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An artist's book of augmented portraiture, documenting the symbolism and material culture of the Bíilukaa (Apsáalooke)Wendy Red Star (born 1981) made her first big move off the Crow reservation to attend Montana State University in Bozeman. During one of her study sessions she discovered an image of Medicine Crow, an Apsáalooke chief, in a random book in the university library. Enamored by his image, she made a xerox copy and kept the chief's ...

Butterfly learns from Bee that he too is a pollinator and can help in the important work of pollinating plants.

A young boy, aware of his grandmother's forgetfulness, helps her recall a time when she was a kindergarten teacher teaching her students about hummingbirds and their nests.

With insightful essays and interviews, this volume examines how artists have experimented with the medium of video across different regions of Latin America since the 1960s.

An incisive study of the Western world's shift from institutional religion to more personal beliefs in the second half of the nineteenth century . . . This is intellectual history at its most comprehensive and convincing." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)The late nineteenth century was an age of grand ideas and great expectations fueled by rapid scientific and technological innovation. In Europe, the ancient authority of church and crown wa...

True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's-and America's-most significant figures.For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a half-century since Robinson's death, letters come to...

Contains 3 newly-translated classic Asterix tales. Asterix is a fearless Gaul with a magic potion that grants him incredible strength to protect his village and ward off Roman Empire from invading. With his pal, Obelix, the defend their village from not only the blundering Roman legionairies, but also lend their services to the rest of the world. First, in "Asterix and the Actress, " Asterix and Obelix celebrate their birthday as Caesar makes ...

The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, "a terrifying talent" (Parul Sehgal, The New York Times).A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella, a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat, a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of marriage and family life in midcentury Copenhagen pulse currents of desire,...

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In the vein of Eloquent Rage and Minor Feelings-a passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratificationWhen Julia Lee was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke over a series of days that became the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. She attend...

Michaela Meliáns Arbeiten sind komplexe, trans-mediale Aufschichtungen von Bildern, Tönen und Texten, die durch künstlerische Forschung, Montage und Verfahren der Vervielfältigung entstehen. Red Threads begleitet die gleichnamige Überblicksausstellung zu Melián im KINDL-Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin. Dreh- und Angelpunkt ist die Person Tamara Bunke, deren Biografie zwischen der DDR und Südamerika oszilliert. Von der Guerillera mi...

In I Kick and I Fly, Ruchira Gupta has given young readers an irresistible story, and also one that could save lives. This book is a gift." -- Gloria SteinemA propulsive social justice adventure by renowned activist and award-winning documentarian Ruchira Gupta, I Kick and I Fly is an inspiring, hopeful story of triumph about a girl in Bihar, India, who escapes being sold into the sex trade when a local hostel owner helps her to understand the...

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An incredible rags-to-riches immigrant story from a prominent Tamil Canadian who fled torture and imprisonment, arriving in Canada with $50 in his pocket, then rising from the mailroom to the executive suite.For CI Financial executive Roy Ratnavel, "started in the mailroom" is more than a cliché. That was his start on Bay Street only a few years after escaping the ethnic violence that was engulfing Sri Lanka. Ratnavel's incredible journey begi...

From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster, Hard Rain...

Two women, connected across time, edge toward transgression in pursuit of their desires.A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, apprenticed herself to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific agenda and a...

Where Coyotes Howl is a beautifully rendered love letter to the early 20th century West from master storyteller Sandra Dallas...

Ange Mlinko alchemizes art and life into a stunning collection of poetry.In Venice, Ange Mlinko dissolves the boundaries between the sublime and the ordinary, the mythic and the rational, the past and the present. She sees a Roman tablet scratched with Greek script in the waxen wings of a bouffant bee, and she thinks of the abyss between two airport terminals when considering Rodin's Gates of Hell. From Naples, Italy, to its sister city on the...

Fourteen more curses on the subject of dark fairy tales from the masters of fantasy. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Katherine Arden, M.R. Carey, A.C. Wise and many more.

On Venini's 100th anniversary, this book celebrates the excellence of Italian high artistic glass craftsmanship and the vases that made history.From Venice to the world, this special book recounts the prolific and original manufacture of Venini, the glass art company founded 100 years ago in Murano, Venice, by the visionary genius of Paolo Venini and Giacomo Cappellin. Over the course of a century, Venini has pursued the goal of innovation in ...