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Book Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick

Download or read book Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick written by Courtney Sina Meredith and published by Beatnik Pub. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick is a collection of poetry by Courtney Sina Meredith. Meredith has established a local and international reputation as a performer, poet, musician and playwright. Her work is an on-going discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique and an educated, politically aware, international voice.

Book Remember Me

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Kennedy
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2023-10-19
  • ISBN : 1776711181
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Remember Me written by Anne Kennedy and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In haka and waiata, sea shanties and ballads, in the words of Sam Hunt and Selina Tusitala Marsh, Hone Tuwhare and Hera Lindsay Bird, the rhythms of poetry have carried our sounds and stories, our loves and losses for generations. Now Anne Kennedy brings together for the first time a selection of over 200 poems from Aotearoa to learn by heart &– whakatauki and odes, poems of love and of nature, of whanau, history and politics.For a wedding, a tangi, for a day at school or an evening at home, Remember Me will be a lively poetic companion for years to come.

Book Out Here

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Barnes
  • Publisher : Auckland University Press
  • Release : 2021-11-11
  • ISBN : 1776710770
  • Pages : 529 pages

Download or read book Out Here written by Emma Barnes and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you're hidden? Aotearoa is a land of extraordinary queer writers, many of whom have contributed to our rich literary history. But you wouldn't know it. Decades of erasure and homophobia have rendered some of our most powerful writing invisible. Out Here will change that. This landmark book brings together and celebrates queer New Zealand writers from across the gender and LGBTQIA+ spectrum with a generous selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and much, much more. From established names to electrifying newcomers, the cacophony of voices brought together in Out Here sing out loud and proud, ensuring that future generations of queers are afforded the space to tell their stories and be themselves without fear of retribution or harm.

Book Red Lipstick

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel Felder
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2019-04-09
  • ISBN : 006284427X
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Red Lipstick written by Rachel Felder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, full-color compendium that celebrates and explores the enduring power and allure of the world’s most iconic lip shade, jam-packed with entertaining stories, anecdotes, little-known facts, quotes, and more than 100 gorgeous images culled from fine art, photography, and beauty and fashion editorial and advertising. “Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.” — Elizabeth Taylor Lipstick is the one makeup item most women can’t live without—and the most iconic shade is red. Exuding power, sensuality, allure, and mystery, red lips have been a constant of fashion for more than 5,000 years, beginning with Mesopotamian women around 3500 B.C. Throughout the ages, red lipstick has been a signature look worn by royalty, celebrities, and real women across cultures and geography. In fact, nearly all women own a tube of red lipstick, whether it’s the favorite shade they’ve been wearing devotedly for years, or as beauty boost they use for special occasions. Filled with a show-stopping selection of images and distinctively packaged—the size of a clutch, with a jacket printed with a matte, velvet, red finish—Red Lipstick is the only cultural history of this makeup essential available. Granted unprecedented access to experts and the archives of revered brands like Chanel and Elizabeth Arden, beauty writer Rachel Felder explores the origins and allure of red lipstick and illuminates its association with aristocracy, sex appeal, illicit sexuality, rebellion, power, glamour, fame, and beauty. She also spotlights the fascinating array of women who have worn it through the ages, including monarchs, suffragettes, flappers, working women in World War II, first ladies, political leaders, geishas, Hollywood sirens, rock and rollers, fashionistas, and more. Inside this enthralling book, you’ll discover why red lipstick makes women more attractive to others (and the science behind it); tips on choosing the most perfect shade of crimson; and a wealth of anecdotes, quotations, select literary excerpts, and trivia, such as the shade Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wore on her wedding day. Red Lipstick is packed with a museum’s worth of fine art, including both Man Ray’s photograph “Red Badge of Courage” and infamous painting “Les Amoreaux;” lush, rarely seen vintage magazine advertisements from stalwart brands like Guerlain and Dior; illustrations by renowned fashion illustrators such as René Gruau, Daisy Villeneuve, and Bil Donovan; artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edgar Degas, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wayne Thiebaud, and Walt Kuhn; and images of famous red lipstick wearers including Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth II, Coco Chanel, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Madonna, Diana Vreeland, Rihanna, Paloma Picasso, and many others. With its captivating, chic design, beautiful selection of visuals, and engaging, entertaining text, Red Lipstick is a classic, like the perfect red lip shade itself.

