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  • 错位

    生在中国,活在美国

    by 郑丽青 ...
    Series Book 1 - 短篇小说集
    自从中国打开国门以来,每一年都有成千上万的中国人以各种理由来美国定居。他们怀揣着各自的梦想,在美国这片神奇的土地上,用自己斑斓多彩的生活演绎着生命的张力。《错位》的作者用短篇小说的形式,将他们的故事细腻深情地展现出来,用心与心碰撞的语言,坦诚地探索生命的意义。在这本短篇小说中,你将会遇到许多新生代的中国移民。他们在生活的泥泞中摸爬滚打,在中西方文化的磕磕碰碰中迷茫困惑。一对异国同性伴侣在婚礼上面对父母的不理解(《结》);一位在绝望中等候换肝的中年人(《一场暴雪》);在美国蹭福利的中国退休老人(《国家福利》);一位自私矫情的小留学生(《小祖宗》);忙得连一点缝隙都没留给自己的爱彼迎女主人。在《缺席》这个短篇里,一位孤独的父亲和远在美国的儿子之间产生的误解,让读者感受到满满的情和爱。这是作者的第一部短篇小说集。希望读者在了解华裔美国人生活的同时,也能引起对自己生活的反思。 ... Read more

    $1.14 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • حوارات مع د.محمد فتحي عبد العال الجزء الثالث

    by mohamed fatho ...
    حوارات مع الدكتور محمد فتحي عبد العال نشرت بعديد من الصحف العربية والمواقع الالكترونية العديدة ... Read more

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  • ¿Qué está vivo?

    Arte y Literatura en el cambio de siglo

    Series series CAEZ [Artes en ZigZag]
    ¿Qué tiene para decir ese fondo geológico, mineral, calcáreo, de lo existente? ¿Qué es lo inerte? ¿Cómo aparece lo que nunca existió, lo que ya no existe o lo que aún podría existir? ¿Cuáles son las imágenes hegemónicas de vida? Este océano de preguntas recorre de modo intermitente el pensamiento occidental. Este libro, si bien comparte estas obsesiones, hace resonar estos interrogantes en un ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zertrumpelt

    Meine Abrechnung mit dem modernen Amerika

    by Corey Taylor ...
    Translated by Kirsten Borchardt ...
    Eigentlich hatte sich Corey Taylor, Sänger von Slipknot und Stone Sour, den Anfang seines vierten Buches ganz anders als gedacht. Er wollte vom größten Kandidaten-Desaster aller Zeiten berichten und davon, wie alles wieder gut wurde, als die Demokraten nach der gewonnenen Wahl kapierten, dass sie wieder die Interessen des einfachen Amerikaners vertreten mussten. Und dann geschah das Unfassbare: ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Zeitgeschichte 1936-39 Carl Laemmle

    Carl Laemmle - Kampf um Bürgschaften

    by Udo Bayer ...
    Sandy Einstein aus Kalifornien erinnert sich: Als ich aufwuchs, sprach mein Vater kaum über seine Vergangenheit und ich hatte auch kein Interesse daran, ihn danach zu fragen. Er sagte, dass er während des nationalsozialistischen Terrorregimes in den 1930ern durch einen Produzenten in Hollywood freigekauft wurde und dass er dessen Sohn in Hebräisch unterrichtete, da er in Deutschland ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Zapantera Negra

    An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and Zapatistas

    What is the role of revolutionary art in times of distress? When Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party, accepted an invitation from the art collective EDELO and the Rigo 23 to meet with autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico, they addressed just this question. Zapantera Negra is the result of their encounter. It unites the bold aesthetics, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • You Next

    Reflections in Black Barbershops

    "A stirring work . . . images meet text to convey a most handsome portrait of Black barbering in America as a revered cultural practice. Honest, intelligent, poignant—You Next is brilliant from cover to cover." —Maurice Wallace, Rutgers UniversityAn intimate photographic exploration of the ways Black barber shops operate as sites for the cultivation of Black male identity and wellnessGrowing up, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Belong to the Universe

    Buckminster Fuller and the Future

    A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Yorktown

    A Play

    by Robert Manns ...
    "You found a trenchant, driving rhythm for the verse, something that is all your own. It wasn't imposed on the characters: it spoke for them."-Christopher Fry"I consider Robert Manns one of the most talented playwrights in the generation not yet recognized by the commercial theater His choice of style is unique; his imagination boundless; and his dedication intense. And I believe he has a real ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Yellow plus art: Korean paintings today

    by Dorothy Hong ...
    Dorothy Hong, a featured artist on online stores, compiled a small selection of modern artist works of Korean heritage either residents of Korea or in the USA to encapsulate with visual feast what has uniquely emerged as Korean art trained either in classic Chinese paintings or in Western European representational painting style and today heavily influenced by the new megacenter of fine art, New ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Yaxchilan

