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Book Walls that Talk

Download or read book Walls that Talk written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Walls that Speak

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ollie Jensen Theisen
  • Publisher : University of North Texas Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1574412892
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Walls that Speak written by Ollie Jensen Theisen and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A beautiful tribute to a man and his art"---Review of Texas Books --

Book If the Walls Could Talk

Download or read book If the Walls Could Talk written by Jane O'Connor and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In case you've ever wondered, the walls at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have eyes and ears -- and, what's more, they don't miss a thing. Now, listen up because the walls have a thing or two to tell you! During President John Tyler's presidency, the White House was such a mess that it was called the "Public Shabby House." President William Howard Taft was so large that he had to have a jumbo-size bathtub installed -- one big enough for four people. President Andrew Jackson's "open door" policy at the White House resulted in 20,000 people showing up for his inauguration party. (The new president escaped to the quiet of a nearby hotel!) President Abraham Lincoln didn't mind at all that his younger sons, Tad and Willie, kept pet goats in their White House bedrooms. Children all across the country sent in their own money to build an indoor swimming pool for wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt so that he could exercise. President Harry S. Truman knew it was time to renovate the White House after a leg on his daughter's piano broke right through the floor. Hear these funny, surprising stories and more about the most famous home in America and the extraordinary families who have lived in it.

Book Talking Walls

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  • Author : Margy Burns Knight
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 1995-03
  • ISBN : 9780785774518
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Talking Walls written by Margy Burns Knight and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1995-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated description of walls around the world and their significance, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall

Book Talking Walls

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  • Author : Margy Burns Knight
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780884481065
  • Pages : 84 pages

Download or read book Talking Walls written by Margy Burns Knight and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An activity book with an illustrated description of walls around the world and their significance, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall.

Book The Glass Castle

Download or read book The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.

Book Walls Do Talk Poster Book

Download or read book Walls Do Talk Poster Book written by Mickey Gill and published by Fine Print Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book If Walls Could Talk

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  • Author : Lucy Worsley
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2012-02-28
  • ISBN : 080271272X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book If Walls Could Talk written by Lucy Worsley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and BBC Television series including Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey and Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, available on Netflix. “Worsley is a thoughtful, charming, often hilarious guide to life as it was lived, from the mundane to the esoteric.” -The Boston Globe Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two “dirty centuries”? Why, for centuries, did rich people fear fruit? In her brilliantly and creatively researched book, Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room, and kitchen, covering the history of each room and exploring what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove-from sauce stirring to breast-feeding, teeth cleaning to masturbating, getting dressed to getting married-providing a compelling account of how the four rooms of the home have evolved from medieval times to today, charting revolutionary changes in society.

Book Still Looking

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  • Author : John Updike
  • Publisher : Knopf
  • Release : 2005-11-08
  • ISBN : 1400044189
  • Pages : 243 pages

Download or read book Still Looking written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005-11-08 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he has continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this richly illustrated book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume. America speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, “The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both.” On Just Looking “Some of these essays are marvelous examples of critical explanation, in which the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work in an exhibition until a deep understanding of the art emerges.” —Arthur Danto, The New York Times Book Review “These are remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end.” —Jeremy Strick, Newsday

Book School wide Systems for Multilingual Learner Success

Download or read book School wide Systems for Multilingual Learner Success written by Lisa Auslander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative and accessible, this book provides a roadmap for designing school environments that address the needs of English learners (ELs). Offering a wealth of resources to support school leaders working with multilingual students, Auslander and Yip explain how a systems thinking approach enables the development of stronger school-wide multi-tiered systems of support and can lead to meaningful, context-specific solutions that set up ELs for success. With vignettes, case studies, and tools for readers in each chapter, the book not only identifies what effective practices look like but also outlines methods to help effectively implement culturally and linguistically responsive teaching. This book covers relevant topics in the field, including Teacher team inquiry, planning, and collaboration Social-emotional learning in planning and instruction Culturally and linguistically responsive, trauma-informed assessment and interventions Effective leadership strategies Perfect for district, school and teacher leaders, this book includes concrete strategies, tools, and resources for implementing research-informed improvements to support different categories of multilingual learners, including newcomers, students with interrupted education, and long-term ELs.

Book The COVID 19 Pandemic and Memory

Download or read book The COVID 19 Pandemic and Memory written by Orli Fridman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped, expanded, and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view of these changes as well as of the continuities that went with them, the book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and commemoration. The book aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory to understand both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic: what happened then to commemorative practices and rituals around the world? How has the Covid-19 pandemic been archived and remembered? What will remembering it actually entail, and what will it mean in the future? Where did the Covid memory boom come from? Who was behind it, how did it emerge, and in what social configurations did it evolve?

Book Skin Theory

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  • Author : Cristina Mejia Visperas
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2022-07-26
  • ISBN : 1479810800
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Skin Theory written by Cristina Mejia Visperas and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar America In February 1966, a local newspaper described the medical science program at Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia, a “golden opportunity to conduct widespread medical tests under perfect control conditions.” Helmed by Albert M. Kligman, a University of Pennsylvania professor, these tests enrolled hundreds of the prison’s predominantly Black population in studies determining the efficacy and safety of a wide variety of substances, from common household products to chemical warfare agents. These experiments at Holmesburg were hardly unique; in the postwar United States, the use of incarcerated test subjects was standard practice among many research institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Skin Theory examines the prison as this space for scientific knowledge production, showing how the “perfect control conditions” of the prison dovetailed into the visual regimes of laboratory work. To that end, Skin Theory offers an important reframing of visual approaches to race in histories of science, medicine, and technology, shifting from issues of scientific racism to the scientific rationality of racism itself. In this highly original work, Cristina Mejia Visperas approaches science as a fundamentally racial project by analyzing the privileged object and instrument of Kligman’s experiments: the skin. She theorizes the skin as visual technology, as built environment, and as official discourse, developing a compelling framework for understanding the intersections of race, incarceration, and medical science in postwar America.

Book Religions  Mumbai Style

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-06-15
  • ISBN : 0192889370
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Religions Mumbai Style written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of ethnographic essays on the city of Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay), the volume questions the city's claim of a 'self-projected' cosmopolitanism by exploring its relationship with religion.

Book Black   Decker Here s How Painting

Download or read book Black Decker Here s How Painting written by Editors of CPi and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full color how-to photography demonstrates some of the most popular interior painting designs today. From start to finish, this book gives the reader information on everything from choosing paint and tools to cleaning up when the project is done. In between, there are 18 different techniques for painting interior rooms and furniture, including sponge painting, mosaics and faux designs.

Book Missouri Outlaws

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Kirkman
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2018-03-05
  • ISBN : 1439664110
  • Pages : 155 pages

Download or read book Missouri Outlaws written by Paul Kirkman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether seen as a common criminal or Robin Hood with a six-shooter, the Missouri outlaw left an indelible mark on American culture. In the nineteenth century, Missouri was known as the "Outlaw State" and offered a list of lawbreakers like Jesse James, Bloody Bill Anderson, Belle Starr and Cole Younger. These notorious criminals became folk legends in countless books, movies and television shows. Author Paul Kirkman traces the succession of Missouri's first few generations and how each contributed to the making of some of the most notorious outlaws and lawmen in American history.

Book I Wrote It On A Fence

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  • Author : Alex J. Sowder
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1365236366
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book I Wrote It On A Fence written by Alex J. Sowder and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Catalogue

Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American national trade bibliography.