Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season with the Wild Turkey
An unforgettable story about the fascinating behavior of the most elusive of wild game birds.
ISBN: 1599211971
Author: Joe Hutto
Publisher: Lyons Press
Rating: 4.45
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Jumat, 01 Desember 2006
Selasa, 24 Oktober 2006
A Short History of Myth / The Penelopiad / Weight / Dream Angus (I IV)
A Short History of Myth / The Penelopiad / Weight / Dream Angus (I IV)
An exquisitely designed box set of the hardcover editions of A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong; The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood; Dream Angus by Alexander McCall Smith, Weight by Jeanette Winterson, as well as a four-page, beautifully designed insert of an essay by Philip Pullman, "A Word or Two About Myths,{" available only within the box set.
ISBN: 1841958743
Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Canongate U.S.
Rating: 4.37
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Minggu, 01 Oktober 2006
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938 1940
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 4, 1938 1940
"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested" in this period nonetheless constitute some of the most remarkable twentieth-century analyses of the emergence of modern society. The essays on Charles Baudelaire are the distillation of a lifetime of thinking about the nature of modernity. They record the crisis of meaning experienced by a civilization sliding into the abyss, even as they testify to Benjamin's own faith in the written word.
This volume ranges from studies of Baudelaire, Brecht, and the historian Carl Jochmann to appraisals of photography, film, and poetry. At their core is the question of how art can survive and thrive in a tumultuous time. Here we see Benjamin laying out an ethic for the critic and artist--a subdued but resilient heroism. At the same time, he was setting forth a sociohistorical account of how art adapts in an age of violence and repression.
Working at the height of his powers to the very end, Benjamin refined his theory of the mass media that culminated in the final version of his essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility." Also included in this volume is his influential piece "On the Concept of History," completed just before his death. The book is remarkable for its inquiry into the nature of "the modern" (especially as revealed in Baudelaire), for its ideas about the transmogrification of art and the radical discontinuities of history, and for its examples of humane life and thought in the midst of barbarism. The entire collection is eloquent testimony to the indomitable spirit of humanity under siege.
ISBN: 0674022297
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Belknap Press
Rating: 4.53
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Selasa, 29 Agustus 2006
Mao Zedong: A Life
Mao Zedong: A Life
ISBN: 0143037722
Author: Jonathan D. Spence
Publisher: Penguin Books
Rating: 3.39
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Senin, 29 Mei 2006
Myths Collection 1, The: A Short History of Myth, The Penelopiad, and Weight
Myths Collection 1, The: A Short History of Myth, The Penelopiad, and Weight
A Short History of Myth:
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them?
Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Karen Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense - and why we dismiss it only at our peril.
The Penelopiad:
In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story of Penelope and Odysseus, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged Maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood’s dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing.
Weight:
In ancient Greek mythology, the victorious Olympians force Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for eternity.
With her typical wit and verve, Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forge our own destiny.
ISBN: 1423307917
Author: Karen Armstrong
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Rating: 4.15
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Sabtu, 01 April 2006
Shooting Elvis (Charlie Priest, #11)
Shooting Elvis (Charlie Priest, #11)
A bizarre murder leads to discoveries about low-tech industrial espionage, but is selling details of your employer's customer base to their rivals a reason for murder? Appearances deceive, and it transpires that the victim may have attracted the killer because of his facial resemblance to a serial killer known as the Midnight Strangler.
ISBN: 0749082674
Author: Stuart Pawson
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Rating: 3.92
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On Hashish
On Hashish
'On Hashish' is Walter Benjamin's posthumous collection of writings, providing a unique and intimate portrait of the man himself, of his experiences of hashish, and also of his views on the Weimar Republic.
ISBN: 0674022211
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Belknap Press
Rating: 3.70
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935 1938
Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935 1938
Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated.
The centerpiece, "A Berlin Childhood around 1900," marks the first appearance in English of one of the greatest German works of the twentieth century: a profound and beautiful account of the vanished world of Benjamin's privileged boyhood, recollected in exile. No less remarkable are the previously untranslated second version of Benjamin's most famous essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility," with its striking insights into the relations between technology and aesthetics, and "German Men and Women," a book in which Benjamin collects twenty-six letters by distinguished Germans from 1783 to 1883 in an effort to preserve what he called the true humanity of German tradition from the debasement of fascism.
Volume 3 also offers extensively annotated translations of essays that are key to Benjamin's rewriting of the story of modernism and modernity--such as "The Storyteller" and "Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century"--as well as a fascinating diary from 1938 and penetrating studies of Bertolt Brecht, Franz Kafka, and Eduard Fuchs. A narrative chronology details Benjamin's life during these four harrowing years of his exile in France and Denmark. This is an essential collection for anyone interested in his work.
