![]() ![]() Trouble is, now that big truth is largely accepted, we're still stuck with all the little lies. Its fundamental thesis was "wolves are okay," and that badly needed saying at the time. As such, it probably succeeded: it sank deep into the public consciousness of wolves, and surely helped the great turnaround of the wolf's image in the western world. If I remember correctly from reading a long-ago interview with him, Mowat fully intended his book to be pro-wolf propaganda. This was in the early 1960's, when a lot of people were bent on systematically eradicating the wolf as a species. Mowat knew a lot about life in the Arctic, but he didn't know much about wolves. ![]() And quite a lot of it is, at least in terms of factual accuracy, horseshit. Let's get one thing straight: Never Cry Wolf is fiction. I hate it's made up from start to finish, yet the tagline on the cover says, "The incredible true story of life among Arctic wolves." I love it because I love wolves and this is a well-written, entertaining story about wolves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ferlinghetti soon expanded his reach by starting City Lights Press, which published the Pocket Poets Series. But then when you have a bookstore, that’s a place where poets naturally fall into and hang out.” City Lights became a proving ground for bohemian and Beat writers and artists. “I had no idea of any poetry scene here or anything like that. Perhaps most famously, Ferlinghetti became the spiritual godfather of the Beat movement when he opened City Lights Books on a gritty hillside of San Francisco in 1953. And I am waiting for Aphrodite to grow live arms at a final disarmament conference.” He penned one of the single most popular books of poetry in print, served as San Francisco’s first poet laureate and won the National Book Award. “And I am waiting for Voznesensky to turn on with us and speak love tonight. And they have strange license plates and engines that devour America.” Lawrence Ferlinghetti was a poet, a painter, a publisher and a ceaseless political provocateur. “The scene shows fewer tumbrils, but more spaced-out citizens in painted cars. In 2007, he spoke to The Times about his life and legacy. ![]() Transcript The Last Word: Lawrence Ferlinghetti For more than 50 years, the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti kept the bohemian and beat spirit alive at his City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. ![]() ![]() ![]() For this reason, used books, including books listed in the Used – Like New condition, may not come with functional electronic material access codes. Note: Some electronic material access codes are valid only for one user. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. ![]() Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable.
![]() ![]() The artist has exhibited widely with solo presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago Haus der Kunst, Munich and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. Simpson consistently explores other avenues for her visual investigations and has also incorporated collage and painting into her practice. From the 1990s onwards, Simpson has looked to printing photographs on felt while also exploring the capacity of film and video to expand on the core themes of her practice-desire and isolation. She created large-scale photographic works with spare, staged images of Black figures, seen from behind or in fragments, on neutral studio backgrounds with incisive accompanying text. During the 1980s, she developed a visual strategy grounded in Conceptualism. Simpson received her BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1983, and an MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego in 1985. Simpson has built a multidisciplinary practice-including film, video, painting, drawing, collage, and sculpture-to expand her conceptual concerns. Early in her practice, Simpson committed to examining the role and possibilities of photography in the articulations of identity, culture, gender, and race, with an awareness of photography’s history. 1960, Brooklyn, NY) examines notions of representation using techniques as varied as the juxtaposition of text and staged photography, to collage using imagery from Jet and Ebony magazines on paper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ernest Hemingway: Hills Like White Elephants.Helen Oyeyemi: A Brief History of the Homely Wench Society.Lydia Davis: How Shall I Mourn Them and Jury Duty. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, presumed first printing with no references to subsequent printings, originally published in Norway during 1894, & published in an earlier American English-translated edition in 1921. This pioneering psychological novel about an eccentric stranger who arrives at & proceeds to rattle the residents of a small Norwegian town was again translated into English for a 1971 edition with a laudatory afterword by (of all people) Isaac Bashevis Singer, who we suppose should have gotten a citation for his ability to separate the work from the man.(2) Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers, first UK edition thus, translated into English from the Norwegian by James W. Hardcover, first edition thus, second printing issued the same month & year (July 1927) as the first printing per copyright page, originally published as "Mysterier" in Denmark during 1892 as noted thereon. ![]() Two rarities by Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author whose literary innovations were & remain acclaimed & influential- but whose legacy is forever darkened by his having supported Adolf Hitler & the Nazis during World War II (as with Louis Ferdinand Celine, Ezra Pound et al.): (1) Mysteries, first American edition, translated into English from the Norwegian by Arthur G. ![]() ![]() ![]() NYX one of the six mages who ruled Atlantis Ava’s ancestor NOCÉRUS a darksong spell used to cause harm NEELA a Matalin princess Serafina’s best friend Yazeed’s sister Mahdi’s cousin. NAVI one of the six mages who ruled Atlantis Neela’s ancestor Neria punished her by giving her the face of death and the body of a serpent and banishing her. She planned to overthrow Neria with an army of the dead. MORSA an ancient scavenger goddess, whose job it was to take away the bodies of the dead. MIROMARA the realm where Serafina comes from an empire that spans the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic, Aegean, Baltic, Black, Ionian, Ligurian, and Tyrrhenean Seas, the Seas of Azov and Marmara, the Straits of Gibraltar, the Dardanelles, and the Bosphorus MERROW’S PROGRESS Ten years after the destruction of Atlantis, Merrow made a journey to all of the waters of the world, scouting out safe places for the merfolk to colonize. First ruler of the merpeople songspell originated with her, and she decreed the Dokimí. MERROW a great mage, one of the six rulers of Atlantis, and Serafina’s ancestor. ![]() ![]() ![]() In effect, media now begs to be redefined. There has been a notable resurgence of interest in McLuhan's work in the last few years, fueled by the recent and continuing conjunctions between the cable companies and the regional phone companies, the appearance of magazines such as WiRed, and the development of new media models and information ecologies, many of which were spawned from MIT's Media Lab. ![]() Terms and phrases such as "the global village" and "the medium is the message" are now part of the lexicon, and McLuhan's theories continue to challenge our sensibilities and our assumptions about how and what we communicate. This reissue of Understanding Media marks the thirtieth anniversary (1964-1994) of Marshall McLuhan's classic expose on the state of the then emerging phenomenon of mass media. ![]() ![]() After his demonstration of wireless communication (radio) in 1894 and after being the victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.īorn an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia, he was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. He is frequently cited as one of the most important contributors to the birth of commercial electricity, a man who "shed light over the face of Earth," and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ![]() ![]() Nikola Tesla was a genius polymath, inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. ![]() |