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).

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

The David Malcolm Brand: A Legacy of UnityThe Undisputed Champion has left the ring, but the legacy he fought to forge remains unbroken.David Malcolm-Karrington lived a life of fierce protection, complex loyalties, and profound transformation. From the "Dragon Mother" who refined his corporate frequency to the "aging lion" who commanded his final round, David's journey was never just about business—it was about the people who made him....

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.

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 ...

Comprehensive review of key topics in root science, including root architecture, root growth regulators, root anatomy and nutrient acquisitionCoverage of root response to both biotic and abiotic variablesDiscusses the range of techniques to optimize root function, from phenotyping to identify desirable root traits and exploiting the genetics of root traits to the use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM)