books about: decadence     books:       From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present150 reviews Jacques Barzun Harper Perennial, 2001 My enduring Top-2 pick for understanding the Meaning of Life book. I have been reading and comtemplating about the Meaning of My Life for 4-5 years now. After reading many books on a variety of subjects, I still recommend Barzun's book as my Top-2 best book for understanding LIFE, and therefore providing the context for piecing together a meaning for YOUR LIFE. My other top pick is Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant. Dawn is not a chronological or ...             Maximalism: The Graphic Design of Decadence& Excess9 reviews Charlotte Rivers RotoVision, 2008 Awesome This is one of the best book of my personal library. I think maximalism is what the next graphic design approach is all about. I think it comes to fix the "form & function" ideal - I think it has been misunderstood, too focused on the function, the designs was been to much "Bauhaus", art deco, minimalistic. Our architeture nowadays is an easy way to identify this minimal and "too much ...             Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism3 reviews Matei Calinescu Duke University Press, 1987 A brilliant introduction to excessively used concepts. Calinescu succeeds in a very difficult department: definind five concepts that have become common places in criticism. Calinescu's reviews is insightful, comprehensive an very well documented. It offers an excellent introdution to the novices and a useful guide for investigating the concepts to the initiates. Calinescu is probably one of the finest critics in this topic and his book exceeds ...             The Gospel of Filth: A Bible of Decadence & Darkness Gavin Baddeley FAB Press, 2008 The Gospel of Filth is the boldest, most comprehensive guide to the realms of darkness and devilry ever published. Taking in every significant milestone and major landmark, this lavishly illustrated volume is the definitive study of the dark side. No tombstone remains unturned in this wide-ranging and witty dissection of the uncanny and unholy, of the esoteric and erotic. Music forms The Gospel?s entry point, but every medium, from movies and ...             Bunker Spreckels: Surfing's Divine Prince of Decadence4 reviews Taschen, 2007 Beautiful and very interesting I'm a big fan of Bunk's stepfather Clark Gable, so I was thrilled to see something about Bunk in print. It added another dimension to a more personal side of Gable. But my husband was a surfer, and he was thrilled with the photography and history regarding this sport. From a social history standpoint it is also quite interesting - the 60s and what money can do to people, etc. All around ...             Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson54 reviews Camille Paglia Vintage Books, 1991 An Erotics of Art Way back when Susan Sontag was still an important critic, she said, "In place of hermeneutics we need an erotics of art." Well, here it is. The basic thesis of this book is simple, though its consequences are far-ranging. She maintains that aesthetic principles are rooted in the artist's perception of and ideas about nature, sex, and women, (which are inextricable because, as she says, "sex is ...             Children of the Sun: A Narrative of Decadence in England After 19182 reviews Martin Green Axios Press, 2008 Children of the Sun... The mind of this Martin Green is beautiful to experience. If you enjoy historical ideas and the drama of the mind, you'll love this book. He writes about the period in English intellectual history stretching from the late Victorian period through WWI and into the 30's and 40's. What was the effect of the horrors of WWI on the discriminating intellectuals of that period? That's what the author ...             Sway: A Novel12 reviews Zachary Lazar Little, Brown and Company, 2008 wonderful read Thought this would be a stinker, but I loved it. Wonderfully inventive and compelling. Lazar made me interested in the Rolling Stones. His sections on Anger are beautiful.             Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience With Development And Decadence In Deepest Africa11 reviews Robert Klitgaard Basic Books, 1991 A highly informative and unique book It is not very common to find a World Bank economist who writes with a touch of humor, humility and eloquence, but that is exactly what you will discover in this unique book. The author was a World Bank advisor assigned to the tiny African nation of Equatorial Guinea in the late 1980's, a time when many African nations were beginning to flirt with market reforms and economic liberalization. This ...             