- Table View
- List View
Cubism and Abstract Art (Routledge Revivals)
by Alfred H. Barr, Jr.Originally published in 1936, in this classic account of the development of abstract art Alfred Barr analyses the many diverse abstract movements which emerged with bewildering rapidity in the early years of the twentieth century, and which had an impact on every major form of art. Barr traces the history of nonrepresentational art from its antecedents in late nineteenth-century painting in France – Seurat and Neo-Impressionism, Gauguin and Synthetism, and Cézanne – through abstract tendencies in Dada and Surrealism. He distinguishes two main trends in abstract art: the geometrical, structural current as it developed in Cubism and later in Constructivism and Mondrian, and the intuitional, decorative current running from Matisse and Fauvism through Kandinskt and, later, Surrealism. He shows how individual movements influenced one another, and how many artists experimented with more than one style. Barr also discusses the involvement of a number of abstract movements in architecture and the practical arts – the Bauhaus in Germany, de Stijl in Holland, Purism in France, and Suprematism and Constructivism in Russia.
Danger in the Dark
by Mignon G. EberhartEdgar Award–Winning Author: On the eve of her wedding night, a bride-to-be loses her fiancé—but is she grieving or guilty? Dennis comes home as soon as he learns that Daphne is about to marry. Though they are both Havilands, raised in the same house, she is no more than a distant cousin, not related by blood, and he has loved her since they were young. He arrives in Chicago the night before the wedding, determined to stop her from giving Ben Brewer her hand. Their passion flares, and she agrees to meet him that night to plan their future together. Both lovers arrive in time for the rendezvous, but there is another surprise: Brewer&’s bloody corpse. The evidence against Dennis and Daphne is insurmountable. Fight as they may to evade police suspicion, the hangman&’s noose slips ever tighter around their necks. They are finally together—but will they be joined for eternity at the altar, or the gallows?
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 3: Jamaica Inn; The Flight of the Falcon; The King's General; The Glass Blowers; The Breaking Point & Other Stories; Mary Anne (Virago Modern Classics #109)
by Daphne Du MaurierIncludes Jamaica Inn, The Flight of the Falcon, The King's General, The Glass Blowers, Mary Anne, and The Breaking Point & Other Stories.Jamaica Inn weaves a tale of mystery at the eponymous inn on Cornwall's bleak moorlands. The Flight of the Falcon is set in the Italian town of Ruffano: in the 20th century the town has nearly forgotten its violent history, but is it still stained by its dark past? Set in the 17th century at Menabilly in Cornwall, The King's General is the story of a country and a family riven by war. The French Revolution is the backdrop to The Glass Blowers, a tale of family tragedy. Mary Anne is a vivid portrait of one woman's ambition as she rises from ordinary beginnings to become an influential royal mistress to the Duke of York.
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 3: Jamaica Inn; The Flight of the Falcon; The King's General; The Glass Blowers; The Breaking Point & Other Stories; Mary Anne (Vmc Ser. #99)
by Daphne Du MaurierIncludes Jamaica Inn, The Flight of the Falcon, The King's General, The Glass Blowers, Mary Anne, and The Breaking Point & Other Stories.Jamaica Inn weaves a tale of mystery at the eponymous inn on Cornwall's bleak moorlands. The Flight of the Falcon is set in the Italian town of Ruffano: in the 20th century the town has nearly forgotten its violent history, but is it still stained by its dark past? Set in the 17th century at Menabilly in Cornwall, The King's General is the story of a country and a family riven by war. The French Revolution is the backdrop to The Glass Blowers, a tale of family tragedy. Mary Anne is a vivid portrait of one woman's ambition as she rises from ordinary beginnings to become an influential royal mistress to the Duke of York.
De viva voz: Conferencias y alocuciones
by Federico García LorcaLa totalidad de los textos escritos por Federico García Lorca para ser leídos en voz alta: conferencias, alocuciones e intervenciones públicas. Federico García Lorca es uno de los poetas y dramaturgos más célebres de nuestra literatura, y su amplia obra ha sido representada, leída, editada y estudiada desde que el poeta fue asesinado en 1936. Sin embargo, son poco conocidas sus conferencias y presentaciones en público, un conjunto que se ha publicado de forma muy dispersa. Este volumen presenta por primera vez la totalidad de esas charlas y alocuciones, e incluye algunos textos inéditos de su madurez. Escritos para ser léidos en voz alta, todos tienen la particularidad de mostrarnos las preocupaciones estéticas y sociales del gran autor granadino, acercándonos a su pensamiento de un modo fresco y directo. La edición está a cargo de Jesús Ortega y Víctor Fernández, quien ha editado de 2017 en adelante la biblioteca Lorca en Debolsillo, con una mirada renovadora de obras que parecían ya muy conocidas.
