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Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading
directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most
influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been
selected because of their cinematic vision, because they have a
particular way of seeing the world and of filming it. All have
created a body of work which is both hugely popular and critically
acclaimed. This truly global range of directors hails from
Australia, Britain, China and Hong Kong, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, North America,
Poland, and Russia. Together, these illuminating interviews reveal
how these visionary directors create images which speak to
audiences the world over. The interviews are with: Bernardo
Bertolucci, John Boorman, Robert Bresson, Jane Campion, John
Cassavetes, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Federico Fellini,
Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Hou Hsiao-hsien,
Wong Kar-wei, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof
Kieslowski, Takeshi Kitano, Im Kwon-taek, Mike Leigh, Manoel de
Oliveira, Satyajit Ray, Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky, Lars von
Trier, Zhang Yimou
City of Panic takes the reader on a journey across the airy
boulevards of Paris and into the crypt of its Metro. For Virilio,
whose sense of cities was formed by earlier wars, Paris is both the
City of Light and the City of Panic. Written in the shadow of war,
City of Panic argues that cities everywhere have been the dedicated
target of political and technological terror throughout the 20th
century. The wanton erasure of the past, the construction of
identikit places, the proliferation of gated-communities, the
ever-widening net of surveillance, the privatisation of what was
public ...Now every metropolis is a war zone and every metropolis
is the same. In this globalized and militarized everywhere, all
citizens are becoming one citizen - saturated, standardized and
synchronized - ever-more reliant on a media fabricating a world of
fear. For the panic of the 21st century is simply the final phase
of the pincer movement. Place-less, media-fed, panic-struck -
welcome to the desert of the real.
In a series of televised interviews in spring 2022, Bruno Latour
explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have
changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic
part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all
life depends on a thin skin of our planet that is only few
kilometres thick – what scientists call the ‘critical
zone’. Our capacity to continue to live on a planet we are
transforming is now at risk and if we wish to survive as a species,
we must put an end to the mechanisms of destruction, rethink our
connection to living beings and face head-on the confrontation
between the extractivists who are exploiting the Earth’s
resources and the ecologists. This poignant reflection on
the greatest challenge of our time is also an opportunity for
Latour to explain the underlying thread that guided his work
throughout his career, from his pathbreaking research on the social
construction of scientific knowledge to his last writings on the
Anthropocene.
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Doctor Pascal (Paperback)
Emile Zola; Translated by Julie Rose; Edited by Brian Nelson
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'There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the
vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the river
of life itself' Pascal Rougon has served as a doctor in the rural
French town of Plassans for thirty years. He lives a quiet life
with his faithful servant Martine and young niece Clotilde. Pascal
is a man of science, striving to find the ultimate cure for all
diseases. This puts him at odds with his niece, who is horrified by
his denial of religious faith. Clotilde also distrusts Pascal's
lifelong ambition to create a family tree on scientific principles,
based upon his theories of heredity. Tensions in the household are
fuelled by Pascal's scheming mother, Felicite, as the final episode
in the great Rougon-Macquart saga plays out. Dr Pascal is the
passionate conclusion to Zola's twenty-novel sequence, and the most
eloquent expression of the ideas on heredity and human progress
that have underpinned it. Human relations are at its heart, as
Pascal and Clotilde are bound ever closer by ties of family and
love.
In a series of televised interviews in spring 2022, Bruno Latour
explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have
changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic
part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all
life depends on a thin skin of our planet that is only few
kilometres thick – what scientists call the ‘critical
zone’. Our capacity to continue to live on a planet we are
transforming is now at risk and if we wish to survive as a species,
we must put an end to the mechanisms of destruction, rethink our
connection to living beings and face head-on the confrontation
between the extractivists who are exploiting the Earth’s
resources and the ecologists. This poignant reflection on
the greatest challenge of our time is also an opportunity for
Latour to explain the underlying thread that guided his work
throughout his career, from his pathbreaking research on the social
construction of scientific knowledge to his last writings on the
Anthropocene.
