature available to English speakers. 176 Pages Carton Qty: 48 Fiction / Classics FIC004000 7.8 in H | 5 in W | 0.6 in T | 0.6 lb Wt Trafalgar Square Spring 2021 The Fourth Education Revolution(2nd Edition) Will Artificial Intelligence Liberate or Infantilise Humanity Anthony Seldon, Oladimeji Abidoye, Timothy Metcalf Summary Sir Anthony Seldon, the prominent political biographer and leading educationalist, addresses one of the high-stakes issues that will determine our future: the role of artificial intelligence and its impact on the world of education. AI will be an altogether new way of spreading education across the world, especially to those hundreds of millions who currently have limited access to it. As schools across the world have been shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic and many education systems have been forced to migrate, at least temporarily, to online platforms, the debate about how to deliver knowledge has never been more relevant. Britain and the US have an excellent education system in their schools and universities—excellent, but tailored to the 20th century. The mass teaching methods of the third revolution era have failed to conquer enduring problems of inequity and unfairness. Will the fourth AI revolution be able to remedy these problems? University of Buckingham Press This book, presented in an updated second edition, is a call to educators everywhere 9781800318243 to open their eyes to what is coming. 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Foreword by Alex Trochut Alex Trochut is an award-winning Spanish artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and typographer. He was born in Barcelona and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He created the cover for Katy Perry’s single Roar, as well as Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones, among others. Trafalgar Square Spring 2021 The Art & History of Calligraphy Patricia Lovett Summary Ranging from the Middle Ages, when beautiful calligraphy was a way of celebrating the divine, to the renaissance of the art form by William Morris, to the modern school of calligraphers following in the wake of master typographer Edward Johnston, Patricia Lovett charts the development of calligraphy through the history of European manuscripts. A renowned expert on the history of the form as well as a fine calligrapher herself, she writes—uniquely—from a practitioner's point of view. 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