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Author : Harris, Oliver
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Beats (Persons) in literature
ISBN : 0809388227
Author : William Boyd
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141901381
Fascination is master storyteller William Boyd's third volume of short stories Described as "the finest storyteller of his generation", and following his acclaimed collections On the Yankee Station and The Destiny of Nathalie X, in Fascination Boyd shows his brilliance of the form as these stories range widely through time and space. In a dazzling array of styles and narratives we move from 1930s Germany to Los Angeles in the Second World War, from contemporary Oxford to 19th century Russia. Whether in London or Amsterdam. Eastbourne or a Normandy village these stories explore and expose the fraught, funny, absurd, poignant and lovelorn lives of their many and varied characters. Fascination will be loved by fans of Any Human Heart, as well as readers of William Trevor, Sebastian Faulks, Nick Hornby and Hilary Mantel. 'The stories here are perfect . . . suffused with an understanding of love, desire and emotional incompetence' Guardian 'Perfectly formed snapshots of life at its most mystifying' Daily Mail 'Consistently entertaining' Literary Review 'Boyd achieves his best writing, observing tiny moments of love, lust and epiphany with extraordinary sensitivity' Spectator
Author : David Hinds
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781909394247
May 1968. Paris is awash with violence and public unrest. In a small cinema, where a surreal film is showing, another riot is taking place. Here, the enraged audience smashes up the auditorium, tear out the seats, and chase the film’s director onto the street. This is the premiere of Jean Rollin’s feature debut, The Rape of the Vampire. An outsider of French cinema, Rollin’s films are unique and dreamlike. They offer tales of mystery and nostalgia, obsolescence and seductive female vampires with a thirst for blood and sex. It is a cinema at once strange, evocative and deeply personal. Funding his own projects, Rollin defiantly made the films he wanted to make and in so doing created a fantastique genre unlike any other. The Nude Vampire, The Living Dead Girl and The Grapes of Death are among those films now celebrated as the work of an auteur, one who confounds preconceived notions of ‘Eurotrash’ cinema. This book is devoted to the director and all his work, across all genres, including a nascent French hardcore pornographic film industry. Written with full co-operation from Jean Rollin, shortly before his death in 2010, it contains exclusive interviews and archive material.
Author : Sibylle Baumbach,Lena Henningsen,Klaus Oschema
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319664385
This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siècle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of ‘deep time’ and ‘timelessness’ in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time—past, present, and future alike—in music, film, and science fiction.
Author : Chris Finocchiaro
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781467834216
Fascination Alleyway is a work that was written in the 20th century for 21st century thinkers. This book of poetry revolves around music. Thoughts from the radical 60's, the unsettled 70's, and the apathetic 80's and 90's populate this collection of words. This book of my own thoughts, some call poetry, is an attempt to reach eyes and minds with a new age understanding of our world at large. Tune in and turn on to KROCK in Syracuse, NY. Listen to The Sound And The Fury, with Jrrbll on Sunday morning from 12:00 AM to 6:00 AM. The Sound And The Fury is the longest running hard rock program to date. Jrrbll reads a passage from Fascination Alleyway every Sunday Morning. KROCK is streaming online for your listening pleasure.
Author : Herlinde Koelbl
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780262545570
An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in this English translation of the German book Fascination of Science, an indelible collection of portraits of and interviews with sixty pioneering scientists of the twenty-first century. Koelbl’s approach is intimate and accessible, and her highly personal interviews with her subjects reveal the forces (as well as the personal quirks) that motivate the scientists’ work; for example, one wakes up at 3 am because her mind is calm then, another says his best ideas come to him in the shower. These glimpses into the scientists’ lives and thinking add untold texture in this up-to-the-minute survey of the activities and progress that are currently taking place in the broad field of the natural sciences. Koelbl’s interview subjects include Nobel Prize winners Dan Shechtman, Frances Arnold, Carolyn Bertozzi, and cover scientific fields from astronomy, biochemistry, and quantum physics to stem-cell research and AI. Beautifully bringing together art, science, and the written word, Fascination of Science is an inspiring read that shows how creativity, obsession, persistence, and passion drive the pioneering researchers of our time.
Author : Henry Bacon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137476449
The Fascination of Film Violence is a study of why fictional violence is such an integral part of fiction film. How can something dreadful be a source of art and entertainment? Explanations are sought from the way social and cultural norms and practices have shaped biologically conditioned violence related traits in human behavior.
