Автор: David Parlett Название: The Penguin Book of Card Games ISBN: 0141037873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141037875 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 14950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Features various games, from Bridge to Newmarket to Whist and Pontoon. This book takes us through several games to choose from. It also covers games played with other types of cards. It offers a `working description` of each game, with the rules, and variations and origins of each. It includes an appendix of games. It is suitable for novices.
Автор: Parlett Jack Название: Same Blue, Different You ISBN: 191364202X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781913642020 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7360.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Parlett Jack Название: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr ISBN: 1517911044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517911041 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 22570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets
The Poetics of Cruising explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century to Eileen Myles in the twenty-first. What is it that happens, asks Jack Parlett, and what is it that is sought, in this often transient moment of perception we call cruising, this perceptual arena where acts of looking between strangers are intensified and eroticized? Parlett believes that this moment is not only optical in nature but visual: a mode of looking that warrants comparison with the ways in which we behold still and moving images.
Whether it’s Whitman’s fixation with daguerreotypes, Langston Hughes’s hybrid photographic works, or Frank O’Hara’s love of Hollywood movie stars, argues Parlett, the history of poets cruising abounds with this intermingling between the verbal and the visual, the passing and the fixed. To look at someone in the act of cruising, this history suggests, is to capture, consider, and aestheticize, amid the flux and instantaneity of urban time. But it is also to reveal the ambivalence at the heart of this erotic search, where power may be unevenly distributed across glances, and gendered and racialized bodies are marked. Thus, in identifying for the first time this confluence of cruising, poetry, and visual culture, Parlett concludes that the visual erotic economy associated with gay cruising today, exemplified by the photographic grid of an app like Grindr, is not a uniquely contemporary phenomenon.
Innovative, astute, and highly readable, and drawing on compelling archival material, The Poetics of Cruising is a must for scholars of queer and LGBTQ literature and culture, modern and contemporary poetry, visual studies, and the history of sexuality.
Автор: Parlett David Название: Dictionary Of Card Games ISBN: 0198691734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198691734 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2970.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Parlett David Название: Oxford History of Board Games ISBN: 1626548811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781626548817 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 20200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"Great tidbits or obscure, entertaining facts can be found on any given page." --Library Journal
For thousands of years, board games have captured our imaginations as we have conspired against, chased, and attacked one another across the table from our friends and foes, locked quest for victory. In his newly updated History of Board Games (the previous edition was titled: The Oxford History of Board Games ), David Parlett explores the fascinating origins and development of our favorite games - from the Egyptian and Asian predecessors of checkers and chess to modern classics like Monopoly and Clue. With an entertaining, accessible style, Parlett delves into what is one of the most universal roots of our cultural history, highlighting the importance of game-playing as a vital part of the human experience. In addition to his detailed research on the mechanisms of games, Parlett adds his unique insight drawing upon 20 years of experience as a professional games researcher, critic and game inventor to explore lesser-known and experimental games. Games covered in this entertaining title include Alquerque; backgammon; chess; Cluedo; Draughts; Fox & Geese; Go; Halma; Ludo; Monopoly; Noughts & Crosses; Oware; Pachisi; Scrabble; Snakes & Ladders; solitaire; Trivial Pursuit are included, along with many more.
Автор: Parlett David Название: Oxford History of Board Games ISBN: 1635617952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781635617955 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 15290.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This fascinating book explores the origins and development of our favorite board games-from the Egyptian and Asian predecessors of checkers and chess to modern classics like Monopoly and Clue-delving into one of the most familiar parts of our cultural history and highlighting the importance of game-playing as a vital part of human experience.
Автор: Parlett Martin A. Название: Demonizing a President: The "Foreignization " of Barack Obama ISBN: 144083055X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440830556 Издательство: Bloomsbury Рейтинг: Цена: 49500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This groundbreaking political expose scrutinizes the motivations behind the unparalleled attacks on President Barack Obama that attempt to undermine his eligibility to lead the country. The ascendancy of the first African American president was a watershed moment in American history.
