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Author: Douglas Hemingway Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1543485235 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 176
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This book gives a brief history of the author in an attempt to highlight the trigger points that lead to a career as a detective in the London Metropolitan Police. There follows descriptions of the issues that this somewhat opinionated man had to negotiate. The investigation of rape and all the issues that are experienced by all parties involved is then described in full. The last chapter is an indulgence.
Author: Douglas Hemingway Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1543485235 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
This book gives a brief history of the author in an attempt to highlight the trigger points that lead to a career as a detective in the London Metropolitan Police. There follows descriptions of the issues that this somewhat opinionated man had to negotiate. The investigation of rape and all the issues that are experienced by all parties involved is then described in full. The last chapter is an indulgence.
Author: Bernard Cooper Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393246507 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 256
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A wry and beautifully observed memoir about coming of age in the era of conceptual art. Growing up in the suburbs—confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother—Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Institute of the Arts, the center of the burgeoning field of conceptual art, in this beguiling memoir. The most famous, and infamous, artists of the time drift through the place, including Allan Kaprow and John Baldessari, not to mention the student who phones the Identi-Kit division of the Los Angeles Police Department and has them make a composite drawing of the Mona Lisa. My Avant-Garde Education is at once an artist's coming-of-age story and a personal chronicle of the era of conceptual art, from a writer "of uncommon subtlety and nuance" (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times). It is a record of the wonders and follies of a certain era in art history, always aware that awakening to art is, for a young person, inseparable from awakening to the ever-shifting nature of the self.
Author: Robert Ballagh Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786695308 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 544
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A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. Making his name as a Pop artist in the late 1960s and 70s, Robert Ballagh quickly achieved an international reputation. With little formal artistic training, he triumphed in his field despite often formidable hostility. His work was also strikingly topical and political, playing with classic images by Goya or Delacroix to express outrage about the situation in Northern Ireland. But it is his series of realistic portraits of writers, politicians and fellow artists – often searingly inquisitive and moving in equal measure – that have won him lasting fame. His subjects include Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, James Watson, Francis Crick, Harold Pinter and Fidel Castro. And his remarkable self-portraits unsparingly document the process of his own ageing. This memoir is also a story of Ireland over the past sixty years, its violence, hypocrisy and immobility as well as its creativity and generosity.
Author: Joseph S. Tiedemann Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501717537 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 357
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The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776, Joseph S. Tiedemann explains how conscientiously residents labored to build a consensus under difficult circumstances. New Yorkers acted the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.
Author: Billy R. Cooper Publisher: ISBN: 9781465345837 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 208
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An autobiography of Brigadier General Billy R. Cooper, whose military career has taken him across the United States, to Germany and Vietnam.
Author: Maria DiBattista Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 030013388X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 381
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"There is nothing like a dame", proclaims the song from South Pacific. Certainly there is nothing like the fast-talking dame of screen comedies in the 1930s and '40s. In this engaging book, film scholar and movie buff Maria DiBattista celebrates the fast-talking dame as an American original. Coming of age during the Depression, the dame -- a woman of lively wit and brash speech -- epitomized a new style of self-reliant, articulate womanhood. Dames were quick on the uptake and hardly ever downbeat. They seemed to know what to say and when to say it. In their fast and breezy talk seemed to lie the secret of happiness, but also the key to reality. DiBattista offers vivid portraits of the grandest dames of the era, including Katharine Hepburn, Irene Dunne, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, and others, and discusses the great films that showcased their compelling way with words -- and with men. With their snappy repartee and vivid colloquialisms, these fast-talkers were verbal muses at a time when Americans were reinventing both language and the political institutions of democratic culture. As they taught their laconic male counterparts (most notably those appealing but tongue-tied American icons, Gary Cooper, Henry Fonda, and James Stewart) the power and pleasures of speech, they also reimagined the relationship between the sexes. In such films as Bringing Up Baby, The Awful Truth, and The Lady Eve, the fast-talking dame captivated moviegoers of her time. For audiences today, DiBattista observes, the sassy heroine still has much to say.
Author: Douglas Hemingway
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Author: Robert Ballagh
Author: Joseph S. Tiedemann
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Author: Maria DiBattista