Bruno Roels A Few Model Palm Trees

Author : Brad Feuerhelm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9493146081

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Bruno Roels. A Few Model Palm Trees by Brad Feuerhelm Pdf

A Few Model Palm Trees? is a remake, an interpretation, an appropriation, an adaption of Ed Ruscha?s famous book ?A Few Palm Trees? from the 70s. Instead of using real palm trees, Roels makes use of downsized plastic trees that are used in architectural scale models, or that are used as children?s toys.0Roels often works with (photographs of) palm trees. All palm trees look alike, and as a symbol the plants are highly recognizable. Historically they?re connected to victory, triumph, endurance, religion, hospitality, wealth, luxury, vacation, paradise but also to colonization, trade and globalization. Palm trees have meaning across cultures. By using photographs of palm trees, Roels makes the idea of copying, mimicking and representation (all part of the very fabric of photography) very tangible. Now he takes on the next step by appropriating Ed Ruscha?s book.

Author : Marie NDiaye
Publisher : Influx Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910312902

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Self Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye Pdf

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

Author : IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature conservation
ISBN : 9782880329860

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The Conservation Biology of Tortoises by IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group Pdf

Author : Edward Ruscha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : LCCN:83165472

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A Few Palm Trees by Edward Ruscha Pdf

Author : Bruce Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3869302941

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Subway by Bruce Davidson Pdf

In 1980 Bruce Davidson began photographing the New York subway system, venturing regularly into this intoxicating, sometimes dangerous subterranean world. At first Davidson photographed in black and white, but he soon realized color was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape. Originally published in 1986, this updated Steidl edition of Subway is printed from new scans of Davidsons Kodachrome slides and features additional images.

Author : Ronit Matalon
Publisher : New Vessel Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781939931788

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And the Bride Closed the Door by Ronit Matalon Pdf

A young bride shuts herself up in a bedroom on her wedding day, refusing to get married. In this moving and humorous look at contemporary Israel and the chaotic ups and downs of love everywhere, her family gathers outside the locked door, not knowing what to do. The bride's mother has lost a younger daughter in unclear circumstances. Her grandmother is hard of hearing, yet seems to understand her better than anyone. A male cousin who likes to wear women’s clothes and jewelry clings to his grandmother like a little boy. The family tries an array of unusual tactics to ensure the wedding goes ahead, including calling in a psychologist specializing in brides who change their mind and a ladder truck from the Palestinian Authority electrical company. The only communication they receive from behind the door are scribbled notes, one of them a cryptic poem about a prodigal daughter returning home. The harder they try to reach the defiant woman, the more the despairing groom is convinced that her refusal should be respected. But what, exactly, ought to be respected? Is this merely a case of cold feet? A feminist statement? Or a mourning ritual for a lost sister? This provocative and highly entertaining novel lingers long after its final page.

Author : Mahmud Rahman
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143065036

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Killing the Water by Mahmud Rahman Pdf

Author : Milton Hatoum
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429932202

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The Brothers by Milton Hatoum Pdf

Introducing a major new voice in Brazilian letters. Set among a Lebanese immigrant community in the Brazilian port of Manaus, The Brothers is the story of identical twins, Yaqub and Omar, whose mutual jealousy is offset only by their love for their mother. But it is Omar who is the object of Zana's Jocasta-like passion, while her husband, Halim, feels her slipping away from him, as their beautiful daughter, RGnia, makes a tragic claim on her brothers' affection. Vivid, exotic, and lushly atmospheric, The Brothers is the story of a family's disintegration, of a changing city and the culture clash between the native-born inhabitants and a new immigrant group, and of the future the next generation will make from the ruins.

Author : Juan M. Lema,Sonia Suarez Martinez
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780407869

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Innovative Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery Technologies: Impacts on Energy, Economy and Environment by Juan M. Lema,Sonia Suarez Martinez Pdf

This book introduces the 3R concept applied to wastewater treatment and resource recovery under a double perspective. Firstly, it deals with innovative technologies leading to: Reducing energy requirements, space and impacts; Reusing water and sludge of sufficient quality; and Recovering resources such as energy, nutrients, metals and chemicals, including biopolymers. Besides targeting effective C,N&P removal, other issues such as organic micropollutants, gases and odours emissions are considered. Most of the technologies analysed have been tested at pilot- or at full-scale. Tools and methods for their Economic, Environmental, Legal and Social impact assessment are described. The 3R concept is also applied to Innovative Processes design, considering different levels of innovation: Retrofitting, where novel units are included in more conventional processes; Re-Thinking, which implies a substantial flowsheet modification; and Re-Imagining, with completely new conceptions. Tools are presented for Modelling, Optimising and Selecting the most suitable plant layout for each particular scenario from a holistic technical, economic and environmental point of view.

