Автор: Hilton, L. S. Название: Maestra ISBN: 1785760831 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785760839 Издательство: Bonnier Books Рейтинг: Цена: 11870.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A shockingly original thriller - the launch title of Zaffre, the new fiction imprint of Bonnier Publishing Fiction
Автор: Rizzo Mary Название: Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore Beyond John Waters and the Wire ISBN: 1421437910 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421437910 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 33000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Baltimore seen through the eyes of John Waters, Anne Tyler, Charles S. Dutton, Barry Levinson, David Simon--and also ordinary citizens.
The city of Baltimore features prominently in an extraordinary number of films, television shows, novels, plays, poems, and songs. Whether it's the small-town eccentricity of Charm City (think duckpin bowling and marble-stooped row houses) or the gang violence of Bodymore, Murdaland, Baltimore has figured prominently in popular culture about cities since the 1950s.
In Come and Be Shocked, Mary Rizzo examines the cultural history and racial politics of these contrasting images of the city. From the 1950s, a period of urban crisis and urban renewal, to the early twenty-first century, Rizzo looks at how artists created powerful images of Baltimore. How, Rizzo asks, do the imaginary cities created by artists affect the real cities that we live in? How does public policy (intentionally or not) shape the kinds of cultural representations that artists create? And why has the relationship between artists and Baltimore city officials been so fraught, resulting in public battles over film permits and censorship?
To answer these questions, Rizzo explores the rise of tourism, urban branding, and citizen activism. She considers artists working in the margins, from the East Baltimore poets writing in Chicory, a community magazine funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity, to a young John Waters, who shot his early low-budget movies on the streets, guerrilla-style. She also investigates more mainstream art, from the teen dance sensation The Buddy Deane Show to the comedy-drama Roc to the crime show The Wire, from Anne Tyler's award-winning book The Accidental Tourist to Barry Levinson's movie classic Diner.
Автор: LuAnne Bonanno Название: Because Grandma Went to Heaven ISBN: 1667847503 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781667847504 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 37170.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This book is based on one of the most important influences on student learning: teachers who believe that they can improve their students` achievements. Along with this, the book explores the notion that this powerful belief can also exist between students, enhancing their achievements but also preparing them for real world encounters and job demands.
Автор: Backhouse Paul N., Weisman Brent R., Rosebrough Mary B. Название: We Come for Good: Archaeology and Tribal Historic Preservation at the Seminole Tribe of Florida ISBN: 0813062284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813062280 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 75200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Offers a unique perspective on tribal approaches to managing historic preservation and addresses the multiplicity of issues common to all tribal historic preservation groups."--Joe Watkins, director, Tribal Relations and American Cultures Program, National Park Service "A concise, detailed account regarding the enormity of the task THPOs face in successfully navigating the two worlds of federal historic preservation laws and statutes and tribal cultural beliefs, knowledge, and traditions."--James Quinn, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut "An important book that highlights the complicated, confusing, and often contradictory world navigated by the intrepid personnel of the Seminole Tribe of Florida's Tribal Historic Preservation Office."--Ryan Wheeler, director, Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology
As indigenous populations are invited to participate in cultural heritage identification, research, interpretation, management, and preservation, they are faced with a variety of challenges, questions that are difficult to answer, and demands that must be carefully navigated.
We Come for Good describes the development and operations of the Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) of the Seminole Tribe of Florida as an example of how tribes can successfully manage and retain authority over the heritage of their respective cultures. With Native voices front and center, this book demonstrates ways THPOs can work within federal and tribal governments to build capacity and uphold tribal values--core principles of a strong tribal historic preservation program. The authors also offer readers one of the first attempts to document Native perspectives on the archaeology of native populations.
Contributors: Willie Johns - Stephen Bridenstine - Marty Bowers - Paul N. Backhouse - Danny Tommie - Anne Mullins - Eric Griffis - Jeffrey W. Sepanski - Jack Chalfant- Mary Jene Koenes - Matthew Fenno - Karen Brunso - Jessica Freeman - Annette L. Snapp - Maureen Mahoney - Juan J. Cancel - Carrie Dilley - Lewis Gopher - Domonique deBeaubien - Kate Macuen - Bradley M. Mueller - James Charles - Timothy A. Parsons - Quenton Cypress - Brent R. Weisman
Автор: Bechtle Mike Название: I Wish He Had Come with Instructions: The Woman`s Guide to a Man`s Brain ISBN: 080072383X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780800723835 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Ashton B. Carter said when announcing that the Pentagon would open all combat jobs to women, "I made a commitment to building America`s force of the future. In the twenty-first century, that requires drawing strength from the broadest possible pool of talent." William Taylor chronicles and analyses the long and ever-changing history of that often contentious and controversial effort.
Автор: Winston, Ali BondGraham, Darwin Название: Riders Come Out at Night ISBN: 1982168595 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982168599 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 34320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The digital divide is one of the most pressing issues facing America today-and Ro Khanna, the widely respected Congressperson of Silicon Valley, is leading the charge to close it.
Автор: Giglio Tom Название: Dreams Come True One Day at a Time ISBN: 1543999239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781543999235 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 22870.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: A promising young diplomat`s account of her assignment in South Sudan, the world`s youngest nation on the brink of civil war, and an explanation of the ways US foreign policy has utterly failed in its diplomacy and accountability around the world.
Experience the "Real Las Vegas" Through Writings About Reinvention
In a wide-ranging anthology that moves from the ancient artists of southern Nevada who carved petroglyphs into rock walls to contemporary family trauma, 10 Las Vegas essayists examine the weight of the past on the present--and, perhaps, the future. Set in and around a city with its own peculiar and complicated relationship to the very idea of history, these eclectic stories, essays, and poems examine the topic from a variety of surprising directions.
Go back in time to visit the basket-weaving tribes that predate the city's founding. Experience the heady midcentury days of freewheeling law enforcement. Follow an abuse survivor as she revisits the sites of family torment. Join a young African-American man as he experiences a racial epiphany in the county morgue. Listen in as a photographic model ponders the psychology of the men who hire her to recreate urgent moments from their pasts.
Through such stories, this collection--the 10th volume in the Las Vegas Writes series--presents a singular view of a city that's forever negotiating the uneasy passage between then and now.
Автор: Davis-Undiano Robert Con Название: Mestizos Come Home!: Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity ISBN: 0806157194 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806157191 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 27540.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A large-scale landmark account of Mexican American culture, Mestizos Come Home! shows that mestizos are essential to US national culture. As an argument for social justice and a renewal of America`s democratic ideals, this book marks a historic cultural homecoming.
Автор: Melvin Croft, John Youskauskas Название: Come Fly with Us: NASA`s Payload Specialist Program ISBN: 0803278926 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803278929 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 39250.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space History
Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003. Not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, these professionals known as “payload specialists” came from a wide variety of backgrounds and were chosen for an equally wide variety of scientific, political, and national security reasons. Melvin Croft and John Youskauskas focus on this special fraternity of spacefarers and their individual reflections on living and working in space. Relatively unknown to the public and often flying only single missions, these payload specialists give the reader an unusual perspective on the experience of human spaceflight. The authors also bring to light NASA’s struggle to integrate the wide-ranging personalities and professions of these men and women into the professional astronaut ranks.
While Come Fly with Us relates the experiences of the payload specialists up to and including the Challenger tragedy, the authors also detail the later high-profile flights of a select few, including Barbara Morgan, John Glenn (who returned to space at the age of seventy-seven), and Ilan Ramon of Israel aboard Columbia on its final, fatal flight, STS-107.
