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Book Unannounced Voices

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  • Author : Zdenka Badovinac
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2022-11-15
  • ISBN : 3956795849
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Unannounced Voices written by Zdenka Badovinac and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised. In our current era of global pandemic and violent political upheaval, the question must be asked: What is our future and whose voices will announce it? These can only be situated voices, each with its own body and space, formed through dialogue within their own communities and in reaction and resistance to dominant discourses. Museum director, curator, and writer Zdenka Badovinac argues that these situated voices of people, artworks, and exhibitions, rooted in the local, can bring incisive, productive change. The call of these voices, in rethinking art, curation, and institutions, is the subject of this powerful essay.

Book His Intimate Voices

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  • Author : Olubansile A Mimiko
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2006-04
  • ISBN : 0595368506
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book His Intimate Voices written by Olubansile A Mimiko and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dashing young physician and devoted husband, father, and son, Olu Adebo looks at his sky and finds every inch of it lined with silver-until new ambitions drive him to New York City. In the midst of the hustle and bustle of residency training, a needlestick from a patient with AIDS places Adebo face-to-face with his past history with the virus. As his life begins to spin out of control, he succumbs to the strong attraction he feels for two best friends who do not appear to care about the symptoms he displays, symptoms he fears are due to the deadly virus. Adebo stands to lose everything that he has spent his entire life cultivating-his marriage, his children, and his very life. Adebo's devoted friends rally and try to save him from himself. Will their coordinated efforts be enough to pull him back from the precipice, or will the ploy of a deadly virus, the secrets kept from his wife, and the poisonous love of two women prove to be too powerful?

Book Voices Over Water

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  • Author : Ann Herlong-Bodman
  • Publisher : Harbor House
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781891799198
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Voices Over Water written by Ann Herlong-Bodman and published by Harbor House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel of intrigue and clashing cultures, Sarah faces danger from all sides--suspicious Union soldiers, angry rebel raiders and resentful runaway slaves.

Book The Tale of Mark Levine

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  • Author : Michael D. Lieberman
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2009-02-16
  • ISBN : 1436397855
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book The Tale of Mark Levine written by Michael D. Lieberman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As his plane touches down in Fort-de-France, Martinique, Mark Levine, thirty-five, single, professor of law at New York University, resident of the Manhattan's Upper West Side, modern orthodox Jew, semi-famous novelist, cynical judge of other people, malcontent, nonconformist, and closet drunk decides to kill his ex-fiancée's mother. He has ten days to plan it. Instead, on the accidental getaway with old pal Raphael Tahar Jerusalem police officer, buddy from university days past and obnoxious master of fornication Mark Levine meets 'Monica', an exquisite dancer who sports that Club Caribe tag. The mystical fog that wraps her inspires Mark to write his first fresh work in three years. On his final night at Club Caribe, she unexpectedly takes him to bed. He parts the club madly in love, but has not even learned her name. Writing begins back in New York, but forced by writer's block to Paris to complete the unfinished work, Mark Levine gets more than he bargained for. Mixed in a purloined manuscript of failed legal careers and literary hopes, contempt, discontent, alcoholism and the loneliness of unmet potential, moving from Caribbean getaways to New York's Upper West Side, to fashionable Paris to the desolate moonscape of ravaged Ramallah, filled with the author's witty and poignant insights into the journey to middle adulthood in late twentieth century America, The Tale of Mark Levine is Michael D. Lieberman at his very best.

Book Hospice Voices

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  • Author : Eric Lindner
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Release : 2013-10-08
  • ISBN : 1442220600
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Hospice Voices written by Eric Lindner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a part-time hospice volunteer, Eric Lindner provides “companion care” to dying strangers. They’re chatterboxes and recluses, religious and irreligious; battered by cancer, congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s, old age. Some cling to life amazingly. Most pass as they expected. In telling his story, Lindner reveals the thoughts, fears, and lessons of those living the ends of their lives in the care of others, having exhausted their medical options or ceased treatment for their illnesses. In each chapter, Lindner not only reveals the lessons of lives explored in their final days, but zeroes in on how working for hospice can be incredibly fulfilling. As he’s not a doctor, nurse, or professional social worker, just a volunteer lending a hand, offering a respite for other care providers, his charges often reveal more, and in more detail, to him than they do to those with whom they spend the majority of their time. They impart what they feel are life lessons as they reflect on their own lives and the prospect of their last days. Lindner captures it all in his lively storytelling. Anyone who knows or loves someone working through end of life issues, living in hospice or other end of life facilities, or dealing with terminal or chronic illnesses, will find in these pages the wisdom of those who are working through their own end of life issues, tackling life’s big questions, and boiling them down into lessons for anyone as they age or face illness. And those who may feel compelled to volunteer to serve as companions will find motivation, inspiration, and encouragement. Rather than sink under the weight of depression, pity, or sorrow, Lindner celebrates the lives of those who choose to live even as they die.

