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Langston had technicolor delusions, inanimate objects came alive in his hands, THEY were persecuting him, out to get him ... what a relief it was to know he wasn't going insane! When I saw the blood dripping from the tap in the bathtub, I knew that someone had a telenosis beam on me, and I breathed a very audible sigh of relief. During the past few days, I had begun to wonder if I was really cracking up. When you start seeing visions of a bear...

When I saw the blood dripping from the tap in the bathtub, I knew that someone had a telenosis beam on me, and I breathed a very audible sigh of relief. During the past few days, I had begun to wonder if I was really cracking up. When you start seeing visions of a bearded gent with a halo, or having vague but wonderful dreams about some sort of perfect world, feeling intense loyalties to undefined ideals, and experiencing sudden impulses, some...

A young and very beautiful girl with golden blond hair and smooth skin the color of creamed sweet potatoes floated in the middle of the windowless metal room into which Wayne Brighton drifted. The girl was not exactly naked, but her few filmy clothes concealed nothing.Wayne cleared his throat, his apprehension changing rapidly to confusion."You are going to reduce me?" he asked."The word is seduce, mister, " the girl said. "They told me reduce...

A young and very beautiful girl with golden blond hair and smooth skin the color of creamed sweet potatoes floated in the middle of the windowless metal room into which Wayne Brighton drifted. The girl was not exactly naked, but her few filmy clothes concealed nothing.Wayne cleared his throat, his apprehension changing rapidly to confusion."You are going to reduce me?" he asked."The word is seduce, mister, " the girl said. "They told me reduce...

Prices at the high end of the contemporary art market are driven by the intrinsic virtues of the art, but also by demand from the ultra rich, by national wealth funds, by agents, by non-taxed transactions, and by high status art fairs. The idea that the most interesting thing about contemporary art is its financial value is now accepted by many in the art world. The high end is the aspect that gets all the media attention and is where psycholo...

Focusing on the quality of autobiographical memory and the accuracy of eyewitness memory, this text examines the end-product and its application within the legal process in encouraging memory investigators to modify their testing procedures continually to gain more from participants about an event.

A lively examination of today's contemporary art market, where prices are driven by complex political and behavioral economics, not simply perceptions of artistic merit.

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What if coins could talk? In The Adventures of Lucky and Nicky they can! And much more! On one hand, Lucky (The Penny) and Nicky (The Nickel) are like your typical 12 year old boys that like to run and play. But on the other hand, the predicaments they encounter are very different. This book Lucky Gets Trapped in a Penny Loafer finds our coins in an unusual situation. As Lucky and Nicky are racing down the sidewalk, Lucky sees a boy running to...

Allison Walker is an enigma. It seems that the bright young owner of Rain City Yachts has another side to her personality-one irresistibly drawn to the field of medicine. Allison is diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder and committed to mandatory participation in a clinical trial at a prestigious psychiatric institute. But when she discovers her own misdiagnosis and the true source of her medical knowledge, she learns something even mo...

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Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while other...

In Everything Barren will be Blessed the images are immediate and memorable, of hot Southern California valleys and desert populated with wild and civilized life-coyotes, hawks, egrets, pistachio and almond groves, humans: "Crows never make excuses, / unlike us-but like us / complain bitterly about their blessings."These poems remind us of the significance of water, the importance of our relationship with nature, and our mortality: "the way we...

Acquiring contemporary art is about passion and lust, but it is also about branding, the back story, the relationship of money and status, and sometimes, about celebrity. The Supermodel and the Brillo Box offers an inside look the economics and psychology of the contemporary art market from the 2008 crash to today.

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Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with as...

-> Zurück nach Hause - Die unglaubliche Reise (USA 1993, 81 Min., FSK 6): Erleben Sie das aufregende Abenteuer dreier Freunde, die einfach nur Zurück nach Hause wollen: Die Hunde Shadow und Chance und die Katze Sassy verstehen die welt nicht mehr. Ihre geliebte Familie hat sie auf eine Farm gebracht, weit weg von zu Hause. Das es nur ein vorübergehender Aufenthalt sein soll, begreifen sie nicht. Ausbrechen und zurück nach Hause - das große A...

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