Download or read book Hiding the Audience written by Frances W. Kaye and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding the Audience examines how the development of Canadian prairie arts institutions in the context of an implicitly Euro- or Anglo-Canadian audience clashed with the creation of regional arts that needed to acknowledge a Native Canadian presence to flourish. It looks in detail at the regional versus international strains in the history of the Banff Centre, at the development of the Glenbow Museum and the controversy over the "Spirit Sings" exhibition, at the two decades of contention regarding statues of Louis Riel in Regina and Winnipeg, and at the contrasts in audience participation in two of 25th Street Theatre's productions, one about farmers and the other about Metis people. Primarily a work of cultural history, this study uses archival sources, post-colonial theory, and the theories implied in the fiction of Cherokee author Thomas King to probe the ways in which the whitestream assumptions of the individuals who institutionalized the arts on the Prairies hid both a Native audience and the kinds of issues and presentations such an audience might reasonably expect to see--and that might help make the settler audience understand the responsibilities of becoming native to this place. The interdisciplinary nature of the book makes it useful to scholars in Native Studies, Museum Studies, Art History, Theatre, and English, as well as to arts administrators and patrons, art lovers, and artists.

Download or read book Ride with a Cowboy written by Helen Smith and published by Hot Alpha Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4 Steamy Romance Stories With No Cliffhanger. Riding to the North - Western Romance Jack, a lonely cowboy, is heading south looking for work after a long cattle drive, and has to stop in a small town to resupply. In the saloon, he meets a beautiful dancer who also happens to be a whore. He never uses a prostitute, but it’s been so long since he has been with a woman, he’s been drinking, and there is something special about this one, something about her deep, brown eyes. Will Jack be able to hold back his urges? The Bluest Eyes in Texas - BWWM Cowboy Romance Fledgling news reporter, Brenae Riley, is willing to work her way from the bottom to get to where she wants to be. With her eye on the news anchor desk, she works tirelessly on the stories no one else in the studio wants to cover. After a particularly rough day on scene that ends in her being humiliated live on camera, Brenae is ready to look elsewhere for a job. Instead of accepting her resignation, the producer sends her on another assignment, this time for a story that carries some importance; at least in Texas. She heads to Mesquite to interview up-and-coming local boy, and favorite to win the bull riding nationals, Roy Myrick. A stroke of bad luck and Roy coming to her rescue later that evening finds her saying yes to a night of dancing. She falls in love with this handsome cowboy two steps at a time. But will a series of threatening emails voicing anger about her dating a white man derail their romance, and possibly their careers? Love The Outlaw - Western Cowboy Romance Noah is trying to start a new life and leave a past of darkness behind him. When he approaches a house looking for a job and instead finds a woman, Emma, being mercilessly beaten by her husband. His first instinct is to rescue her, but in doing so, he kills the husband. He’s now an outlaw with a new widow in tow. But Emma does not want to stay in the home where she has known only pain and misery, so decides to leave her home and try to make it back East so she can try to put her life back together. And Noah is the only one who can help her. Forced into a situation that threatens both of their futures, Noah and Emma discover that what they thought the future held for both of them may not be what they actually want. His Lucky Charm - Billionaire Cowboy Romance Dayton is one of the South’s wealthiest cowboys. He gained his success from cattle ranching and is a rodeo boy at heart. Ronnie meets Dayton while doing an interview for a feature in the local paper on Dayton and it’s love at first sight for him. Ronnie’s curves and brown skin definitely catches his attention. Though he tries to impress Ronnie, he comes off as arrogant and leaves a bad impression, which is reflected in the feature Ronnie writes on him. In response, Dayton tracks Ronnie down to ask her on a date so that he might redeem himself in her eyes, and soon Ronnie realizes she is just as attracted to the cowboy as he is to her. Dayton decides to take Ronnie to one of his rodeos, where she acts as his good luck charm. But then a disaster occurs that no one could have foreseen. Will Dayton make it out of the rodeo alive, and will Ronnie? Will the two lovers ever get to express how they feel about each other and try for a chance at happily ever after?

Download or read book The River Always Wins written by David Marquis and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on movement of both society and nature, based on the author’s experiences as an activist. In short, aphoristic chapters, Marquis explores the power of force and collectivity through the metaphor of water. As an activist, David Marquis founded the Oak Cliff Nature Preserve in Dallas, and has consulted with the Texas Conservation Alliance since 2011. He brings an unerring belief in the connective and healing power of nature to The Water Always Wins.

Download or read book Any Day Now written by Terry Bisson and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a poignant excursion into the last days of the Beats and the emerging radicalized culture of the sixties from Kentucky to New York City and daringly unique. This road movie of a novel, which begins as a fifties coming-of-age story and ends in an isolated hippy commune under threat of revolution, provides a transcendent commentary on America then and now.

Download or read book Harris and Me written by Gary Paulsen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

Download or read book Imagic Moments written by Lee Schweninger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indigenous North American film Native Americans tell their own stories and thereby challenge a range of political and historical contradictions, including egregious misrepresentations by Hollywood. Although Indians in film have long been studied, especially as characters in Hollywood westerns, Indian film itself has received relatively little scholarly attention. In Imagic Moments Lee Schweninger offers a much-needed corrective, examining films in which the major inspiration, the source material, and the acting are essentially Native. Schweninger looks at a selection of mostly narrative fiction films from the United States and Canada and places them in historical and generic contexts. Exploring films such as Powwow Highway, Smoke Signals, and Skins, he argues that in and of themselves these films constitute and in fact emphatically demonstrate forms of resistance and stories of survival as they talk back to Hollywood. Self-representation itself can be seen as a valid form of resistance and as an aspect of a cinema of sovereignty in which the Indigenous peoples represented are the same people who engage in the filming and who control the camera. Despite their low budgets and often nonprofessional acting, Indigenous films succeed in being all the more engaging in their own right and are indicative of the complexity, vibrancy, and survival of myriad contemporary Native cultures.

Download or read book The Last Cowboys written by John Branch and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A can't-put-it-down modern Western." —Kirk Siegler, NPR Longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing The Last Cowboys is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter John Branch’s epic tale of one American family struggling to hold on to the fading vestiges of the Old West. For generations, the Wrights of southern Utah have raised cattle and world-champion saddle-bronc riders—many call them the most successful rodeo family in history. Now they find themselves fighting to save their land and livelihood as the West is transformed by urbanization, battered by drought, and rearranged by public-land disputes. Could rodeo, of all things, be the answer? Written with great lyricism and filled with vivid scenes of heartache and broken bones, The Last Cowboys is a powerful testament to the grit and integrity that fuel the American Dream.

Download or read book Monica and the Crushworthy Cowboy written by Diana G Gallagher and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monica and Chloe are on a trip with Monica's stepfather. When they meet an adorable cowboy and his friends, will Logan embarrass Monica or let her have fun?

Download or read book The Modern Medicine Game written by Travis Taylor and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN 2010, MEMBERS OF THE HAUDENOSAUNEE NATIONALS (formerly the Iroquois Nationals) lacrosse team, representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy of six Indigenous Nations in North America, were sitting in a hotel in New York City instead of playing on the field in Manchester, England, competing for a world championship. The Nationals were told they couldn’t use their Haudenosaunee passports to travel to the UK; only Canadian or American passports would be accepted, effectively denying that this Confederacy had sovereignty and reinforcing the authority of the colonial powers. Media coverage of this pivotal event sparked the curiosity of longtime international lacrosse coach and player Travis Taylor. He wanted to learn more about the intersection of the sport and the traditional beliefs of the Indigenous people who originally developed the sport—or as they call it Tewa’á:raton. Originally written as Taylor’s PhD thesis, The Modern Medicine Game: Lacrosse, the Haudenosaunee, and Reconciliation postulates how lacrosse is a “modern medicine game,” and is a crucial element of reconciliation, decolonization, and resilience for the Haudenosaunee peoples. It explores what led the Haudenosaunee Nationals to assert their self-determination in 2010 by reaching back into time to understand the origins of the sport as a gift from the Creator, and its adoption and evolution by English-speaking people, most notably William George Beers.

Download or read book Starstruck written by Sarafina El-Badry Nance and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a beautifully written, science-packed, and inspirational memoir, Egyptian-American astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance shares how she boldly carved out a place in the field of astrophysics, grounding herself in a lifelong love of the stars to face life’s inevitable challenges and embrace the unknown. As a child, Sarafina El-Badry Nance spent nearly every evening with her father gazing up at the flickering stars and pondering what secrets the night sky held. The daughter of an American father and Egyptian mother who both pushed her toward academic excellence, Sarafina dreamed of becoming an astronomer and untangling the mysteries of the stars overhead. But it wasn’t long before she was told, both explicitly and implicitly, that girls just weren’t cut out for math and science. In Starstruck, Sarafina invites us to consider the cosmos through fascinating science lessons to open each chapter. But she also traces more earthbound obstacles—of misogyny and racism, abuse and intergenerational trauma, anxiety and self-doubt, cancer diagnoses and recovery—she faced along the way. As her career and passion for space brought her from UT Austin to UC Berkeley, and even to a Mars astronaut simulation in Hawai’i, Sarafina learned how to survive—and ultimately thrive—in a space that was seldom welcoming to women, and especially not to women of color. Honest and empowering, Starstruck sits at the intersection of the study of our cosmos—itself constantly changing—and the transformative experience of embracing resilience to pursue one’s passion.

