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The Gift (Emily Bks.)
By Barbara Browning. 2017
In the midst of Occupy, Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of…
inappropriate intimacies ensued, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.The Charlie Chaplin Book: Ten Stories Adapted from Classic Shorts
By Robert Keene Thompson. 2016
Beloved around the world for his Little Tramp character, Charlie Chaplin was the most famous person on the planet during…
the early twentieth century, and his popularity endures to this day. Cinephiles and Chaplin aficionados will rejoice in these expert novelizations by a famed Hollywood screenwriter of the scripts for ten short films Chaplin made in 1915 for the Essanay Company of Chicago. The Bank: A bank janitor develops romantic designs on a secretaryA Woman: An eager suitor cross-dresses to deceive a disapproving father Work: A paperhanger's assistant wreaks havoc on a stately mansionThe Champion: A pet bulldog helps his master go for broke in the boxing ring His New Job: A prop man at a movie studio is given a chance to actBy the Sea: A bathing resort provides the backdrop for a series of comic adventuresA Night Out: A pair of friends go on a bender, spreading pandemonium in their pathThe Tramp: An admirer of a farmer's daughter is thwarted by a rivalIn the Park: A couple of star-crossed lovers receive help from a kindly CupidA Jitney Elopement: A Romeo rescues his sweetheart from an arranged marriageEl Sendero Del Forajido (Nº 1 #1)
By Derek Stephen McPhail, Yubisnay Sanchez. 2018
INTRODUCCIÓN Las Guerras Tejano-Indias fueron una serie de conflictos del siglo XIX originalmente entre colonos en el estado español de…
Texas y los indios de las Planicies del Sur, principalmente la Nación Comanche. La Declaración de Independencia de Texas de México se promulgó en 1836. Más tarde, Texas se unió a la Unión en 1845. El gobierno de la Unión en Washington estaba ansioso por absorber a Texas, pero no estaba contento con que este Estado tuviera su propio ejército privado, los Rangers de Texas. Posteriormente, Washington exigió que Texas desmantelara los Rangers, para ser reemplazado por la Caballería de los EE. UU. Las cosas se complicaron cuando Washington retiró más tarde la 2da Caballería, necesaria para defender a los colonos contra los comanches, debido a la inminente Guerra Civil estadounidense (1861-1865). Este fue un momento frustrante para los Rangers, que nunca supieron cuándo se disolvieron. El Comanche tampoco podría ser culpado por su hostilidad continua. A pesar de que Washington le otorgó tierras en un tratado, "Comanchería", en lo que ahora se llama Oklahoma, todavía estaban bajo la presión de un desfile interminable de: Texas Rangers, Milicia, otras tribus indígenas que luchan por su propio territorio y colonos extranjeros interminables, motivados por el mito del "Destino Manifiesto". Este mito de la batalla virtuosa de los colonos europeos contra las tribus salvajes de los nativos americanos fue impulsado por la ambición política, económica y religiosa. Ideado por primera vez en 1845, el "Destino Manifiesto" perpetúa la noción hipócrita de que el destino legítimo y excepcional de los Estados Unidos justifica su avaricia y su implacable expansión imperialista en toda América del Norte y más tarde en el mundo. Muchos estadounidenses todavía están atrapados en esta mentalidad de mediados del siglo XIX. Los relatos de este período de la mayoría de los historiadoresSelected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine (Dover Fine Art, History Of Art Series)
By Alexander Calder. 1948
All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables — in…
rhymed translation by Eunice Clark — with a Calder drawing for each fable and 12 additional vignettes. Includes "The Lion in Love" and "The Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs."In an arresting series of images, the story of a young woman's tragic, often violent, life unfolds. Follow her as…
she lives out her destiny through seventeen chapters, including Childhood, The Father, The Mother, Service, Love, Vengeance, The Seducer, and The Crime. Each visual dimension of her world is a riveting discovery.In the style of genre masters Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, Nückel's graphic novel pulses with movement and a vivid unspoken life. No words are needed to accompany the 188 stark black-and-white illustrations: the pictures speak for themselves. This stunning pictorial narrative, open to endless interpretation, is charged with a page-turning power by each memorable and hypnotic drawing. Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.The City: A Vision in Woodcuts (Dover Fine Art, History Of Art Series)
By Frans Masereel. 2005
"An absolute song for an ongoing visit with timelessness." — The New York TimesThis graphic novel by an Expressionist master…
offers a stunning depiction of urban Europe between the world wars. First published in Germany in 1925, it presents unforgettable images from the tense and dynamic Weimar period, rendered in 100 woodcuts of remarkable force and beauty.A pacifist during World War I, Belgian-born Frans Masereel (1889-1972) sympathized with the struggles of the working classes and strived to make his art accessible to ordinary people. His evocative woodcuts convey scenes of work and leisure, wealth and deprivation, and joy and loneliness. Banned by the Nazis, Masereel's works were championed in Communist countries; however, the artist steered clear of political affiliations. His clarity of vision transcends any propagandist use of the images, which stand as timeless indictments of oppression and injustice.Thomas Mann described Masereel's works as "so strangely compelling, so deeply felt, so rich in ideas that one never tires of looking at them." Epic and unflinching in its scope, The City continues to influence modern fine and graphic art, while recapturing the mood of a vanished era. Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.Brick Shakespeare: The Comedies - A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming of the Shrew
By Becky Thomas, Monica Sweeney, John McCann. 2014
Explore four of Shakespeare’s comedies like never before-with LEGO bricks! This book presents Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies, A Midsummer Night’s…
Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Tempest, in one thousand amazing color photographs. This unique adaptation of the world’s most famous plays stays true to Shakespeare’s original text, while giving audiences an exciting new perspective as the stories are retold with the universally beloved construction toy.Get caught up in hilarious misadventures as brick Puck leads the lovers astray through the brick forests of Athens. Watch Cupid kill with traps in the plot to marry Beatrice and Benedict. Marvel at the changing disguises of the men vying for brick Bianca’s affections, and feel the churn of the ocean as Prospero sinks his brother’s ship into the brick sea. These iconic stories jump off the page with fun, creative sets built brick by brick, scene by scene!This incredible method of storytelling gives new life to Shakespeare’s masterpieces. With an abridged form that maintains original Shakespearean language and modern visuals, this ode to the Bard is sure to please all audiences, from the most versed Shakespeare enthusiasts to young students and newcomers alike!The Nutcracker: The Original Holiday Classic
By E. T. Hoffman. 2018
On Christmas Eve, seven-year-old Marie and her eight-year-old brother Fritz anxiously await their Christmas gifts. When their godfather—a clock builder…
and toymaker—arrives, he unveils an ornate clockwork castle adorned with whirling figurines for the children. While Fritz plays with the clock, Marie is taken aside and given another gift—a nutcracker. After Fritz grabs the nutcracker from Marie and breaks its jaw by cracking too many nuts, their playtime ends and they head off to bed. When the clock strikes twelve, magic makes its way into this enduring tale and an epic battle ensues. This timeless classic, featuring all-new full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist Arkady Roytman and abridged text by Gina Gold, is the perfect story to get anyone in the holiday spirit!Where Is Hollywood? (Where Is?)
By Dina Anastasio, Tim Foley, Who Hq. 2019
Who HQ rolls out the red carpet for Where Is Hollywood?--the film capital of the world.Developed in the 1880s by…
Midwesterners looking for a sunny winter getaway, Hollywood was a small housing development outside still-small Los Angeles. But everything changed in the early 1900s when filmmakers from New York flocked to the area, where they could make movies without having to pay Thomas Edison's patent fee. It didn't hurt that the weather was perfect, too. Readers will take a journey from the Golden Age of Hollywood to the present-day film industry, learning all about what turned lush farmland into Tinseltown.Fantasies of Time and Death: Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien
By Anna Vaninskaya. 2020
This book reveals the unique contribution made by the three founding fathers of British fantasy—Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and…
J. R. R. Tolkien—to our culture’s perennial reassessment of the meanings of time, death and eternity. It traces the poetic, philosophical and theological roots of the striking preoccupation with mortality and temporality that defines the imagined worlds of early fantasy fiction, and gives both the form of such fiction and its ideas the attention they deserve. Dunsany, Eddison and Tolkien raise some of the oldest questions in existence: about the limits of nature, human and divine; cosmic creation and destruction; the immortality conferred by art and memory; and the paradoxes and uncertainties generated by the universal experience of transience, the fear of annihilation and the desire for transcendence. But they respond to those questions by means of thought experiments that have no precedent in modern literary history.De algunos animales: Bestiario ilustrado
By Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio. 2016
Las bestias que poblaron el universo de Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio se reúnen en De algunos animales, una asombrosa jungla en…
