A professional psychologist discovers a hidden passion for sports in his forties, transforming into a champion ultradistance athlete. His remarkable journey culminates in breaking the world record for the fastest bicycle crossing of Europe, showcasing the unexpected potential for personal growth and achievement later in life.
This book serves as a valuable resource for students and lecturers across various disciplines, including photography, art history, English culture, and documentary studies. It delves into the interplay between visual art and cultural narratives, offering insights that enrich understanding in these fields. The text explores significant themes and methodologies, making it an essential reference for those interested in the critical analysis of visual representation and its historical context.
The story of how Ed and his wife Rachel developed and put into practice, in partnership with local churches, a vision to provide a home to ex-prisoners, refugees and victims of abuse.
A unique blend of quirky characters drives this raucous comedy, featuring an agoraphobe, a narcoleptic, a temporary amnesiac, and an apraxic. Bunny Temple, the agoraphobic host, faces a crisis when an identity thief threatens his stability. Together, the group of misfits embarks on a chaotic adventure to track down the thief, revealing the complexities of human nature and the transformative power of love. Their amateur sleuthing leads to unexpected challenges, highlighting both their vulnerabilities and strengths.
Surrealism and Photography in Czechoslovakia: On the Needles of Days sheds much-needed light on the location of the greatest concentration of Surrealist photography and examines the culture and tradition within which it has taken root and flourished. The volume explores a rich and important artistic output, very little of which has been seen outside of its land of origin. Based on extensive research at museums in Prague and Brno and many conversations with participants in and historians of the movement, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson and Ian Walker analyse how this photographic work has developed cohesively and rigorously, from the beginnings of Czech Surrealism in 1934, to the intriguing researches of the present-day Czech and Slovak Surrealist group by way of mysterious veiled responses to the repressive contexts with which they were faced from the 1950s to the 1980s. The main chapters, ordered chronologically, are intersected with shorter texts examining specific works. The reader will find in this volume images that present challenges to our understanding of how photographic work has been used within surrealism, pinpointing individual pictures whose dynamic charge may induce instants of compelling interrogation and disruption.
Each year, the Wisconsin-Alpha chapter of the International Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2010, that was Margaret Urban Walker (ethics and philosophy, Arizona State U.), who discussed the history, current thinking, and potential future application of the notion that amends are owed for wrongs and wrongful harms. Despite its venerable past since Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, she says, reparative justice has not received the degree of attention in contemporary thought that distributive and retributive justice have enjoyed. There is no index. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Eighteen-year-old Harrison Haddon has grown up alone. Surrounded by wealth, nannies, and material things, all he craves is the approval of his father. Sent away to the boarding school his father and grandfather attended, it's assumed he will follow in their footsteps from Sydney's prestigious Ivy League school straight into medical school. But Harrison doesn't want to be a doctor. He dreams of music and classical piano. His only true happiness, his escape from the world expected of him, is dismissed by his intolerant and emotionally detached parents. Levi Aston arrives from London for a three-month student exchange program. Free-spirited and confident in who he is and what he wants to do with his life, Levi convinces Harrison not give up on his dreams. But convincing Harrison not to give up on his family might not be so easy.
This book offers the first detailed analysis of how the Surrealists utilized the tactics of documentary and how Surrealist ideas in turn influenced the development of documentary photography. The last two decades have seen the re-emergence of Surrealist photography, but with an emphasis on work made in the studio or the darkroom. This, however, is a study of what Louis Aragon called 'surrealist realism': the exploration of a real-life surreality encountered on the streets of the city. This book throws new light on Surrealism, emphasizing its connections with the everyday life of the city.
This full-length life of G. K. Chesterton is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the writer. It draws on many unpublished letters and papers to evoke Chesterton's joyful humour, his humility and affinity to the common man, and his love of the ordinary things of life.
Jordan O'Neill isn't a fan of labels, considering he has a few. Gay, geek, a librarian, socially awkward, a nervous rambler, an introvert, an outsider. The last thing he needs is one more. But he when he realises adding the label 'asexual' might explain a lot, it turns his world upside down. Hennessy Lang moved to Surry Hills after splitting with his boyfriend. His being asexual had seen the end of a lot of his romances, but he's determined to stay true to himself. Leaving his North Shore support group behind, he starts his own in Surry Hills, where he meets first-time-attendee Jordan. A little bewildered and scared, but completely adorable, Hennessy is struck by this guy who's trying to find where he belongs. Maybe Hennessy can convince Jordan that his world hasn't been turned upside down at all, but maybe it's now--for the first time in his life--the right way up.