Author: Tom Monteleone File Type: epub A completely updated guide for first-time novelists. Completely revised to include new interviews with best-selling authors more detailed information on writing genre fiction from paranormal romance to cozy mysteries and everything a writer needs to know about self-publishing and eBooks to get started. The Complete Idiots Guide(r) to Writing a Novel, Second Edition, is an indispensable reference on how to write and publish a first novel. Expert author with over thirty published novelsIncludes interviews with new best-selling novelists Features new material on writing genre fiction and self-publishingAbout the AuthorTom Monteleone is an award-winning author of over 30 published novels and co-owner of Borderlands Press, an independent book publisher.
Author: J. J. Long
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About the AuthorJ. J. Long is Professor of German at Durham University. He is the author of The Novels of Thomas Bernhard and of W. G. Sebald Image, Archive, Modernity, and has published widely on German literature and photography. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2005.Andrea Noble is Professor of Latin American Studies at Durham University, author of Mexican National Cinema and co-editor of Phototextualities Intersections of Photography and Narrative.Edward Welch is Senior Lecturer in French at Durham University, and author of Francois Mauriac The Making of an Intellectual. His research interests include post-war French visual culture and documentary photography, and he is a regular contributor to Source photography journal.
Author: Bob Proehl
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In 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A&M Records, selling a disappointing 400,000 copies. Almost forty years later, front man Gram Parsons, is still spoken of with almost messianic reverence. Patron saint of alt-country, emblazoned with a shining cross, dead at 26. Overshadowed by Parsons, this album remains an anomaly in the country rock genre, a map in miniature of a moment in music, and warrants discussion as more than part of the Gram Parsons legacy.
Author: Balint Magyar
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In an article in 2001 the author analyzed the way the Hungarian political party Fidesz (the Federation of Young Democrats) was eliminating the institutional system of the rule of law as it was on government for the first time. At that time, many readers doubted the legitimacy of the new approach, in which the author characterized the system as the organized over-world, the state employing mafia methods and the adopted political family. Critics considered these categories metaphors rather than elements of a coherent conceptual framework. Ten years later Fidesz won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, removing many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. It is common in many post-communist systems that a segment of the party and secret service became the elite in possession of not only political power but also of wealth. However, Fidesz, as a late-coming new political predator, was able to occupy this position through a change of elite. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. **About the Author Balint Magyar is a liberal politician and independent sociologist
Author: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
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Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europes full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, slave and portraiture as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slaves body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. The essays in this volume address this apparent paradox of slave portraits from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. They probe the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and explore their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery.**
Author: Emily Wilcox
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bAt publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available throughLuminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. b Revolutionary Bodies is the firstEnglish-languageprimary sourcebased history of concert dance in the Peoples Republic of China. Combining over a decade of ethnographic and archival research, Emily Wilcox analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in Chinas dance field. The digital edition of this title includes nineteen embedded videos of selected dance works discussed by the author. **
Author: Mitchell Abidor
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The Paris Commune of 1871, the first instance of a working-class seizure of power, has been subject to countless interpretations reviled by its enemies as a murderous bacchanalia of the unwashed while praised by supporters as an exemplar of proletarian anarchism in action, both a successful model to be imitated and as a devastating failure to be avoided. All of the interpretations are tendentious. Historians view the working classs three-month rule through their own prism, distant in time and space. Voices of the Paris Commune takes a different tack. In this book only those who were present in the spring of 1871, who lived through and participated in the Commune, are heard. The Paris Commune had a vibrant press, and it is represented here by its most important newspaper, Le Cri du Peuple, edited by Jules Valles, member of the First International. Like any legitimate government, the Paris Commune held parliamentary sessions and issued daily printed reports of the heated, contentious deliberations that belie any accusation of dictatorship. Included in this collection is the transcript of the debate in the Commune and a selection from the inquiry carried out 20 years after the event by the intellectual review La Revue Blanche.(Revolutionary Pocketbooks Series)
Author: Kurt A. Raaflaub
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This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. ullPresents evidence from across the ages from antiquity through to the Age of DiscoveryllProvides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient IndiallExplores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials lulReviewIn sum, the editors, and the publisher, are to be congratulated on producing, a stimulating volume which provides expert guidance to many aspects of the foreign country which is the past. (Aestimatio Critical Reviews in the History of Science, 2011)The 20 papers originated in a workshop held at Brown University in March 2006 and fully reflect the series world focus and broad definition of ancient societies. (CHOICE, July 2010)ReviewInspirational in conception, seamless in execution, and exemplary in cohesion, this book of twenty well-written essays on the diversity of world views from antiquity to the sixteenth century has an important message for modern one world globalism.Catherine Delano-Smith, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Author: Julia Bekman Chadaga
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Longlist finalist, 2015 Historia Nova Prize for Best Book on Russian Intellectual and Cultural History Julia Bekman Chadagas ambitious study posits that glassin its uses as a material and as captured in cultureis a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from the eighteenth century onward. From the contemporary perspective, it is easy to overlook how glass has profoundly transformed vision. Chadaga shows the far-reaching effects of this phenomenon. Her book examines the similarities between glass and language, the ideological uses of glass, and the materials associations with modernity, while illuminating the work of Lomonosov, Dostoevsky, Zamyatin, and Eisenstein, among others. In particular, Chadaga explores the prominent role of glass in the discourse around Russias contentious relationship with the Westby turns admiring and antagonisticas the nation crafted a vision for its own future. Chadaga returns throughout to the spectacular aspect of glass and shows how both the tendentious capacity and the playfulness of this material have shaped Russian culture. **Review This is a well-researched and well-argued book that will prove useful to scholars....the book really inspires us to pay more attention to glass and the ways in which it shapes our livesSlavic Review This book is a Wunderkammer of Russian and Soviet culture, a museum of glass in literary texts,architecture, film, and other media. Her analysis of high and low culture is interspersed with thehistory of the material the arrival of glass in Russia, the process of making window panes in the earlynineteenth century, the working conditions in glass factories. The scope of the book is both astonishingand impressive.TheRussian Review About the Author Julia Bekman Chadaga is a assistant professor of Russian at Macalester College.
Author: Gianfranco Sanguinetti
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Translated from the Italianp leada situationist hoaxes the italian elite in 1975 A brilliant hoax report by former Situationist International member Gianfranco Sanguinetti purporting to be by a cultured Italian aristocrat calling himself Censor. It was sent to 520 of the most powerful people in Italy in 1975 and sounding like a conservative from another era Censor counselled his peers in response to the mass strikes sweeping the country, causing a scandal and laying bare the state manipulation of terrorist groups in the Strategy of Tension.