Download or read book The Art of Being Dangerous written by Jo Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that women are dangerous ? individually or collectively ? runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, identities and power relations with which women live today.0'The Art of Being Dangerous' offers many different images of women, some humorous, some challenging, some well-known, some forgotten, but all unique. In a dazzling variety of creative forms, artists and writers of diverse identities explore what it means to be a dangerous woman.0With almost 100 evocative images, this collection showcases an array of contemporary art that highlights the staggering breadth of talent among today?s female artists. It offers an unparalleled gallery of feminist creativity, ranging from emerging visual artists from the UK to multi-award-winning writers and translators from the Global South.
Download or read book The Art of Danger written by Stuart Doughty and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stolen painting becomes a potential weapon of mass destruction. A gangster is so desperate to own a portrait of an unknown person by a forgotten artist that he kills three men. In this fast-moving crime thriller ex-cop John Kite follows the trail of blood to a gallery full of looted Middle Eastern archaeology then discovers that a renegade spy is planning revolution. Art detective Kite is a sexy tough guy - an ex-firearms specialist who "looks like a young Bryan Ferry" and runs elite Marathon times. His perky sense of humour brings sparky dialogue but his dead parents are a no-go area and his hidden past makes him a marked man. Can Kite stop the impending cataclysm before he falls victim to the killer himself? 'I can't tell you how much I enjoyed it. A treat. I'm a fan. A hugely entertaining story. Characterisation is superb. A "switch off the phone, park interruptions, sit back and enjoy the ride" type of novel.' Crime writer E V Seymour
Download or read book The Art Thief written by Michael Finkel and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Lit Hub "Enthralling." —The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
Download or read book Danger Girl Sketchbook written by J. Scott Campbell and published by IDW Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful hardcover collection, long sold out and finally back in print. A beautiful collection of sketches, preliminaries, layouts and designs by comics superstar, J. Scott Campbell. Added bonus, a super-cool flip book runs the length of the sketchbook, featuring a sexy Danger Girl shimmying and shaking!
Download or read book The Art Of Glass Blowing written by T. P. Danger and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art Of Glass-Blowing: Or Plain Instructions For Making The Chemical And Philosophical Instruments Which Are Formed Of Glass This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
Download or read book Heart of Danger written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nancy investigates the kidnapping of Caterina Reigert by posing as the writer of the girl’s father’s autobiography.
Download or read book Art is in Danger written by George Grosz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Double the Danger and Zero Zucchini written by Betsy Uhrig and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy attempts to transform his aunt’s boring children’s book into an exciting one in this funny, fast-paced adventure perfect for fans of the Book Scavenger series! Books aren’t supposed to be dangerous. Are they? Alex Harmon prefers running over sitting still reading. But when his aunt offers to pay him to point out the boring parts in her children’s book, he figures it’s an easy way to make ten bucks. The problem is that her book is about a grumpy frog and a prize-winning zucchini. It doesn’t have only a few boring pages…the whole thing is a lost cause. Alex gives his aunt some ideas to help her out—like adding danger and suspense. But books can’t just be interesting. They also have to be believable. Soon Alex recruits his friends to help him act out scenes so he can describe all the important details. He’s even getting plot twists from a mysterious stranger (who might also be a ghost). Too late, Alex discovers that being a real-life stunt double for a fictional character can land you in terrible trouble—even if your friends are laughing their heads off!
Download or read book Danger Women Artists at Work written by Debra N. Mancoff and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional history of art is one of great men making great paintings, and displaying their works to a predominantly male audience in male-run institutions. Women, however, have had a role, often working behind the scenes, out of sight or in resistance to prevailing attitudes and practices. And it is in these exceptions to the rules of the masculine world of art-making that women artists have been perceived as groundbreaking, defiant and even subversive. A compelling selection of more than 60 artists from the early Renaissance to the present day, among them Judith Leyster, Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo and Louise Bourgeois, Danger! Women Artists at Work explores the most intriguing and provocative aspects of art by women who shook up the art world. Through a lively introduction and six thematic chapters dealing with such subjects as the ways in which women have challenged the boundaries of expression and how they have viewed the human body, Debra N. Mancoff presents an absorbing tale of those who have struggled and triumphed in their efforts to transform the visual arts.
Download or read book Spaces of Danger written by Heather Merrill and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences. As the essays expose the cultural and material circumstances in which situated ignorance persists, they also add a previously underexplored spatial dimension to Walter Benjamin’s idea of “moments of danger.” The volume invokes the aftermath of the July 2011 attacks by far-right activist Anders Breivik in Norway, who ambushed a Labor Party youth gathering and bombed a government building, killing and injuring many. Breivik had publicly and forthrightly declared war against an array of liberal attitudes he saw threatening Western civilization. However, as politicians and journalists interpreted these events for mass consumption, a narrative quickly emerged that painted Breivik as a lone madman and steered the discourse away from analysis of the resurgent right-wing racisms and nationalisms in which he was immersed. The Breivik case is merely one of the most visible recent examples, say editors Heather Merrill and Lisa Hoffman, of the unchallenged production of knowledge in the public sphere. In essays that range widely in topic and setting—for example, brownfield development in China, a Holocaust memorial in Germany, an art gallery exhibit in South Africa—this volume peels back layers of “situated practices and their associated meaning and power relations.” Spaces of Danger offers analytical and conceptual tools of a Predian approach to interrogate the taken-for-granted and make visible and legible that which is silenced.
Download or read book A Sense of Danger written by Jennifer Estep and published by Jennifer Estep. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Estep serves up an urban fantasy adventure filled with secrets, lies, and super spies with amazing magical abilities. Perfect for fans of Alias, James Bond, Jason Bourne, Nikita, True Lies, and Netflix’s Bodyguard. A SPY . . . My name is Charlotte Locke, and I’m an analyst for Section 47, a secret government agency that tracks terrorists, criminals, and other paramortal bad guys who want to unleash their abilities on an unsuspecting mortal world. I have a magical form of synesthesia that senses danger and uncovers lies—making me a stealthy operative. I’m trudging through another day when one of Section’s cleaners—assassins—takes an interest in me. I don’t need my synesthesia to realize that he is extremely dangerous and that he will do anything to achieve his goals—even if it means putting me in the line of fire. . . . AND AN ASSASSIN I’m Desmond Percy, one of Section 47’s most lethal cleaners. I’m also a man on a mission, and I need Charlotte Locke’s skills to help me keep a promise, settle a score, and kill some extremely bad people. Charlotte might not like me, but we’re stuck together until my mission is over. Still, the more time we spend together, the more I’m drawn to her. But at Section 47, you never know who you can trust—or who might want you dead.
Download or read book Danger Girl written by J. Scott Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vacations are never normal when you're a Danger Girl Danger Girl; Odd Jobs includes four thrilling tales of Danger Girl and the team's odd Job adventures. In the first tale, Danger Girl; Hawailan Punch, a simple, relaxing trip ends in trouble when DG Ally Johnny Baracuda is kidnapped in an attempt to take over the world -- one amusement part at a time? Then, in the second story, Prince Akoo is using the Jewel of Eternity to steal the lives of his Las Vegas casino guests. Can Abbey and Sydney snag the Jewel before computer whiz Silicon Valerie dies of old age before she even gets the chance to gamble legally? Viva Las Danger When the Danger Girls go undercover as the Mod Bods, they get another chance to defeat their old enemy, the Peach. But as anyone who watched TV in the '70s can tell you, when the villain traps you in a giant pie-crust, things look grim for the good gals And finally, we all know that kids grow up too fast, but Val thinks she just needs to grow a little faster... Left behind from one mission too many, she imagines her life as a Danger Girl -- savage-er than Sydney, bossier than Deuce, bustier than Abbey?
Download or read book Danger Tiger Crossing 1 written by Lin Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thrilling chapter book series will immediately suck readers in with its combination of fast-paced adventure and full-color art! When ten-year-old Tiger Brooks and his family move into a new home, he sees some strange things at the house next door—like a talking pig in a top hat! When he and his neighbor, Luna Lopez, investigate, they discover a reclusive old woman and her magical golden frame, through which they can enter the world's greatest paintings. In this book, Tiger and Luna get pulled into the painting Surprised! or Tiger in a Tropical Storm by Henri Rousseau. But they must escape the jungle adventure before time runs out, otherwise they'll be trapped in the painting forever! Praise for Danger! Tiger Crossing: "Ten-year-old Tiger Brooks and his neighbor, Luna Lopez, get up-close and personal with Henri Rousseau’s “Tiger in a Tropical Storm” in this action-driven first book in the Fantastic Frame series." –Publishers Weekly "Oliver keeps the plot itself snappy and peppy." -Kirkus
Download or read book Danger Dan Confronts the Merlion Mastermind written by Lesley-Anne Tan and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psst! Pay attention: eleven-year-old Danny is about to start his secret life. And you are not allowed to tell anyone, or who knows what will happen? A mysterious time warp is already messing Singapore up. Big time. But don’t worry. Danny is about to transform into Danger Dan–the only boy superhero who can save us all! In Danger Dan Confronts the Merlion Mastermind, Danger Dan has to race against time to ensure the merlion doesn’t end up with orchids around its head! Sounds easy? Not when you see the odds he’s facing…
Download or read book Tales of Danger written by Zena Dele and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Danger Girl written by J. Scott Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of fantastic Danger Girl stories spans across the globe, including Danger Girl novelettes Viva Las Danger and Hawaiian Punch, painted by Phil Noto, and Danger Girl: Kamikaze by Tommy Yune. Plus, a fantastic Danger Girl adventure delineated by legendary artist Arthur Adams, and a host of pin-ups by some of comics brightest stars.
Download or read book Surfside Girls The Secret of Danger Point written by Kim Dwinell and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now an Apple Original from Apple TV+! Sun... sand... and spooky adventures! Things are getting weird in Surfside. Lately, Samantha’s best friend Jade explodes into fits of giggles whenever she sees a boy, and it’s throwing a wrench into the kick-back summer of surfing and hanging out that Sam had planned. But after swimming through a secret underwater cave, Sam starts to… see things. Like ghosts. And pirates. And maybe something even scarier! Can she and Jade get to the bottom of this mystery in time to save their town? 2018 Pubwest Design Awards - Silver Winner for Graphic Album, New Material
