Author: Kathleen Alcalá
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156006347
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Recounts the lives of a nineteenth-century Indian woman who flees the desert of New Mexico when Mexican soldiers attack her village, her daughter, and a Latina woman from present-day Los Angeles who becomes fascinated by her own ancestry.
Author: David Bailey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783869301280
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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What do flowers, skulls and contact sheets have in common? Not much you might think, but David Bailey begs to differ. This book combines Bailey's recent colour photographs of still-life flowers and skulls, with black and white contacts of his iconic celebrity portraiture and fashion work from the 1960s.
Author: Jerry Pallotta
Publisher: Charlesbridge
ISBN: 1632895293
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Roses are red, Violets are blue... And they're only two of the flowers in this book of bright colors and delightful information. Young readers will be fascinated to find out what flower can be used to make a doll, which flower flavors tea, and which flower farmers feed to chickens. Author Jerry Pallotta and illustrator Leslie Evans have collaborated to produce a stunning bouquet of words and pictures about the world of flowers–one of nature's most beautiful gifts.
Author: Antjie Krog
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307420507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating separation of the races were thrown out. The country, which had been carved into a crazy quilt that reserved the most prosperous areas for whites and the most desolate and backward for blacks, was reunited. The dreaded and dangerous security force, which for years had systematically tortured, spied upon, and harassed people of color and their white supporters, was dismantled. But how could this country--one of spectacular beauty and promise--come to terms with its ugly past? How could its people, whom the oppressive white government had pitted against one another, live side by side as friends and neighbors? To begin the healing process, Nelson Mandela created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, headed by the renowned cleric Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Established in 1995, the commission faced the awesome task of hearing the testimony of the victims of apartheid as well as the oppressors. Amnesty was granted to those who offered a full confession of any crimes associated with apartheid. Since the commission began its work, it has been the central player in a drama that has riveted the country. In this book, Antjie Krog, a South African journalist and poet who has covered the work of the commission, recounts the drama, the horrors, the wrenching personal stories of the victims and their families. Through the testimonies of victims of abuse and violence, from the appearance of Winnie Mandela to former South African president P. W. Botha's extraordinary courthouse press conference, this award-winning poet leads us on an amazing journey. Country of My Skull captures the complexity of the Truth Commission's work. The narrative is often traumatic, vivid, and provocative. Krog's powerful prose lures the reader actively and inventively through a mosaic of insights, impressions, and secret themes. This compelling tale is Antjie Krog's profound literary account of the mending of a country that was in colossal need of change.
Author: Jonathan D. Katz
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588342999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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An entirely new interpretation of modern American portraiture based on the history of sexual difference. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, companion volume to an exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, Hide/Seek openly considers what has long been suppressed or tacitly ignored, even by the most progressive sectors of our society: the influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating American modernism. Hide/Seek shows how questions of gender and sexual identity dramatically shaped the artistic practices of influential American artists such as Thomas Eakins, Romaine Brooks, Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe, and many more—in addition to artists of more recent works such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Opie, and Cass Bird. The authors argue that despite the late-nineteenth-century definition and legal codification of the “homosexual,” in reality, questions of sexuality always remained fluid and continually redefined by artists concerned with the act of portrayal. In particular, gay and lesbian artists—of but not fully in the society they portrayed—occupied a position of influential marginality, from which vantage point they crafted innovative and revolutionary ways of painting portraits. Their resistance to society's attempt to proscribe them forced them to develop new visual vocabularies by which to code, disguise, and thereby express their subjects' identities—and also their own. Bringing together for the first time new scholarship in the history of American sexuality and new research in American portraiture, Hide/Seek charts the heretofore hidden impact of gay and lesbian artists on American art and portraiture and creates the basis for the necessary reassessment of the careers of major American artists—both gay and straight—as well as of portraiture itself.