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Earth (Paperback)
Emile Zola; Edited by Brian Nelson; Translated by Julie Rose
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'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit
murder for her.' Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the
Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest
achievements, comparable to Germinal and L'Assommoir. Set in a
village in the Beauce, in northern France, it depicts the harshness
of the peasants' world and their visceral attachment to the land.
Jean Macquart, a veteran of the battle of Solferino and now an
itinerant farm labourer, is drawn into the affairs of the Fouan
family when he starts courting young Francoise. He becomes involved
in a bitter dispute over the property of Papa Fouan when the old
man divides his land between his three children. Resentment turns
to greed and violence in a Darwinian battle for supremacy. Zola's
unflinching depiction of the savagery of peasant life shocked his
readers, and led to attacks on Naturalism's literary agenda. This
new translation captures the novel's blend of brutality and
lyricism in its evocation of the inexorable cycle of the natural
world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics
has made available the widest range of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Les Miserables (Paperback)
Victor Hugo; Introduction by Adam Thirlwell; Translated by Julie Rose
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Read the masterful story of romance and revolution behind the hit
BBC TV series. Les Miserables is a novel peopled by colourful
characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the
street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the
story of escaped convict Jean Valjean, and his efforts to reform
his ways and care for the little orphan girl he rescues from a life
of cruelty, Victor Hugo drew attention to the plight of the poor
and oppressed. Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement
and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les
Miserables is one of the greatest stories ever told. NOW A MAJOR
BBC TV ADAPTATION STARRING DOMINIC WEST, OLIVIA COLEMAN AND DAVID
OYELOWO 'There are plenty of translations of this extensive,
exuberant novel that cut out anything superfluous. But God is in
the detail...This is the one to read' Jeanette Winterson
'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh
45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so
begins Andre Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived
with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him.
As one of France's leading post-war philosophers, Andre Gorz
wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as
widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful
letter to his dying wife.
In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was
published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked
the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. Andre Gorz and
his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side
by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not
live without one another.
An international bestseller, "Letter to D" is the ultimate love
story - and all the more poignant because it's true.
Paul Virilio is one of contemporary continental thought's most
original and provocative critical voices. His vision of the impact
of modern technology on the contemporary global condition is
powerful and disturbing, ranging over art, architecture, science,
politics, visual culture and warfare. In Art and Fear, Virilio
traces the twin development of art and science over the 20th
century. In his provocative vision, art and science vie with each
other for the destruction of the human form as we know it. This is
a radical take on the state of art for a post-human and
post-historical world. In Art as Far as the Eye Can See Virilio
considers the effects that the technological advances of the 20th
century have had on art, aesthetics and politics and looks at the
way in which these technologies alienate us from our physical
environment.
Therapeutic deep play has the capacity for children to express deep
emotions, overcome seemingly insurmountable issues and resolve
serious problems. Working with children in this profound way,
therapists are able to not only eliminate symptoms, but to change
the very structure of how children live with themselves, their
defense and belief systems. The contributors to this book all work
deeply, allowing children to take risks in a safe environment, and
become fully absorbed in physical play. Chapters include play with
deep sandboxes, clay, water, and various objects, and look at a
range of pertinent case studies to demonstrate the therapeutic
techniques in practice, alongside the theoretical concepts in which
they are grounded. A new theoretical approach is established that
takes from psychoanalysis as well as neuroscience and behaviourism,
and offers a depth psychology approach in the treatment of
children. This will be a valuable resource for anyone working
therapeutically with children through play, including play
therapists, psychotherapists, psychologists, arts therapists,
counsellors, social workers and family therapists.
Paul Virilio puts art back where it matters - at the centre of
politics. Art used to be an engagement between artist and
materials. But in our new media world art has changed, its very
materials have changed and have become technologized. This change
reflects a broader social shift. Speed and politics - what Virilio
defined as the key characteristics of the twentieth century - have
been transformed in the twenty-first century to speed and mass
culture. And the defining characteristic of mass culture today is
panic. This induced panic relies on a new, all-seeing technology.
