Dark Curtains

Dark Curtains
Author: Cecil Nobles
Publisher: Nobles House Publishing
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2021-10-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781737581109

A conspiracy thriller. Protagonist takes a look behind the curtain of a global conspiracy utilizing mass deception and social engineering.

Young House Love

Young House Love
Author: Sherry Petersik
Publisher: Artisan
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1579656765

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Artificial Darkness

Artificial Darkness
Author: Noam M. Elcott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016-05-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 022632902X

Darkness has a history and a uniquely modern form. Distinct from night, shadows, and artificial light, “artificial darkness” has been overlooked—until now. In fact, controlled darkness was essential to the rise of photography and cinema, science and spectacle, and a century of advanced art and film. Artificial Darkness is the first book to historicize and theorize this phenomenon and map its applications across a range of media and art forms. In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules Marey, Richard Wagner, Georges Méliès, and Oskar Schlemmer revolutionized not only images but also everything surrounding them: the screen, the darkness, and the experience of bodies and space. At the heart of the book is “the black screen,” a technology of darkness that spawned today’s blue and green screens and has undergirded numerous advanced art and film practices to this day. Turning familiar art and film narratives on their heads, Artificial Darkness is a revolutionary treatment of an elusive, yet fundamental, aspect of art and media history.

In the Dark of Night

In the Dark of Night
Author: Lorana Hoopes
Publisher: Lorana Hoopes
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Who wants to hurt Dr. Young? In the picturesque coastal town of Fire Beach, Dr. Garrett Young seeks redemption from a troubled past by dedicating his life to healing. Little does he know that his journey toward salvation will lead him down a perilous path of unexpected love and life-threatening danger. As Garrett rebuilds his life, he finds solace in the arms of Renee Mackey, one of his dedicated nurses. Despite her skepticism about love at first sight, Renee can't deny the magnetic pull between them. However, their budding romance takes a dark turn when Garrett is mysteriously kidnapped, thrusting Renee into a desperate search for the truth. Caught in a web of suspicion, Renee faces a chilling dilemma—how can she save the man she loves when the authorities believe she holds the key to his disappearance? As the clock ticks away, Garrett must unravel the sinister plot against him, piecing together clues and dodging danger at every turn. This heart-pounding romantic suspense novel by award winning and USA Today Best Selling Author Lorana Hoopes explores the depths of love, the shadows of betrayal, and the race against time to uncover the sinister forces threatening to tear two souls apart. Will Garrett Young escape the clutches of danger, and can Renee Mackey prove her innocence before it's too late? Prepare for a gripping tale of passion, mystery, and survival in a town where danger lurks beneath the surface.

Bloody Living

Bloody Living
Author: Rhona Trench
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2010
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9783039119646

This book deals with the process of negotiation with the past in the present through the plays of Marina Carr. The title frames the work, connoting the path towards destruction and the sense of lethargy acquired along the way. The book offers an in-depth and extensive reading of Carr's plays. In doing so, it surveys some of the destructive issues represented in the works and provides a series of social and cultural contexts to which the concerns in the works are related. Carr is best known for her trilogy, The Mai, Portia Coughlan and By the Bog of Cats..., and more recently Woman and Scarecrow, The Cordelia Dream and Marble. The plays are regularly concerned with notions of identity in the context of self-destruction, self-estrangement and displacement. This book applies Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to Carr's plays in an effort to structure the loss the author identifies in the works. Themes of memory, history and myth are examined in the context of these concerns in provocative and confrontational ways.

Seeing in the Dark

Seeing in the Dark
Author: Timothy Ferris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2012-12-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1476711755

In Seeing in the Dark, a poetic love letter to science and to the skies, Timothy Ferris invites us all to become stargazers. He recounts his own experiences as an enthralled lifelong amateur astronomer and reports from around the globe -- from England and Italy to the Florida Keys and the Chilean Andes -- on the revolution that's putting millions in touch with the night sky. In addition, Ferris offers an authoritative and engaging report on what's out there to be seen -- what Saturn, the Ring nebula, the Silver Coin galaxy, and the Virgo supercluster really are and how to find them. The appendix includes star charts, observing lists, and a guide on how to get involved in astronomy. Ferris takes us inside a major revolution sweeping astronomy, as lone amateur astronomers, in global networks linked by the Internet, make important discoveries that are the envy of the professionals. His ability to describe the wonders of the universe is simply magical, and his enthusiasm for his subject is irresistible.

A Dark Stranger

A Dark Stranger
Author: Julien Gracq
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1782270582

From the moment he arrives at an elegant seaside hotel with his lover, Allan unsettles and obsesses the other guests. Elusive, equivocal, beautiful, he lives, gambles, swims and dances with a strange fierceness that they find intoxicating. Soon he even haunts their dreams. One by one, each guest is fatally drawn to Allan. And, as the hazy August heat fades and summer comes to an end, they gravitate towards self-destruction. Rich, lushly poetic, A Dark Stranger is a dreamlike portrayal of lives lived on the edge of the abyss.

Darkness and Daylight

Darkness and Daylight
Author: Mary J. Holmes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752300949

Reproduction of the original: Darkness and Daylight by Mary J. Holmes

The Color Curtain

The Color Curtain
Author: Richard Wright
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780878057481

The expatriate, one of America's greatest black writers, giving a bold assessment of the world's outlook on race, a report of the Bandung Conference of 1955.