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Spectacle

Author : Susan Steinberg
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970648
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Spectacle written by Susan Steinberg and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventive new collection from the author of Hydroplane and The End of Free Love * A San Francisco Chronicle, Complex, Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy and Slaughterhouse 90210 Best Book of the Year * In these innovative linked stories, women confront loss and grief as they sift through the wreckage of their lives. In the title story, a woman struggles with the death of her friend in a plane crash. A daughter decides whether to take her father off life support in the Pushcart Prize-winning "Cowboys." And in "Underthings," when a man hits his girlfriend, she calls it an accident. Spectacle bears witness to alarming and strange incidents: carnival rides and plane crashes, affairs spied through keyholes and amateur porn, vandalism and petty theft. These wounded women stand at the edge of disaster and risk it all to speak their sharpest secrets. In lean, acrobatic prose, Susan Steinberg subverts assumptions about narrative and challenges conventional gender roles. She delivers insight with a fierce lyric intensity in sentences shorn of excessive sentiment or unnecessary ornament. By fusing style and story, Steinberg amplifies the connections between themes and characters so that each devastating revelation echoes throughout the collection. A vital and turbulent book from a distinctive voice, Spectacle will break your heart, and then, before the last page is turned, will bind it up anew. "Experimental but never opaque, Steinberg's stories seethe with real and imagined menace." —Publishers Weekly

Making a Spectacle

Author : Jessica Glasscock
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0762473436
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Making a Spectacle written by Jessica Glasscock and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 13th century Franciscan monks to Beyoncé in Black is King, Making a Spectacle charts the fascinating ascension of eyeglasses—from an unsightly but useful tool to fashion's must-have accessory. The power of glasses to convey a range of vivid messages about their wearers have made them into a billion-dollar business that appeals to cool kids and rock stars, and those who want to be like them, but the fashionable history of eyeglasses is fraught with anxiety and drama. At the beginning of the 20th century, the assessment in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar was that spectacles were "invariably disfiguring." Invisibility was the best option, and glasses were only to be put on once the lights at the opera went dark. While variations of that glasses-shaming sentiment appeared at regular intervals over the next 100 years or so, eyeglasses continued to evolve into an endless array of shapes, colors, purposes, and personalities. Once sunglasses took off in the 1930s, the magazine editorial made glasses a conspicuous part of the fashion narrative. Eyeglasses went to the ski slopes, the stables, the beach, the Havana hotel. Plastic innovations made a candy-colored rainbow of cat-eyes and "starlet" styles possible. Suddenly, everyone had the opportunity to look like Jackie O on vacation in Capri. Making a Spectacle traces contemporary high fashion frames back to their origins: the military aviator, the glam cat eye, the nerdly Oxford, the high-tech shield, the fanciful butterfly, the lowly rimless, and other styles all make an appearance. Featuring interviews with influential designers, makers, and purveyors of glasses including Adam Selman, Kerin Rose Gold, and l.a. Eyeworks, Making a Spectacle also takes a look at today's most cutting edge eyewear, showing the reader the latest and most innovative ways to see and be seen.

Competing Spectacles

Author : Tony Reinke
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433563827
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Competing Spectacles written by Tony Reinke and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world full of shiny distractions, faced with an onslaught of viral media constantly competing for our attention and demanding our affections. These ever-present visual “spectacles” can quickly erode our hearts, making it more difficult than ever to walk through life actively treasuring that which is most important and yet invisible: Jesus Christ. In a journalistic style, Tony Reinke shows us just how distracting these spectacles in our lives have become and calls us to ask critical questions about what we’re focusing on. The book offers us practical steps to redirect our gaze away from the addictive eye candy of the world and onto the Ultimate Spectacle—leading to the joy and rest our souls crave.

The Spectacles

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781975736774
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Spectacles written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spectacles by Edgar Allan Poe is one of his exciting short stories. This edition is a good introduction to the works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Spectacles, and how to Choose Them

Author : Charles Harrison Vilas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacles, and how to Choose Them written by Charles Harrison Vilas and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Empire of Illusion

Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307398587
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Empire of Illusion written by Chris Hedges and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.

An essay on visual glasses, vulgarly called spectacles ... The fourth edition

Author : Benjamin MARTIN (Optician)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book An essay on visual glasses, vulgarly called spectacles ... The fourth edition written by Benjamin MARTIN (Optician) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Being Singular Plural

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804739757
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Being Singular Plural written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.

Eyes and spectacles

Author : Moritz von Rohr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyes and spectacles written by Moritz von Rohr and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Spectacle of Dust

Author : Pete Postlethwaite
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297864947
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book A Spectacle of Dust written by Pete Postlethwaite and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite. After training as a teacher, Pete Postlethwaite started his acting career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters. After routine early appearances in small parts for television programmes such as THE PROFESSIONALS, Postlethwaite's first success came with the acclaimed British film DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES in 1988. He then received an Academy Award nomination for his role in THE NAME OF THE FATHER in 1993. His performance as the mysterious lawyer "Kobayashi" in THE USUAL SUSPECTS is well-known, and he appeared in many successful films including ALIEN 3, BRASSED OFF, THE SHIPPING NEWS, THE CONSTANT GARDENER, as Friar Lawrence in Baz Luhrmann's ROMEO + JULIET, and in INCEPTION with Leonardo diCaprio. Pete Postlethwaite was one of the best-loved and widely admired performers on stage, TV (SHARPE, THE SINS) and in cinema. In THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett said that he had always imagined Sam Vimes as 'a younger, slightly bulkier version of Pete Postlethwaite', while Steven Spielberg called him 'the best actor in the world', about which Postlethwaite said: 'I'm sure what Spielberg actually said was, "the thing about Pete is that he thinks he's the best actor in the world."' This is the story of a diverse and multi-talented actor's eventful life, told in his own candid and vibrant words.

Spectacle Secrets

Author : George Cox (optician.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacle Secrets written by George Cox (optician.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spectacles and Eyeglasses

Author : Richard Jones Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacles and Eyeglasses written by Richard Jones Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spectaclænia; or the sight restored ... and preserved by the use of spectacles, etc

Author : John Thomas HUDSON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Spectaclænia; or the sight restored ... and preserved by the use of spectacles, etc written by John Thomas HUDSON and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spectacles

Author : Jules Sichel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Spectacles written by Jules Sichel and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity

Author : Paul Christesen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444339524
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity written by Paul Christesen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity presents a series of essays that apply a socio-historical perspective to myriad aspects of ancient sport and spectacle. Covers the Bronze Age to the Byzantine Empire Includes contributions from a range of international scholars with various Classical antiquity specialties Goes beyond the usual concentrations on Olympia and Rome to examine sport in cities and territories throughout the Mediterranean basin Features a variety of illustrations, maps, end-of-chapter references, internal cross-referencing, and a detailed index to increase accessibility and assist researchers

The Optical Journal and Review of Optometry. ...

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Optical Journal and Review of Optometry. ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An essay on Visual Glasses, vulgarly called spectacles, wherein it is shewn, ... that the common structure of those glasses is contrary to the rules of art, ... and very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed ... Illustrated by a ... copper-plate print. (Directions for the use of the general apparatus of optical instruments.).

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Author : Benjamin MARTIN (Optician)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis An essay on Visual Glasses, vulgarly called spectacles, wherein it is shewn, ... that the common structure of those glasses is contrary to the rules of art, ... and very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed ... Illustrated by a ... copper-plate print. (Directions for the use of the general apparatus of optical instruments.). by : Benjamin MARTIN (Optician)

Download or read book An essay on Visual Glasses, vulgarly called spectacles, wherein it is shewn, ... that the common structure of those glasses is contrary to the rules of art, ... and very prejudicial to the eyes; the nature of vision in the eye explained, and glasses of a new construction proposed ... Illustrated by a ... copper-plate print. (Directions for the use of the general apparatus of optical instruments.). written by Benjamin MARTIN (Optician) and published by . This book was released on 1756 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: