Download or read book The Canary and the Hammer written by Lisa Barnard and published by Mack. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Photographed across four years and four continents, 'The Canary and The Hammer' details our reverence for gold and its role in humanity's ruthless pursuit of progress. Through a mix of image, text and archival material, the third book by British artist Lisa Barnard provides insight into the troubled history of gold and the complex ways it intersects with the global economy. Gold is ubiquitous in modern life; the mineral is concealed at the heart of much of the technology we use and is, most fundamentally, a potent symbol of value, beauty, purity, greed and political power. The Canary and The Hammer strives to connect these disparate stories -- from the mania of the gold rush and the brutal world of modern mining, to the sexual politics of the industry and gold's often dark but indispensable role at the heart of high-tech industry. Prompted by the financial crisis of 2008 and its stark reminder of the global west's determination to accumulate wealth, Barnard sets out to question gold's continued status as economic barometer amidst new intangible forms of technological high--finance. By addressing this through photography, Barnard in turn raises the question of how her chosen medium can respond to such abstract events and concepts. The result is an ambitious project, one sketching a personal journey in which she ultimately tackles the complexity of material representation in these fragmented and troubling times."-- Publisher's website

Download or read book The Remarkable Life of Dr Armand Hammer written by Bob Considine and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1975 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Considine's writing style goes onto any subject like a piece of contact paper on furniture, and with about as profound an effect. His biography of the Occidental Petroleum (""Oxy"") sultan--a self-made millionaire who engineered grain deals with Lenin, sold the Hearst art collection to the great unwashed in Gimbels, collected the finest herd of Black Angus Aberdeens in America, and finally turned his attention to oil at the age of fifty-nine--prudently masks all individuality with a thin film of unconvincing hagiography. Dr. Hammer (no relation to the baking-soda company) got waylaid by other interests on the way to a medical career; he was starting pencil factories in the USSR and collecting icons long before America recognized the Red government (or the Soviets recognized the value of their art heritage). He cornered the market on barrel staves just in time for the end of Prohibition, made forays into the grain alcohol, potato alcohol, and both bonded and blended bourbon markets, and found time for public-spirited gestures like buying Campobello to donate it to the U.S. and Canadian governments. Much is made here of Hammer's multimillion-dollar art collection and of his hobnobbings with the great. Not the slightest mention is made of a 1974 disagreement with the IRS about alleged overvaluation of art works Hammer used as charitable donations for tax purposes, or those other nasty allegations about channeling illegal contributions to Nixon's 1972 campaign through Governor Tim Babcock of Montana. The few legal squabbles Considine does mention are of course all due to the greed, malice, or underhandedness of others, and the disastrous slump in Oxy's stock since 1972 is blandly attributed to a tactless remark by the Secretary of Commerce pooh-poohing the huge fertilizer deal being negotiated between Oxy and the Russians. An instructive exercise in bowdlerization." --AbeBooks.com.

Download or read book The Canary Book written by Robert L. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canary Its Varieties Management and Breeding written by Francis Smith and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canary Book Containing Full Directions for the Breeding Rearing and Management of Canaries and Canary Mules written by Robert L. Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Black Hammer Visions Volume 2 written by Scott Snyder and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection launches the second part of a special two volume series of exciting stories taking place in the world of Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Moon Knight) and Dean Ormston’s (Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, Books of Magick: Life During Wartime) Eisner Award–winning Black Hammer superhero comics. Creators such as Kelly Thompson, Cullen Bunn, Cecil Castellucci, Scott Snyder and many more of comics’ top talents take on some of the greatest heroes and villains of Spiral City! This graphic novel collects Black Hammer: Visions #5-8 and also features a sketchbook section and pinups by Yuko Shimizu, Veronica Fish, Dan Brereton, Annie Wu, Brian Hurtt, and more! Featuring tales of the cult heroes and villains of Spiral City such as the Horseless Rider, Ms. Moonbeam, Cthu-Lou, and Skulldigger!

Download or read book The Canary Book Containing Full Directions for the Breeding Rearing and Management of Canaries and Canary Mules written by R. L. Wallace and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on keeping canaries. It includes full directions for the breeding, rearing, and management of canaries and canary mules; information on cage making; formation of canary societies; exhibition canaries, their points, and how to breed and exhibit them; and all other matters connected with this fancy. This book constitutes an invaluable resource for the modern canary breeder, and it would make for an great addition to collections of related literature. The chapters include: “Cages and Cage-Making”, “Breeding and Management”, “Mule Breeding”, “Diseases”, “Moulting”, “Miscellaneous”, “The Original Canary”, “The Belgian”, etcetera. This antiquarian volume is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on aviculture.

Download or read book Chateau Despair written by Lisa Barnard and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is made up of a series of photographs taken inside the abandoned Conservative Party headquarters at 32 Smith Square in London. Award-winning artist Lisa Barnard was granted access to the abandoned site in 2009 and documented the building and found objects. This book features previously unseen photos of the interior documenting the dulled shades of corporate blue, stained carpets, peeling paintwork and discarded iconography of past alliances.

Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Download or read book The Canary Its Varieties Management and Breeding With Portraits of the Author s Own Birds 8th Ed written by Francis Smith (Curate of St. Paul's, Manchester.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canary Its Varieties Management and Breeding With Portraits of the Author s Own Birds written by Francis SMITH (Curate of St. Paul's Manchester.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canary Its Varieties Management and Breeding with Portraits of Theauthor s Own Birds written by Francis Smith and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Struth written by Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany) and published by Mack. This book was released on 2016 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This catalogue accompanies a touring exhibition held at Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany on March 4-May 29, 2016, at Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany on June 11-September 18, 2016, at High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia on October 16, 2016-January 8, 2017, and at St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri in Fall 2017.

Download or read book The canary its varieties management and breeding written by Francis Smith (rector of Moorby.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1868 St Bernard Parish Massacre The Blood in the Cane Fields written by C. Dier and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Days before the tumultuous presidential election of 1868, St. Bernard Parish descended into chaos. As African American men gained the right to vote, white Democrats of the parish feared losing their majority. Armed groups mobilized to suppress these recently emancipated voters in the hopes of regaining a way of life turned upside down by the Civil War and Reconstruction. Freedpeople were dragged from their homes and murdered in cold blood. Many fled to the cane fields to hide from their attackers. The reported number of those killed varies from 35 to 135. The tragedy was hidden, but implications reverberated throughout the South and lingered for generations. Author and historian Chris Dier reveals the horrifying true story behind the St. Bernard Parish Massacre.

Download or read book Girl Plays with Snake written by Clare Strand and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] comprises images sourced from the darkest recesses of the artist's extensive archive. The project continues Strand's decades-long engagement with the scrapbooks, magazines and photographs that she has drawn together since her mid-teens. In this iteration of Strand's ongoing research and reflection, women and girls are pictured holding, playing with and gazing fondly at snakes. Key to understanding the intention of the imagery is the inclusion of original accompanying text attached to the reverse, revealing stories of the bizarre and the erotic, alongside Myth and Credo."--Publisher's website.

Download or read book Birds of Prey Black Canary written by Brenden Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dinah Lance hits the road! After years as a soldier and vigilante, the last place Dinah saw herself is on stage, but she's quickly learning she'd die to protect the gang of misfits she's fallen into. And she just might have to--for some reason, the newly rechristened band Black Canary seems to be a magnet for trouble, and Dinah's not gonna believe it when she finds out the reason why"--