    The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City

    As archaeologists peel away the jungle covering that has both obscured and preserved the ancient Maya cities of Mexico and Central America, other scholars have only a limited time to study and understand the sites before the jungle, weather, and human encroachment efface them again, perhaps forever. This urgency underlies Yaxchilan: The Design of a Maya Ceremonial City, Carolyn Tate's ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Writing in Space, 1973–2019

    Writing in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady, who for over forty years has investigated the complicated relationship between text and image. A firsthand account of O'Grady's wide-ranging practice, this volume contains statements, scripts, and previously unpublished notes charting the development of her performance work and conceptual photography; her art ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context

    A New Deal for Design

    by Cory Pillen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Politics
    This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression.Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly 2,200 extant WPA posters created between 1935 and 1943: recreation and leisure, conservation, health and disease, and public housing. As the book ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • World-Wide-Walks

    Peter d'Agostino: Crossing Natural-Cultural-Virtual Frontiers

    This book presents Peter d'Agostino's World-Wide-Walks project, providing a unique perspective on walking practices across time and place considered through the framework of evolving technologies and changes in climate. Performed on six continents during the past five decades, d'Agostino's work lays a groundwork for considering walks as portals for crossing natural, cultural and virtual frontiers ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Working South

    Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte

    by Mary Whyte ...
    In Working South, renowned watercolorist Mary Whyte captures in exquisite detail the essence of vanishing blue-collar professions from across ten states in the American South with sensitivity and reverence for her subjects. From the textile mill worker and tobacco farmer to the sponge diver and elevator operator, Whyte has sought out some of the last remnants of rural and industrial workforces ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Photographers and Mexican Modernity

    Framing the Twentieth Century

    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Art
    The photographers discussed in this book probe the most contentious aspects of social organization in Mexico, questioning what it means to belong, to be Mexican, to experience modernity, and to create art as a culturally, politically, or racially marginalized person.By choosing human subjects, spaces, and aesthetics excluded from the Lettered City, each of the photographers discussed in this ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Women of the Grand Theater

    Posters of the Glamorous Women of the Early 20th Century

    Series series Grand Posters of the Past
    The Women of the Grand Theater offers posters of some of the most glamorous women of the early 20th century.  The Grand Posters of the Past collection provides a look into the magical world of theater, aristocracy, and cinema. From portraits of elite women to posters of famous actresses, these beautiful posters let you step into the world of the colorful past and experience the dynamics of their ... Read more

    $7.95 USD

  • Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

    Edited by Amy Helene Kirschke ...
    Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance dealt with issues that were unique to both their gender and their race. They experienced racial prejudice, which limited their ability to obtain training and to be taken seriously as working artists. They also encountered prevailing sexism, often an even more serious barrier.Including seventy-two black-and-white illustrations, this book chronicles the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Wolf Tracks

    Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

    by Peter Szok ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school buses are imported from the United States and provide ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Wolf Tracks

    Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama

    by Peter Szok ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Popular art is a masculine and working-class genre, associated with Panama's black population. Its practitioners are self-taught, commercial painters, whose high-toned designs, vibrant portraits, and landscapes appear in cantinas, barbershops, and restaurants. The red devil buses are popular art's most visible manifestation. The old school buses are imported from the United States and provide ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Wo wenig Regen fällt

    Translated by Alexander Pechmann ...
    Mehr als ein Jahrzehnt erkundete Mary Hunter Austin das Gebiet, das sie, nach seinem indianischen Namen, »Land of Little Rain« nannte und dem sie schließlich ihr erstes Buch widmete – geschrieben hat sie es in einem Monat, wie sie sagte. 1903 erstmals erschienen, hat es bis heute nichts von seiner Faszination und Leuchtkraft verloren. Reiseerzählung, Landschaftsbeschreibung, Memoir, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • With Needle and Brush

    Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley, 1740-1840

    The Connecticut River Valley was an important center for the teaching and production of embroidered pictures by young women in private academies from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. This book identifies the distinctive styles developed by teachers and students at schools throughout the valley, from Connecticut and Massachusetts to Vermont and New Hampshire. Needlework was a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Winslow Homer: Watercolors

    by Maria Tsaneva ...
    Winslow Homer was American painter, illustrator and etcher, one of the two most admired American late 19th-century artists and is considered to be the greatest pictorial poet of outdoor life in the United States and its greatest watercolorist. Nominally a landscape painter, in a sense carrying on Hudson River school attitudes, Homer was an artist of power and individuality whose images are ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winslow Homer: Selected Paintings (Colour Plates)

    Winslow Homer was American painter, illustrator and etcher. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1836, the second of the three children, all sons, of Henrietta Benson and Charles Savage Homer. His artistic education consisted chiefly of his apprenticeship to the Boston commercial lithographer John H. Bufford, and a few lessons in painting from Frédéric Rondel after that. Following his ... Read more

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