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The book is comprised of contemporary works of free verse poetry.
The book is divided into three parts-Age 19, 14 and 20. All works
edited by the author.
This is a musical analysis of Paul McCartney from 1970 to today. It
is aimed at students of popular music theory; educators; musicians;
and aspiring songwriters. It will also appeal to the general
Beatles and McCartney fan who wishes to understand music on a
deeper level - A beginner's guide to music theory and glossary are
provided. Eighty of McCartney's post-Beatles songs are discussed in
the format of short, but accessible essays. For each song, full
details are provided concerning date of release; place of
recording; instrumentation; and key signature. The description for
each song details the musical techniques that McCartney uses, such
as chord patterns; structure; use of instruments; vocal harmony;
tonality; and key changes. In addition, every chapter details his
life and work in each decade. A conclusion identifies the main
characteristics of McCartney's style. The appendix details every
recording location used. An invaluable guide to the music of the
world's most successful songwriter.
This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban
intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication
technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.
It argues that governmental and social regimes of control and forms
of political resistance converge in speculation on disaster and
that this convergence has formed a vision of urban environments in
the Americas in which forms of play and imaginations of catastrophe
intersect in the vertical field. Schifani explores a diverse range
of resistant urban interventions, imagining the city as on the
verge of or enmeshed in catastrophe. She also presents a model of
ecocriticism that addresses aesthetic practices and forms of play
in the urban environment. Tracing the historical roots of such
tactics as well as mapping their hopes for the future will help the
reader to locate the impacts of climate change not only on the
physical space of the city, but also on the epistemological and
aesthetic strategies that cities can help to engender. This book
will be of great interest to students and scholars of Urban
Studies, Media Studies, American Studies, Global Studies, and the
broad and interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.
Like John the Baptist, the author is "one crying out in the desert"
of a transient world indifferent to its ultimate goal -- a world of
rushing commuters, hypnotic gadgets, clamorous socials, political
bickering, and spirit-deadening amusements -- a world where death
pilots myriads down the fading stream of mortality, farther and
farther from its true goal, the bright haven of peace where
God-lovers laugh at death -- lying defeated on Calvary -- and
forever raise gleaming goblets of Christ-love in the sun-smile of
their loving Lord.
This book stems from the 2019 meeting of the UNESCO UNITWIN
international network for Arts Education Research for Cultural
Diversity and Sustainable Development. It presents scholarly,
international perspectives on issues surrounding arts education and
sustainability that addresses the following questions: What value
can the arts add to the education of citizens of the 21st century?;
What are the challenges and ways forward to realize the potential
of arts education in diverse contexts? The book discusses empirical
research and exemplary practices in the arts and arts education
around the world, presenting sound theoretical and methodological
frames and approaches. It identifies policy implications at
national, regional and global levels that cut across social,
economic, environmental and cultural dimensions of sustainable
development.
SHE HAS SURRENDERED TO SLUMBER records the flights of imagination,
the intense emotional fluctuations, and the outcomes of the
contemplating mind of the author as words crafted with passion,
tenderness, and subtlety. These poems, written over a period of
roughly three years of the author's young life, present the
enormous changes that his mind goes through within this timeframe.
The poems reflect the constant pursuit of romance, embodied by the
idea of death and rebirth. From the moment of the arrival of the
mysterious vision of an ideal romantic world, the author goes on to
record the death of his old beliefs and his rebirth into a new way
of seeing life. Thus he engages himself in a quest to know his true
self, and goes through tremendous conflict between indefinable
rhythm of the desires of his soul and the worldly commotion of
reality. With infinitely elongated moments of pleasure, sadness,
confusion, depression, hope, and recovery, Tawsif Anam survives to
present a brief look into his dreams through the poems in his book.
The name of the book, with the significance of slumber as a
mystifying state that the author believes to be a connection
between our material existence and the vast transcendental world of
unknown knowledge, is a tribute to his grandmother. From the time
when these poems were first being written to the final moment of
its completion, the author witnessed his beloved grandmother,
someone to whom he owes the nourishment of his life and his present
well-being greatly, drifting from her joyful old age to a state of
physical inactivity and coma. Despite her being in a deep slumber,
she still breathes life into her grandson, who would forever remain
indebted to her forher love, care, support and encouragement.
THE WORLD FAR AWAY is a refi ned collection of heartrending
profound poems about love, nature, hope, human relations, living in
poverty, politics, betrayal, provoking refl ections on everyday
occurrences among other topics. Th e author takes a view into these
subjects and presents them in a uniquely fresh poetic style that
touches the heart and in the same breath is laced with humour. Th e
collection also includes refl ections on growing up in the third
world and in an insightful way takes a peek into how politics
generally turns around the lives of the populace in these parts of
the world.
This book studies the tension between arts and politics in four
contemporary artists from different countries, working with
different media. The film directors Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
film parts of their natal city to refer to specific political
problems in interpersonal relations. The novelist Arundhati Roy
uses her poetic language to make room for people's desires; her
fiction is utterly political and her political essays make place
for the role of narratives and poetic language. Ai Weiwei uses
references to Chinese history to give consistency to its 'economic
miracle'. Finally, Burial's electronic music is firmly rooted in a
living, breathing London; built to create a sound that is entirely
new, and yet hauntingly familiar. These artists create in their own
way a space for politics in their works and their oeuvre but their
singularity comes together as a desire to reconstruct the political
space within art from its ruins. These ruins were brought by the
disenchantment of 1970s: the end of art, postmodernism, and the
rise of design, marketing and communication. Each artwork bears the
mark of the resistance against the depoliticisation of society and
the arts, at once rejecting cynicism and idealism, referring to
themes and political concepts that are larger than their own
domain. This book focuses on these productive tensions.
Originally published in the early 1900s. An illustrated history of
Durer s work. Many of the earliest art books, particularly those
dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and
increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing many of
these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions,
using the original text and artwork.
What Happens When Your Home Disappears? For most of us, it's hard
to imagine our home vanishing. But for Nanertak, a polar bear cub,
the melting of her Arctic homeland means that she has nowhere to
live. She and her mother, Nanuck, are forced to escape. Their exit
by iceberg is full of danger - the beginning of an incredible
journey of survival. Many tears are shed along the way, but there
is unexpected hope for Nanertak's future...along with a solution to
the problem of her disappearing Arctic homeland. Join Nanertak and
Nanuck as they search for their new home in this beautiful story
that is both educational and inspiring for children and adults
alike.
This book brings the reader a unique and creative perspective
from a young african american male growing up in the south. This
book features verycharismatic and intriguing writings. It offers
various styles of poetry that speak on many different topics such
as love, maturity and life in ageneral. This is the first book
published by the author and it puts forward a collection of poems
and writings that the author originally composed.
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