"Blood Alley/Sea Chase, The (DVD) (DBFE) (Multi-Title)"Powder your nose, Baby, we're coming into Hong Kong!" John Wayne, joined by fellow screen icon Lauren Bacall, braves dangerous waters and pursuing soldiers as he steers Chinese refugees to freedom's shore in Blood Alley. William A. Wellman (The Story of G.I. Joe) directs. Another femme movie legend - Lana Turner - teams with Wayne in the search-and-destroy adventure The Sea Chase, di ..."
"One of the most sophisticated films in the Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich canon, The Devil Is a Woman is an alluring romance about a cold-hearted temptress who destroys the lives of two best friends (Cesar Romero and Lionel Atwill) during the Spanish revolution. What do you expect? It's carnival week in the port town of Seville. Supposedly this film was Dietrich's personal favorite because of the way it captured her beauty. Intere ..."
"Graph theory is very much tied to the geometric properties of optimization and combinatorial optimization. Moreover, graph theory's geometric properties are at the core of many research interests in operations research and applied mathematics. Its techniques have been used in solving many classical problems including maximum flow problems, independent set problems, and the traveling salesman problem. ..."
"Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy’s fascist period, Eugenio Montale – winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the greatest modern poets in any language – fell in love with Irma Brandeis, a glamorous and beautiful Dante scholar and an American Jew. While their romance would fall apart, it would have literary repercussions ..."
"Graph theory is very much tied to the geometric properties of optimization and combinatorial optimization. Moreover, graph theory's geometric properties are at the core of many research interests in operations research and applied mathematics. Its techniques have been used in solving many classical problems including maximum flow problems, independent set problems, and the traveling salesman problem. Graph Theory and Combinatorial Optim ..."
Frank Lloyd Wright In Word Form by David Michael Hertz Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1995 by G. K. Hall & Company Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-8161-0928-9, ISBN: 0-8161-0928-1
"This study of Frank Lloyd Wright analyzes Wright's architectural vision in light of his extensive writings."
Angels of Reality(1st Edition) Emersonian Unfoldings in Wright, Stevens, and Ives by David Michael Hertz Hardcover, 376 Pages, Published 1993 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-1746-2, ISBN: 0-8093-1746-X
"David Michael Hertz demonstrates how three major American artistsFrank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Stevens, and Charles Iveswere influenced by Emerson’s nineteenth-century transcendentalism. By focusing on the reflective statements of the artists themselves, Hertz shows that Emerson’s belief that all things including matter and spiritare in flux had direct bearing on the form and content of their works.Hertz writes the book as a meditatio ..."
The Restorative Home Ecological Houses by DavidHertz by DavidHertz, Michael Webb Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 2015 by Oro Editions Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-941806-69-2, ISBN: 1-941806-69-4
"This monograph respresents over a dozen houses selected from the last 30 years, from one of the pioneers in sustainable architecture. With a forward by Michael Webb this large landscape formatted book is beautifully laid out with striking photographs depicting not only the finished works, but some showing the unique construction process as well. Each residence has a detailed project description and select drawings that explain the desig ..."
Tuning of the Word(1st Edition) The Musico-Literary Poetics of the Symbolist Movement by David Michael Hertz Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 1987 by Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8093-1312-9, ISBN: 0-8093-1312-X
"David Michael Hertz explicates the relationship between the music and poetry of the Symbolist movement, tracing it from its inception in Baudelaire’s verse and Wagner’s music to its final transformation into Modernism in the works of Schoenberg. Hertz begins by examining the concept of the period, the well-rounded phrase of verse or music, which was attacked first in Wagner’s use of the leitmotif and unusual intervals such as the t ..."
"The videos and photographs of Song Dong (born 1966) reveal the social implications of China's booming modernity, and the artist's own attempts to reconcile that boom with its spiritual traditions and its effects on members of his family. "Dad and Mom, Don't Worry About Us, We Are All Well" is based around a much heralded large-scale installation titled "Waste Not" (2005), comprised of over 10,000 items ranging from pots and basins to bl ..."
Care of the Newborn(1st Edition) A Handbook for Primary Care by David E. Hertz Md Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by Lww ISBN-13: 978-0-7817-5585-6, ISBN: 0-7817-5585-9
"This handbook is a comprehensive, concise, and accessible guide to the care of newborn infants, both healthy and ill. It provides the essential core of practical knowledge that pediatricians, family practitioners, residents, neonatal nurse practitioners, and medical students need to deliver optimal care to all neonates. The book can be easily read during a one-month neonatal rotation and used for quick reference. Normal newborn care, ne ..."
"Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay ''The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' revolutionized the way we look at the social function of the work of art, and the paradigms through which we appreciate it. Using this legendary essay--and its idea of the "aura" in unique works of art--as a springboard, the essays collected in "Benjamin's Blind Spot" apply Benjamin's insights to a wide range of topics. Subjects range from Benjamin's ..."
"Eugenio Montale, the Fascist Storm, and the Jewish Sunflower uncovers one of the great hidden sagas of modern literature. During Italy's fascist period, Eugenio Montale - winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Literature and one of the greatest modern poets in any language - fell in love with Irma Brandeis, a glamorous and beautiful Dante scholar and an American Jew. While their romance would fall apart, it would have literary repercussions ..."
"On an L.A. talk show Arthur C. Clarke was once asked to name his favorite writer. His answer was "Larry Niven." Countless others agree. The Baltimore Sun and Kirkus Reviews have both dubbed Niven "the premier writer of hard SF," and Gregory Benford has hailed him as "the paradigm of SF personality of the last several decade."Now Larry Niven presents us with his undisputed masterwork. N-Space contains, very simply, the best SF of his ca ..."
"Dissident Futures presents art that investigates possible alternative futures, particularly those that question or overturn conventional notions of innovation, such as existing power, economic and technological structures. The artists and designers in Dissident Futures have the intellectual capacity and aesthetic innovation to envision a future that expands beyond our expectations. The concept is loosely structured intro three thematic ..."