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Author : Kathryn Schultz Miller
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Release Date : 1990
ISBN 10 : 1583420037
Pages : 52 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (42 users)
Download Blue Horses PDF Full or another Format written by Kathryn Schultz Miller and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophie Hardach
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-06-13
ISBN 10 : 9781788548755
Pages : 303 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (788 users)
Download Confession With Blue Horses PDF Full or another Format written by Sophie Hardach and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2019. Tobi and Ella's childhood in East Berlin is shrouded in mystery. Now adults living in London, their past is full of unanswered questions. Both remember their family's daring and terrifying attempt to escape. But what happened next? Where did their parents disappear to, and why? What happened to Heiko, their little brother? And was there ever a painting of three blue horses? In contemporary Germany, Aaron works for a Stasi archive, making his way through old files, reconstructing the tragic history of thousands of families. But one file in particular catches his eye; and soon unravelling the secrets at its heart becomes an obsession. When Ella finds a stash of her mother's notebooks, she and Tobi embark on a search that will take them back to Berlin. Her fate clashes with Aaron's, and they piece together the details of Ella's past... and a family torn apart. Devastating and beautifully written, funny and life-affirming, Confession with Blue Horses explores intimate family life and its strength in the most difficult of circumstances.
Author : Melanie Wallace
Publisher : MP Publishing
Release Date : 2010-05-22
ISBN 10 : 9781596928725
Pages : 294 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (596 users)
Download Blue Horse Dreaming PDF Full or another Format written by Melanie Wallace and published by MP Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Blue Horse Dreaming' is the riveting story of Abigail Buwell, who is kidnapped by a Native American tribe and later redeemed by U.S. military troops. Distraught at being returned, Abigail views her redemption as yet another captivity with freedom still agonizingly out of reach. Ultimately, she remains a captive on many levels — in the shackles of otherness, language, physical confinement, womanhood, and motherhood. 'Blue Horse Dreaming' is also the story of Major Robert Cutter, the man into whose hands Abigail is delivered. Through his tormented eyes, we see a vividly compelling portrayal of life on a far-flung military outpost in the aftermath of the Civil War where troops and civilians suffered from crushing poverty, famine, and illness, just beyond the traces of an emigrant trail whose way is marked by gravesites. This is a novel of hauntings and of the haunted, in which the ghosts of the past, both beloved and despised, raise their heads to compete for the souls of the living left behind.
Author : Orleta Slick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-09-29
ISBN 10 : 9781503581432
Pages : 150 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (53 users)
Download Blue Horse PDF Full or another Format written by Orleta Slick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story told about Navajo children during a traumatic period in history, whentheir people were captured, marched hundreds of miles, and were imprisonedin a camp for four years. Their strong foundation is what kept them going andhelped some of them survive. The story concentrates on a clan whose youngest being a three-month-old baby andthe oldest a sixteen-year-old. The children endured the harshness of the elementsand the US government. The children created a bond that would last foreverwith an elderly Navajo woman, who became their anchor when they could not find their loving parents. While the children were held captive, they carried onthe legacies of their clans. Some reunited with their parents and returned totheir homeland. With promises of better lives, the Navajo people were releasedto a land reserved within the four sacred mountains. They were forced to lead a different lifestyle, less flourishing than before, but they kept their families togetherand continued their traditional ways of life. This included the introduction ofa formal education. Navajo leaders figured that acquiring an education wouldplace them at an equal advantage of the dominant society. The children, however,had a different experience. In the end, most of them found balance in their lives back on their homeland.
Author : Philip Miller
Publisher : Cargo Publishing
Release Date : 2015-03-09
ISBN 10 : 9781910449059
Pages : 311 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (91 users)
Download The Blue Horse PDF Full or another Format written by Philip Miller and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently bereaved, George Newhouse, is an art historian and newly appointed curator at the National Gallery who becomes increasingly obsessed with a lost minor Dutch masterpiece, The Blue Horse by Van Doelenstraat. The painting’s provenance is disputed and many doubt its existence at all. But Newhouse has uncovered a letter by Rembrandt where the master states, ‘That damned painting vexes my mind’s eye’. As Newhouse struggles with his grief, his grip of reality slowly loosening, he embarks on surreal journey of loss and self-discovery, fuelled by alcohol, drugs and self-destructive behaviour. As the lines between reality and imagination blur, will George lose himself in his obsession or return from the brink of destruction in time? Highly atmospheric and exploiting many of the tropes of art appreciation, this is a compelling literary noir and remarkable debut by one of Scotland’s leading art correspondents. ‘There were times in Philip Miller’s The Blue Horse when I had to look away from the twilight art world his lyrical prose so effectively eviscerates. There is a tremendous sense of darkness here. And yet his strength as a storyteller, his ability to create multiple narratives of greed and grief; of blurred desire, pulled me back. There is an intoxication about this writing, a narcotic lure to its descriptions of ambition and decline but it never strays far from the simple art of a good story well told.’Toni Davidson, author of Scar Culture and My Gun Was As Tall As Me ‘I was disturbed... interesting and convincing’ Alasdair Gray
Author : John D. Nesbitt
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9781628154702
Pages : 280 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (628 users)
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Author : Judy White
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2005-07-01
ISBN 10 : 9781413452334
Pages : 353 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (413 users)
Download Blueboy: Horse from Another Era PDF Full or another Format written by Judy White and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-07-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 1555911129
Pages : 104 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (911 users)
Download A Song for the Horse Nation PDF Full or another Format written by National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated examination of the role of horses in Native American culture and history, providing information on the depiction of horses in tribal clothing, tools, and other objects.
