Author: Maggie Groff
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466819804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
When freelance journalist Scout Davis learns that a dangerous American cult has moved to Australia, her investigative antenna start quivering. She sets out to expose the cult's lunatic beliefs, bizarre sexual practices and deadly doomsday preaching, and what she finds is every parent's nightmare. And when Scout learns the identity of a recent recruit her quest becomes personal. And dangerous. Set against the magnificent backdrops of Byron Bay - or as some would say, Bonking Bay - and the Gold Coast, the cult isn't the only cause for concern. Someone is cutting up the girls' undies at a posh co-ed school and Scout has agreed to look into it. Before long she dives headlong into the world of twenty-first century adolescents and discovers the sinister secret behind the vandalism. And it's not nice. Not at all.
Mad Men, Bad Girls and the Guerilla Knitters Institute
Author: Maggie Groff
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466819804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
When freelance journalist Scout Davis learns that a dangerous American cult has moved to Australia, her investigative antenna start quivering. She sets out to expose the cult's lunatic beliefs, bizarre sexual practices and deadly doomsday preaching, and what she finds is every parent's nightmare. And when Scout learns the identity of a recent recruit her quest becomes personal. And dangerous. Set against the magnificent backdrops of Byron Bay - or as some would say, Bonking Bay - and the Gold Coast, the cult isn't the only cause for concern. Someone is cutting up the girls' undies at a posh co-ed school and Scout has agreed to look into it. Before long she dives headlong into the world of twenty-first century adolescents and discovers the sinister secret behind the vandalism. And it's not nice. Not at all.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466819804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
When freelance journalist Scout Davis learns that a dangerous American cult has moved to Australia, her investigative antenna start quivering. She sets out to expose the cult's lunatic beliefs, bizarre sexual practices and deadly doomsday preaching, and what she finds is every parent's nightmare. And when Scout learns the identity of a recent recruit her quest becomes personal. And dangerous. Set against the magnificent backdrops of Byron Bay - or as some would say, Bonking Bay - and the Gold Coast, the cult isn't the only cause for concern. Someone is cutting up the girls' undies at a posh co-ed school and Scout has agreed to look into it. Before long she dives headlong into the world of twenty-first century adolescents and discovers the sinister secret behind the vandalism. And it's not nice. Not at all.
City of Saints and Madmen
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0374721157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . . By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 0374721157
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
From Jeff VanderMeer, the author of Borne and Annihilation, comes the paperback reissue of his cult classic City of Saints and Madmen. In this reinvention of the literature of the fantastic, you hold in your hands an invitation to a place unlike any you’ve ever visited—an invitation delivered by one of our most audacious and astonishing literary magicians. City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading—and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced that he’s made up a city called Ambergris, imagined its every last detail, and that he’s really from a place called Chicago . . . By turns sensuous and terrifying, filled with exotica and eroticism, this interwoven collection of stories, histories, and “eyewitness” reports invokes a universe within a puzzle box where you can lose—and find—yourself again.
The Shakespeare Symphony
Author: Harold Bayley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets
Author: Daniel B. Smith
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201103
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Smith presents the strange history of auditory hallucination and reevaluates the popular conception of the phenomenon today and through the ages. He reveals the roots of the medical understanding and treatment of it along with its relationship to the nature of pure faith.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201103
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Smith presents the strange history of auditory hallucination and reevaluates the popular conception of the phenomenon today and through the ages. He reveals the roots of the medical understanding and treatment of it along with its relationship to the nature of pure faith.
Ten Thousand Penises in Your Ear
Author: Wolf Larsen
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1413466990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Wolf Larsen has proudly completed one of the most bizarre novels ever written. In Ten Thousand Penises in Your Ear there is no plot and no main characters. This novel is the whole crazy world under the sun in one little book. Every phrase is alive with a screaming chaos, every page drips with a flowing sensuality, and every word thunders with violence. Ten Thousand Penises in Your Ear is a novel with a rhythm that jumps back and forth between a 12 tone Schoenberg scale to wild and crazy and fast free jazz. This book is as violent and chaotic as our planet. If all the world's maniacs were to write a novel together that book would resemble Ten Thousand Penises in Your Ear. The most exciting author's site on the World Wide Web: WolfLarsen.org & Unalaska.org
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1413466990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Wolf Larsen has proudly completed one of the most bizarre novels ever written. In Ten Thousand Penises in Your Ear there is no plot and no main characters. This novel is the whole crazy world under the sun in one little book. Every phrase is alive with a screaming chaos, every page drips with a flowing sensuality, and every word thunders with violence. Ten Thousand Penises in Your Ear is a novel with a rhythm that jumps back and forth between a 12 tone Schoenberg scale to wild and crazy and fast free jazz. This book is as violent and chaotic as our planet. If all the world's maniacs were to write a novel together that book would resemble Ten Thousand Penises in Your Ear. The most exciting author's site on the World Wide Web: WolfLarsen.org & Unalaska.org
America Hurrah
Author: Jean Claude Van Itallie
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822200246
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
THE STORIES: INTERVIEW. As Norman Nadel describes: Four masked, smiling interviewers interview a scrubwoman, a house painter, a banker and a lady's maid. It is commonplace and familiar enough, except that suddenly, the most innocent statements are
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822200246
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
THE STORIES: INTERVIEW. As Norman Nadel describes: Four masked, smiling interviewers interview a scrubwoman, a house painter, a banker and a lady's maid. It is commonplace and familiar enough, except that suddenly, the most innocent statements are
