Stephen Davies

Luke Pearson

"Based on the Hildafolk series of graphic novels by Luke Pearson."

Hilda and the Hidden People

Based on the hit Netflix series, join Hilda and Twig for more hilarious adventures in the 6th volume of the illustrated fiction series.

Hilda Netflix Tie-In 6

Hilda and the White Woff

Based on the hit Netflix series, join Hilda and Twig for more hilarious adventures in the illustrated fiction series. We rejoin our favorite blue-haired heroine Hilda to find her cooking up adventure with the Sparrow Scouts, thwarting mischievous Yule Lads, and battling mechanical bell-ringers. Can Hilda and her friends help the city of Trolberg escape the hungry Gryla and her light-fingered crew? There is no shortage of unexpected twists, turns and new friends in this fourth installment of the Hilda fiction series.

Hilda Netflix Tie-In 4

Hilda and the Time Worm

Fifteen-year-old Jake Knight is an explorer and adventurer at heart but this often gets him into trouble. When a stuffy English boarding school suspends him for rule-breaking, Jake flies out to Burkina Faso where his parents are living. He is expecting a long, adventure-filled vacation under a smiling African sun. But what awaits him there is kidnapping, terrorism and Yakuuba Sor - the most wanted outlaw in the Sahara desert.

The Outlaw

Kadija is the music-loving daughter of a guardian of the sacred manuscripts of the ancient city of Timbuktu, Mali. Ali is a former shepherd boy, trained as a warrior for Allah. Tonight, the Islamist rebels are coming for Timbuktu. They will install a harsh regime of law and tear apart the peaceful world within the mud walls of the city. Television, football, radios, even music, will be banned. Kadija refuses to let go of her former life. And something in her defiance draws Ali to her. Which path will he choose?

Blood & Ink

Hilda and her mum have settled into their new home in the city of Trolberg and our heroine is trying to fit into this new and very different way of life. Though she's made a new friend, the city is vast and unfamiliar and, as night falls, both Hilda and her mum are lost in the bustling Bird Parade, desperate to reunite. Will this concrete labyrinth ever feel quite like home ?

Hilda and the Great Parade

Hilda en het verborgen volk

Caught up on Hilda on Netflix? Craving more adventures with your favorite blue-haired Sparrow Scout? This is the book for you! More badges, more thrills, more friends in the newest Hilda TV tie-in! Meet Hilda: explorer, adventurer, avid sketchbook-keeper and friend to every creature in the valley! Newly initiated into the Sparrow Scouts, Hilda is ready to explore and document the wilderness, and perhaps even make some human friends. Yet as luck would have it, there is a dark, menacing creature afoot near Trolberg, and Hilda is whisked back home to safety. Even so, intrigue seems to follow our blue-haired heroine wherever she goes, and it seems we may finally discover why so many socks in Trolberg seem to lose their mates.

Netflix Original Series

Hilda and the Nowhere Space

24 Stunden bis zum Untergang

Titanic

In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a travelling exhibition of Chinese items, theKeying had a troubled voyage. After quarrels on the way and a diversion to New York, culminating in a legal dispute over arrears of wages for Chinese members of the crew, it finally reached London in 1848, where it went on exhibition on the River Thames until 1853. It was then auctioned off, towed to Liverpool, and finally broken up. In this account of the ship, the crew and the voyage, Stephen Davies tells a story of missed opportunities, with an erratic course, overambitious aims, and achievements born of lucky breaks—a microcosm, in fact, of early Hong Kong and of the relations between China and the West.

The Voyage of the Keying, 1846–1855

East Sails West

Mark Haddon

Griselda Gifford

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Based on the hit Netflix series, join Hilda and Twig for more hilarious adventures in the 5th volume of the illustrated fiction series.

Hilda Netflix Tie-In 5

Hilda and the Ghost Ship

Kidnapped by a man who claims to be a remorseless outlaw with terrorist ties, British ambassador's son Jake and his sister, Kas, begin to doubt their captor's identity when they discover unsettling facts about the corrupt local government. By the award-winning author of Hacking Timbuktu.

Outlaw

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Stephen Davies analyses the key concepts of the aesthetic, art, and evolution, and explores how they might be related. He considers a range of issues, including the consideration of whether animals have aesthetic tastes; whether art is not only universal but cross-culturally comprehensible; and the idea that our environmental and landscape preferences are rooted in the experiences of our distant ancestors. He argues that art serves as a powerful and complex signal of human fitness, and so cannot be incidental to biology. Indeed, aesthetic responses and art behaviors are the touchstones of our humanity.

Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution

The Artful Species

Samuel Lipschutz was born in Hungary in 1863 and emigrated to New York in 1880. He joined the Manhattan and New York chess clubs, and soon became champion of the latter, representing it at the British Chess Association Congress in London in 1886. Naturalized in 1888, he was the highest-placed American in the Sixth American Chess Congress the following year. In 1892 he defeated Jackson Showalter to become American champion. Suffering from tuberculosis in 1895, he lost a championship match to Showalter. Searching for a cure, he went to Germany in 1904 and died there late the following year. This book gives an account of Lipschutz's chess career, life and milieu and addresses questions surrounding his first name, his periods away from New York and misconceptions concerning the American championship. There are 249 games included.

A Life in Chess

Samuel Lipschutz

Kathleen Marie Higgins

Robert Hopkins

David E. Cooper

Robert Stecker

In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art Unique to this edition are six overview essays on the history of aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times

A Companion to Aesthetics

Tim Congdon

Ryan Bourne

Cento Veljanovski

The BBC holds a special place in the world of broadcasting. It derives its funding from a compulsory levy on people who may not even use the service. The protection it receives is justified on the grounds that it contributes to national welfare because of its role in ‘public service broadcasting’. The authors of this book argue that the BBC’s funding model is becoming untenable as technology changes. Furthermore, technology has also undermined the justification for government support for public service broadcasting. There is also major concern about bias at the BBC. However, the book concludes that bias is not confined to the BBC, but is common to all media providers. The problem is not bias as such, but the link between the BBC and the government, together with the compulsory funding model which does not allow people to not fund content of which they disapprove. Various options for reform are presented, concluding with a proposal for fullblown privatisation. It is concluded that this is the only way to realise the potential of an organisation that should be international in scope and which, under the current funding model, will become marginalised by media players operating worldwide across a range of platforms. This book is essential reading for anybody involved in public policy or the economics of broadcasting.

The Case for Privatising the BBC

In Focus: The Case for Privatising the BBC

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Hilda and the Nowhere Space (TV Tie-In 3)

Stephen Davies addresses such questions as: What are musical works?; are they discovered or created?; of what elements are they comprised?; how are they specified?; what's a performance?; and, is it possible to perform old music authentically?

A Philosophical Exploration

Musical Works and Performances

Musical Understandings presents an engaging collection of essays by Stephen Davies on the philosophy of music. He explores a range of topics, including how music expresses emotion, modes of perception, and musical profundity. The volume includes original material, newly revised articles, and work published in English for the first time.

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