Walled Life

Author : Jenny Stümer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501380389
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walled Life written by Jenny Stümer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond a discussion of political architecture, Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices. The book reads political walls as more than physical obstruction, instead treating the wall as an affective screen, capable of negotiating the messy feelings, personal conflicts, and haunting legacies that make up “walled life” as an evolving signpost in the current global border regime. By exploring the wall as an emotional and visceral presence, the book shows that if we read political walls as forms of affective media, they become legible not simply as shields, impositions, or monuments, but as projective surfaces that negotiate the interaction of psychological barriers with political structures through cinema, art, and, of course, the wall itself. Drawing on the Berlin Wall, the West Bank Separation barrier, and the U.S.-Mexico border, Walled Life discovers each wall through the films and artworks it has inspired, examining a wide array of graffiti, murals, art installations, movies, photography, and paintings. Remediating the silent barriers, we erect between, and often within ourselves, these interventions tell us about the political fantasies and traumatic histories that undergird the politics of walls as they rework the affective settings of political boundaries.

Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634469X
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry David Thoreau written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--

Author : Ryan Graudin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316405043
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Walled City written by Ryan Graudin and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 730. That's how many days I've been trapped.18. That's how many days I have left to find a way out. DAI, trying to escape a haunting past, traffics drugs for the most ruthless kingpin in the Walled City. But in order to find the key to his freedom, he needs help from someone with the power to be invisible.... JIN hides under the radar, afraid the wild street gangs will discover her biggest secret: Jin passes as a boy to stay safe. Still, every chance she gets, she searches for her lost sister.... MEI YEE has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. She's about to give up, when one day she sees an unexpected face at her window..... In this innovative and adrenaline-fueled novel, they all come together in a desperate attempt to escape a lawless labyrinth before the clock runs out.

Author : Jane O'Connor
Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 13 : 9780689868634
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If the Walls Could Talk written by Jane O'Connor and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In case you've ever wondered, the walls at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have eyes and ears -- and, what's more, they don't miss a thing. Now, listen up because the walls have a thing or two to tell you! During President John Tyler's presidency, the White House was such a mess that it was called the "Public Shabby House." President William Howard Taft was so large that he had to have a jumbo-size bathtub installed -- one big enough for four people. President Andrew Jackson's "open door" policy at the White House resulted in 20,000 people showing up for his inauguration party. (The new president escaped to the quiet of a nearby hotel!) President Abraham Lincoln didn't mind at all that his younger sons, Tad and Willie, kept pet goats in their White House bedrooms. Children all across the country sent in their own money to build an indoor swimming pool for wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt so that he could exercise. President Harry S. Truman knew it was time to renovate the White House after a leg on his daughter's piano broke right through the floor. Hear these funny, surprising stories and more about the most famous home in America and the extraordinary families who have lived in it.

Author : JR Sproull JD
Publisher : JJ Sprowl * JRSproull (Spirited Press)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE Without Religious Walls written by JR Sproull JD and published by JJ Sprowl * JRSproull (Spirited Press). This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free your mind & restore your spirit with: (A) True stories to inspire your direct access to infinite love; (B) personal & group contemplative practices (prayer & meditation); (C) activity guides & self-help exercises aligned with the biblical 7 Spirits of God using the 7 C's (Choice, Comedy, Compassion, Connection, Consciousness, Cosmos & Creativity). Explore truth "powers that shouldn't be" have hidden about: Church (uninspired because real ekklesia is not church & includes everybody); Free will (for learning how to love genuinely because the real deal isn't faked); Jesus (religious change agent, not institution founder, executed by Roman Empire after teaching direct access to tough & tender love of our eternal Father & Mother); Claimed divine blueprint of God's will to predestine harm (monstrosity of error); Mary the Tower (Magdala) & Photine the Enlightened One (erasure by church); Peter, Paul & Augustine (top three biased church influencers against unity); Fraud indicators (scribes, creeds, false trinity & apostolic fabrication); Pope & "Paper Pope" (idolatry as if infallible of mortal man & bible as a politically mixed collection of books); Oppenheimer, "Oppie" (among leaders' causative examples for moral injury); and Togo, not Balto (the most heroic animal the world has ever known & a very good dog). Author JR Sproull JD applies legal expertise to deconstruct institutional Christianity as well as religious and secular laws, leaders & lies of injurious systems generally. After deconstruction, compassionately constructive options point to your best way of life. God's not leaving the cosmos & you deserve joy!

Author : Hamed Khosravi
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
ISBN 13 : 9783775741439
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tehran written by Hamed Khosravi and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2017 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Tehran proliferates and thrives in its interiors. When public space is policed and controlled, domestic interiors become art galleries, clubs, cultural centers, factories and offices. Interiors cease to be the exclusive domain for individual life and family matters; homes become the spaces in which new forms of collective life are experimented, and nurtured, and the battleground for social conflicts and political constituencies. Through its extensive apparatus of drawings, Tehran - Life Within Walls presents an archaeological inquiry over the politics and the ecologies of the interior spaces of the Iranian Metropolis, from its foundation as the Iranian capital until today. The book is at the same time an accessible entry point for the study of Tehran and Islamic/Iranian architecture, as well as a methodological experiment for the study of contemporary cities. An appendix of six projects provides an imaginative--yet radically pragmatic--vision for the future of Tehran.

Author : Mother Mary Francis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578653761
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walled in Light: The Life of St. Colette written by Mother Mary Francis and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing life of St. Colette, a Poor Clare Nun that helped reform the Church in the 15th century.

Author : Kristin Kimball
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416551611
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dirty Life written by Kristin Kimball and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the first year spent by the Harvard-graduate author with her new husband on their sustainable farm in the Adirondacks, describing how she withdrew from big-city life to be married in their barn loft, the difficult obstacles they faced attempting to provide a whole diet for one hundred locals, and the rewards of a physical-labor lifestyle.

Author : Matthew Burgess
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1592703429
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drawing on Walls written by Matthew Burgess and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Burgess describes Haring discovering Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit in college (“He felt as if the book was speaking directly to him”), encountering the large paintings of Pierre Alechinsky (he was “blown away”), and recognizing a common impulse in dancers at the West Village’s Paradise Garage (“For Keith, drawing and painting were like dancing. He called it ‘mind-to-hand flow’”). Cochran uses a thick black line to suggest Haring’s creations, and renders figures in a Haring-esque style without seeming gimmicky. Of interest to young readers are Haring’s frequent efforts to involve children in mural-making projects. The story, including a respectful acknowledgement of Haring’s death from AIDS, makes the subject seem immediate and real—and presents a compelling vision of answering the call to create." —Starred Review, Publishers Weekly I would love to be a teacher because I love children and I think that not enough people respect children or understand how important they are. I have done many projects with children of all ages. —Keith Haring Truly devoted to the idea of public art, Haring created murals wherever he went. From Matthew Burgess, the much-acclaimed author of Enormous Smallness, comes Drawing on Walls: A Story of Keith Haring. Often seen drawing in white chalk on the matte black paper of unused advertising space in the subway, Haring’s iconic pop art and graffiti-like style transformed the New York City underground in the 1980s. A member of the LGBTQ community, Haring died tragically at the age of thirty-one from AIDS-related complications. Illustrated in paint by Josh Cochran, himself a specialist in bright, dense, conceptual drawings, this honest, celebratory book honors Haring’s life and art, along with his very special connection with kids.

Author : Reginald T. C. Pope
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1643493914
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knocking Down the Walls of Jericho in Your Life written by Reginald T. C. Pope and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all fall short, but what are you going to do about it? I was at a point in my life where I was headed a downward spiral. At this brink of my life, I was about to lose it all. I was a foolish man that was not going to change and dared not to because I believed I could accomplish any and everything without God. I did not see my issues as problems. I was a man jeopardizing my soul, mind, freedom, marriage, parenthood, leadership, and morals. Thank God he stopped me because deep down, I didn't want to be the foolish, ungrateful, spiteful, manipulative liar that I was. As I was going through, God spoke to me and told me to knock down the walls of Jericho that were in my life, so I followed his Word. I wrote this book from perspectives, analogies, and testimonies to help others like me that want to invoke change and build or rebuild a relationship with God. We are all the same in some fashion. We are not perfect as Christians, but we can become better every day as the saints of the Lord. This book will inspire you to gain a relationship with God, and it also lets you know that you're not alone and will never be. You will not be the only person going through trials and tribulations. It's time to help each other Knock Down the Walls of Jericho that are in our lives.