The M.I. Hummel Album

The M.I. Hummel Album
Author: Joan N. Ostroff
Publisher: Galahad Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1994-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780883658789

A celebration of a beloved figurine collection features more than one hundred full-color photographs that display the entire series, describes the life of its creator, and discusses the influences of religion, folk art, and tradition on her work.

Still Lives

Still Lives
Author: Maria Hummel
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1619021765

Twelve shocking paintings. Eleven famous murders. One missing artist . . . and one woman driven to find her—this Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection is a “stunning achievement” (Los Angeles Times). Kim Lord is an avant–garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self–portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women―the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others―and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city’s richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum’s opening night, all the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution’s flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls on the up–and–coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggie’s ex. A rogue’s gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord’s disappearance, she’ll come to suspect all of those closest to her. Set against a culture that often fetishizes violence, Still Lives is a page–turning exodus into the art world’s hall of mirrors, and one woman’s journey into the belly of an industry flooded with money and secrets. “It’s a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which characters you can and can’t trust . . . There’s a twist at the end that still keeps us up at night, it's THAT good.” —Reese Witherspoon (A Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine Selection)

Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Author: Mark Kroll
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2007-10-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1461660084

This full-length biography of the pianist and composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) places his life, career, and music compositions within the context of the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations that occurred during his lifetime and afterwards.

M.I. Hummel

M.I. Hummel
Author: Robert L. Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1989
Genre: Hummel figurines
ISBN: 9780790983073

Motherland

Motherland
Author: Maria Hummel
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1619023547

This “haunting” family saga set in WWII Germany “illuminates the reality of war away from the frontlines . . . with a compassion and depth of understanding that will touch your heart” (People). Inspired by the author’s extended family and their status as Mitläufer—Germans who ‘went along’ with Nazism, reaping its benefits and later paying the consequences Inspired by the stories told by her father about his German childhood and letters between her grandparents that were hidden in an attic wall for fifty years, Motherland is a novel that attempts to reckon with the paradox of the author's father—a product of her grandparents’ fiercely protective love—and their status as passive Nazi–sympathizers known as Mitläufer. At the center of Motherland lies the Kappus family: Frank is a reconstructive surgeon who lost his beloved wife in childbirth. Two months later, just before being drafted into medical military service, Frank marries a young woman charged with looking after the surviving baby and his two grieving sons. Alone in the house, Liesl attempts to keep the children fed with dwindling food supplies, safe from the constant Allied air attacks and the tides of desperate refugees flooding their town. When one child begins to mentally unravel, Liesl must discover the source of the boy’s infirmity or lose him forever to Hadamar, the infamous hospital for “unfit” children. Bearing witness to the shame and courage of Third Reich families during the devastating final days of the war, each family member’s fateful choice leads the reader deeper into questions of complicity and innocence, and to the novel’s heartbreaking and unforgettable conclusion.

Why Informal Workers Organize

Why Informal Workers Organize
Author: Calla Hummel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0192847813

Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50% of the global workforce. Surprisingly, scholars know little about informal workers' political or civil society participation. An informal worker is anyone who holds a job and who does not pay taxes on taxable earnings, does not hold a license for their work when one is required, or is not part of a mandatory social security system. For decades, researchers argued that informal workers rarely organized or participated in civil society and politics. However, millions of informal workers around the world start and join unions. Why do informal workers organize? In countries like Bolivia, informal workers such as street vendors, fortune tellers, witches, clowns, gravestone cleaners, sex workers, domestic workers, and shoe shiners come together in powerful unions. In South Africa, South Korea, and India, national informal worker organizations represent millions of citizens. The data in this book finds that informal workers organize in nearly every country for which data exists, but to varying degrees. This raises a related question: Why do informal workers organize in some places more than others? The reality of informal work described in this book and supported by surveys in 60 countries, over 150 interviews with informal workers in Bolivia and Brazil, ethnographic data from multiple cities, and administrative data upends the conventional wisdom on the informal sector. The contrast between scholarly expectations and emerging data underpin the central argument of the book: Informal workers organize where state officials encourage them to.

Tyranny of the Urgent

Tyranny of the Urgent
Author: Charles E. Hummel
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0830896244

Now thoroughly revised and expanded, this classic booklet by Charles E. Hummel offers ideas and illustrations for effective time management. With over one million copies in print, this classic booklet from Charles E. Hummel has transformed the minds and hearts of generations of Christians. Its simplicity and depth is a foundational resource for all who have felt overwhelmed by the responsibilities of each day, week, month and year. Now thoroughly revised and expanded, Hummel's booklet offers ideas and illustrations for effective time management that will help even the busiest people find time for what's important.

Warman's Hummel Field Guide

Warman's Hummel Field Guide
Author: Heidi Ann von Recklinghausen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Hummel figurines
ISBN: 9781440229985

This is a quick and easy-to-use reference guide for pricing Hummel figurines. The text features valuable vintage Hummel figurines, prices, full descriptions, identification information and production status.

Hummel

Hummel
Author: Eric W. Ehrmann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1976
Genre: Figurines
ISBN:

House and Fire

House and Fire
Author: Maria Hummel
Publisher: Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780971898127

House and Fire is the 2013 winner of the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, chosen by Fanny Howe.