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Displaying much of Australian artist Franz Kempf's finest works from the past 47 years, this book is a celebration of an artist and educator renowned for his personality and humanism and whose ethical and political consciousness is vividly apparent in his art. Discussed is how Kempf conveys the pressing need for political dialogue through his art and how he became one of Australia's foremost visual artists.
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Hitler's tank divisions were his most lethal weapons during World War II. From success to failure, in victory and defeat, each division played a role in Hitler's campaign against the Allies. Examines vehicles, armor quality, manpower, and leadership and includes a comprehensive index of individuals, units, battles, and campaigns First guide to chronicle the history of each division from its inception to its destruction Includes a career sketch of every panzer divisional commander
Franz Kempf: Aspects of a journey gathers together many of Kempf's finest works from the 1940s to today, including treasures from his private collection. Neylon's illuminating essay considers the qualities that give Kempf's oeuvre a distinctive identity in Australian art, 'characterised by this seeming contradiction of constancy and flux'.
'Jude Aquilina writes a poetry that is rich with the feel and texture of the things of everyday life: fruit and vegetables, cats, streets, houses, churches, pubs and the people she knows, meets or cannily observes. In a lively and evocative language, and with an exploratory use of form, she reveals the inner lives and the interconnectedness of so much that we take for granted.' ? Andrew TaylorActive in the poetry scene, Jude Aquilina performs her work at festivals, hotels and schools. Knifing the Ice, her first collection of poetry, was published by Wakefield Press in 2000.
Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is different. College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided hundreds of incarcerated men and women across the country access to a high-quality liberal arts education. Earning degrees in subjects ranging from Mandarin to advanced mathematics, graduates have, upon release, gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a s...
This work is the critical edition of the catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold’s II mineralogical collection. The volume, unpublished and preserved at the Historical Archives of the University of Firenze Museum System, dates to 1765 and describes 242 mineralogical specimens coming primarily from the current Slovak-Hungarian mining district. This edition gives the transcription of the German manuscript and its translation into English together with an organized system of notation to illustrate the complex history of the text, the characterization of the mineralogical species, and the geographical location of the mineral extraction sites. This work represents to date the only published catalog of a mineralogical collection belonging to a member of the Habsburg-Lorraine family.
The Companion to Jewish Culture - From the Eighteenth Century to the Present was first published in 1989. It is a single-volume encyclopedia containing biographical and topic entries ranging from 200 to 1000 word each.