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Book Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance

Download or read book Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance written by Sharon E. Sutton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-06-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how youth reframe the lessons of hopelessness or entitlement contained in their surroundings.

Book A Sociological Tapestry

Download or read book A Sociological Tapestry written by Teri Milner and published by . This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reweaving the Social Tapestry

Download or read book Reweaving the Social Tapestry written by Don S. Browning and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A careful consideration of the place of families in our national fabric.

Book Tapestry  A Book Club Recommendation

Download or read book Tapestry A Book Club Recommendation written by Beth Duke and published by Art of Dixie. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beth Duke, Author of #1 Best Seller It All Comes Back to You, delivers an emotional and inspiring novel about family, from the roots that ground us to the branches that allow us to take flight. "Beth Duke is a poet disguised as a Southern novelist. Tapestry made me laugh, made me think and in the end, made me cry. Tapestry delivers on ALL counts." -Dan Brown, Author of Reunion Twenty-two-year-old Skye Willis lives in Eufaula, Alabama, a tourist mecca of stately homes and world-class bass fishing. Her childhood friends are either stuck at dead ends or have moved on to accomplish Big Things. Skye's grandmother, Verna, insists on being called "Sparrow" because she suspects her ancestors were Muscogee Creek. She dresses in faux deerskin and experiments with ancient Native American recipes, offering a myth or legend to anyone who will listen. Skye has no idea what to do with her life. She's smart as hell, but she has no faith or knowledge there's something out there she was "born to do." Nor does she know much of anything about her father, who died in Afghanistan when she was a toddler. He and his family are a mystery her mother won't discuss. But when Sparrow is determined to confirm her Creek ancestry through genetic testing, Skye joins in. The results hit like a DNA bomb, launching them both on a path filled with surprises and life-changing events. Skye learns a harder truth than she ever expected. Alternating chapters between Skye's Alabama life and an intertwining tale of greed, deceit, and control in Texas, this story offers proof that all life is a woven tapestry of past, present, and future. In Beth Duke's uplifting and soul-singing voice, TAPESTRY is Southern Fiction at its best; you will cry, you will laugh out loud, and you will wish you were a member of the beautiful, matriarchal family Duke has created for her readers. This book is a must-read for fans of Fannie Flagg, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Rebecca Wells.

Book Time s Tapestry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leta Weiss Marks
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 1997-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780807122051
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Time s Tapestry written by Leta Weiss Marks and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than forty years afterleaving her native New Orleans as a young woman, Leta Weiss Marks awakened to the realization that her family history there was almost beyond the horizon of living memory. Rescuing it, for herself and posterity, became her mission and brought her home again. In a compelling, elegant blend of fact and fiction, Marks weaves a tapestry of family members and events, drawing mainly upon interviews with her nonagenarian mother and aunt. Letters, archival research, and Marks’s own recollections and imagination also contribute to the composition, which she calls “a song of myself and my family.” At the center are Marks’s mother and father, and the highs and lows of their courtship and marriage. Caroline Dreyfous was born into a prominent Jewish family of New Orleans; Leon Weiss, seventeen years her senior, always struggled to gain their acceptance. He was an ambitious, talented architect, the driving force in the famous firm of Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth, chosen by Huey Long to design the new state capitol and governor’s mansion, New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, and other landmarks. He also was implicated in the “Louisiana Scandals” and sentenced to two years in federal prison. Time’s Tapestry is in part Marks’s attempt to peel back her mother’s reticent yet unwavering loyalty toward her father and understand this man, who died when Marks was only twenty-one and preparing to move to Connecticut. Stories and memories of three generations of the Dreyfous branch of the family tree complete Marks’s portrait. She makes vivid not only the personalities of her kin but also the times in which they lived, conjuring the New Orleans of her great-grandfather, grandparents, parents, and own childhood—segregation, the alternate inclusion and exclusion of the Jewish community, the fervid politics of the Long era—and juxtaposing those scenes with her experiences as an adult returning to visit her family in a greatly changed city. Charming and evocative, a superb example of creative nonfiction—Time’s Tapestry makes for both an intimate family album and a priceless record of New Orleans’ cultural, social, and political history.

Book A Zoroastrian Tapestry

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  • Author : Pheroza Godrej
  • Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book A Zoroastrian Tapestry written by Pheroza Godrej and published by Mapin Publishing Pvt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference of Zoroastrians/Parsees development in Iran and India, particularly in Mumbai.

Book Anatomy of a Tapestry

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  • Author : Jean Pierre Larochette
  • Publisher : Schiffer Craft
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9780764359330
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Anatomy of a Tapestry written by Jean Pierre Larochette and published by Schiffer Craft. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Pierre Larochette is a renowned top-level artist, making this opportunity to learn from him a treasure for all levels of weavers.

