In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters, sculptors, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, and writers dreamt and toiled within the building’s labyrinthine halls. The local arts scene flourished, igniting hope that Jersey City would emerge as the next grassroots center of the art worl...

A micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love–hate relationship with New York City.By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J. R. R. Tolkien as the most influential genre writer of the twentieth century. His reputation as an unreformed racist and bigot, however, leaves readers to g...

ALL THE BIBLE TEACHES ABOUT is a series of 500 articles ranging from 20 pages to 300 pages in length on key Bible topics of general interest to all Christians, which have been excerpted from KNOW YOUR BIBLE, also published by this same author. Each of these 500 articles can be viewed in the Master Index by searching the site for ALL THE BIBLE TEACHES ABOUT Master Index in the site search box, and all topics cost 1.00 regardless of size. These fine articles can help you to understand a numb...

Beschaffungsanalyse, Absatzplanung, Kundenorientierung, Markenpflege – der Kunstmarkt verändert sich so rasant wie nie zuvor. Für Kunstwerke erzielte Preise beeinflussen deren Einordnung in den kunstgeschichtlichen Kanon. Auktionshäuser haben sich neben Kunstmessen, Galerien und Kunsthandel als dominante Distributionsform etabliert. Dabei gleicht die rituelle Dramaturgie der Auktion bis heute einem archaischen Wettstreit: Sie verschlägt Mitwirkenden die Sprache und zieht Unbeteiligte in ih...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has written a revolutionary road map to saving our children from leftist indoctrination.Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," the early progressive agenda had political control in mind. America’s original schools didn’t just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom. They assigned the classi...

Phenomenology and the Arts develops the interplay between phenomenology as a historical movement and a descriptive method within Continental philosophy and the arts. Divided into five themes, the book explores first how the phenomenological method itself is a kind of artistic endeavor that mirrors what it approaches when it turns to describe paintings, dramas, literature, and music. From there, the book turns to an analysis and commentary on specific works of art within the visual arts, li...

It has been half a century since a few now-canonical Latin American writers introduced magical realism to the world. In that time, new generations of Latinx writers and artists have used that watershed moment as a springboard into new and bold explorations of speculative and fantasy forms. Collectively, they have found exciting new ways to delve into Latinx identities and cultures across genres. Latinx Rising, the first anthology of science fiction and fantasy by Latinxs living in...

In this follow-up to Battle for the American Mind, David Goodwin lays out the principles for providing a classical Christian education for children, K-12.American parents have been desperate for an alternative to our broken, woke school system. Inspired by the insights of Battle for the American Mind, many gratefully embraced Classical Christian Education as an alternative—a deep tradition grounded in a biblical worldview. Instead of creating soul...

Der 'Britisch-Krimi Sammelband' vereint eine bemerkenswerte Vielfalt an literarischen Stilen und spannenden Narrativen, die sich über das viktorianische Zeitalter bis in das frühe 20. Jahrhundert erstrecken. Diese Sammlung bietet ein breites Spektrum an Kriminalgeschichten, die von klassischem Detektivspiel bis zu spannungsgeladenem Thriller reichen. Die meisterliche Erzählkunst dieser Zeit zeichnet sich durch komplexe Handlungsstränge, scharfsinnige Charakterstudien und ein unnachahmliche...

'The descriptions are sublime . . . Goodwin's eye - sharp, unforgiving - allows nothing to escape . . . His literary promise is savage' THE AUSTRALIAN'Goodwin is a natural-born storyteller, effortlessly compelling whether he's talking about the draconian policies of his bosses, the mad ramblings of his regulars or his own forays into chemical-induced debauchery . . . However, the true secret to Servo's brilliance is that beneath its irreverent, go...

Diese sorgfältig zusammengestellte Auswahl entführt Sie in die gefährliche Welt der kriminellen Persönlichkeiten Großbritanniens. Lernen Sie die Hauptfiguren kennen: von Detektiven, die versuchen, brutale Verbrechen aufzuklären, über unschuldige Zuschauer bis hin zu hartgesottenen Kriminellen, die die ganze Stadt in Angst und Schrecken versetzen. Diese Auswahl ist unglaublich stimmungsvoll und versprüht einen Hauch von britischer Aristokratie.

Der 'Britisch-Krimi Sammelband' präsentiert eine faszinierende Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten und Novellen, die das breite Spektrum britischer Kriminalliteratur des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts abdecken. Diese Anthologie vereint vielfältige literarische Stile und Techniken, von den spannenden Detektivgeschichten eines Arthur Conan Doyle bis zu den psychologisch komplexen Erzählungen eines G.K. Chesterton. Jede Geschichte in dieser Sammlung zeugt von der herausragenden Fähigkeit der Autore...