Download or read book Modern Vintage Homes Leisure Lives written by Samantha Holland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the gendered and classed contexts of these eras. As a result, it also identifies the tensions involved in these identities connected to a past that offered little gain for women and narrow gender roles for both women and men. Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives is based on original empirical international data about a group of people who wear vintage clothing all of the time and whose homes are styled entirely, or almost entirely, vintage. It aims to understand the meanings of vintage for them through their daily practices and accrued knowledge. Through interviews and direct observations of vintage events it also explores questions about the acquisition, display and curation of vintage clothes, homes and objects, about glamour and wardrobes, about the history of second-hand markets, and emotional durability and ideas about ghosts, hauntings and spectral remains. It will be of particular interest to students and academics of gender and women’s studies, fashion and design, fashion history, cultural studies, the body and embodiment.
Download or read book India Impermanence Me written by Sue Tweedy and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What began as an innocent trek through the almighty Himalayas ended in a journey homeward bound. A series of bizarre events turns a life less travelled into an encounter that would change a path forever. Life would never be the same again. Believing myself civilized I soon discover that my interpretation of the word got lost in translation and soon began to realise that when you have little in life you begin to cherish each simple moment. Magical moments that are forever present yet blinded by the heavy weight of attachment. Living in a remote monastery whilst working within the local community leaves me in awe of peoples love, generosity and compassion finally answering life's fundamental question, that of happiness. Could it be that I have laid the foundations of my life on water? Travelling from the top of mystical India to the lushness of a Goan oasis an internal struggle of Eastern philosophies over Western attachment commences. A humorous tale of the up's and downs of a single woman's journey to enlightenment.
Download or read book New Classic Winemakers of California written by Steve Heimoff and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this intimate and engaging book, wine lovers can sit in on the back and forth as Heimoff and his vintner subjects talk informally about their favorite subject: wine."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Carte Blanche written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The face of war is changing. The other side doesn't play by the rules much anymore. There’s thinking, in some circles, that we need to play by a different set of rules too …” James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran of the Afghan war, has been recruited to a new organization. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm, by any means necessary. A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week: Casualties estimated in the thousands, British interests adversely affected. And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission . . . The new thriller by Master of the Mind Game JEFFERY DEAVER featuring JAMES BOND as you’ve never seen him before.
Download or read book Nine Months in August written by Adriana Bourgoin and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an unexpected pregnancy throws her for a loop, Gretchen Cox, mentally unprepared for motherhood, embarks on a nine-month journey of self-discovery, reevaluating every aspect of her life, including her marriage, her career, and her relationship with her two closest friends. Original.
Download or read book Listening to Brahms written by Rosemary Allen and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December, 1989. While Margaret is visiting her sister and her husband at Blackheath Vicarage for a family Christmas, she finds the diary she kept during a school exchange visit to Germany in the summer of 1954. Painful memories from that time come flooding back when she hears a Brahms Rhapsody being played on the piano by Jonathan, a consultant at the local hospital. At the age of 17, she believed she had found the love of her life when a young pianist, Peter, kissed her and quoted poetry to her. But the traumatic events that followed changed her life forever. Now, 35 years later, emotional feelings she thought she had suppressed for ever are once again awoken as she begins to fall in love with Jonathan. As the family gathers to celebrate Christmas and the New Year, it appears that her sister’s marriage is beginning to crumble. While Margaret’s story is unfolding, the Soviet Union is collapsing. Ceausescu and his wife are executed in Romania, Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia and the border dividing East and West Germany has come down, emphasising the pointlessness of the ever-changing divisions and alliances between peoples. Listening to Brahms is a gripping read that will appeal to fans of romance and historical fiction.
Download or read book Indianapolis Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indianapolis Monthly is the Circle City’s essential chronicle and guide, an indispensable authority on what’s new and what’s news. Through coverage of politics, crime, dining, style, business, sports, and arts and entertainment, each issue offers compelling narrative stories and lively, urbane coverage of Indy’s cultural landscape.
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Download or read book Altered Art written by Terry Taylor and published by Lark Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains techniques for creating altered books, boxes, cards, and more.
Download or read book Gender and Humor written by Delia Chiaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film, television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and popular culture.
Download or read book Boxed in written by Derrick Darby and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Boxed In, philosophers Derrick Darby and Eduardo J. Martinez diagnose the profound challenge that inflexible identities pose for democracy and offer a novel prescription that involves taking up civic responsibilities to search for, make visible, and attend to group differences in background, perspective, and empowerment. Using a wide range of examples from fðtbol fans to Jay-Z's beef with Oprah, to literal box-checking on the U. S. Census, Darby and Martinez illustrate how scripting identities too tightly can box us in and they tell us what we can do to mitigate it. Weaving philosophical analysis with empirical research on identities, coalitions, and social movements, Boxed In prescribes making identities safe for democracy by undertaking responsibilities that help us break free from tight scripts that box us in and work together while taking our differences seriously.
Download or read book The Self Quest for Meaning in a Changing World written by Renate Daniel and published by Daimon. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whoever engages in C.G. Jung’s concept of the self will be confronted with questions relating to humanity, and concepts of God, the divine and faith. Jung deems it necessary to treat these topics on a psychological level because of the far-reaching implications they have on the way we live and relate to each other. But they also impact on ethical attitudes, ideologies, social processes and therapeutic models. Scientific evidence usually proves difficult. A certain open-mindedness towards this topic is expected on the part of the reader, and it would be helpful to embrace the ideas put forward ‘without prejudice’ for the moment. This book aims to help readers become more aware of their own ideas and convictions and how these may influence one’s self-image and worldview.
Download or read book Derrida and Joyce written by Andrew J. Mitchell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of Derridas texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derridas engagement with Joyces works. Bringing together all of Jacques Derridas writings on James Joyce, this volume includes the first complete translation of his book Ulysses Gramophone: Two Words for Joyce as well as the first translation of the essay The Night Watch. In Ulysses Gramophone, Derrida provides some of his most thorough reflections on affirmation and the yes, the signature, and the role of technological mediation in all of these areas. In The Night Watch, Derrida pursues his ruminations on writing in an explicitly feminist direction, offering profound observations on the connection between writing and matricide. Accompanying these texts are nine essays by leading scholars from across the humanities addressing Derridas treatments of Joyce throughout his work, and two remembrances of lectures devoted to Joyce that Derrida gave in 1982 and 1984. The volume concludes with photographs of Derrida from these two events.
Download or read book Thin Skins written by Campbell Mattinson and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian wine is in trouble: just as a growing number of connoisseurs scoff at its taste, the way its grown, and how its made, hundreds of the countrys small wineries are battling to survive. Thin Skins addresses the forces fighting Australian wine and harming its reputation. In witty, insightful writing thats a combination of P.J. ORourke and Oz Clarke, Campbell Mattison debunks the lies and showcases the people who are saving the industry by producing great wine. Anyone who enjoys drinking Australian wine, or cares about how it is farmed, will savor this entertaining, inspiring story.
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Download or read book Globalisation Economic Transition and the Environment written by Phillip Lawn and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on three critical issues pertaining to the broader goal of sustainable development _ namely, the degenerative forces of globalisation, ecological sustainability requirements, and how best to negotiate the economic transition process.ø