Dead Man: From The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories (A Vintage Short)
by James M. CainIn this powerful tale of guilt, a short story from James M. Cain&’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories, a desperate man is driven to the edge of madness after he accidentally kills a railroad detective. As the murderer works to get his alibi straight, he soon discovers that the prick of his own conscience is just as oppressive as the long arm of the law.A Vintage Short.
Dead or Alive: A Frank Garrett Mystery (The Frank Garrett Mysteries #1)
by Patricia WentworthThe widow of a missing British spy is thrust into mortal danger in this suspenseful tale by the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries A year after a body presumed to be that of her missing husband turns up, someone breaks into Meg O&’Hara&’s flat and leaves her a shocking message. Is it a horrible trick? Or is Robin O&’Hara still alive? The British intelligence agent vanished the same day Meg asked for a divorce. With the appearance of more cryptic messages, Meg is certain that someone—perhaps her husband—is trying to make contact. But no one believes her. Except Bill Coverdale. Deeply in love with Meg for years, he sets out to get to the bottom of things. His only lead is the mysterious woman with zinnia lipstick he saw getting into a taxi with O&’Hara shortly before the disappearance. According to Frank Garrett of the Foreign Office, O&’Hara was on the job at the time. And now Coverdale has just narrowly dodged an attempt on his own life. But it&’s Meg who&’s plunged into peril when a mysterious packet surfaces. Mired in a morass of blackmail, forgery, and murder, she must battle a chameleonlike enemy who&’s following in the footsteps of an unstoppable criminal mastermind. Bestselling British crime writer Patricia Wentworth spins a tangled web of romance and deception in this thrilling crime novel. Dead or Alive is the 1st book in the Frank Garrett Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Death Goes to School
by Q. PatrickThe Edgar Award–winning author of the Peter Duluth Mysteries (as Patrick Quentin) &“keeps the reader guessing&” in a mystery set at a British boys&’ school (The New York Times). Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: &“Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.&” The lads at Craiglea, a preparatory school on the Bristol Channel, are unimpeachable young men. The faculty? Unflappable. Until a student is found smothered in a linen closet. The son of a controversial American judge, Eric Moss, along with his brother, had already been a victim of a botched kidnapping back in the States. Ironically, they&’d been enrolled at Craiglea for their own safety. But if it was an inside job, who did it? The suspects number a staff of sixteen and sixty-eight boys. But one precocious student might know more than he&’s letting on . . .
Death In Ecstasy (Inspector Alleyn #37)
by Ngaio MarshOnce again, Roderick Alleyn is on the case of a killer who plucked the life from the newest initiate of The House of the Sacred Flame, just as she was about to drink the sacrificial wine, being as it was laced with cyanide. In investigating her death he finds the High Priest and his followers are more enmeshed is the earthly passions of lust and jealousy than they would like to imagine. It may hail from the 'golden age' of the whodunit, but Ngaio Marsh's Death in Ecstasy contains enough of the dark secrets of a ritualistic cult and the hidden depths of London's drug world to satisfy the modern reader.
Directed by Desire
by June Jordan"Directed by Desire . . . is a powerful addition to the entire canon of American poetry."--BooklistNow in paperback, Directed by Desire is the definitive overview of June Jordan's -poetry. Collecting the finest work from Jordan's ten volumes, as well as dozens of "last poems" that were never published in Jordan's lifetime, these more than six hundred pages overflow with intimate lyricism, elegance, fury, meditative solos, and dazzling vernacular riffs.As Adrienne Rich writes in her introduction, June Jordan "wanted her readers, listeners, students, to feel their own latent power--of the word, the deed, of their own beauty and intrinsic value." From "These Poems": These poems they are things that I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are and are you ready?The cloth edition of Directed by Desire was selected as a Library Journal Poetry Book of the Year and received the Lambda Book Award for Lesbian Poetry. June Jordan taught at UC Berkeley for many years and founded Poetry for the People. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children's books. She was a regular columnist for The Progressive and a prolific writer whose articles appeared in The Village Voice, The New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and The Nation. After her death in 2002, a school in the San Francisco School District was renamed in her honor.
