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The Love of Dangerous Men
An enormous bird's nest is found in the attic. Hundreds of photographs and letters are tangled in its straw. The first letter begins: 'Well dear friend, I note all you said about Mr Bowen and that vile woman.' When Tony Nicholson and his family moved into an old house in the north of England, they discovered a treasure trove of old photographs and letters, all belonging to a mysterious woman called Annie Bowen. Who was she? And what was her story? Back Tony went to the Victorian era to find out. Soon, he found himself in Calcutta and the dark streets of Whitechapel, tracking her lover. Peeling back the layers of her story, he uncovered a lost world of moonlight dances, country vicarages and ...
Shut That Door
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The Mezzanine
A National Book Critics Circle Award–winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe). In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. Baker’s accounts of the ordinary become extraordinary through his sharp storytelling and his unconventional, conversational style. At firs...
The Anthologist
"The Anthologist" captures all the warmth, wit, and extraordinary prose stylethat have made Baker--a National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author--anAmerican master.
Tom Nicholson
Lines towards Another is the first anthology on the work of Australian contemporary artist Tom Nicholson. Spanning drawing, sculpture, public actions, sound, installation, video, and performance, Nicholson's work since the 1990s has engaged with critical questions around history, politics, narrative, and representation. Informed by the colonial history of Australia, and motivated by the work of Aboriginal Australian activists, his practice at its most fundamental level examines the role of images and monuments as both catalysts and potential barriers for the creation of histories, reimagining their forms through modes of commemoration. Presenting new research on the artist and providing an u...
Five Easy Decades
Praise for Five Easy Decades: How Jack Nicholson Became the Biggest Movie Star in Modern Times "Dennis McDougal is a rare Hollywood reporter: honest, fearless, nobody's fool. This is unvarnished Jack for Jack-lovers and Jack-skeptics but, also, for anyone interested in the state of American culture and celebrity. I always read Mr. McDougal for pointers but worry that he will end up in a tin drum off the coast of New Jersey." — Patrick McGilligan, author of Jack's Life and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light Praise for Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty "A great freeway pileup—part biography, part dysfunctional family chronicle, and pa...
Encyclopedia of Imaging
Entries A to Z covering the following items: 1. Molecular imaging.- 2. Contrast media iodinated barium magnetic resonance ultrasound.- 3. Nuclear medicine.- 4. Pathology.- 5. Infectious diseases.- Organ systems: 1. Breast.- 2. Cardiac.- 3. Chest.- 4. Hepatobiliary/gastrointestinal (liver, spleen, pancreas).- 5. Gastroentestinal (liver, spleen and pancreas excluded).- 6. Head and neck I 7. Musculoskeletal.- 8. Neuro: a. Brain, b. Spine.- 9. Pediatric.- 10. Urogenital:a. Uro, b. Genital.- 11. Vascular (and vascular intervention).
The Practice of University History Teaching
This work provides a guide to good practice and its development in the teaching and learning of history in universities and colleges. It examines recent thinking on the teaching of the subject, surveys practices, and provides advice to teachers.
