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David Gestetner founded the firm of Gestetner in London in 1881. It was continued in the 20th century by his son Sigmund, and then by his grandsons Jonathan and David (dust jacket page [4]).
Author : Ralph Hyde
Publisher : Acc Art Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,9 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Paper work
ISBN : 9781851498000
David Gestetner founded the firm of Gestetner in London in 1881. It was continued in the 20th century by his son Sigmund, and then by his grandsons Jonathan and David (dust jacket page [4]).
Author : Diablo Cody
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 2005-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101216794
Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV’s The Late Show to be the pick of “Dave’s Book Club 2006,” Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. She soon managed to find inspiration from a most unlikely source— amateur night at the seedy Skyway Lounge. While she doesn’t take home the prize that night, Diablo discovers to her surprise the act of stripping is an absolute thrill. This is Diablo’s captivating fish-out-of-water story of her yearlong walk on the wild side, from quiet gentlemen’s clubs to multilevel sex palaces and glassed-in peep shows. In witty prose she gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at this industry through a writer’s keen eye, chronicling her descent into the skin trade and the effect it had on her self-image and her relationship with her now husband.
Author : Thames Tunnel
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781022727243
This detailed account of the construction of London's Thames Tunnel, one of the 19th century's great engineering feats, provides a fascinating look at the challenges and triumphs of early tunneling technology. Written just a year after the tunnel's construction began, the book describes the project's history, engineering plans, and the specific challenges faced in laying the foundation stone under the riverbed. Illustrated with engravings and lithographs, this book is a fascinating look at one of London's most iconic landmarks. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Eric Kluitenberg
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fantasy in mass media
ISBN :
Have you ever wondered if one day Windows 2028 might just know what you're thinking and type it? In this collection of essays, a selection of today's top media and sci-fi theorists weigh in. The Book of Imaginary Media explores the persistent idea that technology may one day succeed where no human has, not only in space or in nature, but also in interpersonal communication. Building on insights from media archeology, Siegfried Zielinski, Bruce Sterling, Erkki Huhtamo and Timothy Druckrey spin a web of associations between the fantasy machines of Athanasius Kircher, the mania of stereoscopy and "dead" media. Edwin Carels and Zoe Beloff descend into the cinematographic caverns of spiritualism and the iconography of death, and renowned cartoonists including Ben Katchor depict their own visionary media fantasies. On the enclosd DVD, artist Peter Blegvad provides hilarious commentary in a son et lumière version of his On Imaginary Media.
Author : Laurent Mannoni
Publisher :
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth. First published in French in 1994 and now translated into English, Laurent Mannoni's account projects a broad picture of the subject area now known as 'pre-cinema'. Starting from the earliest uses of the camera obscura in astronomy and entertainment, Mannoni discusses, among many other devices, the invention and early years of the magic lantern in the seventeenth century, the peepshows and perspective views of the eighteenth century, and the many weird and wonderful nineteenth-century attempts to recreate visions of real life in different ways and forms. This fully-illustrated and accessible account of a strange mixture of science, magic, art and deception introduces to an English-speaking readership many aspects of pre-cinema history from other European countries.
Author : Leigh Redhead
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1741157129
Simone Kirsch—ex-stripper, sex kitten, private investigator, and drinker of more cheap wine than is good for her—is back, setting up her own PI agency and getting into more trouble with her clients, her lovers, and the police Just how much trouble can one girl get into? If it's Simone Kirsch, then it's a lot. The Simone Kirsch Detective Agency—it has a ring about it that Simone loves. And she's willing to bump, grind, and shimmy until she has money enough to make it happen. But nothing ever really runs quite to plan for Simone. Andi Fowler, a childhood friend and now journalism student, turns up at the strip joint in need of a detective, yet unwilling to tell Simone anything more than she's got something explosively big on someone in hospitality—and the whole frenetically fast, chaotically connected case starts right there. By the next afternoon, Andi has vanished mysteriously. Restaurant corruption, an insane celebrity chef, an untraceable possum head, a conveniently absent boyfriend, and a surprising amount of family history aside, Simone still has to deal with her continuing desire for Alex, her favorite policeman, while racing the clock in her desperate search for Andi. Her third adventure has enough red herrings and jaw-dropping surprises to shake even Simone.
Author : Hannah Field
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1452959595
A beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts The Victorian era saw an explosion of novelty picture books with flaps to lift and tabs to pull, pages that could fold out, pop-up scenes, and even mechanical toys mounted on pages. Analyzing books for young children published between 1835 and 1914, Playing with the Book studies how these elaborately designed works raise questions not just about what books should look like but also about what reading is, particularly in relation to children’s literature and child readers. Novelty books promised (or threatened) to make reading a physical as well as intellectual activity, requiring the child to pull a tab or lift a flap to continue the story. These books changed the relationship between pictures, words, and format in both productive and troubling ways. Hannah Field considers these aspects of children’s reading through case studies of different formats of novelty and movable books and intensive examination of editions that have survived from the nineteenth century. She discovers that children ripped, tore, and colored in their novelty books—despite these books’ explicit instructions against such behaviors. Richly illustrated with images of these ingenious constructions, Playing with the Book argues that novelty books construct a process of reading that involves touch as well as sight, thus reconfiguring our understanding of the phenomenology of reading.
Author : Eleanor Farjeon
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"Italian Peepshow" by Eleanor Farjeon. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Jinbo Shi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004414541
In Tangut Language and Manuscripts, Shi Jinbo offers by far the fullest introduction to the Tangut script, grammar and manuscripts, which lay the foundation of historical narratives of Western Xia.
Author : Lowen Clausen
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451409485
A Seattle cop is shaken by finding an dead baby.