Unmemorable
Unmemorable

Author: A.P. Jensen

Publisher: A.P. Jensen

Published: 2014-01-31

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1505384982

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A housekeeper with mad street smarts collides with a supernatural bodyguard who’s been sent to protect her from an underground war that has raged for centuries. Raven leads a solitary existence and that’s the way she likes it, but the life she knows turns upside down when her apartment gets gunned down and Cain Henson steps in. Cain’s been sent by a Seer who believes Raven is a woman of prophecy that can control an ancient army no one can see. Filled with romance, intrigue, magic and a kick-ass heroine, Unmemorable will lead you on a wild adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat and guessing until the last page. Book 1 in the Unmemorable Series, a paranormal romance intrigue novel for adults.

Exhibiting the German Past
Exhibiting the German Past

Author: Peter M. McIsaac

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1442620757

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While scholars recognize both museums and films as sites where historical knowledge and cultural memory are created, the convergence between their methods of constructing the past has only recently been acknowledged. The essays in Exhibiting the German Past examine a range of films, museums, and experiences which blend the two, considering how authentic objects and cinematic techniques are increasingly used in similar ways by both visual media and museums. This is the first collection to focus on the museum–film connection in German-language culture and the first to approach the issue using the concept of “musealization,” a process that, because it engages the cultural destruction wrought by modernization, offers new means of constructing historical knowledge and shaping collective memory within and beyond the museum’s walls. Featuring a wide range of valuable case studies, Exhibiting the German Past offers a unique perspective on the developing relationship between museums and visual media.

What Remains
What Remains

Author: Jonathan Bach

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2017-08-29

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0231544308

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What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the unsettling effects of these unmoored artifacts on the German present, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday as a site of reckoning with difficult pasts. Bach juxtaposes four sites where the stakes of the everyday appear: products commodified as nostalgia, amateur museums dedicated to collecting everyday life under socialism, the "people's palace" that captured the national imagination through its destruction, and the feared and fetishized Berlin Wall. Moving from the local, the intimate, and the small to the national, the impersonal, and the large, this book's interpenetrating chapters show the unexpected social and political force of the ordinary in the production of memory. What Remains offers a unique vantage point on the workings of the everyday in situations of radical discontinuity, contributing to new understandings of postsocialism and the intricate intersection of material remains and memory.

Prosecutorial Misconduct
Prosecutorial Misconduct

Author: Dan Butterfield

Publisher: Gatekeeper Press

Published: 2024-04-23

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1662951361

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The 2019 Impeachment hearings orchestrated by Adam Schiff were political theater—worse Adam Schiff purposely withheld critical evidence he knew would have exonerated Donald Trump. Even more troubling, in an act that can only be described as pure prosecutorial misconduct, Adam Schiff did his best to prevent the truth from surfacing. To understand how Mr. Schiff misled Congress, his own party and the American public one need look no further than what was not presented in 2019—more important, Who was not called upon to testify. In Prosecutorial Misconduct we explore the deception employed by Adam Schiff as he did the unthinkable—prosecute an innocent man. In truth, no crime had been committed. No impeachable offenses had taken place. There was no Abuse of Power or Obstruction of Congress. In a perverse twist, President Trump actually upheld the demands of Congress when he placed the now infamous “hold” on the military aid package allocated by Congress to the Ukraine. Adam Schiff knew all this—and still went forward with his prosecution of the 45th President of United States of America.

The Porous Museum
The Porous Museum

Author: Gabriela Nicolescu

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-07-27

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1350196649

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The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest. The museum has functioned successively as a museum of art, a communist museum, the headquarters of the communist secret police, and a museum of folk art. Gabriela Nicolescu traces the museum's spectacular biography and follows the transformation of its practices and aesthetics through three very different political regimes in the 20th and early 21st century: monarchist, socialist and post-socialist. Nicolescu's fascinating study starts with a focus on a dumped and smashed statue of the revolutionary figureheads Marx, Engels and Lenin in the museum's rear yard as an expression of the complicated journey of modern Romania. She considers questions of recycling and rupture, with some exhibits and practices carried over from one regime to another, whilst others have been discarded in favour of the completely new. Through this process, the museum can been seen as a microcosm of the wider nation state and the ways in which the past is remembered or rejected. The interdependency of politics, ethics and aesthetics that Nicolescu terms 'porosity' is an attribute of museums all over the world. Applying original anthropological research to key ethnographic museums in Romania and elsewhere in Europe, the book moves beyond regional and media stereotypes by arguing for the influence of local oral histories on national history.

Gulag Memories
Gulag Memories

Author: Zuzanna Bogumił

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2018-09-14

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1785339281

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Though the institution of the Gulag was nominally closed over half a decade ago, it lives on as an often hotly contested site of memory in the post-socialist era. This ethnographic study takes a holistic, comprehensive approach to understanding memories of the Gulag, and particularly the language of commemoration that surrounds it in present-day Russian society. It focuses on four regions of particular historical significance—the Solovetsky Islands, the Komi Republic, the Perm region, and Kolyma—to carefully explore how memories become a social phenomenon, how objects become heritage, and how the human need to create sites of memory has preserved the Gulag in specific ways today.

Mr. Nogginbody Gets a Hammer
Mr. Nogginbody Gets a Hammer

Author: David Shannon

Publisher: WW Norton

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1324003456

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Beloved picture book creator David Shannon introduces a new character in a satisfyingly silly and subversive take on a familiar parable. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Meet Mr. Nogginbody. Armed with his new hammer he fixes his floor then the wall and the picture on the wall and the shower and the stop sign at the end of the street. . . What else will Mr. Nogginbody “fix”? Celebrated author David Shannon’s comically misguided new character gets carried away by success, and kids will laugh out loud at the consequences.

Running on Empty
Running on Empty

Author: Jonice Webb

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 161448242X

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A large segment of the population struggles with feelings of being detached from themselves and their loved ones. They feel flawed, and blame themselves. Running on Empty will help them realize that they're suffering not because of something that happened to them in childhood, but because of something that didn't happen. It's the white space in their family picture, the background rather than the foreground. This will be the first self-help book to bring this invisible force to light, educate people about it, and teach them how to overcome it.

Marielo: A Foreign Service Life in Diary and Letters
Marielo: A Foreign Service Life in Diary and Letters

Author: M. Wesley “Wes” Shoemaker

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-08-16

Total Pages: 2054

ISBN-13:

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About the Book In assembling and organizing his wife Mary’s letters and diary, M. Wesley “Wes” Shoemaker’s constant goal has been to allow the documents to speak through her voice without intruding himself unnecessarily into the narrative. Yet it cannot be denied that he is the Wes who appears throughout, and that, in addition to the main theme of Mary’s life and Foreign Service Career, it is also a story of a marriage lasting over fifty-one years, in spite of the fact that fifteen of those years, their separate career patterns kept them separated for eight months each year. Containing a total of 191 letters (116 of which are to Wes), Marielo: A Foreign Service Life in Diary and Letters chronicles Mary’s incredible life as a Foreign Service Officer through the slowly dying medium of letter writing, which provided a lifeline that held their marriage together over the years and further explains how their long-distance relationship survived over the years of separation. About the Author M. Wesley “Wes” Shoemaker was a Foreign Service Officer and has been posted at locations all over the world. He later resigned from this role to enter a doctoral program in Russian history at Syracuse University and went on to teach at Lynchburg College.