Early Work

Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374718220

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Early Work by Andrew Martin Pdf

"What a debut! Early Work is one of the wittiest, wisest (sometimes silliest, in the best sense), and bravest novels about wrestling with the early stages of life and love, of creative and destructive urges, I’ve read in a while. The angst of the young and reasonably comfortable isn’t always pretty, but Andrew Martin possesses the prose magic to make it hilarious, illuminating, moving." —Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask and The Fun Parts For young writers of a certain temperament—if they haven’t had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet—the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the “foul rag and bone shop of the heart.” That’s where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel—that is, when he isn’t teaching at the local women’s prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether it’s time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend, a medical student whose night shifts have become a standing rebuke to his own lack of direction. When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer taking a break from her fiancé, he gets a glimpse of what he wishes and imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Her rag-and-bone shop may be as squalid as his own, but at least she knows her way around the shelves. Over the course of a Virginia summer, their charged, increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition. With a keen irony reminiscent of Sam Lipsyte or Lorrie Moore, and a romantic streak as wide as Roberto Bolaño’s, Andrew Martin’s Early Work marks the debut of a writer as funny and attentive as any novelist of his generation. “Beautifully executed and very funny, Early Work is a sharp-eyed, sharp-voiced debut that I didn’t want to put down.” —Julia Pierpont, author of Among the Ten Thousand Things and The Little Book of Feminist Saints

Author : Jessica Livingston
Publisher : Apress
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781430210771

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Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston Pdf

Now available in paperback—with a new preface and interview with Jessica Livingston about Y Combinator! Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company. Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover? Nearly all technical people have thought of one day starting or working for a startup. For them, this book is the closest you can come to being a fly on the wall at a successful startup, to learn how it's done. But ultimately these interviews are required reading for anyone who wants to understand business, because startups are business reduced to its essence. The reason their founders become rich is that startups do what businesses do—create value—more intensively than almost any other part of the economy. How? What are the secrets that make successful startups so insanely productive? Read this book, and let the founders themselves tell you.

Author : Richard Serra
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 0989980901

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Richard Serra: Early Work by Richard Serra Pdf

Published to celebrate the critically acclaimed 2013 exhibition at David Zwirner in New York, a show that The New York Times art critic Ken Johnson called “near perfect,” Richard Serra: Early Work devotes over three hundred pages to a key five-year period of the artist’s earliest work. Anchored by exquisite black-and-white plates, from installation views of works in situ to documentary photographs, this “impressively realized” publication offers “a blow-by-blow account of Serra’s rapidly expanding art-world presence,” as described in a Bookforum review. Focusing specifically on work the artist produced during the period between 1966 and 1971, this classic tome documents the significance of his early work, with archival texts and reviews, alongside new scholarship by American art critic and historian Hal Foster. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this monograph aims to reconsider the groundbreaking practices and ideas that so firmly situate Serra in the history of twentieth-century art. Its stunning selection of seminal works illuminates the debut of the artist’s innovative, process-oriented experiments with nontraditional materials, such as vulcanized rubber, neon, and lead, and introduces the interplay of gravity and material—of "verticality and horizontality,” writes Foster—that would remain a fundamental aspect of Serra’s production over the subsequent decades. Also featured in the publication are key early examples of the artist’s work in steel, as well as stills from some of his most important early films.

Author : Masaki Mori
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793635983

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Haruki Murakami and His Early Work by Masaki Mori Pdf

Haruki Murakami and His Early Work first discusses Murakami Haruki’s real-life activities and interests, such as his self-identity as a Japanese novelist, his position in the Japanese literary canon, music, translation and running. In this context, three short stories as pivotal to his early writing career are examined, including “The Second Bakery Attack,” “The Elephant Vanishes,” and “TV People.” Written in an easy style to read, and with the content full of references to select contemporary popular culture and consumer products, his fiction in general tends to invite criticism of irrelevance and frivolity. Against their nonsensical, even humorous appearance, however, the book’s close analysis reveals his persistent concern with the plight of today’s humanity in postindustrial reality. Through the bewildering stories, Murakami delivers a covert critique of aspects of the sociopolitical system, including unbridled consumerism, relentless pursuit of efficiency, and electronic media saturation, that brings people into total submission without their realization of the plight in which they are placed. In this respect, these short stories rival his acclaimed novels while showing his essential concerns and literary creativity more succinctly.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Nietzsche in the Early Work of Thomas Mann by Anonim Pdf

Author : Johan Callens
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004483668

