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Cleared for Take-Off
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
First published in 1997, Cleared for Take-Off is the seventh and final volume of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs
During his many reconnaissance missions in Europe and the Far East, the young Bogarde experienced the terror of enemy attack and the horror of its aftermath, together with the...
A Particular Friendship
Letters
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
First published in 1989, A Particular Friendship follows Dirk Bogarde's first four memoirs
This epistolary collection finds Bogarde at his most honest and touching, engaging in conversation with a woman he has never met, and whose only interest in him comes from the simple fact that he now...
For the Time Being
Collected Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
First published in 1998, For the Time Being brings together Dirk Bogarde's published work outside of his novels and autobiographies
In 1988, Dirk Bogarde returned from two idyllic decades in France to live in England, due to his partner's serious illness. Shortly afterwards, the then literary...
by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Bruno Cadogan has flown from New York to Buenos Aires in search of the elusive and legendary Julio Martel, a tango singer whose voice has never been recorded yet is said to be so beautiful it is almost supernatural. Bruno is increasingly drawn to the mystery of Martel and his strange and evocative...
New Mythologies in Design and Culture
Reading Signs and Symbols in the Visual Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Taking as its point of departure Roland Barthes' classic series of essays, Mythologies, Rebecca Houze presents an exploration of signs and symbols in the visual landscape of postmodernity. In nine chapters Houze considers a range of contemporary phenomena, from the history of sustainability to the...
Shadow-Makers
A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history.
Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture....
The Painter's Chair
George Washington and the Making of American Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
"I am so hackneyed to the touches of the painters pencil, that I am now altogether at their beck ... no dray moves more readily to the Thill, than I do to the Painters Chair." -George Washington, 16, 1785
When George Washington was born, the New World had virtually no artists. Over...
by Yasmeen Ismail
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
I'm supposed to be made of sugar and spice
and all things nice.
But I'm sweet and sour
and not a little flower.
I am a girl! I am a girl! I am a girl!
Meet a little girl who's spontaneous, fast, and strong and loves winning. Sometimes she's mistaken for a boy, but she definitely isn't...
The Epic City
The World on the Streets of Calcutta
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize
Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year
A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice.
Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong...
by V.S. Pritchett
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
In spring 1927 V.S Pritchett set out to walk 300 miles across Spain. The country was almost completely isolated, and Pritchett describes a timeless country on the cusp of being riven by civil war, populated by a wonderful selection of characters.
Take Your Shirt Off and Cry
A Memoir of Near-Fame Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Without sparing the embarrassing details, Balbirer chronicles the two decades she spent as a struggling actress in the trenches of show business. From the searing purist tutelage of David Mamet at NYU Drama School ("In show business, women who are lucky enough to find employment are asked to...
The Contemporaries
Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
It's been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Since then, painting has been declared dead several times over, and contemporary art has now expanded to include just about any object, action, or event: dance routines, slideshows, functional hair salons, seemingly...
Projected Art History
Biopics, Celebrity Culture, and the Popularizing of American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Biopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which an artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an actor. Concentrating on the two case studies, Basquiat...
Wreck of the Carl D.
A True Story of Loss, Survival, and Rescue at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
On the night of November 18, 1958, the Bradley, a 623-foot limestone carrier, was torn apart during one of the most violent storms in Lake Michigan history, sinking in less than five minutes. Only four members of the crew survived the wreck, two of whom died battling thirty-foot-high waves that night,...