Book Many Voices

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  • Author : Anna Haebich
  • Publisher : National Library Australia
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780642107541
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Many Voices written by Anna Haebich and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many voices: reflections on experiences of indigenous child separation.

Book Don t Ask Me  Ask My Father

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  • Author : Devon A. N. Ar'Rahman
  • Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
  • Release : 2019-09-26
  • ISBN : 1684567823
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Don t Ask Me Ask My Father written by Devon A. N. Ar'Rahman and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As but one of my Heavenly Father's children, forgive me for asking this one simple question: If we as such truly believe our heavenly Creator loves us, why are we killing each other in one way or another?

Book Tristram Shandy s World

Download or read book Tristram Shandy s World written by John Traugott and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1954.

Book Representation and Design

Download or read book Representation and Design written by Pauline E. Head and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-02-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representation and Design examines Old English poetry from the point of view of its interpretation, beginning with the assumption that Anglo-Saxon concepts of reading were probably very different from those that dominate our own literary culture. The book insists on the semantic interaction of representation and design, two aspects of Old English poetry that traditionally have been examined separately, and draws on Anglo-Saxon pictorial art as a model throughout. It disputes the conventional dichotomy that interpretation makes between content and form; redefines content as a particular mode of representation—a reflection of texts and ideologies; and recognizes form as complex and meaningful design so that the "two" no longer can be distinguished in the process of interpretation. The author examines a range of texts—Beowulf, The Wanderer, the Exeter Book riddles, manuscript illuminations, and the sculpture of the Ruthwell cross—in order to consider the place of the reader, the frame, and the past in Anglo-Saxon representation. Through this process, she traces a fluidity of signification and suggests that an Anglo-Saxon aesthetic would be both complex and enigmatic.

Book Nora Webster

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  • Author : Colm Toibin
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-10-07
  • ISBN : 1439149852
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Nora Webster written by Colm Toibin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of contemporary literature’s bestselling, critically acclaimed, and beloved authors: a “luminous” novel (Jennifer Egan, The New York Times Book Review) about a fiercely compelling young widow navigating grief, fear, and longing, and finding her own voice—“heartrendingly transcendant” (The New York Times, Janet Maslin). Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be sucked back into it. Wounded, selfish, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has moments of stunning insight and empathy, and when she begins to sing again, after decades, she finds solace, engagement, a haven—herself. Nora Webster “may actually be a perfect work of fiction” (Los Angeles Times), by a “beautiful and daring” writer (The New York Times Book Review) at the zenith of his career, able to “sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY). “Miraculous...Tóibín portrays Nora with tremendous sympathy and understanding” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).

Book The Divine Voice

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  • Author : Stephen H. Webb
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2012-01-20
  • ISBN : 1725230542
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Divine Voice written by Stephen H. Webb and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Webb offers a carefully and creatively wrought phenomenology of sound, showing its relation to the proclamation of God's Word. His keen insights on the primordial nature of sound, speech, and hearing will force theologians to examine, once again, what it means to be a 'hearer of the Word.' Webb masterfully displays the intrinsic relationship between dynamic listening and speech--how intent hearing and confident proclamation are intimately conjoined. He has the rare gift of combining acute theological insight with a mellifluous, readable style. The nature of God's own Word here becomes clearer: vibrant and tensile, life-giving in tone and texture. Whether examining Jesus as the voice of the Father, the role of voice in innertrinitarian relations, or the relationship between voice and gender, Webb offers the kind of thought-provoking and highly creative reflections rarely found elsewhere. He has a creative and incisive theological mind." --Thomas Guarino, Seton Hall University "Being appreciative of Webb's earlier work on hyperbolic language in theology and preaching, I welcomed The Divine Voice. How risky to toss a spoken word into a room of silent readers and expect it to be heard! I was reprimanded, instructed, and moved by the sound of this book. Were I still in the seminary classroom, The Divine Voice would be required reading before one word was said about how to preach." --Fred B. Craddock, The Craddock Center "The Divine Voice is a book of academic theology worthy of the Psalmist who sang 'Day after day the word goes forth, night after night the story is told. Soundless the speech, voiceless the talk, yet the story is echoed throughout the world' (Ps 19:2-3). Stephen Webb is an 'acoustemological' theologian, for whom speech can be prayerful as silence, and silence as instructive as proclamation. When the sounds heard by faith reach Webb's ever-insightful and creative mind, only synthesia could result, and the result is a gift for us all." --Peter Ochs, University of Virginia

Book Curating the Complex and the Open Strike

Download or read book Curating the Complex and the Open Strike written by Terry Smith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the contexts in which curating takes place: why curate art these days and in the name of which interests? If we ask where the curating of art occurs these days--in which places, which kinds of place, and how--apparent answers immediately appear: everywhere, expanding as if to ubiquity. Yet at the same time, we sense, with fragile purpose. In this, his newest book, Terry Smith explores the contemporary contexts of curating, looking for less apparent answers. It will map the dimensions of the visual arts exhibitionary complex, including its dialectical dance between institutionalization and deinstitutionalization; the persistence of professional classifications of curatorship; the given and changing categories of art exhibitions; the increasing variety of curatorial styles; the underthinking about publics; and (undistracted by curationism) the changing roles of art making and exhibiting art within an exhibitory iconomy that is at once viral and consumptive. A mapping of this kind might help us towards some answers to the more important questions: why curate art these days and in the name of which interests?

Book Tommy of the Voices

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  • Author : Reynolds Knight
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 392 pages

Download or read book Tommy of the Voices written by Reynolds Knight and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Voices of Our Nation

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  • Author : Ebelechukwu Elochukwu
  • Publisher : AuthorHouse
  • Release : 2013-07-25
  • ISBN : 1481772821
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book The Voices of Our Nation written by Ebelechukwu Elochukwu and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews: I really like the poemsespecially Lets Work and Share, The Ant Colony, and the one about Chess. The ones that are strongest focus on imagery rather than on message or meaning. You have many wonderful lines about animals and their behaviorabout the natural world. Also, the love poemsespecially the one about the woman who could not have childrenare very moving. --------------- Doctor Jane Sellman, PhD, Professor of English writing, Department of Achievement and Learning Center, University of Baltimore

Book Voices from a Far Field

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  • Author : Calvin Bowden
  • Publisher : Calvin Bowden
  • Release : 2006-11
  • ISBN : 9781595264510
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Voices from a Far Field written by Calvin Bowden and published by Calvin Bowden. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning after sixty-five years to the small Texas town from which he fled at age eighteen, Heck finds that life can be good for old clodhoppers after all. It might have a purpose in spite of the disappointments of the past.

Book Silence Has a Voice

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  • Author : Marvis Pharr
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2011-07-01
  • ISBN : 1477181008
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Silence Has a Voice written by Marvis Pharr and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marviss first poetry book, When You Close Your Eyes: A Journey into the Celebration of Life, met with great success and was published by Xlibris Corporation in 2008. Her latest book, Silence Has a Voice, is a compilation of poems infused with passions, hopes, dreams and life experiences and expresses a wide range of emotions from setbacks to victories. If you listen carefully, she invites, there is a voice in silence: it offers respect; it offers hope; it offers clarity. Many of the poems selected were to honor lost loved ones. Often, during such difficult times, silence is a welcoming presence. Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen states it best: Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us; not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal; the sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are; we are all hungry for this other silence; it is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

Book OVER THE EDGE

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  • Author : J.R. Hunter
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2013-12
  • ISBN : 1493147560
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book OVER THE EDGE written by J.R. Hunter and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Julian Thomas arrived home that night, as usual, his wife Chris, was depressed and in a drunken fog. To avoid her rage and rejection, he stayed away, reclining on the couch watching the Johnny Carson Show. He was contemplating the life between him and his wife...if only for my own sanity, I have to tell her, if not tonight, tomorrow morning for sure. Minutes later, he heard her say something from the bedroom. It sounded like... maybe...goodbye. Then came the sound of a single gunshot, it broke the silence like a clap of thunder. OVER THE EDGE is the suspenseful account of the true story of a Susan Haywardlookalike living during the tumult of California in the 1960s-1970s- a beautiful, intelligent, but troubled woman who shot herself - and her husband who tried in vain to help her.