New Releases by David Lynch

From the people who turned teacher education on its ear in Australia in 2001 comes a text about preparing the next generation of teachers. Richard Smith and David Lynch, two of Australia''s leading teacher education researchers and the architects of the acclaimed Bachelor of Learning Management program (BLM), take their previously published ideas about teaching and teacher education further to detail a new paradigm in the preparation of teachers. Drawing on 30 years of teacher education research and their own experiences in redeveloping teacher education in Australia, Smith and Lynch explore what it means to be a teacher in the 2000s, outlining a new vision for the preparation of teachers in a Knowledge Age.

Interviews with the acclaimed director of the films Dune, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, Mulholland Drive, and Inland Empire and the hit TV series Twin Peaks

A journalist traveling in Palestine and living in the West Bank looks at the plight of the Palestinian people and comments on the current state of Jewish-Arab relations in the region.

A nicely structured, lightly acidic addition to the handy Snob’s Dictionary series, decoding the baffling world of winespeak from A to Z. Wine Snob. The very phrase seems redundant, doesn''t it? When faced with this snobbiest of snobberies, the civilian wine enthusiast needs the help of savvy translators like David Kamp and David Lynch. Their Wine Snob’s Dictionary delivers witty explication of both old-school oeno-obsessions (What''s claret? Who''s Michael Broadbent?) and such new-wave terms as "malolactic fermentation" and "fruit bomb." Among the other things Kamp and Lynch demystify: Finish: the Snob code-term for "aftertaste." (Robert Parker includes the stopwatch-measured length of a wine''s finish in his ratings.) Meritage: an American wine classification that rhymes with "heritage," and should NEVER be pronounced "meri-TAHJ." Terroir: that elusive quality of vineyard soil that has sommeliers talking of "gunflint," "leather," and "candied fruits" Featuring ripe, luscious, full-bodied illustrations by Snob''s Dictionary stalwart Ross MacDonald, The Wine Snob’s Dictionary is as heady and sparkling as a vintage Taittinger, only much less expensive... and much more giggle-inducing. Cheers!

David Lynch ne fait rien comme personne. Aussi, lorsqu''il décide de prendre la plume pour parler de lui, de ses idées, de ses films, de sa méthode de travail, de sa vision du monde, c''est un livre comme aucun autre qu''il nous donne. Los Angeles. Les rapports entre O.J. Simpson et Lost Highway. La méditation transcendantale. La façon dont naissent les idées. Une rencontre avec Fellini. La texture des corps en putréfaction. L''avenir du cinéma. L''élaboration de certaines scènes de Twin Peaks. Le coffret et la clé de Mulholland Drive. Le pin d''Oregon. Le lien entre une ampoule pour sapin de Noël et un homme venu de Pologne avec d''étranges lunettes. Autant de pièces d''un puzzle surprenant. unique, déstabilisant. Un livre aussi original qu''un film de David Lynch.

In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch''s Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker''s methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation. Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch''s personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity. Catching Ideas Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you''ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They''re huge and abstract. And they''re very beautiful. I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything. Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch. --from Catching the Big Fish

Examines the Olmec heads in Mexico.

Delves into the internal politics and personalities that brought life to the Irish Socialist Republican Party. The political significance of the organisation led by James Connolly is viewed in both the international and national sphere. The legacy of theISRP has had an impact on the left wing and republican movements in Ireland for many decades.

A companion volume to Vino Italiano provides a convenient, consumer''s guide to Italian wine, listing high-quality Italian wines that are available in the United States along with information about the wine maker, ratings of the wineries, descriptions of the wine, and other valuable consumer data. Original. 25,000 first printing.

"Images shows the progression of Lynch''s avant-garde style of filmmaking - from his very first short films, to his status as the ultimate cult director with Eraserhead, to the commercial successes of The Elephant Man and Blue Velvet and the creation of his television series Twin Peaks, which made it into - and forever altered - the mainstream. Here are many familiar scenes: the gas-masked Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet, the squalling baby from Eraserhead, Dune''s octopus-faced interstellar navigators, Nicholas Cage singing "Love Me Tender" to Laura Dern in Wild at Heart, and Kyle MacLachlan as FBI agent Dale Cooper." "Much of the book, however, is composed of the images Lynch has kept to himself, and these are as fascinating and possibly more bizarre than any of his films. In addition to the stills from his movies, TV series, and theater work, are private, personal, never-before-seen paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, short works of fiction, and organic art. This is the artwork David creates for himself and his closest friends: photographs of his unusual obsessions from spark plugs and industrial wastelands to dental surgery and bald women, suburban snowmen, and biological artwork, such as "The Fish Kit.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved