Download or read book M I A written by M.I.A. and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking and always controversial musician, M.I.A. is an influential artist and an important cultural figure of the last decade. Here is a documentation of her entire visual output and a telling of her story in collages, photos, and prints from her early years in art school at Central Saint Martins London through to her hugely successful three albums, mixtapes, and live performances at PS1 MoMA, Coachella, various exhibitions, installations, and music video shoots. The artwork is comprised of a wide variety of materials and media: video stills turned to stencils pieced back together to make animated installations; spray-painted canvasses scanned then made into digital collages; photographs videotaped, then run through bad computer connections to create graphic prints; artwork on nails, walls, prints for T-shirts, handmade stage costumes—anything she could find while she was touring. Also included are assorted lyrics and portions of an exclusive interview in which she discusses candidly the personal events and themes which informed her art and music at the time of each campaign. Includes foreword by Steve Loveridge, friend since her art school days and frequent creative collaborator with M.I.A.
Download or read book Zac and Mia written by A. J. Betts and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this tough and tender young adult novel that's a lot about love (and a little about cancer).
Download or read book Arsenic and Adobo written by Mia P. Manansala and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A RUSA Award-winning novel! The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes—one that might just be killer.... When Lila Macapagal moves back home to recover from a horrible breakup, her life seems to be following all the typical rom-com tropes. She's tasked with saving her Tita Rosie's failing restaurant, and she has to deal with a group of matchmaking aunties who shower her with love and judgment. But when a notoriously nasty food critic (who happens to be her ex-boyfriend) drops dead moments after a confrontation with Lila, her life quickly swerves from a Nora Ephron romp to an Agatha Christie case. With the cops treating her like she's the one and only suspect, and the shady landlord looking to finally kick the Macapagal family out and resell the storefront, Lila's left with no choice but to conduct her own investigation. Armed with the nosy auntie network, her barista best bud, and her trusted Dachshund, Longanisa, Lila takes on this tasty, twisted case and soon finds her own neck on the chopping block…
Download or read book American Girl written by Laurence Yep and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mia grows tired of skating in her brothers' shadows, she decides to pursue her passion for figure skating.
Download or read book How We Show Up written by Mia Birdsong and published by Hachette Go. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Invitation to Community and Models for Connection After almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes. They have family, friends, and colleagues, yet they still feel like they're standing alone. They're "winning" at the American Dream, but they're lonely, disconnected, and unsatisfied. It seems counterintuitive that living the "good life"--the well-paying job, the nuclear family, the upward mobility--can make us feel isolated and unhappy. But in a divided America, where only a quarter of us know our neighbors and everyone is either a winner or a loser, we've forgotten the key element that helped us make progress in the first place: community. In this provocative, groundbreaking work, Mia Birdsong shows that what separates us isn't only the ever-present injustices built around race, class, gender, values, and beliefs, but also our denial of our interdependence and need for belonging. In response to the fear and discomfort we feel, we've built walls, and instead of leaning on each other, we find ourselves leaning on concrete. Through research, interviews, and stories of lived experience, How We Show Up returns us to our inherent connectedness where we find strength, safety, and support in vulnerability and generosity, in asking for help, and in being accountable. Showing up--literally and figuratively--points us toward the promise of our collective vitality and leads us to the liberated well-being we all want.
Download or read book Mia Mayhem Is a Superhero written by Kara West and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Mia Macarooney, an ordinary eight-year-old who finds out she has an extraordinary super-secret in this first chapter book in the brand-new Mia Mayhem series! Mia Macarooney is a regular eight-year-old girl who finds out that she’s A SUPERHERO! Her life literally goes from totally ordinary to totally super when she’s invited to attend the afterschool Program for In-Training Superheroes a.k.a. THE PITS! And the crazy thing is, in a weird meant-to-be sort of way, all of this news somehow feels super right. Because all her life, Mia thought she was just super klutz...but it turns out, she’s just SUPER! So now, it’s up to Mia to balance her regular everyday life and maintain her secret identity as she learns how to be the world’s newest superhero! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Mia Mayhem chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.
Download or read book All About Mia written by Lisa Williamson and published by David Fickling Books. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia's two sisters are pretty much perfect, but Mia's life is a series of disasters.Fuelled by alcohol and insecurities, she betrays one of her best friends in the worst way imaginable.But will her little sister going missing finally make her realise making everything All About Mia just isn't going to cut it any more?It's time to grow up and face reality.
