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Michael Borremans: Fire from the Sun

Michael Borremans

Author : Michael Borremans
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701836

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The first in a series of small-format publications devoted to single bodies of work, Fire from the Sun highlights Michaël Borremans’s new work, which features toddlers engaged in playful but mysterious acts with sinister overtones and insinuations of violence. Known for his ability to recall classical painting, both through technical mastery and subject matter, Borremans’s depiction of the uncanny, the perhaps secret, the bizarre, often surprises, sometimes disturbs the viewer. In this series of work, children are presented alone or in groups against a studio-like backdrop that negates time and space, while underlining the theatrical atmosphere and artifice that exists throughout Borremans’s recent work. Reminiscent of cherubs in Renaissance paintings, the toddlers appear as allegories of the human condition, their archetypal innocence contrasted with their suggested deviousness. In his accompanying essay, critic and curator Michael Bracewell takes an in-depth look into specific paintings, tackling both the highly charged subject matter and the masterly command of the medium. He writes, “The art of Michaël Borremans seems always to have been predicated on a confluence of enigma, ambiguity, and painterly poetics—accosting beauty with strangeness; making historic Romanticism subjugate to mysterious controlling forces that are neither crudely malevolent nor necessarily benign.” Published on the occasion of Borremans’s eponymous exhibition at David Zwirner in Hong Kong, this publication is available in both English-only and bilingual English/traditional Chinese editions.

A Fire in the Sun

George Alec Effinger

Author : George Alec Effinger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497605671

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The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the futuristic, high-tech Middle East setting of When Gravity Falls in this “major science fiction epic” (Locus). In a world filled with so many puppets, strings tend to get tangled. In this follow-up to the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel When Gravity Fails, the Budayeen is still a very dangerous place, a high-tech Arabian ghetto where power and murder go hand in hand. Marid Audran used to be a low-level street hustler, relying on his wits and independence. Now he’s a cop planted in the force by Friedlander Bey, the powerful “godfather” of the Budayeen. Marid is supposed to simply be Bey’s envoy into the police, but as a series of grisly murders piles up—children, prostitutes, a fellow officer—he is drawn deeper and deeper into the city’s chaos. Would Marid give up all his newfound money and power to get out of this mess? Absolutely. If only he could. But answers are never that easy and choices are never completely one’s own in the Budayeen.

Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon

Anonim

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816519722

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Perhaps you know them for their deer dances or for their rich Easter ceremonies, or perhaps only from the writings of anthropologists or of Carlos Castaneda. But now you can come to know the Yaqui Indians in a whole new way. Anita Endrezze, born in California of a Yaqui father and a European mother, has written a multilayered work that interweaves personal, mythical, and historical views of the Yaqui people. Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon is a blend of ancient myths, poetry, journal extracts, short stories, and essays that tell her people's story from the early 1500s to the present, and her family's story over the past five generations. Reproductions of Endrezze's paintings add an additional dimension to her story and illuminate it with striking visual imagery. Endrezze has combed history and legend to gather stories of her immediate family and her mythical ancient family, the two converging in the spirit of storytelling. She tells Aztec and Yaqui creation stories, tales of witches and seductresses, with recurring motifs from both Yaqui and Chicano culture. She shows how Christianity has deeply infused Yaqui beliefs, sharing poems about the Flood and stories of a Yaqui Jesus. She re-creates the coming of the Spaniards through the works of such historical personages as AndrŽs PŽrez de Ribas. And finally she tells of those individuals who carry the Yaqui spirit into the present day. People like the Esperanza sisters, her grandmothers, and others balance characters like Coyote Woman and the Virgin of Guadalupe to show that Yaqui women are especially important as carriers of their culture. Greater than the sum of its parts, Endrezze's work is a new kind of family history that features a startling use of language to invoke a people and their past--a time capsule with a female soul. Written to enable her to understand more about her ancestors and to pass this understanding on to her own children, Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon helps us gain insight not only into Yaqui culture but into ourselves as well.

The Fire and the Sun

Iris Murdoch

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OCLC:939610572

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This book is an introduction to the philosophy of Plato; his attitude to art and his theory of beauty. The author broadens the discussion to discuss the nature of art. She includes the opinions of other writers and philosophers, including Kant, Tolstoy, Freud and Kierkegaard.

Fire from the Sun

John Derbyshire

Author : John Derbyshire
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0738847208

