David Gilbert

A famous reclusive writer and his three sons find their bond tested by the weight of long-held secrets and a cumbersome legacy shaped by boarding school, Hollywood, and the elite circles of the publishing world.

And Sons

& Sons

Moving with ease and assurance from war-torn Bosnia to a college sorority house to kill-or-be-killed Hollywood, David Gilbert writes about relationships teetering between cruelty and compassion with a profound understanding that belies his age.

Remote Feed

Fungus

From a Farther Room

Autour d'un vieil écrivain culte qui tente de retisser les liens brisés avec ses fils, David Gilbert déploie un grand roman familial furieusement new-yorkais, qui interroge l'élasticité du réel, l'endurance des faibles et la ténacité des rêves. Avec son audace assumée et sa maestria jubilatoire, & Fils a la qualité du classique instantané et inscrit son auteur dans une lignée de grands romanciers nord-américains qui réunirait Mordechai Richler, Steve Tesich et Donna Tartt.

& fils

Underground

Download the reading guide for this book here In this critically acclaimed comic masterpiece, David Gilbert tells the story of Billy Schine, a young man who innocently enrolls in a 14-day human drug testing study and finds his normal world turned upside-down. Like a One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the postmodern age, The Normals is a tour de force from a writer of astonishing intelligence and imagination. "Much of [The Normals] antic humor derives from Gilbert's unerring grasp of America's varied forms of self-medication. But what makes this first novel memorable is its exploration of the contradictory desire both to escape the world and to be plunged back into it."-New Yorker "Wild and woolly...a trenchant study of human suggestibility, tricked out with a wry subplot about the media hoopla surrounding a brain-tumor victim whose latest MRI bears a striking resemblance to the Shroud of Turin."-Seattle Times "T.C. Boyle meets Alice Sebold with a bit of Paul Theroux...Gilbert uses sharp humor to tackle serious issues such as the search for self, love, and medical ethos. This is a novel that resonates long after you turn the last page."-Rocky Mountain News "[A] must buy...[an] intelligent and funny dissection of our ADD-addled culture."-Maxim (four stars) "A writer of loopy elegance...[Gilbert] is able to refract our world back to us in ways that words on the page can best convey."-Boston Globe Also available: HC 1-58234-456-6 ISBN 13: 978-158234-456- $24.95

A Novel

The Normals

Retail Marketing Management

Love and Struggle: My life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond di David Gilbert è l’autobiografia politica dell’autore. David ha attraversato da protagonista, come militante, teorico, nonché ricercatore, un’intensa stagione di impegno politico dall’inizio degli anni ’60 fino all’inizio degli anni ’80, passione che è continuata in carcere dopo il suo arresto. Il libro ripercorre le tappe fondamentali della sua esistenza politica intrecciate con gli avvenimenti che hanno riguardato la storia nordamericana dalla lotta antisegregazionista fino alla genesi delle politiche neoconservatrici di Ronald Reagan insediatosi alla Casa Bianca.

Autobiografia di un rivoluzionario negli Stati Uniti

Amore e lotta

The Manhattan funeral of Charles Henry Topping would have been a minor affair but for the identity of the eulogist: reclusive author A.N. Dyer, whose novel 'Ampersand' stands as a classic of teenage angst. Now Andrew Newbold Dyer takes stock of his own life, the people he's hurt and the novel that will endure as his legacy. He realises he must reunite with his three sons before it's too late. It is only when the hidden purpose of the reunion comes to light do the sons realise what's at stake - for their father, themselves and three generations of Dyers.

Christopher Breward

New York, Paris, London, Milan, Tokyo. This familiar list of cities conjures up the image of high fashion. This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. The authors look at the significance of certain key sites in fashion's world order and at transformations in the connections between key cities. The status of fashion capital has now become a goal for urban boosters and planners, part of the wider promotion of the 'cultural economy' of major cities. In a rapidly changing global fashion system, new centres like Shanghai are making claims to join the ranks of Fashion's World Cities. In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion.

Fashion's World Cities

Karl Roeseler

The premise of HERE LIES is that every story either features the telling of a lie or the presence of a liar. This collection of thematically linked short stories features the writing of 21 authors, among them Etel Adnan, Lydia Davis, Gilbert Sorrentino and Mac Wellman. Also includes stories by editors David Gilbert and Karl Roesler.

Here Lies

Andrea Bracciali

Roberto Tagliaferri

Giulio Caravagna

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2016, held in Stirling, UK, in September 2016. The 19 revised full papers and 6 keynotes abstracts presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The papers deal with the application of computational intelligence to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, medicalinformatics, computational approaches to life sciences in general

13th International Meeting, CIBB 2016, Stirling, UK, September 1-3, 2016, Revised Selected Papers

Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125-member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The first concert by an African American ensemble at the esteemed venue was more than just a concert--it was a political act of desegregation, a defiant challenge to the status quo in American music. In this book, David Gilbert explores how Europe and other African American performers, at the height of Jim Crow, transformed their racial difference into the mass-market commodity known as "black music." Gilbert shows how Europe and others used the rhythmic sounds of ragtime, blues, and jazz to construct new representations of black identity, challenging many of the nation's preconceived ideas about race, culture, and modernity and setting off a musical craze in the process. Gilbert sheds new light on the little-known era of African American music and culture between the heyday of minstrelsy and the Harlem Renaissance. He demonstrates how black performers played a pioneering role in establishing New York City as the center of American popular music, from Tin Pan Alley to Broadway, and shows how African Americans shaped American mass culture in their own image.

Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace

The Product of Our Souls

Felix Driver

Imperial cities explores the influence of imperialism in the landscapes of modern European cities including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. Examines large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. Focuses on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. Cconsiders the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.

Landscape, display and identity

Imperial cities

Peter Sinclair

Alex's Restaurant

The Universe Is Made of Stories

Monika Heiner

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2012, held in London, UK, during October 3-5, 2012. The 17 revised full papers and 8 flash posters presented together with the summaries of 3 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers cover the analysis of biological systems, networks, and data ranging from intercellular to multiscale. Topics included high-performance computing, and for the first time papers on synthetic biology.

10th International Conference, CMSB 2012, London, UK, October 3-5, 2012, Proceedings

Computational Methods in Systems Biology

Chris Cooper

John Fletcher

Stephen Wanhill

Alan Fyall

Nova edição de um livro consagrado e completo. Faz uma introdução ao turismo, reunindo temas importantes como transporte, acomodações, atrativos e tecnologias de informação. Além disso, os autores procuram situar as questões relativas à demanda e ao marketing turístico de forma histórica chegando até a atualidade com a inclusão de dados sobre pesquisas e teorias e abordando o importante conceito de sustentabilidade. Possui material de apoio em inglês para professores.

Princípios e Prática

Turismo

The fifteen essays in this book explore the influence of imperialism in a range of urban centres, including London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Marseilles, Glasgow and Seville. The first part on "imperial landscapes" is devoted to large-scale architectural schemes and monuments, including the Queen Victoria Memorial in London and the Vittoriano in Rome. In the second part, the focus is on imperial display throughout the city, from spectacular exhibitions and ceremonies, to more private displays of empire in suburban gardens. The final part considers the changing cultural and political identities in the imperial city, looking particularly at nationalism, masculinity and anti-imperialism.

M.A. Comley

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