Double Indemnity
by James M. CainTautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Early Plays
by Eugene O'Neill Jeffrey H. RichardsThis volume brings to readers a selection of Eugene O'Neill's early work, written between 1914 and 1921 and produced for the stage between 1916 and 1922. Included here are: seven one-act plays, The Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home, Ile, Where the Cross Is Made, and The Rope; and five full-length plays, Beyond the Horizon, The Straw, Anna Christie, and the classics The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape. The majority of the plays are heavily influenced by German expressionism-Freud, Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the radical leftist politics in which O'Neill was involved during his youth. Included in this unique collection is the little known and highly autobiographical play, The Straw, which draws on O'Neill's confinement in the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium.
El defensor
by Víctor Gay Zaragoza¿Qué llevó a Ramón Colubí a arriesgar su vida y su carrera por defender a Companys? La apasionante y desconocida historia del abogado del president Companys. Una novela sobre dos hombres distintos unidos por la justicia. En agosto de 1940, Lluís Companys, president de la Generalitat de Cataluña en el exilio, era detenido por las fuerzas de ocupación nazi en Francia y trasladado a Barcelona para ser juzgado. El Régimen designó a Ramón de Colubí, un joven e inexperto abogado que había militado en el bando nacional, para llevar su defensa según un guion preestablecido. El juicio iba a ser un trámite. El acusado sería condenado y ejecutado sin dilación. Pero el joven abogado se rebeló contra el papel que parecía que la historia le tenía reservado. Poniendo en riesgo su vida y su carrera, luchó hasta el último momento por hacer justicia, dignificar su labor como defensor de Lluís Companys e impedir su muerte. Después de manejar una exhaustiva e inédita documentación y de investigar los entornos más cercanos de ambos personajes -defensor y defendido- Víctor Gay Zaragoza, pariente del abogado, dibuja perfectamente la cara más humana de Companys y de Colubí y relata una historia que trasciende los sentimientos de pertenencia a bandos o ideas, promulgando una verdadera lección de humanidad y sentido común. Una novela sobre la lucha contra la injusticia.Una historia verdadera sobre heroísmos y prejuicios.
Employment and the Depressed Areas (Routledge Library Editions: Work & Society)
by H. Powys GreenwoodOriginally published in 1936 during the Great Depression this book analyses the efforts of the British Government to relieve the rampant unemployment in the most distressed areas and discusses why these efforts were ineffective. The book put forward a number of proposals to help ease unemployment and encourage investment in depressed areas, such as the development of trading estates, investment in transport and social services.
Endemic Cretinism
by Peter Obendorf John Dennison Charles OxnardResponding to a renewed interest in the growing problem of iodine deficiency worldwide, Drs. Charles Oxnard and Peter Obendorf, along with experienced translator and anatomist John Dennison, take a fresh look at the classic text, Der endemische Kretinismus, published in 1936 by Springer. Translated here for the first time into English, this landmark text will be a welcome resource for researchers confronting the problem of iodine deficiency. Oxnard and Obendorf point out that there is very little detailed knowledge or numerical data on cretinism available in the English-speaking world. In addition, highly-renowned Professor Basil S. Hetzel, recently-retired World Health Organization Chairman of the International Council for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders, published in 2009 with Dr Chen Zu-pei on the resurgence of iodine deficiency in China. Indeed, throughout the entire developing world there may be as many as two billion people at risk to iodine deficiency; perhaps three quarters of a billion have goiter, and ten million may be cretins. Even in developed countries, iodine deficiency is re-emerging (as in New South Wales in 19% of children) with the result of significantly reduced numbers of gifted children (though this is not cretinism per se). Certain to be of significant interest to a wide range of researchers, health providers and professionals, including government health administrators, this English translation of Endemic Cretinism is a major contribution to the literature.