Download or read book Cowboy of Interest written by Carla Cassidy and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cowboy wanted for murder turn to the one woman who can help clear his name in the New York Times–bestselling author’s Western romantic suspense. Determined to see ranch hand Nick Coleman jailed for her sister’s murder, Adrienne Bailey introduces herself with a quick jab that leaves him black-eyed and bewildered. Still, the injured cowboy wants to prove his innocence and suggests they work together to find the real killer. Reluctantly, the grieving sister agrees. As other credible suspects emerge, Adrienne’s distrust of Nick turns to a surprising attraction. He’s too handsome, and one night of passion awakens unfamiliar emotions for them both. But until they catch the killer plaguing the ranch, neither she nor Nick is safe.

Download or read book The Coffin Master written by John F. Deane and published by Rajkamal Prakashan. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cowboys of the historic Waggoner Ranch are living legends.They are men who embody the attributes of dusty riders who braved the wild a century ago. The cowboys ride a vast ranch, the largest in the United States within one fence. The 510,772-acre ranch, a couple of hours northwest of Dallas/Fort Worth, was established in 1854, only nine years after Texas joined the Union. Jeremy Enlow was granted rare access to photograph the twenty-six cowboys who ride the trails of their forebearers, living a life and practicing skills that have almost disappeared. It is important to record their lives before they shut the gate behind them the last time. This book is a tribute to the cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch.

Download or read book The Creation of the Cowboy Hero written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As business interests have commercialized the American West and publishers and studios have created compelling imagery, the expectations of readers and moviegoers have influenced perceptions of the cowboy as a hero. This book describes the evolution of the cowboy hero as a mythic persona created by dime novels, television and Hollywood. Much of our concept of the cowboy comes to us from movies and the book's main focus is his changing image in cinema. The development of the hero image and the fictional West is traced from early novels and films to the present, along with shifting audience expectations and economic pressures.

Download or read book A Cowboy of Her Own The Complete Series written by Genevieve Turner and published by Penny Bright Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-28 with total page 1169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranchers, Bull Riders, and Fire Fighters—the little town of Cabrillo has them all! In this steamy collection of romances, these cowboy heroes will get lassoed by true love. This boxed set includes five full novels and a bonus story! Complete set listing: Her Billionaire Rancher Boss (Book One) The handsome cowboy is completely off limits… Her Bull Rider’s Baby (Book Two) What happens in Vegas will change them forever… Rescued by Her Fire Fighter (Book Three) Opposites don’t just attract—they ignite… Her Cowboy Rival (Book Four) For these rivals, there’s a thin line between lust and hate… Reunited with Her Cowboy (Book Five) They created their painful past together—and together is the only way they’ll escape it… And a bonus story—Reunited with Her Bull Rider! He chased his rodeo dreams and she chased him. But one day it wasn’t enough… steamy sizzling western cowboy alpha firefighter small town boxed set box collection second chance enemies to lovers

Download or read book House of Love written by Jason M. Dry and published by Jason Dry. This book was released on 2010-03-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his sister drowns, seven-year-old Paul is sent away to live with his grandparents. He was too young to have been left to watch his sister while their mother slept off her depression. Luckily for Paul, a medium lives next door to his grandparents. She begins her own brand of tutelage to help Paul cope with the loss of his sister and family.

Download or read book The Black Lights written by Thomas Hauser and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986 (McGraw-Hill), The Black Lights was the first book that fully explored the sport and business of professional boxing. Upon joining the training camp of superlightweight Billy Costello, Thomas Hauser was given unprecedented access to the fighter, his manager, and trainer as well as to the real heavyweights of the boxing world, promoter Don King, and World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman. The result, according to Playboy in their review of the original, is a book that "explains why fighters fight, what they go through to win, and how they feel when they lose. It is a great book." In this gracefully written, fast-paced narrative, the author slips quietly into the background and gives us a firsthand look at a business that is often cruel and exploitative and a sport that is at once violent and beautiful. As the San Francisco Chronicle points out, The Black Lights provides ammunition for both sides in the debate over boxing: "Hauser has written what is clearly the most complete and fairminded work on the subject to date." In an age when the controversy surrounding the evils and merits of boxing still rages, this classic account is more timely than ever.