Author: Erin Hogan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226348482
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. “I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn’t magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New YorkTimes Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, ChicagoSun-Times “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, ChicagoTribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker
Author: Denise Solters
Publisher: Oak Tree Books
ISBN: 9781610090377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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Jetta, a service dog, wants to be good but some times she just acts like dog. She tells her adventures from puppy training to becoming a loyal companion to "Mom."
Author: Victor Cherbuliez
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Author: Adolf Hausrath
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Author: John Whipps
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1425967132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 345
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The Company Plan takes the reader from the starkness of Bosnia to the highest offices of Washington D.C, from the sands of Libya to the rare air of Mexico City and beyond. Major Nick Dentworth is the Special Operations Forces team leader. Nick's success leads him to be tasked to a special ops unit operated out of the directors' office of the CIA. Nick is briefed on the "Company's" operation to retrieve a sensitive document that could avert world-wide panic. During his mission, Nick is re-united with his long forgotten lover / special agent Georgina. They re-kindle the relationship they had those many years ago and together attempt to complete the mission using the "Company Plan". On the mission they encounter a sadistic Libyan Colonel who finds and tortures Nick and Georgina to gain information about their mission and who sent them. Can Nick find the document then clandestinely board a flight to the U.S. to complete the mission? The Colonel has Georgina and wants to make a trade, Georgina for the document. The LIS Colonel's henchman tries to double cross Nick. Bullets spray every direction and members of Nick's Special Forces team are killed or injured. The bad guys escape and Georgina is saved but Nick's mentor Manny is wounded. Who is behind this? They always seem one step ahead no matter what Nick tries to do, someone is waiting for him. How can he complete the mission if he has to deal with the company plan that is not working? "Guess I'll just have to make my own rules." Will the mastermind of the whole scheme to destabilize the Middle East be exposed? Follow Nick and Georgina on a suspenseful roller coaster of emotions to the exciting conclusion of the Company Plan.
Author: Erin Hogan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022609426X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her completed journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta Summer is a chronicle of this adventure, and it reveals Hogan’s unpretentious and boisterous narrative flair on the roads of middle-of-nowhere Utah in pursuit of Robert Smithson’s classic work Spiral Jetty. Along the way, Hogan writes about venturing outside of her urban comfort zone; who she encounters; and most importantly, how she found most of what she was looking for and then some.
Author: Brenda Rickman Vantrease
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312377854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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This spellbinding tale about the power of love and the perils of faith is from the bestselling author of "The Illuminator."
Author: Cecil Rhodes
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1449711421
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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Jacks Journey is one mans story of the surprising discovery of grace in the mistakes, failures, and heartaches of life. Jack tells of a ten-year journey of self-discovery and healing in the everyday and sacred places of grace. Soon after his fortieth birthday, his happy world crumbled into a sea of heartache and disappointment, which escalated in spite of every endeavor he made to get things right again. Mistake followed mistake, one failure leading to another. Eventually he came to terms with the grief all around him and accepted his misfortune as an opportunity to re-order his life. He discovered the resources he needed to heal in four places of grace: By interpreting and understanding the adverse circumstances of his life through the experiences of an initiation and ancient rites of passage. By re-identifying with the grief, heartache, disappointment, and failure of the great men and women of God, as told in the Old and New Testament stories. By working through the vigorous discipline required by the church and by experiencing amazing unconditional love and acceptance through the church. By experiencing the loyalty and love of family and friends. The road to healing and wholeness is long and winding, with many unexpected twists and turns. All too often, the wind was blowing, not from behind but into Jacks face, and the journey was a long and painful one. His story is a testimony that despite the difficulty and longevity of emotional healing, grace to heal abounds; that the very things that have gone wrong become the seeds of the new life to come; and that the secret of love, which is joy, is discovered in the depths of ones suffering and despair.
Author: Sydney Sipho Sepamla
Publisher: Vivlia Publisher & Booksellers
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Author: Uta Gerber Shervin
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1642580961
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Journey Through A Woe--Filled Past is the story of a family, my family, that lived through the terror of Hitler's war-torn Germany. Most of my family survived the horrific bombardment of Dresden, capital of Germany's state of Saxony, in the night of February 13 - 14, 1945. Then almost five, I still have the occasional nightmare of stepping out into the raging firestorm when our home, too, was hit by bombs. By March 1945, the family had found shelter in Graupa, near Dresden, where the composer, Richard Wagner, wrote parts of his Lohengrin. The brutal war in the spring of 1945 had almost run its course. In the coming month another crucial event, the entrance of the conquering Russian Army into the quiet little town would have consequences for decades to come. Food and any consumer goods all but disappeared from the stores\' shelves. An elderly couple died of starvation during the particularly severe winter of 1945 - 1946. Saxony became a part of the German Democratic Republic--Communist East Germany. Mother as so many others lost her teaching job and worked on a farm and nursery to put some food on our bare table. After four years, the District Superintendent of Schools summoned Mother to the county seat and offered a return to the classroom. All she had to do was join the communist party and take some courses--indoctrination into communism! Her resolve to flee to the West suddenly became rock solid when the superintendent ended the interview with, "we have been watching you and know you have a ten-year old daughter. Don't worry, we will take good care of her while you are away for your courses."
