Author: Henry SmythePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parker County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Drawing Mind
Author: Deborah PutnoiPublisher: Shambhala Publications
ISBN: 159030943X
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
When we drew as children, we never worried about making mistakes—we took risks and trusted ourselves, and had fun in the process. But as we become adults, anxiety steps in: “Am I doing this right?” “What is expected of me?” “This is wrong!” And from drawing, we can extrapolate into the rest of our lives. The fear of making a mistake hinders us from being as creative as we could be. Deborah Putnoi’s interactive sketchbook helps us reconnect to that open, nonjudgmental state, which she calls the “drawing mind.” Her bold, lively drawings and encouraging instructions lead you on a process of self-discovery, first reclaiming the freedom to express yourself through drawing and then learning how to take that freedom into the activities of your daily life.
An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution
Author: Samuel Gridley HowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
An Historical Sketch of Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Author: Josiah BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
An Historical Sketch of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd
Author: William W. CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
American Property
Author: Stuart BannerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060822
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our nation’s proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does it mean to own something? More simply: what is property? The question is at the heart of many contemporary controversies, including disputes over who owns everything from genetic material to indigenous culture to music and film on the Internet. To decide if and when genes or culture or digits are a kind of property that can be possessed, we must grapple with the nature of property itself. How does it originate? What purposes does it serve? Is it a natural right or one created by law? Accessible and mercifully free of legal jargon, American Property reveals the perpetual challenge of answering these questions, as new forms of property have emerged in response to technological and cultural change, and as ideas about the appropriate scope of government regulation have shifted. This first comprehensive history of property in the United States is a masterly guided tour through a contested human institution that touches all aspects of our lives and desires. Stuart Banner shows that property exists to serve a broad set of purposes, constantly in flux, that render the idea of property itself inconstant. Despite our ideals of ownership, property has always been a means toward other ends. What property signifies and what property is, we come to see, has consistently changed to match the world we want to acquire.
Disaster Drawn
Author: Hillary L. ChutePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674495667
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In hard-hitting accounts of Auschwitz, Bosnia, Palestine, and Hiroshima’s Ground Zero, comics display a stunning capacity to bear witness to trauma. Investigating how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history, Disaster Drawn explores the ways graphic narratives by diverse artists, including Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe Sacco, document the disasters of war. Hillary L. Chute traces how comics inherited graphic print traditions and innovations from the seventeenth century and later, pointing out that at every turn new forms of visual-verbal representation have arisen in response to the turmoil of war. Modern nonfiction comics emerged from the shattering experience of World War II, developing in the 1970s with Art Spiegelman’s first “Maus” story about his immigrant family’s survival of Nazi death camps and with Hiroshima survivor Keiji Nakazawa’s inaugural work of “atomic bomb manga,” the comic book Ore Wa Mita (“I Saw It”)—a title that alludes to Goya’s famous Disasters of War etchings. Chute explains how the form of comics—its collection of frames—lends itself to historical narrative. By interlacing multiple temporalities over the space of the page or panel, comics can place pressure on conventional notions of causality. Aggregating and accumulating frames of information, comics calls attention to itself as evidence. Disaster Drawn demonstrates why, even in the era of photography and film, people understand hand-drawn images to be among the most powerful forms of historical witness.
Darwin's "Historical Sketch"
Author: Curtis N. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 019088293X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Curtis Johnson examines Charles Darwin's "Historical Sketch," creating profiles of the great thinkers writing before and during Darwin's lifetime.
An Historical Sketch of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, in Newport, Rhode Island
Author: David KingHarvard College Records
Author: Harvard UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Contains those portions of the early records of Harvard College known as College Books 1, 3, and 4. College Book 2 was destroyed when the second Harvard College was burned in January, 1764
America not discovered by Columbus, an historical sketch of the discovery of America by the Norsemen in the tenth century, with an appendix on the value of the Scandinavian languages, also a bibliography of the pre-Columbian discoveries of America, by P.B. Watson
Author: Rasmus Bjørn AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description