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Fire from the Sun is a novel in three volumes, covering a very broad canvas. It follows the lives of two people, an opera singer and a mathematician, yoked together by fate from childhood to early middle age. Both are Chinese (though the opera is Italian), and the background of the novel is recent Chinese history, from the Great Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s to the 1989 student movement and its aftermath. The action ranges all over China, from the lush valleys of the southwest to the frozen plains of Manchuria, from elite apartments in Beijing to the garrison settlements of occupied Tibet, from the easygoing corruption of 1970s Hong Kong to the wakening bustle of post-Cultural-Revolution Shanghai. It moves on to the boardrooms of Wall Street, the wealthy enclaves of Fifth Avenue and Long Island’s East End, and the international opera circuit. The two principals, William Leung (born 1957) and Margaret Han (born 1958), are childhood friends in southwest China before the Cultural Revolution. That upheaval tears them apart. Margaret´s family is instrumental in the destruction of William´s, and William is taken to the far northeast to live in poverty and disgrace. The two then pursue separate paths. William, through much hardship and desperation, rises to eventual success on Wall Street. He uses his great wealth to take revenge on Margaret. Margaret, whose father is a senior officer in the Chinese army, grows up in a more sheltered background, eventually making a career as a singer of Italian opera. The two meet again as adults in New York City and are at first drawn together; but the bitterness of the past, and the wrongs they have suffered at each other´s hands, drives them apart again. This cycle of attraction and repulsion is repeated; then they come together in a final, but tragic, reconciliation. Aside from the fates of the two principals, which of course form the book´s main subject matter, two lesser themes are developed. First, there is recent Chinese history, and the nature and direction of the modern Chinese state. Second is Margaret´s career as an opera singer, which is described in detail. Margaret achieves fame as a singer of the bel canto style of Italian opera, and most especially as an interpreter of Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), who can be heard moving about behind the scenery at several points in the narrative. The book closes with Margaret singing Bellini´s greatest role, Norma, in the opera of that name. A sub-theme here is Margaret´s slow spiritual awakening, via her singing, her relationship with William, and her experiences in the "June 4th movement" at Tian An Men Square. Though the book´s principal characters and their activities are entirely fictional, the underlying chronology is based on real events. Not only the political upheavals of recent Chinese history, but the Wall Street boom of the 1980s and the fates of Michael Milken and Drexel Burnham Lambert are used to drive the plot. Some minor characters are based, more or less approximately, on actual personalities from the worlds of opera, business, politics and popular culture; and a few real people (Bruce Lee, Richard Nixon, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales) have walk-on parts. The book is written as a straightforward third-person narrative in 76 chapters. The tone and presentation of the story are strongly influenced by the author’s interest in classic Chinese novels and poetry...

Prince of Fire

Linda Winstead Jones

Author : Linda Winstead Jones
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101042229

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Following the acclaimed Sisters of the Sun trilogy comes the Children of the Sun, a trilogy about the sisters' first-born children. Here in its second installment, Keelia, Queen of the Anwyn, falls for her shape-shifting kidnapper, but still cannot deny the ever-looming Prophecy of the Firstborn: She will betray love in the name of victory.

The Chinchaga Firestorm

Cordy Tymstra

Author : Cordy Tymstra
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781772120035

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The biggest firestorm documented in North America—3,500,000 acres of forest burned in northern Alberta and British Columbia—created the world's largest smoke layer in the atmosphere. The smoke was seen around the world, causing the moon and the sun to appear blue. The Chinchaga Firestorm is a historical study of the effects of fire on the ecological process. Using technical explanations and archival discoveries, the author shows the beneficial yet destructive effects of forest fires, including the 2011 devastation of Slave Lake, Alberta. Cordy Tymstra tells the stories of communities and individuals as their lives intersected with the path of the wildfire—stories that demonstrate people's spirit, resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and persistence in the struggle against nature's devastating power. The 1950 event changed the way these fires are fought in Alberta. Forest fire scientists, foresters, forest ecologists and policy makers, as well as those who are interested in western Canadian history and ecology, will definitely want this book in their library.

To Build a Fire

Jack London

Author : Jack London
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1583415874

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Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.

Facing the Sun

Janice Lynn Mather

Author : Janice Lynn Mather
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534406056

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"In this Caribbean-set story, four friends experience unexpected changes in their lives during the summer when a hotel developer purchases their community's beloved beach"--Provided by publisher.

The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786257287784

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The illustrated edition of Ernest Hemingway's first novel. The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. However, Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work", and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the United States in October 1926 by Scribner's. A year later, Jonathan Cape published the novel in London under the title Fiesta. It remains in print. The novel is a roman à clef: the characters are based on real people in Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events, particularly Hemingway's life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the Pyrenees. Hemingway presents his notion that the "Lost Generation"-considered to have been decadent, dissolute, and irretrievably damaged by World War I-was in fact resilient and strong. Hemingway investigates the themes of love and death, the revivifying power of nature, and the concept of masculinity. His spare writing style, combined with his restrained use of description to convey characterizations and action, demonstrates his "Iceberg Theory" of writing. Plot summary On the surface, the novel is a love story between the protagonist Jake Barnes-a man whose war wound has made him unable to have sex-and the promiscuous divorcée Lady Brett Ashley. Jake is an expatriate American journalist living in Paris, while Brett is a twice-divorced Englishwoman with bobbed hair and numerous love affairs, and embodies the new sexual freedom of the 1920s. Brett's affair with Jake's college friend Robert Cohn causes Jake to be upset and break off his friendship with Robert; her seduction of the 19-year-old matador Romero causes Jake to lose his good reputation among the Spaniards in Pamplona. Book One is set in the café society of young American expatriates in Paris. In the opening scenes, Jake plays tennis with Robert, picks up a prostitute (Georgette), and runs into Brett and Count Mippipopolous in a nightclub. Later, Brett tells Jake she loves him, but they both know that they have no chance at a stable relationship. In Book Two, Jake is joined by Bill Gorton, recently arrived from New York, and Brett's fiancé Mike Campbell, who arrives from Scotland. Jake and Bill travel south and meet Robert at Bayonne for a fishing trip in the hills northeast of Pamplona. Instead of fishing, Robert stays in Pamplona to wait for the overdue Brett and Mike. Robert had an affair with Brett a few weeks earlier and still feels possessive of her despite her engagement to Mike. After Jake and Bill enjoy five days of fishing the streams near Burguete, they rejoin the group in Pamplona. All begin to drink heavily. Robert is resented by the others, who taunt him with antisemitic remarks. During the fiesta the characters drink, eat, watch the running of the bulls, attend bullfights, and bicker with each other. Jake introduces Brett to the 19-year-old matador Romero at the Hotel Montoya; she is smitten with him and seduces him.

