Long News, in the Short Century
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 556
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My Short Century
Author: Lorna Arnold
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 098370290X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLorna Arnold, OBE, is a noted British nuclear historian who worked for the UK Atomic Energy Authority for nearly 40 years. She has written seminal books on the Windscale accident, nuclear weapons tests in Australia, and Britain's H-Bomb programme. After a childhood of rural poverty in the south of England, she studied at the University of London and at Cambridge. Her work at the War Office and the Foreign Office during World War II led to postings to Berlin and Washington. A decade later, a chance encounter resulted in her joining the UKAEA, where she worked with many of the scientists and leaders who established Britain's nuclear agenda.
Tree of Smoke
Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-09-04
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780374279127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Volume One
Author: Ross Lewis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-11-16
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 1105308243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoss Bennett Lewis, Volume One, includes 65 photographs by the artist and an essay by Allen Ellenzweig. The book contains black and white photographs, anolog photography, portraits, figurative work, line and form. Includes portraits of notables such as Quentin Crisp, Paul Cadmus, Alan Cumming; NYC artists, writers, actors and friends. images of gay interest and the artist's travels in USA and Europe, between 1984 and 2011.
Forbidden Entries
Author: John Yau
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781574230161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifty-four new poems by John Yau, who examines ways in which language has long been used, quite often subtly, to oppress and exclude." Yau conduct us across wastes of "cities... fluttering with lost ghouls" through dawn-inkling "Chrome Snooze Lots" to "shrapnel inlaid verandahs" and "second level nocturnal trellises" where, curtained in mirage, "inhabited shadows wait"... "This, we tell ourselves, is the place where we must start".
How I Became One of the Invisible, new edition
Author: David Rattray
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2019-09-17
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1635900727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only collection of Rattray's prose: essays that offer a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition. In order to become one of the invisible, it is necessary to throw oneself into the arms of God... Some of us stayed for weeks, some for months, some forever. —from How I Became One of the Invisible Since its first publication in 1992, David Rattray's How I Became One of the Invisible has functioned as a kind of secret history and guidebook to a poetic and mystical tradition running through Western civilization from Pythagoras to In Nomine music to Hölderlin and Antonin Artaud. Rattray not only excavated this tradition, he embodied and lived it. He studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne but remained a poet, outside the academy. His stories “Van” and “The Angel” chronicle his travels in southern Mexico with his friend, the poet Van Buskirk, and his adventures after graduating from Dartmouth in the mid-1950s. Eclipsed by the more mediagenic Beat writers during his lifetime, Rattray has become a powerful influence on contemporary artists and writers. Living in Paris, Rattray became the first English translator of Antonin Artaud, and he understood Artaud's incisive scholarship and technological prophecies as few others would. As he writes of his translations in How I Became One of the Invisible, “You have to identify with the man or the woman. If you don't, then you shouldn't be translating it. Why would you translate something that you didn't think had an important message for other people? I translated Artaud because I wanted to turn my friends on and pass a message that had relevance to our lives. Not to get a grant, or be hired by an English department.” Compiled in the months before his untimely death at age 57, How I Became One of the Invisible is the only volume of Rattray's prose. This new edition, edited by Robert Dewhurst, includes five additional pieces, two of them previously unpublished.
Loba
Author: Diane di Prima
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1998-08-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1101161795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLoba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg's Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for the first time in its completed form with new material, Loba, "she-wolf" in Spanish explores the wilderness at the heart of experience, through the archetype of the wolf goddess, elemental symbol of complete self-acceptance.
The Two-fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari
Author: Charles J. Stivale
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 1998-06-05
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781572303263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari worked together extensively from the 1960s into the 1990s, and the resulting "intersections" of their different sensibilities and modes of knowing fueled powerful alternatives to Marxian and psychoanalytic orthodoxies. Yet readers approaching Deleuze and Guattari's works are often frustrated by the paucity or unfamiliarity of specific examples that might clarify their complex arguments. This timely volume "animates" key concepts and terminology by applying them to provocative readings of literary texts, films, and cultural phenomena--from Apocalypse Now to Cajun music and dance. Drawing extensively from primary and critical sources to elucidate Deleuze and Guattari's theoretical contributions, Stivale reinvigorates their "two-fold thought" for use as an analytical tool in the humanities and social sciences. The book also offers a clear introduction to the precollaborative phase of each thinker's work, an interview Stivale conducted with Guattari, and the first-time English translation of a 1967 essay by Deleuze. Winner--Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award, Wayne State University
Forgotten News
Author: Jack Finney
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe murder of a wealthy, fashionable doctor and several other fascinating stories from the last century which were news when they happened but have since been forgotten.
Storied Words
Author: Jeff Jeske
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2004-03
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0595313760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom alphabet to zeugma Storied Words reveals the picturesque stories of 1,000 words that we use to talk about writing. You will learn about: The actual pictures behind our alphabet letters (e.g., "A", the inverted head of an ox; "B," a two-chambered house; "Z," a sword and shield) The surprising common origin of grammar and glamour The literal meanings of our rhetorical devices The "meaningless chatter" in jargon's ancestry The picturesque origins of the words we use to talk about style The "mock song" of parody How and why the librarian of the great ancient library of Alexandria gave us the komma, the kolon, and the periodos Each chapter begins with an introductory essay followed by alphabetized discussions of individual words. Chapter topics include the writer's tools, patterns of arrangement, style, rhetorical choices, grammar, writers in academe, and publishing. Storied Words is chock full of quotations and anecdotes from writers throughout history; it also contains an essay on the history of the English vocabulary.
