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The Weaver-god, He Weaves
In this book, the author sets out to dispel the idea that Melville was an author of raw genius who knew, or cared little, about the art of the novel. Rather, he shows how Melville not only knew about the novelist's craft, but also appropriated and transformed a series of distinct genres.
Hope and Ambition
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Templars and Pagans
Templar and Pagans is a fictional story based on true historical events that took place on Friday, October 13, 1307, when the greedy sovereign of France Phillip IV decided to expel the mastic Templar knighthood from his lands; and with the viscid support of the Catholic Church’s edict, the Anjou Emperor struck without provocation. But before the French ruler could carry out his malign plan, he had the Templar grandmaster Jacques de Molay arrested in Paris and when the machinate suzerain found out through sessions of torture that a small caravan of Templar paladins were secretively transporting a culminated relic from the ecru dessert sands of Acre in the Holy Land to the Templar Commandery...
The New Face of Political Cinema
Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of political film is very different and urgently calls out for an analysis that will account for its development, its formal characteristics and its originality. This is what this book provides. It engages with leading directors such as Cantet, Tavernier, Dumont, Kassovitz, Zonca and Guédiguian, takes in a range of less well known but important figures and strays across the Belgian border to engage with the seminal work of the Dardenne brothers. It shows how the works discussed are helping to reinvent political cinema by finding stylistic and narrative strategies adequate to the contemporary context.
South of Cayenne
In 1945 after Germany surrendered Berlin was divided into British, French and American occupation zones (West Berlin) and a Soviet zone (East Berlin). For years West Berlin, surrounded by the Russian zone, was a simmering Cold War issue. From June 1948 until May 1949 West Berlin was blockaded by the Soviet Union. All rail, waterway and road traffic was cut off by the Russians. The Berlin Airlift by Great Britain and the United States was West Berlin's lifeline.In 1949, after a Berlin Airlift crew returns to the States an explosion rips the right wing of their C-54 open over an unexplored area of Brazil. Only two of the five-man crew survive. The information is closely held---only President T...
The Unexpected Fantasy
Three sisters, Beth, Linda and Sandra, fantasized for years about someday just the three of them would go on a cruise. As young attractive widows, and with empty nests, their fantasy became a reality. However, the first night at sea, something occurred that would change their lives, quite the unexpected fantasy. They met three handsome and charming European men, whom they fondly called their three amigos. Join them on their ninety-two day fantasy voyage, and enjoy the ins and outs of cruising while visiting exotic ports-of-call. Experience their Bon Voyage!
The Color of Asylum
An ethnography of the difficult experiences of refugees in Brazil. In 2013, as Syrians desperate to escape a brutal war fled the country, Brazil took the remarkable step of instituting an open-door policy for all Syrian refugees. Why did Brazil—in contrast to much of the international community—offer asylum to any Syrian who would come? And how do Syrians differ from other refugee populations seeking status in Brazil? In The Color of Asylum, Katherine Jensen offers an ethnographic look at the process of asylum seeking in Brazil, uncovering the different ways asylum seekers are treated and the racial logic behind their treatment. She focuses on two of the largest and most successful group...
Beyond the Veil
Sometimes a story has more than two sides—this one, for example. When both sides in an intergalactic civil war believe that the other side is committing terrorist acts, only one thing is certain: both sides are wrong. The truth lies beyond the veil. When two civilians and a space station engineer discover who destroyed the starship Hrabrost, they must find each other and find help before the killers find them. Only by working together with Admiral Jenkins and his daughter, Amanda, can they stop the killers before they destroy the Terran Alliance from the inside. From mechlizards to anthropoveils, from political asylum to the insane asylum, this book peels away another layer of the onion-li...
Décollage
Pierre, un ouvrier agricole de 30 ans, est l’unique employé à la ferme de Mathilde, ténébreuse quadragénaire. La vie de Pierre est ainsi toute tracée dans les sillons, sur son tracteur lorsqu'il aperçoit un deltaplane passer au-dessus de son champ… C'est la révélation : Pierre quitte Mathilde et sa ferme, rejoint un club de libéristes et s'inscrit pour voler 'comme les oiseaux', sans moteur, ni carlingue. Bricoleur, volontaire, courageux, passionné par sa découverte, Pierre devient bientôt le plus doué des membres du petit peuple baroque qui l'a accueilli. Dès lors, ni Fred, son mentor et ami, ni la pragmatique Isa, monitrice responsable, ni Odile, avec laquelle Pierre va pourtant découvrir l'amour, ni les dangers auxquels il s'expose dans ses vols de plus en plus périlleux, ne sauront lui garder les pieds sur terre. D’exploit en invention, d’invention en transgression, de transgression en record, Pierre veut monter plus haut, toujours plus haut, là où aucun delta n'est jamais monté…
The Composer As Intellectual
In The Composer as Intellectual, musicologist Jane Fulcher reveals the extent to which leading French composers between the World Wars were not only aware of but also engaged intellectually and creatively with the central political and ideological issues of the period. Employing recent sociological and historical insights, she demonstrates the extent to which composers, particularly those in Paris since the Dreyfus Affair, considered themselves and were considered to be intellectuals, and interacted closely with intellectuals in other fields. Their consciousness raised by the First World War and the xenophobic nationalism of official culture, some joined parties or movements, allying themsel...
