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Book From Kleefeld with Love

    Book Details:
  • Author : John A. Harder
  • Publisher : Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book From Kleefeld with Love written by John A. Harder and published by Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters in this collection were written by Mennonite women during the onset of Soviet Russia's most turbulent years, 1925 to 1933. They speak of refugees who survived unspeakable trials of harassment and persecution, of family losses and home dislocation. Most were written by Mariechen Harder to Abram and Anna Harder and family, her relatives who had left Kleefeld for Canada in 1924.

Book The Book Test Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jim Kleefeld
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-10-31
  • ISBN : 9780990387374
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Book Test Book written by Jim Kleefeld and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic reference for mentalists, mind readers and magicians on the effect commonly known as "book tests."

Book Claudia Kleefeld

    Book Details:
  • Author : New Art Center Gallery
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780615134178
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Claudia Kleefeld written by New Art Center Gallery and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Webcomics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sean Kleefeld
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-05-28
  • ISBN : 1350028193
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Webcomics written by Sean Kleefeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work** The first critical guide to cover the history, form and key critical issues of the medium, Webcomics helps readers explore the diverse and increasingly popular worlds of online comics. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as: ·The history of webcomics and how developments in technology from the 1980s onwards presented new opportunities for comics creators and audiences ·Cultural contexts – from the new financial and business models allowed by digital media to social justice causes in contemporary webcomics ·Key texts – from early examples of the form such as Girl Genius and Penny Arcade to popular current titles such as Questionable Content and Dumbing of Age ·Important theoretical and critical approaches to studying webcomics Webcomics includes a glossary of crucial critical terms, annotated guides to further reading, and online resources and discussion questions to help students and readers develop their understanding of the genre and pursue independent study.

Book Hard Passage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Kroeger
  • Publisher : University of Alberta
  • Release : 2007-01-15
  • ISBN : 9780888644732
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Hard Passage written by Arthur Kroeger and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, 20,000 Mennonites left the newly formed Soviet Union and emigrated to Canada. Among them were Heinrich and Helena Kroeger and their five children. Based on Heinrich's diaries and letters, and archival research, Hard Passage speaks to the indomitable spirit of Mennonite immigrants to the Canadian West.

Book A Duet for One

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald Henry Parker
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2000-06-09
  • ISBN : 0595004830
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book A Duet for One written by Donald Henry Parker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-06-09 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poetry is about "the magic of man-woman power that makes works of art and science flower." Autobiographically, it follows the author's seventy years of poetry writing as he sought to make a living "out in the world." Also, it gives valuable pointers on writing your own poetry.

Book The Unknown Gulag

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynne Viola
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0195187695
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book The Unknown Gulag written by Lynne Viola and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Stalin's most heinous acts was the ruthless repression of millions of peasants in the early 1930s, an act that established the very foundations of the gulag. Now, with the opening of Soviet archives, an entirely new dimension of Stalin's brutality has been uncovered.

Book Provancheria

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Provancheria written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of extracts from Naturaliste canadien or reprints from Phytologia.

Book Mennonite Women in Canada

Download or read book Mennonite Women in Canada written by Marlene Epp and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mennonite Women in Canada traces the complex social history and multiple identities of Canadian Mennonite women over 200 years. Marlene Epp explores women’s roles, as prescribed and as lived, within the contexts of immigration and settlement, household and family, church and organizational life, work and education, and in response to social trends and events. The combined histories of Mennonite women offer a rich and fascinating study of how women actively participate in ordering their lives within ethno-religious communities.