forma de libro ilustrado. A ningún lector de Ferlosio le pasa inadvertida la mirada tan atenta y respetuosa que dirige a los animales, así como la relativa frecuencia con que éstos aparecen en su obra. Este libro -el último en que Ferlosio se ocupó- reúne, segregados de su contexto original, pecios, artículos, relatos, poemas y fragmentos ensayísticos que tienen a los animales por protagonistas, y constituye, de paso, un particular recorrido por algunos de sus temas y obsesiones principales. Distintos grabados y litografías provenientes de La vida de los animales, la monumental enciclopedia sobre la vida animal escrita por el zoólogo y escritor alemán Alfred Edmund Brehm, acompañan e ilustran los textos de Ferlosio, donde conviven lobos y corderos, roedores y felinos y algún queotro ser imaginario, como el singular Jilguerotauro. La crítica ha dicho...«Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio fue un autor de culto.»Miguel Ángel Villena, Eldiario.es «Si la vida intelectual española ha tenido un clérigo auténtico, sin duda ha sido el maestro Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio.»Jordi Amat, La Vanguardia «Un escritor enorme, a la altura de nuestros clásicos, mejor que mejor.»Fernando Savater, El País «Si se me pidiese un nombre, uno solo, entre los surgidos en la literatura española de posguerra, con categoría suficiente para afrontar la inmortalidad literaria, yo daría, sin vacilar, el de Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio.»Miguel Delibes «Entre los autores de mi generación o de las anteriores, sólo me interesa Ferlosio, que es el mejor escritor español.»Juan Benet «Todo en Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio tiene una referencia literaria y poética, trate de lo que trate.»Félix de AzúaHellboy: 25 Years of Covers
By Mike Mignola. 2019
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first issue of Hellboy, this deluxe art collection includes more than 150 full-page…
cover pieces from Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, Duncan Fegredo, and more!This oversized 8x12" hardcover is sure to appeal to Mignola fans and comics enthusiasts alike, featuring an introduction by colorist Dave Stewart and a foreword by Mignola himself.The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett’s Postwar Drama and Fiction: Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes theorizes the revolutionary and…
evolutionary import of Beckett’s works in a global context defined by increasingly ubiquitous and insidious mechanisms of capture, exploitation, and repression, alongside unprecedented demands for high-volume information-processing and connectivity. Part I shows that, in generating consistent flows of solidarity-based angry laughter, Beckett’s works sabotage coercive couplings of the subject to social machines by translating subordination and repression into processes rather than data of experience. Through an examination of Beckett’s attack on gender/ class-related normative injunctions, the book shows that Beckett’s works can generate solidarity and action-oriented affects in readers/ spectators regardless of their training in textual analysis. Part II proposes that Beckett’s works can weaken the cognitive dominance of constrictive “frames” in readers/ audiences, so that toxic ideological formations such as the association of safety and comfort with simplicity and “sameness” are rejected and more complex cognitive operations are welcomed instead—a process that bolsters the mind’s ability to operate at ease with increasingly complex, malleable, extensible, and inclusive frames, as well as with increasing volumes of information.This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates…
the scholarly literature on Slonczewski’s fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural, and theoretical treatment of her characters, plots, and storyworlds. Her novels treat feminism in relation to scientific practice, resistance to domination, pacifism versus militarism, the extension of human rights to nonhuman and posthuman actors, biopolitics and posthuman ethics, and symbiosis and communication across planetary scales. Posthuman Biopolitics explores the breadth and depth of Joan Slonczewski’s vision, uncovering the reflective ethical practice that informs her science fiction.Un hombre afortunado
By John Berger. 1967
Una lúcida meditación sobre el valor que le asignamos a una vida humana y sobre cuál es el verdadero rostro…
de la medicina. En 1967 John Berger y el fotógrafo Jean Mohr acompañaron a John Sassall, un médico inglés que ejercía su profesión en una comunidad rural. La obra narra varias historias del trabajo de Sassall con sus pacientes, a la vez que revela pensamientos sobre su profesión y su vida para acercarnos gradualmente al hombre. Las fotografías de Jean Mohr marcan rasgos indispensables de la historia y dialogan con un texto lleno de reflexiones del propio Berger y otras procedentes del mundo literario y filosófico: de Conrad a Gramsci, de Piaget a Sartre. Con una prosa hipnótica, a mitad de camino entre la narración y el estudio antropológico, Un hombre afortunado, publicado por primera vez hace más de cuatro décadas, es un libro de absoluta vigencia, una lúcida meditación sobre el valor que le asignamos a una vida humana y sobre cuál es el verdadero rostro de la medicina. Reseñas:«Desde D. H. Lawrence no ha existido un escritor capaz de ofrecer al mundo tal atención sobre los problemas humanos más disímiles, con una sensualidad que no renuncia a los imperativos de conciencia y responsabilidad.»Susan Sontag «Un libro hermoso, maravillosamente escrito e ilustrado con llamativas y emotivas fotografías.»The Nation «Sus contemporáneos más cercanos en términos de audacia estética podrían ser Umberto Eco o el tardío W. G. Sebald, pero resulta difícil compararlo a cualquier autor inglés del último medio siglo. Berger, simplemente, rompió todos los moldes.»Sean O'Hagan «Un hombre afortunado merece leerse y considerarse con la