Orchestra of Exiles
Author: Josh Aronson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698195280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The compelling biography of the violinist who founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra and saved hundreds of people from Hitler—as seen in Josh Aronson’s documentary Orchestra of Exiles. “The true artist does not create art as an end in itself. He creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.”—Bronislaw Huberman At fourteen, Bronislaw Huberman played the Brahms Violin Concerto in Vienna— winning high praise from the composer himself, who was there. Instantly famous, Huberman began touring all over the world and received invitations to play for royalty across Europe. But after witnessing the tragedy of World War I, he committed his phenomenal talent and celebrity to aid humanity. After studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, Huberman joined the ranks of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in calling for peace through the Pan European Movement. But when hope for their noble vision was destroyed by the rise of Nazism, Huberman began a crusade that would become his greatest legacy—the creation, in 1936, of the Palestine Symphony, which twelve years later became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In creating this world-level orchestra, Huberman miraculously arranged for the very best Jewish musicians and their families to emigrate from Nazi-threatened territories. His tireless campaigning for the project—including a marathon fundraising concert tour across America—ultimately saved nearly a thousand Jews from the approaching Holocaust. Inviting the great Arturo Toscanini to conduct the orchestra’s first concert, Huberman’s clarion call of art over cruelty was heard around the world. His story contains estraordinary adventures, riches and royalty, politicians and broken promises, losses and triumphs. Against near impossible obstacles, Huberman refused to give up on his dream to create a unique and life-saving orchestra of exiles which was one of the great cultural achievements of the 20th century. Includes Photographs
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698195280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The compelling biography of the violinist who founded the Palestine Symphony Orchestra and saved hundreds of people from Hitler—as seen in Josh Aronson’s documentary Orchestra of Exiles. “The true artist does not create art as an end in itself. He creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.”—Bronislaw Huberman At fourteen, Bronislaw Huberman played the Brahms Violin Concerto in Vienna— winning high praise from the composer himself, who was there. Instantly famous, Huberman began touring all over the world and received invitations to play for royalty across Europe. But after witnessing the tragedy of World War I, he committed his phenomenal talent and celebrity to aid humanity. After studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, Huberman joined the ranks of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in calling for peace through the Pan European Movement. But when hope for their noble vision was destroyed by the rise of Nazism, Huberman began a crusade that would become his greatest legacy—the creation, in 1936, of the Palestine Symphony, which twelve years later became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In creating this world-level orchestra, Huberman miraculously arranged for the very best Jewish musicians and their families to emigrate from Nazi-threatened territories. His tireless campaigning for the project—including a marathon fundraising concert tour across America—ultimately saved nearly a thousand Jews from the approaching Holocaust. Inviting the great Arturo Toscanini to conduct the orchestra’s first concert, Huberman’s clarion call of art over cruelty was heard around the world. His story contains estraordinary adventures, riches and royalty, politicians and broken promises, losses and triumphs. Against near impossible obstacles, Huberman refused to give up on his dream to create a unique and life-saving orchestra of exiles which was one of the great cultural achievements of the 20th century. Includes Photographs
Orchestra of Exiles Deluxe
Author: Josh Aronson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399584153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The compelling biography of the violinist who founded the symphony that became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and saved hundreds of people from Hitler—as seen in Josh Aronson’s documentary Orchestra of Exiles. At fourteen, Bronislaw Huberman played the Brahms Violin Concerto in Vienna—winning high praise from the composer himself, sparking his legendary career as a musical superstar. But after witnessing the tragedy of World War I, Huberman joined the ranks of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in calling for peace through the Pan-European Movement. When hope for their noble vision was destroyed by the rise of Nazism, Huberman began a crusade that would become his greatest legacy—the creation, in 1936, of the Palestine Symphony, which twelve years later became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. This deluxe digital edition of Orchestra of Exiles features exclusive video extras, including an interview with author and filmmaker Josh Aronson, as well as scholars, renowned musicians and conductors including Itzhak Perlman, current members of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, and others who discuss the inspiration, impact, and historical context of Bronislaw Huberman's life-saving mission. Also included is the Orchestra of Exiles PBS movie trailer.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399584153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The compelling biography of the violinist who founded the symphony that became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and saved hundreds of people from Hitler—as seen in Josh Aronson’s documentary Orchestra of Exiles. At fourteen, Bronislaw Huberman played the Brahms Violin Concerto in Vienna—winning high praise from the composer himself, sparking his legendary career as a musical superstar. But after witnessing the tragedy of World War I, Huberman joined the ranks of Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein in calling for peace through the Pan-European Movement. When hope for their noble vision was destroyed by the rise of Nazism, Huberman began a crusade that would become his greatest legacy—the creation, in 1936, of the Palestine Symphony, which twelve years later became the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. This deluxe digital edition of Orchestra of Exiles features exclusive video extras, including an interview with author and filmmaker Josh Aronson, as well as scholars, renowned musicians and conductors including Itzhak Perlman, current members of the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, and others who discuss the inspiration, impact, and historical context of Bronislaw Huberman's life-saving mission. Also included is the Orchestra of Exiles PBS movie trailer.
The Musical World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Symphony Program
Author: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Concert programs
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description