The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early writings about film with literary engagement with cinema in the same period. She gives a new understanding of the ways in which early writers about film - reviewers, critics, theorists - ...

Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why attention to rhythm came to serve as connective tissue between fields of inquiry at a time when modern disciplines were still in the process of formation or consolidation. The concentration on 'rhythm' and its cognates largely arose, Laura Marcus demonstrates, from the desire to recla...

Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a ...

Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of moderni...

Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a ...

A collection of killer stories from some of today's hottest crime fiction writers, edited by grandmaster and #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child.Killer Year is a group of thirteen authors whose first novels were published in the year 2007. Now, each member of this widely-praised organization has written a story with his or her own unique twist on the world of crime. Each entry in this one-of-a-kind collection is introduced by the author's Killer Year men...

The writers behind New Scientist explore the baffling concept of nothingness from the fringes of the universe to our minds' inner workings.It turns out that nothing is as curious or as enlightening as nothingness itself. What is nothing? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate—from the big bang, dark energy, and the void, to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect. And they disco...

TIAMikey was only supposed to be a client, and a way to continue the work I love while maintaining the name I worked hard to create for myself.He doesn’t remember me, or our shared history, but I never forgot him.In the past, he was a sliver of hope–a small light in all the darkness–but I’m not the same girl I used to be.Now, he’s nothing more than a reminder of all the pain I once felt.Getting close to him is dangerous for my heart,...

Laura Dahlmeier war mehr als eine Biathletin. Dieses Buch erzählt nicht nur von Olympiasiegen und Weltmeistertiteln – sondern von der Stille hinter dem Triumph, von Selbstzweifeln, von Aufbrüchen und vom Mut, anders zu leben. In emotionaler und zugänglicher Sprache entsteht ein einfühlsames Porträt einer Frau, die früh loslief, um ihr Ziel zu finden – und dabei bei sich selbst ankam. Von der Kindheit in Garmisch über die Höhen des Biathlons bis zum letzten Aufstieg am Laila Peak – diese li...

Take your business education to the next level—and drive your career forward.If you read nothing else to stand out in class and prepare for what's next, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the best ones to help you learn the most important ideas in leadership and management, feel confident in your business classes, and be ready to thrive in any role you take on.This book wil...

Dualer Unterricht verschränkt fachliche und entwicklungsbezogene Inhalte miteinander und ist damit unabdingbarer Teil (sonder- und inklusions-)pädagogisch-didaktischer Arbeit. Dieser Band zielt unter Einbezug der relevanten wissenschaftlichen Bezugsdisziplinen auf eine systematische und umfassende Ausarbeitung einer Didaktik dualen Unterrichts, die Fachrichtungen sowie Bildungsorte und -gänge übergreifend Anwendung findet: Die Beiträge thematisieren Herausforderungen dieser doppelten Bildu...

Unsere Welt lebenswert zu erhalten, ist die wohl größte Herausforderung unserer Zeit. Wir steuern auf den globalen Kollaps zu. Was löst das in uns aus? 45 Autor*innen zeigen: Zwischen Apokalypse und Utopie ist viel Platz für Poesie. Jede Krise setzt kreative Potenziale frei. Das beweist diese Anthologie mit engagierten Beiträgen aus der Poetry-Slam- und Lyrikszene Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz, die sich allesamt mit der Klimakatastrophe, dem Artensterben und einer ungewissen Zu...