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Fading Ads of New York City
New York City is eternally evolving. From its iconic skyline to its side alleys, the new is perpetually being built on the debris of the past. But a movement to preserve the citys vanishing landscapes has emerged. For nearly twenty years, Frank Jump has been documenting the fading ads that are visible, but less often seen, all over New York. Disappearing from the sides of buildings or hidden by new construction, these signs are remnants of lost eras of New Yorks life. They weave together the citys unique history, culture, environment and society and tell the stories of the businesses, places and people whose lives transpired among them the story of New York itself. This photo-documentary is also a study of time and space, of mortality and living, as Jumps campaign to capture the ads mirrors his own struggle with HIV. Experience the ads shot with vintage Kodachrome film and the meaning they carry through acclaimed photographer and urban documentarian Frank Jumps lens.
The Art of Life and Death
The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds, and existential concerns of persons confronting their own mortality and non-being. Encompassing twenty years of working alongside persons living with HIV/AIDS in New York, Irving documents the radical but often unspoken and unvoiced transformations in perception, knowledge, and understanding that people experience in the face of death. By bringing an “experience-near” ethnographic focus to the streams of inner dialogue, imagination, and aes...
Advertising and Public Memory
This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as ‘ghost signs’). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships between the signs and those who commissioned them, painted them, viewed them and view them today. Topics covered include cultural memory, urban change, modernity and belonging, local history and place-making, the crowd-sourced use of online mobile and social media to document and share digital artefacts, ‘retro’ design and the resurgence in interest in the handmade. The book is international and interdisciplinary, combining academic analysis and critical input from practitioners and researchers in areas such as cultural studies, destination marketing, heritage advertising, design, social history and commercial archaeology.
Where Metaphors Come From
In Where Metaphors Come From, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a metaphorical grounding that augments and refines conceptual metaphor theory according to which conceptual metaphors are based on our bodily experience. While this is certainly true in many cases of metaphor, the role of the body in metaphor creation can and should be reinterpreted, and, consequently, the body can be seen as just one of the several contexts from which metaphors can emerge (including the situational, discourse, and conceptual-cognitive contexts) - although perhaps the dominant or crucial one. Kövecses is a leader in CMT, and his argument in this book is more in line with what has been discovered about the nature of hu...
The Boy Aviators in Record Flight
The Boy Aviators in Record Flight" and "The Rival Aeroplane" by Wilbur Lawton are thrilling adventure novels that follow the daring adventures of young aviators as they push the boundaries of early aviation. In "The Boy Aviators in Record Flight," readers are transported into the world of aviation as the young aviators set out on a mission to achieve a new aviation record. The story is filled with suspense and excitement as they face challenges in the air and on the ground, showcasing their determination and bravery in their pursuit of excellence in aviation. In "The Rival Aeroplane," the young aviators find themselves in a heated competition with another group of aviators. This installment ...
Life's Twists and Turns
I remember, Youth. I once firmly grasp your passion for life.I ran with your endless energy, flying over hill and dale, the wind straining to catch up and warm sunlight on my face.At night the stars were within my grasp and love surrounded my every move.Your strength pushed me to higher levels, free from pain, fatigue or future cares.Suddenly, somewhere along the joy-filled way of life I stopped to sleep. When I awakened you were gone.I searched for you but found you left me behind. In the accompaniment of a new lover you deserted me.I cry out for your return but to no avail.Now, I find solace in memories and sit a lonely traveler in a grim world filled with challenges I no longer care to take.My dreams are of youth and its thrills.But there is hope for my spirit is still young. In my mind I still run, love, conquer difficulties. I watch you now, in the laughter and song of my children and grandchildren.I find that you never left after all. You are endless.
Achaladair
Frank Mulholland and Tom Sommerville are both Londoners, and theyve been working as British agents with MI6 for several years. Theyve formed a good relationship and found success in many missions, including the most recent involving the IRA and Russian spies in Achaladair and Glencoe. They even saved the life of the president. During the Cold War year of 1962, Mulholland and Sommerviille work around the picturesque Bridge of Orchya small hamlet on the A82 Road, Cononish Glen, and the Glencoe mountain area of Scotland. With the help of their Ground Team Leader John B. Aitken and a few local lads, they keep an eye on the spies and investigate the mystery of unidentified flying machines observed around the Orchy area that emit a high-pitched hissing noise. An adventure thriller set in the picturesque Scotland, Achaladair explores an exciting, fictional world of power, secrets, sex, and danger.
Prey World
Frank Kohlhaas lives a bleak life as a contract worker in Berlin in the year 2028. A newly established World Government rules over the entire earth and has set up a perfidious system of total surveillance. One day, when Frank becomes conspicuous after an argument at work, he unexpectedly finds himself in the claws of the global regime. His existence as an insignificant citizen ends when he is convicted in an automated trial. Trapped in a hell of fear and brainwashing, Frank soon loses hope until the unexpected happens...
