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Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser (Writing Art)
Andrea Fraser Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0262062445 |
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Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself." It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to critique -- as in a performance piece in which she leads a tour as a museum docent and describes the men's room in the same elevated language that she uses to describe seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Influenced by the interdisciplinarity of postmodernism, Fraser's interventionist art draws on four primary artistic and intellectual frameworks -- institutional critique, with its site-specific examination of cultural context; performance; feminism, with its investigation of identity formation; and Bourdieu's reflexive sociology. Fraser's writings form an integral part of her artistic practice, and this collection of texts written between 1985 and 2003 -- including the performance script for the docent's tour that gives the book its title -- both documents and represents her work.
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Questionable autonomy.(Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser)(Book Review): An article from: Afterimage
Kirsi Peltomaki Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000E6UI52 Release Date: 2006-01-13 |
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This digital document is an article from Afterimage, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2022 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Museum Highlights - The Writings of Andrea Fraser
A Fraser Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OQQ4WS |
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Before Disaster Strikes: Prevention, Planning, and Recovery : Caring for Your Personal Collections in the Event of Disaster
Priscilla O'Reilly Lawrence Manufacturer: Historic New Orleans Collection ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0917860322 |
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Creating Digital Illusions: Blackman Portfolio
Barry Blackman Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0442021410 |
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In this exciting new book, renowned photographer and graphic illustrator. Barry Blackman, draws on his own prestigious list of clients to explain the techniques used to create twenty of his most famous commercial images. Here, you'll find 500 original color images and 20 case studies, revealing step-by-step, the creation and manipulation of these digital images.
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Bill Barry Presents How to Draw Animation Storyboards: A Step by Step Guide
Bob Singer Manufacturer: Comic Art Publishing Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0944099122 |
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Perfect for Animation Fanatics.......2006-09-19
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Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology
Philip Rosen Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0231058810 |
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This book includes many seminal articles by film scholars such as Christian Metz, Jean-Louis Baudry, Stephen Heath, Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, and Noel Burch. Also included are articles by the era's leading cultural thinkers: Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, and Jean-Francçois Lyotard, to name a few.
Philip Rosen has carefully organized these essays to open the reader to a number of central issues in film theory including the classical narrative text, oppositional and avant-garde cinema, subject positioning, the cinematic apparatus, and ideology. Rosen's introductions to each section explain the assumptions, ideas, and arguments important to the articles, and help place the essays in the context of the history of film theory, of narrative analysis, and of social and cultural theory.
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"the" film theory reader.......2005-09-24
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Narrative, Apparatus, Ideology
Philip Rosen Manufacturer: Columbia University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OPY26O |
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Improvisational Models of Music Therapy
Kenneth E. Bruscia Manufacturer: C.C. Thomas ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0398052727 |
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Clear insight into different models of music therapy.......2001-05-01
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Shadows of the Last War (Dungeon & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying, Eberron Adventure)
Keith Baker Manufacturer: Wizards of the Coast ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0786932767 Release Date: 2004-07-01 |
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Not too bad..........2006-09-09
From a players point of view.......2005-12-17
Shadows of the last modual.......2004-11-17
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Broadcasting Law and Fundamental Rights
Rachael Craufurd Smith Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0198262213 |
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In the face of technological and ideological challenges European democracies have been experimenting with different regulatory regimes for audio-visual media. Rachael Craufurd Smith considers how courts of law came to be drawn into this regulatory debate and the extent to which they have employed fundamental rights to control political intervention. In the first part of her book she explores the reasons why the regulatory regime established for the printed press was initially thought inappropriate for radio and television and considers the continuing justification for state control of the audio-visual sector. She then examines the structural framework for judicial intervention in the legal systems of France, Italy and the United Kingdom, noting also the growing importance of European regulation. Finally, she charts how various constitutional and treaty provisions have been employed at the instance of commercial operators to challenge the dominance of state monopolies and asks whether judicial guarantees of freedom of speech and pluralism can continue to play a meaningful role in shaping the audio-visual world of the future.
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer Manufacturer: HCI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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David J. Pelzer's mother, Catherine Roerva, was, he writes in this ghastly, fascinating memoir, a devoted den mother to the Cub Scouts in her care, and somewhat nurturant to her children--but not to David, whom she referred to as "an It." This book is a brief, horrifying account of the bizarre tortures she inflicted on him, told from the point of view of the author as a young boy being starved, stabbed, smashed face-first into mirrors, forced to eat the contents of his sibling's diapers and a spoonful of ammonia, and burned over a gas stove by a maniacal, alcoholic mom. Sometimes she claimed he had violated some rule--no walking on the grass at school!--but mostly it was pure sadism. Inexplicably, his father didn't protect him; only an alert schoolteacher saved David. One wants to learn more about his ordeal and its aftermath, and now he's written a sequel, The Lost Boy, detailing his life in the foster-care system.Though it's a grim story, A Child Called "It" is very much in the tradition of Chicken Soup for the Couple's Soul and the many books in that upbeat series, whose author Pelzer thanks for helping get his book going. It's all about weathering adversity to find love, and Pelzer is an expert witness.
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This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it." Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare. He had nothing or no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive--dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son.Customer Reviews:
David Peltzer a Hero.......2007-10-16
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Will make you cry, a must read.......2007-10-01
I couldnt put the book down.......2007-09-27
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A Child Called 'it' - One Child's Courage To Survive
Dave Pelzer Manufacturer: Health Communications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OITRGG |
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A Child Called "It" : One Child's Courage to Survive [Audiobook] [Cd]
ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: 1402510055 |
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Unabridged on 4 compact disks. The author's account of his early years describes one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history.Customer Reviews:
A Child Called "It".......2007-04-23
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A Child Called "It" and the Lost Boy - One Child's Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer Manufacturer: Health Communications, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000WCOE2Q |
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A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer Manufacturer: HCI ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000UKYWZO |
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A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer Manufacturer: Health Communications Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NXX03S |
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One Hundred Red Hot Years
GaleanoEduardo Manufacturer: Ocean Press (AU) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1876175486 |
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Opening with a brilliant, reflective essay by Eduardo Galeano, this book presents an entertaining and readable chronology of the last century. Also included is a history of U.S. aggression in Latin America and a list of the CIA's assassination targets. Illustrated with revolutionary posters of the 20th century.
"It's the adventure of making changes and changing ourselves which makes worthwhile this flicker in the history of the universe that we are, this fleeting warmth between two glaciers."-Eduardo Galeano
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"As long as someone controls your history, the truth shall remain just a mystery."-Ben Harper
Radical History is a new series from Ocean Press seeking to restore our collective memory of events, struggles and people erased from conventional (and conservative) histories and media. These mini-anthologies include eyewitness accounts and historic, forgotten or ignored documents as well as new essays, chronologies and further reading suggestions. This series is designed to appeal to a new generation of political activists.
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The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization
Patrick J. Buchanan Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0312302592 |
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Patrick J. Buchanan's contentious premise in The Death of the West is that the United States is no longer a healthy melting pot, but instead a confused, tottering "conglomeration of peoples with almost nothing in common." Relying on United Nations population statistics, and citing such diverse sources as Yogi Berra and Rhett Butler, Buchanan sees for America four "clear and present dangers": declining birth rates; uncontrolled immigration of peoples of "different colors, creed, and cultures"; a rise of "anti-Western" culture antithetical to established religious, cultural, and moral norms; and a "defection of ruling elites" to the idea of world government. His solutions include higher wages and tax breaks for parents than for singles, a dramatic rollback of immigration quotas, and a National History Bee. Buchanan's volatile, adamant book eschews any middle ground. Readers will either applaud his ideas or be repulsed by them. --H. O'BillovitchBook Description
The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U.S., coupled with third-world population explosions, are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western society and nation. The facts are clear: There are 30 million foreign-born people in the U. S. today, and there are more than nine million illegal immigrantsmore than the populations of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island combined Not a single European countrysave Moslem Albaniahas a birth rate that will enableit to survive in its present form through this century By 2050, only 10% of the worlds people will be of European descent America is losing the cultural war. Militant paganism is crowding out the old faiths. Separatism is triumphing over integration. The melting pot has become a salad bowl. And the impact upon American society, politics, and culture will be devastating.Customer Reviews:
The Death Of The West.......2007-08-24
An important trend that is often ignored by the mainstream media.......2007-07-02
A curious read and ominous suggestion..........2007-05-17
AWESOME read!.......2007-05-13
Dear Mr Buchanan, you've missed something.......2006-11-30
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The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigramt Invasions Imperil Our country and Civilization.(Book Review): An article from: Catholic Insight
David Dooley Manufacturer: Catholic Insight ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00096TACE Release Date: 2006-07-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Catholic Insight, published by Catholic Insight on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1216 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Pathfinders: Birds (Reader's Digest Pathfinder Series)
Edward Brinkley Manufacturer: Reader's Digest ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 079440264X |
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Birds is different from any other information book that you've ever picked up. Did you know that some birds fly backwards? Or that birds help keep the insect population down-by eating them? Uncover more about the fascinating world of these wonderful winged creatures every time you open Birds.
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Creatures of the Air and Sea (Birds, Sharks and Other Sea Creatures, Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises (Reader's Digest Pathfinders)
Reader's Digest Children's Books Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Children's Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0794403530 |
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Reader's Digest: Pathfinders Birds
Manufacturer: Weldon Owen, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0794400027 |
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Trails of The Pathfinders
George Bird Grinnell Manufacturer: Charles Scribnner's Sons ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000KX8H66 |
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Trails of the Pathfinders
George Bird Grinnell Manufacturer: Digital Scanning ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1582185972 |
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First published over 100 years ago, Trails of the Pathfinders is George Bird Grinnell?s collection of captivating articles that first appeared in Forest and Stream, his magazine dedicated to the outdoors and the nation?s fledgling conservation movement. Grinnell examines the courage and determination of famous explorers including Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike. Founder of the Audubon Society and an advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt, Grinnell was a famed explorer, naturalist and pioneer conservationist. His knowledge of the American West was gained by true-life experiences in ranching, mining and Indian culture.Download Description
Trails of the Pathfinders is George Bird Grinnell?s collection of captivating articles that first appeared in Forest and Stream, his magazine dedicated to the outdoors and the nation?s fledgling conservation movement, over 100 years ago. Grinnell examines the courage and determination of famous explorers including Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike. Founder of the Audubon Society and an advisor to Theodore Roosevelt, Grinnell was a famed explorer, naturalist and pioneer conservationist. His knowledge of the American West was gained by true-life experiences in ranching, mining and Indian culture.
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The Young Pathfinder's Book of Birds
Manufacturer: Hart ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000APH3K0 |
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Wildlife--Young person's guide to birds
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Baby pathfinder to the birds;: A pocket guide to one hundred and ten land birds of New England, with blank pages for notes,
Harriet Eliza Richards Manufacturer: W.A. Butterfield ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00089TJBO |
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Trails of the Pathfinders
George Bird Grinnel Manufacturer: Charles Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000I28KOS |
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