Gilmore: 292 books
Topology and Dynamics of Chaos
In Celebration of Robert Gilmore's 70th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The book surveys how chaotic behaviors can be described with topological tools and how this approach occurred in chaos theory. Some modern applications are included.
The contents are mainly devoted to topology, the main field of Robert Gilmore's works in dynamical systems. They include a review...
Stories Done
Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
The 1960s and 1970s represent a rare moment in our cultural history -- music was exploring unprecedented territories, literature was undergoing a radical reinvention, politics polarized the nation, and youth culture was at the zenith of its influence. There has never been, nor is there likely to be,...
Misogyny
The Male Malady
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
"Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."—Semonides, seventh century B.C.
Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afar—and to take better aim at them for the purpose of derision. Why is this...
Live Fast, Die Young
Remembering the Short Life of James Dean
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1997
Live Fast, Die Young: Rembering the Short Life of James Dean is a first — revealing James Dean from the inside out by someone who knew him intimately, in more ways than one. John Gilmore hung out with Dean during the early days in New York, and again in Hollywood when Dean starred in his first movie,...
by Jennifer Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Acclaimed author Jennifer Gilmore’s intimate and achingly beautiful novel deftly explores the role that chance and choice play in shaping the lives of two teenagers who are separated by sixteen years, but whose lives are intertwined.
*Two Starred Reviews!*
"This emotional, visceral...
Inside Marilyn Monroe
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Acclaimed writer and former actor John Gilmore details his experiences with the most celebrated movie star of the 20th century—Marilyn Monroe. From Hollywood to New York and back, spanning over a decade, Monroe’s role in Gilmore’s life climaxed when they were about to star in a movie together before...
Laid Bare
A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1997
A powerful chronicler of the American Nightmare through his gripping examinations of near-mythic Southern California murders (the Black Dahlia, Tate-La Bianca), John Gilmore now draws upon his personal experiences to turn his sights on our morbid obsession with Celebrity and the ruinous price it extracts...
Night Beat
A Shadow History of Rock & Roll
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2000
Few journalists have staked a territory as definitively and passionately as Mikal Gilmore in his twenty-year career writing about rock and roll. Now, for the first time, this collection gathers his cultural criticism, interviews, reviews, and assorted musings. Beginning with Elvis and the birth of...
The Genuine Article
Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2001
In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the construction of white manhood across class lines, Gilmore argues that in the years before the Civil...
by William Gilmore Simms
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
7 works of William Gilmore Simms Poet, novelist and historian from the American South (1806-1870)
This ebook presents a collection of 7 works of William Gilmore Simms. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Charlemont -...
Gender and Jim Crow
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the...
Monsters
Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with...
by Anthony Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Anthony Gilmore, Working name of US editor and writer Hiram Gilmore Bates III (1900-1981), who began his career with the Clayton chain of Pulp magazines in the 1920s, working as editor of an adventure magazine. When William Clayton, the owner, suggested that Bates initiate a period-adventure companion...
The Mothers
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Poignant, raw, and insightful, Jennifer Gilmore’s third novel is an unforgettable story of love, family, and motherhood. With a “voice [that is] at turns wise and barbed with sharp humor” (Vanity Fair), Gilmore lays bare the story of one couple’s ardent desire for a child and their emotional...