Becoming Ray Bradbury chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theater. Jonathan R. Eller measures the impact of the authors, artists, illustrators, and filmmakers who stimulated Bradbury's imagination throughout his first ......
Tintinology [tin-tin-ol-uh-jee] noun The study of the works of comic creator Hergé and the cultural impact of Tintin, his best-known and most influential character.The adventures of Tintin and his dog, Snowy, have captivated people worldwide since they first appeared as an insert in the Belgian Catholic newspaper Le Vintième Siècle in 1929. ......
As head of the National Consumers' League from its founding in 1899 until her death in 1932, Florence Kelley led campaigns that reshaped the conditions under which goods were produced in the United States. She also worked to pass laws providing for an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, the first federal health legislation for women and children, ......
Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth (February 12, 2009), this compact biography reveals the great scientist as husband, father, and friend. Tim M. Berra, whose ''Darwin the Man'' lectures are in high demand worldwide, tells the fascinating story of the person and the idea that changed everything. Berra ......
Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartimeWritten from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to one of the scandalous texts that threaten to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir's life and work. The account in Beauvoir's Wartime ......
This English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche in seinen Werken offers a rare, intimate view of the philosopher by Lou Salomé, a free-thinking, Russian-born intellectual to whom Nietzsche proposed marriage at only their second meeting.Published in 1894 as its subject languished in madness, Salomé's book rode the crest of a surge of interest in ......
Marianne Faithfull singer, dope addict and lover of Mick Jagger and other rich and famous people tells us her story, in a frank, revealing autobiography.
ISBN-13: 9780815410461
(Paperback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: COOPER SQUARE PRESS
Chen Yi is the most prominent woman among the renowned group of new wave composers who came to the US from mainland China in the early 1980s. Known for her creative output and a distinctive merging of Chinese and Western influences, Chen built a musical language that references a breathtaking range of sources and crisscrosses geographical and ......
Dave Morrell grew up on cattle stations in the Kimberley before becoming Broome’s only vet. The Kimberley and its wild frontier is as much part of Dave as he is of it. This high quality, 208-page coffee-table book of stories and poetry is the perfect memento for those who love the normally-untold histories of Australia’s remote regions.
