Sempe: Nothing is Simple

Sempe: Nothing is Simple
Author: Sempé
Publisher: Phaidon
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Sempe has created a world above and beyond specific cultural and political references, a world all of his own, one populated by long-faced, aquiline-nosed depressives - psychoanalysts, housewives, and concert pianists."

Sempe: Everything is Complicated

Sempe: Everything is Complicated
Author: Sempé
Publisher: Phaidon
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Art
ISBN:

The second collection of Semp's cartoons to be published in France features some of his favorite subjects: hapless tourists, pipe-smoking novelists, and unruly schoolchildren.

Sempe: Mixed Messages

Sempe: Mixed Messages
Author: Sempé
Publisher: Phaidon
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2006-11
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In his most recent collections of cartoons, Semp turns his attention to the trappings of modern life, from mobile phones to designer water. Each volume in the collection contains about 100 illustrations.

One Foot, Two Feet

One Foot, Two Feet
Author: Peter Maloney
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2011-05-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1101643595

One foot, two feet One mouse, three mice One goose, four geese In this clever counting book, die-cut windows frame a single object and a turn of the page reveals a group. Featuring familiar objects and funny artwork, this inventive concept book is a great introduction to both counting and common irregular plural nouns. A cumulative row of illustrations along the bottom of the pages shows all of the previous objects in order, so kids can keep track of where they are, and the book also contains a fun hide-and-seek game, inviting kids to spy a little airplane zooming through each spread.

It's Nothing, Seriously

It's Nothing, Seriously
Author: John McGreal
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2016-04-21
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1785892215

It’s Silence, Soundly, It’s Nothing, Seriously and It’s Absence, Presently, continue The ‘It’ Series published by Matador since The Book of It (2010). They constitute another stage in an artistic journey exploring the visual and audial dialectic of mark, word and image that began over 25 years ago. In their aesthetic form the books are a decentred trilogy united together in a new concept of The Bibliograph. All three present this new aesthetic object, which transcends the narrow limits of the academic bibliography. The alphabetical works also share a tripartite structure and identical length. The Bibliograph itself is characterised by its strategic place within each book as a whole as well as by the complex variations in meaning of the dominant motifs – nothing/ness, absence and silence – which recur throughout the alphabetical entries that constitute the elements of each text. It’s Nothing, Seriously, for example, addresses the amusing paradox that so much continues to be written today about – nothing! The aleatory character of the entries in the texts encourage the modern reader to reflect on each theme and to read them in a new way. The reader is invited as well to examine their various inter-textual relations across given conventional boundaries in the arts and sciences at several levels of physical, psychical & social reproduction.

Nurse Clementine

Nurse Clementine
Author: Simon James
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763663824

After Clementine Brown receives a first-aid kit for her birthday, she begins to practice her skills on all of her family members except her reckless brother Tommy, who insists he doesn't need a nurse.

Nicholas

Nicholas
Author: René Goscinny
Publisher: Phaidon Press Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Children's literature, French
ISBN: 9780714861142

UK edition. The day-to-day adventures of an amusing, endearing young school boy.

All for Nothing

All for Nothing
Author: Walter Kempowski
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1681372061

A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.