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Before they became two of America's most iconic pop artists, Andy
Warhol and Robert Indiana were young aspiring creatives, living in
New York. There, they met and befriended William John Kennedy, who
would take some of the first photographs of these artists in their
career. Many photographers worked with Andy Warhol, but few so
early on in his career or in a such a uniquely collaborative
fashion. After establishing a friendship with Robert Indiana and
taking some of the first, important close-up images of him in his
studio, Kennedy went on to work in a similarly creative way with
Warhol. These striking images of the young Warhol and Indiana were
lost for nearly 50 years before being rediscovered. They were
immediately recognised as important documents by the Warhol Museum
and by Robert Indiana, and presented in the Before they were Famous
exhibition, which travelled to London and New York. The story of
the re-discovery of these photographs was made into an acclaimed
documentary in 2010 - Full Circle: Before They Were Famous,
Documentary on William John Kennedy. William John Kennedy: The Lost
Archive: Photographs of Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana will be the
first of William John Kennedy's books devoted solely to the time he
spent with Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana. The book features
pictures of both artists as well as images of Taylor Mead,
UltraViolet and other members of Warhol's circle.
This book examines how Russia's entrepreneurs operate in a business
environment beset with risk and uncertainty. The challenges they
may encounter include an unreliable judicial system, insecure
property rights, arbitrary interference from officials, as well as
corruption, harassment, suspicion and violence. Based on extensive
original research, including fieldwork within three businesses,
this book explores how entrepreneurs survive and some thrive. It
focuses on the kind of obstacles they face from day to day, details
their motivations, rationale and methods, and describes the actual
relationship between ordinary entrepreneurs and the state,
providing new insights into business-state relations.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "A masterwork . . . the novel
astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a
grand comic fugue."--The New York Times Book Review A Confederacy
of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's
hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is huge, obese, fractious,
fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French
Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens
of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and
the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures (Henry Kisor,
Chicago Sun-Times).
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' 'My favourite
book of all time... it stays with you long after you have read it -
for your whole life, in fact' Billy Connolly A monument to sloth,
rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious
suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New
Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. The ordinary
folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged. Ignatius ignores
them, heaving his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble
crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a
nasty surprise in store for him: Ignatius must get a job.
Undaunted, he uses his new-found employment to further his mission
- and now he has a pirate costume and a hot-dog cart to do it
with... This stunning clothbound edition of John Kennedy Toole's
savagely funny, satirical masterpiece is designed by the acclaimed
Coralie-Bickford Smith. 'A pungent work of slapstick, satire and
intellectual incongruities ... it is nothing less than a grand
comic fugue' The New York Times
This practical guide was first published in 1776: in this reissue
of the two-volume 1777 second edition, the two volumes have been
bound in one book. John Kennedy (d.1790) was the gardener to Sir
Thomas Gascoigne, the owner of Parlington Hall in Yorkshire, and
his book is addressed to landowners and their head gardeners. His
concern is with 'the planting of poor wastes, moorlands, and
apparent mountains', as well as with hothouse plants such as
pineapples and vines, and delicacies including asparagus and
cultivated mushrooms. At the other end of the scale, he also
provides sections on field-cabbages, carrots and turnips as feed
for cattle. In each of these areas, he gives detailed descriptions
of the preparation of the ground, the tools needed, propagation
techniques, and the subsequent management of pests and diseases.
This is a fascinating treatise on the gardening skills needed on a
grand eighteenth-century agricultural estate.
John Kennedy Toole--who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his
best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces--wroteThe
Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The
manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal
battle among Toole's heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five years
after it was written and twenty years after Toole's suicide at
thirty-one, that this amazingly accomplished and evocative novel
was freed for publication.
A monument to sloth, rant and contempt, a behemoth of fat, flatulence and furious suspicion of anything modern - this is Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, noble crusader against a world of dunces. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh-pots of a fallen city, filling his Big Chief tablets with invective, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must go to work.
War hero, politician, President of the United States-- John
Fitzgerald Kennedy embodied the dreams and hopes of an age. This
handsome collection of nearly one hundred quotations captures the
wit and wisdom of one of America's best-loved Presidents.
Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy
of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by
countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years
after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print
worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John
Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print
edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most
memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom
Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat
Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New
Orleans, A confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose
essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life,
they leave the region and literature forever changed by their
presence-Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian
assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso;
Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry;
Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the
introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu
composed for the book's twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized
type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both
first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and
longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.
Few speakers of English have ever been able to read the Icelandic
sagas in the original language, and published saga translations
have played a major role in shaping attitudes towards Viking Age
Scandinavia and the great literary achievements of medieval Iceland
in the English-speaking world. This book is the first publication
to provide an extended examination of the history and development
of Icelandic saga translations into English from their beginnings
in the eighteenth century to today. It explores reasons for
undertaking saga translation, and the challenges confronting
translators. Chapters are devoted to the pioneering saga
translations, the later Victorian and Edwardian eras, the
often-neglected period of the two World Wars and their aftermath,
and the upsurge of saga translation in the second half of the
twentieth century. The contributions of individual translators and
teams are reviewed, from James Johnstone in the 1780s through major
Victorians such as Samuel Laing, George Webbe Dasent, and William
Morris, distinguished twentieth century figures such as Lee M.
Hollander, Gwyn Jones, Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson, and
George Johnston, and the great co-operative project which produced
The Complete Sagas of Icelanders at the century's end. The book
concludes with saga translation facing interesting new
possibilities and challenges, not least those generated by
information technology.
Released by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, A Confederacy
of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Rejected by
countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years
after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for
fiction. Today there are almost two million copies in print
worldwide in eighteen languages. Now, for the first time, John
Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print
edition. Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most
memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom
Walker Percy dubs "slob extraordinaire, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat
Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one." Set in New
Orleans, A confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose
essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life,
they leave the region and literature forever changed by their
presence-Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian
assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso;
Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry;
Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses. Included here is the
introduction that writer and New Orleans resident Andrei Codrescu
composed for the book's twentieth anniversary. Set in oversized
type for ease in reading, the large print edition will gratify both
first-timers seeking to discover this modern-day classic and
longtime afficionados wishing to reread a favorite novel.
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Nearing the end of a lifetime in the boreal forest, a retired
forester writes a passionate plea for rational, science-based
forest management. The boreal forest is constantly changing, often
dramatically. We like to picture it as a stable, balanced system.
Really, it is anything but stable. The boreal forest is dynamic.
For over sixty years, forester Malcolm F. Squires has seen mature
forests within protected areas devastated by insects, moose, wind,
and wildfire. While the forests often return from this destruction,
they are never quite the same. A naturally balanced boreal forest
is a human notion that does not match the reality of nature. If we
don’t soon recognize and accept that reality and stop making
irrational demands that a forest be “protected” from change or
human management, we may be dooming them to disaster.
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