The life and times of a Victorian gentleman of irrepressible curiosity-and shockingly repressed desire. . Henry Spencer Ashbee (18341900) was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman, a family man who counted among his many friends the celebrated adventurer Sir Richard Francis Burton. But he was a gentleman with a secretone so delicious ...
Known primarily as a poet and dramatist, Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca published four books before his early death in the Spanish Civil War. This biography gives an account of his family, his homosexuality and his mysterious death, as well as tracing his literary development.
Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos "finos y frios"-refined and cool. Once Europe's most cosmopolitan metropolis, bridging cultures ...
This is the first full-scale biography of Lorca, world-famous poet and playwright, martyr to the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, and secret homosexual.
At dawn on the 19th of August 1936 Spaniards murdered the man who most profoundly embodied the poetic spirit of their country. Federico Garcia Lorca was the victim of the passions that arose in Spain as the Church, the military and the bourgeoisie embarked on their reckless and brutal repression of "undesirables". For Lorca was not a political man ...
This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the village of Fuente Vaqueros to the site of his assassination, at the beginning of the Civil War, in the foothills outside the city. The author investigates the ...
A biography of the Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí that details his penchant for outlandishness and paranoia. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
In this book, Ian Gibson provides an enjoyable introduction to the essence of Dal?, the man who by 1929 had already created some of the most extraordinary works of his career, works whose genius can never be surpassed. Guided by Gibson's masterful hand, we follow the family's roots before traveling to Barcelona, Madrid ― where Lorca and Bu ...
The Empire's most feared leader, Darth Vader, faces off with the galaxy's deadliest bounty hunter, in this thrilling new chapter in the popular "Star Wars" series of graphic novels.
This is the third and final volume of the "Keys to the Trematoda", a series on the systematics and identification of the Class Trematoda. This volume covers five superfamilies within the Order Plagiorchiida and the family Didymozoidae, with keys for their identification at the family, subfamily and generic levels. It also includes a key to all ...
This text, in three volumes, presents a detailed revision of the systematics and taxonomy of the platyhelminth class Trematoda, subclasses Aspidogastrea and Digenea, with key for the identification of these parasites at the superfamily, family, subfamily and generic levels. The trematodes are parasitic worms infecting all vertebrate groups ad ...
In January 1939, Antonio Machado would cross the border from Spain to France accompanied by his mother, traveling, as was his custom, with only the essentials. He died three weeks later in the small French town of Collioure, his appalling state a warning sign of his impending passing. Machado was sixty-four. Ian Gibson, internationally renowned ...
This biography argues that Salvador Dali lived a "shameful" life in every way: that underlying his exhibitionism was an intense feeling of shame, the individual hanging his head being one of the recurrent themes of his painting. Based on extensive original research and recently discovered sources, as well as an interview with Dali himself, the ...
Advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) combine novel manufacturing techniques and machines with the application of information technology, microelectronics and new organizational practices within the manufacturing sector. They include 'hard' technologies such as rapid prototyping, and 'soft' technologies such as scanned point cloud data ...
Since Franco's death, Spain has managed the considerable achievement of a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy. Spaniards are recovering a tradition of tolerance lost in 1492, when Granada, the country's last Moorish enclave, fell to the Christians. Now there is an obsession with making up for lost time, a determination to figure ...
This book presents a comprehensive coverage of blood disorders in babies from the foetus to the newborn child. Major advances have been made in the antenatal diagnosis of serious blood disorders. This new text draws together recent developments to provide the clinician with both current and practical information on tumours, bleeding, anaemias and ...
This text, in three volumes, presents a detailed revision of the systematics and taxonomy of the platyhelminth class Trematoda, subclasses Aspidogastrea and Digenea, with key for the identification of these parasites at the superfamily, family, subfamily and generic levels. The trematodes are parasitic worms infecting all vertebrate groups ad ...
Camilo Josi Cela, had a motto that guided him throughout decades: one who resists, wins. His cutting remarks, and boastfulness charmed some, and scandalized others. But how was he really, this man who, came out at the end with the greatest literary award in the world? Ian Gibson, whose monumental biographical works have been internationally ...
When Sam Slade's hired by city councilor B.J. Armit, the case is strange from the start -- Armit is a robot who wants to know where his real body is. But no sooner is Slade hired than he finds himself in jail, after an army of nine-inch-high robots kill Armit! But what's the connection to the "robot union" who want Sam out of business? And who the ...
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