Author : Marita Conlon-McKenna
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Release Date : 2012-09-14
ISBN 10 : 9781847174680
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (847 users)
Download The Blue Horse PDF Full or another Format written by Marita Conlon-McKenna and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable story of growing up in extraordinary circumstances that will touch the hearts of all readers. Katie's whole world is turned upside down when her family's home is destroyed by fire. Everything they had is gone, and instead of pulling together it seems as though her family is falling apart. They move to a new house, to a school where nobody wants to know her, and Katie wonders just how many changes she can take. In her fight for acceptance and to keep the family together, she learns a lot about herself.
Author : Susanna Partsch
Publisher : Taschen
Release Date : 2001
ISBN 10 : 3822856444
Pages : 104 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (856 users)
Download Marc PDF Full or another Format written by Susanna Partsch and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal expressions: Franz Marc's search for a universal art Franz Marc (1880-1916) became known principally for his images of animals: blue horses, yellow tigers, red fawns. What was it that led him to concentrate on painting animals? Marc himself explained his choice of subject matter in these words: "From an early date I felt humankind to be 'ugly'; animals seemed to me possessed of a greater beauty and purity..." Seeing Marc merely as a painter of animals proves, however, premature. Marc, cofounder of the Blauer Reiter group of Expressionist artists, was deeply dissatisfied with the impurity of the world, and was on a quest for a universal art which would resolve the contrarieties of life in the harmony of creation. Using pure colors highly charged with symbolic values, adopting crystalline shapes, and absorbing the influence of Cubism, he moved steadily towards an abstract order of image, coming closer to his own understanding of a better world. At the age of 36, Franz Marc's life was cut short when he died in the Battle of Verdun. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions
Author : Alford L. McMichael
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-12-06
ISBN 10 : 9781416562740
Pages : 304 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (416 users)
Download Leadership PDF Full or another Format written by Alford L. McMichael and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Take one look at him, listen to him speak, watch him act, and you'll follow him. Why? Because throughout his life and military career, Sergeant Major Al McMichael has proven himself to be a visionary who develops and nurtures ideas to fruition.... Anyone who is charged with leading, teaching, mentoring, managing or caring for people should read the inspiring story of Al McMichael in Leadership." -- Dean Mark Pizzo, National Defense University in Washington, D.C. There is only one sergeant major of the Marine Corps at any one time. It is the highest rank an enlisted Marine can achieve. From 1999 to 2003 the USMC's 14th sergeant major, and the first African American to attain the position, was Alford L. McMichael. Now, Sergeant Major McMichael shares how the values taught to him around the dinner table and in the hard times of his dirt-poor Southern childhood took him to the top of his field and made him one of the most respected and valued leaders of our time. This is not a guide that speaks only to military personnel. This is not a guide that only CEOs will cherish. The magic of McMichael's life lessons is that anyone can relate to and build success from them, because McMichael himself learned them in the most modest of beginnings: growing up in the 1950s with nine siblings in a single-parent, one-story home in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was the best training he could have received for the Marines, and with down-to-earth practicality and an engaging anecdotal style, McMichael demonstrates how the morals, work ethic and self-discipline he learned from his mother and grandmother gave him the life skills for groundbreaking success. Practice dinner table values...Find your compass...Rely on intelligence over emotion...Prepare so you can prosper...Impress yourself first...Give power to your people...Lead from the heart...These are among the pragmatic and distinctive nuggets of truth McMichael imparts in Leadership, and whatever your walk in life, they are the foundation for making great things happen. Are you ready to experience the phenomenal results when you ask the best of yourself and those around you?
Author : John Gage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1999
ISBN 10 : 0520226119
Pages : 326 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (226 users)
Download Color and Meaning PDF Full or another Format written by John Gage and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Gage's Color and Meaning is full of ideas. . .He is one of the best writers on art now alive."--A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize winner
Author : Conrad Shumaker
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 0820463442
Pages : 132 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (463 users)
Download Southwestern American Indian Literature PDF Full or another Format written by Conrad Shumaker and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian literature presents, and suggests innovative ways of teaching the material. Drawing on the author's experiences teaching literature - both in the classroom and in the canyons of the Southwest - the book covers works ranging from the famous (Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony) to the underappreciated (George Webb's A Pima Remembers). One chapter discusses teaching Sherman Alexie's Smoke Signals along with Silko's «Yellow Woman» as world literature; another functions as a guide to organizing a travel seminar that will enable students to experience American Indian literature and culture in potentially life-changing ways. This book provides a practical approach to the teaching of Southwestern American Indian literature without simplifying its inherent challenges.