The Green Face (Decadence from Dedalus)9 reviews Gustav Meyrink Dedalus,, 2004 one of the best esoteric novels "Gustav Meyrink is one of the greatest european mystiques (magicians/yogis) of 20th century". This said another yogi par exellence... His books are not symbolical...             Fantasies of Fetishism: From Decadence to the Post-Human1 review Amanda Fernbach Rutgers University Press, 2002 What I Thought Was A Photography Book Was A Really Cool Textbook When I ordered this book I thought I was purchasing a book of fantastic, surrealistic Fetish photographs. I was totally surprised with what arrived in the mail. I wasn't at all disappointed however, because I loved this text book of cultural and gender studies. It helped that the author looked like my daughter so that gave me a favorable first impression. Where in the world were these kinds of ...             The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France3 reviews Zone Books, 1998 The ultimate decadent sourcebook I spent several months reading this fantastic collection of many previously hard-to-find texts, finally brought together in one nicely packaged volume. It's by far the best of its kind that I've seen yet, and there aren't many decadent collections out there -- Dedalus usually has the market cornered for that type of thing. For me, the highlight was "The Future Eve" by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, a ...             A Dangerous Fortune84 reviews Ken Follett Delacorte Press, 1993 KEN FOLLET DOES IT AGAIN I STARTED WITH PILLARS, THEN WORLD WITHOUT END AND THIS WAS MY THIRD KEN FOLLETT BOOK AND I MUST SAY, I WAS THRILLED AGAIN!!! I LOVE HOW INVOLVED I BECOME IN HIS CHARACTERS LIVES, AND WITHOUT FAIL SEX EVERYWHERE!             Severin's Journey into the Dark (A Prague Ghost Story)3 reviews Paul Leppin Twisted Spoon Press, 2001 I came here to kill you... "Severin's Journey Into Dark" is a beautiful book about Prague, and about a man who spoils all of his chances for happiness, love and freedom. It was difficult at first for me to understand the cruel things Severin does, but I view them, now, as symptoms of an evil and misery that he cannot suppress. There is a laundry list of colorful characters in this book, and the plot seems to drift with ...             The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss (Decadence from Dedalus) Dedalus,, 1999 anthology: Sacher-Masoch to Thomas Mann             Against Nature: ( A rebours) (Decadence from Dedalus) J.-K. Huysmans Dedalus Limited, 2008 Des Esseintes, is a neurasthenic aristocrat who has turned his back on the vulgarity of modern life and retreated to an isolated country villa. Here, accompanied only by a couple of silent servants, he pursues his obsessions with exotic flowers, rare gems, and complex perfumes and embarks on a series of increasingly strange aesthetic experiments..             The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse Dedalus,, 2007             La-Bas: A Journey into the Self (Decadence from Dedalus)5 reviews J. K. Huysmans Dedalus,, 2001 Better than the mis-translations of Keene Wallace It's unfortunate that the 1924 Keene Wallace translation is still so popular. Here is an example of why this new translation by Brendan King is better: Keene Wallis: "Asphalt from the street, leaves of henbane, datura, dried nightshade, and myrrh. These are perfumes delightful to Satan, our master." Brendan King: "Rue, leaves of henbane and thorn-apple, dried nightshade and myrtle, all ...             A House of Decadence (X Rated) Lucia Cubelli Little, Brown Book Group, 2000 When Megan Stewart answers an advertisement for a post in a country house, her new employment involves games of sexual domination. How far is she willing to go to stay in Fabrizio Balocchi's house of decadence?             The Fat-free Junk Food Cookbook: 100 Recipes of Guilt-Free Decadence4 reviews J. Kevin Wolfe Three Rivers Press, 1997 Tastes great and humorous! This was a gift and I was very skeptical about the outcome of any of the finished products - fat free decadence? So I tried the Ultralight Pastry Dough, Sweet Cheese Puffs, World's Thinnest Pizza Crust, Thousand Island Dressing and the Hot Fudgy Milk Chocolate Sauce. They all turned out wonderful! Tasty and pretty simple to make, I found myself enjoying a little slice of sin without the burden of ...              search for books avant-garde, children, collapse, cookbook, cultural, dangerous, darkness, decadence, decadent, development, dickinson, experience, fantasies, fat-free, fetishism, fin-de-siècle, gangsters, guilt-free, maximalism, modernism, modernity, narrative, nefertiti, personae, perversion, perversity, post-human, postmodernism, spreckels, tropical books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen office product: 35 Lb Electronic Digital Postal Shipping Kitchen Scale, Black - AC Adaptor ... leave a comment home  impressum - about us