Minor Histories


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The second volume of writings by Los Angeles artist Mike Kelley, focusing on his own work. What John C. Welchman calls the "blazing network of focused conflations" from which Mike Kelley's styles are generated is on display in all its diversity in this second volume of the artist's writings. The first volume, Foul Perfection, contained thematic essays and writings about other artists; this collection concentrates on Kelley's own work, ranging from texts in "voices" that grew out of scripts for performance pieces to expository critical and autobiographical writings.Minor Histories organizes Kelley's writings into five sections. "Statements" consists of twenty pieces produced between 1984 and 2002 (most of which were written to accompany exhibitions), including "Ajax," which draws on Homer, Colgate- Palmolive, and Longinus to present its eponymous hero; "Some Aesthetic High Points," an exercise in autobiography that counters the standard artist bio included in catalogs and press releases; and a sequence of "creative writings" that use mass cultural tropes in concert with high art mannerisms—approximating in prose the visual styles that characterize Kelley's artwork. "Video Statements and Proposals" are introductions to videos made by Kelley and other artists, including Paul McCarthy and Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose. "Image-Texts" offers writings that accompany or are part of artworks and installations. This section includes "A Stopgap Measure," Kelley's zestful millennial essay in social satire, and "Meet John Doe," a collage of appropriated texts. "Architecture" features an discussion of Kelley's Educational Complex (1995) and an interview in which he reflects on the role of architecture in his work. Finally, "Ufology" considers the aesthetics and sexuality of space as manifested by UFO sightings and abduction scenarios.




UFOs and Related Subjects


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This book is an authentic reproduction of the original printed text in shades of gray and may contain minor errors. Despite the fact that we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, the present reproduction may have minor errors beyond our control like: missing and blurred pages, poor pictures and markings. Because this book is culturally important, we have made available as part of our commitment to protect, preserve and promote knowledge in the world. This title is an authentic reproduction published by Lynn E. Catoe as editor of UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography. 1969. This work is an exact reproduction of this title reprinted as facsimile edition: 1969.Copy and Paste the link for our books: https: //saucerianbooks.blogspot.com This is EXACTLY the kind of reference desk for any serious ufologist, or any person who wants to know about Flaying Saucers. Up to the present, this work is the most comprehensive reference on this subject. It is just page after page of Author's name, books or article titles, publisher, publication dates and in most cases no more than 3 lines describing each work. This title has the following content: Unidentified Flying Objects, General References., Books and Pamphlets, Periodical Articles, Abductions, Air Force, Ancient Records, Angel Hair, Bases Cartoons, books of Censorship, Central Intelligence Agency, Contact Claims, Design, Detectors, Electromagnetic Effects, Landings, Men in Black, Mission, News Management, Occupants, Origin and Nature, Orthoteny, Perception, Personalities, Photographs, Propulsion, Psychic Aspects, Radar, Radiaticn Effects, Research, Seductions, Sightings: (1800s, 1900s, 1940s, 1950s,1960s), Statements, University of Colorado Study, Miscellaneous, Bibliography, Origin of Life, Mankind, Evolution, Origin, Solar System, General References, Mars, Moon, Venus, Extraterrestrial Life, General References, Communication, Implications, Intelligence, Philosophy, Extraterrestrial Visitors, Ball Lightning and Fireballs, Disc-like Aircraft, Unidentified Submarine Objects, Fortean Phenomena, UFOs and Religion, UFOs and Time, Gravity and Anti-gravity, Hollow Earth Theory, Disappearances, Related Subjects, General References, Atlantis and Lemuria, Miracle at Fatima, Poltergeists, Prophesies, Teleportation, Tunguska Meteorite.




Middle English Marian Lyrics


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Through its contextualizing introduction, notes, and gloss, this classroom-friendly edition of Middle English lyric poetry makes the wide variety of Marian poems available to students of all levels. The poems selected for this volume provide a sampling of the rich tradition of Marian devotion as expressed in Middle English. They range widely in form, tone, and aesthetic quality in how they relate the iconic moments from Mary's life-the Annunciation, Nativity, and her experience of Christ's passion, for instance-as well as in their variety of praises for the Queen of Heaven. Taken together, the poems express the full range of a people's effort to voice anxieties and joys through Mary. This collection will spark an excellent discussion on English spirituality, Marian devotion, and Middle English lyrical poetry.




Extraordinary Encounters


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"Extraordinary Encounters: An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings" is the first ever illustrated A-Z encyclopedia to explore these fascinating modern day beliefs, personalities, beings, and events. Among the beings you'll meet in its pages are Abraham, a collection of highly evolved entities that speak in one voice; Metranon, the divine interface between God and the Outer Worlds (and sometime Old Testament angel); and The Planetary Council, whose members include Jove, Merlin, Quetzalcoatl, and Lao-Tzu.




American Military History Volume 1


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American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.







Runes and Runic Inscriptions


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The essays that comprise this study range from detailed discussion of the forms of particular runes in the runic alphabet to the wider matters on which runes throw light, such as magic, paganism, literacy and linguistic change.