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A longstanding misconception surrounding the term French noir
suggests that the post-war French thriller and film noir were a
development of, or response to, a pre-existing American tradition.
This book challenges this misconception, examining the complexity
of this trans-Atlantic exchange and refocusing debate to include a
Franco-French lineage.
Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion brings together tales from the
light and dark sides of steampunk. Living ghosts, walking ferns and
ingenious androids populate visions of the city of Bristol at once
familiar and peculiar. Above them soar magnificent men, and women,
in their flying machines. Whether they are seeking release, revenge
or adventure, the characters in these stories will draw you down
the side-streets of Bristol to the brass and steam-filled worlds
you never dreamed were there. "As rich and varied as the true
history of this great British city" - Gareth L. Powell
Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion brings together tales from the
light and dark sides of steampunk. Living ghosts, walking ferns and
ingenious androids populate visions of the city of Bristol at once
familiar and peculiar. Above them soar magnificent men, and women,
in their flying machines. Whether they are seeking release, revenge
or adventure, the characters in these stories will draw you down
the side-streets of Bristol to the brass and steam-filled worlds
you never dreamed were there. "As rich and varied as the true
history of this great British city" - Gareth L. Powell
This is the extraordinary true story of one family's faith in the
face of crisis; a true testament of courage, determination,
forgiveness, and love. Surviving a horrific motor vehicle accident,
they can witness that God is found in the deepest valley. In the
face of suffering and separation, they could choose to be
overwhelmed by their problems or by faith, rise up above them.
Three Times Dead but Still Alive is an inspirational story that
will challenge you to think differently about your trials and
strengthen your walk with God. All things are possible. Only
believe.
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from
its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from
conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach
to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters
reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play
in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at
military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of
industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary
mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national
context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this
period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population
growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males,
rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional
women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical
yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah
Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of
an array of male and female character-types: moving past the
celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic
narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book
re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot,
Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of
sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to
create an illuminating study of the intense human passions
underlying the cut-throat world of noir.
French film noir has long been seen as a phenomenon distinct from
its Hollywood counterpart. This book - an innovative departure from
conventional noir scholarship - now adopts a biocultural approach
to exploring the French genre through the years 1941-1959. Chapters
reveal noir as a product of the social and cultural factors at play
in occupied, liberated and post-war France: marked by malaise at
military defeat, Nazi collaboration and the impact of
industrialisation. Furthermore, the book uncovers the evolutionary
mechanisms of sexuality and reproduction beneath the national
context that drive gendered behaviour on screen. During this
period, for example, the emerging urgent demand for population
growth, coupled with the severe shortage of eligible males,
rendered the mating game particularly perilous for traditional
women beginning to enter the workplace. This explains the cynical
yet seductive behaviour of the femme fatale. Deborah
Walker-Morrison focuses on the dangerous, often deadly, desires of
an array of male and female character-types: moving past the
celebrated, fatal `femme' to tragic heroines, psychopathic
narcissists, fatal `hommes' and gangster anti-heroes. The book
re-examines productions by directors such as Henri-Georges Clouzot,
Jacques Becker and Jules Dassin and pulls together strands of
sociological, biological, psychological and evolutionary science to
create an illuminating study of the cut-throat world of noir.
The landscape of cancer treatment is continually changing, with an
increasing number of antineoplastic agents available. Beyond
classical chemotherapy, treatment can involve multiple classes of
therapies, such as immune check- point inhibitors, hormonal agents,
small molecule inhibitors, and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell
therapy. This fourth edition of Clinical Guide to Antineoplastic
Therapy: A Chemotherapy Handbook provides a detailed overview of
the mechanisms, side effects, and administration of myriad
treatments to assist clinicians in providing comprehensive care to
patients with cancer. In addition to an expanded section of more
than 200 drug monographs, this book covers essential topics related
to cancer treatment, including venous access devices, complementary
and alternative therapies, common treatment regimens, survivorship
care, and stem cell transplantation. This book is a must-have
resource for clinicians in any care setting.
Nights of Storytelling is the first book to present and
contextualize the founding texts of New Caledonia, a country sui
generis in the relatively little-known French Pacific. Extracts
from literary, ethnographic, and historical works in English
translation introduce the many voices of a diverse culture as it
moves toward "independence" or the "common destiny" framed by the
1998 Noumea Agreements. These texts reflect the coexistence of two
major cultures, indigenous and European, shaped by the energies and
shadows of empire and significantly influenced by one another. From
the founding stories of Kanak oral tradition to the contradictory
reports by Cook and d'Entrecasteaux, from the accounts of the
French colony's difficult first destiny as a penal settlement to
the construction of settler mythologies, the book investigates the
nature of overlapping spaces created by cultural contact between
Europe and the Pacific. The final section focuses on the literary
effervescence of the contemporary period and its revisiting of
colonial histories in the difficult movement toward a national
identity. Historical romances describe the harshness of life for
freed convicts, the impossibility of love between a liberated
prisoner and a free settler. Sagas of late-nineteenth-century
indentured laborers seeking a living on the nickel-rich main island
speak similarly of physical struggle, sacrifice, and ultimately, of
contribution to the country's development and the right to a place
in the new land. Kanak texts disseminate that community's oral
culture and largely silenced voice through the printed word. In a
world still moving from colonial to postcolonial frames, the
engagement of these works with vital contemporary questions of
historical legacy, legitimacy, and cultural hybridity is intensely
political. Aesthetics is a political ethics as the different
communities of New Caledonia experiment with artistic and textual
forms to write their distinctive place in the land. Nights of
Storytelling is a collaborative work complemented by La nuit des
contes, a subtitled DVD of images and text, which features key
works read or spoken, generally in the original French. It provides
visual and aural access for the book's Anglophone readers to the
specific cultural, linguistic, and geographic contexts of these
historical and literary works.
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