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Sara's Redemption
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

Sara's Redemption

In this compelling and inspiring memoir, Sara’s Redemption, readers are taken on an extraordinary journey through the true story of Sara, a remarkable survivor. Escaping the clutches of a lifetime of abuse, Sara courageously breaks free, embarking on a profound quest for healing and a second chance. Set against the backdrop of a new town and a chance for a fresh start, this captivating narrative delves deep into Sara's triumphs, struggles, and, ultimately, her unwavering resilience. A story of resilience, hope, and the power of the human spirit, Sara’s Redemption is a remarkable story that will leave readers captivated and deeply moved.

Performance in a Militarized Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Performance in a Militarized Culture

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The long cultural moment that arose in the wake of 9/11 and the conflict in the Middle East has fostered a global wave of surveillance and counterinsurgency. Performance in a Militarized Culture explores the ways in which we experience this new status quo. Addressing the most commonplace of everyday interactions, from mobile phone calls to traffic cameras, this edited collection considers: How militarization appropriates and deploys performance techniques How performing arts practices can confront militarization The long and complex history of militarization How the war on terror has transformed into a values system that prioritizes the military The ways in which performance can be used to secure and maintain power across social strata Performance in a Militarized Culture draws on performances from North, Central, and South America; Europe; the Middle East; and Asia to chronicle a range of experience: from those who live under a daily threat of terrorism, to others who live with a distant, imagined fear of such danger.

Smoke and Fire
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Smoke and Fire

Brady Stewart lives for the fire. Nightmares of the fire haunt Nicole McMillan. Whether fighting fires in the Kuwaiti desert, in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico or the heartland of Oklahoma, both women hide behind a smoke screen of who they really are. When they meet and face the challenge of their lives, their passion ignites because where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

Twice Shy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 169

Twice Shy

It?s hard being shy, as twelve-year-old Sara finds out in the insightful novel Twice Shy. Sara lacks confidence, but finds it very plentiful in her friends, brothers, and parents. She struggles, however, to find comfort in her older sister, who is always turning her away. When a new friend, Amelia, enters Sara?s life, things become complicated. Amelia is a strong character who goes after what she wants, at any expense. The two girls hit it off and Sara cherishes her friend until Amelia?s behavior changes and makes her question how much of a friend she really is.Struggling through the seventh grade, Sara learns about boys, coping with her sister?s deviant behavior, and how to deal with different friends.

Performance Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Performance Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-14
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of Public Domain (1969), Environmental Theater (1973), The End of Humanism (1982), Performance Theory (2003, Routledge), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), The Future of Ritual (1993, Routledge), and Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture (2004). His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Serbo-Croat, German, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the co-editor of the Enactments series published by Seagull Books. Sara Brady is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is author of Performance, Politics and the War on Terror (2012).

Social Works
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

Social Works

  • Categories: Art

‘a game-changer, a must-read for scholars, students and artists alike’ – Tom Finkelpearl At a time when art world critics and curators heavily debate the social, and when community organizers and civic activists are reconsidering the role of aesthetics in social reform, this book makes explicit some of the contradictions and competing stakes of contemporary experimental art-making. Social Works is an interdisciplinary approach to the forms, goals and histories of innovative social practice in both contemporary performance and visual art. Shannon Jackson uses a range of case studies and contemporary methodologies to mediate between the fields of visual and performance studies. The result is a brilliant analysis that not only incorporates current political and aesthetic discourses but also provides a practical understanding of social practice.

Ebony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

Ebony

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 1998-01
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  • Publisher: Unknown

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

The Conspiracy of the Good
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

The Conspiracy of the Good

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

The Conspiracy of the Good addresses nagging questions that are part of the public debate over schooling. Why do our public schools, especially those in poor and working-class communities of color, fail to live up to the promises of the American dream? Why do reforms, those standard items in political campaigns, fail to create meaningful change? This book argues that «progressive», well-meaning, good-hearted men and women, who often advocate «good intentions» in the name of «helping those in need», have ended up doing more harm than good. The Conspiracy of the Good explores how these «good intentions» go awry. Michael E. James argues that the core value of the American experience is conflict - not consensus - despite what mainstream historians have espoused over the last few decades.

The Single Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

The Single Man

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-08
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

John Paschal is the former editor of Aura magazine and a one-time writer for the Dallas Morning News. Mark Louis currently co-hosts a top rated Dallas Morning radio show on KSCS radio, where he is known by his on-air moniker, Hawkeye. The Single Man is a true story of the single man’s approach to life, love and everything in between.

Memory Ireland
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Memory Ireland

In the second volume of a series that will ultimately include four, the authors consider Irish diasporic memory and memory practices. While the Irish diaspora has become the subject of a wide range of scholarship, there has been little work focused on its relationship to memory. The first half of the volume asks how diasporic memory functions in different places and times, and what forms it takes on. As an island nation with a history of emigration, Ireland has developed a rich diasporic cultural memory, one that draws on multiple traditions and historiographies of both "home" and "away." Native traditions are not imported wholesale, but instead develop their own curious hybridity, reflectin...