The Parallel Apartments

by Bill
The Parallel Apartments
Author: Bill
Publisher: McSweeney's
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2014-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1940450314
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Justine Moppett is 34, pregnant, and fleeing an abusive relationship in New York to dig up an even more traumatic childhood in Austin. Waiting for her there is a cast of more than a dozen misfits — a hemophobic aspiring serial killer, a deranged soprano opera singer, a debt-addicted entrepreneur-cum-madam, a matchmaking hermaphrodite — each hurtling toward their own calamities, and, ultimately, toward each other. A Texan Gabriel García Márquez who writes tragicomic twists reminiscent of John Kennedy Toole, Bill Cotter produces some of the most visceral, absurd, and downright hilarious sentences to be found in fiction today. The Parallel Apartments is a bold leap forward for a writer whose protean talents, whose sheer exuberance for language and what a novel can do, marks him as one of the most exciting stylists in America.

McSweeney's Issue 46

by Dave Eggers
McSweeney's Issue 46
Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: McSweeney's
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-05-20
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1940450411
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In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands to explore contemporary life from every angle—swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even, briefly, to Epcot Center and the Havana home of a Cuban transsexual named Amy Winehouse. Featuring contemporary writers from ten different countries—including Alejandro Zambra, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Andres Ressia Colino, Mariana Enriquez, and many more—McSweeney’s 46 offers an essential cross-section of the troubles and temptations confronting the region today. It’s crucial reading for anyone interested in the shifting topography of Latin American literature and Latin American life, and a collection of writing to rival anything we’ve assembled in years.

The Structure of Affine Buildings. (AM-168)

by Richard Mark Weiss
The Structure of Affine Buildings. (AM-168)
Author: Richard Mark Weiss
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780691138817
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Richard Weiss gives a detailed presentation of the complete proof of the classification of Bruhat-Tits buildings first completed by Jacques Tits in 1986. The book includes numerous results about automorphisms, completions and residues of these buildings.

Groups and Analysis

by Katrin Tent
Groups and Analysis
Author: Katrin Tent
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2008-10-16
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0521717884
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Many areas of mathematics were deeply influenced or even founded by Hermann Weyl, including geometric foundations of manifolds and physics, topological groups, Lie groups and representation theory, harmonic analysis and analytic number theory as well as foundations of mathematics. In this volume, leading experts present his lasting influence on current mathematics, often connecting Weyl's theorems with cutting edge research in dynamical systems, invariant theory, and partial differential equations. In a broad and accessible presentation, survey chapters describe the historical development of each area alongside up-to-the-minute results, focussing on the mathematical roots evident within Weyl's work.

Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment

by Stacey Sloboda
Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment
Author: Stacey Sloboda
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2023-12-14
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350408026
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Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of interior design and interior spaces from 1700 to 1850. Considering the interior as material, social and cultural artefact, this volume moves beyond conventional descriptive accounts of changing styles and interior design fashions, to explore in depth the effect on the interior of the materials, processes, aesthetic philosophies and cultural attitudes of the age. From the Palace of Versailles to Virginia coffeehouses, and from Chinoiserie bathhouses to the trading exchanges of the West Indies, the chapters in this book examine a wide range of themes including technological advancements, public spaces, gender and sexuality, and global movements in interior designs and decorations. Drawing together contributions from leading scholars, this volume provides the most authoritative and comprehensive survey of the history of interiors and interior architecture in the long eighteenth century.