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Play this maze game to return ten famous figures to their correct place in history.
In MAGNIFICENT MAZES, his first picture book, Richard Burnie has created mazes and puzzles with a difference. Based on detailed and imaginative situations illustrated from history, his hidden routes will tease and entice readers of all ages and provide them with hours of entertainment. Thread your way over the ice with Napoleon as he retreats from Moscow or follow Florence Nightingale as she softly parades the wards of her Crimean hospital. Once you get in, you'll never get out!
Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages. Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it. Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.
A unique blend of Where's Wally and Horrible Histories in maze form. Famous figures of the Twentieth Century are lost in the wrong time and place. It's up to the reader to get them back to their proper places. Famous heroes and heroines include Bill Gaes, Mao Tse Tung, Marie Curie, Picasso, Nelson Mandela and Albert Einstein.
Mazes are amazing! They seem easy to do but they're actually little bombs of benefits just waiting to explode! Mazes help improve a child's ability to grade an activity, or break it down into more doable exercises. They also improve the creative and analytic thinking skills for more effective problem solving. Go ahead and grab a cop today!
Contains a collection of mazes that were specially created to stretch the reader's imagination. Solutions are provided at the back of the book.
Mazes and Labyrinths is a look into the origin and mystery of mazes. From ancient stone carvings, Minoan palaces to today's hedge-maze, Matthews chronicles the history of the maze. With over 140 illustrations.