Little DaDa's Big Adventure


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Exciting journey of a young, inquisitive boy called DaDa as he embarks on an adventure to investigate his surroundings is followed in the children's book Little Da Da's Big Adventure, written for children between the ages of 4 and 8. DaDa is a courageous and daring young man with a big heart and an expansive mind. Enjoys learning new things and is always curious to find out what lies ahead. Little DaDa was a curious, courageous African American child who was constantly seeking out new experiences. He left one day on a trip to discover the uncharted. With nothing but his big imagination and big heart to lead him, he packed his bag with a few supplies and started out on foot. One day, DaDa decides to set out on a big adventure. He packs his backpack with all the essentials, including a map, a compass, and a snack for the road. He sets out into the great unknown, ready for anything that might come his way. On the way, DaDa encounters many challenges and obstacles, but he never gives up. He is determined to see all the wonders of the world, from the tallest mountains to the deepest oceans. He makes new friends and learns important lessons about bravery, perseverance, and friendship.




Daddy and Dada


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"A little girl explains how families, including hers, come in many shapes and sizes--some with a mom and a dad, some with two dads, some with two moms, and more"--




Cave Dada


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A hilarious book for new dads and their little loved ones to share and enjoy! It's bedtime for Dada's little cave baby. But Baba wants a bedtime story, and not just from any book. Baba wants just the right book—and the right book means the biggest book! Poor Dada! The delaying tactics of his Stone Age darling may not speed up bedtime ... but they just might change the course of human history. • Full of parenting moments that new or expecting dads will love • Sweet, silly, and boldly illustrated—ideal read-aloud book to share with the family • Perfect read for dad and child Fans of Your Baby's First Word Will Be Dada, Because I'm Your Dad, and Dad By My Side will love Cave Dada's positive, loving message. • Great book for dads • Books for kids ages 3–5 • Funny read-aloud Brandon Reese is the illustrator of numerous books for children. His own adventures in fatherhood provided ample inspiration for this book. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.




Dada Performance


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One of the most controversial and ironic of twentieth-century modernisms, Dada swept through the arts after the shock of World War I, when poets, painters, filmmakers, and performers joined forces to challenge conventions of society and art. The only collection of its kind, this volume includes writings by leading Dadaists: Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Huelsenbeck, Roger Vitrac, Tristan Tzara, Emmy Hennings, Francis Picabia, and others.




The Little Magazine Others and the Renovation of Modern American Poetry


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Suzanne Churchill's well-researched and superbly crafted study is the first book-length treatment of Others, an important and neglected little magazine that served as a laboratory for modernist poetic experimentation. In discussions of influential poets such as Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams, whose careers Others helped launch, Churchill counters the notion of Modernism as aesthetically self-isolating and socially disengaged. Rather, she traces a correspondence between formal innovation and social change in American modernist poetry and argues that this dimension of modernist formalism is lost when poems are studied in isolation. Others provides a framework for reassessing the scope and significance of modernist formalism. The little magazine not only anchors modernist poetry in a social context but also leads to new insight into major modernist texts. Churchill's commitment to her subject's broad cultural contexts makes her book important for students and teachers of Modernism as well as for those working in the fields of American poetry and poetics, gender studies, queer theory, periodical studies, and cultural studies.




The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown


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Contemporary publishing, e-media, and writing owe much to an unsung hero who worked in the trenches of the culture industry (for pulp magazines, Hollywood films, and advertising) and caroused and collaborated with the avant-garde throughout the first half of the twentieth century. Robert Carlton Brown (1886–1959) turned up in the midst of virtually every significant American literary, artistic, political, and popular or countercultural movement of his time—from Chicago’s Cliff Dweller’s Club to Greenwich Village’s bohemians and the Imagist poets; from the American vanguard expatriate groups in Europe to the Beats. Bob Brown churned out pulp fiction and populist cookbooks, created the first movie tie-ins, and invented a surreal reading machine more than seventy-five years ahead of e-books. He was a real-life Zelig of modern culture. With The Amazing Adventures of Bob Brown, Craig Saper disentangles, for the first time, the many lives and careers of the intriguing figure behind so much of twentieth-century culture. Saper’s lively and engaging yet erudite and subtly experimental style offers a bold new approach to biography that perfectly complements his multidimensional subject. Readers are brought along on a spirited journey with Bob and the Brown clan—Cora (his mother), Rose (his wife), and Bob, a creative team who sometimes went by the name of CoRoBo—through globetrotting, fortune-making and fortune-spending, culture-creating and culture-exploring adventures. Along the way, readers meet many of the most important cultural figures and movements of the era and are witness to the astonishingly prescient vision Brown held of the future of American cultural life in the digital age. Although Brown traveled and lived all around the world, he took Manhattan with him, and his New York City had boroughs around the world.




The Dance


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Modernism's History


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The history of twentieth-century visual arts can no longer be written as a succession of avant-garde movements, contends eminent art historian Bernard Smith in this stimulating book. He argues that a return to the concept of period style is inevitable and that modernism--the dominant "style" of art that emerged at the end of the nineteenth century and continued through the 1960s--deserves recognition as a period style. Smith renames this period Formalesque since it is no longer modern and since it emphasizes the formal values of art more than any previous period does. In a wide-ranging reformulation of art history in the twentieth century, the author defines the nature and development of Formalesque--an avant-garde style that arose between 1890 and the First World War, was institutionalized between the world wars, and flourished anew between 1945 and 1960. Identifying the Formalesque period, says Smith, makes it possible also to identify dialectical adversaries, such true oppositional avant-garde styles of the twentieth century as Dada, Surrealism, and the Neue Sachlichkeit. These constitute the formative elements of the modernism--now called postmodernism--that became increasingly dominant after 1960. The author locates twentieth-century artistic movements and developments in a broad cultural context and concludes with a thought-provoking examination of the relation between the Formalesque and European and American cultural imperialism.




New York Magazine


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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.




The Adventures of Naren


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We are very happy to place this book in your hands. It is a collection of inspiring anecdotes from the childhood of Swami Vivekananda. The incidents are fictionally retold to kindle your imagination. Swami Vivekananda (1863 – 1902) was the most influential spiritual and patriotic leader of India towards the end of the 19th century. His speech, at the World’s Parliament of Religions in Chicago, USA which began with the words “Sisters and brothers of America” is famous throughout the world. He established the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission to spread the spiritual message of his guru Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. He is the youth icon of India and his birthday, 12 January, is celebrated as National Youth Day.