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| Author | : Julian Bell |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010-05-25 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0500287546 |
“Exuberant, astute, and splendidly illustrated history of world art . . . draws fascinating parallels between artistic developments in Western and non-Western art.”—Publishers Weekly In this beautifully written story of art, Julian Bell tells a vivid and compelling history of human artistic achievements, from prehistoric stone carvings to the latest video installations. Bell, himself a painter, uses a variety of objects to reveal how art is a product of our shared experience and how, like a mirror, it can reflect the human condition. With hundreds of illustrations and a uniquely global perspective, Bell juxtaposes examples that challenge and enlighten the reader: dancing bronze figures from southern India, Romanesque sculptures, Baroque ceilings, and jewel-like Persian manuscripts are discussed side by side. With an insider’s knowledge and an unerring touch, Bell weaves these diverse strands into an invaluable introduction to the wider history of world art.
| Author | : Carlos Fuentes |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780395924990 |
An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture.
| Author | : Ronald Takaki |
| Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
| Total Pages | : 787 |
| Release | : 2012-06-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1456611062 |
Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.
| Author | : J. Max Taylor |
| Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
| Total Pages | : 163 |
| Release | : 2013-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1481718681 |
This book is about the unseen Shadow War that occurred between 1968 and 1976. It was written to honor those who served our country and didnt come back. They may have been ignored or denied by the Powers That Be, but they will live in my heart and my nightmares as long as I live. The profits from the sale of this book will go to help homeless veterans. Reading this book will open a new world for you -- The world of Special Intelligence Operations. From Viet Nam to Cambodia to Laos and North Viet Nam the action will show you why so many veterans from the Viet Nam War have PTSD. The potential for recurring nightmares will be apparent. Next you will take a trip from Libya to Spain to Italy and Romania. You will find out that the war against terror did not start in 2001. The following sample will demonstrate what Inside the World of Mirrors is all about. In 1974, I met and was briefed by a Mr. Martin, a high level individual from the American Embassy in Rome, Italy, on an operation to insure that a particular individual would not continue funding communist political activities in Italy. He was a bag man for the KGB. It was less than two months until a very important election was to take place. He was spreading money around to help the communist political candidates get elected. I was simply told Make Him Stop! They gave me carte blanche to get it done. Anytime in the next seven days would be just fine. This was only one of the 83 missions ran by a Special Intelligence Operative code named the Iceman
| Author | : Hervé Tullet |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 14 |
| Release | : 2008-08 |
| Genre | : Mirror images |
| ISBN | : 9781840116212 |
| Author | : E. O. Chirovici |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2017-02-21 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1501141546 |
Famous professor Joseph Wieder was brutally murdered, and the crime was never solved. Years later when literary agent Peter Katz receives an incomplete memoir written by a student of the murdered professor, he becomes obsessed with solving the crime.
| Author | : United States. USAF Scientific Advisory Board |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Directed-energy weapons |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Graham Child |
| Publisher | : Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Joan Connor |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2006-01-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0803264550 |
"What do you do for a living?" the podiatrist (or the photographer or the woman in the train station) asks, and Joan Connor answers, "I?m a writer," waiting with a cringe for the inevitable rejoinder: "Oh, boy, do I have a story for you!" How such offerings, not stories but small reports from the thick of life, become rich reflections on the nature of waiting and writing, language and love, memory and hope, is the mystery of this award-winning collection of essays. Traveling between the poles of Ohio and Vermont, childhood and motherhood, Connor writes of a peripatetic family whose oddities make the quirks of a Thurber household seem downright subdued; of a thirteen-year-old son as an unlikely companion through the torments of middle-aged dating; of old loves and new; and through it all, of writing as a means of finding the shortest distance between two lines: hope. With language that distills insight from anecdote and transforms the stuff of middling life into telling metaphor, The World Before Mirrors, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, lifts the telling of a life?s stories into the realm of flight.
| Author | : Laura A. Lewis |
| Publisher | : Duke University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2003-09-05 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0822385155 |
Through an examination of caste in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mexico, Hall of Mirrors explores the construction of hierarchy and difference in a Spanish colonial setting. Laura A. Lewis describes how the meanings attached to the categories of Spanish, Indian, black, mulatto, and mestizo were generated within that setting, as she shows how the cultural politics of caste produced a system of fluid and relational designations that simultaneously facilitated and undermined Spanish governance. Using judicial records from a variety of colonial courts, Lewis highlights the ethnographic details of legal proceedings as she demonstrates how Indians, in particular, came to be the masters of witchcraft, a domain of power that drew on gendered and hegemonic caste distinctions to complicate the colonial hierarchy. She also reveals the ways in which blacks, mulattoes, and mestizos mediated between Spaniards and Indians, alternatively reinforcing Spanish authority and challenging it through alliances with Indians. Bringing to life colonial subjects as they testified about their experiences, Hall of Mirrors discloses a series of contradictions that complicate easy distinctions between subalterns and elites, resistance and power.
