Dino is approaching middle age, and he is consumed with boredom - not just a lack of interest in life, but also a feeling of profound disconnection with the world at large. A painter, he has given up his art to live from day to day. Then he meets Cecilia, a beautiful, unabashedly sexual, strangely i[...]

In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew--or thought they knew--Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, "In Praise of Lying." But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies[...]

If you know that 'honkers' means 'dinosaurs', this is the archive collection you've been waiting for! This deluxe collection contains the first six issues of "Turok, Son of Stone": Dell Four Color Comics number 596 and number 656; and then issues number 3-6 of the "Turok" series. Two young Native Am[...]

In 2007, after collapsing on a practice field at the Nike campus, champion marathoner Alberto Salazar's heart stopped beating for 14 minutes. Over the crucial moments that followed, rescuers administered CPR to feed oxygen to his brain and EMTs shocked his heart eight times with defibrillator paddle[...]

This book is the product of collaborations between Cuban and European social scientists. Without ignoring the devastating impact of the US embargo, it shows that Cubas grave economic impasse is endogenously rooted in the contradictions of its peculiar version of state socialism. These contradictions[...]

Edward Zero quit being a spy thug, left the Agency, found a better life in Iceland. But when a volcano erupts and the past comes back in a myriad of ways, what does the path ask of him? Palestine, Belfast, the laboratory in the woods - they all come back into play.[...]

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century. Jean-Paul Sartre and Andre Breton are just two of the great thinkers whose thought has been nurtured by the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which continues to re[...]

Today our minds, our emotions, our relationships and our bodies are out of kilter. We know it, but we tend to ignore it until something brings us up short - a worrying diagnosis, a broken relationship or simply an inability to function harmoniously in everyday life. When things are a little off, we [...]

Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. This edition in the well-established World Film Locations series explores Florence as it is manifested in the minds of fil[...]

OpenCV, arguably the most widely used computer vision library, includes hundreds of ready-to-use imaging and vision functions used in both academia and industry. It mainly focuses on real-time image processing. As cameras get cheaper and imaging features grow in demand, the range of applications usi[...]

A volume of notes, impressions of travel, of friends, of public and private events - elicited by the author's reading.[...]