Best Selling Books by IAN WALLACE

This is the first extensive survey catalogue of the work of Vancouver-based artist Ian Wallace—a key figure of the extraordinary artistic ferment in the Canadian city of Vancouver, a pioneer and theorist of its internationally regarded tradition of photo-conceptualism, and a teacher and colleague of such luminaries as Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, and Stan Douglas. Energized by the dialectic tensions between monochrome painting and documentary or staged photography, between the emblematic sites of street, studio and nature, Wallace''s practice fosters engagement with the persistent impulses of vanguard modernism. A distinguished company of European thinkers, curators and critics have been invited to consider Wallace''s art, inspirations, and influence: Vanessa Joan Müller considers the persistence of the monochrome in the artist''s oeuvre; Dieter Roelstraete addresses the dialectics of street and studio; and the eminent French philosopher Jacques Rancière pursues his on-going meditation on the politics of aesthetics, which has had a strong influence on Wallace''s thinking about art. The indispensable reference includes extensive color reproductions, catalogue of exhibited works, a chronology, and thorough bibliographic information. Co-published by the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf), Witte de With center for contemporary art (Rotterdam), and the Kunsthalle Zürich Edited by Vanessa Joan Müller, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Beatrix Ruf, Kunsthalle Zürich, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Witte de With center for contemporary art Texts by Vanessa Joan Müller, Jacques Rancière, Dieter Roelstraete, Ian Wallace Interview by Renske Janssen

Ian Wallace''s classic novel is a combination of scientific paradox, social innovation, and super detection. Meet Claudine St. Cyr, future sleuth extraordinary, and meet again the mastermind Croyd. Confront with them the murder of a hero, the strange doom of his sister, and the plotted assassination of an entire planet!

This book takes a personal and reflective look at the history and development of birdwatching in Britain. Over its long history, the study of birds has undergone dramaticchanges in ideology and methodology, as the technological expertiseavailable to us has grown and our understanding and appreciation ofnatural systems and the natural world has evolved. Birdwatching is nolonger the preserve of ''men of science'', but is a hugely popular hobby amongthe general public. The mainstream birdwatching magazines areincreasingly tackling complex issues such as phylogeny and speciationas well as publishing extremely sophisticated identification articlesand raising the profile of great birdwatching destinations around theworld. Ian Wallace''s account of the history of birdwatching in Britain is interspersed with numerous (and sometimes controversial) anecdotes which enhance the appeal of his engaging and entertaining text.This delightful book is enlivened throughout with the author''s owncharming colour paintings, and will appeal to everyone with anyinterest in birds and birdwatching in Britain.

SGT. CLAUDINE ST. CYR, A DETECTIVE OF THE GALACTIC POLICE, INVESTIGATES THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CROWN JEWELS OF LAVRANCHE, AND OF THE CROWN PRINCE, WHO IS ALSO MISSING.

The children in second grade laugh at Vincenzo''s sandwich of mortadella and provolone cheese.

A physical chemist (Fritz Haber), a photographer (Josef Breitenbach), a cabaret artist (Georg Kreisler), two writers (Otto Alscher and Albin Stuebs), a pioneering scholar in Irish-German studies (John Hennig) and a Celtic philologist (Julius Pokorny) are the focus of this volume. What they have in common is a biography fractured by the Nazis'' rise to power in 1933. Six were forced into exile; the life of the seventh, the Romanian-German writer Otto Alscher, shows that even the biography of a Nazi sympathiser could be dislocated by the years of dictatorship. As the previously unpublished letters which are reproduced here show, Fritz Haber, a Nobel prize winner, spent ''his last lonely months'' seeking a dignified way to leave the country to which he had once felt the deepest attachment. Although a prominent member of Germany''s academic élite, Julius Pokorny had to retire because of his Jewish ancestry in December 1935 and yet was allowed to continue publishing on ethnic themes until his exile in 1943. Albin Stuebs was forced to seek refuge in Prague and later England when his left-wing political convictions made him a certain target for the Nazis. Because of his marriage into a liberal Jewish family, John Hennig had to renounce all hope of an academic career in Nazi Germany and, after his exile to Ireland, struggled in straitened circumstances to support his family while at the same time developing into an unusually prolific scholar. Proof that exile may stimulate creative energy is provided by Josef Breitenbach, whose remarkable biography appears to show that loss and uprootedness may release otherwise undeveloped creative potential. Similarly, the flight of Georg Kreisler from Vienna in 1938 was the start of ''a remarkable voyage of discovery'' which saw him grow into a major, if consistently undervalued figure in the world of post-war German cabaret.

Richard Pochinko: Clown thru Mask has the origin of the famous clown technique developed by Richard Pochinko and a process loved by many artists, teachers, guides and those that want to know themselves better. It is an intuitive, inner child, exploration with clay mask made with eyes shut representing the 6 directions and a process loved by many in its ability to reach a sacred creative place. There are 12 Essential exercises. Included with this book is a 10 pages of a Dairy written by Della Burford when studying with Richard in 1986. Some of Richards students have commented in a Clown Registry started online. There is many historical photos taken by Ian''s brother Douglas Wallace.

Ian Campbell is a retired Math teacher, journalist, author and photographer. At school he was the founder of the school''s photomicrographical society and made money from the school by copying the biology slides on to 35mm film ransparencies so that the whole class could see the slides at the same time without having to queue for the microscope. Years later, when teaching math, he realised that different people learn in different ways. Some learn by rote; others visually. Many people are scared by the words used in the subject... long words like ''common denominator''... scary eh? This book will teach you how to do fractions, without the jargon using a simple visual method. It doesn''t matter how you learn. It only matters that you learn!

While they boil down sap from their maple trees to make syrup, a Canadian grandfather tells his granddaughter of the worst fire he has ever known.

Two children find a tree house just before Christmas.