Barry: 2877 books

Everybody likes to take pot shots at the world of Big Food - particularly Big Fast Food. It's making everybody fat. It's making our children diabetic. It's an agent for sinister globalism. It exploits labour. It always seems to be Public Enemy # 1. There is, however, another world of Fast Food. A world...

In this book, Barry and Gail Lord focus their two lifetimes of international experience working in the cultural sector on the challenging questions of why and how culture changes. They situate their discourse on aesthetic culture within a broad and inclusive definition of culture in relation to material,...

As his life fragments, and he is fired from his job and fights with his girlfriend, Mexican vacations cannot cheer the nameless narrator of In Light of Ray. In desperation, he decides to follow the cryptic advice of Ray, a shadowy figure he has only met a few times. His understanding of Ray’s obscure...

Lynda Barrys beloved, genre-defying work of “autobifictionalography” One! Hundred! Demons! exploded the comic book medium, ending up on “Best Of” lists from Time Magazine and the Chicago Tribune. In these seventeen vignettes that touch on the scent of people's homes, why babies are the best dancers,...

Mrs. Chowdhary named her youngest daughter after Saint Theresa, the Little Flower of Jesus. Unfortunately, Terry has more in common with Attila the Hun than her nineteenth century namesake.

An amoral violent Chicago enforcer is heading for the sun and ocean breeze of California to the get to the bottom of the recent suspicious death of his sister. He runs into his own kind as soon as the plane touches asphalt, and they don't appreciate him being around. Not content to let the police...

First published in 1901, Barry Pain's collection of short stories plays deftly with an array of supernatural and macabre ideas - the Roman soldier who encounters a nameless horror when he falls through a crack in the earth; ordinary people driven mad by their obsession with other people's crimes;...

The portrait of a very young Bob Dylan on the cover of The Times They Are a Changin is probably one of the most recognizable and famous album covers of all time. Photographer Barry Feinstein took that photo, as well as many more of Dylan throughout his career. His images have been published throughout...

Lucy's Tavern is the best kind of small-town bar. It has a good jukebox, a bartender with a generous pour, and it's always open, even in terrible weather. In the raw and beautiful country that makes up Rebecca Barry's fictional landscape, Lucy's is where everyone ends up, whether they mean to or not. There's...

Peter Stanchek, le jeune Harbinger aux fabuleux pouvoirs psychiques, est mal en point depuis qu’il a quitté la fondation Harbinger. Mais pour l’instant, il n’a d’autre choix que de continuer à fuir. En route à travers les États-Unis, il réunit un groupe d’individus dotés de super-pouvoirs,...

A világhírű DARE program már több ezer ember teljes felépülését tette lehetővé! Nagy megtiszteltetés számomra, hogy az angol nyelvű könyv létrejöttében részt vehettem és, hogy a magyar ill. német nyelvű programot létrehozhattam! Tiszta szívemből remélem, hogy a program...

I have had so many names; Asmodeus, Asmodai, Hashmodai, Hercules, Incubus, Casanova, The Demon Of Lust just to mention a few. I have feasted with heads of state such as Nero, Napoleon, Mary Tutor, Martin Luther, Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler and many more. Queens have fallen to their knees to pleasure...

Creations have a way of flouting their creators. Witness the writer trying to immortalize his work in this dystopian comedy.

Originally released in 1998, Documenting the Documentary responded to a scholarly landscape in which documentary film was largely understudied and undervalued aesthetically, and analyzed instead through issues of ethics, politics, and film technology. Editors Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski...