HAMMER! is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, and her search for meaning as she contemplates mortality in the 2000s-HAMMER! includes texts from these periods, new writings, and fully context...

Surveys the boundary-pushing career of pioneering filmmaker and artist Barbara Hammer.Barbara Hammer: Pushing Out of the Frame by Sarah Keller explores the career of experimental filmmaker and visual artist Barbara Hammer. Hammer first garnered attention in the early 1970s for a series of films representing lesbian subjects and subjectivity. Over the five decades that followed, she made almost a hundred films and solidified her position as a pioneer of que...

Barbara Hammer in the Seventies: Or, What a Body Can Do addresses the intersection of experimental film, lesbian sexuality, and the women’s movement in Hammer’s early films. Grounded in an embodied, sexual, and gendered positionality, these films interrogate the politics of visibility and identity and perform a discontinuous repertoire of lesbian images that resist the medium of film’s established constraints and the decade’s broader systems of signification.Hammer’s films...

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible?With over 50 original essays by leadin...

Traumstrände, Drill, Partys, Gefahren, Kameradschaft. Der Autor Heiko Frerichs nimmt den Leser mit auf eine Reise durch die Deutsche Marine der 90er, die er als Artillerist an Land und an Bord erlebte und nun auf humorvolle, kenntnisreiche und altgefahrene Weise davon berichtet. Ein Genuss für alle Nostalgiker und Neugierige von heute!

Rowena Summerfield is so close to finishing the renovation of boyfriend Chuck’s wine bar, she can practically taste the champagne. But the project she’s doing with her daughter and partner in Nailed It Home Renos screeches to a halt when murder claims the brother of the wine consultant.Once again, the Shasta Police Department drafts Ro to return to her role as homicide detective and help her old partner Herc find the killer. But uncorking the mystery proves challenging given the sm...

Jetzt wird es spannend, denn die elf Autorinnen dieses Erzählbandes haben sich auf das Experiment des kollektiven Schreibens eingelassen. Zu dritt eine Geschichte in aufeinanderfolgenden Kapiteln zu schreiben, die schlüssig und plausibel erzählt wird, ist eine Herausforderung. Das literarische Werkzeug ist der 'Cliffhänger', der den Spannungsbogen von Kapitel zu Kapitel treibt und die drei Autorinnen einer Geschichte miteinander verbindet. In drei Büchern sind fünfzehn Erzählungen mit jewe...

Im Juni 2021 ist Esther Bejarano gestorben. Zwei Jahre zuvor hatte ich zum ersten Mal ihren Namen gehört. Mein Enkel erzählte von einer Schulveranstaltung, auf der sie von ihrem Überleben im KZ berichtete. "Sich versöhnen ohne zu vergessen", war der Satz, den ich aus seinem Bericht in der Erinnerung behielt. Ich brauchte offensichtlich ei-nen zweiten Impuls, bis in mir der Gedanke aufbrach, dass der bewusste Umgang mit ihren Erfahrungen im Dialog mit jungen Menschen etwas mit mir als Nachk...

Dual language learners are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. student population, and the majority speak Spanish as a first language. This graduate-level textbook—now in its third edition—gives future speech-language pathologists the comprehensive knowledge they need to work effectively with Spanish–English bilingual children and support their language development.Aligned with current best practices and updated with the latest research and

In 1838, thirteen thousand Cherokee were forced to leave their homeland in the Southeast and walk 900 miles to present-day Oklahoma. Hunger, cold, fatigue, and disease threatened their very survival. Their grueling relocation trek-the Trail of Tears-takes on new immediacy and meaning with this stunning work of fiction. Maritole loses not only her home and her settled life in North Carolina, but also many of the people closest to her. A chorus of voices joins hers to vividly recreate the tr...

The National Book Award–winning author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen is a master of both fiction and nonfiction. Killing Mister Watson is his bestselling, fact-based novel that pieces together the life and death of Edgar J. Watson.At the beginning of the 20th century, Watson was an infamous brute who ruled his remote patch of Florida with an iron fist. He had no problem killing those who got in his way, and was even rumored as the murderer of legendary out...

This three-volume set LNCS 11139-11141 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2018, held in Rhodes, Greece, in October 2018.The papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from total of 360 submissions. They are related to the following thematic topics: AI and Bioinformatics, Bayesian and Echo State Networks, Brain Inspired Computing, Chaotic Complex Models, Clustering, Mining, Explora...