Book Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond

Download or read book Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond written by Tommye McClure Scanlin and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once ideas and images come to mind, the next step in weaving your tapestry--interpreting these into effective compositions--may be challenging. Learn here, in ways that relate specifically to tapestry art, the design basics you need to make your best work. Renowned master weaver Scanlin offers 60 step-by-step "explorations" that lead you from understanding design concepts in your head to using them on your loom. Be inspired to explore "weavable" ways to manage line, shape, color, texture, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and more for results that bring your tapestries to a new level. In Part 1, dive into the fundamentals of design. Parts 2 and 3 hold explorations--exercises with a tapestry twist. Part 4 teaches ways to turn designs into cartoons. A resource treasure trove offers ideas for finishing tapestries (essential to the design's completeness), helpful templates, glossaries, and other core information to carry forward on your creative path.

Book The American Ritual Tapestry

Download or read book The American Ritual Tapestry written by Mary Jo Deegan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-09-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American rituals are vital to the creation and renewal of cultural meanings and rules for social interaction. These rituals are rooted in tradition yet are rapidly changing: a contradiction of hyper-modern society. This phenomenon was first explored by Professor Deegan in her 1989 study American Ritual Dramas. The theory examines both participatory rituals and mass-media rituals to show how everyday people become attached to and alienated from other rituals. Elaborating on the critical dramaturgy theory, the essays in this collection show how patterns can be changed to create a more emancipatory and celebratory society. The topics covered in the collection include an analysis of Santa Claus, skinheads, hate crimes, and strip dancing, among other topics. Each contributor has participated in these rituals and many examine related cultural artifacts such as music, brochures, and so forth. As the essays show, postmodern theory has gratly underestimated the power and coherence of these events. An important study for scholars and other researchers involved with sociological theory, social psychology, and popular culture.

Book American Tapestry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel L. Swarns
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2012-06-19
  • ISBN : 0062204653
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book American Tapestry written by Rachel L. Swarns and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama’s mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself. In this extraordinary feat of genealogical research—in the tradition of The Hemmingses of Monticello and Slaves in the Family—author Swarns, a respected Washington-based reporter for the New York Times, tells the fascinating and hitherto untold story of Ms. Obama’s black, white, and multiracial ancestors; a history that the First Lady herself did not know. At once epic, provocative, and inspiring, American Tapestry is more than a true family saga; it is an illuminating mirror in which we may all see ourselves.

Book The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse

Download or read book The Tapestry of Early Christian Discourse written by Vernon K. Robbins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original study, Vernon Robbins expounds and develops his system of socio-rhetorical criticism, bringing together social-scientific and literary-critical approaches to explore early Christianity.

Book A Corner of the Tapestry

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  • Author : Carolyn LeMaster
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 1994-07
  • ISBN : 1682261905
  • Pages : 697 pages

Download or read book A Corner of the Tapestry written by Carolyn LeMaster and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1994-07 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most comprehensive studies ever done on a state’s Jewish community, A Corner of the Tapestry is the story—untold until now—of the Jews who helped to settle Arkansas and who stayed and flourished to become a significant part of the state’s history and culture. LeMaster has spent much of the past sixteen years compiling and writing this saga. Data for the book have been collected in part from the American Jewish Archives, American Jewish Historical Society, the stones in Arkansas’s Jewish cemeteries, more than fifteen hundred articles and obituaries from journals and newspapers, personal letters from hundreds of present and former Jewish Arkansans, congregational histories, census and court records, and some four hundred oral interviews conducted in a hundred cities and towns in Arkansas. This meticulous work chronicles the lives and genealogy of not only the highly visible and successful Jews who settled in Arkansas, but also those who comprised the warp and woof of society. It is a decidedly significant contribution to Arkansas history as well as to the wider study of Jews in the nation.

Book Tapestry

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  • Author : Cady Elizabeth Arnold
  • Publisher : Self Publisher
  • Release : 2012-07-01
  • ISBN : 9781936447060
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Tapestry written by Cady Elizabeth Arnold and published by Self Publisher. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Their journey begins when Tristam, a huntsman with the scars of a warrior, stumbles across a young girl in the forest. This mute child, whom he names Grace, is dressed in tattered white and cannot recall any memories from her past. As she and Tristam grow closer, both begin to heal in ways neither thought possible. Together, they try to put the fragments of Grace's memory back in place, prompting Tristam to wonder if the barbaric rumors about the country to the north might possibly be true. Grace starts her new life at the castle as a foreigner amidst gossip about her unknown past. Meanwhile, Tristam is secretly trying to both stop a rebellion against the king and avoid war with a neighboring country. Tristam and Grace must each navigate the social nuances and intrigues of palace life. Come enter the kingdom of Blinth, where Tristam's and Grace's stories are interwoven as together they explore a time of yellow and blue." --Back cover.

Book The Bayeux Tapestry

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  • Author : John F. Szabo
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-06-18
  • ISBN : 1442251565
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book The Bayeux Tapestry written by John F. Szabo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 1780 entries, Szabo and Kuefler offer the largest and most heavily annotated bibliography on the Tapestry ever written.

Book Little Girls Tell Tales

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  • Author : Rachel Bennett
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2020-05-29
  • ISBN : 0008333297
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Little Girls Tell Tales written by Rachel Bennett and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the boggy ponds were so deep that if a girl stepped into one it would swallow her forever...

Book Monthly Bulletin of Economic and Social Intelligence

Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Economic and Social Intelligence written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: