The Same Ax, Twice
Author: Howard Mansfield
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2001-06
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781584651178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and possibility of restoration.
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In the Memory House (PB)
Author: Howard Mansfield
Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
Published: 1995-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781555912475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA recollection of the land, its people, and its ideals. Examines what we choose to remember and how progress has created absences in our landscapes.
This Is Our House
Author: Hyewon Yum
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-07-30
Total Pages: 45
ISBN-13: 0374374872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollows a family through seasons and generations as the house to which their immigrant grandparents came is transformed into a home.
This Close to Home
Author: Beth Turley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-05-28
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1534476768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the death of her mother, Brooke works to revitalize her town's festival in hope that it will help her sister and dad heal and allow them to begin to move on.
The House
Author: Christina Lauren
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1481413724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTold in their separate voices, Gavin, a loner outcast, and Delilah, back in small-town Kansas after years at a Massachusetts boarding school, reconnect their senior year, but as their relationship deepens, it is clear that the eerie house Gavin dwells in will do anything to keep the two apart.
Silence, Screen, and Spectacle
Author: Lindsey A. Freeman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014-02-01
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 178238281X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-interpretation of Guy Debord’s notion of the spectacle as a conceptual apparatus through which to examine the contemporary landscape of social memory, arguing that the concept of spectacle might be developed in an age seen as dissatisfied with the present, nervous about the future, and obsessed with the past. Perhaps now “spectacle” can be thought of not as a tool of distraction employed solely by hegemonic powers, but instead as a device used to answer Walter Benjamin’s plea to “explode the continuum of history” and bring our attention to now-time.
Visitors to the House of Memory
Author: Victoria Bishop Kendzia
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2017-12-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1785336398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs one of the most visited museums in Germany’s capital city, the Jewish Museum Berlin is a key site for understanding not only German-Jewish history, but also German identity in an era of unprecedented ethnic and religious diversity. Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners experience the Museum. How do modern students relate to the museum’s evocative architecture, its cultural-political context, and its narrative of Jewish history? By accompanying a range of high school history students before, during, and after their visits to the museum, this book offers an illuminating exploration of political education, affect, remembrance, and belonging.
The Bones of the Earth
Author: Howard Mansfield
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2006-12-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1593761392
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bones of The Earth is a book about landmarks, but of the oldest kind—sticks and stones. For millennia this is all there was: sticks and stones, dirt and trees, animals and people, the sky by day and night. The Lord spoke through burning bushes, through lightning and oaks. Trees and rocks and water were holy. They are commodities today and that is part of our disquiet. Howard Mansfield explores the loss of cultural memory, asking: What is the past? How do we construct that past? Is it possible to preserve the past as a vital force for the future? He writes eloquently on the land and time, on how to be a tourist of the near–at–hand, and on the forces that try to topple us. From the author of In the Memory House, which The New York Times Book Review called "wise and beautiful," and The Same Ax, Twice comes The Bones of The Earth, a stunning call for reinventing our view of the future.
Remember Me?
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Dial Press
Published: 2008-02-26
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 044033750X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament…. When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all. Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does? BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Sophie Kinsella's Wedding Night.
Staying at Home
Author: Rita Sanders
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-08-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1785331930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their ‘historic homeland’. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity.
