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Jessica Todd Harper: Here
"Harper's approach is quietly assured, and she has a sharp eye for the cozy details of domesticity." -The New Yorker Like 17th-century Dutch painters who made otherwise ordinary interior scenes appear charged with meaning, Pennsylvania-based photographer Jessica Todd Harper (born 1975) looks for the value in everyday moments. The characters in her imagery are the people around her--friends, herself, family--but it is not so much they who are important as the way in which they are organized and lit by Harper. A woman helping her child practice the piano is not a particularly sacred moment, but as in a Vermeer painting, the way the composition and lighting influence the content suggests that perhaps it is. This collection of photographs presented in Harper's third monograph makes use of what is right in front of the artist, what is here, a place that many of us came to contemplate especially during the pandemic. Beauty, goodness and truth can reveal themselves in daily life, as in the Dutch paintings of everyday domestic scenes that are somehow lit up with mysterious import. Harper shows how our unexamined or even seemingly dull surroundings can sometimes be illuminating.
Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life
This reprint of this super popular title has been published in various formats. This medium-size format has been the bestselling version and has now been out of print for several years. There is a dedicated fan base of fervent Charley Harper fans and a new audience waiting to discover his work for themselves and to gift it to others.
The Culture of Digital Fighting Games
This book examines the complex network of influences that collide in the culture of digital fighting games. Players from all over the world engage in competitive combat with one another, forming communities in both real and virtual spaces, attending tournaments and battling online via internet-connected home game consoles. But what is the logic behind their shared playstyle and culture? What are the threads that tie them together, and how does this inform our understanding of competitive gaming, community, and identity? Informed by observations made at one of the biggest fighting game events in the world – the Evolution Series tournament, or "EVO" – and interviews with fighting game players themselves, this book covers everything from the influence of arcade spaces, to the place of gender and ethnicity in the community, to the clash of philosophies over how these games should be played in the first place. In the process, it establishes the role of technology, gameplay, and community in how these players define both themselves and the games that they play.
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The Home Stage
This Collector's Edition includes the book The Home Stage and this print signed and numbered by Jessica Todd Harper: Self Portrait with Nicholas, Becky, and Marshall, 2009, Pigmented inkjet print, 35.5 x 28 cm. This photograph has been printed in 2014 in a limited edition of 15 copies plus 4 Artist Proofs. This collection by Jessica Todd Harper is aptly called The Home Stage, a double entendre that alludes to both the home bound lifestyle of families with small children as well as the idea that home is the stage on which children first learn how to live. Her nuanced treatment of her subjects and environs, coupled with her elegant compositions, unique color palette and handling of light theatrically transforms each room and yard into stage sets. No detail is left untouched by her eye. Private but universal, she is genuine, tender, uninhibited and at times humorous, bearing the emotional range of the finest actress and pulling the strongest performances from a supporting cast that includes her husband, her children, her sister, other family members and friends.
Queerness in Play
Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all kinds—from queer as ‘LGBT’ to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrum—intersects with games and the social contexts of play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and content comes at a high tide of resistance to the inclusion of those outside a long-imagined cisgender, heterosexual, white male norm. By critically engaging the ways games—as a culture, an industry, and a medium—help reproduce limiting binary formations of gender and sexuality, Queerness in Play contributes to the growing body of scholarship promoting more inclusive understandings of identity, sexuality, and games.
Mine At Last
A Sweet, Clean Friends to True Love Sports Romance Growing up on her dad’s ranch, Wesley Reed always regarded Chloe as a kid sister. Until he didn’t. One fateful night, his feelings for Chloe changed on a dime. Determined not to reveal his true feelings to her for fear of ruining her promising future, Wesley left Fortune Creek—for good. Chloe Holt has had a crush on her dad’s ranch hand, Wesley, since she was eight years old. In her eyes, there has never been any boy that has even come close to Wesley. She always hoped that one day she’d catch his eye—that one day he’d see her not as a girl, but as a woman. That day never came. Instead, he disappeared—gone without so much as a goodbye. Now, all these years later, fate has caused Chloe and Wesley to cross paths. Will they finally get a chance to find happiness with one another? AUTHOR’S NOTE: This book takes place 5 years after the events of the second book, Our Broken Roads. Mine At Last is a short, 30,000-word romance. It is a sweet, contemporary romance with inspirational themes of family, faith, and love. As always, it is clean and wholesome with a guaranteed happily ever after ending.
The Killing of Jeremy Taylor
The Killing of Jeremy Taylor, Inspector Gravitt must solve the murder of the sexiest man in America, who was poisoned while flying his private plane. Jeremy Taylor, who was a rising movie star recently was not only voted the sexist man in America, but was offered the biggest movie deal of his career. After learning the news, he was flying up to San Francisco to see his girl friend when he crashed into the San Francisco Bay. Inspector Gravitt of the Special Investigations Division of the San Francisco Police Department was assigned to investigate this high profile accident. However, Gravitt quickly learned this was no accident, the actor, Jeremy Taylor was poisoned. As Gravitt and his staff begin to investigate the case, they discover many people had both motive and opportunity to kill Jeremy Taylor. As the major investigation continues, Gravitt falls in love and comes under investigation by Internal Affairs for another crime he becomes involved with. Soon after, two of the Special Investigators are shot at. At the same time he must deal with an important senator who is the father of Taylor's girlfriend and a very aggressive reporter.
Dragon Harper
As a deadly epidemic sweeps across the land of Pern, only Kindan, a young apprentice to the guild of musicians and teachers known as the Harpers, recognizes the imminent peril and must come up with a way to stop the illness from spreading.
The Pursuit 2
A gang of misfits brutally murder a young woman in a public park. The media dismissed it as a random act of violence. A rushed investigation was closed, with no suspect in custody. The gang thought they were in the clear, when suddenly, the mutilated body of a member turned up dead. The Pursuit 2 is a fast-paced short novel. It begins with a riveting series of episodes that follow assassins Mateo Torres and Harper Mane as they round up each gang member. Once the killings begin, the remaining members are terrified by the increasingly gruesome nature of each assassination. To evade capture, they split up and go their separate ways. Follow along as Mateo and Harper make the gang pay for the mur...
