Poetry as Insurgent Art (Ferlinghetti Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

Poetry as Insurgent Art (Ferlinghetti Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

In 1953 Lawrence Ferlinghetti founded the first paperback bookstore in the United States. In over five decades City Lights, the bookstore and publisher, has become a Mecca for millions. Ferlinghetti's A Coney Island of the Mind (ND, 1958) is a number one best-selling volume of poetry by any living

City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology (Ferlinghetti Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

Printer's ink is the greater explosive.--Lawrence FerlinghettiLawrence Ferlinghetti founded the City Lights publishing house sixty years ago in 1955, launching the press with his now legendary Pocket Poets Series. First in the series was Pictures of the Gone World--and within a year, he had brought

Strategy: A History (Freedman Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in a consistently engaging and insightful account of how strategy came to pervade

Selected Poems (Lawrence D H)(Paperback / softback)

A completely new selection of D. H. Lawrence's poetry Published as part of a series of new editions of D. H. Lawrence's works, this major collection presents the fullest range of the author's poetry available today. Selected by prize-winning poet and scholar James Fenton, these lush, evocative

Negotiating Survival - Civilian-Insurgent Relations in Afghanistan (Jackson Ashley)(Pevná vazba)

Concrete Poetry: Post-War Modernist Public Art (Phipps Simon)(Pevná vazba)

Concrete Poetry is the first photographic survey of Modernist sculpture within the Brutalist

American Poetry as Transactional Art (Fredman Stephen)(Paperback)

Explores the ways American poetry engages with visual art, music, fiction, spirituality, and performance art Many people think of poetry as a hermetic art, as though poets wrote only about themselves or as if the subject of poetry were finally only poetry--its forms and traditions. Indeed much of

Measure For Measure(Pevná vazba)

Two contemporary poets turns their attention to poetry as a living, rhythmic, often musical performance. For many readers, the most familiar poetic metre is the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare, but this only scratches the surface of the extraordinary diversity of rhythmic patterns that poets have

The Hatred of Poetry (Lerner Ben)(Paperback)

No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: I, too, dislike it, wrote Marianne Moore. Many more people agree they hate poetry, Ben Lerner writes, than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that

Atlas of Heroes (Lawrence Sandra)(Pevná vazba)

British Rail Architecture (Lawrence David)(Pevná vazba)

Art of Creating Power - Freedman on Strategy(Pevná vazba)

Explores the thought of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on

Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus (Powell Barry B.)(Pevná vazba)

The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn--as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy--was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally important collections have not been readily

Theorizing Modern Society as a Dynamic Process (Hazelrigg Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

Emphasis is placed in Continental European social theory, and on the importance of political analyses to theorizing modern societies. This title focuses on dynamic processes that gave way to illuminate structural features of modern social

Rendering French Realism (Schehr Lawrence R.)(Pevná vazba)

Realist novels are usually seen as verisimilar representations of the world, and even when that verisimilitude is critically examined (as it has been by Marxist and feminist critics), the criticism has referred to extra-literary matters, such as bourgeois ideology or defects in the portrayal of

Lawrence Schiller. Marilyn & Me (Schiller Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

'You're already famous, now you're going to make me famous,' photographer Lawrence Schiller said to Marilyn Monroe as they discussed the photos he was about to shoot of her. 'Don't be so cocky,' Marilyn replied, 'photographers can be easily replaced.' The year was 1962, and Schiller, 25, was on

Zen Poems (Harris Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China,

Becoming Inspector Chen (Qiu Xiaolong)(Pevná vazba)

Inspector Chen is excluded from a poetry case as he awaits possible disciplinary action, leaving him to reflect on his career . . . but does his past hold a clue to the poetry case? After a number of grueling cases Chief Inspector Chen is facing mounting pressure from his superiors, many of whom

Lawrence of Arabia's Clouds Hill (Norman Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Tasso's Art and Afterlives: The Gerusalemme Liberata in England (Lawrence Jason)(Pevná vazba)

This interdisciplinary study examines the literary, artistic and biographical afterlives in England of the great sixteenth-century Italian poet Torquato Tasso, from before his death to the end of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the lasting impact of his once famous poem Gerusalemme liberata

Aig + Ws (Cunningham Lawrence A.)(Pevná vazba)

Selected as one of Motley Fool's 5 Great Books You Should Read In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of open markets

Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry (Klagge James C.)(Pevná vazba)

How Wittgenstein sought a more effective way of reaching his audience by a poetic style of doing philosophy. Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, 'Really one should write philosophy only as one writes poetry.' In Wittgenstein's Artillery, James Klagge shows how, in search of ways to reach his audience,

Three Studies (Longhi Roberto)(Pevná vazba)

Roberto Longhi (1890 - 1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the

Bayeux Tapestry(Pevná vazba)

The Bayeaux Tapestry is unique both as a historical document and as a work of art. It was made soon after the Battle of Hastings in 1066, and it tells the story of the events that led up to William the Conqueror's invasion of England and the battle