And the first casualty of this is the human response. What we are
losing is the very human 'art of seeing', one individual's
engagement with another or with an event, be that political or
artistic. What we are losing is our sense of the aesthetic. Where
art used to talk of the aesthetics of disappearance, it must now
confront the disappearance of the aesthetic.
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The Wish (Paperback)
Julie Rose Starkey; Illustrated by Sandra Starkey Simon, Fanny Retsek
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Sassy Cat (Paperback)
Julie Rose
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Rexie #2 (Paperback)
Julie Rose; David Fletcher
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"Art as Far as the Eye Can See" puts art back where it matters --
at the center of politics. Art used to be an engagement between
artist and materials but it has now become technologized. Its
materials have become light rather than matter. In the 21st Century
the new battleground is art as light versus art as matter. Virilio
argues that this change reflects how speed and politics - the
defining characteristics of the 20th Century - have been
transformed in the 21st Century to speed and mass culture. Politics
has been replaced with mass culture...and the defining
characteristic of mass culture today is cold panic. The same panic
which has used terrorism to derail democracy has hijacked the whole
art enterprise. This panic is reliant on audio-visual technology to
create a new all-seeing, panoptic politics. And the first casualty
of this politics is "the art of seeing." Where art used to talk of
the aesthetics of disappearance, it must now confront the
disappearance of the aesthetic. In the 21st Century, the new
battleground is art as light versus art as matter.
This unique book triggers the imagination. With a combination of
striking images and powerful words it leads the reader into
visualizations that enable relaxation, release and insights that
improve ones sense of well-being. If you usually struggle with
meditation, try this!
From Noah's Ark to Diller + Scofidio's "Blur" Building, a
distinguished art historian maps new ways to think about
architecture's origin and development. Trained as an art historian
but viewing architecture from the perspective of a "displaced
philosopher," Hubert Damisch in these essays offers a meticulous
parsing of language and structure to "think architecture in a
different key," as Anthony Vidler puts it in his introduction.
Drawn to architecture because it provides "an open series of
structural models," Damisch examines the origin of architecture and
then its structural development from the nineteenth through the
twenty-first centuries. He leads the reader from Jean-Francois
Blondel to Eugene Viollet-le-Duc to Mies van der Rohe to Diller +
Scofidio, with stops along the way at the Temple of Jerusalem,
Vitruvius's De Architectura, and the Louvre. In the title essay,
Damisch moves easily from Diderot's Encylopedie to Noah's Ark
(discussing the provisioning, access, floor plan) to the Pan
American Building to Le Corbusier to Ground Zero. Noah's Ark marks
the origin of construction, and thus of architecture itself.
Diderot's Encylopedie entry on architecture followed his entry on
Noah's Ark; architecture could only find its way after the Flood.
In these thirteen essays, written over a span of forty years,
Damisch takes on other histories and theories of architecture to
trace a unique trajectory of architectural structure and thought.
The essays are, as Vidler says, "a set of exercises" in thinking
about architecture.
Film World brings together key interviews with cinema's leading
directors. The directors chosen represent many of the most
influential film-makers of the last 50 years. All have been
selected because of their cinematic vision, because they have a
particular way of seeing the world and of filming it. All have
created a body of work which is both hugely popular and critically
acclaimed. This truly global range of directors hails from
Australia, Britain, China and Hong Kong, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, North America,
Poland, and Russia. Together, these illuminating interviews reveal
how these visionary directors create images which speak to
audiences the world over. The interviews are with: Bernardo
Bertolucci, John Boorman, Robert Bresson, Jane Campion, John
Cassavetes, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Federico Fellini,
Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Hou Hsiao-hsien,
Wong Kar-wei, Aki Kaurismaki, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof
Kieslowski, Takeshi Kitano, Im Kwon-taek, Mike Leigh, Manoel de
Oliveira, Satyajit Ray, Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky, Lars von
Trier, Zhang Yimou
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