Book Never Come Back

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Jensen
  • Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
  • Release : 2019-03-14
  • ISBN : 1480983829
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Never Come Back written by Karen Jensen and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Come Back By: Karen Jensen Never Come Back is a gold mine of anthropological/sociological information about a very distinct social-religious group of people. The determination with which these Mennonites faced and overcame countless obstacles is a wonder and inspiration. -Col. Thomas Snodgrass, USAF (retired); history professor at the Air War College, USA Air Force Academy and adjunct history professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Arizona Follow Karen Jensen as she painstakingly uncovers her Mennonite roots in Prussia and Russia. It is an exciting story, not because it is a well-written novel, but because it is true! -Dr. William Varner, The Master’s University Karen Jensen grew up knowing she was living proof of her family’s miraculous survival. In Never Come Back, she shares her family’s extraordinary tale of deliverance and hope. In 1909, Aaron and Susanna Rempel were enjoying a peaceful life in Gnadenfeld, a Mennonite village in Russia. While wealthy, owning the first car the village had ever seen, the young family personified the Mennonite values of pacifism, hard work, and community. But World War I and Communist uprisings bankrupted the family, forcing them to Siberia. Despite being loyal citizens for a century, the Mennonites were at the mercy of the vicious Cheka secret police, the brutal Red Army, and savage bandits. Desperate to save his family, Aaron agreed to enlist in the Red Army in order to move his family back to Gnadenfeld. The family braved the deadly journey only to discover life in their village was just as brutal – neighbor betrayed neighbor and disease and famine were rampant. The Rempel family struggled to maintain their culture, but under the Bolshevik government, their lives were repeatedly threatened. In 1922, they began the long process of immigrating to America – a land of hope and freedom, but a journey that would be even more dangerous than what had come before. Rich with details of daily life as well as the horrors of war and Communism, Never Come Back is an intimate look at one family’s survival during the catastrophes of war and revolution.

Book A Dream Deferred

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald A. Filtzer
  • Publisher : Peter Lang
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9783039117970
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book A Dream Deferred written by Donald A. Filtzer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the latest work in Russian labour history, based on exciting materials from previously closed archives and collections. Sixteen essays, focusing on peasants and workers, explore the lives and struggles of working people. Ranging over a century of dramatic upheaval, from the late 1800s to the present, the essays are organized around three broad themes: workers' politics, incentives and coercion within industrial and rural workplaces, and household strategies. The volume explores the relationship between the peasantry and the working class, a nexus that has been central to state policy, oppositional politics, economic development, and household configuration. It profiles a working class rent by divisions and defined not only by its relationship to the workplace or the state, but also by its household strategies for daily survival. The essays explore many topics accessible for the first time, including the motivations of women workers, roots of revolutionary activism, the revolutionary movement outside the great cities, socialist opposition to the Soviet regime, reactions of workers to Stalinist terror, socialist tourism, peasant families in forced exile, and work discipline on the collective farms.

Book  We of the Third Sex

    Book Details:
  • Author : James W. Jones
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book We of the Third Sex written by James W. Jones and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the influence which the medical model of homosexuality, conceived and formulated largely by German physicians, exerted upon works of prose fiction and dramas written between the late 1880s and 1914. This «Third Sex», as it was named, inhabited a space created between the heterosexual male and female, and its members rapidly proliferated in literary works. Combining historical, narrative and feminist approaches, the author analyzes over three dozen works in terms of both their social contexts and the aesthetic strategies they employ in presenting homosexual characters. The writers studied include: Frank Wedekind, Elizabeth Dauthendey, Robert Musil, Maria Janitschek, Thomas Mann and John Henry Mackay. Jones' readings of these texts reveal that these depictions evolved from a rather exact mirroring of the medical model for homosexuality into a more varied presentation in which we find the genesis of a specifically German literary discourse on homosexualities.

