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Book The Naked Heartland

Download or read book The Naked Heartland written by Bruce (of Los Angeles.) and published by Janssen Verlag. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These books focus on the groundbreaking homoerotic art of pioneers of male nude photography. From Lon of New York's stylized, classically posed portraits to Dave Martin's wholesome, athletic young men, to Bruce of Los Angeles' cavorting models, these books rescue an era of American photography that has virtually been forgotten. Other volumes are devoted to the formal, carfully posed portraits of Douglas of Detroit and the fun, kicky work of Pat Milo.

Book Belgian Lace from Hell

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Rosenkranz
  • Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
  • Release : 2017-05-31
  • ISBN : 1606999990
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Belgian Lace from Hell written by Patrick Rosenkranz and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes all of the cartoonist's work from Zap Comix #12 through #15; stories published in the horror anthology Taboo; the three appearances of his outrageous, race-bending character Meadows from Weirdo; illustrations for Grimm and Andersen fairy tales; as well as book jackets and album covers. Plus, dozens of privately commissioned paintings, including the Seven Deadly Sins (Just Say Yes!) and inner landscapes peopled with pirates, ogres, leprechauns, Cyclops, the Baby Jesus, and his favorites players, Captain Pissgums, Star-Eyed Stella, and the Checkered Demon. It also includes an even score of remarkably rendered paintings, both unpublished and virtually unseen, that he created between the 2006 publication of The Art of S. Clay Wilson and The Night the Lights Went Out in 2008, when Wilson’s career spiraled out of control.

Book The Heartland

Download or read book The Heartland written by Nathan Filer and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful work of non-fiction and the natural sequel to his Costa Book of the Year Award-winning The Shock of the Fall.

Book Airball

    Book Details:
  • Author : L.D. Harkrader
  • Publisher : Square Fish
  • Release : 2016-01-12
  • ISBN : 1250111242
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book Airball written by L.D. Harkrader and published by Square Fish. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirby Nickel loves basketball. The only problem is he can't play basketball. But when an opportunity to meet NBA star Brett McGrew comes up, Kirby knows he has to take a chance and try out for the basketball team. Getting on the team turns out to be easy—the rest of the boys are as supremely untalented as Kirby—but winning in order to be eligible to meet McGrew is a whole different problem. Different and embarrassing. The coach's radical new plan for success involves the boys playing in their underwear. But if this crazy idea works, Kirby will get to meet his hero—who he secretly also hopes is his long-lost father.

Book The Rise of the Naked Economy

Download or read book The Rise of the Naked Economy written by Ryan Coonerty and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how employees from any personal or professional background can achieve success in today's dynamic economy, explaining how a rise in non-traditional employment is creating potentially lucrative opportunities for growth.

Book Punks in Peoria

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Wright
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2021-06-15
  • ISBN : 0252052706
  • Pages : 339 pages

Download or read book Punks in Peoria written by Jonathan Wright and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Punk rock culture in a preeminently average town Synonymous with American mediocrity, Peoria was fertile ground for the boredom- and anger-fueled fury of punk rock. Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett explore the do-it-yourself scene built by Peoria punks, performers, and scenesters in the 1980s and 1990s. From fanzines to indie record shops to renting the VFW hall for an all-ages show, Peoria's punk culture reflected the movement elsewhere, but the city's conservatism and industrial decline offered a richer-than-usual target environment for rebellion. Eyewitness accounts take readers into hangouts and long-lost venues, while interviews with the people who were there trace the ever-changing scene and varied fortunes of local legends like Caustic Defiance, Dollface, and Planes Mistaken for Stars. What emerges is a sympathetic portrait of a youth culture in search of entertainment but just as hungry for community—the shared sense of otherness that, even for one night only, could unite outsiders and discontents under the banner of music. A raucous look at a small-city underground, Punks in Peoria takes readers off the beaten track to reveal the punk rock life as lived in Anytown, U.S.A.

Book The Naked Anabaptist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart Murray
  • Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
  • Release : 2015-10-20
  • ISBN : 0836199847
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book The Naked Anabaptist written by Stuart Murray and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Click here to read the introduction to The Naked Anabaptist. In churches and kitchens and neighborhood centers across the world, communities of Jesus-followers are crafting a vision of radical service, simple living, and commitment to peace. Many are finding a home in a Christian tradition almost five centuries old: Anabaptism. Who are the Anabaptists? What do they believe? Where did they come from? What makes them different from other Christians? And can you become an Anabaptist without leaving your own church? Follow Stuart Murray as he peels back the layers to reveal the core convictions of Anabaptist Christianity, a way of following Jesus that challenges, disturbs, and inspires. Glimpse an alternative to nationalistic, materialistic, individualistic Christian faith. If you are seeking a community of authentic discipleship, heartfelt worship, sacrificial service, and radical peacemaking, consider this your invitation. This new edition features: Voices and stories from North America and the global church. Updated and expanded definition and discussion of Christendom. Updated resource section. Free downloadable study guide available here.

Book Naked and Unashamed

Download or read book Naked and Unashamed written by Ericka Young and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When was the last time you and your spouse took an up close and personal look at your finances? Let's face it. Money is hard to talk about. But if we don't get real we won't get free. Naked and Unashamed is designed to highlight an area of our lives that we neglect. It is time to uncover the truth so you can finally reach your financial goals. The future of your marriage depends on it! In this book you will: - Get tools on communicating effectively about money with to get you started. - Learn how your money past is affecting you today and not allow it to define you anymore. - Face your current state of financial affairs so you can wake up and do something about it. - Create a financial road map leading you to the future you desire and deserve. A financially fulfilling relationship is possible if you get rid of the money baggage holding you back. It's time to get Naked and Unashamed with your money and your honey.

Book Stay With Me  Wisconsin

Download or read book Stay With Me Wisconsin written by JoAnneh Nagler and published by Flying Ketchup Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven sensual and modern-day short stories about love, loss, sex, devotion and desire. Set in the small lake towns and suburbs of the country's Midwestern heartland, the tales thread from one heart to another with extraordinary effectiveness and power. Lovers, partners, family members and friends-they push courageously toward love, and often win. Intimate and impeccably crafted, they invite us into the passionate world of one of the most important new voices on the American literary scene. JoAnneh Nagler, author of "Naked Marriage," wows her fans again with her first foray into short fiction, where they will beg her to stay.

Book Strong Man

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Mainardi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 118 pages

Download or read book Strong Man written by Robert Mainardi and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vintage photos spanning the 1880s to the early 1950s showcase images of famous, and forgotten, strongmen and include period snapshots of professional competitors and amateur specimens. Foreword written by Jules Bacon, Mr. America, 1943.

Book The Power of Theatrical Madness

Download or read book The Power of Theatrical Madness written by Jan Fabre and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Naked at Lunch

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Haskell Smith
  • Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
  • Release : 2015-06-02
  • ISBN : 0802191789
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Naked at Lunch written by Mark Haskell Smith and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A delightful and informative look at nudism throughout history and around the world.” —The Seattle Times People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as Mark Haskell Smith reveals, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. “Nonsexual social nudism,” as it’s called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Époque France and Gilded Age Manhattan disrobed and wrote manifestos about the joys of going clothing-free. From stories of ancient Greek athletes slathered in olive oil to the millions of Germans who fled the cities for a naked frolic during the Weimar Republic to American soldiers given “naturist” magazines by the Pentagon in the interest of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, this book uncovers nudism’s amusing and provocative past. Coated in multiple layers of high SPF sunblock, Haskell Smith publicly disrobes for the first time in Palm Springs; observes the culture of family nudism in a clothing-free Spanish town; and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world, a hedonist’s paradise in the south of France. He reports on San Francisco’s controversial ban on public nudity, participates in a week of naked hiking in the Austrian Alps, and caps off his adventures with a week on a Caribbean cruise known as the Big Nude Boat. Equal parts cultural history and gonzo participatory journalism, Naked at Lunch is “an absolute hoot” (Los Angeles Magazine) and “a total joy” (Meghan Daum). “Smith puts on his reporter’s hat and takes off everything else as he explores the history and sociology of nudism.” —Los Angeles Times

Book Australian Heartlands

Download or read book Australian Heartlands written by Brendan Gleeson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is one of the world's most urbanised nations, belying our image as a country of hard-living outback heroes and laid back sea-changers. Our future welfare is closely tied to the wellbeing of our cities and even more importantly, our suburbs. In this powerful account of the political, social, economic and environmental trends shaping Australia, Brendan Gleeson argues forcefully for the reinstatement of the city as Australia's 'national heartland'. Australian Heartlands is a provocative examination of the health of our urban communities and their role in national life. It ranges across topics such as gated communities and the new suburban poverty sinkholes, the lost of the public domain, the experience of childhood in contemporary suburbs, environmental degradation and the challenges of migration. If you care about Australia's future, this is a book you must read.

