Download or read book Inside Out written by Bradford Morrow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New writings—on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us—from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and pass through shape our memories and perceptions, often without our conscious awareness. These stories, essays, and poems from a wide variety of contributors draw on our sense of place to explore the literal and metaphorical meanings of the roofs over our heads, the walls that protect—and separate—us from others, and the caves and castles that humans have made their homes throughout history. Like the best architecture, they combine form and function in a beautiful balance. Conjunctions:68, Inside Out includes original work by Joanna Scott, Andrew Mossin, Claude Simon, Cole Swensen, Robert Clark, Kathryn Davis, Elizabeth Robinson, Gabriel Blackwell, Monica Datta, Robert Kelly, Mary South, Brandon Hobson, Lance Olsen, Susan Daitch, Ryan Call, Nathaniel Mackey, Ann Lauterbach, Can Xue, Matt Reeck, Lisa Horiuchi, Elaine Equi, Robert Coover, G. C. Waldrep, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Lenhart, Mark Irwin, Justin Noga, Karen Hays, John Madera, Karen Hueler, and Frederic Tuten.

Download or read book The Gilded Cage written by Lesley Oliver and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic violence can be subtle, sophisticated, and imperceptible to the uninitiated. Sometimes known as 'white collar' abuse, emotional, financial, sexual, social or verbal abuse is easily obscured by affluence. It leaves no apparent mark on the victim but it is absolute in its ability to paralyse them with fear. And domestic violence does not discriminate, it could be happening to you, your sister, your daughter, your mother or your friend. Lesley Oliver shares her story to lift the veil on how insidious and multi-faceted domestic and family violence can be, how to recognise it, how to break free from it under your own terms, and how to successfully navigate your way through the complex maze that is the Family Law system. She gives a rare insight into what it is like to live under the gossamer-like shroud of non-physical domestic violence and recounts her military-like covert operation to escape to a new life where she eventually sought justice.

Download or read book The Gilded Cage written by Edith Layton and published by Cupid's Quill Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Civil War New York was a golden city where wealth waited for the bold, and everything had its price. Well-born but impoverished Lucy Markham seeks her fortune on the stage under a false name-and becomes the toast of the town just as millionaire Josh Dylan arrives in the city. The moment Josh sees Lucy, he wants her-but only as his mistress. And Lucy realizes she must try to quell her desire for him. For neither can afford to surrender to the one thing that threatens their carefully laid plans: Love.

Download or read book Dear America written by Simmons Buntin and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is at a crossroads. Conflicting political and social perspectives reflect a need to collectively define our moral imperatives, clarify cultural values, and inspire meaningful change. In that patriotic spirit, nearly two hundred writers, artists, scientists, and political and community leaders have come together since the 2016 presidential election to offer their impassioned letters to America, in a project envisioned by the online journal Terrain.org and collected, with 50 never-before-published letters, in Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy. In the inaugural piece in Terrain.org’s Letters to America series, Alison Hawthorne Deming writes, “Think of the great spirit of inventiveness the Earth calls forth after each major disturbance it suffers. Be artful, inventive, and just, my friends, but do not be silent.” Joining Deming are renowned artists and thinkers including Seth Abramson, Ellen Bass, Jericho Brown, Francisco Cantú, Kurt Caswell, Victoria Chang, Camille T. Dungy, Tarfia Faizullah, Blas Falconer, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, David Gessner, Katrina Goldsaito, Kimiko Hahn, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Linda Hogan, Pam Houston, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Karen An-hwei Lee, Christopher Merrill, Kathryn Miles, Kathleen Dean Moore, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Naomi Shihab Nye, Elena Passarello, Dean Rader, Scott Russell Sanders, Lauret Savoy, Gary Soto, Pete Souza, Kim Stafford, Sandra Steingraber, Arthur Sze, Scott Warren, Debbie Weingarten, Christian Wiman, Robert Wrigley, and others. Dear America reflects the evolution of a moral panic that has emerged in the nation. More importantly, it is a timely congress of the personal and the political, a clarion call to find common ground and conflict resolution, all with a particular focus on the environment, social justice, and climate change. The diverse collection features personal essays, narrative journalism, poetry, and visual art from nearly 130 contributors—many pieces never before published—all literary reactions to the times we live in, with a focus on civic action and social change as we approach future elections. As Scott Minar writes, we must remain steadfast and look to the future: “Despair can bring us very low, or it can make us smarter and stronger than we have ever been before.”