Author : Alina Bronsky
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609456467

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My Grandmother's Braid by Alina Bronsky Pdf

The acclaimed author of The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine “explores the peculiarities of familial relations to tremendous result” (Asymptote). A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2021 Max lives with his grandparents in a residential home for refugees in Germany. When his grandmother—a terrifying, stubborn matriarch and a former Russian primadonna—moved them from the Motherland it was in search of a better life. But she is not at all pleased with how things are run in Germany: the doctors and teachers are incompetent, the food is toxic, and the Germans are generally untrustworthy. His grandmother has been telling Max that he is an inept, clueless weakling since he was a child and she’d spend the day sitting in the back of his classroom to be sure he came to no harm. While he may be a dolt in his grandmother’s eyes, Max is bright enough to notice that his stoic and taciturn grandfather has fallen hopelessly in love with their neighbor, Nina. When a child is born to Nina that is the spitting image of Max’s grandfather, things come to a hilarious if dramatic head. Everybody will have to learn to defend themselves from Max’s all-powerful grandmother. Alina Bronsky, author of The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, writes of family dysfunction and machinations with a droll and biting humor, a tremendous ear for dialog, and a generous heart that is forgiving of human weakness. “[A] comic feel-bad novel. Bronsky has a Dickensian flair for writing about miserable children—or, rather, the miseries of childhood.” —Vulture

Author : Adania Shibli
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811229081

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Minor Detail by Adania Shibli Pdf

A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people Finalist for the National Book Award Longlisted for the International Booker Prize Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.

Author : Julián Fuks
Publisher : Charco Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781916277885

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Occupation by Julián Fuks Pdf

"This is one beautiful book."—Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance , Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer’s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father’s sickness, and his wife’s pregnancy. With impeccable prose, the author builds associations that go beyond the obvious, not only between glimpsing a life's beginning and end, but also between the building’s occupation and his wife's pregnancy — showcasing the various forms of occupation while exposing the frailty of life, the risk of solitude and the brutality of not belonging.

Author : Geoffrey Batchen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780262516662

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Photography Degree Zero by Geoffrey Batchen Pdf

An essential guide to an essential book, this first anthology on Camera Lucida offers critical perspectives on Barthes's influential text. Roland Barthes's 1980 book Camera Lucida is perhaps the most influential book ever published on photography. The terms studium and punctum, coined by Barthes for two different ways of responding to photographs, are part of the standard lexicon for discussions of photography; Barthes's understanding of photographic time and the relationship he forges between photography and death have been invoked countless times in photographic discourse; and the current interest in vernacular photographs and the ubiquity of subjective, even novelistic, ways of writing about photography both owe something to Barthes. Photography Degree Zero, the first anthology of writings on Camera Lucida, goes beyond the usual critical orthodoxies to offer a range of perspectives on Barthes's important book. Photography Degree Zero (the title links Barthes's first book, Writing Degree Zero, to his last, Camera Lucida) includes essays written soon after Barthes's book appeared as well as more recent rereadings of it, some previously unpublished. The contributors' approaches range from psychoanalytical (in an essay drawing on the work of Lacan) to Buddhist (in an essay that compares the photographic flash to the mystic's light of revelation); they include a history of Barthes's writings on photography and an account of Camera Lucida and its reception; two views of the book through the lens of race; and a provocative essay by Michael Fried and two responses to it. The variety of perspectives included in Photography Degree Zero, and the focus on Camera Lucida in the context of photography rather than literature or philosophy, serve to reopen a vital conversation on Barthes's influential work.

Author : M. Michael Wolfe,Robert C. Lowe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781118481554

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Pocket Guide to GastrointestinaI Drugs by M. Michael Wolfe,Robert C. Lowe Pdf

Learn all you need to know about gastrointestinal drugs and their clinical use with this one-stop, rapid reference pocket guide. Brought to you by many of the world's leading GI drug experts, Pocket Guide to Gastrointestinal Drugs provides comprehensive guidance to the pharmacological properties of drugs used to treat gastrointestinal conditions, including mechanisms of action, appropriate administration, and potential adverse effects associated with their use. Organized by class of drug and ranging from PPIs to immunosupressants, each chapter first examines the specific agents within that class and then their appropriate and judicious use across a range of specific GI disorders. Key features include: Introduction of drug class Basic pharmacology, including mechanism of action, bioavailability, metabolism, interactions, adverse effects, toxicity, and special considerations Dosing information for each GI condition and on- and off-label use Consistent use of both generic and trade names throughout Specific reference to drug use in pediatric patients and during pregnancy Perfect for quick consultation on the wards and in the office, Pocket Guide to Gastrointestinal Drugs is the ideal tool for all those managing patients with GI conditions, including gastroenterologists, GI trainees, emergency physicians, GI specialist nurses, primary care physicians and residents, intensivists and pharmacists.

Author : Marie-José Van Hee architecten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9082763516

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Marie-José Van Hee architecten by Marie-José Van Hee architecten Pdf