Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2612
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2612
Book Description
Human Rights in Cuba
Author: Juan M. ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
26. Freedom of education
Smoky Night
Author: Eve BuntingPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152699543
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Daniel, his mother and cat watch an inner-city riot from their apartment window. When their building catches alight they are evacuated to a church. Observations from child's point of view.
Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon BaumannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
Quo Graviora
Author: Catholic Church. Pope (1823-1829 : Leo XII)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780935952605
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
At Home Afloat
Author: Nancy PaghPublisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552380289
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Considering accounts written by Northwest Coast marine tourists between 1861 and 1990, Nancy Pagh examines the ways that gender influences the roles women play at sea, the spaces they occupy on boats, and the language they use to describe their experiences, their natural surroundings, and their contact with Native peoples. Unique features of this book include its interdisciplinary nature and its combination of scholarly information and a style that general readers will appreciate. The text is engaging but also serves to make fresh and relevant links between scholarship in diverse areas of inquiry; for example, Western Canadian and American history, feminist geography, post-colonial theory, and women and environments.
Environment, Health, and Safety
Author: Lari A. BishopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Welding with Children
Author: Tim GautreauxPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466833939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
A master storyteller's triumphant, moving collection about lost souls, found love, and rediscovered tradition Tim Gautreaux returns to the form that won him his first fans, with tales of family, sin, and redemption: from a man who realizes his grandchildren are growing up without any sense of right or wrong, and he's to blame; to a camera repairman who uncovers a young woman's secret in the undeveloped film she brings him; to a one-armed hitch-hiker who changes the life of the man who gives her a ride. Each one a small miracle of storytelling and compassion, these stories in Welding with Children are a joyous confirmation of Tim Gautreaux's rare and generous talent.
The Faith of a Physicist
Author: J. C. PolkinghornePublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9780800629700
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
"Based on his 1993-94 Gifford Lectures, Polkinghorne's task here is to ask challenging questions of the contemporary scientific worldview and to show how the range of possible answers carries beyond biology to spirit and beyond physics to God. . . . The single most important work of his theological corpus".-- First Things.
Painting a New World
Author: Donna PiercePublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0914738496
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
"The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.