1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910479897103321

Autore

Hughes Steve

Titolo

Stiff / by Steve Hughes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2018

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

0-8143-4589-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 PDF (173 pages).)

Collana

Made in Michigan writers series

Disciplina

813/.6

Soggetti

Short stories.

Short stories, American

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Stiff: Stories by Steve Hughes -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Lucky Fucking Day -- Only Wilma -- I Am Still Learning About the World -- Ripening -- Her Walls Not Mine -- When Drink, Drugs, and Floor Polish Steal Your Youth and Trash Your Woman -- Dexter's Song -- Part Plant, Part Animal, Part Insect -- New Phase -- The Perfect Song -- Forest Parker, Poet Laureate of Lumpkin Street -- Wood for Rhonda -- Bullets for Charlene -- God, That Kimchi! -- I Don't Feel Sorry For Mrs. Miller -- Ted and His Heartbeat -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

With a hearty helping of Detroit grit, the stories in Stiff pay homage to a city turned upside down by economic abandonment. Steve Hughes pushes the boundaries of realism, creating situations that seem odd and otherworldly. In his Detroit, witches cast spells to improve their husbands, chickens grow from seeds, and house painters with anger management issues proclaim themselves poet laureates. The characters in Stiff are all searching for something in each other--a certain wholeness or understanding, a place to rest and call home. Hughes writes with great empathy about people who are struggling with their lives. In "Ripening," a man and woman in an illicit affair witness their genitals leaving their bodies for a rendezvous. In "Dexter's Song," a



drug-addicted saxophone player meets a bored suburban woman who gives him her ex-boyfriend's sax, which unleashes a series of disasters but the instrument is so fine, so perfect, that when he holds it to his lips he can do no wrong. Readers of contemporary fiction will enjoy this inventive and evocative collection of stories.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785823003321

Autore

Hulek Klaus

Titolo

Moduli spaces of Abelian surfaces [[electronic resource] ] : compactification, degenerations, and theta functions / / by Klaus Hulek, Constantin Kahn, Steven H. Weintraub

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : W. de Gruyter, 1993

ISBN

3-11-089192-1

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter expositions in mathematics ; ; 12

Classificazione

SK 230

Altri autori (Persone)

KahnConstantin <1960->

WeintraubSteven H

Disciplina

516.3/53

Soggetti

Moduli theory

Abelian varieties

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- I Compactified moduli spaces -- 1 Moduli spaces -- 2 Torus embeddings and applications -- 3 Toroidal compactification of A(1, p) -- 4 The boundary of A*(1, p) -- 5 Humbert surfaces and scaffoldings -- 6 The Satake compactification -- II Degenerations of abelian surfaces -- 1 Mumford's construction -- 2 The basic construction for surfaces -- 3 Degenerate abelian surfaces (the principally polarized case) -- 4 Degenerate abelian surfaces (the case of (1,p)-polarization) -- 5 Polarizations on degenerate abelian surfaces -- III The Horrocks-Mumford map -- 1 The Horrocks-Mumford bundle -- 2 Construction of the Horrocks-Mumford map -- 3 Extension of the Horrocks-Mumford map to A(1, 5) -- 4 Extension of the Horrocks-Mumford map to A* (1, 5) -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Notations -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Moduli Spaces of Abelian Surfaces: Compactification, Degenerations and Theta Functions.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910798988103321

Autore

Ryan Howard

Titolo

Educational justice : teaching and organizing against the corporate juggernaut / / Howard Ryan with Debra Goodman, Joel Jordan, and Joseph Zeccola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Monthly Review Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-58367-616-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

379.1

Soggetti

Teachers' unions - United States

Privatization in education - United States

Business and education - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.