Du Tac Au Tac

Du Tac Au Tac
Author: Jeannette D. Bragger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: French language
ISBN: 9781133958833

"Improve your French conversation skills with 'Du tac au tac: Managing Conversations in French!" Each chapter is organized around what you need to know to interact with native speakers: how to initiate, maintain, and close conversations; how to communicate and respond to feelings and emotions; how to express opinions; and how to give and get information. The communicative strategies used in this French text help you reactivate, strengthen, and build on what you already know so that you can improve your French communication skills with ease."--Back cover.

The Modern Procession

The Modern Procession
Author: Francis Alÿs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN:

On the morning of Sunday, June 23, 2002, 100 participants gathered at The Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, along with a 12-person Peruvian brass band, and a horse, dogs, and numerous palanquins, atop which sat replicas of three masterpieces from the museum's collection--Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Duchamp's ready-made "Bicycle Wheel" and a Giacometti--and a living representative of contemporary art, Kiki Smith. Three hours later they ended their procession at the museum's new temporary home, in Queens. Along the way, which ran from 11 West 53 Street, over the Queensboro Bridge, and up Queens Boulevard, the procession absorbed 100 additional participants, and enacted a very public spectacle--part saint's day procession and part secular celebration--of the museum's historic move to MoMA QNS.

The Story of Crass

The Story of Crass
Author: George Berger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

In-depth interviews with the main movers in the punk rock movement--Crass members Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant--detail the face of the revolution founded by these radical thinkers and artists. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules by putting out their own records, films, and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks that were dutifully covered by the world's press. Not just another iconoclastic band, Crass was a musical, social, and political phenomenon: commune dwellers that were rarely photographed and remained contemptuous of conventional pop stardom. As detailed in this history, their members explored and finally exhausted the possibilities of punk-led anarchy. This definitive biography of the band not only gives backstage access to their lives, philosophies, and the movement that followed, but also to never-before-seen photographs and rare dialogues.

Granite Island

Granite Island
Author: Dorothy Carrington
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2015-04-30
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0141918195

'Get away from here before you're completely bewitched and enslaved...' Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman's cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. GRANITE ISLAND, much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica and is an incomparably vivid and delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom and political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality and poetry.

The Big Miss

The Big Miss
Author: Hank Haney
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2013-03-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0307986004

Hank Haney's candid, surprisingly insightful account of his tumultuous six-year journey with Tiger Woods, during which the supremely gifted golfer collected six major championships and rewrote golf history. Hank was one of very few people allowed behind the curtain and observed Tiger in nearly every circumstance. There's never been a book about Tiger that is as intimate and revealing--or as wise about what it takes to coach a star athlete. From 2004 to the spring of 2010, Hank Haney was Tiger Woods's coach, and Tiger was Haney's only client. In that period, Tiger won more than a third of the tournaments he entered and six of his fourteen major titles. Haney felt hugely honored to help Tiger with his swing, and he approached the job with intense absorption and attention to detail. Haney was with Tiger 110 days a year, spoke to him over 200 days a year, and stayed at Tiger's house up to 30 days a year--sometimes affording him more contact with Tiger than either the athlete's agent or caddy. Haney saw his student in nearly every circumstance: in the locker room; on the course; with his wife, Elin; and relaxing with friends. Haney was there through it all, observing how Tiger's public identity sometimes meshed awkwardly with the roles of husband and friend, and how the former child prodigy came to have a conflicted relationship with the game that made him famous.

The Stories of I.C. Eason, King of the Dog People

The Stories of I.C. Eason, King of the Dog People
Author: I. C. Eason
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781574410129

Pipelines, and put up miles of power lines. All of a sudden he was in the middle of a big battle, and he soon became known as "The King of the Dog People."

Rethinking Boucher

Rethinking Boucher
Author: Melissa Lee Hyde
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892368259

"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.

PEACH: MIWA UEDA Illustrations

PEACH: MIWA UEDA Illustrations
Author: Miwa Ueda
Publisher: TokyoPop
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2004-04-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781591820420

This four-color, beautifully rendered book from famed manga-ka Miwa Ueda (creator of Peach Girl and Peach Girl: Change of Heart) features some of her most unforgettable artwork. It includes Peach Girl artwork from 1997 to 2000, as well as illustrations from Glass Hearts, Angel Wars, and other pre-Peach Girl works. The Peach Girl Art Book also features four bonus pin-up posters of Momo, Kiley, Toji, and the Peach Girl gang.

Travellers in Ethiopia

Travellers in Ethiopia
Author: Richard Pankhurst
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1965
Genre: Ethiopia
ISBN:

A selection of passages by foreign travelers in Ethiopia over almost two thousand years.