English Cocker Spaniel
by Haja Van WessemThe "original" Cocker Spaniel, the English Cocker Spaniel is actually the most popular Cocker Spaniel on the planet, with a thriving following in most countries around the world. Designated as a separate breed from America's Cocker Spaniel in 1936, thanks in large part to the support of the breed's patroness in the U.S., Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, the English Cocker Spaniel has been prized for his merry disposition, impressive trainability, and sensible nature for generations. The history of the breed, as told by breeder and author Haja van Wessem, encompasses the story of both Cocker Spaniel breeds and provides insight into how the breeds became separate entities. The characteristics chapter discusses the breed's much-prized personality and physical characteristics as well as its coat of many colors (illustrated by useful charts that depict how colors are produced).New owners will welcome the well-prepared chapter on finding a reputable breeder and selecting a healthy, sound puppy. Chapters on puppy-proofing the home and yard, purchasing the right supplies for the puppy as well as house-training, feeding, exercise, and grooming/trimming are illustrated with photographs of handsome adults and puppies. In all, there are over 135 full-color photographs in this useful and reliable volume. The author's advice on obedience training will help the reader better mold and train into the most well-mannered dog in the neighborhood. The extensive and lavishly illustrated chapter on healthcare provides up-to-date detailed information on selecting a qualified veterinarian, vaccinations, preventing and dealing with parasites, infectious diseases, and more. Sidebars throughout the text offer helpful hints, covering topics as diverse as historical dogs, breeders, or kennels, toxic plants, first aid, crate training, carsickness, fussy eaters, and parasite control. Fully indexed.
English Thought And Speech Today
by L. Brander M. AThe compiler wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to his wife, Dr Brander, for assistance with the notes; to Professor J. A. Strang for a long note and the great kindness of reading the proofs; to Mr. Appasamy of the Lucknow Christian College for valuable discussion on the standard of the material used; and to the staff of the Oxford University Press for the great pains they have taken in all matters relating to this compilation.
Essays Ancient and Modern
by T. S. EliotThe Nobel Prize–winning author shares his thoughts on literature, religion, and the classics in a series of essays.A collection of essays grappling with some of the most significant topics of our time, Essays Ancient and Modern reveals Eliot’s thoughts on his literary contemporaries and predecessors, the role of religion in a secular society, and the continuing tradition of the classics in modern education. Astute and erudite, here we see the inner thoughts of one of our greatest minds, articulated in some of his most eloquent and direct prose.
Felix Longoria's Wake
by Patrick J. CarrollDrawing on extensive documentary evidence and interviews with many key figures, including Dr. García and Mrs. Longoria, Carroll convincingly explains why the Longoria incident, though less severe than other acts of discrimination against Mexican Americans, ignited the activism of a whole range of interest groups from Argentina to Minneapolis. By putting Longoria's wake in a national and international context, he also clarifies why it became such a flash point for conflicting understandings of bereavement, nationalism, reason, and emotion between two powerful cultures—Mexicanidad and Americanism.
Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition (Studies In Film, Television And The Media Ser.)
by Brian NeveIn A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America, Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers from the thirties who directed films in Hollywood in the 1940's. He discusses how they negotiated their roles in relation to the studio system, itself undergoing change, and to what extent their experience in the political and theatre movements of thirties New York was to be reflected in their later films.Focusing in particular on Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Jules Dassin, Abraham Polonsky, Nicholas Ray, Robert Rossen and Joseph Losey, Neve relates the work of these writers and directors to the broader industrial, bureaucratic, social and political developments of the period 1935-1970. With special emphasis on the post-war decade, bringing together archive and secondary sources, Neve explores a lost tradition of social fimmaking in America.
Fly-Fishing for Business Wellbeing: A story of keeping physically and mentally fit in work and beyond
by Mike MarshallWe all know that we should keep physically fit and mentally sharp throughout life and with the achievement of these objectives one ends up having an enjoyable and stress-free leisure. It is likely that this will all take place in a very pleasant natural outdoor environment. However, it is true to say that many people expend much time, effort and money seeking these desirable outcomes, often without sufficient information to know if their project is viable or not, given their personal circumstances. Sports, such as ball games, are unsuitable due to being stressfully competitive and require running which, with age, we find increasingly difficult. Games, such as chess, exercise the mind well but do not require fast reactions and are also competitive. Then there is the ‘gym’, which is usually indoors and requires boring, comparatively slow repetitions or running on a treadmill. So, having taught countless people to cast a fly and had their feedback, Mike Marshall would like to pass on his accumulated knowledge, mostly gathered in parallel with the demands of a senior management career in engineering. This is not a ‘detailed, how to do it’ book, but more a light-hearted anecdotal account of the various key factors leading to successful exploits in a wide range of fly-fishing situations. In this way he hopes to convey the fact that fly fishing, probably unexpectedly, contains all the elements required to create personal physical and mental wellbeing, but is free of the unwanted aspects mentioned earlier.
From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus: The Soviet Union and the Making of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh (Central Asian Studies)
by Arsène SaparovThis book is the first historical work to study the creation of ethnic autonomies in the Caucasus in the 1920s – the transitional period from Russian Empire to Soviet Union. Seventy years later these ethnic autonomies were to become the loci of violent ethno-political conflicts which have consistently been blamed on the policies of the Bolsheviks and Stalin. According to this view, the Soviet leadership deliberately set up ethnic autonomies within the republics, thereby giving Moscow unprecedented leverage against each republic. From Conflict to Autonomy in the Caucasus questions this assumption by examining three case studies: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno Karabakh are placed within the larger socio-political context of transformations taking place in this borderland region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It examines demographic, social and economic consequences of the Russian colonization and resulting replacement of traditional societies and identities with modern ones. Based on original Russian language sources and archival materials, the book brings together two periods that are usually studied separately – the period of the Russian Civil War 1917–20 and the early Soviet period – in order to understand the roots of the Bolshevik decision-making policy when granting autonomies. It argues that rather than being the product of blatant political manipulation this was an attempt at conflict resolution. The institution of political autonomy, however, became a powerful tool for national mobilization during the Soviet era. Contributing both to the general understanding of the early Soviet nationality policy and to our understanding of the conflicts that have engulfed the Caucasus region since the 1990s, this book will be of interest to scholars of Central Asian studies, Russian/Soviet history, ethnic conflict, security studies and International Relations.
Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery With Harriet Vane (The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries #10)
by Dorothy L. SayersOxford is full of memories—and threats of murder—for Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey in this mystery that &“stands out even among Miss Sayers&’s novels&” (The Times Literary Supplement). Since she graduated from Oxford&’s Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a timely intervention from the debonair Lord Peter Wimsey to save her from the gallows, and since then she has devoted her spare time to resisting his attempts to marry her. Putting aside her lingering shame from the trial, Harriet returns to Oxford for her college reunion with her head held high—only to find that her life is in danger once again. The first poison-pen letter calls her a &“dirty murderess,&” and those that follow are no kinder. As the threats become more frightening, she calls on Lord Peter for help. Among the dons of Oxford lurks a killer, but it will take more than a superior education to match Lord Peter and the daring Harriet. Gaudy Night is the 12th book in the Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, but you may enjoy the series by reading the books in any order. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dorothy L. Sayers including rare images from the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College.
Godan: गोदान
by Premchandमुंशी प्रेमचंद ने जो कुछ भी लिखा है, वह आम आदमी की व्यथा कथा है, चाहे वह ग्रामीण हो या शहरी। गांवों की अव्यवस्था, किसान की तड़प, ग्रामीण समाज की विसंगतियां, अंधविश्वास, उत्पीड़न और पीड़ा की सच्ची तस्वीर प्रस्तुत करता है - गोदान। मुंशी प्रेमचंद की चिर-परिचित शैली का जीता-जागता उदाहरण है गोदान, जो जमीन से जुड़ी हकीकतों को बेनकाब करता है। विश्व की सर्वाधिक भाषाओं में अनुवाद होकर बिकने का गौरव केवल गोदान को ही प्राप्त है। ‘गोदान’ का सर्वाधिक प्रमाणिक संस्करण एक संपूर्ण उपन्यास।
Going to the Dogs: The Story of a Moralist
by Erich Kastner Cyrus Brooks Rodney LivingstoneGoing to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, "aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising copywriter . . . weak heart, brown hair," a young man with an excellent education but permanently condemned to a low-paid job without security in the short or the long run.What's to be done? Fabian and friends make the best of it--they go to work though they may be laid off at any time, and in the evenings they go to the cabarets and try to make it with girls on the make, all the while making a lot of sharp-sighted and sharp-witted observations about politics, life, and love, or what may be. Not that it makes a difference. Workers keep losing work to new technologies while businessmen keep busy making money, and everyone who can goes out to dance clubs and sex clubs or engages in marathon bicycle events, since so long as there's hope of running into the right person or (even) doing the right thing, well--why stop? Going to the Dogs, in the words of introducer Rodney Livingstone, "brilliantly renders with tangible immediacy the last frenetic years [in Germany] before 1933." It is a book for our time too.