Author : Mirjana Lausevic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190292416
Divi Zheni identifies itself as a Bulgarian women's chorus and band, but it is located in Boston and none of its members come from Bulgaria. Zlatne Uste is one of the most popular purveyors of Balkan music in America, yet the name of the band is grammatically incorrect. The members of Sviraci hail from western Massachusetts, upstate New York, and southern Vermont, but play tamburica music on traditional instruments. Curiously, thousands of Americans not only participate in traditional music and dance from the Balkans, but in fact structure their social practices around it without having any other ties to the region. In Balkan Fascination, ethnomusicologist Mirjana Lausevic, a native of the Balkans, investigates this remarkable phenomenon to explore why so many Americans actively participate in specific Balkan cultural practices to which they have no familial or ethnic connection. Going beyond traditional interpretations, she challenges the notion that participation in Balkan culture in North America is merely a specialized offshoot of the 1960s American folk music scene. Instead, her exploration of the relationship between the stark sounds and lively dances of the Balkan region and the Americans who love them reveals that Balkan dance and music has much deeper roots in America's ideas about itself, its place in the world, and the place of the world's cultures in the American melting pot. Examining sources that span more than a century and come from both sides of the Atlantic, Lausevic shows that an affinity group's debt to historical movements and ideas, though largely unknown to its members, is vital in understanding how and why people make particular music and dance choices that substantially change their lives.
Author : Oriana Binik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030267445
This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime. The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society posits that the phenomenon is, in part, because we have all become consumers of the sublime: an intense and strongly ambiguous emotion which is increasingly commodified. Through the experience of violence and the sense of disorientation that accompanies it, we obsessively seek out moments of intensified existence. Equally, crime continues to speak to the depths of the collective unconscious, questioning us about our transience and the model of society we wish to live in. Binik proposes that this is why the reaction to violence has become a tool with which to express and take ownership of a desire for social cohesion. This book uses interviews with viewers, dark tourists, collectors and others to further interrogate this social trend. Many of these are participants in the four key case studies explored within the study: emotional pathways while watching a true-crime TV series, the trend of dark tourism, murderabilia collecting and the fanaticism of (and for) Anders Breivik. This book seeks to answer one of the most pressing cultural trends of the modern age and fill in a gap in the criminological literature on the subject.
Author : Gore
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385131248
Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.
Author : Richard J. Brook
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781000103182
This book demonstrates how numbers open up new ways of thinking about problems and addresses current issues for which statistics has practical applications. The articles are classified according to probability, condensing data, testing, estimation, experimental design, prediction, and modelling.
Author : Arie Biesheuvel,GertJan F. van Heijst
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401149860
In Fascination of Fluid Dynamics contains a collection of papers by international experts in hydrodynamics, based on oral presentations at a symposium held in honour of Professor Leen van Wijngaarden on his 65th birthday. The book begins with a personal sketch of his life and scientific career. It continues with a mixture of papers that address recent developments in various branches of fluid mechanics. Many of the papers cover different aspects of multiphase flows: bubble dynamics, cavitation, bubbles and particles in turbulent flows, suspension flows, and wave phenomena in fluidised beds. Other topics that are addressed include: dynamics of jets, shock waves, MHD turbulence, selforganisation phenomena in 2D turbulence, vortex rings and the thermodynamics of tropical cyclones. This edited volume will be valuable reading for researchers, engineers and students interested in hydrodynamics, and in particular in multiphase flows.
Author : David C. Powell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520239173
"This autobiography is a charming and accurate telling by a modest man whose brilliant career has allowed millions to venture into the sea and feel what Dave feels when he's underwater—without getting wet!"—John E. McCosker, Director Emeritus, Steinhart Aquarium, San Francisco "Dave Powell is one of the giants in the development of the modern public aquarium. His great talents and skill have come from years of working with the technology of public aquariums, and also from a great love of the sea. This book is a wonderful tale of his adventures (and misadventures) as he worked to capture the essence of the ocean and bring it to public view."—Bruce Carlson, Director, Waikiki Aquarium, Honolulu "Gobies, jellyfish, coelacanth, white sharks—it's all here. A delightfully written book detailing the experiences of the most innovative aquarist of our time. This book is a must read for anyone fascinated by looking through an aquarium viewing window."—Jerry Goldsmith, Vice President, SeaWorld of California
Author : John B. Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Charisma (Personality trait)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024302739
Author : Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024060994