Book The Whole Intimate Mess

Download or read book The Whole Intimate Mess written by Holly Walker and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I began to pull the threads of my experience back together. Instead of divergent stories about public failure, private torment, and postnatal distress, I started telling myself a united story: the truth, or as close as I could get to it.’ A Rhodes scholar and former Green MP, Holly Walker tells the story of how she became one of New Zealand’s youngest parliamentarians, how motherhood intervened, and how she found solace and solidarity in the writings of women. This short book makes a passionate case for the role of literature in political change and personal resilience, and for the importance of women’s voices in the public sphere.

Book The Interregnum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Morgan Godfery
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2016-03-15
  • ISBN : 0947492658
  • Pages : 91 pages

Download or read book The Interregnum written by Morgan Godfery and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear’ – Antonio Gramsci Is New Zealand’s political settlement beginning to fray? And does this mean we’re entering the interregnum, that ambiguous moment between society-wide discontent and political change? In BWB’s latest book of essays, edited by Morgan Godfery, ten of New Zealand’s sharpest emerging thinkers gather to debate the ‘morbid symptoms’ of the current moment, from precarious work to climate change, and to discuss what shape change might take, from ‘the politics of love’ to postcapitalism. The Interregnum interrogates the future from the perspective of the generation who will shape it. Contributors: Andrew Dean, Max Harris, Lamia Imam, Chloe King, Daniel Kleinsman, Edward Miller, Courtney Sina Meredith, Carrie Stoddart-Smith, Wilbur Townsend and Holly Walker.

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco Literatures

Download or read book Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco Literatures written by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigenous writers from Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the global Pacific diaspora. This book itself is an ecological form with rhizomatic roots and blossoming branches. Within these pages, the reader will encounter a wild garden of genres, including poetry, chant, short fiction, novel excerpts, creative nonfiction, visual texts, and even a dramatic play—all written in multilingual offerings of English, Pacific languages, pidgin, and translation. Seven main themes emerge: “Creation Stories and Genealogies,” “Ocean and Waterscapes,” “Land and Islands,” “Flowers, Plants, and Trees,” “Animals and More-than-Human Species,” “Climate Change,” and “Environmental Justice.” This aesthetic diversity embodies the beautiful bio-diversity of the Pacific itself. The urgent voices in this book call us to attention—to action!—at a time of great need. Pacific ecologies and the lives of Pacific Islanders are currently under existential threat due to the legacy of environmental imperialism and the ongoing impacts of climate change. While Pacific writers celebrate the beauty and cultural symbolism of the ocean, islands, trees, and flowers, they also bravely address the frightening realities of rising sea levels, animal extinction, nuclear radiation, military contamination, and pandemics. Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures reminds us that we are not alone; we are always in relation and always ecological. Humans, other species, and nature are interrelated; land and water are central concepts of identity and genealogy; and Earth is the sacred source of all life, and thus should be treated with love and care. With this book as a trusted companion, we are inspired and empowered to reconnect with the world as we navigate towards a precarious yet hopeful future.

Book Harper s New Monthly Magazine

Download or read book Harper s New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

Book Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine

Download or read book Blackwood s Edinburgh Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad  Illustrated

Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad Illustrated written by Joseph Conrad and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 9327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive digital Edition of the great modernist’s works, with every published novel, short story, novella and literary essay written by Joseph Conrad. One of the most significant writers of the 20th Century is accessible in his entirety for the first time in digital format. (Current version: 3) * ALL 19 novels, with perfect formatting * Links to famous film and TV adaptations * even the rare unfinished novel Suspense, not available anywhere else as a digital book * ALL 28 short stories, collected and perfectly formatted * ALL of the memoirs and literary criticism * Many images throughout the eBook relating to Conrad’s life and works * Informative and brief introductions to Conrad’s famous novels Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels and Novellas ALMAYER’S FOLLY AN OUTCAST OF THE ISLANDS THE N****R OF THE NARCISSUS LORD JIM THE INHERITORS TYPHOON HEART OF DARKNESS ROMANCE NOSTROMO THE SECRET AGENT UNDER WESTERN EYES CHANCE VICTORY THE SHADOW-LINE THE ARROW OF GOLD THE RESCUE THE NATURE OF A CRIME THE ROVER SUSPENSE The Short Stories THE BLACK MATE THE IDIOTS THE LAGOON AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS THE RETURN KARAIN: A MEMORY YOUTH FALK AMY FOSTER TO-MORROW THE END OF THE TETHER GASPAR RUIZ THE INFORMER THE BRUTE AN ANARCHIST THE DUEL IL CONDE A SMILE OF FORTUNE THE SECRET SHARER FREYA OF THE SEVEN ISLES PRINCE ROMAN THE PLANTER OF MALATA THE PARTNER THE INN OF THE TWO WITCHES BECAUSE OF THE DOLLARS THE WARRIOR’S SOUL THE TALE The Memoirs THE MIRROR OF THE SEA A PERSONAL RECORD The Essays NOTES ON LIFE AND LETTERS LAST ESSAYS Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Book Lord Jim Volume 2 EasyRead Edition

