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Author: Publisher: Alternative Comics ISBN: 1934460311 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 255
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Jeremy Knowles is a seventeen-year-old outcast who dreams of being a great artist. But when he suffers a severe mental breakdown brought on by bullying and other pressures at school, his future is called into question—as is his very existence! Can he survive the experience through the healing power of art? And just what does it mean to be “crazy,” anyway? Features bonus ‘fan art’ from Jeff Lemire, Dylan Horrocks and others.
Author: Publisher: Alternative Comics ISBN: 1934460311 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 255
Book Description
Jeremy Knowles is a seventeen-year-old outcast who dreams of being a great artist. But when he suffers a severe mental breakdown brought on by bullying and other pressures at school, his future is called into question—as is his very existence! Can he survive the experience through the healing power of art? And just what does it mean to be “crazy,” anyway? Features bonus ‘fan art’ from Jeff Lemire, Dylan Horrocks and others.
Author: Alma Neuman Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 9780807117927 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 180
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Framed as a heartfelt response to a love letter delivered some twenty years late, Always Straight Ahead presents the odyssey of the musician and artist Alma Neuman. In this unforgettable memoir Neuman recounts her rich and varied life, often in subtle counterpoint to her fond reflections on her marriage to the brilliant American writer James Agee. With the sure instincts of a natural storyteller, Neuman brings alive her lonely childhood in upstate New York and her memories of growing up Jewish in a world of Anglo-American gentility. It is in an enclave of WASP high culture that she first meets Agee, a Harvard senior already acclaimed a genius, and soon thereafter they fall in love. Neuman recalls this near-mythic romance with a novelist's eye for scene: a mad week-long journey through the South, with a visit to the Tingle family, the Alabama sharecroppers whose lives would be immortalized in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; a Godiva-like drive through the New Jersey night; a visit - with two goats - to the apartment of the fastidious Walker Evans. For a while the two enjoy an idyll, enlivened by visits from such talents as the novelist Thornton Wilder, the photographer Helen Levitt, and the poets Muriel Rukeyser and Delmore Schwartz. But the magic does not last. After Agee falls in love with another woman during Neuman's first pregnancy, the couple separate. In 1941 Neuman and her son, Joel, move to Mexico; there she meets a German exile, the Communist writer Bodo Uhse, who is to become her second husband and the father of another son. Neuman recounts in sharp detail these exciting years at the heart of the artistic and expatriate community: the encounters with the muralist Diego Riveraand the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, the lavish parties, the revolutionary politics, and the first stirrings of the Cold War. With the fall of the Nazis, Neuman, Uhse, and the two children can move to East Germany. They find a bleak, war-ravaged land; there are shortages and censorship, but for a state-approved writer and his family also the comparative privilege that allows Neuman to become a shrewd observer of her surroundings. Ultimately disillusioned with life in the East, she returns to the United States, where she discovers a society very different from the one she had known in the thirties. Neuman learns to make a living, and she enters into her third - and last - marriage. She struggles to make the life of her schizophrenic younger son, Stefan Uhse, bearable to him, but in the end she must come to terms with his death at the age of twenty-seven. Neuman's book and the intimate glimpse it provides into the personality and imagination of James Agee will of course be a treasure for literary scholars; more than that, though, Always Straight Ahead is a memoir that recounts with eloquence and breathtaking candor the life of a remarkable woman of rare and adventuresome spirit.
Author: Logan Patrick Harrison Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1449061419 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 74
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This book is about the outmoded educational model in which American children all across the United States continue to be educated with, and why this educational model is crippling the middle-class and slowly putting America behind other emerging economies. Many of the ideas are not novel, nor does this book claim them to be. It is a portrayal, however, of how long many of these ideas have been on the table, have proven to have been effective, but have been killed in legislatures in many of the states and at the federal level. Although it is highly critical of the current education model and the many factions that breathe life into its perpetual existence, this book offers insight into why it is so imperative that citizens begin to become education consumers rather than just bystanders doing what theyre told. Finally, it offers some practical advice on how to organize, how to align incentives for citizens to become more engaged in this area, and policy initiatives in which citizens should begin to strongly back at their local legislatures and at the federal level.
Author: Pat Cloud Publisher: Mel Bay Publications ISBN: 1610657713 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 107
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The world of melodic jazz banjo soloing is revealed in this comprehensive method which leads a student from basic intervals to advanced theoretical concepts and finally to a firm foundation in jazz fundamentals. Included are over 90 exercises and examples written in both tablature fingerings and standard music notation which show how scales and arpeggios are used and how they apply to real playing situations. Every five-string banjoist can benefit from the information contained in this breakthrough volume whether they aspire to jazz or just want to find out more about the possibilities and structure of the banjo. Audio CD included.Starting with basic intervals, Straight-Ahead Jazz for Banjo shows the structure of all basic chord types and qualities and matches these to the scales that generate them. the book's basic concept model is to treat the five-string banjo's potential in an inclusive technical context so that the student can make use of open and fifth strings to create a smooth legato style. Each of the 90+ exercises are recorded with a metronome and progress to 16 additional examples of original jazz phrases in a variety of keys. Topics include functional major and minor key harmony, diminished and augmented scales and how they are used, and the integration of altered scale substitutes in the art of jazz improvisation. It stresses listening and learning in a logical structured manner with an example of a daily practice plan. the unique emphasis of the book is on the fingerings which make the instrument work for you technically and thus open up added possibilities for the development of a student's personal style. This long-awaited volume will surely bring new focus and perspective to any banjo style and will be a classic reference for many new generations of banjoists. Audio CD included.
Author: Daniel Patrick Quinn Publisher: Daniel Patrick Quinn ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 38
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'Right, Left, Or Straight Ahead?' is a guide to critical thinking and problem-solving strategies that are effective in any environment or context. This book will help you whether you're a mountain guide lost in thick jungle, an office manager compiling an annual report, a fine artist seeking inspiration, an unhappy wife considering divorce, a gardener trying to choose between several layout designs, a high-flying lawyer working on a case of great public interest or an ordinary person with a list of simple errands. The techniques covered in this book will assist you in the simplest of seemingly trivial decisions - such as deciding whether to drink apple juice or orange juice for lunch – right up to the life-changing ones that have deep and long-lasting impacts on the overall course of our existences. Why the title? Because life can be understood as a huge series of junctions where decisions are made. Is it better to take a right, hang a left (as the Americans say), or just keep on down that long straight road that lies ahead? The 'correct' answer depends on many factors notably including your own personal goals and the context in which you find yourself.
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