Catalog of 37 photographers shown in the exhibition, Picturing Eden, at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y., January 28-June 18, 2006.
In Picturing American Modernity, Kristen Whissel investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. She demonstrates how between the late 1890s and the eve of the First World War moving pictures helped the U.S. public understand the possibilities and perils of new forms of “traffic” produced by industrialization and urbanization. As more efficient ways to move people, goods, and information transformed work and leisure at home and contributed to the expansion of the U.S. empire abroad, silent films presented compelling visual representations of the spaces, bodies, machines, and forms of mobility that increasingly defined modern life in the United States and its new territories. Whissel shows that by portraying key events, achievements, and anxieties, the cinema invited American audiences to participate in the rapidly changing world around them. Moving pictures provided astonishing visual dispatches from military camps prior to the outbreak of fighting in the Spanish-American War. They allowed audiences to delight in images of the Pan-American Exposition, and also to mourn the assassination of President McKinley there. One early film genre, the reenactment, presented spectators with renditions of bloody battles fought overseas during the Philippine-American War. Early features offered sensational dramatizations of the scandalous “white slave trade,” which was often linked to immigration and new forms of urban work and leisure. By bringing these frequently distant events and anxieties “near” to audiences in cities and towns across the country, the cinema helped construct an American national identity for the machine age.
The Woman Whom Thou Gavest To Be With Me encapsulates an in-depth sojourn into life’s most challenging situations confronting marriages and relationships in general in this present world, to boil it down a little bit. It deals with “self-examination” - evaluation and execution of real life situations, via practical case studies. Reading this book avails both singles and married, the understanding to discover the challenges and strengths in relationships. Divorce is an unpleasant experience.
Actress Eden Riley's decision to make a film about the mother she barely knew plunges her into a shattering confrontation with her own past. Through her mother's journal, Eden discovers a life of hardship, madness and secrets. Shifting gracefully between Eden's world and that of her mother, Secret Lives seduces with the power of its images and the lyricism of its prose.
All things came to life through the Word of God. Genesis is God’s autobiography with the seal of perfection stamped upon every word contained within. The powerful Word of God put light in the darkness, land in the sea, and life on an uninhabited earth. Join Brian and Candice Simmons as they tell the fascinating story of human creation in The Image Maker, the first of three volumes that studies the book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, in depth. Journey through the first eleven chapters and gain fresh insight from rich footnotes that include commentary, word studies, cross references, and alternate translations. You are God’s divine idea, and you were formed by his loving thoughts. Walk with him as he releases his glorious image into the universe.
Collected short fiction and poetry from national award-winning writers, leaders in new fiction and up-and-coming authors, who have read at the I.V. lounge in Toronto.
This collection of three FULL LENGTH novels includes these previously published titles: PLAYING LOVE'S ODDS (68K words), LOVE ME TENDER (60K words), LOVE IN BLOOM (61K words) *** PLAYING LOVE'S ODDS "...characters and a story line sure to stimulate your interest and keep you longing for more." ~RT Book Reviews on PLAYING LOVE'S ODDS, originally published by Meteor Publishing Corporation 1993 Summary of PLAYING LOVES ODDS It was a straightforward case of industrial espionage with one advantage - a hefty check from ViOPet Chemical Company. All P.I. Logan Burke had to do was watch Hannah Evans, a ViOPet employee, and figure out how she was leaking valuable research secrets. Hannah knew someone was following her. She didn't know who he was or why he was there, but his presence was unnerving. It was time to take action, time to let a professional call the shots. She would pay a visit to a private investigator who had come highly recommended - a Mr. Logan Burke. *** LOVE ME TENDER "...a warm and tender romance with appealing characterization and nice story pacing." ~RT Book Reviews on LOVE ME TENDER, originally published by Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 1999 Summary of LOVE ME TENDER Leaving behind her exciting career as a New York City fashion editor, Eden Karr - pregnant with twins - moves to small town Texas and opens a clothing boutique. Life in Arbor Glen is a far cry from the fast pace she's always thrived in, and she wonders if she's made a mistake - until sexy carpenter Jace Morgan strides into her store. One look at beautiful Eden, and Jace know he's found his woman. Trouble is, she's still yearning for New York and his roots are now firmly planted in the Texas Hill Country. Somehow, he's got to show Eden that life here with him could be rich and full, and that the growing love they share is strong enough to keep them living happily ever after. *** LOVE IN BLOOM "...a beautiful love story filled with sensual delight." ~RT Book Reviews on LOVE IN BLOOM, originally published by Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2000 Summary of LOVE IN BLOOM Her eyes... His camera... Will secrets keep them from a second chance at love? Seventeen years ago, photographer Carson Brandt turned model Eva Channing into a household name. Now that they've crossed paths unexpectedly, he's determined to discover why she vanished without a word - and what part the teenager who bears a striking resemblance to Carson played in her disappearance.
The life of war protesters during the Gulf War. The setting is San Francisco, the protagonists are Max and Eileen. The novel follows their separate activities which eventually bring them together. A first novel.
The American painter, James McNeil Whistler, aroused great controversy. His work also significantly influenced interior decoration. But Whistler was as famous for his biting wit, fights, quarrels and sharp attacks on art critics. Pearson here shows him as his friends saw him and adds fresh insight drawn from meetings with people who knew him.
The brilliant and incisive new novel from the author of Lives Like Mine... A deeply affecting novel, In Bloom tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters. Delph has kept herself small and quiet as a form of self-protection, ever since the love of her life Sol’s untimely death left her pregnant and alone at the age of twenty-four. Theirs was such a once-in-a-lifetime love, that the loss of her soulmate broke her heart ‒ and almost broke her, too. Years on, Delph’s protective bubble bursts when her daughter Roche moves out of the flat Delph shares with her partner Itsy and in with her estranged nan, Moon. Now that it’s just the two of them, the cracks in Delph and Itsy’s relationship begin to grow. Feeling on the outside of the bond between her fierce-yet-flaky tarot-reading mother and volatile martial-arts-champion daughter, Delph begins questioning her own freedom. Is her life with Itsy all it seems? And has keeping small and safe truly been her choice all these years…? Praise for In Bloom: ‘I’m a sucker for a mother-daughter tale at the best of times and In Bloom certainly didn’t let me down. Bittersweet, funny, very real. I couldn’t put it down’ Louise Hare ‘Sensitively explores the lives of three generations of women as they search for freedom from guilt and regret. In this novel of hope and love Eva Verde shows that there is always the potential for a second chance’ Sarah Armstrong, author of The Moscow Wolves series 'A beautiful tale of resilience' Heat 'A really powerful, beautifully written story about three generations of working class women with each character so vividly drawn that they leap off the page' Red Online 'Raw and insightful' Good Housekeeping Praise for Lives Like Mine: ‘Londoner Eva Verde’s Lives Like Mine explores the theme of a school-run affair and the complications and joys it brings to a dual-heritage mother struggling with her intolerant in-laws’ Independent 'A bitter sweet story of longing and self-discovery, of deceit and regret. Visceral, authentic and funny, Eva’s prose reads like something between a conversation and a confession. An exciting new voice and a joy to read' Kit de Waal ‘Eva's writing breaks new ground in a confident and original voice, with a sharp eye for detail, wonderful characterisation and some seriously badass humour’ Yvvette Edwards, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats