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A Life Remembered: Memoirs
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Austrain-born conductor Bohm (1894-1981) recounts his life and musical career. Especially interesting are his interactions with Caruso and Strauss, and his time under Nazi rule. Transcribed from interviews, and translated from the 1970 German edition. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, O..
Creativity and Disease
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In this twelfth revised and enlarged edition of a ground-breaking study on the life and work of some of our greatest artists, Dr. Philip Sandblom explores the intriguing connections between illness, art and creativity. He elucidates the ways in which specific ailments inform and influence the creati..
Decoding Advertisements (Ideas in Progress)
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A fascinating account of how the admen achieve their effects. Stuart HoodThis book sets out not simply to criticize advertisements on the grounds of dishonesty and exploitation, but to examine in detail, through over a hundred illustrations, their undoubted attractiveness and appeal. The overt econo..
Green Paradise: Autobiography (Autobiography, Vol ...
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The author, born to American parents living in Paris, recounts his life and the influences on his writing Author: Green, Julien Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0714529559 ISBN-13: 9780714529554..
Hiroshima Notes
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A moving statement from Japan's most celebrated living writer on the meaning of the bombing and its terrible legacy. A sensitive portrayal of the people of the city.-- WINNER Nobel Prize for Literature 1994, Prix Europalia 1989 Author: Oe, Kenzaburo Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd Binding: H..
I Lost it at the Movies
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I Lost it at the Movies is vintage Kael on such classics of post-War cinema as On the Waterfront, Smiles of a Summer Night, West Side Story, The Seven Samurai, Lolita, Jules et Jim etc. Her comments are so fresh and direct, it's as if the movies had only been released last week. Author: Kael, Paulin..
In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses ...
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Book by Illich, Ivan Author: Illich, Ivan Publisher: Marion Boyars Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0714529370 ISBN-13: 9780714529370..
Indecent Exposures: Buñuel, Almodóvar, Etc. (Bun...
$21.96
The political turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, together with the attendant cultural isolationism which Franco's repressive regime imposed upon the Spanish people has ironically fostered a strong tradition of subversive film makers dedicated to challenging the assumed realities of the status quo. In..
Literature and Evil
$18.67
”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the devil are explored by this extraordinary intellect in the work of eight outstanding authors: Emily Bronte, Baudelaire..
Song of the Silent Snow
$25.49
Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language. Financial TimesAuthor of controversial cult classic, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He excels in this form, plunging the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds..
Song of the Silent Snow
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Product DescriptionBrutal, poetic and disturbing, fifteen little stabs at unhappiness American-style.From Library JournalThese 15 stories from the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn range from clipped street vernacular to poetic description, but common to all the pieces in this slightly uneven collecti..
The Right to Useful Unemployment: And Its Professi...
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In this postscript to Tools for Creativitiy, Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to themselves and others outside the production of commodities for the market. Unfettered by man..
The Room
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About the AuthorHubert Selby Jr. was born in Brooklyn New York in 1928. After a career in the merchant marine cut short short by illness, he achieved interntational recognition for Last Exit To Brooklyn. His other novels include The Demon in 1976, The Willow Tree in 1998 and a collection of stories ..
The Roots of the Blues: An African Search
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Book by Charters, Samuel Barclay Author: Charters, Samuel Barclay Publisher: Marion Boyars Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 071452705X ISBN-13: 9780714527055..
The Voices of Marrakesh
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Winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti uncovers the secret life hidden beneath Marrakeshs bewildering array of voices, gestures and faces. In a series of sharply etched scenes, he portrays the languages and cultures of the people who fill its bazaars, cafes, and streets. The bo..
The Willow Tree
$32.81
Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language. Financial TimesBobby is young and black. He shares a cramped apartment in the south Bronx with his mother, his younger siblings and the ceaselessly scratching rats that infest the walls behind his bed. Barely a t..