Author : Eric Charles
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-08
ISBN 10 : 9781351534819
Pages : 330 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (351 users)
Download A New Look at New Realism PDF Full or another Format written by Eric Charles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings to the attention of contemporary readers a tradition of psychological thought that has received little attention over the last century. Psychology's history has been unimaginatively presented as a fight between behaviorists and mentalists. A third alternative, the New Realism, which cuts through that dichotomy, has been lost. "The New Realism" was indeed once new. This volume provides a glimpse of how this school of thought attempted to redefine the notion of mental processes, including consciousness, in psychological theorizing. Holt's rejected the nativity of iconoclastic Watsonian behaviorists, and thus the New Realism was thoughtful in ways that behaviorist social engineering was not. The implications of these innovations in psychological theorizing are traced from the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary period. The contributors provide these intellectual links, along with efforts to look at the relatedness of the human organism and its world. At their beginning, these ideas are embedded in a reverence for William James's work, particularly his later Radical Empiricism. In contemporary psychology, this legacy has given us the framework of ecological psychology as we know it today, and provides the basis for several modern critiques of cognitive psychology. The present volume opens the door for future historical inquiries. This is an exemplary addition to the series on the History of Psychological Ideas.
Author : Konstantin Megrelidze
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2022-10-24
ISBN 10 : 9789004525900
Pages : 457 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (4 users)
Download Fundamental Problems of the Sociology of Thinking PDF Full or another Format written by Konstantin Megrelidze and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written at the height of the purges, but unpublished for decades, Megrelidze’s text is arguably the most significant, erudite and wide-ranging work of Marxist philosophy written in the USSR at the time.
Author : Kate Bernheimer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-10
ISBN 10 : 9780814341735
Pages : 144 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (814 users)
Download Fairy Tale Review PDF Full or another Format written by Kate Bernheimer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “All great novels are great fairy tales,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov many years ago, and Fairy Tale Review continues to believe that all great literary works owe everything to fairy tales. In this issue you will find work represented that draws from the spectacular, old tradition of fairy tales in brilliant new ways. An increased understanding of the precise and incredible fairy-tale techniques, so wonderfully elucidated by the scholar Max Luthi, but expanded, in the aesthetic of Fairy Tale Review, to contemporary literature across the styles and genres, may help resolve the unfortunate schisms that sometimes arise between so-called mainstream and avant-garde writers and critics. In this issue you will find work across so many such borders; some of the writing refers to specific fairy tales, but much of it simply feels like a fairy tale; and how it feels like a fairy tale is through language, through form. Please spread the word that fairy tales are the newest and oldest aesthetic; and they give our lives fearful, beautiful shape. Form is fairy tale, fairy tale is form.
Author : Eugène Daumas
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9780292740716
Pages : 293 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (292 users)
Download The Horses of the Sahara PDF Full or another Format written by Eugène Daumas and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arabs created one of the world's finest breeds of saddle horses, the Arabian, and they have long possessed an immense store of knowledge regarding the care, training, and breeding of this splendid horse. In the nineteenth century, General Melchior Joseph Eugene Daumas had access to their knowledge even though, as he pointed out, "it requires a great deal of patience and tact for a Christian to obtain from the Mohammedans even the most insignificant of details . . ." General Daumas was, because of his unique relationship with the Arabs, probably the first European to produce a comprehensive study of Arabian horses. And to add even greater value to The Horses of the Sahara, he was able to secure for the ninth edition, here translated, extended commentaries on all aspects of Arabian horsemanship by the Emir Abd-el-Kadar, one of the most important nineteenth-century Arab leaders and certainly one of the foremost authorities on the subject. The Horses of the Sahara will be of interest not only to equestrians but also to historians and other scholars interested in the customs of the North African desert tribes and in the complex backgrounds of European–North African relations. General Daumas took part in the conquest of Algeria by France, so distinguishing himself that he was named Director of the Bureau of Algerian Affairs in the French Ministry of War. During the campaigns and the occupation that followed, he studied and attempted to understand the native peoples, with an objectivity and sympathy unusual among the colonialists of the period. His book provides fascinating sidelights on many aspects of Arab life, including customs, superstitions, religion, and family life. Sheila M. Ohlendorf was uniquely suited to translate The Horses of the Sahara. An excellent rider herself, thoroughly experienced with the animals and the techniques being discussed, she also spoke fluent French, having received her B.A. degree in languages from Texas Western University (now the University of Texas at El Paso). As curator of the Hall of the Horsemen, the large collection at the University of Texas at Austin, she had access to a wide variety of supplementary authorities, which enriched both her translation and the notes that accompany the book.