Download or read book The Well Stocked and Gilded Cage written by Lawrence Lenhart and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debut collection on the unexpected ties between humans, animals and the bigger world around us. Lenhart writes on the bleeding edge of creative non-fiction -- without ever losing his sense of humor. Or his sense of what's amiss in the world. Relentlessly fun, accessibly innovative and pleasingly smart.

Download or read book In a Gilded Cage written by Paul John Hausleben and published by God Bless the Keg Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2024-09-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder! Mobsters! Detective series! Crime-drama! A touch or two of romance! Homicide Detective Lyle Odell and the entire Mohawk City police team and Odell’s trusted civilian friends return in a new adventure, and this time around; Odell and the team risk their careers, and maybe even their lives, as they face off with a powerful mobster boosted by a faction of the Russian network of organized crime operating in America. Mr. Ivan Petrov is powerful, handsome, and charismatic, and extremely wealthy. He is also the seemingly untouchable kingpin for the operation of the Russian mob in New York State. Petrov was on the top of the world, untouched, never challenged, until, suddenly, a beautiful young woman with ties to Mr. Petrov shows up deceased in a swimming pool in an exclusive apartment complex owned by Mr. Ivan Petrov. “It is just an accident,” the powers to be proclaimed. “An unfortunate tragedy.” Mohawk City in upstate New York is known as “Sin City” for its share of crime, grit, and generally, all round shady characters constantly lurking in the shadows of the streets within the city. When the great Mohawk City police homicide detective Lyle Odell is mysteriously wayward and sidelined for a “health issue” during a sensitive potential homicide investigation, his protégé, Junior Detective Miles Bradford, is suddenly thrust into the midst of the investigation. When Junior Detective Bradford declares the death of the beautiful young woman found in the swimming pool, a homicide, under rather weak evidence and questionable circumstances, it causes a ripple of doubt and mayhem within the Mohawk City Police Department and the political factions in the state hierarchy. The situation puts Captain Connor Moore, the frontline police officer for the Mohawk City Police Department, on the hot seat. Without his heralded and legendary detective heading up the case, the unpopular ruling of a homicide by a junior detective on what appears to be an accident causes waves of concern and uneasiness within the department and within the state politics. After all, Ivan Petrov is a very powerful and connected man! When the faithful friend of Lyle Odell, Police Lieutenant George Grundy rallies the police team and the friends of Lyle Odell, and he throws support to Junior Detective Bradford and Grundy jumps into the fray, Homicide Detective Lyle Odell rises from the ashes of despair, supports Junior Detective Miles Bradford and his conclusions, and makes sense of the impossible case. Suddenly, the tide is turned; Ivan Petrov is on the hot seat, as the Odell-led team closes in on the trail and Petrov’s power, and his criminal empire is challenged and on the brink of collapse! What ensues is a game of cat and mouse between the assembled team led by the genius of Detective Lyle Odell and the powerful crime family of Ivan Petrov. Which team will prevail? Plucked out of the pages of the novel “O'Malley” by his creator, Homicide Detective Lyle Odell proved to be a hugely popular character with readers. In “O’Malley,” the good detective helps the principal character solve the mysteries of his past and the brutal homicide of a fellow police officer. The character proved to so popular with readers that Paul John Hausleben created a series of novels starring the eccentric, systematic, hard-drinking, gumshoe Homicide Detective Lyle Odell. Here in this latest Detective Lyle Odell novel, the author weaves an exciting murder mystery and crime drama mixed with his usual unforgettable characters, and proves once again why Odell’s creator earned the title of “The Master Storyteller.” Grab your copy today!

Download or read book Porcelain written by Suzanne L. Marchand and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."—Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present Porcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain’s uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth. Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of “white gold” from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany’s cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home. Telling the story of porcelain’s transformation from coveted luxury to household necessity and flea market staple, Porcelain offers a fascinating alternative history of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe.