calma de una obra maestra. Y esto no sólo por lo que denuncia, sino también por el esfuerzo de Berger puesto en la innovación literaria, de la que este libro es un ejemplo notable. Berger es un revolucionario de las formas.»Geoff Dyer «Fue la voz de los frágiles, residuos del mundo moderno a los que su obra otorgó dignidad de reyes... Poeta, novelista, ensayista y crítico de arte, toda su obra literaria es el testimonio de alguien que contempla un universo que se desvanece ante sus ojos.»Javier Rodríguez Marcos, El País «Un autor esencial... La mirada de Berger era tan profunda como diversa# Una mirada humanista, rebelde y serena al mismo tiempo, la de un renacentista# En pocos autores se ha producido la fusión que él logró entre imagen y escritura.»Pedro Antonio Curto, El Comercio «Fue el Leonard Cohen de otra clase de rotunda melancolía: la de la tristeza (social, íntima) que provoca el auténtico saber en mitad de la sociedad capitalista de fauces abiertas y hambre incansable... Era un activista, su literatura viene de ahí, del compromiso a la manera de Albert Camus, de la protesta, de la obsesión con el poder y sus lepras.»DiegoMedrano, El Comercio «Uno de los autores más irreverentes del siglo XX.»Elena Hevia, El Periódico de AragónUnderstanding Genres in Comics (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels)
By Nicolas Labarre. 2020
This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies – from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels –…
to understand the uses of genres in comics. It begins with the assumption that genre is both frequently used and undertheorized in the medium. Drawing from existing genre theories, particularly in film studies, the book pays close attention to the cultural, commercial, and technological specificities of comics in order to ground its account of the dynamics of genre in the medium. While chronicling historical developments, including the way public discourses shaped the horror genre in comics in the 1950s and the genre-defining function of crossovers, the book also examines contemporary practices, such as the use of hashtags and their relations to genres in self-published online comics.Between Time and Timbuktu: Or, Prometheus-5, a Space Fantasy
By Kurt Vonnegut. 1975
An experimental television play composed of excerpts from his novels and stories, Between Time and Timbuktu features Kurt Vonnegut&’s special blend of…
scientific expertise, wit, and penetrating comment. &“Most unusual, ultra imaginative . . . a sort of cross between 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alice in Wonderland.&”—Philadelphia InquirerThe basic story line: Young Stony Stevenson wins a jingle contest and, as his prize, is blasted off into the time-space warp. The country&’s first poet-astronaut thus experiences both past and future human history simultaneously. His observations on it consist mainly of dramatized selections from the author&’s works. The result is a unique Vonnegut sampler cast in the form of &“an excellent drama&” (Pittsburgh Press).Meet Me at Midnight
By Jessica Pennington. 2020
Teens waging a war of practical jokes declare peace when they fall for one another in this charming YA romantic…
comedy from Jessica Pennington.They have a love-hate relationship with summer.Sidney and Asher should have clicked. Two star swimmers forced to spend their summers on a lake together sounds like the perfect match. But it’s the same every year—in between cookouts and boat rides and family-imposed bonfires, Sidney and Asher spend the dog days of summer finding the ultimate ways to prank each other. And now, after their senior year, they’re determined to make it the most epic yet. But their plans are thrown in sudden jeopardy when their feud causes their families to be kicked out of their beloved lake houses. Once in their new accommodations, Sidney expects the prank war to continue as usual. But then she gets a note—Meet me at midnight. And Asher has a proposition for her: join forces for one last summer of epic pranks, against a shared enemy—the woman who kicked them out. Their truce should make things simpler, but six years of tormenting one another isn’t so easy to ignore. Kind of like the undeniable attraction growing between them.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century
By Richard Perez, Victoria A. Chevalier. 2020
The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring…
twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first-century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre.Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings: Stings, Grifts, Hustles and the Long Con
By A. Sargeant. 2016
Screen Hustles, Grifts and Stings identifies recurrent themes and techniques of the con film, suggests precedents in literature and discusses…
the perennial appeal of the con man for readers and viewers alike. Core studies span from film (Catch Me If You Can, Paper Moon, House of Games) to television (Hustle), from Noir (The Grifters) to Romantic Comedy (Gambit). Frequently, the execution of the con is only finely distinguishable from the conduct of a legitimate profession and, challengingly, a mark is often shown to be culpable in his or her undoing. The best con films, it is suggested, invite re-watching and reward the viewer accordingly: who is complicit and when? How and where is the con achieved? When is the viewer party to the con? And what, if any, moral is to be drawn?