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Author : Jacques Cousteau,Frédéric Dumas
Publisher : Nick Lyons Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Underwater exploration
ISBN : 0941130452
Author : Colin Dexter
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330504164
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is the third novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disconcertingly vague. When the newly-appointed and gifted member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate is murdered in his north Oxford home, so starts a formidably complicated homicide case for Chief Inspector Morse. For tracking down the killer will involve navigating the insular and labyrinthine world of Oxford colleges . . . The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is followed by the fourth Inspector Morse book, Service of All the Dead.
Author : John Krasinski
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780789339560
The vision behind the creation of the new horror classic A Quiet Place and its sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, as told by the film's co-writer, director, and star John Krasinski. John Krasinski reveals the making of the shocking, near-silent film A Quiet Place, with dramatic behind-the-scenes photographs and running commentary about the journey to the silver screen. A Quiet Place portrays the struggle of the Abbott family to survive as the parents (Krasinski and Emily Blunt) raise their children in utter silence so as to not attract the alien evil that lurks in the surrounding forest. Released by Paramount Pictures, the film became a major box-office success and received critical acclaim for its atmosphere, direction, acting, and sound design. Also included are never-before-seen photographs and Krasinski's director's take on the much-anticipated sequel, A Quiet Place Part II, to be released May 2021. With a foreword by co-star Emily Blunt and contributions from co-stars and production teams, this volume will be a valuable, insightful companion to both films for fans and film buffs.
Author : Brad Matsen
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780307275424
An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality. Inventor of the aqualung and fearless scuba diver, Jacques Cousteau opened up the ocean to a mass audience for the first time. Here, with the cooperation of many of the subjects closest confidants and family, Brad Matsen makes clear the full picture of his remarkable life, showing the father, military man, inventor, entrepreneur, and adventurer behind the public face. Vividly conveying the people, the science, and the lure of the sea that shaped Cousteau's life, Matsen paints a luminous portrait of a man who profoundly changed the way we live on our planet.
Author : Rosalind Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1364303701
Random thoughts and creative interpretations - this book has been altered. The Artists’ inspirations were from the old pages and from events that have happened, a journal of her life during the year. Each page is reworked: shapes, forms, letters and words are picked out to tell a new narrative.
Author : Mohammad Sadiq
Publisher : MacMillan India
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015047615847
The murder of a deaf academic in his North Oxford home is the start of a labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse, as he tries to track down the killer through the insular world of the Oxford colleges.
Author : John Paul Zronik
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778724190
This exciting new book details the expeditions of submarining adventurer and inventor Jacques Cousteau. A 20th century explorer, Cousteau documented his many undersea adventures in books and on film and television. Young readers will be fascinated to learn about his research ships and inventions, such as the aqualung, and be inspired by his passion for ocean conservation.
Author : Joyce Wallace Scott
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807051405
The remarkable story of “outsider” artist Judith Scott, who was institutionalized for more than thirty years before being reunited with her sister From birth, fraternal twins Judith and Joyce Scott lived as if they were one person in two bodies, understanding instinctively what the other wanted and felt, despite the fact that Judy had Down syndrome, profound deafness, and never learned to speak or sign. But this idyllic childhood of color, texture, and feeling ended abruptly when, at age seven, Judy was taken from their shared bed while Joyce slept, not knowing that the wholeness they had known was being shattered. For the next three decades, Joyce is left without her other half and must grieve unexpected loss while navigating her relationship with an emotionally distant mother—alone. Even so, her life parallels her twin’s in surprising ways. While in college, Joyce too is sent away, pressured to relinquish the secret daughter she bore in hiding to adoption. Decades later, Joyce resolves to reunite with her sister and fill their remaining years with joy. After overcoming legal hurdles to become Judy’s legal guardian, she enrolls her in an art center for adults with disabilities in Oakland, California. Judy is hesitant at first, but after two years of uninterested painting and drawing, her untapped creativity suddenly ignites when she is introduced to fiber art, and she begins carefully and intentionally winding yarn and other materials around combinations of found objects. With unflagging intensity, Judy works five days a week for the next eighteen years, producing more than two-hundred astoundingly diverse fiber sculptures. Unconcerned with her growing fame, she remains fully immersed in her artistic vision until her death in 2005. Today, Judith Scott’s work is displayed in museums and galleries around the world, in some of the most prestigious collections of contemporary art. Entwined is a penetrating personal narrative that explores a complex world of disability, loss, reunion, and the resiliency of the human spirit. Part memoir, part biography, Entwined is a poignant and astonishing story about sisters finding their voices in each other’s love and through art.
