Trap Door

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 026254489X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis Trap Door by : Reina Gossett

Download or read book Trap Door written by Reina Gossett and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, conversations, and archival investigations explore the paradoxes, limitations, and social ramifications of trans representation within contemporary culture. The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. Trap Door grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered “doors”—entrances to visibility and recognition—that are actually “traps,” accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms. The volume speculates about a third term, perhaps uniquely suited for our time: the trapdoor, neither entrance nor exit, but a secret passageway leading elsewhere. Trap Door begins a conversation that extends through and beyond trans culture, showing how these issues have relevance for anyone invested in the ethics of visual culture. Contributors Lexi Adsit, Sara Ahmed, Nicole Archer, Kai Lumumba Barrow, Johanna Burton, micha cárdenas, Mel Y. Chen, Grace Dunham, Treva Ellison, Sydney Freeland, Che Gossett, Reina Gossett, Stamatina Gregory, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Robert Hamblin, Eva Hayward, Juliana Huxtable, Yve Laris Cohen, Abram J. Lewis, Heather Love, Park McArthur, CeCe McDonald, Toshio Meronek, Fred Moten, Tavia Nyong'o, Morgan M. Page, Roy Pérez, Dean Spade, Eric A. Stanley, Jeannine Tang, Wu Tsang, Jeanne Vaccaro, Chris E. Vargas, Geo Wyeth, Kalaniopua Young, Constantina Zavitsanos

The Optical Unconscious

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611053
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis The Optical Unconscious by : Rosalind E. Krauss

Download or read book The Optical Unconscious written by Rosalind E. Krauss and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994-07-25 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Optical Unconscious is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred commandments and self-fulfilling truths. The account of modernism presented here challenges the vaunted principle of "vision itself." And it is a very different story than we have ever read, not only because its insurgent plot and characters rise from below the calm surface of the known and law-like field of modernist painting, but because the voice is unlike anything we have heard before. Just as the artists of the optical unconscious assaulted the idea of autonomy and visual mastery, Rosalind Krauss abandons the historian's voice of objective detachment and forges a new style of writing in this book: art history that insinuates diary and art theory, and that has the gait and tone of fiction. The Optical Unconscious will be deeply vexing to modernism's standard-bearers, and to readers who have accepted the foundational principles on which their aesthetic is based. Krauss also gives us the story that Alfred Barr, Meyer Shapiro, and Clement Greenberg repressed, the story of a small, disparate group of artists who defied modernism's most cherished self-descriptions, giving rise to an unruly, disruptive force that persistently haunted the field of modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s and continues to disrupt it today. In order to understand why modernism had to repress the optical unconscious, Krauss eavesdrops on Roger Fry in the salons of Bloomsbury, and spies on the toddler John Ruskin as he amuses himself with the patterns of a rug; we find her in the living room of Clement Greenberg as he complains about "smart Jewish girls with their typewriters" in the 1960s, and in colloquy with Michael Fried about Frank Stella's love of baseball. Along the way, there are also narrative encounters with Freud, Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard. To embody this optical unconscious, Krauss turns to the pages of Max Ernst's collage novels, to Marcel Duchamp's hypnotic Rotoreliefs, to Eva Hesse's luminous sculptures, and to Cy Twombly's, Andy Warhol's, and Robert Morris's scandalous decoding of Jackson Pollock's drip pictures as "Anti-Form." These artists introduced a new set of values into the field of twentieth-century art, offering ready-made images of obsessional fantasy in place of modernism's intentionality and unexamined compulsions.

The Neurobiology of Painting

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080463614
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis The Neurobiology of Painting by : Ronald J. Bradley

Download or read book The Neurobiology of Painting written by Ronald J. Bradley and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents a basis for the interaction of the brain and nervous system with painting, music and literature, and a discussion of art from multiple facets – such as anatomy, migraine, illusion and evolutionary biology. The book explores several aspects of the neurobiology of painting, including evolutionary neurobiology, sensation vs. perception, the visual brain and how the mind works, and also explores the affects of brain disorders and trauma on artist, with a concluding chapter on Frida Kahlo and the spinal cord injury that influenced her painting.

The News at the Ends of the Earth

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478004487
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis The News at the Ends of the Earth by : Hester Blum

Download or read book The News at the Ends of the Earth written by Hester Blum and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.

