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Book Mask Appeal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maya Gold
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0545129621
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mask Appeal written by Maya Gold and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana finds the perfect gown and mask for the town's masquerade ball, and even gets to dance with her new crush, but the arrival of some unexpected guests threatens to unravel her perfect evening.

Book Mask Appeal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781451708851
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Mask Appeal written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saving Face

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  • Author : Jim McRae
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-10-06
  • ISBN : 0470155582
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book Saving Face written by Jim McRae and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've always had an appreciation for the history of hockey, especially anything to do with goalies and goaltending. Now someone has finally come out with a book about goalie masks and how they came to look like the one I wear in the NHL today. From the kids who love the colorful mask art of today to those who remember when goalies played without masks, generations of hockey fans will enjoy Saving Face." - Martin Brodeur, New Jersey Devils goaltender "This book is a great idea. It will benefit goalies to look back to the days before the mask and to understand the reasons for it. And it's worthwhile for kids to see the old masks and see the changes that have been made, and to see how the masks were a part of the Canadian game. It's a very enjoyable real" - Ed Giacomin, Hockey Hall of Fame goalie "The past 50 years have seen the goalie mask evolve from being an object of scorn to being the most individualized and most protective piece of equipment in a goalie's armor. This book does an excellent job of telling that story, in words and visually through great photography!" - Dave Dryden, former NHL goaltender, and pioneering mask designer "Goalie masks have been an intriguing part of hockey for the past half century. This unique book is full of colorful and informative stories and photographs about the mask, its history and the men who have worn them, past and present." - Dick Irvin, Hockey Night in Canada

Book Face and Mask

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  • Author : Hans Belting
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2022-06-14
  • ISBN : 0691244596
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Face and Mask written by Hans Belting and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human communication, it defies attempts at visual representation. Belting divides his book into three parts: faces as masks of the self, portraiture as a constantly evolving mask in Western culture, and the fate of the face in the age of mass media. Referencing a vast array of sources, Belting's insights draw on art history, philosophy, theories of visual culture, and cognitive science. He demonstrates that Western efforts to portray the face have repeatedly failed, even with the developments of new media such as photography and film, which promise ever-greater degrees of verisimilitude. In spite of sitting at the heart of human expression, the face resists possession, and creative endeavors to capture it inevitably result in masks—hollow signifiers of the humanity they're meant to embody. From creations by Van Eyck and August Sander to works by Francis Bacon, Ingmar Bergman, and Chuck Close, Face and Mask takes a remarkable look at how, through the centuries, the physical visage has inspired and evaded artistic interpretation.

Book Persons and Masks of the Law

Download or read book Persons and Masks of the Law written by John T. Noonan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Noonan discusses how the concept of property, applied to a person, is a perfect mask since no trace of human identity remains. An auction of slaves in Virginia, the takeover of a banana plantation in Costa Rica, and an accident on the Long Island Railroad are the famous cases involving these four legal giants. The stories of the litigations at three different periods of our history provide a powerful analysis of American law. Breaking through the formalism in which jurisprudence is often enshrined, Noonan offers a compelling vision of law and a potent call for reform in the education and behavior of lawyers."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Hers

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  • Author : Jacqueline DeMontravel
  • Publisher : Potter Style
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0307885984
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Hers written by Jacqueline DeMontravel and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2011 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering guide for women on how to create a modern, feminine and mature personal sanctuary in any space shares guidelines for avoiding fussy and frilly accents while preserving both personal and guest needs. By the author of The Vintage Table.