Download or read book Gilded Cage written by Vic James and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MAGIC RULES. WE SERVE. In a darkly fantastical debut set in modern-day Britain, magic users control everything: wealth, politics, power—and you. If you’re not one of the ultimate one-percenters—the magical elite—you owe them ten years of service. Do those years when you’re old, and you’ll never get through them. Do them young, and you’ll never get over them. This is the darkly decadent world of Gilded Cage. In its glittering milieu move the all-powerful Jardines and the everyday Hadleys. The families have only one thing in common: Each has three children. But their destinies entwine when one family enters the service of the other. They will all discover whether any magic is more powerful than the human spirit. Have a quick ten years. . . . Look for all three books in the mesmerizing Dark Gifts trilogy: GILDED CAGE • TARNISHED CITY • BRIGHT RUIN Praise for Gilded Cage “Beautifully characterised and compellingly plotted, Gilded Cage is an impressive debut.”—The Guardian “Exquisitely wicked . . . a lavishly opulent, yet brutally vivid, alternate England which subtly questions modern beliefs . . . If ever there was a speculative fiction book that captured the zeitgeist of an era this is it.”—SFFWorld “An alternate modern-day England where enticing drama and social unrest mix with aristocratic scandal and glamorous magic . . . conjuring up the specters of Les Misérables and Downton Abbey . . . an absorbing first installment that presages an intriguing new fantasy series.”—Kirkus Reviews “Gilded Cage is a heart-pounding combination of dark magic, political revolution, and forbidden romance that had me addicted from the first page!”—Danielle L. Jensen, USA Today bestselling author of The Malediction Trilogy “Devious and deliciously dark with lashings of magic, mystery, and mayhem, this juggernaut of a book will keep you hanging on by your fingernails until the very last page.”—Taran Matharu, New York Times bestselling author of the Summoner series “A dark and intriguing vision of an alternate, magic-drenched Britain, Gilded Cage kept me up long into the night.”—Aliette de Bodard, author of The House of Shattered Wings

Download or read book The Gilded Cage written by Lucinda Gray and published by Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After growing up on a farm in Virginia, Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to sixteen-year-old Katherine Randolph. Her new life, filled with the splendor of upper class England in the 1820s, is shattered when she discovers the corpse of her brother George in a lake on the estate-the tragic accidental drowning of a young man, the coroner reports, despite the wound to George's head. Katherine is expected to observe the mourning customs and get on with her life, but she can't accept that her brother's death was an accident. A bitter poacher prowls the estate, and strange visitors threaten the occupants of the house. There's a rumor, too, that a wild animal stalks the woods of Walthingham. Can Katherine retain her sanity long enough to find out the truth? Or will her brother's killer claim her life, too?

Download or read book Decadent Desires written by Alicia Clark and published by ForbiddenFables Press. This book was released on with total page 1840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indulge in the forbidden world of Decadent Desires, where every page ignites the flames of your deepest sensuous passions. With an exquisite collection of 120 erotic stories, this tantalizing treasure trove will take you on a journey beyond your wildest imagination. Explore the uncharted territories of desire and uncover hidden fantasies that will leave you breathless and craving for more. Ignite the filthy heat within you as each story immerses you in a world where pleasure knows no boundaries. Let Decadent Desires be your guide to embracing alluring sensations and surrendering to the irresistible allure of seduction. Dive into this daring anthology boasting 120 arousing stories carefully crafted to enthrall even the most discerning connoisseurs. From steamy encounters between lovers yearning for forbidden ecstasy to clandestine rendezvous pulsating with uninhibited desire, these tales weave together an intoxicating tapestry that pushes boundaries and celebrates sensual liberation like never before.

Download or read book The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus written by Ayşe Osmanoğlu and published by Ayşe Osmanoğlu. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers bound by blood but fated to be enemies. Can their Empire survive or will it crumble into myth? Istanbul, 1903. Since his younger brother usurped the Imperial throne, Sultan Murad V has been imprisoned with his family for nearly thirty years. The new century heralds immense change. Anarchy and revolution threaten the established order. Powerful enemies plot the fall of the once mighty Ottoman Empire. Only death will bring freedom to the enlightened former sultan. But the waters of the Bosphorus run deep: assassins lurk in shadows, intrigue abounds, and scandal in the family threatens to bring destruction of all that he holds dear… For over six hundred years the history of the Turks and their vast and powerful Empire has been inextricably linked to the Ottoman dynasty. Can this extraordinary family, and the Empire they built, survive into the new century? Set against the magnificent backdrop of Imperial Istanbul, The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus is a spellbinding tale of love, duty and sacrifice. Evocative and utterly beguiling, The Gilded Cage on the Bosphorus is perfect for fans of Colin Falconer, Kate Morton and Philippa Gregory. "A richly woven carpet of a book." Historical Novel Society "With intelligence and sensitivity, Ayşe recreates the dramatic story of our family." Kenize Mourad, author of the international best-seller Regards from the Dead Princess