The Illustrated Art of War

Sun Tzu

Author : Sun Tzu
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486284026

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Graced with color illustrations of Asian art treasures, this gift edition of the world's earliest and most prestigious military treatise covers principles of strategy, tactics, maneuvers, and other ever-relevant topics. Required reading in many military institutions, its ancient wisdom offers many modern applications to business, law, and sports.

A Piece of the Sun

Daniel Clery

Author : Daniel Clery
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468310412

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How physicists are trying to solve our energy problems—by unlocking the secrets of the sun: “Explain[s] cutting-edge science with remarkable lucidity.” —Booklist This revelatory book tells the story of the scientists who believe the solution to the planet’s ills can be found in the original energy source: the Sun itself. There, at its center, the fusion of 620 million tons of hydrogen every second generates an unfathomable amount of energy. By replicating even a tiny piece of the Sun’s power on Earth, we can secure all the heat and energy we would ever need. The simple yet extraordinary ambition of nuclear-fusion scientists has garnered many skeptics, but, as A Piece of the Sun makes clear, large-scale nuclear fusion is scientifically possible—and perhaps even preferable to other options. Clery argues passionately and eloquently that the only thing keeping us from harnessing this cheap, clean and renewable energy is our own shortsightedness. “Surprisingly sprightly…Clery walks readers through the history of fusion study, from Lord Kelvin, Albert Einstein and a large cast of peculiar physicists, to all manner of international politics—e.g., the darts and feints of the Cold War, the braces applied by OPEC in the wake of the 1973 war among Israel, Egypt and Syria. Clery negotiates the hard science with aplomb.” —Kirkus Reviews “A timely perspective on truly urgent science.” —Booklist “Ultimately, Clery argues that developing a source of energy that won’t damage the climate—or ever run out—is worth striving for.” —Publishers Weekly

Michael Borremans: Horse Hunting

Michael Borremans

Author : Michael Borremans
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 097691364X

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Michaël Borremans: Horse Hunting was published on the occasion of the artist’s second solo exhibition at David Zwirner in 2006. Amongst the fourteen new paintings on view was the eponymous work Horse Hunting (2005), which portrays a young man, fashionably attired, holding two twigs from each of his nostrils. Available in hardcover, this catalogue includes a text by Belgian artist and curator Hans van Heirseele.

Something New Under the Sun

Alexandra Kleeman

Author : Alexandra Kleeman
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984826305

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NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and environmental collapse in “a darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality” (Time) LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vulture, Thrillist, Literary Hub “An urgent novel about our very near future, and a deeply addictive pleasure.”—Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies Novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Los Angeles to oversee the film adaptation of one of his books and try to impress his wife and daughter back home with this last-ditch attempt at professional success. But California is not as he imagined. Drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption are everywhere, and the company behind a mysterious new brand of synthetic water seems to be at the root of it all. Patrick finds an unlikely partner in Cassidy Carter—the cynical starlet of his film—and the two investigate the sun-scorched city, where they discover the darker side of all that glitters in Hollywood. Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment—a bold exploration of environmental catastrophe in the age of alternative facts, and “a ghost story not of the past but of the near future” (The New York Times).

The Fire and the Sun

Iris Murdoch

Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Viking Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0670837083

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The novelist blends philosophy and metaphysics to examine the nature and origin of Plato's hostile views toward art and its role in life

The Fire And The Sun

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A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger Pdf

Throwing Fire at the Sun, Water at the Moon by Anonim Pdf

The Fire and the Sun by Iris Murdoch Pdf

Fire from the Sun by John Derbyshire Pdf

Prince of Fire by Linda Winstead Jones Pdf

The Chinchaga Firestorm by Cordy Tymstra Pdf

To Build a Fire by Jack London Pdf

Facing the Sun by Janice Lynn Mather Pdf

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

The Illustrated Art of War by Sun Tzu Pdf

A Piece of the Sun by Daniel Clery Pdf

Michael Borremans: Horse Hunting by Michael Borremans Pdf

Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman Pdf

The Fire and the Sun by Iris Murdoch Pdf

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