ISBN: 0674019814
Author: Walter Benjamin
Publisher: Belknap Press
Rating: 4.60
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Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath
Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath
Nothing says more about a culture than the way it responds to deeply traumatic events. The Reign of Terror, America's Civil War, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Kennedy assassination, September 11th-watershed moments such as these can be rich sounding boards for the cultural historian patient enough to tease out the traumatic event's complex cultural resonances.This book is about one such moment in the history of modern France. The so-called Terrible Year began with the French army's crushing defeat at Sedan and the fall of the Second Empire in September of 1870, followed by the Prussian occupation of France and first siege of Paris in the fall and winter of that year. But no event of the period proved so deeply traumatic as the Paris Commune of 1871 and the bloody reprisals that attended its demise.Commemorating Trauma engages the rich body of recent scholarly work on cultural trauma to examine a curious conundrum. Why do French literary, historical and philosophical texts written in the aftermath of the Paris Commune so often employ the trope of confusion (in both the phenomenal and cognitive senses of that term) to register and work through the historical traumas of the Terrible Year? And how might these representations of confusion both reflect and inflect the confusions inherent to an ongoing process of social upheaval evident in late nineteenth-century France-a process whose benchmarks include democratization and the blurring of social classes, a persistent and evolving revolutionism, radical reconfigurations of the city as lived environment, and the development of specifically capitalist logics of commerce? These are the two principal questions addressed in this important study of cultural memory.
ISBN: 0823226034
Author: Peter Starr
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Rating: 3.00
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Senin, 27 Maret 2006
Charles A. Lindbergh: Lone Eagle (Library of American Biography Series)
Charles A. Lindbergh: Lone Eagle (Library of American Biography Series)
In the 1920s America yearned for a hero. They had great baseball players and actors, but they longed for a seminal achievement authentically heroic in its defiance of the odds. The Lone Eagle delivered, and the public treated him like a hero from a fairy tale, with rewards of wealth, fame, and a princess in marriage. But domestic tragedy followed. And so, in this wonderful concise biography, Walter Hixson has shown how "Lucky Lindy" exemplifies the triumphs and tragedies of America's coming of age. The titles in the "Library of American Biography Series" make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. At the same time, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times."
ISBN: 0321093232
Author: Walter L. Hixson
Publisher: Pearson
Rating: 3.45
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Jumat, 17 Maret 2006
At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler s Army Adjutant
At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler s Army Adjutant
Major Gerhard Engel was Hitler's Army Adjutant from March 1938 to March 1943. Remarkably, this atmospheric account from a member of Hitler's closest circle has never been published in English before. During his years with Hitler, Engel kept the diary in the form of six notebooks. After the war, he added material to shed further light on certain events, military and political decisions and Hitler's attitude to particular problems. His diary covers the decision-making process behind crucial military actions, including the annexation of Austria, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the war against Russia. He also addresses the intrigue within Hitler's inner circle and his casual conversations with Halder, Guderian and Brauchitsch, among others. Engel was responsible for certain racial issues and his conversations with Hitler shed important light on the Fnhrer's core beliefs. The diary includes the statement made by Hitler in 1941, µI am now as before a Catholic.' Engel also details his views on German Jews and, in particular, he dwells on the extent to which they served in the Wehrmacht. He also addresses the deportation of Jews from Salonika and Hitler's order to Himmler to select a destination, the details of which Hitler was apparently unconcerned with. The final part of the diary is mostly devoted with the war against Russia. Engel's reports confirm that the master plan was to take Leningrad and Rostov in 1941, then close pincers behind Moscow in 1942. The plan was frustrated by senior army commanders' lack of enthusiasm and Hitler's failure to exert firm leadership in the first two months of the offensive. Engel depicts Hitler as a vacillating, contrary man. It is not unlikely that this betrayed itself to his generals and gave them the encouragement they needed to argue their plan to rush Moscow, which ultimately contributed to the defeat of the Third Reich.
ISBN: 1853676551
Author: Gerhard Engel
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Rating: 0.00
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Minggu, 01 Januari 2006
Sartre s "Nausea": Text, Context, Intertext
Sartre s "Nausea": Text, Context, Intertext
Twenty-five years after his death, critics and academics, film-makers and journalists continue to argue over Sartre's legacy. But certain interpretations have congealed around his iconic text Nausea, tending to confine it within the framework provided by the later philosophical work, Being and Nothingness. This volume opens up the text to a range of new approaches within the fields of English and Comparative Literature, as well as Philosophy and French Studies, under the headings: Text', Context', and Intertext': the textual strategies at work within the novel; the literary, cultural and philosophical context of its production; and the intertextual web within which it is situated. This volume will interest a wide public of teachers, students and all those who want to reconsider Sartre's legacy in the twenty-first century.
ISBN: 904201928X
Author: Elizabeth Rechniewski
Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
Rating: 0.00
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Pearl Harbor: Day of Infamy (Snapshots in History) (Snapshots in History)
Pearl Harbor: Day of Infamy (Snapshots in History) (Snapshots in History)
- Events timeline
- Photos
- Historic Places
- Safe internet sites at www.FactHound.com
- Source notes
- Maps
- On the Web
- Index, Bibliography, Glossary
- Diagrams
ISBN: 0756516226
Author: Stephanie Fitzgerald
Publisher: Compass Point Books
Rating: 4.00
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Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto
Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto
Creating the Broadway musical libretto An invaluable update to Lehman Engel's classic text The dean of Broadway musical directors examines the dynamics of how the book, music, and lyrics work together to create such hits as: My Fair Lady Fiddler on the Roof Guys and Dolls Hair Pal Joey West Side Story South Pacific Three Penny Opera Porgy and Bess A Chorus Line Nine Sunday in the Park with George Rent Working Falsetto
ISBN: 1557835543
Author: Lehman Engel
Publisher: Applause Theatre & Cinema Book Publishers
Rating: 3.44
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