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A classic biography of the Prophet Muhammad is back in print

Now 30% off MUHAMMADMaxime Rodinson Translated from the French by Anne Carter Afterword by Robert IrwinMaxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, first published his biography of Muhammad in 1960. The book, a classic in its field, has been widely read ever sinc...

SciFi books

SciFi booksSourceURL: https://www.polygon.com/21516173/best-new-science-fiction-books-scifi-last-15-yearsAuthor: Ziad Shihab Skip to main content Photo: Andrew Liptak for Polygon Filed under: ...

Patrick Ffrench - Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics - Bloomsbury, 2019

Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (Bloomsbury) is a book by Patrick Ffrench, Professor of French at Kings College. It is a comprehensively researched and finely argued book that traces Barthes engagement with questions of cinema from early research pre-dating the publication of Mythologies to his last work, Camera Lucida, along the way responding in depth to those who have explicitly commented on Barthes musings on film and those who have been inspired by them in their ow...

Adolf (thing) by memebomb - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Adolf (thing) See all of Adolf, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by memebomb Sat Jan 20 2001 at 20:19:28 "This is the story of three men named Adolf. Each Adolf lived a life that was very different from that of the other two… yet the three of them were bound together by a single twist of fate. Now that the last Adolf has died, I will recount the story for those who follow…" Adolf: A Tale Of The Twentieth Century ...

SimpC Dateline Bangkok: Stone

Wednesday, 2 October 2019 Stone Stone is the latest in a series of coffee-table books on building materials, edited by William Hall and published by Phaidon. Like its predecessors Concrete, Brick, and Wood, Stone features stunning full-page photographs of more than 150 buildings, each with a paragraph-length caption. "Many of the world’s most significant, revered, influential and memorable structures are built with stone," Hall notes in his preface. Stone is the oldest and most durable ...

Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction

Paris Review - The Art of Nonfiction No. 4SourceURL: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6073/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-4-janet-malcolm?ref=refindAuthor: Ziad ShihabMap Advertisement Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4 Interviewed by Katie Roiphe Issue 196, Spring 2011 Though I will make the ...