Mysteries Of The Rectangle
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Mysteries Of The Rectangle
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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Release Date : 2006-08-10
Mysteries Of The Rectangle written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Princeton Architectural Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Art categories.
In this book, Hustvedt gives us nine essays on the significance of particular works of art, replete with original insights and a few startling discoveries. In her essay on Giorgione's The Tempest, a painting that has mystified art critics for hundreds of years, the author reinterprets the canvas as a work about art and voyeurism. While looking at The Third of May, she was astonished to discover that Goya had hidden his own self-portrait in a shadowy corner of his iconic masterwork. More than anything, the essays in this book display a true passion for art, from the still lifes of Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Giorgio Morandi to the contemporary works of Joan Mitchell and Gerhard Richter. Hustvedt captures perfectly the pleasure found in giving oneself up to the complexities and ambiguities of painting, discovering new subtleties and surprises the longer one takes the time to look.--Back cover.
Living Thinking Looking
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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-06-07
Living Thinking Looking written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-07 with Art categories.
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN 'Richly intelligent insights on every page' Financial Times 'A rare kind of quiet intellectual confidence' Sunday Telegraph In these fascinating, lively and engaging essays, Siri Hustvedt shows what lies behind her fiction: an abiding curiosity about who we are and how we got that way. Covering a wide range of subjects, from the nature of desire to false memories and the paintings of Goya, she draws on her own life and on the insights provided by both the arts and sciences to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human - to live, think and look. 'There is something refreshingly straightforward about her style. It has the confidence born of complex but well digested thoughts' Observer PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT: 'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie 'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear' Hilary Mantel 'Her novels have received a deserved acclaim. But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist . . . in this regard I feel that she resembles Virginia Woolf ' Observer 'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post
What I Loved
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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-01-19
What I Loved written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-19 with Fiction categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Defiantly complex and frequently dazzling' Sunday Times 'Siri Hustvedt's most ambitious, most rewarding novel. It mesmerises, arouses, disturbs' Salman Rushdie 'Superb . . . What I Loved is a rare thing, a page turner written at full intellectual stretch, serious but witty, large-minded and morally engaged' New York Times Book Review 'A love story with the grip and suspense of a thriller' Times Literary Supplement In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down its creator, Bill Wechsler, and the two men embark on a life-long friendship. This is the story of their intense and troubled relationship, of the women in their lives and their work, of art and hysteria, love and seduction and their sons - born the same year but whose lives take very different paths. 'A big, wide, sensuous novel - clever, sinister, yet attractively real' Guardian PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT: 'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie 'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks 'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times 'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post 'A 21st-century Virginia Woolf' Literary Review
Professor Stewart S Casebook Of Mathematical Mysteries
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Author : Ian Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2014-10-02
Professor Stewart S Casebook Of Mathematical Mysteries written by Ian Stewart and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-02 with Mathematics categories.
Like its wildly popular predecessors Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and Hoard of Mathematical Treasures, Professor Stewart's brand-new book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and conundrums, packed with trademark humour and numerous illustrations.In addition to the fascinating formulae and thrilling theorems familiar to Professor Stewart's fans, the Casebook follows the adventures of the not-so-great detective Hemlock Soames and his sidekick Dr John Watsup (immortalised in the phrase 'Watsup, Doc?'). By a remarkable coincidence they live at 222B Baker Street, just across the road from their more illustrious neighbour who, for reasons known only to Dr Watsup, is never mentioned by name. A typical item is 'The Case of the Face-Down Aces', a mathematical magic trick of quite devilish cunning... Ranging from one-liners to four-page investigations from the frontiers of mathematical research, the Casebook reveals Professor Stewart at his challenging and entertaining best.
The Sorrows Of An American
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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-02-02
The Sorrows Of An American written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-02 with Fiction categories.
