Refusing to remain in his native land under Nazi occupation, the Hungarian composer and folk-musicologist Béla Bartók came with his wife to America in 1940. This book explores the composer's...
Upon his father’s death, however, Michael Rips returned to his Omaha family home to discover a hidden portfolio of paintings—all done by his father, all of a naked black woman.
Argues that one can read a person's character in his or her face, tells how to interpret facial details, and analyzes six celebrity faces.
A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.
The Naked Face
Cather's most frequent character model was herself . She is , above all , Thea Kronborg in The Song of the Lark . The story of Thea Kronborg grew out of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth , and is based on the life and career of Cather's ...
While a completely original work, characters in The Naked World—part two of the “Jubilee Cycle” trilogy—face predicaments evocative of works by Jonathan Swift, Aldous Huxley, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell, and Stephen King.” ...
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The naked future is upon us, and the implications are staggering. Patrick Tucker draws on fascinating stories from health care to urban planning to online dating.
Dreamy, meditative, and filled with the gritty everyday perils of a person living somewhere without papers (at one point Anh is subjected to some vampire-like skin experiments), The Naked Eye is a novel that is as surprising as it is ...