The Didi Man

Author: Dietmar Hamann
Publisher: Headline
ISBN: 9780755362813
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A warm and highly entertaining account of Dietmar Hamman's personal story, The Didi Man was a Sunday Times bestseller on hardback publication. Dietmar 'Didi' Hamann is a complete one-off. The foreigner with a Scouse accent. The German who now plays cricket for his local village team. The overseas footballer turned anglophile who fell deeply in love with the city of Liverpool, its people and its eponymous football club. The classy midfielder had a long and distinguished playing career, but it was his seven seasons at Anfield that marked him out forever as a true Liverpool legend. His cult status was secured when he came off the bench at half-time during the 2005 Champions League final in Istanbul to inspire his team to a dramatic come-back and spectacular European glory. The Didi Man is Hamann's story of his time on Merseyside at a football club which will always have a very special place in his heart.

Motown and Didi

Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780833509550
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Motown and Didi, two teenage loners in Harlem, become allies in a fight against Touchy, the drug dealer whose dope is destroying Didi's brother, and find themselves falling in love with each other.

Invention of Hysteria

Author: Georges Didi-Huberman
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262541807
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 387

Book Description
The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria. In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere. As Didi-Huberman shows, these photographs were far from simply objective documentation. The subjects were required to portray their hysterical "type"—they performed their own hysteria. Bribed by the special status they enjoyed in the purgatory of experimentation and threatened with transfer back to the inferno of the incurables, the women patiently posed for the photographs and submitted to presentations of hysterical attacks before the crowds that gathered for Charcot's "Tuesday Lectures." Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part. Didi-Huberman follows this path from complicity to antipathy in one of Charcot's favorite "cases," that of Augustine, whose image crops up again and again in the Iconographie. Augustine's virtuosic performance of hysteria ultimately became one of self-sacrifice, seen in pictures of ecstasy, crucifixion, and silent cries.

Confronting Images

Author: Georges Didi-Huberman
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271024714
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he contends, fail to engage this underside, and he suggests that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork", a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.

Liar, Liar

Author: Lisa Jackson
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 142013602X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481

Book Description
IF YOU TELL A LIE Twenty years ago, ex-beauty queen Didi Storm worked the Vegas strip as a celebrity impersonator. Now, in death, she’s finally getting the publicity she always craved. To the police, it looks like suicide, or a stunt gone wrong. Her estranged daughter, Remmi, knows the answer isn’t so simple. Though dressed in Didi’s clothes and wig, the broken body on the sidewalk isn’t Didi . . . THERE’S NO DOUBT Remmi was fifteen when she last saw her mother. En route to meet her crush, Noah Scott, Remmi secretly witnessed Didi handing over one of her newborn twins to a strange man. Then Didi disappeared, as did Remmi’s other half-sibling. Remmi pleaded with the authorities to find them, with no success. Yet she’s always sensed that someone is watching her . . . YOU WILL DIE Noah, now running his own PI firm, resurfaces in Remmi’s life, determined to find out what happened that long-ago night. As they dig deeper, the truth about Remmi’s family begins to emerge—a story of greed and twisted lies that someone will kill again and again to keep hidden . . .

Eleven Hours

Author: Paullina Simons
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 146685149X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
A PREGNANT WOMAN. A DERANGED PSYCHOPATH. A DESPERATE RACE AGAINST TIME. Didi Wood, eight-and-a-half months pregnant with her third child, heads to a mall to get out of the oppressive Dallas hear and get some shopping done. She is supposed to meet her husband for lunch at one o' clock. By 1:45, she still isn't there--she's riding down the highway at breakneck speed, with a madman at the wheel. His name is Lyle, and he has abducted her from a department store parking lot. But why he's done this, and what he wants, are anyone's guess. Now the police and the FBI have to somehow track him down. And a very pregnant Didi must keep herself and her unborn child alive at any price--even as they ride closer and closer in the darkest chamber of a psychopath's mind.

Didi Dodo, Future Spy: Recipe for Disaster

Author: Tom Angleberger
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1683354753
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101

Book Description
Meet Didi Dodo. She's a dodo and a spy. Or she will be, once she's hired! Meet Koko Dodo. He's a dodo and a baker. He gives Didi Dodo her first case! Someone has stolen Koko Dodo's Super Secret Fudge Sauce for the Royal Cookie Contest! But don't worry. Didi Dodo has a daring plan to catch the culprit.

Depeche Mode

Author: Didi Zill
Publisher: Art Stock
ISBN: 9783896024916
Category : Portrait photography
Languages : en
Pages : 375

Book Description
Without doubt, the Munich-based star photographer Did Zill is one of the essential visual chroniclers of 80s music. From 1982 to 1987, he met up with Depeche Mode for twelve photo sessions, creating a unique fund of pictures. For the first time, Didi Zill has opened his archives to furnish this luxurious volume with some of the best Depeche Mode photography around. This is by far the largest illustrated book available on Depeche Mode! Few bands have influenced electronic pop as strongly as have Depeche Mode - a band who have experienced all the highs and lows of the music business. The young band soared to comet-like heights in the eighties. They were the most important pioneers of synthesizer music. Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Andy Fletcher, and Alan Wilder had an enormous impact on the sound of the decade. They released great albums which are still influential in terms of style today. Session 1 - March 1982, studio in Munich / Session 2 - December 1982, studio and live in Munich / Session 3 - 1983, TV show / Session 4 - April 1984, TV show in Munich / Session 5 - November 1984, Deutsches Museum / Session 6 - November 1984, live in Essen / Session 7 May 1985, festival in Montreux / Session 8 - September 1985, radio show in Berlin / Session 9 - November 1985, TV show Dortmund / Session 10 - May 1986, live in Munich / Session 11 - October 1986 live in Vienna / Session 12 - November 1987, concert in Frankfurt.

Germs Vs. Soap

Author: Didi Dragon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735252421
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
You know who really doesn't want you to wash your hands? Germs. Germs vs. Soap shows children (and adults) the secret world of germs and how much germs absolutely, positively do NOT like soap. In fact, these germs will do anything to trick kids into not washing their hands with soap because it's the one thing standing between them and their beloved energy cupcakes. And all they want is to gobble up all the energy cupcakes humans have to offer and then spread to eat some more. But only if soap doesn't get in the way. Otherwise, it's all down the drain for them. Children need to learn proper hand hygiene, but it does matter how you tell them. Did you jumpstart their imagination? A quirky book like Germs vs. Soap sticks with kids. The story becomes real, right there in the palm of their hands, the moment they step in front of the sink and pump some soap. Germs, beware!

The Man who Walked in Color

Author: Georges Didi-Huberman
Publisher: Univocal Publishing
ISBN: 9781945414015
Category : Light in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
For Georges Didi-Huberman, artist James Turrell is an inventor of impossible spaces and unthinkable sites, of aporias, of fables. Creator of some of the most fascinating works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, Turrell uses as his medium the most elemental material of sight and art: light. One crucial aspect of his work is the fabulation of place and vision with its foundation deep in history. Didi-Huberman takes the reader on a journey between the impossible limit of the horizon and the arrival into a site of reverie and light, from the story of Exodus to the Pala d'Oro of San Marco's Basilica in Venice, through art history and the origins of religious worship, finally plunging into Turrell's cadmium dust and light, into the Painted Desert of his installation Roden Crater. For the esteemed art historian, Turrell's artistic practice becomes the equivalent of walking along endless pathways in the desert, in "minuscule cathedrals where man discovers himself walking in color."