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED 'Astonishing . . . almost certainly the best American novel you will read this year' Sunday Telegraph 'One of the most profound and absorbing books I've read in a long time' Washington Post 'Wonderful . . . you have to read it to believe it' Observer After their father's funeral, Erik and Inga Davidsen find a cryptic letter from an unknown woman among his papers, dating from his adolescence in rural Minnesota during the Depression. Returning to his psychiatric practice in New York, Erik sets about reading his father's memoir, hoping to discover the man he never fully understood. At the same time, another woman enters Erik's lonely, divorced life - a beautiful Jamaican who moves into his garden flat with her small daughter. As Erik gets drawn into the cat-and-mouse tactics of someone who appears to be stalking her, he finds out that his sister Inga is also being threatened, by a journalist in possession of a wounding secret from her past. A multi-layered novel that probes the mysteries of the heart and mind, The Sorrows of an American is compulsive, thought-provoking and profoundly affecting. 'Almost impossible to put down, and even harder not to re-read' Independent 'Beautifully thought through, deeply serious and enormously intelligent' Guardian PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT: 'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie 'One of our finest novelists' Oliver Sacks 'Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch' Financial Times 'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post
Professor Conundrum Mysteries
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Author : Bill Streifer
language : en
Publisher: Jia Educational Products
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Professor Conundrum Mysteries written by Bill Streifer and has been published by Jia Educational Products this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Mathematics categories.
Professor Conundrum is a retired math professor from an Ivy League univerisity in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His long life has been filled with both triumph and profound sadness. This book traces his life, and the life of his family, from the age of 10 to 88. He solves numerous problems - both large and small - using mathematics.
Mysteries In History World History
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Author : Wendy Conklin
language : en
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Release Date : 2005-03
Mysteries In History World History written by Wendy Conklin and has been published by Teacher Created Resources this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with Education categories.
Challenge students to explore several important unexplained events that helped shape history. Students use primary source materials, posters, and simulations to find clues and to make informed decisions about these events. There are no right or wrong answers. These real-life mysteries encourage students to research, think, debate, and form conclusions.
A Plea For Eros
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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-05-10
A Plea For Eros written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-10 with Art categories.
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN 'A luminous collection of mind-expanding pieces on literary and philosophical themes . . . A book to renew one's faith in the literary essay' Robert McCrum, Observer 'Thoughtful, sensuous essays . . . her enthusiasms are oddly infectious' Daily Telegraph In this illuminating and absorbing collection of essays, Siri Hustvedt explores many of the themes that preoccupy her novels: identity and memory, sexuality and mortality, psychology, love and the power of imagination. But here she offers her personal experience - as daughter, sister, mother and wife, student, reader and writer - to illustrate fundamental aspects of our lives as individuals and social beings in the modern world. She draws, too, on the work of Henry James, F Scott Fitzgerald and Charles Dickens, probing their insights into human nature. Wise, honest and luminously intelligent, this is a book that invites us to look afresh at ourselves and the universe we inhabit. 'One of the most talented voices in contemporary fiction . . . Hustvedt brings the same visual power, sensuality and intelligence to her collection of essays' Los Angeles Times Book Review PRAISE FOR SIRI HUSTVEDT: 'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom' Salman Rushdie 'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear' Hilary Mantel 'Her novels have received a deserved acclaim. But to my mind, she is even more to be admired as an essayist . . . in this regard I feel that she resembles Virginia Woolf ' Observer 'Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read as Siri Hustvedt' Washington Post
The Delusions Of Certainty
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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-11-16
The Delusions Of Certainty written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-16 with Psychology categories.
Prizewinning novelist, feminist, and scholar Siri Hustvedt turns her brilliant and critical eye toward the metaphysical issues of neuropsychology in this lauded, standalone volume. Originally published in her collection A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, The Delusions of Certainty exposes how the age-old, unresolved mind-body problem has shaped - and often distorted and confused - contemporary thought in neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary psychology.
The Summer Without Men
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Author : Siri Hustvedt
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2011-04-26
The Summer Without Men written by Siri Hustvedt and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-26 with Fiction categories.
"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment." Mia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a "pause." This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia's release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people's home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is drawn into the lives of those around her—her mother and her close friends,"the Five Swans," and her young neighbor with two small children and a loud angry husband—and the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat all their own. From the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes Siri Hustvedt's provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.