Download or read book Lord Jim Volume 2 EasyRead Edition written by Joseph Conrad and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lord Jim" is the story of a seaman and his various adventures. The writer focuses on that one moment of Jim's life where lack of courage changes it forever. He joins a group of officers who manage to escape successfully from a sinking ship and leave all passengers to drown. Later, Jim is the only person who accepts his sin and cowardice publicly. Engrossing!

Book Lord Jim

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Lord Jim written by Joseph Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incorporates the extensive amount of human engineering data compiled and organized by Henry Dreyfuss Associates over the last thirty years ... Consists of pictorial selectors which present over 20,000 bits of information, basically encompassing anthropometry, guidelines for seating design, and requirements for the handicapped and elderly. Men, women, and children - large and small - are represented." from page 1.

Book Plant Kin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Theresa L. Miller
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 1477317422
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Plant Kin written by Theresa L. Miller and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigenous Canela inhabit a vibrant multispecies community of nearly 3,000 people and over 300 types of cultivated and wild plants living together in Maranhão State in the Brazilian Cerrado (savannah) a biome threatened with deforestation and climate change. In the face of these environmental threats, Canela women and men work to maintain riverbank and forest gardens and care for their growing crops who they consider to be, literally, children. This nurturing, loving relationship between people and plants—which offers a thought-provoking model for supporting multispecies survival and well-being throughout the world—is the focus of Plant Kin. Theresa L. Miller shows how kinship develops between Canela people and plants through intimate, multi-sensory, and embodied relationships. Using an approach she calls “sensory ethnobotany,” Miller explores the Canela bio-sociocultural life-world, including Canela landscape aesthetics, ethnobotanical classification, mythical storytelling, historical and modern-day gardening practices, transmission of ecological knowledge through an education of affection for plant kin, shamanic engagements with plant friends and lovers, and myriad other human-nonhuman experiences. This multispecies ethnography reveals the transformations of Canela human-environment and human-plant engagements over the past two centuries and envisions possible futures for this Indigenous multispecies community as they reckon with the rapid environmental and climatic changes facing the Brazilian Cerrado as the Anthropocene epoch unfolds.

Book The Girl From Lost Creek

Download or read book The Girl From Lost Creek written by Judy Thompson and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Judy Hartzell begins with the disappearance of her father and the murder of her mother--two events that shocked the small community of Lost Creek, West Virginia, a region of Appalachia in the 1940s. She is separated from her six siblings when she and her sister are eventually adopted by a couple in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with just stories and shadowy memories of her childhood. Judy finds a deep inner strength and independence that would lead her through a life of work, acquiring a college education, raising a family while traveling, and living in various cities in the United States and abroad.

Book Lord Jim

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Conrad
  • Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9781853260377
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Lord Jim written by Joseph Conrad and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the Malay Archipelago, this novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. It explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit.

Book Mystical Monsters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Laura Davy
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2019-04-10
  • ISBN : 1796001457
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book Mystical Monsters written by Laura Davy and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life couldn’t get much better for Lauren. Her grades are good and Mistville High seems to be the best place to be, she’s surrounded by amazing friends, and she’s the co-captain of the cheerleading squad. She’s popular and full of love and curiosity. This dream life must be too good to be true...and it is. Her world is turned upside down when a violent murder takes place within the school. She is so afraid. Could the killer be someone she knows? Or worse, could it be someone she’s close to? Who is next? Amongst the chaos, she can’t help but fall for the mysterious new boy at school, Jace. But is his arrival too suspiciously in line with the occurrence of the murder? Something doesn’t feel right...almost supernatural. She is taken on the thrilling journey filled with love and danger, but will she live to tell the tale?