Book Appeal and Attitude

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  • Author : Steven G. Smith
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2005-11-16
  • ISBN : 9780253111449
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Appeal and Attitude written by Steven G. Smith and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Appeal and Attitude, Steven G. Smith offers a multicultural view into issues at the heart of existentialism, hermeneutics, and the phenomenology of religion. By looking closely at the concepts of appeal, or what commands our attention, and attitude, or the quality of the attention we pay, Smith probes into the core of religious ideals to answer questions such as why faith and rationality are compelling and how religious experience becomes meaningful. Smith turns to philosophical and religious texts from Eastern and Western religious and philosophical traditions including Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, Confucius, and the Bhagavad-Gita. He also engages everyday objects such as stones, birds, boats, and minnows to arrive at normative definitions of supreme appeal and sovereign attitude. This book provides readers at all levels with a thoughtful and widely comparative window into idealism, community, responsibility, piety, faith, and love.

Book New York Court of Appeals  Records and Briefs

Download or read book New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs written by New York (State). Court of Appeals. and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume contains: (Family Finance Corp. v. Nadborne) (Family Finance Corp. v. Nadborne) (Family Finance Corp. v. Nadborne) (Family Finance Corp. v. Nadborne) (Farub Foundation Corp. v. 530 Park Ave., Inc.) (Farub Foundation Corp. v. 530 Park Ave., Inc.) (Farub Foundation Corp. v. 530 Park Ave., Inc.) (Farub Foundation Corp. v. 530 Park Ave., Inc.) (Fictioneers, Inc. v. Columbia Publications, Inc.) (Fictioneers, Inc. v. Columbia Publications, Inc.) (Fictioneers, Inc. v. Columbia Publications, Inc.) (Flynn v. Constancia De La Mora) (Flynn v. Constancia De La Mora) (Flynn v. Constancia De La Mora) (Matter of Frankel v. 447 Central Park West Corp.) (Matter of Frankel v. 447 Central Park West Corp.) (Matter of Frankel v. 447 Central Park West Corp.) (Frehe v. Schildwachter) (Frehe v. Schildwachter) (Frehe v. Schildwachter) (People ex rel Fulnau Corp. v. Sexton) (People ex rel Fulnau Corp. v. Sexton) (People ex rel Fulnau Corp. v. Sexton) (People ex rel Fulnau Corp. v. Sexton) (Gardner v. Crichton) (Gardner v. Crichton) (Gardner v. Crichton) (Gardner v. Crichton) (Gardner v. Crichton) (Gentile v. Society San Cataldo of the Province of Caltanisetta) (Gentile v. Society San Cataldo of the Province of Caltanisetta) (Gentile v. Society San Cataldo of the Province of Caltanisetta) (Glick v. Beer) (Glick v. Beer) (Glick v. Beer) (Glick v. Beer)

Book Rock and Role

Download or read book Rock and Role written by Maya Gold and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her way to drop off a super-cool vest for a Cinderella Cleaners client, Diana happens to meet pop star Tasha Kane. Tasha invites Diana to try out for a role in her new video, but there's one big catch: Tasha wants the video to feature the rockin' vest--which doesn't belong to Diana. Original.

Book Code of Federal Regulations

Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.

Book Masks

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  • Author : James Curcio
  • Publisher : Intellect (UK)
  • Release : 2019-12-06
  • ISBN : 9781789381085
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Masks written by James Curcio and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The Shifting Shaman of the Modern Age -- Introduction: Somebody Else Took His Place, and Bravely Cried -- 1. Masks All the Way Down -- 2. Mishima, Bowie and the Anti-Metaphysics of the Mask -- 3. Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Ziggy Stardust and the Fractured Mask of a Generation -- 4. Watch That Man: Splicing Tape with Burroughs and Bowie -- 5. From Vigilius Haufniensis to Ziggy Stardust: Pseudonyms, Irony and Truth in Kierkegaard and Bowie -- 6. Mascara and Marriage: The Twin Masks of David Bowie and Robert Smith -- 7. The Great Contrarians -- 8. Seeing Things Like Hunter: Ralph Steadman's Cartoon Visions as Revelatory Masks in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- 9. The Beautiful Madness: The Primacy of Wonder in the Work of Thomas Ligotti -- 10. The Skin and the Double: Firbank's Aesthetics of Surface -- 11. God's Twisted Identity -- 12. Wishful Beginnings and Creative Ends: Conversation with Davide De Angelis -- 13. On Existentialism and the Occult: Conversation with Gary Lachman -- 14. The Many Masks of Manifestation -- Epilogue: Art for Art's Sake -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Book The Miner s Canary

