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  • Tilikum Crossing: Bridge of the People

    Portland's Bridges and a New Icon

    by Ira Nadel, Donald Macdonald ...
    Portland, Oregon's innovative and distinctive landmark, Tilikum Crossing Bridge of the People, is the first major bridge in the U.S, carrying trains, busses, streetcars, bicycles, and pedestrians- but no private automobiles. When regional transportation agency TriMet began planning for the first bridge to be constructed across the Willamette River since 1973, the goal was to build a something ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bay Bridge

    History and Design of a New Icon

    by Donald MacDonald, Ira Nadel ...
    "A must-have for any design, architecture, or Bay Area enthusiast." — Front Door/HGTVAn innovative landmark a quarter century in the making, the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge represents the latest spectacular chapter in the history of this storied structure. The new bridge's architect, Donald MacDonald, teams up with author Ira Nadel to create this illuminating book. With ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alcatraz

    History and Design of a Landmark

    by Donald MacDonald, Ira Nadel ...
    This illustrated volume by the authors of Golden Gate Bridge explores the history and design of San Francisco's infamous island prison.Award-winning architect Donald MacDonald and acclaimed author Ira Nadel present the first complete history of Alcatraz told through its architecture. In friendly illustrations and accessible text, Alcatraz reveal the design decisions that have shaped the island ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Golden Gate Bridge

    History and Design of an Icon

    by Donald MacDonald, Ira Nadel ...
    An award-winning architect explores the history and engineering of a modern marvel with "easygoing prose [and] dozens of delightfully accessible sketches" (SFGate.com).Nine million people visit the Golden Gate Bridge each year, yet how many know why it's painted that stunning shade of "international orange"? Or that ancient Mayan and Art Deco buildings influenced the design? Current bridge ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The American Sentence

    From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction

    by Ira Nadel ...
    A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what is an American sentence and how has it changed?While sentences have become the subject of their own form, literary histories, cultural narratives, and personal writings ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Philip Roth

    À la recherche de Marcel Proust

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This work examines the literary and biographical connections between Marcel Proust and Philip Roth against the backdrop of European and American cultural change through a social and literary narrative involving war, literature and fashion. It emphasizes the parallel treatment of memory, place, history, illness, music and sex by Proust and Roth. The authors also possessed a mutual dependence on the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Early Writings (Pound, Ezra)

    Poems and Prose

    by Ezra Pound, Ira Nadel ...
    Ezra Pound makes his Penguin Classics debut with this unique selection of his early poems and prose, edited with an introductory essay and notes by Pound expert Ira Nadel. The poetry includes such early masterpieces as “The Seafarer,” “Homage to Sextus Propertius,” “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” and the first eight of Pound’s incomparable “Cantos.” The prose includes a series of articles and critical ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Education of Henry Adams

    by Henry Adams ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An immediate bestseller awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919, his The Education of Henry Adams (1918) recounts his own and the country's education from ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Love and Russian Literature

    From Benjamin to Woolf

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Business of Ballet

    Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde

    by Ira Nadel ...
    The Business of Ballet: Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes between Profit and the Avant-garde explores how a remarkable, internationally recognized ballet company, the Ballets Russes, was able to survive for twenty years without stable funding. Focusing on Ballets Russes’s founder, Serge Diaghilev, and his talent for discovering monies through an uncanny ability to secure funds from aristocrats, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Singapore Flings

    Literary Stopovers from Chekhov to Tagore

    by Ira Nadel ...
    Literary greats have long visited Singapore, fascinated by its culture and history. Explore the experiences of writers like Anton Chekhov, Rabindranath Tagore, Noël Coward, Isabella Bird, Pablo Neruda and Joseph Conrad, among others, and discover how Singapore remained a lasting part of their creative imagination. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Holocaust across Borders

    Trauma, Atrocity, and Representation in Literature and Culture

    by Shira Klein, Holli Levitsky, Agnes Mueller, Sarah Painitz, Amy Kaminsky, Joshua Lander, Lizy Mostowski, Ira Nadel, Hilene S. Flanzbaum, Victoria Aarons0, Ranen Omer-Sherman1, Marat Grinberg2 ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Jewish Literature
    “Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of international contexts. Instructors are required, regardless of their own disciplinary training, to become comparatists and discuss all works with equal expertise. This books offers analyses of the ways in which representations of the Holocaust—whether in text, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD