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Author: Don DeLillo Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307817156 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 449
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"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
Author: Don DeLillo Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307817156 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 449
Book Description
"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
Author: Richard Powers Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312423131 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 340
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"Dazzling...a cerebral thriller that's both intellectually engaging and emotionally compelling, a lively tour de force."—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2—Richard Powers—returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for existing.
Author: Anja Schwanhäußer Publisher: Birkhäuser ISBN: 3035607354 Category : Architecture Languages : de Pages : 192
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The city is more than demography and architecture, it is a state of mind. Various groups, scenes and subcultures, widely known as "man in the street", shape and are shaped by urban space and its history according to imaginations, nightmares and dreams. Urban anthropologists get immersed in this closely knit fabric of urban culture and conduct field research with all their senses. The reader provides a compact introduction into urban anthropology, which has become the key discipline in exploring cities and city live as sites of encounter, conflict and sensation. It introduces the most influential writers in the field as well as young and upcoming field researchers.With essays by PeterJackson, LesBack, RuthBehar, MoritzEge, RolfLindner, Mirko Zardini, Margarethe Kusenbach, Loic Wacquant.
Author: G. W. Bowersock Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674022928 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 184
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In the past century, exploration and serendipity have uncovered mosaic after mosaic in the Near East—maps, historical images and religious scenes constituting a treasure of new testimony from antiquity. In them, Bowersock finds historical evidence, illustrations of literary and mythological tradition, religious icons, and monuments to civic pride.
Author: Nadje Sadig Al-Ali Publisher: Zed Books ISBN: 9781842777459 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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The war in Iraq has put the condition of Iraqi women firmly on the global agenda. For years, their lives have been framed by state oppression, economic sanctions and three wars. Now they must play a seminal role in reshaping their country's future for the twenty-first century. Nadje Al-Ali challenges the myths and misconceptions which have dominated debates about Iraqi women, bringing a much needed gender perspective to bear on the central political issue of our time. Based on life stories and oral histories of Iraqi women, she traces the history of Iraq from post-colonial independence, to the emergence of a women's movement in the 1950s, Saddam Hussein's early policy of state feminism to the turn towards greater social conservatism triggered by war and sanctions. Yet, the book also shows that, far from being passive victims, Iraqi women have been, and continue to be, key social and political actors. Following the invasion, Al-Ali analyses the impact of occupation and Islamist movements on women's lives and argues that US-led calls for liberation has led to a greater backlash against Iraqi women.
Author: Riccardo Zipoli Publisher: ISBN: 9788831793506 Category : Art Languages : it Pages : 0
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Prodotta dal Centro Culturale Candiani con il contributo dell'Istituto Culturale dell'Ambasciata della Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran, di Kel12, di Orient Explorer e con il patrocinio dell'Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, la mostra raccoglie centoventidue immagini scattate in Iran e selezionate da Riccardo Zipoli. La parte dedicata alle strade presenta quaranta fotografie, venti in bianco e nero del grande regista e fotografo Abbas Kiarostami e venti, a colori, di Riccardo Zipoli, fotografo oltre che studioso di cultura iraniana e docente di letteratura persiana a Ca' Foscari. Altre dodici fotografie, anch'esse di Zipoli, ritraggono paesaggi naturali. Settanta scatti inediti, infine, illustrano la vita della gente comune e sono opera di autori di quel paese selezionati in Iran con un bando pubblicato su un sito apposito il 30 dicembre 2006 e scaduto il 30 gennaio 2007. Mettere in risalto la complessità dell'odierno panorama culturale iraniano, tutt'altro che riconducibile alle sole monolitiche espressioni di regime e imparare a conoscere un paese fratello, pur con qualche ovvia, ma non insormontabile, differenza, agevolandone in tal modo la comprensione, è quanto il Candiani si propone con questa mostra e con una serie di altre iniziative collaterali: rassegne cinematografiche, spettacoli, incontri letterari, serate gastronomiche, accentuando quella propensione all'internazionalità che costituisce motivo di crescita per Mestre. Edizione in lingua inglese.
Author: Don DeLillo
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