Book Letters From Home

Download or read book Letters From Home written by Sandra Froese Callahan and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War, revolution, and the consolidation of Soviet power during the 1920s prompted 21,000 Mennonites to leave the Soviet Union for Canada. Among them were Isaac and John Thiessen. Left behind was their beloved family: three siblings and parents, Elizabeth and Heinrich, who were tortured and starved under Stalin’s rule. Letters from Home provides a rare, intimate portrait of the Russian Mennonite experience during the Holodomor, documenting in detail this horrific and much-debated period of human history. Between 1925 and 1934, Elizabeth and Heinrich wrote letters from Molotschna Mennonite Colony in Russia to Isaac and his wife, Anna, in Leamington, Canada. Serendipitously, these letters were rescued from extinction by Anna, painstakingly transcribed by Marie Hildebrandt Huebert, and translated into English by grandson Otto Tiessen. They were then gathered into this vital historical manuscript by Otto’s wife Faye and by Sandra Froese Callahan, Elizabeth and Heinrich’s great-granddaughter. Beyond historical documentation, beyond politics, dogma, and deliberation, these letters profoundly express the private, heartbreaking realities of one family’s struggle to survive, characterized by familial love, religious faith, and the descent, day by day, into desperation and starvation.

Book Comic Book Fanthropology

Download or read book Comic Book Fanthropology written by Sean Kleefeld and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you've spent your entire life reading comics books or you've just met someone who does, you're sure to notice that the average comic book fan is somewhat different than everybody else. Why do they insist on arguing if Superman is stronger than Captain Marvel? Why do they talk as if they own the rights to Judge Dredd? Why do they keep drawing chibi versions of themselves? The only way to find out all the answers is to study comic book fandom to discover what makes fans tick. Comic Book Fanthropology does exactly that in a casual, narrative manner.

Book Women of Visionary Art

Download or read book Women of Visionary Art written by David Jay Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the role that dreaming, psychedelic experiences, and mystical visions play in visionary art • Includes discussions with 18 well-known female artists, including Josephine Wall, Allyson Grey, Amanda Sage, Martina Hoffmann, Penny Slinger, and Carolyn Mary Kleefeld • Reveals how they have all been inspired by deep inner experiences and seek to express non-ordinary visions of reality, reminiscent of shamanic trance states, lucid dreams, and spiritually transcendent experiences • Shows how visionary art often contains an abundance of feminine energy, helping us to heal ourselves and see that we are all connected Since early humans first painted from their mystic eye onto cave walls, artists have sought to share their sacred visions with the world. Created in every medium, from oil painting and sculpture to contemporary digital modeling, these visionary works of art give those who experience them a chance to “see the unseen,” realize wider modes of perception, and discover spiritual and mystical realms. In this full-color illustrated book, David Jay Brown and Rebecca Ann Hill examine the work and inspirations of eighteen of today’s leading female visionary artists, including Josephine Wall, Allyson Grey, Amanda Sage, Martina Hoffmann, Penny Slinger, and Carolyn Mary Kleefeld. They explore the creative process and the role that dreaming, psychedelic experiences, sexuality, and divine guidance play in the work of these women, alongside full-color examples of their art. They discuss the future of visionary art and reveal how these artists have all been informed and inspired by deep inner experiences and seek to express non-ordinary visions of reality, often reminiscent of those encountered in shamanic trance, lucid dreams, psychedelic states, spiritually transcendent experiences, and other altered states. Showing how visionary art often contains an abundance of feminine energy, helping us to heal ourselves and see that we are all connected, the authors explore with each artist what it is about being a woman that has most influenced their artwork. They also examine the connection between visionary art and spirituality, the influence of Nature and sacred geometry, and how this creative form is simultaneously ancient, futuristic, and timeless, providing an accessible doorway into the visionary realm.

Book The Mennonite Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Mennonite Quarterly Review written by Harold Stauffer Bender and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Climates of the Mind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0595365647
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Climates of the Mind written by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .In a time of spiritual decadence, still another poet has injured us with the visions of possibility. Here is a rare wedding of poetic prose, philosophy and psychological awareness without the wooden self-consciousness of most modern psychological writing. A human document. It touches the deepest places. .Informs and potentially heals its readers by communicating with love, a sense of what underlines the particulars of their lives. This book will live. -CARL A. FABER Ph.D. Psychologist, Lecturer, Author