Author: Michael T. Fournier
Publisher: Mitten Press
ISBN: 9780983581314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When an art scene takes root in a pop-up colony called Freedom Springs, micro-visionary Ben Wilfork promotes the giant, autobiographical 600 square foot canvases of former chess prodigy and high end dominatrix Rhonda Barrett using his Hidden Wheel as a bridge to the future before pre-Datastrophe history completes itself. It's a book about the scams of the modern age--artistic self-promotion, corporate infiltration of hipsterdom--and it's hilarious. At the same time this is a philosophical literary work that dissects hipsterdom to get at the core of what it's all about. A must-read for art fans, punk fans, anyone who wants to know how the truly original ideas can get subsumed by the corporate machine--and how to save them. Told in an intriguing intersecting point of view style this is a powerful short novel by an emerging talent.
Hidden Wheel
Author: Michael T. Fournier
Publisher: Mitten Press
ISBN: 9780983581314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When an art scene takes root in a pop-up colony called Freedom Springs, micro-visionary Ben Wilfork promotes the giant, autobiographical 600 square foot canvases of former chess prodigy and high end dominatrix Rhonda Barrett using his Hidden Wheel as a bridge to the future before pre-Datastrophe history completes itself. It's a book about the scams of the modern age--artistic self-promotion, corporate infiltration of hipsterdom--and it's hilarious. At the same time this is a philosophical literary work that dissects hipsterdom to get at the core of what it's all about. A must-read for art fans, punk fans, anyone who wants to know how the truly original ideas can get subsumed by the corporate machine--and how to save them. Told in an intriguing intersecting point of view style this is a powerful short novel by an emerging talent.
Publisher: Mitten Press
ISBN: 9780983581314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
When an art scene takes root in a pop-up colony called Freedom Springs, micro-visionary Ben Wilfork promotes the giant, autobiographical 600 square foot canvases of former chess prodigy and high end dominatrix Rhonda Barrett using his Hidden Wheel as a bridge to the future before pre-Datastrophe history completes itself. It's a book about the scams of the modern age--artistic self-promotion, corporate infiltration of hipsterdom--and it's hilarious. At the same time this is a philosophical literary work that dissects hipsterdom to get at the core of what it's all about. A must-read for art fans, punk fans, anyone who wants to know how the truly original ideas can get subsumed by the corporate machine--and how to save them. Told in an intriguing intersecting point of view style this is a powerful short novel by an emerging talent.
Hidden in Plain View
Author: Jacqueline L. Tobin
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385497679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard offer the first proof that certain quilt patterns, including a prominent one called the Charleston Code, were, in fact, essential tools for escape along the Underground Railroad. In 1993, historian Jacqueline Tobin met African American quilter Ozella Williams amid piles of beautiful handmade quilts in the Old Market Building of Charleston, South Carolina. With the admonition to "write this down," Williams began to describe how slaves made coded quilts and used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. But just as quickly as she started, Williams stopped, informing Tobin that she would learn the rest when she was "ready." During the three years it took for Williams's narrative to unfold—and as the friendship and trust between the two women grew—Tobin enlisted Raymond Dobard, Ph.D., an art history professor and well-known African American quilter, to help unravel the mystery. Part adventure and part history, Hidden in Plain View traces the origin of the Charleston Code from Africa to the Carolinas, from the low-country island Gullah peoples to free blacks living in the cities of the North, and shows how three people from completely different backgrounds pieced together one amazing American story. With a new afterword. Illlustrations and photographs throughout, including a full-color photo insert.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385497679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard offer the first proof that certain quilt patterns, including a prominent one called the Charleston Code, were, in fact, essential tools for escape along the Underground Railroad. In 1993, historian Jacqueline Tobin met African American quilter Ozella Williams amid piles of beautiful handmade quilts in the Old Market Building of Charleston, South Carolina. With the admonition to "write this down," Williams began to describe how slaves made coded quilts and used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. But just as quickly as she started, Williams stopped, informing Tobin that she would learn the rest when she was "ready." During the three years it took for Williams's narrative to unfold—and as the friendship and trust between the two women grew—Tobin enlisted Raymond Dobard, Ph.D., an art history professor and well-known African American quilter, to help unravel the mystery. Part adventure and part history, Hidden in Plain View traces the origin of the Charleston Code from Africa to the Carolinas, from the low-country island Gullah peoples to free blacks living in the cities of the North, and shows how three people from completely different backgrounds pieced together one amazing American story. With a new afterword. Illlustrations and photographs throughout, including a full-color photo insert.