Book Miss MacIntosh  My Darling

Download or read book Miss MacIntosh My Darling written by Marguerite Young and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is one of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of our time. It is a picaresque, psychological novel--a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare. It is an epic of what might be called the Arabian Nights of American life. Marguerite Young's method is poetic, imagistic, incantatory; in prose of extraordinary richness she tests the nature of her characters--and the nature of reality. Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is written with oceanic music moving at many levels of consciousness and perception; but the toughly fibred realistic fabric is always there, in the happenings of the narrative, the humor, the precise details, the definitions of the characters. Miss MacIntosh herself, who hails from What Cheer, Iowa, and seems downright and normal, with an incorruptible sense of humor and the desire to put an end to phantoms; Catherine Cartwheel, the opium lady, a recluse who is shut away in a great New England seaside house and entertains imaginary guests; Mr. Spitzer, the lawyer, musical composer and mystical space traveler, a gentle man, wholly unsure of himself and of reality; his twin brother Peron, the gay and raffish gambler and virtuoso in the world of sports; Cousin Hannah, the horsewoman, balloonist, mountain-climber and militant Boston feminist, known as Al Hamad through all the seraglios of the East; Titus Bonebreaker of Chicago, wild man of God dreaming of a heavenly crown; the very efficient Christian hangman, Mr. Weed of the Wabash River Valley; a featherweight champion who meets his equal in a graveyard--these are a few who live with phantasmagorical vividness in the pages of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. The novel touches on many aspects of life--drug addiction, woman's suffrage, murder, suicide, pregnancy both real and imaginary, schizophrenia, many strange loves, the psychology of gambling, perfectionism; but the profusion of this huge book serves always to intensify the force of the central question: "What shall we do when, fleeing from illusion, we are confronted by illusion?" What is real, what is dream? Is the calendar of the human heart the same as that kept by the earth? Is it possible that one may live a secondary life of which one does not know? In every aspect, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands by itself--in the lyric beauty of its prose, its imaginative vitality and cumulative emotional power. It is the work of a writer of genius.

Book A A Really Awesome Mess

Download or read book A A Really Awesome Mess written by Trish Cook and published by Carolrhoda Lab ®. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two teenagers. Two very bumpy roads taken that lead to Heartland Academy. After his parents' divorce, Justin is on rocky mental ground. But when a handful of Tylenol lands him in the hospital, he has really hit rock bottom. A scandalous photo of Emmy leads to vicious rumors around school, but things get worse when she threatens the boy who started it all on Facebook. Justin and Emmy arrive at Heartland Academy, a reform school that will force them to deal with their issues. Along the way they will find a ragtag group of teens who are just as broken, stubborn, and full of sarcasm as themselves. A funny, sad, and remarkable story, A Really Awesome Mess is a journey of friendship and self-discovery.

Book The Rose

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert J. Henry
  • Publisher : BookCountry
  • Release : 2014-02-25
  • ISBN : 1463004362
  • Pages : 151 pages

Download or read book The Rose written by Robert J. Henry and published by BookCountry. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in modern day Southwestern Ontario, a police detective investigating a high profile double murder stumbles on a motive that dates back over 350 years and points to the Vatican...

Book Bruce of Los Angeles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vince Aletti
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-09-30
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Bruce of Los Angeles written by Vince Aletti and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An icon of gay art and one of the most famous names in physique photography, Bruce Bellas is remembered as the pioneer of beefcake. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until his death in 1974, he photographed some of the most important icons in the world of physical culture and body- building. Collected in this book are Bellas' rare photographs and films - the two volumes Inside and Outside comprise more than 100 colour images, masterfully restored as a limited edition, celebrating Bruce of Los Angeles and his refined, masterful aesthetic of erotica.