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On the Water In the golden Amsterdam summer of 1939 on a crystal river in Holland, two young oarsmen train with mysterious coach Schneiderhahn, a refugee form Germany. Anton, a shy teenager from a lower-class family, is paired with Jewish oarsman David, who is both affluent and self-assured. Suddenly, into Anton's drab life there is the magnetism of the river, boats, the flash of sunlight on the copper oar-locks, and his silent, almost amorous friendship with David. All summer, a quiet obsession and magical bond form between them as the intensity of their training increases and they compete to row in the Olympics that never take place. On the wintry eve of Holland's liberation five years later, Anton stands on the banks of his beloved river and remembers the majestic summer he spent with David. Past and present flip back and forth like oars, from the prewar summer on the water in 1939 to the same city five years later, stripped of life by the war. Now the boathouse is derelict and deserted, and the once glorious river reflects only bombers roaring across the sky form England to Nazi Germany. David has disappeared and the starving city is a cruel, shadowy reminder of what once was.
RL's Dream RL's Dream is a novel about the blues, the blues as an expression of black poetry and black tragedy and how they sit in judgment on the American experience. In contemporary New York, aging bluesman Soupspoon Wise is alone, ill, and dying. He has played his music in a thousand bars, clubs, and juke joints, but never so memorably as the time he played with one Robert "RL" Johnson in the Mississippi delta. That brief, indelible encounter with the great genius of country blues haunts Soupspoon, much as Johnson himself is said to have been possessed by Satan. And so Soupspoon proceeds to tell his story to Kiki Waters, the young white woman who has taken him in, another refugee from a South she can neither deny nor escape.
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History The "Lucifer Principle" is freelance journalist Bloom's theory that evil-which manifests in violence, destructiveness and war-is woven into our biological fabric. A corollary is that evil is a by-product of nature's strategy to move the world to greater heights of organization and power as national or religious groups follow ideologies that trigger lofty ideals as well as base cruelty. In an ambitious, often provocative study, Bloom applies the ideas of sociobiology, ethology and the "killer ape" school of anthropology to the broad canvas of history, with examples ranging from Oliver Cromwell's reputed pleasure in killing and raping to Mao Tse-tung's bloody Cultural Revolution, India's caste system and Islamic fundamentalist expansion. Bloom says Americans suffer "perceptual shutdown" that blinds them to the United States' downward slide in the pecking order of nations.
Socialism in History: Political Essays of Henry Pachter Both as an activist and as a scholar, Henry Pachter was deeply involved in the socialist tradition. At the time of his death in 1980, his works included Parcelsus: Magic into Science; Modern Germany; and the magisterial Fall and Rise of Europe. Still, Henry Pachter remains best known as a political essayist. The present volume contains his finest political articles, which together reveal the world view of this important thinker and historian. From "The Right to be Lazy" to the singular "Confessions of an Old Timer," these pieces exhibit the remarkable range of Pachter's intellect and the unity of his thought. Essays on imperialism, fascism, international trade, and the welfare state, as well as the fundamental issues of socialism and Marxian thought, form the core of this book.
Work and the Evolving Self: Theoretical and Clinical Considerations Despite the central role of the workplace in American social and economic life, psychoanalysis has had little to contribute to our national conversation about the nature and meaning of work. In Work and the Evolving Self, Steven Axelrod begins to remedy this serious oversight by setting forth a comprehensive psychoanalytic perspective, Axelrod sets out to illuminate the workplace by examining the psychodynamic meaning of work throughout the life cycle. He begins by exploring the various dimensions of work satisfaction from a psychoanalytic perspective and then expands on the relationship between work life and the adult developmental process; he is especially concerned with the reciprocal way in which changing psychological needs and the demands and opportunities of work life influence one another throughout adulthood.
Something Special: A Story Something Special, set in Iris Murdoch's native city of Dublin in the 1950s, tells the story of independent-minded Yvonne, nearly too old to be a bride, who continues to believe that there is more to life than marriage to Sam, the dutiful Jewish man who is courting her. Living at home with an overbearing mother whose fantasy world is rekindled by the visit of a Christmas card salesman, and a stern uncle who fears he will have to support her, Yvonne comes to the painful realization that she can no longer maintain the balance between her bold spirit and the impending truths of a forestalled adulthood. Recently discovered, Something Special examines the mysterious currents of destiny and fate in a way reminiscent of the haunted characters of The Dubliners. |
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Pages For You In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The seventeen-year-old is shocked by her own desire to follow this beauty wherever it will take her. As luck would have it, Flannery finds herself enrolled in a class with the remote, brilliant older woman: she is intimidated at first, but gradually becomes Anne Arden's student outside of class as well. Whatever the subject; Baudelaire, lipstick colors, or how to travel with a lover; Flannery proves an eager pupil, until one day she learns more about Anne than she ever wanted to know.
Speaking for Vice This provocative book explores the representation of male homosexuality in American art in the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on the work of Charles Demuth and Marsden Hartley, it uncovers the sexual codes and references in their art and explores hot the two men reconciled their production of a self-consciously "American" art with the representation of their own marginalized status as both homosexuals and avant-garde artists.
Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire J. is a smuggler living on the fringes between Eastern and Western Europe, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. He has taken a commission to illegally trap a rare Russian butterfly, and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. Just over the border in the port of Odessa, she deserts him, so J. continues alone to their original destination, a small village on the Black Sea. Then she begins to send him letters, and he waits, searching for the answer that will lure the butterfly into his net and V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter.
Mysteries and Magic Human beings have always been fascinated by magic, witchcraft, the occult. For millennia we have created rituals and joined cults in the attempt to control supernatural powers and phenomena. Paranormal researchers John and Anne Spencer take us behind the veil for a comprehensive tour of the world of mysteries and magic.
Weegee's World A landmark paperback on the most celebrated news photographer of this century, Weegee's World features the work of this archetypal hard-bitten tabloid photographer; who was also a modern master of the art of photography. Born Usher Fellig (1899-1968), Weegee earned his name and reputation by always appearing first at major crime scenes, as if a Ouija board had led him to the spot. This major retrospective showcases the best of Weegee's jolting work form the 1930s to the 1960s; and captures bygone New York at its most raucous, dangerous, and outrageous. Here are Weegee's grisly murders, shocking accidents, gawking crowds, and other signature crime-and-disaster shots, along with his equally arresting human-interest and high-society images. Weegee's World contains more than 250 images, reproduced in duotone and chosen by Miles Barth, past curator at the International Center of Photography.
Garden Masterclass John Brookes brings to this definitive guide the culmination of his 40 years' experience. Here he explores and explains the principles of garden design, bringing to these richly illustrated pages the same enthusiasm and expertise that have made his courses on garden design at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew in England, as well as in San Diego, Chile, and Japan so popular with students from all over the world. Each lavishly illustrated chapter is devoted to single design elements such as Shape, Surface, Structure, or Water which, in combination, create a well-constructed garden. Under these headings John Brookes presents an incredible range of inspiring ideas using his inimitable conversational writing style, a host of extraordinary photographs, and annotated sketches and diagrams. |
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