The Craft and Career of Jean Rosenthal, Pioneer in Lighting for the Modern Stage
Focusing on the innovative realm of lighting design in modern theater, the book features insights from Jean Rosenthal, a pioneering designer. It includes detailed light plots, cue sheets, and designs specifically from notable Broadway productions like Hello, Dolly and Plaza Suite, showcasing her expertise and contribution to the art of stage lighting.
È la vigilia di Natale. In una cittadina non lontana da Glasgow scatta l'allarme rosso in un elegante edificio vittoriano, sede dell'Oxenford Medical. Qualcuno, nonostante i sofisticati sistemi di sorveglianza, è riuscito a sottrarre dall'area protetta due dosi di un farmaco sperimentale, un antidoto del Madoba-2, una pericolosa variante del virus Ebola su cui da tempo si stanno conducendo ricerche. Il dipartimento della Difesa americano, che ha fatto grossi investimenti sul progetto, non nasconde la sua preoccupazione. E così pure Stanley Oxenford, lo scienziato proprietario del laboratorio, e Antonia Gallo, la sua affascinante collaboratrice, responsabile della sicurezza. Nessuno di loro sa che questo è solo l'antefatto...
Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only image doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious 200-year-old farmhouse in the Luberon and began a new life. In a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of gastronomique delights, they also survive the unexpected and often hilarious curiosities of rural life. From mastering the local accent and enduring invasion by bumbling builders, to discovering the finer points of boules and goat-racing, all the earthly pleasures of provencal life are conjured up in this portrait.
Bellingford is a typical English village. Genteel vices and unspecified dramas occasionally occur but always behind closed doors and carefully laundered lace curtains - until the news breaks that the new occupants of Hall House are "two gentlemen sharing." With the arrival of Rich, a producer, and his much younger lover, Bless, a model, the scene is set for mayhem. Tossed into the mix are a homophobic, retired general; a maniacal lesbian Italian biker in pursuit of a neurotic, inadvertently drugged Bellingford woman; an addled ex-ballerina; and assorted other native weirdness - all leading to a roller-coaster ride through the sexual mores of life.
With his national bestsellers A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence , Peter Mayle gave new meaning to the phrase "great escape." Now he has written a delightful novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense, set in the beguiling French region he has staked out as his own.
It's no secret that Peter Mayle (author of A Year in Provence ) loves Provence, so it's no surprise that Mayle's new novel is set that area: it takes place in Saint Martin and in Monaco. Bennett is an Englishman scraping together his last few francs, desperate to stay in France. He places an ad promising "anything considered," a wealthy truffle entrepreneur hires him for slightly illicit work, and the plot is off--a combination of a thriller, romance, and page turner. And through it all emanates the whiff of lavender, the curve of country hills, the bubble of champagne, and the sounds and tastes of Provence.
'Hanif Kureishi's literary memoir explores his relationship with his father, a failed writer. Kurieshi is, of course, hugely successful...' Esquire'This is an ambitious book. Kureshi - free-associating with what feels like unmitigated honesty - successfully conveys the impression that in this book he has actually given us himself.' Sunday Times'Deeply involving, highly intelligent and, in what it doesn't say rather than what it does, profoundly sad.' Evening Standard'I don't think he has done anything as good, in any medium, as this moving and fiercely honest book.' Guardian
À tous ceux qui se plaignent de ne pas avoir le temps de lire, Henry Miller fait quelques suggestions pleines de bon sens : lisez dans les transports en commun ou, mieux encore, aux cabinets! N'est-ce pas là un endroit calme où personne ne vous dérangera? Après tout, puisque nous sommes obligés d'y aller, pourquoi ne pas profiter au mieux du temps que nous y passons? Pourtant, à bien y réfléchir, ce n'est peut-être pas une si bonne idée… Miller s'invite dans notre intimité et se livre à quelques réflexions désopilantes en mêlant souvenirs et anecdotes sur les cabinets… de lecture.
Una sera, un giornalista amico di Len Deighton dichiarò che era impossibile immaginare cosa sarebbe successo se la Gran Bretagna avesse perso la Battaglia d'Inghilterra. Deighton, tuttavia, si oppose a tale affermazione, poiché i piani di occupazione di Hitler erano già noti. Questo lo portò a considerare l'idea di un romanzo ambientato in un'Inghilterra sotto dominio tedesco. Così nacque un'utopia negativa, un thriller di spionaggio ambientato nel 1941, dove i tedeschi hanno vinto e invaso l'isola, mentre gli americani non sono intervenuti. Il patto Molotov-Ribbentrop è ancora in vigore, e l'Europa è sotto il controllo russo-germanico. Churchill è scomparso, il re è prigioniero, e si parla di una resistenza timida. In questo contesto, Douglas Archer è un soprintendente di Scotland Yard che indaga con cautela, evitando un antinazismo eccessivo per non ostacolare le sue azioni. Un antiquario viene trovato ucciso, e Archer si ritrova coinvolto in un caso supervisionato da un ufficiale delle SS, Oskar Huth, che lo arruola come suo aiutante. Così, Archer si trova in un gigantesco gioco di spionaggio, mentre la speranza di un cambiamento continua a sopravvivere.
A photographer on a visit to a house featured in a magazine he works for, discovers that a Cezanne painting has been stolen from there. With the editor of the magazine as the suspect thief, he is sent on pursuit of her and the Cezanne through London, the South of France and New York.
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife.
Nouvelle édition en 1987