Author: Adult Coloring Book J. Kaiwell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530030514
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Skulls : Sugar Skull Funny Coloring Book Inspire Creativity Reduce Stress (Tattoo Day of The Dead Skull Volume 5) Coloring Books For Grown-Ups: Dia De Los Muertos: Sugar Skulls Coloring Pages 68 pages Measures 8"X10" Full Matte Color Exterior B&W Interior Best Skulls Design Of Tattoo Day of The Dead Skull Volume :Tattoo Day of The Dead Skull Volume 1 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523368462 Tattoo Day of The Dead Skull Volume 2 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523374535 Tattoo Day of The Dead Skull Volume 3 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523425482 Tattoo Day of The Dead Skull Volume 4 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523473622 Tattoo Day of The Dead Skull Volume 5 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/153003051X Tattoo Day of The Dead Skull Volume 6 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1530044804 Follow us http://www.allcoloringbook.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AllColoringBook/Tag skull colouring book,day of the dead sugar skull coloring book,skull coloring pages,day of the dead skull coloring sheets,sugar skull pictures color,skeleton coloring sheets,sugar skull coloring pages,sugar skull coloring book for adults
Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504051351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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How far will four friends go for immortality? This novel is Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author “Robert Silverberg at his very best” (George R. R. Martin). After Eli, a scholarly college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The Book of Skulls, he and his friends embark on a cross-country trip to Arizona in search of a legendary monastery where they hope to find the secret of immortality. On the journey with Eli, there’s Timothy, an upper-class WASP with a trust fund and a solid sense of entitlement; Ned, a cynical poet and alienated gay man; and Oliver, a Kansas farm boy who escaped his rural origins and now wants to escape death. If they can find the House of Skulls where immortal monks allegedly reside, they’ll undergo a rigorous initiation. But do those eight grinning skulls mean the joke will be on them? For a sacrifice will be required. Two must die so that two may live forever . . . Stretching the boundary between science fiction and horror, Robert Silverberg masterfully probes deeper existential questions of morality, brotherhood, and self-determined destiny in what Harlan Ellison refers to as “one of my favorite nightmare novels.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Author: Kathleen Alcala
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811829533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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When Estela moves to Mexico City in the late 1800s and meets La Señorita, "what starts as lessons to educate poor children grows into a school for prostitutes, and that soon leads to a controversial all-women orchestra, a radical underground newspaper, and an increasingly dangerous movement for social change that foreshadows the Mexican Revolution."--Jacket.
Author: Stoic Lifestyle Press
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781671198586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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A journal for anyone striving to live a stoic life. The Latin quote on the cover "Memento mori" means "Remember that you will die," and is a reminder to live your best life. This notebook provides a space to write, journal, reflect and cultivate a positive mindset. Details: Matte cover Convenient size 6" x 9" Interior: lined white paper Pages: 100 Get one for yourself or a loved one today!
Author: Tabatha Vargo
Publisher: Tabatha Vargo
ISBN: 0986117382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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The first time I saw Skull, he was standing atop a speeding motorcycle. The second time, he was putting his fist through my brother’s face. Now he’s everywhere I look. He’s making my life hell with his vulgar remarks and seductive lure, but it’s not my fault my brother joined The Border Lords, his rival crew. I keep my nose out of their business and my head in the books, yet he’s always there provoking me. Dragging me into their conflict. Everyone in town knows you don’t mess with the Sons of Sinister, but no one ever told me what do when a Son of Sinister messes with me. New York Times bestselling author Tabatha Vargo invites you to fall in love with the Sons of Sinister! A new adult spin on MC books with all the grunge, angst, and dirty, foul-mouthed biker boys who know how to handle curves. The Sons of Sinister consists of four standalone novels. Shattered Skull, Dirty Saint, Ruthless Crow, & Joker’s Wild. This series is the Blow Hole Boys meets crotch rockets meets naughty, bully bastards who don’t give a f*ck and the good girls who can’t help but fall for them! They run the streets, the money, and can outride any other crew on the streets.
