The Same Ax, Twice

The Same Ax, Twice PDF Author: Howard Mansfield
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651178
Category : Historic preservation
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Book Description
A wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and possibility of restoration.

The Same Ax, Twice

The Same Ax, Twice PDF Author: Howard Mansfield
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584651178
Category : Historic preservation
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Book Description
A wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and possibility of restoration.

In the Memory House (PB)

In the Memory House (PB) PDF Author: Howard Mansfield
Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
ISBN: 9781555912475
Category : Historic sites
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
A recollection of the land, its people, and its ideals. Examines what we choose to remember and how progress has created absences in our landscapes.

This Close to Home

This Close to Home PDF Author: Beth Turley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534476768
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
After the death of her mother, Brooke works to revitalize her town's festival in hope that it will help her sister and dad heal and allow them to begin to move on.

Visitors to the House of Memory

Visitors to the House of Memory PDF Author: Victoria Bishop Kendzia
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785336398
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
As one of the most visited museums in Germany’s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum. How do modern students relate to the museum’s evocative architecture, its cultural-political context, and its narrative of Jewish history? By accompanying a range of high school history students before, during, and after their visits to the museum, this book offers an illuminating exploration of political education, affect, remembrance, and belonging.

Finding Home

Finding Home PDF Author: Karen Kingsbury
Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN: 1534412190
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Now an original series on Prime Video Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury’s Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of tens of millions of readers who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell inspire and entertain young readers by going back in time to tell the childhood stories of the beloved Baxter children—Brooke, Kari, Ashley, Erin, and Luke. Summer is over and Dad begins his important position at an Indiana hospital. Like it or not, Bloomington is the Baxter Family’s new home. As school starts, everyone finds reasons to be excited about the move. Everyone, that is, except Ashley. Ashley desperately misses the home and friends she left behind. As she realizes her siblings have their struggles, too, she can’t help but wonder if unlikely friends can be the best friends of all? And could time and love from her family be enough to make a house feel like home? In the second book in the Baxter Family Children series, #1 New York Times bestselling Karen Kingsbury and Tyler Russell tell the funny and poignant tale of the Baxter children finding home!

House of Sticks

House of Sticks PDF Author: Ly Tran
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150111882X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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An intimate, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir--a young girl's journey from war-torn Vietnam to Ridgewood, Queens, and her struggle to find her voice amid clashing cultural expectations. Ly Tran is just a toddler in 1993 when she and her family emigrate from a small town along the Mekong River in Vietnam to a two-bedroom railroad apartment in Ridgewood, Queens. Ly's father, a former lieutenant in the South Vietnamese army, spent nearly a decade as a POW, and their resettlement is made possible through a humanitarian program run by the US government. Soon after they arrive, Ly joins her parents and three older brothers in sewing ties and cummerbunds piecemeal on their living room floor to make ends meet. As they navigate this new landscape, Ly finds herself torn between two worlds. She knows she must honor her parents' Buddhist faith and contribute to the family livelihood, working long hours at home and then later as a manicurist alongside her mother at a nail salon in Brownsville, Brooklyn, which her parents eventually take over. But at school, Ly feels the mounting pressure to blend in. A growing inability to see the blackboard presents new challenges, especially when her father forbids her from getting glasses, calling her diagnosis of poor vision a government conspiracy. His frightening temper and paranoia leave an indelible mark on Ly's sense of self. Who is she outside of everything her family expects of her? Told in a spare, evocative voice that, with flashes of humor, weaves together her family's immigration experience with her own fraught and courageous coming-of-age, House of Sticks is a timely and powerful portrait of one girl's struggle to reckon with her heritage and forge her own path. --

The House

The House PDF Author: Christina Lauren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481413724
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Book Description
Told in their separate voices, Gavin, a loner outcast, and Delilah, back in small-town Kansas after years at a Massachusetts boarding school, reconnect their senior year, but as their relationship deepens, it is clear that the eerie house Gavin dwells in will do anything to keep the two apart.

This Is Our House

This Is Our House PDF Author: Hyewon Yum
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374374872
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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Book Description
Follows a family through seasons and generations as the house to which their immigrant grandparents came is transformed into a home.

Silence, Screen, and Spectacle

Silence, Screen, and Spectacle PDF Author: Lindsey A. Freeman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 178238281X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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Book Description
In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now “spectacle” can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin’s plea to “explode the continuum of history” and bring our attention to now-time.

House of Robots

House of Robots PDF Author: James Patterson
Publisher: jimmy patterson
ISBN: 0316405884
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309

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Book Description
In this highly-illustrated series from James Patterson, an extraordinary robot signs up for an ordinary fifth grade class . . . and elementary school will never be the same! It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school: a walking, talking robot he calls E-for "Error". Sammy's no stranger to robots; his house is full of a colorful cast of them. But this one not only thinks it's Sammy's brother . . . it's actually even nerdier than Sammy. Will E be Sammy's one-way ticket to Loserville? Or will he prove to the world that it's cool to be square? It's a roller-coaster ride for Sammy to discover the amazing secret E holds that could change family forever . . . if all goes well on the trial run!