Author : Valerie Walsh
Publisher : Golden Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0375837140
Swiper has stolen all of the friendship bracelets needed for Friendship Day. Dora and Boots travel to France, Tanzania, Russia, and China to retrieve the bracelets and save the day!
Author : Greg Boyle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2011-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439153159
How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people live or what their circumstances may be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can have on your life. As a pastor working in a neighborhood with the highest concentration of murderous gang activity in Los Angeles, Gregory Boyle created an organization to provide jobs, job training, and encouragement so that young people could work together and learn the mutual respect that comes from collaboration. Tattoos on the Heart is a breathtaking series of parables distilled from his twenty years in the barrio. Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JCPenney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God’s love. From ten-year-old Lula we learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from Boyle’s wonderful, hard-earned wisdom. Inspired by faith but applicable to anyone trying to be good, these personal, unflinching stories are full of surprising revelations and observations of the community in which Boyle works and of the many lives he has helped save. Erudite, down-to-earth, and utterly heartening, these essays about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love in difficult times and the importance of fighting despair. With Gregory Boyle’s guidance, we can recognize our own wounds in the broken lives and daunting struggles of the men and women in these parables and learn to find joy in all of the people around us. Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.
Author : Margo DeMello
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 2014-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610690761
In recent decades, tattoos have gone from being a subculture curiosity in Western culture to mainstream and commonplace. This two-volume set provides broad coverage of tattooing and body art in the United States today as well as around the world and throughout human history. In the 1960s, tattooing was illegal in many parts of the United States. Today, tattooing is fully ingrained in mainstream culture and is estimated to be a multi-billion-dollar industry. This exhaustive work contains approximately 400 entries on tattooing, providing historical information that enables readers to fully understand the methods employed, the meanings of, and the motivations behind tattooing—one of the most ancient ways humans mark themselves. The encyclopedia covers all important aspects of the topic of tattooing: the major types of tattooing, the cultural groups associated with tattooing, the regions of the world where tattooing has been performed, the origins of modern tattooing in prehistory, and the meaning of each society's use of tattoos. Major historical and contemporary figures associated with tattooing—including tattooists, tattooed people, and tattoo promoters—receive due attention for their contributions. The entries and sidebars also address the sociological movements involved with tattooing; the organizations; the media dedicated to tattooing, such as television shows, movies, magazines, websites, and books; and the popular conventions, carnivals, and fairs that have showcased tattooing.
Author : Isaac Fitzgerald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 1620404907
"Why did you get that tattoo? Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearer's true self or the accidental consequence of a bender. These most permanent of body adornments are hidden by pants legs and shirt tails, emblazoned on knuckles, or tucked inside mouths. They are battle scars and beauty marks, totems and mementos. Pen & Ink grants us access to the tattoos of writers Cheryl Strayed, Tao Lin, and Roxane Gay; rockers in the bands Korn, Otep, and Five Finger Death Punch; and even a porn star. But it also illuminates the tattoos of the ordinary people living in our midst--from professors to thrift store salespeople, cafe owners to librarians, union organizers to administrators--and their extraordinary lives. Curated and edited by Isaac Fitzgerald, who sports ten tattoos himself, each story features Wendy MacNaughton's stylish full color illustrations of the tattoos on black-and-white drawings of the bearer's body. At its heart, beneath its colorful skin, Pen & Ink is an exploration of the decision to scar one's self with a symbol and a story"--
Author : Marilyn Rondon
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2016-05-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780997089349
Why Does Mommy Have Tattoos? is a work of imagination and creativity by Marilyn RondOn. This illustrated children's book answers the questions often posed to tattooed parents by their children and their children's friends. Each page is bright and interactive, and the book engages children with themes of self-acceptance, wrapped in fun dialogue with richly colored illustrations by RondOn. Why Does Mommy Have Tattoos? Is an enthusiastic and unforgettable children's book for both conversation and learning.
Author : Paul Virr
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9781438001838
(back cover) Make a fashion statement! Discover the world of fashion and friendship, from dressing up and style tips to best friends, secrets, and sleepovers. Packed with fashion ideas, quizzes, and activities, it's the perfect accessory for style queens everywhere. PLUS 24 stylish play tattoos to give a sparkle to your dressing up games. Get the look with fashion tattoos -- perfect to wear and share! Recommended for children age six years and older.
Author : Carey Hart
Publisher : Artisan Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1579653413
Combines photographs of everyday people along side Vegas starlets and rockers showing off their tattoos, sharing their personal stories of design inspiration and first tattoos.
Author : Emma Rees
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 36,35 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319637789
In this collection leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question “do I have a body, or am I my body?”. The essays engage with the array of meanings that our bodies have today, ranging from considerations of nineteenth-century discourses of bodily shame and otherness, through to arguing for a brand new corporeal vocabulary for the twenty-first century. Increasing numbers of people are choosing to modify their bodies, but as the essays in this volume show, this is far from being a new practice: over hundreds of years, it has evolved and accrued new meanings. This richly interdisciplinary volume maps a range of cultural anxieties about the body, resulting in a timely and compelling book that makes a vital contribution to today’s key debates about embodiment.
Author : Ed Hardy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1250021073
The memoir of iconic tattoo artist Ed Hardy from his beginnings in 1960s California, to leading the tattoo renaissance and building his name into a hugely lucrative international brand "Ed Hardy" is emblazoned on everything from t-shirts and hats to perfumes and energy drinks. From LA to Japan, his colorful cross-and-bones designs and ribbon-banners have become internationally ubiquitous. But long before the fashion world discovered his iconic designs, the man behind the eponymous brand spearheaded nothing less than a cultural revolution. In Wear Your Dreams, Ed Hardy recounts his genesis as a tattoo artist and leader in the movement to recognize tattooing as a valid and rich art form, through to the ultimate transformation of his career into a multi-billion dollar branding empire. From giving colored pencil tattoos to neighborhood kids at age ten to working with legendary artists like Sailor Jerry to learning at the feet of the masters in Japan, the book explains how this Godfather of Tattoos fomented the explosion of tattoo art and how his influence can be witnessed on everyone, from countless celebs to ink-adorned rockers to butterfly-branded, stroller-pushing moms. With over fifty different product categories, the Ed Hardy brand generates over $700 million in retail sales annually. Vividly packaged with original Ed Hardy artwork and ideal for ink devotees and Ed Hardy aficionados alike, Wear Your Dreams is a never-before-seen look at the tattoo artist who rocked the art world and has left a permanent mark on fashion history.
Author : Jessica Lyn Elkins
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1491778431
When Katherine Phillips, a well-known community leader with a failing marriage, accidently strikes a pedestrian who steps in front of her vehicle on a snowy day, she has no idea how her life will change. The unconscious victim, an unidentified homeless person, is taken to a hospital. It isnt until police release a photo that Katherine realizes the person is someone from her past. Growing up in a small town, Katherine and Myra Martin met in elementary school and were best friends until high school graduation. They lost contact as their lives moved on to college and careers. How far will a friend go to learn what happened in the intervening years? Katherine is determined to learn the truthbut what she discovers may upend not only Myras life but her own as well. As family secrets, fraud, and betrayal emerge, both women come to know the truth about the consequences of their choices. In this novel, two childhood friends are reunited and soon find that secrets from the past entangle them and unknown connections between them complicate the present.
