One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde character of the city during the cosmopolitan Jazz Age, delving into the cultural forces that flourished in Europe between the late 1910s and early 1930s. Studying literary journalism, photography, and the city of Barc...

The Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of “occupancy.” By examining the various ways in which the hotel is manifested in art, photography, and film, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space.As a site of occupancy, the hotel has provided continued creative inspiration for artists from Monet and Hopper, to genre filmmakers like Hitchcock and Sofia Coppola. While the rich symbolic importance of the hotel m...

Bud Davidson recalls his own 25 years of volunteering. Using interviews, the story builds on the experiences of many others that led a small weekend fly-in to become an international multi-million dollar event. Sources include little known debates that are documented in the minutes of Board and Executive Committee meetings. He has compiled a record of the transition from a small membership convention to an internationally recognized exposition some consider the second largest aviation even...

Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to pulp magazines.Now, his estate and his friends have brought together a definitive collection of his finest work, each story introduced by an SF luminary: writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson, Poul Anderson, Gene Wolfe, Guy Davenport, Peter S. Beagle, Gregory Benford, Thomas M. Disch, and dozens of others....

· Publishers Weekly 'Listen Up' Award Winner · ForeWord Magazine's 'Audiobook of the Year' Winner · AFIM Indie Award Winner · Independent Publisher Magazine’s ‘IPPY Award’ Finalist. Epic--a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen...

“You cannot wash red dirt out of clothing, and you cannot unsee what you have seen.” Retired Detective Lt. Robbo Davidson grapples with ghosts of cases past, one victim or another looming in the blackness over his bed, denying him sleep. At last, Robbo resolves to lend voice to these ghosts conceding, “I think if I do not, the evil I have seen may never let me sleep.”Set in DeSoto Parish between bayous and the Big Woods, The Evil I Have Seen was awarded the Gold Medal as ...

On a wind lashed coast in the far north a group of men assemble on a construction site. The Ness and Struie Drainage Project will dominate their lives for the next few months when they will toil through the daylight hours and into the night, endure hardship and conflict, survive or, perhaps, not survive. Within the compound and wayleaves a new, temporary world will form, bounded by sea, mountains and sky. Site Works is the story of the men and their work, transients creating something perm...

Robert Davidson was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in October 2007 after having difficulties with the fitness test necessary to retain senior level soccer referee status. Rather than give in to the disease and die, he decided to fight and live as normal a life as possible, borrowing from Winston Churchill, the mantra “Never surrender”. He and his wife, Heather, believe it was this attitude that led to him “winning” a double lung transplant January 30, 2010, just weeks before he ...

Glucosamine For Dogs And Other Pets" was written by a dog lover for other dog lovers who have concerns their pet's health. My own Lab was having joint problems and I had heard about glucosamine. Before going to the Vet I decided to educate myself as I am the kind of person that really needs to understand issues about my best friend and companion. Surprisingly, I had a tough time finding information about glucosamine for dogs.

Glucosamine for Dogs and Other Pets was written by a dog lover for other dog lovers who have concerns their pet's health. My own Lab was having joint problems and I had heard about glucosamine. Before going to the Vet I decided to educate myself as I am the kind of person that really needs to understand issues about my best friend and companion. Surprisingly, I had a tough time finding information about glucosamine for dogs. This eBook includes dogs, horses and cats. Not only did we includ...

Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers.The pulp era is coming back.Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction.Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up with Misha Burnett to compile a selection of e...

[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles, individuals and places involved in the Indian Mutiny]Colonel MacKenzie was only a young subaltern of three years' service when the great Sepoy Mutiny broke out in 1857. His regiment, the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry stationed in Meerut, was one of the worst effected and he and his fellow British officers had to fight for their lives as the native soldiers rioted. Having escaped narrowly from his erstwhile sol...