Have I ever told you about the time I met the giant who couldn't stop crying?' 'No, you never told us about that, ' I said. 'So I'll tell you now, ' said Uncle Leo, and he began. Uncle Leo is no ordinary uncle, he's one-of-a-kind-he's an adventurer, a traveller, a magician, all rolled into one. In this second instalment of his wonderful adventures, Uncle Leo tells Andy all about his time in the Siberian jungles-from digging a tunnel to the other side of the world for the queen of Decria to meeting the giant who couldn't stop crying; from battling his own reflection in a magic mirror to travelling to Lafterovnik, where people cry when they're happy! Funny and endearing, the second book in the Uncle Leo series brings to life the magic of storytelling, accompanied by lively and colourful illustration

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'We're lucky we can eat chocolate, ' said Uncle Leo. 'There are places where it's dangerous to eat chocolate.' 'Dangerous to eat chocolate?' I said. 'Where?' 'I'll tell you about it, ' said Uncle Leo. Uncle Leo is no ordinary uncle, he's one-of-a-kind-he's an adventurer, a traveller, a magician, all rolled into one. Join him as he tells Andy and his brother Graham all about his adventures in the Swiss desert-from being a superstar in Nullistan to finding a miraculous medicine that can cure all illness; from a thrilling encounter with the people of Chocolateland, who worship all things sweet, to being turned into a living doll in the land of monsters! Funny and endearing, the third book in the Uncle Leo series brings to life the magic of storytelling, accompanied by lively and colourful illustrations. Books in the series: Uncle Leo's Adventures in the Romanian Steppes Uncle Leo's Adventures in the Siberian Jungle Uncle Leo's Adventures in the Swiss Desert Uncle Leo's Adventures at the West Pole Uncle Leo's Adventures in the Sahara Fores

You probably won't believe a word I say but I swear that everything I'm about to tell you really happened.I heard it with my own ears from Uncle Leo.' Uncle Leo is no ordinary uncle, he's one-of-a- ind he's an adventurer, a traveler, a magician, all rolled into one. Join him as he tells Andy all about his adventures in the Romanian steppes from being stuck on a cloud while searching for hidden treasure to being turned into a cockroach by an angry sorcerer; from a thrilling encounter with a story-swallowing demon to becoming the court jester in the Kingdom of Upsidown, where everyone walks on their hands! Funny and endearing, the first book in the Uncle Leo's Adventures series brings to life the magic of storytelling, accompanied by lively and colorful illustrations.

The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. “A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves” (The New York Times Book Review). Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have passed out of an era of verbal primacy and into one of post-linguistic forms—or partial silence. Steiner explores the idea of the abandonment of contemporary literary criticism, from the classics to the works of William Shakespeare, Lawrence Durell, Thomas Mann, Leon Trotsky, and more.

In Extended Play, one of the country's most innovative music writers conducts a wide-ranging tour through the outer limits of contemporary music. Over the course of more than twenty-five portraits, interviews, and essays, John Corbett engages artists from lands as distant as Sweden, Siberia, and Saturn. With a special emphasis on African American and European improvisers, the book explores the famous and the little known, from John Cage and George Clinton to Anthony Braxton and Sun Ra. Employing approaches as diverse as the music he celebrates, Corbett illuminates the sound and theory of funk and rap, blues and jazz, contemporary classical, free improvisation, rock, and reggae. Using cultural critique and textual theory, Corbett addresses a broad spectrum of issues, such as the status of recorded music in postmodern culture, the politics of self-censorship, experimentation, and alternativism in the music industry, and the use of metaphors of space and madness in the work of African American musicians. He follows these more theoretically oriented essays with a series of extensive profiles and in-depth interviews that offer contrasting and complementary perspectives on some of the world's most creative musicians and their work. Included here are more than twenty original photographs as well as a meticulously annotated discography. The result is one of the most thoughtful, and most entertaining, investigations of contemporary music available today.