Author : Susan Schiefelbein,Jacques Cousteau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781596917552
The beloved explorer Jacques Cousteau witnessed firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea-and watched the toll taken by human activity in the twentieth century. In this magnificent last book, now available for the first time in the United States, Cousteau describes his deeply informed philosophy about protecting our world for future generations. Weaving gripping stories of his adventures throughout, he and coauthor Susan Schiefelbein address the risks we take with human health, the overfishing and sacking of the world's oceans, the hazards of nuclear proliferation, and the environmental responsibility of scientists, politicians, and people of faith. This prescient, clear-sighted book is a remarkable testament to the life and work of one of our greatest modern adventurers.
Author : Alex Michaelides
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250301710
**THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....
Author : Sam Winston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Apocalyptic literature
ISBN : 0615580572
WHAT CAME AFTER is the Amazon bestseller written by Jon Clinch (THE THIEF OF AUSCHWITZ, FINN, KINGS OF THE EARTH) under his pen name, Sam Winston. The apocalypse doesn't need plagues or zombies or bombs. All it needs is us. Set in the very near future, WHAT CAME AFTER takes place in a too-credible third-world America that's been hijacked by corporations in the service of the wealthy. The Federal government has collapsed, health care is inaccessible, and private armies keep order. The upper class is concentrated in the cities, while the middle class-decimated by disease and poisoned by genetically engineered foods-labors on in a handful of desolate Empowerment Zones. One man, Henry Weller, has had enough. With his five-year-old daughter going blind, he sets out across a ruined America to find her the health care she deserves. He'll have to face a strange and hostile world-from the financial districts of a walled New York to the armed camp of Washington, DC-but if he's successful, his daughter might see again. And along the way, a revolution might get started. WHAT CAME AFTER is shaped by issues on everyone's mind right now: poverty, corporate power, access to heath care, the outsourcing of government, parents' obligations to their children. But at its core, it's a post-apocalyptic adventure in a desolate and treacherous world: THE WIZARD OF OZ meets HEART OF DARKNESS, at the end of the American dream. From the critics: "Sometimes I just keep hearing about a book on social media and I get so curious, I seek out the book myself. Case in point: Sam Winston's extraordinary WHAT CAME AFTER, an e-book about the end of the world. I started reading after dinner and didn't stop until I finished. This is no ordinary book. Character-driven, haunting, and gorgeously written, I think it's a classic" - Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of PICTURES OF YOU.
Author : Kathleen Olmstead
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1402760582
Jacques Cousteau spent his life exploring oceans and sharing his discoveries through weekly television shows, documentary films, and books. He excited and educated people by bringing the underwater world-sharks, whales, penguins, dolphins, and sea turtles-within reach. This remarkable man also created important inventions like the aqualung, which allowed people to breath underwater. Even Cousteau's beloved ship, the Calypso, used as his home and office for more than forty years, became well known. His legacy lives on in the conservation efforts of the Cousteau Society. Book jacket.
Author : Jean Paul Corriveau
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781440148262
Jean Paul Corriveaus A Personal Journey into the Quantum World is an ambitious examination of a number of scientific ideas. The book is intelligent and well written and a prodigious accomplishment. BlueInk Review Through a prcis of basic physics and quantum physics, Jean Paul Corriveaus A Personal Journey into the Quantum World presents his own unified theory. Many of the ideas he presents are original and exciting. Clarion Review Equal parts physics and philosophy, Corriveaus text aims at demystifying the theories of quantum reality and relativity. It makes for a varied and enjoyable read that will likely provoke much thought and discussion and delight readers. Kirkus Review
Author : Janine Marchessault
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262549745
When media translate the world to the world: twentieth-century utopian projects including Edward Steichen's “Family of Man,” Jacques Cousteau's underwater films, and Buckminster Fuller's geoscope. Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement—to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants. Marchessault shows that Edward Steichen’s 1955 “Family of Man” photography exhibition, for example, and Jacques Cousteau’s 1956 underwater film Le monde du silence (The Silent World) both gave viewers a sense of the earth as a shared ecology. The Festival of Britain (1951)—in particular its Telekinema (a combination of 3D film and television) and its Live Architecture exhibition—along with Expo 67’s cinema experiments and media city created an awareness of multiple worlds. Toronto’s alternative microcinema CineCycle, Agnès Varda’s 2000 film Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, and Buckminster Fuller’s World Game (geoscope), representing ecologies of images and resources, encouraged planetary thinking. The transspecies communication platform the Dolphin Embassy, devised by the Ant Farm architecture collaborative, extends this planetary perspective toward other species; and Finnish artist Erkki Kurenniemi’s “Death of the Planet” projects a postanthropocentric future. Drawing on sources that range from the Scottish town planner Patrick Geddes to the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marchessault argues that each of these media experiments represents an engagement with connectivity and collectivity through media that will help us imagine a new form of global humanism.
Author : Hannah Merker
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Hearing impaired
ISBN : UCSC:32106011779557
One woman's odyssey tempered by the silence that surrounds her, Listening is Hannah Merker's moving and evocative account of her perceptions on the loss and remembrance of sound after an accident causes her deafness in in young adulthood.- Inside flap.