Walls that Talk
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Richmond (Va.) |
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Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Richmond (Va.) |
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Author | : Ollie Jensen Theisen |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1574412892 |
"A beautiful tribute to a man and his art"---Review of Texas Books --
Author | : Jane O'Connor |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780689868634 |
In case you've ever wondered, the walls at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue have eyes and ears -- and, what's more, they don't miss a thing. Now, listen up because the walls have a thing or two to tell you! During President John Tyler's presidency, the White House was such a mess that it was called the "Public Shabby House." President William Howard Taft was so large that he had to have a jumbo-size bathtub installed -- one big enough for four people. President Andrew Jackson's "open door" policy at the White House resulted in 20,000 people showing up for his inauguration party. (The new president escaped to the quiet of a nearby hotel!) President Abraham Lincoln didn't mind at all that his younger sons, Tad and Willie, kept pet goats in their White House bedrooms. Children all across the country sent in their own money to build an indoor swimming pool for wheelchair-bound President Franklin D. Roosevelt so that he could exercise. President Harry S. Truman knew it was time to renovate the White House after a leg on his daughter's piano broke right through the floor. Hear these funny, surprising stories and more about the most famous home in America and the extraordinary families who have lived in it.
Author | : Marina Abramovic |
Publisher | : Crown Archetype |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1101905050 |
“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.” In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature. The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito’s regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mother’s abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor—all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story—a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe—a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China. Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
Author | : Margy Burns Knight |
Publisher | : Perfection Learning |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-09 |
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ISBN | : 9780756942564 |
Notable walls from six continents. Illustrated by Anne Sibley O'Brien. Text and notes explain walls and their context. Appended world maps. Great vehicle for discussing multicultural issues and barriers.
Author | : Margy Burns Knight |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780884481065 |
An activity book with an illustrated description of walls around the world and their significance, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall.
Author | : Margy Burns Knight |
Publisher | : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Total Pages | : 67 |
Release | : 2014-02-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0884483630 |
If walls could talk, what would they say? Perhaps they would tell us who built them and why. Maybe they could even tell us about people's lives today or about how our ancestors lived thousands of years ago. In this book walls really do talk, and oh, the stories they tell.This new edition combines the beloved children's books Talking Walls and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue. Together, those titles sold more than 170,000 copies. This new edition, thoroughly revised by the author, makes the text more accessible to young readers and English Language Learners and produces a book that is ideal for reading aloud. The back matter includes a world map that helps readers locate the many walls described, as well as additional information about the walls, the places, and the people. The Talking Walls books have been much honored, including: Top 25 Non-Fiction Children's Books Boston Globe Children's Books of Distinction Hungry Mind Review Noteworthy Book from Parallel Cultures: Horn Book Paperback Plum Booklinks Notable Children's Trade Book in the Social Studies: Children's Book Council/National Council on the Social Studies Winner of a Mom's Choice Gold Award -- Picture Books category
Author | : Jeannette Walls |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2007-01-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416544666 |
A triumphant tale of a young woman and her difficult childhood, The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience, redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and wonderfully vibrant. Jeannette Walls was the second of four children raised by anti-institutional parents in a household of extremes.
Author | : Lucy Worsley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2012-02-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080271272X |
From the Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and BBC Television series including Lucy Worsley: Mozart's London Odyssey and Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, available on Netflix. “Worsley is a thoughtful, charming, often hilarious guide to life as it was lived, from the mundane to the esoteric.” -The Boston Globe Why did the flushing toilet take two centuries to catch on? Why did medieval people sleep sitting up? When were the two “dirty centuries”? Why, for centuries, did rich people fear fruit? In her brilliantly and creatively researched book, Lucy Worsley takes us through the bedroom, bathroom, living room, and kitchen, covering the history of each room and exploring what people actually did in bed, in the bath, at the table, and at the stove-from sauce stirring to breast-feeding, teeth cleaning to masturbating, getting dressed to getting married-providing a compelling account of how the four rooms of the home have evolved from medieval times to today, charting revolutionary changes in society.
Author | : Vernon Watkins |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1996-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780811217903 |