One of America's most renowned and controversial photographers, Sally Mann, whose photos inspired the feature film What Remains, discusses her beautiful and revealing new memoir Hold Still. In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel. Introduction by Malcolm Jones (culture and book critic for the Daily Beast). In conversation with Ann Patchett (Bel Canto).

Le origini del mito, la prima avventura dedicata a Sandman, il Re dei Sogni. Chi ha catturato Sogno degli Eterni? E chi lo aiuterà a liberarsi dalla sua prigionia? Una delle graphic novel più amate dal pubblico e dalla critica di tutti i tempi, Sandman è il capolavoro di Neil Gaiman, e con la sua maturità e il suo lirismo ha ridefinito il fumetto fantastico moderno. Illustrata da alcuni tra i più talentuosi disegnatori al mondo, Sandman è una serie sfolgorante che fonde mitologia antica e ...

The Middle Ages are known as a god-fearing time, a time of hard work and of squalid living conditions for the majority of the population – or as a time of opulence that graced only the courts and halls of the reigning monarch. In The Secret Middle Ages, Malcolm Jones presents a completely fresh view of the medieval world that will blow all stereotypes out of the water.Using a wealth of little-known and recently discovered artefacts, and drawing particularl...

Here are sixteen chilling, never-before-published tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, coedited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween m...

On the Sunday of his eighteenth birthday, in 1975, Colin takes a walk on Box Hill, a biker hang-out. There he accidentally trips over Ray, a biker napping under a tree - and that's where it all starts. This transgressive, darkly affecting love story between men, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize, is a stunning novel of desire and domination by one of Britain's most accomplished writers.

For Malcolm Jones, his parents’ disintegrating marriage was at the center of life in North Carolina in the 1950s and 60s. His father, charming but careless, was often drunk and away from home; his mother, a schoolteacher and faded Southern belle, clung to the past and hungered for respectability. In Little Boy Lost, Jones—one of our most admired cultural observers—recalls a childhood in which this relationship played out against the larger cracks of society: the convulsions of des...

Specially commissioned for the World's Classics, this new translation includes a full editorial apparatus.

Casa di bambola raccoglie il secondo arco narrativo della serie Sandman e racconta la sorprendente vicenda di Rose Walker, una ragazza che sta per scoprire qualcosa di straordinario su se stessa. Rose non sa che il re dei sogni la sta sorvegliando e la considera al tempo stesso un mistero affascinante e una minaccia mortale.

Dieser Band enthält folgende Fantasy Abenteuer: E. Nesbit: Die Drachentöter Malcolm Jameson: Die Zeitschleife und die Hexe H. Bedford-Jones: Die Schwertkämpfer Saladins Bertram Atkey: Herkules der Pferdedieb E. Charles Vivian: Die Stadt der Wunder Alfred Bekker: Yarum und die Artefakte von Andoros Die roten und gelben Sonnen des Planeten Zaroon tauchten den abendlichen Himmel in ein blutiges Orange, als Yarum das beeindruckende Reich Boosanien erreichte. Sein muskulöser, gebräunter Körper ...

Changes at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations both in the United States and around the world.Sharing a focus on reparations as an issue of justice, the contributors provide a historical primer of the movement; introduce the philosophical, political, economic, legal and ethical iss...

Have you been feeling overly stressed lately? Give yourself a break from your nuclear surroundings to have a read and crack a smile.With this book you can cheer up and discover:· That there is evidence and insight that certain sea creatures had sex with a human.· Why having dementia can be a good thing if you're up to no good.· How some kids believe in fortunetellers.

Delivering fundamental insights into the most popular methods of molecular analysis, this text is an invaluable resource for students and researchers. It encompasses an extensive range of spectroscopic and spectrometric techniques used for molecular analysis in the life sciences, especially in the elucidation of the structure and function of biological molecules. Covering the range of up-to-date methodologies from everyday mass spectrometry and centrifugation to the more probing X-ray crys...