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Zimbabwe
Years of Hope and Despair
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Zimbabwe is a country both blessed and cursed. British diplomat Philip
Barclay witnessed the downfall of what used to be Africa's finest
country, culminating in the tumultuous events of 2008 when Zimbabwe's
people voted against Robert Mugabe. But their desire for change was
denied as vicious squads...
by Senior Lecturer in Popular Music Pete Dale
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Popular music, today, has supposedly collapsed into a 'retromania' which, according to leading critic Simon Reynolds, has brought a 'slow and steady fading of the artistic imperative to be original.' Meanwhile, in the estimation of philosopher Alain Badiou, a significant political event will always...
by David Toop
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Shortlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize 2017.
In this first installment of acclaimed music writer David Toop's interdisciplinary and sweeping overview of free improvisation, Into the Maelstrom: Music, Improvisation and the Dream of Freedom: Before 1970 introduces the philosophy and practice...
Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore--already under construction for more than a century--was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month...
The Lost World of James Smithson
Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In the mid-1830s, the United States learned that it was the beneficiary of a strange and unprecedented bequest. An Englishman named James Smithson, who had never set foot in the U.S., had left all his fortune to found in Washington "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge...
The Accidental Feminist
How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Movie stars establish themselves as brands--and Taylor's brand , in its most memorable outings, has repeatedly introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas. In her breakout film, "National Velvet" (1944), Taylor's character challenges gender discrimination,: Forbidden as a girl to ride her beloved...
The Pleasure of Reading
43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
In this delightful collection, forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read, and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A....
The Dream Colony
A Life in Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Art Forum's Best of the Year List
A panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.
An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at...
Inside a Pearl
My Years in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was forty-three years old, couldn't speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left...
by Christine Sneed
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
The ten stories in this debut collection examine the perils of love and what it means to live during an era when people will offer themselves, almost unthinkingly, to strangers. Risks and repercussions are never fully weighed. People leap and almost always land on rocky ground. May-December romances...
Gutted
Down to the Studs in My House, My Marriage, My Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2008
In the course of a few short months, Lawrence LaRose got married, bought a decrepit house in Sag Harbor with his wife, and lost his job. This is the story of how, while negotiating a cash-strapped, divorce-teetering first year of marriage, this unemployed writer and Manhattanite ended up bluffing...
Spain
The Centre of the World 1519-1682
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The Golden Age of the Spanish Empire would establish five centuries of Western supremacy across the globe and usher in an era of transatlantic exploration that eventually gave rise to the modern world. It was a time of discovery and adventure, of great political and social change-it was a time when...
by Leslie Stainton
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
With a rare blend of grace, warmth, and scholarship, Leslie Stainton raises the stakes of our appreciation for the greatest of Spain's modern poets, Federico Garca Lorca. Drawing on fourteen years of research; more than a hundred letters unknown to prior biographers; exclusive interviews with Lorca's...
The Act of Documenting
Documentary Film in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Documentary has never attracted such audiences, never been produced with such ease from so many corners of the globe, never embraced such variety of expression. The very distinctions between the filmed, the filmer and the spectator are being dissolved. The Act of Documenting addresses what this means...