The Perfecting of Los Angeles
Author | : H. Eric Schockman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : H. Eric Schockman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Gorham |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0820347124 |
Essays and musings considering the elusive and evocative idea of perfection that traverse topics that are at once ordinary and elemental: the house she and her husband once thought was "perfect," being a mother and being a daughter, alcoholism, middle age.
Author | : D. Medina Lasansky |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271023663 |
Mussolini&’s bold claims upon the monuments and rhetoric of ancient Rome have been the subject of a number of recent books. D. Medina Lasansky shows us a much less familiar side of the cultural politics of Italian Fascism, tracing its wide-ranging efforts to adapt the nation&’s medieval and Renaissance heritage to satisfy the regime&’s programs of national regeneration. Anyone acquainted with the beauties of Tuscany will be surprised to learn that architects, planners, and administrators working within Fascist programs fabricated much of what today&’s tourists admire as authentic. Public squares, town halls, palaces, gardens, and civic rituals (including the famed Palio of Siena) were all &“restored&” to suit a vision of the past shaped by Fascist notions of virile power, social order, and national achievement in the arts. Ultimately, Lasansky forces readers to question long-standing assumptions about the Renaissance even as she expands the parameters of what constitutes Fascist culture. The arguments in The Renaissance Perfected are based in fresh archival evidence and a rich collection of illustrations, many reproduced for the first time, ranging from photographs and architectural drawings to tourist posters and film stills. Lasansky&’s groundbreaking book will be essential reading for students of medieval, Renaissance, and twentieth-century Italy as well as all those concerned with visual culture, architectural preservation, heritage studies, and tourism studies.
Author | : Megan Ohno |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art, American |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1620975262 |
A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have received glowing praise from the likes of President Barack Obama, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, and NPR; he has been a finalist for the Man International Booker Prize and is annually tipped to win the Nobel Prize for Literature; and his books have sold tens of thousands of copies around the world. In his first attempt at the epic form, Ngũgĩ tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective. A verse narrative, blending folklore, mythology, adventure, and allegory, The Perfect Nine chronicles the efforts the Gĩkũyũ founders make to find partners for their ten beautiful daughters—called “The Perfect Nine” —and the challenges they set for the 99 suitors who seek their hands in marriage. The epic has all the elements of adventure, with suspense, danger, humor, and sacrifice. Ngũgĩ’s epic is a quest for the beautiful as an ideal of living, as the motive force behind migrations of African peoples. He notes, “The epic came to me one night as a revelation of ideals of quest, courage, perseverance, unity, family; and the sense of the divine, in human struggles with nature and nurture.”
Author | : Samuel Fromartz |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0143127624 |
"An invaluable guide for beginning bakers."—The New York Times An irresistible account of bread, bread baking, and one home baker’s journey to master his craft In 2009, journalist Samuel Fromartz was offered the assignment of a lifetime: to travel to France to work in a boulangerie. So began his quest to hone not just his homemade baguette—which later beat out professional bakeries to win the “Best Baguette of D.C.”—but his knowledge of bread, from seed to table. For the next four years, Fromartz traveled across the United States and Europe, perfecting his sourdough in California, his whole grain rye in Berlin, and his country wheat in the South of France. Along the way, he met historians, millers, farmers, wheat geneticists, sourdough biochemists, and everyone in between, learning about the history of breadmaking, the science of fermentation, and more. The result is an informative yet personal account of bread and breadbaking, complete with detailed recipes, tips, and beautiful photographs. Entertaining and inspiring, this book will be a touchstone for a new generation of bakers and a must-read for anyone who wants to take a deeper look at this deceptively ordinary, exceptionally delicious staple: handmade bread.
Author | : Judith Chazin-Bennahum |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Ballet |
ISBN | : 9780415970372 |
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Deborah Harris-Moore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317098943 |
Against the background of the so-called ’obesity epidemic’, Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection critically examines the discourses of physical perfection that pervade Western societies, shedding new light on the rhetorical forces behind body anxieties and extreme methods of weight loss and beautification. Drawing on rich interview material with cosmetic surgery patients and offering fresh analyses of various texts from popular culture, including internationally-screened reality-television shows including The Biggest Loser, Extreme Makeover and The Swan as well as entertainment programs and documentaries, this book examines the ways in which Western media capitalize on body anxiety by presenting physical perfection as a moral imperative, while advertising quick and effective transformation methods to erase physical imperfections. With attention to contemporary lines of resistance to standards of thinness and attempts to redefine conceptions of beauty, Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, television, media and cultural studies, as well as the sociology of the body, feminist thought, body transformation and cosmetic surgery.
Author | : Jennifer Strickland |
Publisher | : Charisma Media |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1599793431 |
Based on the evocative and haunting story of her journey from fashion to faith, the principles of true beauty and proper body image shared by professional model Strickland will shatter the illusion that worldly beauty and success satisfy, leading young women and teens to the powerful, lasting knowledge of who they are in God's sight.