Contents include: The Mechanization of Motive Power, The Machine Ensemble, Railroad Space and Railroad Time, The Space of Glass Architecture, Panoramic Travel, The Compartment, The American Railroad, Industrial Fatigue, The Railroad Station, Tracks in the City

The Railway Journey : Trains & Travel in the Nineteenth Century

Engineering & Transportation

Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Transportation

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Southern Africa Stands Up

Wilfred Burchett

Blue of Noon

Against the backdrop of Facist Europe, the novel's narrator hastens despairingly from city to city in a sexual and mental nightmare - his internal collapse mirroring the fighting on the streets. Will he identify with history's victims or be seduced by the glamour of its terrible victors?

Blue of noon

BATAILLE, Georges

Three short plays by the American dramatist, including the 1978 Pulitzer prize winner explore the meanings of a land mysteriously gone to seed, culture heroes, jazzmen, and other phenomena

Buried Child & Seduced & Suicide In Bb

Literature & Fiction

Sam Shepard

Dramas & Plays

”Literature is not innocent,” Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. “It is guilty and should admit itself so.” The word, the flesh, and the devil are explored by this extraordinary intellect in the work of eight outstanding authors: Emily Bronte, Baudelaire, Blake, Michelet, Kafka, Proust, Genet and De Sade.Born in France in 1897, Georges Bataille was a radical philosopher, novelist and critic whose writings continue to exert a vital influence on today's literature and thought.

Literature and evil

Essays & Correspondence

Literature and Evil

Georges Bataille

American Paintings: The Eighties

Rose, Barbara

Arts & Photography

The railway journey: Trains and travel in the 19th century

SCHIVELBUSCH, Wolfgang

Chicago And Other Plays

Chicago and Other Plays

Shepard, Sam.

Chicago and Other Plays includes some of his earliest works: Chicago, Icarus's Mother, Red Cross, Fourteen Hundred Thousand and Melodrama Play.170 pp.From Wikipedia: Sam Shepard (born Samuel Shepard Rogers IV; November 5, 1943) is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of pilot Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff (1983). Shepard received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a master American dramatist in 2009.

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