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"This book celebrates the five illustrators who contributed to Beverly Cleary's beloved Ramona Quimby series"--
Viennese popular culture at the turn of the twentieth century was the product of the city’s Jewish and non-Jewish residents alike. While these two communities interacted in a variety of ways to their mutual benefit, Jewish culture was also inevitably shaped by the city’s persistent bouts of antisemitism. This fascinating study explores how Jewish artists, performers, and impresarios reacted to prejudice, showing how they articulated identity through performative engagement rather than anchoring it in origin and descent. In this way, they attempted to transcend a racialized identity even as they indelibly inscribed their Jewish existence into the cultural history of the era.
The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference's fateful reverberations in the waning days of World War II.
Everyone of us is who and where we are today because of the efforts and decisions of those who came before us -- our ancestors. This book traces the history of nine of my ancestral families, from their small farming villages in Germany, through the wrenching decision to leave cherished roots in Europe, to the planting of new roots in southern Indiana. The book is intended primarily for members of my family, but others may find some interest in a small microcosm of the American experience.
A timely and expansive survey of a groundbreaking American art movement that overturned aesthetic hierarchies in a riot of color and ornamentation The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to ceramics, installation art, and performance. This dazzling book showcases an astonishing array of works by more than 40 arti...
Choose to love yourself, your life, your partner, your pet, your neighbor, and the people you share a world with. This is a journal about the power of kindness and you’re the author. Love is a practice. There are an infinite number of ways to create more joy in your heart, more love in your life, and more compassion in the world. Love, Inside and Out includes weekly exercises to practice kindness, prompts for reflection, and inspiring quotes to motivate you along the way. From ideas for self-care to strategies for community building, this journal will help you put love first. Because a more loving world starts with you.
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Do some of us see the dead? A desolate farm. An ancient tragedy. Two unearthly apparitions. And a mystery beyond human understanding... This is a true story. It really happened, and I was there. In a remote corner of New Zealand in the 1980s, my family encountered two spectral figures. Over and over, these phantom children visited our secluded farm. We saw them, right before our eyes. And then came the others... Were they ghosts? Hallucinations? Lost souls unable to reach the other side? To find out more, grab your copy of this true ghost story now!