Download or read book The Miner s Canary written by Lani GUINIER and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the canaries that alerted miners to a poisonous atmosphere, issues of race point to underlying problems in society that ultimately affect everyone, not just minorities. Addressing these issues is essential. Ignoring racial differences--race blindness--has failed. Focusing on individual achievement has diverted us from tackling pervasive inequalities. Now, in a powerful and challenging book, Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres propose a radical new way to confront race in the twenty-first century. Given the complex relationship between race and power in America, engaging race means engaging standard winner-take-all hierarchies of power as well. Terming their concept political race, Guinier and Torres call for the building of grass-roots, cross-racial coalitions to remake those structures of power by fostering public participation in politics and reforming the process of democracy. Their illuminating and moving stories of political race in action include the coalition of Hispanic and black leaders who devised the Texas Ten Percent Plan to establish equitable state college admissions criteria, and the struggle of black workers in North Carolina for fair working conditions that drew on the strength and won the support of the entire local community. The aim of political race is not merely to remedy racial injustices, but to create truly participatory democracy, where people of all races feel empowered to effect changes that will improve conditions for everyone. In a book that is ultimately not only aspirational but inspirational, Guinier and Torres envision a social justice movement that could transform the nature of democracy in America.

Book Night Masks

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  • Author : R.A. Salvatore
  • Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
  • Release : 2011-08-16
  • ISBN : 0786954345
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Night Masks written by R.A. Salvatore and published by Wizards of the Coast. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.A. Salvatore's The Cleric Quintet tells the tale of the scholar-priest Cadderly, who is plucked from the halls of the Edificant Library to fulfill a heroic quest across the land of Faerûn. The assassins of the Night Masks stalk the shadowy streets of the city of Carradoon, led by the sinister killer known as Ghost. Cadderly struggles against the dreaded Chaos Curse in these dark, evil-haunted alleyways, with a silent death around every corner. From the Paperback edition.

Book Swan Fake

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  • Author : Maya Gold
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0545227690
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Swan Fake written by Maya Gold and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Diana's friend Amelia needs Diana to fill in for her during a ballet performance, Diana borrows one of the dance costumes at Cinderella Cleaners, but once she is onstage she realizes she cannot dance.

Book Elizabethan Silent Language

Download or read book Elizabethan Silent Language written by Mary E. Hazard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabethan Silent Language is an anatomy of an alternative or supplementary mode of communication in a culture prized for its literary contributions. Through the use of nonverbal media, Elizabethans coexpressed, enhanced, andøsometimes even subverted the medium of the written or spoken word. Besides written documents and works of art, extant material reveals new referents and deeper meaning for Elizabethan verbal expression. Funeral monuments, jewelry, costume, foodstuffs, protocol, sumptuary laws, portraits, architecture, management of public appearance, absence, and silence?all were forms of a silent language. The main elements of the semantic system of Elizabethan silent language were in many cases those of literal language, with resources in religion, in antiquity as translated through humanist tradition, in custom and law, in the Continental Renaissance, and in Tudor historiography?syntactic elements translated through word and practice and subject to personal inflection. Assumed as given values were the masculine norm, young adulthood, courtly service, discernment of ethical and aesthetic dimensions in all aspects of life, a comprehensive rule of decorum, and the preservation of religious, political, and social hierarchy. Elizabethan Silent Language is a unique book. Although Renaissance scholars have focused their attention on individual components of texts, such as ceremony, costume, architecture, protocol, and portrait, no other source synthesizes these components.

Book Sport Diver

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Sport Diver written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sport Diver

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Sport Diver written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: