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Closet 2018 (Paperback): Elizabeth Glickfeld, Anna Bates Closet 2018 (Paperback)
Elizabeth Glickfeld, Anna Bates; Designed by Sara De Bondt, Mark El-khatib; Text written by Alice Twemlow, …
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Essayism (Paperback): Brian Dillon Essayism (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
R375 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R37 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants above all to wander, but also to arrive at symmetry and wholeness; it nurses competing urges to integrity and disarray, perfection and fragmentation, confession and invention. How to write about essays and essayists while staying true to these contradictions? Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and contemporary possibilities. It's an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive, exacting yet evasive, a form that would instruct, seduce and mystify in equal measure. Among the essayists to whom he pays tribute - from Virginia Woolf to Georges Perec, Joan Didion to Sir Thomas Browne - Brian Dillon discovers a path back into his own life as a reader, and out of melancholia to a new sense of writing as adventure.

Suppose a Sentence (Paperback): Brian Dillon Suppose a Sentence (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
R324 R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Save R30 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon turns his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence - from Shakespeare to Gertrude Stein, John Ruskin to Joan Didion - the book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature. Whether the sentence in question is a rigorous expression of a state of vulnerability, extremity, even madness, or a carefully calibrated arrangement, Dillon examines not only how it works and why but also, in the course of the book, what the sentence once was, what it is today, and what it might become tomorrow.

Affinities (Paperback): Brian Dillon Affinities (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
R410 R372 Discovery Miles 3 720 Save R38 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, this book is first of all about images that have stayed with the author over many years, or grown in significance during months of pandemic isolation, when the visual field had shrunk. Some are historical works by artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Dora Maar, Claude Cahun, Samuel Beckett and Andy Warhol. Others are scientific or vernacular images: sea creatures, migraine auras, astronomical illustrations derived from dreams. Also family photographs, film stills, records of atomic ruin. And contemporary art by Rinko Kawauchi, Susan Hiller and John Stezaker. Written as a series of linked essays, interwoven with a reflection on affinity itself, Affinities is an extraordinary book about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.

Mie Olise Kjaergaard and Bernd Behr (Paperback): Mike Sperlinger, Brian Dillon Mie Olise Kjaergaard and Bernd Behr (Paperback)
Mike Sperlinger, Brian Dillon
R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Central European Industry in the Information Age (Paperback): Hans Van Zon, Brian Dillon, Jerzy Hausner, Dorota Kwieciska Central European Industry in the Information Age (Paperback)
Hans Van Zon, Brian Dillon, Jerzy Hausner, Dorota Kwieciska
R997 Discovery Miles 9 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. It explores quantitative and qualitative overviews of the current state of affairs with respect to computer-networking in industry, and examines prospects and obstacles.

Central European Industry in the Information Age (Hardcover): Hans Van Zon, Brian Dillon, Jerzy Hausner, Dorota Kwieciska Central European Industry in the Information Age (Hardcover)
Hans Van Zon, Brian Dillon, Jerzy Hausner, Dorota Kwieciska
R2,997 Discovery Miles 29 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This title was first published in 2000: A study of the diffusion and effective use of ICT in industry in Hungary, Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine. It explores quantitative and qualitative overviews of the current state of affairs with respect to computer-networking in industry, and examines prospects and obstacles.

In the Dark Room (Paperback): Brian Dillon In the Dark Room (Paperback)
Brian Dillon; Foreword by Frances Wilson
R384 R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Save R34 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was on the cusp of adulthood and of trying, after a breakdown some years later, to piece things together. Drawing on the lessons of centuries of literature, philosophy and visual art, Dillon interprets the relics of his parents and of his childhood in a singularly original and arresting piece of writing reissued for the first time since its original publication in 2005, and including a new foreword from prize-winning biographer Frances Wilson.

Essayism - On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction (Paperback): Brian Dillon Essayism - On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
R458 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Objects in This Mirror (Paperback): Brian Dillon Objects in This Mirror (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
R656 Discovery Miles 6 560 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
David Noonan - A Dark and Quiet Place (Paperback): Brian Dillon David Noonan - A Dark and Quiet Place (Paperback)
Brian Dillon; Artworks by David Noonan
R912 R801 Discovery Miles 8 010 Save R111 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hypochondriacs (Paperback): Brian Dillon The Hypochondriacs (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
R452 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Charlotte Bronte found in her illnesses, real and imagined, an escape from familial and social duties, and the perfect conditions for writing. The German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber believed his body was being colonized and transformed at the hands of God and doctors alike. Andy Warhol was terrified by disease and by the idea of disease. Glenn Gould claimed a friendly pat on his shoulder had destroyed his ability to play piano. And we all know someone who has trawled the Internet in solitude, seeking to pinpoint the source of his or her fantastical symptoms.
"The Hypochondriacs "is a book about fear and hope, illness and imagination, despair and creativity. It explores, in the stories of nine individuals, the relationship between mind and body as it is mediated by the experience, or simply the terror, of being ill. And, in an intimate investigation of those lives, it shows how the mind can make a prison of the body by distorting our sense of ourselves as physical beings. Through witty, entertaining, and often moving examinations of the lives of these eminent hypochondriacs--James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Alice James, Daniel Paul Schreber, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould, and Andy Warhol--Brian Dillon brilliantly unravels the tortuous connections between real and imagined illness, irrational fear and rational concern, the mind's aches and the body's ideas.

Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis and Disaster Management (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Brian Dillon Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis and Disaster Management (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Brian Dillon; Edited by (consulting) Ian Dickinson, John Williams, Keith Still
R1,201 Discovery Miles 12 010 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Blackstone's Emergency Planning, Crisis, and Disaster Management is a practical guide for those involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness, resilience, and response. Primarily focused on the requirements of the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, it has been developed from the highly regarded Emergency Planning Officers' Handbook.
The complete toolkit for anyone involved in emergency planning, business continuity, and resilience management, this must-have guide offers a comprehensive, chronological guide to each stage of emergency planning, from creating a plan or exercise through to setting up a control room and debriefing for future improvement and development. There is also full coverage of how the emergency response is managed by each of the main agencies involved, helping you to gain a greater understanding of what to expect from each agency and the individuals participating, so they can be better integrated into an exercise or plan. Overviews at the start of each chapter, key point and top tip boxes, as well as tasks and flowcharts provide you with the complete reference, whether you are beginning your emergency planning or simply need to refresh your memory as you initiate an exercise.

Tormented Hope - Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Paperback): Brian Dillon Tormented Hope - Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Paperback)
Brian Dillon
R458 R413 Discovery Miles 4 130 Save R45 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'It's so good that, after reading it, I needed a lie-down' - Hilary Mantel, Guardian Books of the Year Brian Dillon looks at nine prominent hypochondriacs - James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Daniel Paul Schreber, Alice James, Marcel Proust, Glenn Gould and Andy Warhol - and what their lives tell us about the way the mind works with, and against, the body. His findings are stimulating and surprising, and the stories he tells are often moving, sometimes hilarious, and always gripping. With a new afterword on Michael Jackson. Brian Dillon's first book, In the Dark Room, won the Irish Book Award for Non-fiction in 2006. He lives in Canterbury.

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