Author : Joe A. Crawford
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 2003-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0595288162
A book of verse that is both insightful and thought provoking, with a full range of poetry that goes from the depths of the human heart to the upper reaches of all existence.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Archetype (Psychology) in literature
ISBN : 027103954X
Author : Shari Ka
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 146695535X
There is no better message of wisdom than a lesson that has been tried and tested . . .
Author : Susan Landauer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520292200
"Roy De Forest's brightly colored, crazy-quilted jungles dotted with nipples of paint and inhabited by a cast of characters uniquely his own (a perennial favorite being his wild-eyed, pointy-eared dogs) appeal to a broad spectrum of viewers from young to old, from the casual visitor to the most sophisticated art aficionado. OMCA's project aims to reassess De Forest's art-historical position, placing him in a national rather than solely regional/West Coast context. Landauer positions De Forest as part of a bicoastal alternative current of American art that has been poorly documented and deliberately ran counter to better publicized tendencies of the 1960s and 1970s, notably Pop, Minimalism, and post-painterly abstraction. Despite the playfulness of his work, close study of De Forest's art reveals deep layers of meaning. He was a fan of popular science fiction and adventure stories, but he was also well versed in Australian aboriginal art, ukiyo-e prints, poetry, literature, and the history of philosophy. He enjoyed secreting obscure art-historical references into his work: animals might assume postures found in Medieval or Renaissance art, or a drawing that appears to depict a comic-book character may in fact refer to Titian's triple-headed allegory of Prudence. This engaging publication presents gorgeous color reproductions of 150 of De Forest's finest artworks, plus a variety of figure illustrations that illuminate the artist's diverse sources and freewheeling social and creative milieu in Northern California."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Maurine Haltiner
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 25,5 MB
Release : 2007-02-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1425198015
Truth Windows centers around the construction of a straw bale house by students of Lakemont Academy, a private school in the fictional town of Lakemont, Utah. Senior Cynthia Morgan, editor of the Academy newspaper, is the main character. Juniors Matt Willits and Logan Stillwell are friends who share her affection. Matt, nicknamed Spike for his creative hairstyle, is a student at Millcreek High in nearby Granite City. Logan Stillwell, Lakemont's all-state basketball player from Chicago, is also foreman of the straw bale construction crew. Plot events include conflict among these three characters as well as problems at home for Cynthia. Action stretches from March to June. Basketball season is almost over when Matt is arrested for setting fire to the straw bale house. With Logan's help, Cynthia sets out to prove Matt's innocence. In order to do this, she must confront antagonist Stacey Pepperwood and take upon herself the burden of uncertain truth. Caught in an emotional triangle, Cynthia must make decisions that have life-altering consequences. Included in the novel are school scenes; basketball games; descriptions of Utah, including the Great Salt Lake and red rock country; and information on straw bale construction. Mormonism is not a major plot mover, but it rumbles on the sidelines. A special feature of straw bale houses, truth windows provide a multi-layered title for the story.
Author : Renee Barton
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 166247749X
With having the love of her life back, how will Renee deal with all the new changes and challenges that have followed along with it? Her world has been completely changed within the blink of an eye more than once, and she has been finding out more about her own self as time goes by. So many unanswered questions just keep piling up because how in the world did she become the beast that she is, and why have the gods chosen her out of everyone in the world to be this special someone? How will she explain her youthfulness to her mortal family while they grow older and she doesn't? It's a struggle that she must deal with on a daily basis because the answers to all these questions, and many more, haven't been revealed just yet! The saga continues, and the only way to find out what happens next is to keep reading!
Author : Lurlynn Franklin
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 164348320X
With themes wrapped around tabooed comedy routines, Fabled Truths, Volume Three is the third of three collections containing easy, but uncomfortable, self-portraits and poetic essays addressing social situations through parodies of American iconography, uncompromised profiling and mindless stereotyping. The book presents skewed modern snapshots of what a long history of bias has left on the shared consciousness of Americans, guiding the viewer’s outside and deeper inside the skins of what their own surface assessments of cultures, social practices and gender identities might be, with a challenge to cross the battle-lines between the fables and the truths of those assessments. Fabled Truths is not just about race and sex, the poor or the rich. It is about differences, minute and profound, the fragile separations between individuals, and how those thin lines deem every human being subject to becoming somebody’s punch-line, somebody’s joke, the center of a one-liner. Crossing paths in content, these 16 self-portraits and 20 poetic essays do not entirely define each other, very much like “those people” who live in the other part of town. Those “others” who we have to drive past to get to our part of town. Those “others” who, based on “a casual two second encounter. . . lead to our complete/one minute summation/of the “others” entire existence. . .”
Author : Julia Bekman Chadaga
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0810130033
Chadaga's ambitious study proceeds from the idea that glass - in its uses as a material object and as it was depicted in works of art - is a key to understanding the evolution of Russian identity from the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth.
Author : Neil Spurway
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 144389849X
This book celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the UK’s Science and Religion Forum by bringing together leading scientific and theological thinkers to reflect on the last four decades of the science-theology conversation and to chart new directions for its future. Through an engagement with some of the most recent developments in the sciences as diverse as quantum holism, theories of emergence, technology studies, and the sociology of religion, the book explores a broad range of pressing theological questions, such as: What is religion? What does it mean to be human? How can theology best respond to the ecological crisis? In addressing these questions, and many more, the contributors to this volume forge innovative models for the interrelation of science and religion, making this book a timely and valuable resource for all those interested in the future of the science-theology conversation.
Author : Patrick M. Lencioni
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 111923798X
The Truth About Employee Engagement was originally published as The Three Signs of a Miserable Job. A bestselling author and business guru tells how to improve job satisfaction and performance. In his sixth fable, bestselling author Patrick Lencioni takes on a topic that almost everyone can relate to: job misery. Millions of workers, even those who have carefully chosen careers based on true passions and interests, dread going to work, suffering each day as they trudge to jobs that make them cynical, weary, and frustrated. It is a simple fact of business life that any job, from investment banker to dishwasher, can become miserable. Through the story of a CEO turned pizzeria manager, Lencioni reveals the three elements that make work miserable -- irrelevance, immeasurability, and anonymity -- and gives managers and their employees the keys to make any job more engaging. As with all of Lencioni’s books, this one is filled with actionable advice you can put into effect immediately. In addition to the fable, the book includes a detailed model examining the three root causes of job misery and how they can be remedied. It covers the benefits of managing for job engagement within organizations -- increased productivity, greater retention, and competitive advantage -- and offers examples of how managers can use the applications in the book to deal with specific jobs and situations. Patrick Lencioni is President of The Table Group, a management consulting firm specializing in executive team development and organizational health. As a consultant and keynote speaker, he has worked with thousands of senior executives and executive teams in organizations ranging from Fortune 500 companies to high-tech startups to universities and nonprofits. His clients include. AT&T, Direct TV, JCPenney, Microsoft, Nestle, Northwestern Mutual, Southwest Airlines and St. Jude Chilren’s Research Hospital. Lencioni is the author of ten bestselling books, including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage. He previously worked for Oracle, Sybase, and the management consulting firm Bain & Company.
