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Calder By Matter
A view of Alexander Calder’s mesmerizing art as seen through the lens of his close friend, photographer Herbert Matter Calder by Matter offers an intimate and wholly unique window into the life and work of Alexander Calder, as seen through the lens of his friend and acclaimed photographer Herbert Matter. Given unprecedented access to Calder’s work and life during the course of their friendship, Herbert Matter captured Calder’s sculptures, the artist at work in his studio, and at home with his family in Roxbury, Connecticut. Calder by Matter includes original essays by esteemed art critic and Calder biographer Jed Perl, Calder Foundation President and Calder grandson Alexander S. C. Rower, and Matter student and colleague John T. Hill. This unique collection of over 300 images, many of which are published here for the first time, offers a new perspective on Calder’s oeuvre, life, and creative process.
Voyeur
When Mathias, a travelling watch salesman, returns after many years to the island of his birth, a young girl is found dead on the rocks. As Mathias makes an increasingly tense recapitulation of his movements on the day of the event, tiny details slowly and inexorably accumulate. Through the warped screen of his distorted mind, the remembered images pile up until the reader is caught in his web of desperation. And yet in the end reality has lost all meaning, as the distinction between the narrator's recollections and the underlying facts are more and more blurred.This brilliantly executed novel, which showcases all the techniques that have secured Robbe-Grillet's place in the canon of Western literature, leaves behind a disturbing sense of unrest.
No Frills
The rise of new and dynamic low cost airlines is currently Europe's biggest business success story. This title provides an analysis of this unexpected aviation business phenomenon and investigates the entrepreneurs who took the risks. This new edition also looks at how these companies have spread around the world.
Scotlands of the Mind
This is a journey through many possible Scotlands - fictionalised, idealised, and politicised. This perceptive and often highly personal writing shows the sope of Calder's analytical power.
The Blind Owl and Other Stories
Following a disjointed, vision-like structure, The Blind Owl is the nightmarish exploration of the psyche of a madman. The narrator is an ailing, solitary misanthrope who suffers from hallucinations, and his dreamlike tale is layered, circular, driven by its own demented logic, and punctuated with macabre and surreal episodes such as the discovery of a mutilated corpse, and a bizarre competition in which two men are locked in a dungeon-like room with a cobra. Initially banned in the author's native Iran, the novel first appeared in Tehran in 1941 and became a bestseller. Full of powerful symbolism and terrifying imagery, this dark novella is Hedayat's masterpiece.
Travels with My Mother
Peter Calder's travels with his octogenarian mother back to her roots in the Old Country became a voyage of discovery for him as much as for her. Like many of her generation, she had always regarded herself fundamentally as an Englishwoman, marooned on a distant shore. And she had raised her son as an Englishman abroad, knowing more about Robin Hood than Te Kooti.His Travels with My Mother are recounted with wit and sensitivity. As the unlikely pair journey to London and the South West, the author reflects on his childhood and family life. The result is more than a travelogue: the diary of a specific trip is also a story that many New Zealanders will find familiar. It is an engrossing and entertaining story with many comic turns, which examines the author's relationship with his mother as much as it explores the land of their forebears. And it shows how, in visiting the Englishman he was brought up to be, the author learned more about the New Zealander that he has become.Peter Calder is widely regarded as one of New Zealand's leading film critics and is a higly respected writer who has twice won the award for best travel feature in the Qantas Media Awards.
Corporate Governance
Studies have shown that a company's share price is often linked to how well governed the company is, providing board members with a strong financial incentive to maintain good corporate governance practices. Yet what may constitute good governance will vary across different countries and companies, and there is no 'one size fits all' model of corporate governance. Corporate Governance will help you to become familiar with the principles and practice of good governance appropriate to your company, enabling you to uphold those standards that will improve your corporate reputation while providing reassurance to market regulators. For directors of companies of all shapes and sizes, this is essential reading, and will answer all your questions on what good corporate governance means for you, your company's reputation and its share price.
The Twist
After an invasion of Venusians in the 1950s, the Wild West is separated from the rest of the planet and exists as it had in the past, without the benefits of modern technology, and gunslinger John Twist makes his way through the bizarre frontier landscape, fending off the advances of Miss Viva Venera, a Venusian necrobabe, and the sinister plans of the murderous Sexton. Original.
Translating Style
Arising from a dissatisfaction with blandly general or abstrusely theoretical approaches to translation, this book sets out to show, through detailed and lively analysis, what it really means to translate literary style. Combining linguistic and lit crit approaches, it proceeds through a series of interconnected chapters to analyse translations of the works of D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Henry Green and Barbara Pym. Each chapter thus becomes an illuminating critical essay on the author concerned, showing how divergences between original and translation tend to be of a different kind for each author depending on the nature of his or her inspiration. This new and thoroughly revised edition introduces a system of 'back translation' that now makes Tim Parks' highly-praised book reader friendly even for those with little or no Italian. An entirely new final chapter considers the profound effects that globalization and the search for an immediate international readership is having on both literary translation and literature itself.
