Author : Michael Starsheen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1329520173
A collection of essays, articles and other writings from a period of the past decade or so. They contain spiritually themed topics (mostly), and are often tinged with humor, such as "Drinking Buddies of the Gods."
Author : Joseph Rosendo
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,46 MB
Release : 2020-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781735330709
Musings is a collection of crisp, entertaining, humorous and inspirational stories tightly written and drawn from adventurer and four-time Emmy(R)-award-winning PBS director and host Joseph Rosendo's travel and life experiences.
Author : Caitlin Sinead Jennings
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 15,36 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101874686
Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world—modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in. U., a “corporate anthropologist,” is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures—as only he can—the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives.
Author : John McCarty
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
John McCarty began his writing career as a film reviewer and interviewer for such cinema-oriented periodicals and “fanzines” as Cinefantastique, Take One, Film Heritage, Filmaker’s Newsletter, Today’s Filmmaker, Fangoria, Starlog, Filmfax and many others before he turned to writing books about his favorite subject since grade school – the movies. In Cinemusings, he has drawn from this output of more than 50 years to take us on a personal journey with him of the films and filmmakers he has come to cherish over a lifetime of obsessive movie-watching. They include favorite essays, reviews, profiles and interviews selected from these magazines (many of which are no longer in existence) and from several of his long out of print books (Splatter Movies, The Modern Horror Film, and Thrillers). They cover subjects here and abroad that span the history of cinema itself – from directors Alfred Hitchcock to Paul Morrissey, Fritz Lang to Frank LaLoggia, Charles Laughton to David Cronenberg, Sam Peckinpah to George A. Romero; and films ranging from The 39 Steps, Double Indemnity, and Heavenly Creatures to Orders to Kill, The Fly, The Wild Bunch, and much, much more.
Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1135314101
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Author : Raymond G. Ayoub
Publisher : American Mathematical Society
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1470458543
The anthology is a collection of articles contiguous to the humanities written by renowned mathematicians of the twentieth century. The articles cover a variety of topics that, for want of a better name, shall be referred to as humanistic. An important criterion, thereby limiting the choice, is that the articles should be accessible to the literate reader who may or may not have technical knowledge of mathematics. The articles span roughly a century in time and a wide range in subject. They are by mathematicians acknowledged by their peers as outstanding creators whose work has added richly to the discipline. Each article is preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author and a brief indication of the content. The material is accessible to a wide audience, lay as well as academic.
Author : R. L. Averette
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,19 MB
Release : 2008-07-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467864064
Author : Charles H. Drew
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 1955
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Dorah Blume
Publisher : Juiceboxartists Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 099813161X
Botticelli’s Muse peels back layers of history to tell a fictionalized version of the life of Sandro Botticelli, his conflicts with the Medici family of Florence, and the woman at the heart of his paintings. In 1477, Botticelli is suddenly fired by his prestigious patron and friend Lorenzo de’ Medici. In the villa of his irritating new patron, the artist’s creative well runs dry—until the day he sees Floriana, a Jewish weaver imprisoned in his sister’s convent. But events threaten to keep his unlikely muse out of reach. So begins a tale of one of the art world’s most beloved paintings, La Primavera, as Sandro, a confirmed bachelor, and Floriana, a headstrong artist in her own right, enter into a turbulent relationship.
