Download or read book I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky written by June Jordan and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Best known as a political activist and an essayist, and hailed by Library Journal as "one of the most important poets today," Jordan has now written the libretto and the lyrics for an American opera. The music is composed by John Adams." "I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky mixes the drama of poetry and song to construct a brilliant earthquake/romance. In the context of the timeless issues of love, the opera, set in South Central Los Angeles, explores such contemporary questions as immigration, birth control, and criminal law. A white cop, a black Baptist minister, and an El Salvadoran mother are among the young Americans cast in this heartfelt portrayal of a day in the life of an LA neighborhood."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Ceiling of the Sky written by Karen Leh and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Ceiling of Sky written by Su-Yee Lin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Ceiling of Sky is a collection of ten stories.
Download or read book The Sky Is My Ceiling written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sky Is My Ceiling: Biking China's Border is Yu Juanjuan's personal account of her bike journey around China's border from 1987 to 1989 and in the process changed Chinese women's history. It took her two years to travel over 40,000 kilometers, (25,000 miles) to complete this trip, the distance being equivalent to the circumference of the earth. Starting from Beijing with four team members, three dropped out early, leaving her with only one-team member. For the majority of the 22 month trip she faced most of the diverse challenges ? the demanding terrain, the reaction from natives of cities and villages she visited, the wildly fluctuating weather, the need for funding, and those arising from the fact that she was a young woman ? alone. Since then, nobody has been able to duplicate her feat, man or woman. The strength of this remarkable woman's story? a product of the intersection of Communist and modern China ? result in a compelling richly illustrated book documenting the enormity of her success. Richly illustrated with over 150 images.
Download or read book Things that Fall from the Sky written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These Hands,” a man named Lewis recounts his time babysitting a young girl and his inconsolable sense of loss after she is wrenched away. In “Apples,” a boy comes to terms with the complex world of adults, his first pangs of love, and the bizarre death of his Bible coach. “The Jesus Stories” examines a people trying to accelerate the Second Coming by telling the story of Christ in every possible way. And in the O. Henry Award winning “The Ceiling,” a man’s marriage begins to disintegrate after the sky starts slowly descending. Achingly beautiful and deceptively simple, Things That Fall from the Sky defies gravity as one of the most original story collections seen in recent years.
Download or read book A Ceiling for a Sky written by Susan Lees and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sky for a Ceiling written by National Paint, Varnish, and Lacquer Association and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars written by Eileen M. Collins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership. Eileen Collins is among the most recognized and admired women in the world, yet this is the first time she has told her story in a book. It is a story not only of achievement and overcoming obstacles but of profound personal transformation. The shy, quiet child of an alcoholic father and struggling single mother, who grew up in modest circumstances and was an unremarkable student, she had few prospects when she graduated from high school, but she changed her life to pursue her secret dream of becoming an astronaut. She shares her leadership and life lessons throughout the book with the aim of inspiring and passing on her legacy to a new generation.
Download or read book I looked at the ceiling and I saw the sky written by Memory/Cage Editions (Zürich) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between the Ceiling and the Sky written by Eugenia Tsoulis and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2000 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ink Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring 70 works in various media--paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture--that were created during the past three decades, Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China will demonstrate how China's ancient pattern of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models remains a viable creative path. Although all of the artists have transformed their sources through new modes of expression, visitors will recognize thematic, aesthetic, or technical attributes in their creations that have meaningful links to China's artistic past. The exhibition will be organized thematically into four parts and will include such highlights as Xu Bing's dramatic Book from the Sky (ca. 1988), an installation that will fill an entire gallery; Family Tree (2000), a set of vivid photographs documenting a performance by Zhang Huan in which his facial features--and his identity--are obscured gradually by physiognomic texts that are inscribed directly onto his face; and Map of China (2006) by Ai Weiwei, which is constructed entirely of wood salvaged from demolished Qing dynasty temples." --
Download or read book There Was an Old Man Who Painted the Sky written by Teri Sloat and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a child looks up to find drawings on the ceiling of a cave, she wonders how they were painted. Planets that spin, the birds and the beasts, woman and man--how did the old man in the sky paint it all? Based on the 1879 discovery of ceiling paintings in Spain's Altamira Cave, this imaginative story expresses the awe of contemplating the creation of the world and locating beauty in an unexpected place. Children will revel in this timeless tale with truly breathtaking images.
Download or read book The Sky Is the Floor and the Grass Is the Ceiling written by Jennifer Gassman and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nan gazed dreamily down into the clouds above her in what she named "the grassy place", little did she know that speaking one of her made-up rhymes out loud would land her in a fantastic version of her own real world counterpart. There she must eventually deal with the absence of her mother. Nan is joined on her adventure by her two friends, Fig and Art. How the boy with a mirror on his stomach, a string-less dragon kite, a girl who is indeed blue, and intricate mechanical bees got there, is anyone's guess. There is of course, the "pink blindness" in everyday life that makes Nan wonder enough about life. She may be a rebel of the smallest of sorts, but she is her own hero.
Download or read book How to Paint a 3 D Night Sky Starred Ceiling in Under One Hour for Under 20 written by Don Ward and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "HOW TO PAINT A 3-D, NIGHT-SKY, STARRED CEILING...IN UNDER ONE HOUR...FOR UNDER $20" teaches you, in easy steps, how to create a glow-in-the-dark, three dimensional star effect on ceilings and walls. At first, this was an idea for just children's bedrooms...and they do love it. But adults love the effect too. Just imagine yourself flopping into bed after a hard day. You switch off the lights. Then you notice a few sort-of vague stars above you. As your eyes become accustomed to the darkness, it looks as if your bedroom ceiling has been lifted off. You're gazing at the most beautiful starlit sky. You are going to sleep under the stars. This little book explains how photo-luminescence works and how you can create the glow-in-the-dark star effect using inexpensive, specialist paints, and techniques not much published until now. You'll learn how to create the complete, accurate, starry Northern night sky, in addition to The Milky Way, Comets and Shooting stars. Everyone loves the glow-in-the-dark star effect which is... soothing, romantic, inspirational and educational. "They laughed when I said I had created a masterpiece...then I turned out the lights!" Don Ward
Download or read book Architecture Mysticism and Myth written by William Richard Lethaby and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1892, this classic explores the symbolism of classical architecture. A milestone in relating mysticism to design, it shows the correlation between mythology and the design of St. Paul's Cathedral, the Taj Mahal, the Palace of Versailles, and other architectural masterpieces. 30 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book The Sky is Not a Ceiling written by Aileen O'Donoghue and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a story of personal revelation of astronomer Aileen O'Donoghue who discovered the joy of being alive and well in the kingdom of God.
