A Soliloquy in Shadows

A Soliloquy in Shadows

Author: Arunas Bartusevicius

Publisher: Arunas Bartusevicius

Published:

Total Pages: 841

ISBN-13:

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Melancholic and introspective look into the life and the complexities of human interaction.


Amidst the Fray

Amidst the Fray

Author: William D. Mounger

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781893062979

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Amidst the Fray: My Life in Politics, Culture, and Mississippi by William D. Billy Mounger with Joseph L. Maxwell, is a firsthand account of state and national political scandals such as the internal conflict of Republicans at the 1976 GOP national convention, the cloud of controversy surrounding former Mississippi Governor Bill Allain and Congressman Jon Hinson, and an inside look at the Watergate cover-up by the Nixon White House staff. Mounger documents his role in President Ronald Reagan's rise to power and how the Mississippi GOP regained momentum against the Democratic stronghold. US Senator Trent Lott said, I consider myself one of the first generations of progeny of Billy Mounger's Republican generation.


Assembly

Assembly

Author: West Point Association of Graduates (Organization).

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 828

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Fray

Fray

Author: Julia Bryan-Wilson

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-02

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0226077829

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In 1974, women in a feminist consciousness-raising group in Eugene, Oregon, formed a mock organization called the Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society. Emblazoning its logo onto t-shirts, the group wryly envisioned female collective textile making as a practice that could upend conventions, threaten state structures, and wreak political havoc. Elaborating on this example as a prehistory to the more recent phenomenon of “craftivism”—the politics and social practices associated with handmaking—Fray explores textiles and their role at the forefront of debates about process, materiality, gender, and race in times of economic upheaval. Closely examining how amateurs and fine artists in the United States and Chile turned to sewing, braiding, knotting, and quilting amid the rise of global manufacturing, Julia Bryan-Wilson argues that textiles unravel the high/low divide and urges us to think flexibly about what the politics of textiles might be. Her case studies from the 1970s through the 1990s—including the improvised costumes of the theater troupe the Cockettes, the braided rag rugs of US artist Harmony Hammond, the thread-based sculptures of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña, the small hand-sewn tapestries depicting Pinochet’s torture, and the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt—are often taken as evidence of the inherently progressive nature of handcrafted textiles. Fray, however, shows that such methods are recruited to often ambivalent ends, leaving textiles very much “in the fray” of debates about feminized labor, protest cultures, and queer identities; the malleability of cloth and fiber means that textiles can be activated, or stretched, in many ideological directions. The first contemporary art history book to discuss both fine art and amateur registers of handmaking at such an expansive scale, Fray unveils crucial insights into how textiles inhabit the broad space between artistic and political poles—high and low, untrained and highly skilled, conformist and disobedient, craft and art.


The Collected Works of William Morris

The Collected Works of William Morris

Author: William Morris

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-10-11

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1108051251

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This 24-volume set, published 1910-15, reveals the development and scope of a Victorian polymath's literary, aesthetic and political passions.


North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 1 through 46

North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 1 through 46

Author: E.B. Munson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-10

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1476662223

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North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives on the battlefield or by disease. Most were sent home for burial in family plots or community churchyards but thousands could not be identified or could not be transported and were interred in unmarked graves across the country. Many never had an obituary published. Others had obituaries that included directions to the deceased's final resting place. This compilation of obituaries from North Carolina newspapers documents the date and cause of death for hundreds of soldiers, with many providing place of burial, surviving relatives, last words, accounts by comrades and details of military service.


A ship in space

A ship in space

Author: Joni Rovio

Publisher: Joni Rovio

Published: 2024-03-02

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13:

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Filled with thrilling action, heart-pounding suspense, and unforgettable characters, 'A ship in space' is an epic space opera that will take readers on a journey across the cosmos and beyond. Join Konrad, Östen, Chief Deputy Landon, and their allies as they embark on an adventure that will change the fate of the galaxy forever.