Author: Richard Brandon
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1446795578
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
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Dan Hawkes and the Eagle's Cipher is a traditional adventure story set during World War II. It is ideal for 9-12-year old boys and girls. In the summer of 1940 Dan Hawkes struggles to come to terms with his father's death. His only companion is Kitty Finch, an inquisitive evacuee with a nose for trouble. Frustrated and angry, Dan is eager to make his own contribution to the war effort. Thanks to Kitty, he gets a bigger opportunity than he bargained for...
Author: Elizabeth Wells Gallup
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Author: Thomas Morton
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Author: David Ganz
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110558602
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.
Author: Jacques Rancière
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745646301
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution. Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all forms of militant or commercial compromise the autonomy that makes it a promise of emancipation. This constitutive tension sheds light on the paradoxes and transformations of critical art. It also makes it possible to understand why today's calls to free art from aesthetics are misguided and lead to a smothering of both aesthetics and politics in ethics.
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780241435113
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which informed Foucault's engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud and Wagner.
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476770220
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story of Harry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm the region, and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair. In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the “haves” and the “have nots” and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a new level. As the Times Literary Supplement observed, “Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous.”
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
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Category : Baronetage
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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