Download or read book The Artist Philosopher and Poetic Hermeneutics written by George Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the aesthetic representation of trauma, George Smith outlines the nexus points between poetics and hermeneutics and shows how a particular kind of thinker, the artist-philosopher, practices interpretation in an entirely different way from traditional hermeneutics. Taking a transhistorical and global view, Smith engages artists, writers, and thinkers from Western and non-Western periods, regions, and cultures. Thus, we see that poetic hermeneutics reconstitutes philosophy and art as hybridizations of art and science, the artist and the philosopher, subject and object. In turn, the artist-philosopher's poetic-hermeneutic reconstitution of philosophy and art is meant to transform human consciousness. This book will be of interest to artists and scholars working in studio practice, art history, aesthetics, philosophy, cultural studies, history of ideas, history of consciousness, psychoanalytic studies, myth studies, literary studies, and creative writing.

Download or read book Piano Man written by Charles Beauclerk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full biography of John Ogdon; a tortured genius and arguably the greatest British pianist of all time. From the beginning of his professional career as a soloist John Ogdon was hailed as a musician of rare understanding and phenomenal technical gifts. Able to play and memorize just about any score at sight, tales of his impossible exploits at the keyboard are legion. Yet Ogdon was a man of extremes and it was this very extremity, while the source of much of his gift, that also led to appalling suffering. Here was a man whose feelings were inexpressibly deep and often tormenting, and Ogdon's glory days, following his coveted Tchaikovsky prize in 1962, came to a sudden end in 1973 when he suffered a severe mental breakdown which led to his being certified insane and made patient of the Court of Protection. Over the course of several harrowing years Ogdon would spend large periods of time in and out of psychiatric wards and halfway houses. The drugs and treatments prescribed sometimes affected his coordination, and his reputation suffered as a result. Yet Ogdon's commitment to his art remained undimmed, and until the end he drew out performances of tremendous beauty and conviction from the depths of his ravaged heart. In this illuminating biography, Charles Beauclerk explores the life of a brilliantly inspired artist, for whom music was both his cross and his salvation.

Download or read book The Gilded Cage written by Ya-Wen Lei and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How China’s economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of life Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on science and technology. Ya-Wen Lei traces the contours of this techno-developmental regime and its resulting form of techno-state capitalism, telling the stories of those whose lives have been transformed—for better and worse—by China’s rapid rise to economic and technological dominance. Drawing on groundbreaking fieldwork and a wealth of in-depth interviews with managers, business owners, workers, software engineers, and local government officials, Lei describes the vastly unequal values assigned to economic sectors deemed “high-end” versus “low-end,” and the massive expansion of technical and legal instruments used to measure and control workers and capital. She shows how China’s rise has been uniquely shaped by its time-compressed development, the complex relationship between the nation’s authoritarian state and its increasingly powerful but unruly tech companies, and an ideology that fuses nationalism with high modernism, technological fetishism, and meritocracy. Some have compared China’s extraordinary transformation to America’s Gilded Age. This provocative book reveals how it is more like a gilded cage, one in which the Chinese state and tech capital are producing rising inequality and new forms of social exclusion.

Download or read book Robert Morrison written by Marshall Broomhall and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Slashvivor written by Stephen Kozeniewski and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Try Not to Die TV-XXX (Salty language, Sexual innuendo, Vomit-inducing ultraviolence) TBA. Pirate transmission. North America's number one reality television show returns with instant fan favorite Dawn Churchill, a plucky, hometown girl from the irradiated ruins of the former United States. Will she survive the night in the electrified, booby-trapped arena or will one of the serial killers pitted against her come out on top? Returning slashers include evil animatronic Abraham Lincoln, eight-year-old “Daughter of the Devil” Abadonna, and all-time undefeated champion Denney the Killer Clown. (Plus surprise appearances by mad surgeon Doctor Feelbad, silver-tongued “Charming” Charlie Whitmore, and steel-clawed firebrand Razortooth.) A night of chills, thrills, and endless buckets of blood. A must-see for Dawn’s innovative use of a shotgun alone. Fun for the whole family! Host: Mark Winters Producers: Marisol Martinez, Amy Green, Jacob Graves, Derron James

Download or read book The Way of Thorn and Thunder written by Daniel Heath Justice and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in one volume, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels take Indigenous fantasy fiction beyond its stereotypes and tell a story set in a world similar to eighteenth-century eastern North America. The original trilogy--an example of green/eco-literature--is collected here in a one-volume novel.