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Double Binds: Existentialist Inspiration and Generic Experimentation in the Early Work of Jack Richardson by Johan Callens Pdf

Author : J.R. Nielsen
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080870996

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Early Work (1905 - 1911) by J.R. Nielsen Pdf

The influence of Niels Bohr's work, of his approach to research, both practical and theoretical, is widely felt today. His contributions to our knowledge of the atomic constituents of matter and to our view of science, remain of fundamental importance. The publication of his collected works will give historians of science and scientists easy access to a life-work entirely devoted to the rational analysis of the laws of nature and of the singular character of their meaning for us. In addition to Bohr's published papers, the series includes unpublished manuscripts and a wide selection of letters and other documents, with explanatory notes.

Author : Patti Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393313018

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Early Work 1970 To 1979 by Patti Smith Pdf

A collection of Smith's early poems and prose, which is both meditative and explosive, and evokes the desire to break boundaries in the pre-punk era.

Author : Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393285581

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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber Pdf

"A fascinating history of…[a craft] that preceded and made possible civilization itself." —New York Times Book Review New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies. Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers. In fact, right up to the Industrial Revolution the fiber arts were an enormous economic force, belonging primarily to women. Despite the great toil required in making cloth and clothing, most books on ancient history and economics have no information on them. Much of this gap results from the extreme perishability of what women produced, but it seems clear that until now descriptions of prehistoric and early historic cultures have omitted virtually half the picture. Elizabeth Wayland Barber has drawn from data gathered by the most sophisticated new archaeological methods—methods she herself helped to fashion. In a "brilliantly original book" (Katha Pollitt, Washington Post Book World), she argues that women were a powerful economic force in the ancient world, with their own industry: fabric.

Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780227903742

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The Early Church at Work and Worship, Vol I by Everett Ferguson Pdf

Many recognise Everett Ferguson as the definitive voice on early Christianity, patristic writing and ecclesiology. The Early Church at Work and Worship is a challenging collection, broad in scope and formidable in depth. This is the first volume ofFerguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work, especially on laying on of hands. Practices of Ordination and attitudes to religious schism in antiquity are analysed by the scholar in this collection, which not only includes articles and publications from various sources, but also previously unpublished material.

Author : Penny Farrelly
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781844456161

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Early Years Work-Based Learning by Penny Farrelly Pdf

This book supports students on foundation degrees and degrees in Early Years and Early Childhood Studies that have a work-based element. An essential introduction to becoming a professional in the sector, it begins by looking at work-based learning and goes on to cover study, research skills and essential subject knowledge. It includes activities to help students increase their confidence and get the most out of their course. Essential information on Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) considers the current scene and the future of the sector.

Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630873097

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The Early Church at Work and Worship - Volume 2 by Everett Ferguson Pdf

This is the second volume of Ferguson's collected essays, and includes some of his most memorable work, especially on "laying on of hands."

Author : Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486243818

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"Ausgeführte Bauten" of 1911 by Frank Lloyd Wright Pdf

207 rare photos of Oak Park period, first great buildings: Unity Temple, Dana house, Larkin factory, more. Complete photos of Wasmuth edition. New Introduction.

Author : Margaret Bourke-White
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1567922996

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Margaret Bourke-White by Margaret Bourke-White Pdf

Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) was the sophisticated, and globetrotting personification of Life magazine during it's heyday, and one of the most respected photographers of her generation. This is a collection of 83 of the artist's earliest works that allows us a glimpse of her as she learned her craft.

Author : Tanja Hester
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780316450874

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Work Optional by Tanja Hester Pdf

A practical action guide for financial independence and early retirement from the popular Our Next Life blogger. In today's work culture, we're expected to hustle around the clock. But what if you could escape the traditional path and get on one that doesn't require working full-time until age 65? What if you could wake up every day without an alarm clock and do the things you love most? Tanja Hester and her husband Mark left their crazed careerist lifestyle to live their dream life in Lake Tahoe, retiring early from high-stress careers. Now Tanja will help you map out a customized plan for freedom and make it easy to succeed, whether you're good at math and budgeting -- or not! Work Optional is more than just a financial plan: it's a plan for your whole life -- designed by you, not by an employer or clients. Tanja walks you through envisioning your dream life, accounting for variables such as health care and children, protecting yourself from recessions and future unknowns, and achieving a purpose-filled early retirement, semi-retirement, or career intermission with completely doable, non-penny-pinching steps. You can live a happier, more meaningful life, free from the daily grind. Regardless of where you are in your career, Work Optionalwill get you there.