Gerald Thomas is the perfect mixture of a streetwise kid and a highbrow intellectual, a blend that is bound to create something intense. From the cheerful samba sessions in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, which he attended enthusiastically, to the cerebral opera houses in Germany, which he scandalized with his exceptional performances, everything in the life of this enfant terrible sounds like a human parade you want to join immediately, a Dionysian feast to which even Apollo would plead for ...

Answering the Call to become a minister, the author begins his journey as a camp counselor at church summer-camp. But the lure of a career in radio broadcasting wins his attention away from God's plan. Eight years after graduating from college and working at radio stations, he returns to the Call but this time decides to pursue God's plan rather than his own.After successfully completing seminary and accepting a call to pastor a small Texas congregation, and doing so for four years...

In this small book, I try to encompass different moods and experiences. I focus on the things that excite me, and, also, on the things that give me pause and cause me to wonder about my world. The themes in the series on experience, are based on the human condition: in poems like “Homeless in Herald Square,” and “The Acts of Humankind,” and inner reflection: in poems like “Escape,” and “Death.” The themes in the series based on communication, include everyday news that is distributed through ...

SANDS OF WAR — Audiobook · Narrated by Gabriel Castillo. Listen time: 4 hours 44 minutes Iraq War history — Desert Storm, the Gulf War, and the road to the 2003 Iraq invasion. Narrative American military history of the Middle East, 1990-2003. Colin Powell, George H.W. Bush, and the decisions that shaped America's longest wars. At two in the morning on August 2, 1990, approximately a hundred thousand Iraqi soldiers crossed into Kuwait with more than two thousand tanks. By mid-morning, th...

Keith Haring is synonymous with the downtown New York art scene of the 1980's. His artwork-with its simple, bold lines and dynamic figures in motion-filtered in to the world's consciousness and is still instantly recognizable, twenty years after his death. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition features ninety black-and-white images of classic artwork and never-before-published Polaroid images, and is a remarkable glimpse of a man who, in his quest to become an artist, instead became an icon...

Short offers the tradition and glorious present of these popular forms that stretch and defy genre. From 1500 to present, hundreds of pieces. Inventive, entertaining, and addictive.Short prose forms are elusive to define--one writer's prose poem is another's flash fiction or brief essay. Rather than quibble, Short opts for inclusiveness. Here is a dazzling array: 100s of pieces (under 1250 words) from 24 Western countries, written over five centur...

"We benefit from Saltz's rare ability to articulate the mysterious alchemy of great art." - New York Times"An entertaining, informative, and, at times, profoundly affecting read." - Canberra Times"The most famous, most lionized, and arguably the most influential art critic we have." - Artnet News"The world's most famous and celebrated contemporary art critic." -GQ...

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 of the Best Soccer Players of All Time, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100 of the Best Soccer Players of All Time did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. This book was created to inform, entertain and m...

From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Mars Room, a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.In The Hard Crowd, Rachel Kushner gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times - and illuminates the themes and real-life terrain that underpin her fiction.In razor-sharp essays spanning li...

Euro Noir by Britain's leading crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw (author of Nordic Noir) examines the astonishing success of European fiction and drama. This is often edgier, grittier and more compelling than some of its British or American equivalents, and the book provides a highly readable guide for those wanting to look further than the obvious choices.The sheer volume of new European writers and films is daunting but Euro Noir provi...

When Frida Kahlo married Diego Rivera, Diego was 42 years old, and 300 pounds; Frida was 22 years old,and just 98 pounds. Her mother did not approve of the union and did not attend the wedding ceremony. She said that Diego was too old, too fat and worse yet he was a Communist and an atheist. She described the marriage as "between an elephant and a dove." On one of Diego's frequent visits to the Kahlo home, Frida's father took Diego aside and said: "She is a devil". "I know" Diego replied. ...

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through the Greatest Footballers of All Time From Around the World: Top 100, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating Greatest Footballers of All Time From Around the World: Top 100 did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. Th...