Author: Brian Brett
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781550960204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This memoir is personal and intense, a vision that is half paradise, half abattoir. It is Brett telling of growing up in the shadow of his peg-legged, strongman potato-peddling father, as he reveals that he is a hermaphrodite - sometimes angelic in his insights and also physically powerful, yet always on the brink of dying. Through excruciating pain in his bones and drug-induced hallucinations, he has stayed alive into his middle years as a storyteller with a huge appetite for life and words - a man of brilliance and courage, who has confronted the essential questions and conundrums of existence.
Uproar's Your Only Music
Author: Brian Brett
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781550960204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This memoir is personal and intense, a vision that is half paradise, half abattoir. It is Brett telling of growing up in the shadow of his peg-legged, strongman potato-peddling father, as he reveals that he is a hermaphrodite - sometimes angelic in his insights and also physically powerful, yet always on the brink of dying. Through excruciating pain in his bones and drug-induced hallucinations, he has stayed alive into his middle years as a storyteller with a huge appetite for life and words - a man of brilliance and courage, who has confronted the essential questions and conundrums of existence.
Publisher: Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781550960204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
This memoir is personal and intense, a vision that is half paradise, half abattoir. It is Brett telling of growing up in the shadow of his peg-legged, strongman potato-peddling father, as he reveals that he is a hermaphrodite - sometimes angelic in his insights and also physically powerful, yet always on the brink of dying. Through excruciating pain in his bones and drug-induced hallucinations, he has stayed alive into his middle years as a storyteller with a huge appetite for life and words - a man of brilliance and courage, who has confronted the essential questions and conundrums of existence.
Letters of John Keats
Author: Sidney Colvin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752381906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Letters of John Keats by Sidney Colvin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752381906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Letters of John Keats by Sidney Colvin
Walking the Wrack Line
Author: Barbara Hurd
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331023
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
This final volume in the author's trilogy, which began with Stirring the Mud and Entering the Stone gives nature writing a human dimension and throws light on the mysterious and overlooked wonders on beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820331023
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
This final volume in the author's trilogy, which began with Stirring the Mud and Entering the Stone gives nature writing a human dimension and throws light on the mysterious and overlooked wonders on beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod.
Modern Fluid Dynamics for Physics and Astrophysics
Author: Oded Regev
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493931644
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
This book grew out of the need to provide students with a solid introduction to modern fluid dynamics. It offers a broad grounding in the underlying principles and techniques used, with some emphasis on applications in astrophysics and planetary science. The book comprehensively covers recent developments, methods and techniques, including, for example, new ideas on transitions to turbulence (via transiently growing stable linear modes), new approaches to turbulence (which remains the enigma of fluid dynamics), and the use of asymptotic approximation methods, which can give analytical or semi-analytical results and complement fully numerical treatments. The authors also briefly discuss some important considerations to be taken into account when developing a numerical code for computer simulation of fluid flows. Although the text is populated throughout with examples and problems from the field of astrophysics and planetary science, the text is eminently suitable as a general introduction to fluid dynamics. It is assumed that the readers are mathematically equipped with a reasonable knowledge in analysis, including basics of ordinary and partial differential equations and a good command of vector calculus and linear algebra. Each chapter concludes with bibliographical notes in which the authors briefly discuss the chapter's essential literature and give recommendations for further, deeper reading. Included in each chapter are a number of problems, some of them relevant to astrophysics and planetary science. The book is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, but will also prove a valuable source of reference for established researchers.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493931644
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
This book grew out of the need to provide students with a solid introduction to modern fluid dynamics. It offers a broad grounding in the underlying principles and techniques used, with some emphasis on applications in astrophysics and planetary science. The book comprehensively covers recent developments, methods and techniques, including, for example, new ideas on transitions to turbulence (via transiently growing stable linear modes), new approaches to turbulence (which remains the enigma of fluid dynamics), and the use of asymptotic approximation methods, which can give analytical or semi-analytical results and complement fully numerical treatments. The authors also briefly discuss some important considerations to be taken into account when developing a numerical code for computer simulation of fluid flows. Although the text is populated throughout with examples and problems from the field of astrophysics and planetary science, the text is eminently suitable as a general introduction to fluid dynamics. It is assumed that the readers are mathematically equipped with a reasonable knowledge in analysis, including basics of ordinary and partial differential equations and a good command of vector calculus and linear algebra. Each chapter concludes with bibliographical notes in which the authors briefly discuss the chapter's essential literature and give recommendations for further, deeper reading. Included in each chapter are a number of problems, some of them relevant to astrophysics and planetary science. The book is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, but will also prove a valuable source of reference for established researchers.
Politics in Popular Movies
Author: John S. Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317253981
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Popular movies can be surprisingly smart about politics - from the portentous politics of state or war, to the grassroots, everyday politics of family, romance, business, church and school. Politics in Popular Movies analyses the politics in many well-known films across four popular genres: horror, war, thriller and science fiction. The book's aims are to appreciate specific movies and their shared forms, to understand their political engagements and to provoke some insightful conversations. The means are loosely related 'film takes' that venture ambitious, playful and engaging arguments on political styles encouraged by recent films. Politics in Popular Movies shows how conspiracy films expose oppressive systems; it explores how various thrillers prefigured American experiences of 9/11 and shaped aspects of the War on Terror; how some horror films embrace new media, while others use ultra-violence to spur political action; it argues that a popular genre is emerging to examine non-linear politics of globalisation, terrorism and more. Finally it analyses the ways in which sci-fi movies reflect populist politics from the Occupy and Tea Party movements, rethink the political foundations of current societies and even remake our cultural images of the future.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317253981
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Popular movies can be surprisingly smart about politics - from the portentous politics of state or war, to the grassroots, everyday politics of family, romance, business, church and school. Politics in Popular Movies analyses the politics in many well-known films across four popular genres: horror, war, thriller and science fiction. The book's aims are to appreciate specific movies and their shared forms, to understand their political engagements and to provoke some insightful conversations. The means are loosely related 'film takes' that venture ambitious, playful and engaging arguments on political styles encouraged by recent films. Politics in Popular Movies shows how conspiracy films expose oppressive systems; it explores how various thrillers prefigured American experiences of 9/11 and shaped aspects of the War on Terror; how some horror films embrace new media, while others use ultra-violence to spur political action; it argues that a popular genre is emerging to examine non-linear politics of globalisation, terrorism and more. Finally it analyses the ways in which sci-fi movies reflect populist politics from the Occupy and Tea Party movements, rethink the political foundations of current societies and even remake our cultural images of the future.
Life, letters, and literary remains, of John Keats
Author: Richard Monckton Milnes (1st baron Houghton.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Life, Letters and Literary Remains of John Keats
Author: Rich. Monckton Milnes
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats
Author: John Keats
Publisher:
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Author: Susan Ratcliffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199567077
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Based on the highly acclaimed seventh edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this new edition includes over 9,000 of the most popular and widely-used quotations old and new, uniquely identified by searching the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, the Oxford English Corpus.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199567077
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Based on the highly acclaimed seventh edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this new edition includes over 9,000 of the most popular and widely-used quotations old and new, uniquely identified by searching the largest ongoing language research programme in the world, the Oxford English Corpus.
Wisdom for the Soul
Author: Larry Chang
Publisher: Gnosophia Publishers
ISBN: 0977339106
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Publisher: Gnosophia Publishers
ISBN: 0977339106
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing