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Author : Constance Callinicos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Aphrodite written by Constance Callinicos and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Roth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book American Aphrodite written by Samuel Roth and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Felch
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547538022
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Chasing Aphrodite written by Jason Felch and published by HMH. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thrilling, well-researched” account of years of scandal at the prestigious Getty Museum (Ulrich Boser, author of The Gardner Heist). In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. Why would they be moved to such unheard-of generosity? The answer lies at the Getty, one of the world’s richest and most troubled museums, and scandalous revelations that it had been buying looted antiquities for decades. Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and candid interviews, these two journalists give us a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum, and tell a story of outlandish characters and bad behavior that could come straight from the pages of a thriller. “In an authoritative account, two reporters who led a Los Angeles Times investigation reveal the details of the Getty Museum’s illicit purchases, from smugglers and fences, of looted Greek and Roman antiquities. . . . The authors offer an excellent recap of the museum’s misdeeds, brimming with tasty details of the scandal that motivated several of America’s leading art museums to voluntarily return to Italy and Greece some 100 classical antiquities worth more than half a billion dollars.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astonishing and penetrating look into a veiled world where beauty and art are in constant competition with greed and hypocrisy. This engaging book will cast a fresh light on many of those gleaming objects you see in art museums.” —Jonathan Harr, author of The Lost Painting
Author : Maureen Honey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813572797
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Aphrodite's Daughters written by Maureen Honey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.
Author : Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476625220
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Gay American Novels, 1870äóñ1970 written by Drewey Wayne Gunn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the development of gay American fiction and providing an essential reading list, this literary survey covers 257 works—novels, novellas, a graphic story cycle and a narrative poem—in which gay and bisexual male characters play a major role. Iconic works, such as James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man, are included, along with titles not given attention by earlier surveys, such as Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring, Dashiel Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, Julian Green’s Each in His Darkness, Ursula Zilinsky’s Middle Ground and David Plante’s The Ghost of Henry James. Chronological entries discuss each work’s plot, significance for gay identity, and publication history, along with a brief biography of the author.
Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541674243
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Venus and Aphrodite written by Bettany Hughes and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus -- and thousands of years before that, as a ferocious warrior-goddess in the Middle East. Proving that this fabled figure is so much more than an avatar of commercialized romance, historian Bettany Hughes reveals the remarkable lifestory of one of antiquity's most potent myths. Venus and Aphrodite brings together ancient art, mythology, and archaeological revelations to tell the story of human desire. From Mesopotamia to modern-day London, from Botticelli to Beyoncé, Hughes explains why this immortal goddess continues to entrance us today -- and how we trivialize her power at our peril.
Author : Daniel Lyons
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532056788
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book All-American Aphrodite written by Daniel Lyons and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Senator Milton Bergman is exposed in a hotel room tryst with a woman of loose virtue, the balance of politics threatens to spiral out of control across the United States. A resignation by the Republican senator will surely impact the outcome of an impending major congressional vote. For Seattle-based investigative journalist Natalie Schroder, the stakes run much deeper. After she is charged with identifying the girl from the hotel, Schroder begins to uncover a web of intrigue that ties the senator to a powerful escort agency, Fantasies Inc., with connections deeper than she could ever have imagined—and with powerful interests to protect. As her city erupts into chaos and Senator Bergman scrambles to preserve his public image in the face of a humiliating scandal, Schroder must now race against time to save herself from the world-threatening forces she has inadvertently unleashed. In this political thriller, a philandering senator with a penchant for women of the evening attempts to save his career while the reporter investigating his wrongdoings becomes trapped between doing the right thing and realizing her true destiny.
Author : Wm. H. Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Butterflies of North America: With coloured Drawings and Descriptions written by Wm. H. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300114656
Total Pages : 1582 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of New York City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 1582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering an exhaustive range of information about the five boroughs, the first edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City was a success by every measure, earning worldwide acclaim and several awards for reference excellence, and selling out its first printing before it was officially published. But much has changed since the volume first appeared in 1995: the World Trade Center no longer dominates the skyline, a billionaire businessman has become an unlikely three-term mayor, and urban regeneration—Chelsea Piers, the High Line, DUMBO, Williamsburg, the South Bronx, the Lower East Side—has become commonplace. To reflect such innovation and change, this definitive, one-volume resource on the city has been completely revised and expanded. The revised edition includes 800 new entries that help complete the story of New York: from Air Train to E-ZPass, from September 11 to public order. The new material includes broader coverage of subject areas previously underserved as well as new maps and illustrations. Virtually all existing entries—spanning architecture, politics, business, sports, the arts, and more—have been updated to reflect the impact of the past two decades. The more than 5,000 alphabetical entries and 700 illustrations of the second edition of The Encyclopedia of New York City convey the richness and diversity of its subject in great breadth and detail, and will continue to serve as an indispensable tool for everyone who has even a passing interest in the American metropolis.
Author : Maureen Honey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813570808
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Aphrodite's Daughters written by Maureen Honey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harlem Renaissance was a watershed moment for racial uplift, poetic innovation, sexual liberation, and female empowerment. Aphrodite’s Daughters introduces us to three amazing women who were at the forefront of all these developments, poetic iconoclasts who pioneered new and candidly erotic forms of female self-expression. Maureen Honey paints a vivid portrait of three African American women—Angelina Weld Grimké, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Mae V. Cowdery—who came from very different backgrounds but converged in late 1920s Harlem to leave a major mark on the literary landscape. She examines the varied ways these poets articulated female sexual desire, ranging from Grimké’s invocation of a Sapphic goddess figure to Cowdery’s frank depiction of bisexual erotics to Bennett’s risky exploration of the borders between sexual pleasure and pain. Yet Honey also considers how they were united in their commitment to the female body as a primary source of meaning, strength, and transcendence. The product of extensive archival research, Aphrodite’s Daughters draws from Grimké, Bennett, and Cowdery’s published and unpublished poetry, along with rare periodicals and biographical materials, to immerse us in the lives of these remarkable women and the world in which they lived. It thus not only shows us how their artistic contributions and cultural interventions were vital to their own era, but also demonstrates how the poetic heart of their work keeps on beating.
Author : Yiorgos Anagnostou
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443615
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Contours of White Ethnicity written by Yiorgos Anagnostou and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates how a generalized view of American white ethnics misses the specific identity issues of particular groups as well as their internal differences. Interdisciplinary in scope, Contours of White Ethnicity uses the example of Greek America to illustrate how the immigrant past can be used to combat racism and be used to bring about solidarity between white ethnics and racial minorities. Illuminating the importance of the past in the construction of ethnic identities today, Anagnostou presents the politics of evoking the past to create community, affirm identity, and nourish reconnection with ancestral roots, then identifies the struggles to neutralize oppressive pasts. Although it draws from the scholarship on a specific ethnic group, Contours of White Ethnicity exhibits a sophisticated, interdisciplinary methodology, which makes it of particular interest to scholars researching ethnicity and race in the United States and for those charting the directions of future research for white ethnicities.
Author : Sue Hubbell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618056842
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Waiting for Aphrodite written by Sue Hubbell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-05-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating book, Hubbell journeys into the remarkable lives of the little-known creatures that really run the world--the animals without backbones, including one of the most elusive and enigmatic of all, "Aphrodite" the sea mouse.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miriam G. Reumann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520930045
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book American Sexual Character written by Miriam G. Reumann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-03-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine national debates about sexuality, gender, and Americanness after World War II. Focusing on the mutual construction of postwar ideas about national identity and sexual life, this wide-ranging, shrewd, and lively analysis explores the many uses to which these sex surveys were put at a time of extreme anxiety about sexual behavior and its effects on the nation. Looking at real and perceived changes in masculinity, female sexuality, marriage, and homosexuality, Miriam G. Reumann develops the notion of "American sexual character," sexual patterns and attitudes that were understood to be uniquely American and to reflect contemporary transformations in politics, social life, gender roles, and culture. She considers how apparent shifts in sexual behavior shaped the nation's workplaces, homes, and families, and how these might be linked to racial and class differences.
Author : Lee Epstein
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1506380328
Total Pages : 1107 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Constitutional Law for a Changing America written by Lee Epstein and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 1107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capturing the authors’ excitement for constitutional law, this updated Tenth Edition of Constitutional Law for a Changing America shows students how judicial decisions are influenced by political factors—from lawyers and interest groups, to the shifting sentiments of public opinion, to the ideological and behavioral inclinations of the justices. Authors Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker show how these dynamics shape the development of constitutional doctrine. Known for fastidious revising and streamlining, the authors incorporate the latest scholarship in the fields of both political science and legal studies and offer solid analysis of both classic and contemporary landmark cases, including key opinions handed down through the 2017 session. Filled with additional supporting material—photographs of the litigants, sidebars comparing the United States with other nations, and "Aftermath" boxes that tell the stories of the parties′ lives after the Supreme Court has acted—the text helps students develop a thorough understanding of the way the U.S. Constitution protects civil rights and liberties. Bundle with the Resource Center for FREE! Take your constitutional law class beyond the book with Epstein and Walker’s newly redesigned Resource Center, featuring more than 500 excerpted, supplemental cases referenced in the commentary of the Constitutional Law for a Changing America volumes. The Resource Center offers a place for students to study core content with online quizzes and explore court cases. Instructors can find teaching materials, including hypothetical cases paired with discussion questions and writing assignments, moot-court simulations, test banks, and more. Ensure FREE access—use bundle ISBN: 978-1-5443-5051-6.
Author : Mimi Clark Gronlund
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292719906
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark written by Mimi Clark Gronlund and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An associate justice on the renowned Warren Court whose landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned racial segregation in schools and other public facilities, Tom C. Clark was a crusader for justice throughout his long legal career. Among many tributes Clark received, Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger opined that "no man in the past thirty years has contributed more to the improvement of justice than Tom Clark." Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clarkis the first biography of this important American jurist. Written by his daughter, Mimi Clark Gronlund, and based on interviews with many of Clark's judicial associates, friends, and family, as well as archival research, it offers a well-rounded portrait of a lawyer and judge who dealt with issues that remain in contention today—civil rights, the rights of the accused, school prayer, and censorship/pornography, among them. Gronlund explores the factors in her father's upbringing and education that helped form his judicial philosophy, then describes how that philosophy shaped his decisions on key issues and cases, including the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the investigation of war fraud, the Truman administration's loyalty program (an anti-communist effort), theBrowndecision,Mapp v. Ohio(protections against unreasonable search and seizure), andAbington v. Schempp (which overturned a state law that required reading from the Bible each day in public schools).
Author : Theodora D. Patrona
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611479959
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Return Narratives written by Theodora D. Patrona and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of six Italian American and Greek American literary works written in the three last decades of the 20th century and examined in pairs. Based on the common theme of the authors' return, either metaphorical or literal to the country of origin and its culture, Return Narratives explores the common motifs of mythology, ritual, and storytelling where the third generation writers resort to in their quest for self-definition. With a common historical and cultural background in the old neighboring countries, Greece and Italy, and a similar reception in the new world facilitating a comparative approach, the ethnic writers of the two literatures, clearly envisage ethnic space as a site of resilience and empowerment.
