Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Internet is a Playground & I'll Go Home Then comes The Collected Works of 27b/6 - Victorian Edition.
Author : David Thorne
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 9780988689510
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Internet is a Playground & I'll Go Home Then comes The Collected Works of 27b/6 - Victorian Edition.
Author : David Thorne
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2020-07-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781735328676
The Collected Works of 27B/6 (expanded) Victorian Edition - Illustrated & abridged for polite society - is sure to be a hit at your next local council meeting or church fundraiser and take pride of place on your bookshelf next to the dictionary you don't remember buying and the rock that might be a meteorite.
Author : David Thorne
Publisher : Fontaine Press Pty Ltd
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 2011-11
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0980672953
David Thorne has quickly established himself as the world’s leading internet troublemaker. Since his emailed efforts to settle an overdue bill with a drawing of a spider achieved massive worldwide online exposure in 2008, millions of people have followed Thorne’s hilarious exchanges with unwitting victims reported via the mainstream media, online and email inboxes globally. Thorne’s razor-sharp writings, compiled in his first book “The Internet is a Playground” say something about everyday life we can all relate to.
Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786725893
"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the twenty-first century." --Boston Globe In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, the masterful polemicist Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. True to his contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive, sympathetic yet critical, taking true measure of his subject as hero and problem. Answering both the detractors and the false claimants, Hitchens tears down the façade of sainthood erected by the hagiographers and rebuts the critics point by point. He examines Orwell and his perspectives on fascism, empire, feminism, and Englishness, as well as his outlook on America, a country and culture toward which he exhibited much ambivalence. Whether thinking about empires or dictators, race or class, nationalism or popular culture, Orwell's moral outlook remains indispensable in a world that has undergone vast changes in the seven decades since his death. Combining the best of Hitchens' polemical punch and intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and subtle argument, this book addresses not only why Orwell matters today, but how he will continue to matter in a future, uncertain world.
Author : Carol Strickland
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2007-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780740768729
Like music, art is a universal language. Although looking at works of art is a pleasurable enough experience, to appreciate them fully requires certain skills and knowledge." --Carol Strickland, from the introduction to The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern * This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated. This second edition of Carol Strickland's The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern offers an illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to post-modern art from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media. * Featuring succinct page-length essays, instructive sidebars, and more than 300 photographs, The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern takes art history out of the realm of dreary textbooks, demystifies jargon and theory, and makes art accessible-even at a cursory reading. * From Stonehenge to the Guggenheim and from Holbein to Warhol, more than 25,000 years of art is distilled into five sections covering a little more than 200 pages.
Author : Mario Livio
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2005-09-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0743274628
The author of The Golden Ratio tells the “lively and fascinating” story of two nineteenth-century mathematicians whose work revealed the laws of symmetry (Nature). What do Bach’s compositions, Rubik’s Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry—known as group theory—did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn’t be solved. For three centuries, the quintic equation resisted efforts by mathematicians to find a solution. Working independently, two great prodigies ultimately proved that it couldn’t be solved by a simple formula. These geniuses, a Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel and a romantic Frenchman named Évariste Galois, both died tragically young. Their incredible labor, however, produced the origins of group theory. The first extensive, popular account of the mathematics of symmetry and order, The Equation That Couldn’t Be Solved is told not through abstract formulas but in a dramatic account of the lives and work of some of the greatest mathematicians in history.
Author : David Thorne
Publisher : 27bslash6
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,57 MB
Release : 2021-05-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781735328614
118 short stories by the author of The Internet is a Playground
Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1993-11-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520084438
In Music as Cultural Practice, Lawrence Kramer adapts the resources of contemporary literary theory to forge a genuinely new discourse about music. Rethinking fundamental questions of meaning and expression, he demonstrates how European music of the nineteenth century collaborates on equal terms with textual and sociocultural practices in the constitution of self and society. In Kramer's analysis, compositional processes usually understood in formal or emotive terms reappear as active forces in the work of cultural formation. Thus Beethoven's last piano sonata, Op. 111, forms both a realization and a critique of Romantic utopianism; Liszt's Faust Symphony takes bourgeois gender ideology into a troubled embrace; Wagner's Tristan und Isolde articulates a basic change in the cultural construction of sexuality. Through such readings, Kramer works toward the larger conclusion that nineteenth-century European music is concerned as much to challenge as to exemplify an ideology of organic unity and subjective wholeness. Anyone interested in music, literary criticism, or nineteenth-century culture will find this book pertinent and provocative.
Author : Bonnie MacBird
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0008129681
London. A snowy December, 1888. Sherlock Holmes, 34, is languishing and back on cocaine after a disastrous Ripper investigation. Watson can neither comfort nor rouse his friend – until a strangely encoded letter arrives from Paris.
Author : David R. Thorne
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Australian wit and humor
ISBN : 9780988689527
A hilarious collection of new essays by the the New York Times bestselling author of 27bslash6.com, The Internet is a Playground, and I'll Go Home Then; It's Warm and Has Chairs.