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At The End Of The Century
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Author : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2019-06-11
At The End Of The Century written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-11 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize–winning author, with an introduction by Anita Desai Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. In this selection of stories, chosen by her surviving family, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three (sometimes interacting) cultures—European, post–Independence Indian, and American—is never more acute. In “A Course of English Studies,” a young woman arrives at Oxford from India and struggles to adapt, not only to the sad, stoic object of her infatuation, but also to a country that seems so resistant to passion and color. In the wrenching “Expiation,” the blind, unconditional love of a cloth shop owner for his wastrel younger brother exposes the tragic beauty and foolishness of human compassion and faith. The wry and triumphant “Pagans” brings us middle–aged sisters Brigitte and Frankie in Los Angeles, who discover a youthful sexuality in the company of the languid and handsome young Indian, Shoki. This collection also includes Jhabvala’s last story, “The Judge’s Will,” which appeared in The New Yorker in 2013 after her death. The profound inner experience of both men and women is at the center of Jhabvala’s writing: she rivals Jane Austen with her impeccable powers of observation. With an introduction by her friend, the writer Anita Desai, At the End of the Century celebrates a writer’s astonishing lifetime gift for language, and leaves us with no doubt of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s unique place in modern literature. "The stories—all of them elegantly plotted and unsentimental, with an addictive, told–over–tea quality—are largely character studies of people isolated, often tragically, by custom or self–delusion . . . Vivid, unsparing portraits are leavened with the kind of humanizing moments that evoke a total world within their compression."—Megan O’Grady, The New York Times Book Review
Privatization At The End Of The Century
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Author : Herbert Giersch
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Privatization At The End Of The Century written by Herbert Giersch and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Business & Economics categories.
At the end of the century, privatization has become a worldwide phenomenon. It is taking place in what was once called the first, the second, and the third world. The volume mirrors this expansion of privatization. In Part I on the economics of privatization, historical, theoretical, and politico-economic issues are covered. In Part II country studies are presented for China, the Czech Republic, Eastern Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Russia and the United Kingdom. In Part III a broader view on privatization is taken by including deregulation and the private provision of public goods and services.The book contains contributions by D.BAs, T.Eggertsson, R.P.Heinrich, P. Jasinski, H.Klodt, B.Krug, D.Lal, S.C.Littlechild, M. Mejstrik, P.Mihalyi, P.Plane, J.-J.Rosa, K.M.Schmidt and M.Schnitzer, and U.Siegmund.
At The End Of The Century
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Author : Richard Koshalek
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-09-15
At The End Of The Century written by Richard Koshalek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-15 with Architecture categories.
A comprehensive and up-to-date survey of 20th century architecture, this volume presents a global perspective on the significant works, architects, ideas, and directions of the past 100 years. 316 illustrations, 148 in color.
Landscape At The End Of The Century Poems
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Author : Stephen Dunn
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 1992-06-02
Landscape At The End Of The Century Poems written by Stephen Dunn and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06-02 with Poetry categories.
"Here is the mature work of a poet who has always managed to delight—but who now demands something more of us. He asks us to enter the twenty-first century with open eyes: attentive to the past, eager for the future, naming what we love."--Judith Kitchen, Georgia Review
Bebop And Nothingness Jazz And Pop At The End Of The Century
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Author : Francis Davis
language : en
Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books
Release Date : 2012-02-22
Bebop And Nothingness Jazz And Pop At The End Of The Century written by Francis Davis and has been published by Schirmer Trade Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An informative and insightful collection of essays from Francis Davis. Davis prefers artists who push at the avant-garde edges, who refuse to accept the status quo. This collection of influential writings again focuses on these hard-to-catergorize heroes, from Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand,to Art Pepper, Tony Bennett, Les Paul Don Byron and many more.
Journey To The End Of The Century
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Author : ,SACHAL
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2023-08-09
Journey To The End Of The Century written by ,SACHAL and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Titling his book Journey to the End of the Century, SACHAL puts us in the macrocosm of the culture of the Soviet Union through the microcosm of his life there. It was a harsh and difficult beginning: homelessness, starvation, loneliness, diseases, and a painful existence. Never complaining, little Sacha learns how to use experience in the most magical ways. He recounts how he bravely endured, how to use the system of control to survive and fully be himself. This severe beginning prepared Sacha for the horrors of war, for the harshness and severity of the German prison camp and the French Resistance. This hero received the Croix de Guerre in France. He learned how to survive homelessness, severe cold, no food, cruelty, and brutality, and all with a smile, ingenuity, a song on his lips, or his gift of art. He was a genius with poetry in his soul that he later put on canvas. This unforgettable history speaks to us about how to use adversity and to triumph in a sometimes cruel, brutal world. It is a powerful story of how one man learned to be himself, gentle, powerful, resilient, uncomplaining of himself or others throughout this saga of his life. While his story is devastating, it is magnificent that a man such as Sacha can endure and learn from every adversity that being true to himself is the greatest response. This book is an unforgettable read and will enrich all those who venture into Journey to the End of the Century. For more information on Sacha, the man and his art, see www.sachal.com.
End Of The Century
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Author : Chris Roberson
language : en
Publisher: Pyr
Release Date : 2009-09-25
End Of The Century written by Chris Roberson and has been published by Pyr this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-25 with categories.
At the eve of the new millennium, teenager Alice Fell is alone on the streets of a strange city, friendless and without a pound to her name. She is not sure whether she's losing her mind, or whether she is called by inescapable visions to some special destiny. Along with a strange man named Stillman Waters, a retired occultist and spy – or so he claims – she finds herself pursued by strange creatures, and driven to steal the priceless "vanishing gem" that may contain the answers to the mysteries that plague her. A century earlier, consulting detective Sandford Blank, accompanied by his companion Roxanne Bonaventure, is called upon to solve a string of brutal murders on the eve of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The police believe that Jack the Ripper is back on the streets, but Blank believes that this is a new killer, one whose motive is not violence or mayhem, but the discovery of the Holy Grail itself. And what of the corpse-white Huntsman and his unearthly hounds, who stalks the gaslit streets of London? And in the sixth century, Galaad, a young man driven by strange dreams of a lady in white and a tower of glass, travels to the court of the high king Artor in Londinium, abandoned stronghold of the Roman Empire in Britain. With Galaad’s bizarre dreams as their only guide, Artor and his loyal captains journey west to the Summerlands, there to face a threat that could spell the end of the new-forged kingdom of Britain. These three adventures—Dark Ages fantasy, gaslit mystery, and modern-day jewel heist—alternate until the barriers between the different times begin to break down, and our heroes confront the secrets that connect the Grail, the Glass Tower, and the vanishing gem. And lurking behind it all, the entity known only as Omega.
At The End Of The Century
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Author : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-11-09
At The End Of The Century written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-09 with Fiction categories.
'A magnificent selection of the Booker winner's short stories' Sunday Times With an introduction by Anita Desai. Over the course of her glittering literary career, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote some of the most wonderful novels of the twentieth century and screenplays to some of the most beloved films - but she was also a master of the short story form. This stunning new collection brings together the jewels in the crown of her writing: it is a showcase of astonishing storytelling power.
The End Of The Century Party
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Author : Steve Redhead
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1990
The End Of The Century Party written by Steve Redhead and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Popular culture categories.
"This book offers an alternative perspective on popular music and youth culture in the 1980s and beyond. Based on interviews with disc jockeys, record label owners, musicians, producers and fans, it describes and analyses the shift from New Pop in the early 1980s to what it calls Political Pop in the mid-late 1980s."--From synopsis.
The Century
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Author : Alain Badiou
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2018-05-18
The Century written by Alain Badiou and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-18 with Philosophy categories.
Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction. It is not Badiou's wish to plead for an accused that is perfectly capable of defending itself without the authors aid. Nor does he seek to proclaim, like Frantz, the hero of Sartre's Prisoners of Altona, 'I have taken the century on my shoulders and I have said: I will answer for it!' The Century simply aims to examine what this accursed century, from within its own unfolding, said that it was. Badiou's proposal is to reopen the dossier on the century - not from the angle of those wise and sated judges we too often claim to be, but from the standpoint of the century itself.