Download or read book M I A Or Mythmaking in America written by Howard Bruce Franklin and published by Lawrence Hill Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost two decades after the Vietnam War, most Americans remain convinced that U.S. prisoners are still being held captive in Southeast Asia, and many even accuse the government of concealing their existence. But as H. Bruce Franklin demonstrates in his startling investigation, there is no plausible basis for the belief in live POWs. Through scrupulous research, he shows for the first time how this illusion was fabricated and then converted into a powerful myth. Franklin reveals that in 1969 the Nixon administration, aided by militant pro-war forces, manufactured the POW/MIA issue to deflect attention from American atrocities in Vietnam, to undermine the burgeoning anti-war movement, and to stymie the Paris peace talks, resulting in the prolongation of the Vietnam War for another four years. Successive administrations, in an effort to mobilize public support for their continued economic and political warfare against Vietnam, asserted the possibility of live POWs at great emotional cost to both family members of the missing and countless Americans distressed about the fate of those supposedly left behind in Indochina. Born of political expediency, the POW/MIA issue was transformed in the 1980s into a potent myth. American culture was transfigured as movies and novels designed to reimage the Vietnam War turned the imagined post-war POWs into crucial symbols of betrayed American manhood and honor. Finally the myth began to turn against its creators when many Americans became convinced that the government itself was conspiring to betray the missing men. As he traces the evolution of the POW/MIA myth, Franklin not only exposes it as an elaborate hoax at the highest levels of government, butalso explains why the myth has penetrated to the heart of American life. By confronting the "true tragedy of the missing in Vietnam", Franklin helps us to understand how to heal the terrible psychological and spiritual wounds of the Vietnam War.
Download or read book Mia Dances Back to School written by Robin Farley and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's a new school year, and Mia can't wait to be in class with her best friends, Anna and Ruby. But Mia is upset to discover that she has a different teacher than her friends. Will Mia still twirl into the classroom? On with the show!"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Mia The Sweetest Valentine written by Robin Farley and published by HarperFestival. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is in the air! It's Valentine's Day, and Mia, Anna, and Ruby are celebrating with a special party. There are streamers, balloons, and valentines, and Mia even finds a box of chocolates that she shares with her friends. It's the perfect day . . . until Mia finds out that the box of chocolates was actually a Valentine's Day present for her mom. Uh-oh! Can Mia make up for the mix-up before the day is over? A full page of stickers is included in this book for decorating your very own valentines!
Download or read book Supernatural America written by Robert Cozzolino and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history--the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars--are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor but present and tangible, urgently calling for contact, these otherworldly visitors have been central to our national identity. Through times of mourning and trauma, artists have been integral to visualizing ghosts, whether national or personal, and in doing so have embraced the uncanny and the inexplicable. This stunning catalog, accompanying the first major exhibition to assess the spectral in American art, explores the numerous ways American artists have made sense of their own experiences of the paranormal and the supernatural, developing a rich visual culture of the intangible. Featuring artists from James McNeill Whistler and Kerry James Marshall to artist/mediums who made images with spirits during séances, this catalog covers more than two hundred years of the supernatural in American art. Here we find works that explore haunting, UFO sightings, and a broad range of experiential responses to other worldly contact.
Download or read book Mia s Optiscope written by Natalie Rose and published by Little Steps Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia’s Optiscope is the story of a girl with a big heart and bigger imagination, a story of morality, fantasy, adventure and quest to discover the parallel world of Nilimbia. Newly arrived in the bustling suburb of Kingsford, in Sydney’s east, Mia feels lonely, missing her friends. Walking to school up Meeks Mountain, she makes a new friend and finds herself the Keeper of the Optiscope. Before she can learn its true purpose her mysterious friend is gone, leaving few clues about the Optiscope’s powers. With her grandad’s help, Mia uncovers its secrets and the Dream Team embark on adventures to Nilimbia, an awesome world of Dream Weavers and endless magic, where a little imagination and hope makes the impossible possible.
Download or read book Mia s Five Alphas written by A.B Elwin and published by eGlobal Creative Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Come here." His tone was extremely gentle, as if I was his most precious treasure. He tightened his grip and rubbed against my waist with one of his big hands affectionately. The heat seeping through my clothes set my body on fire. "Don't resist,” he ordered as he kissed me. I closed my eyes, kissing him back, wanting more. "Say you choose me…" he whispered in my ear, sending chills down my spine. I couldn’t help but tremble in desire. However, all I could do in response was push him away. “I’m sorry, but I can’t…” *** Ever since Mia was born, misfortune haunted her. Nothing worked out in her life. She was desperate for a way out when two powerful and unbelievably gorgeous alphas saved her from her misery. Since then, handsome men kept popping up around her, and her problems had vanished one by one. However, was this really a dream come true, or just the beginning of a more sinister nightmare? *** Mia's Five Alphas is created by A.B Elwin, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.
Download or read book POW MIA S written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mia s Golden Bird Charmed Life 2 written by Lisa Schroeder and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four best friends, one lucky bracelet, and an utterly charming new middle-grade series! Mia has always loved living in southern California, where she takes every chance she gets to surf. But when she breaks her foot, Mia can't believe how bored she is! Bored enough that she's caught bird-watching -- by a famous young actress! Turns out, the other girl likes birds, too, and when she invites Mia to come with her to take photos, Mia jumps at the chance. Something to do AND the money she needs to pay for camp for next year! There's just one more problem: How will she keep her weird new job a secret from her BFFs?
Download or read book U S MIA s in Southeast Asia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tighe Report on American POW s and MIA s written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