The Wheel of Osheim
Author: Mark Lawrence
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101630957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, the thrilling conclusion to the Red Queen’s War... All the horrors of Hell stand between Snorri ver Snagason and the rescue of his family, if indeed the dead can be rescued. For Jalan Kendeth, getting out alive and with Loki’s key is all that matters. Loki’s creation can open any lock, any door, and it may also be the key to Jalan’s fortune back in the living world. Jalan plans to return to the three w’s that have been the core of his idle and debauched life: wine, women, and wagering. Fate, however, has other plans, larger plans. The Wheel of Osheim is turning ever faster, and it will crack the world unless it’s stopped. When the end of all things looms, and there’s nowhere to run, even the worst coward must find new answers. Jalan and Snorri face many dangers, from the corpse hordes of the Dead King to the many mirrors of the Lady Blue, but in the end, fast or slow, the Wheel of Osheim always pulls you back. In the end, it’s win or die.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101630957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire Trilogy, the thrilling conclusion to the Red Queen’s War... All the horrors of Hell stand between Snorri ver Snagason and the rescue of his family, if indeed the dead can be rescued. For Jalan Kendeth, getting out alive and with Loki’s key is all that matters. Loki’s creation can open any lock, any door, and it may also be the key to Jalan’s fortune back in the living world. Jalan plans to return to the three w’s that have been the core of his idle and debauched life: wine, women, and wagering. Fate, however, has other plans, larger plans. The Wheel of Osheim is turning ever faster, and it will crack the world unless it’s stopped. When the end of all things looms, and there’s nowhere to run, even the worst coward must find new answers. Jalan and Snorri face many dangers, from the corpse hordes of the Dead King to the many mirrors of the Lady Blue, but in the end, fast or slow, the Wheel of Osheim always pulls you back. In the end, it’s win or die.
House Documents
Author: USA House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
漢英大辭典
Author: 張鵬雲
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese language
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Text book of documentary Chinese, with a vocabulary, for the special use of the Chinese Customs Service
Author: Friedrich Hirth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Outing
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Anti-Rollover Omni-Wheel
Author: Alexandre Kassiantchouk
Publisher: Alexandre Kassiantchouk
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
I have designed an automotive anti-rollover device. I call it AROW (Anti-Rollover Omni-Wheel). Its physics is reminiscent of well-known automotive device ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System). It is a simple and low-cost mechanical device with no controls or gears to fail. This Anti-Rollover Omni-Wheel device targets car accident mortality reduction by 10%-30%. By reducing rollover risk, this device allows car manufacturers to lower car curb weight while not jeopardizing car lateral stability. Thus, the invention helps save energy. The energy saving benefits are especially great when energy denser car batteries and new carbon-based materials come to the electric vehicle market. By saving energy, this device can help fight Climate Change and help save our planet.
Publisher: Alexandre Kassiantchouk
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
I have designed an automotive anti-rollover device. I call it AROW (Anti-Rollover Omni-Wheel). Its physics is reminiscent of well-known automotive device ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System). It is a simple and low-cost mechanical device with no controls or gears to fail. This Anti-Rollover Omni-Wheel device targets car accident mortality reduction by 10%-30%. By reducing rollover risk, this device allows car manufacturers to lower car curb weight while not jeopardizing car lateral stability. Thus, the invention helps save energy. The energy saving benefits are especially great when energy denser car batteries and new carbon-based materials come to the electric vehicle market. By saving energy, this device can help fight Climate Change and help save our planet.
The American Stationer
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stationery trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stationery trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries
Author: Guy Laking
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armor
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description