Bøger af Ross Barrett

Sol, a young truck driver with a turbulent past, drives his vehicle off the road into a tree in the Adelaide Hills. He finds himself with a mangled knee in a hospital bed next to Dave, an ageing pulp fiction writer and former war correspondent. Dave relieves the tedium by needling the new arrival at every opportunity. The result is a brawl that sees both men on the floor, with the petite Nurse Sarah struggling to haul the burly truckie away from her older patient's throat. From such an inauspicious beginning, the relationship between the two men develops, overcoming the barriers of their initial mutual mistrust and reticence. As Dave comes to suspect that, despite their differences, he and Sol share a similar dark secret, he adopts a course of action, encouraged by Sarah, that compels the younger man to face a hidden truth, and offers Dave one last chance at fulfillment.

"Tracing the rise of the modern real estate economy through art's entanglements with processes of speculation, gentrification, and various forms of land management between 1820 and 1900, Speculative Landscapes makes a compelling case for painting as a key site where those processes were worked out and, in some cases, resisted. Ross Barrett's case studies reject any opposition between art and business to argue for both as 'deeply imaginative' endeavors."--Jennifer A. Greenhill, author of Playing It Straight: Art and Humor in the Gilded Age "Speculative Landscapes is a comprehensive look at speculation, enclosure, outlay, debt, recompense, and the process by which land becomes property. Barrett shows how painting provided a tool for comprehending and commenting on that act of becoming."--Leo Mazow, Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

With the aid of entertaining short stories, anecdotes, lucid explanations and straight-forward figures, this book challenges the perception that the world of physics is inaccessible to the non-expert.

This book explains - in simple terms and with almost no mathematics - the physics behind recent and glamorous discoveries in Cosmology, Quantum Mechanics, Elementary Particles (e.g.

Explores the problems and possibilities that the subject of political violence presented to American painters working between 1830 and 1890, a turbulent period during which common citizens frequently abandoned orderly forms of democratic expression to riot, strike, and protest violently.