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The Nile Is a Road
In this raw and alluring story set in modern-day Cairo, Jade and her best friend Sarah travel to the ancient city with no expectations and no plans beyond staying a week and seeing the pyramids. But Cairo has other ideas in store for them. Confronted with the gritty, chaotic streets, the desert and the bustling cafés, where everyone is a friend and nothing is as it seems on the surface, Jade finds herself sucked into the mayhem of a situation spinning out of control as a man as mystifying as Cairo itself comes between the two friends.Coming face-to-face with unimaginable beauty and the simmering yearnings of the people around her, Jade soon sees that this is a place where life is often encountered in the smallest details. While her affections swing wildly between the people and the city, ultimately she finds that leaving Cairo is not nearly the hardest thing she will have to do.
Stevenson Family Tree
The family tree of the Stevenson family, incorporating the Kenealy, Austin, Henn, Elson, and Moseley families. Stevenson family originating in Scotland, other areas include Shropshire and the Midlands.
Art Quilts
Every quilter will want to possess this stunning anthology, which features 10 years worth of the most innovative pieces chosen for the Quilt National biennial exhibition--the top showcase for modern quilt artists. Acclaimed author Robert Shaw, a widely recognized expert on American folk art, introduces the volume and provides both a beautifully illustrated history of the art quilt movement and a special section on building, displaying, and caring for collection of quality pieces. The techniques and materials featured in these 400 spectacular quilts are as varied as the people who created them, and through spectacular color photographs and artists' discussions, readers will discover how the boundaries of traditional quilt-making have expanded in the last decade.
Catland
How cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets. In 1900, Britain and America were in the grip of a cat craze. An animal that had for centuries been seen as a household servant or urban nuisance had now become an object of pride and deep affection. From presidential and royal families who imported exotic breeds to working-class men competing for cash prizes for the fattest tabby, people became enthralled to the once-humble cat. Multiple industries sprang up to feed this new obsession, selling everything from veterinary services to leather bootees via dedicated cat magazines. Cats themselves were now traded for increasingly large sums of m...
The Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema
Zusammenfassung: This book is a collection of newly commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars that maps out the current landscape of experimental cinema studies and sets agendas for future work in the field. Introducing new critical methodologies and calling overdue attention to neglected artists, regions, and topics, the contributions to this volume reassess and reassert experimental cinema as a site of formal exploration and interrogation as well as resistance to institutional, political, and social norms. This collection articulates what it means for experimental cinema to be these things in the contemporary moment, staking out new directions in thinking about the subject n...