Against Expression

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810127113
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Against Expression by : Craig Dworkin

Download or read book Against Expression written by Craig Dworkin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-17 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Bernstein has described conceptual "poetry pregnant with thought." Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors such as Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp through major avant-garde groups of the past century, including Dada, Oulipo, Fluxus, and language poetry, to name just a few. The works of more than a hundred writers from Aasprong to Zykov demonstrate a remarkable variety of new ways of thinking about the nature of texts, information, and art, using found, appropriated, and randomly generated texts to explore the possibilities of non-expressive language. --Book Jacket.

In Pursuit of Beauty

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Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870994689
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis In Pursuit of Beauty by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Download or read book In Pursuit of Beauty written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1986 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This project is the first comprehensive study of a phenomenon that not only dominated the American arts of the 1870s and 1880s, but also helped set the course of such later developments in the United States as the Arts and Crafts movement, the indigenous interpretation of Art Nouveau, and even the rise of modernism. In fact, the early history of the Metropolitan--its founding, its sponsorship of a school of industrial design, and its display of decorative works--is inextricably tied to the Aesthetic movement and its educational goals. "In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement" comprised some 175 objects including furniture, metalwork, stained glass, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, painting, and sculpture. Some of these had rarely been displayed; others, although familiar, were being shown in new and even startling contexts. The exhibition and catalogue are arranged thematically to illustrate both the major styles of a visually rich movement and the ideas that generated its diversity"--From publisher's description.

The Truth About Lorin Jones

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453271228
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis The Truth About Lorin Jones by : Alison Lurie

Download or read book The Truth About Lorin Jones written by Alison Lurie and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comedy by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a biographer out to vindicate a neglected female artist learns that the truth is never tidy. Polly Alter is through with men. Recovering from her divorce, she has taken a year off from her museum job to write a biography of Lorin Jones, a sensitive painter who died young and nearly forgotten. Polly is determined to bring the artist the public acclaim she deserves, making up for the neglect and exploitation Lorin suffered from the men in her life. The only problem with the story of Lorin’s victimhood is that it may not be true. And as Polly wades deeper into her research, growing more attached to her subject, and more lost in the world of two decades past, she begins to realize that no life story is as simple as a biographer might wish. The National Book Award–shortlisted author of Foreign Affairs writes a daring and “relentless comedy” that novelist Edmund White calls “one of the most entertaining novels I've read in a long time” (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the author’s collection.

Chapel Hill in Plain Sight

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Publisher : Eno Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0982077173
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis Chapel Hill in Plain Sight by : Daphne Athas

Download or read book Chapel Hill in Plain Sight written by Daphne Athas and published by Eno Publishers. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by novelist Daphne Athas about coming of age in Chapel Hill during the Depression, life during WWII and the McCarthy era. Athas delves into the world of Southern writers and the shifting of a small college town into the New South's technocracy juggernaut. These tales snatch "the veil off racism, classism, politics and Vanity Fair-worthy scandals that haunt," says writer Randall Kenan.

Mass Effect

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Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026202926X
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Mass Effect by : Lauren Cornell

Download or read book Mass Effect written by Lauren Cornell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, discussions, and image portfolios map the evolution of art forms engaged with the Internet. Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium—with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies. Mass Effect brings together nearly forty contributions, including newly commissioned essays and reprints, image portfolios, and transcribed discussion panels and lectures that offer insights and reflections from a wide range of artists, curators, art historians, and bloggers. Among the topics examined are the use of commercial platforms for art practice, what art means in an age of increasing surveillance, and questions surrounding such recent concepts as “postinternet.” Other contributions analyze and document particular works by the artists of And/Or Gallery, Cory Arcangel, DIS, Cao Fei, the Radical Software Group, and others. Mass Effect relaunches a publication series initiated by the MIT Press and the New Museum in 1984, which produced six defining volumes for the field of contemporary art. These new volumes will build on this historic partnership and reinvigorate the conversation around contemporary culture once again. Copublished with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images found in the physical edition. Contributors Cory Arcangel, Karen Archey, Michael Bell-Smith, Claire Bishop, Dora Budor, Johanna Burton, Paul Chan, Ian Cheng, Michael Connor, Lauren Cornell, Petra Cortright, Jesse Darling, Anne de Vries, DIS, Aleksandra Domanović, Harm van den Dorpel, Dragan Espenschied, Rózsa Zita Farkas, Azin Feizabadi, Alexander R. Galloway, Boris Groys, Ed Halter, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Jogging, Caitlin Jones, David Joselit, Dina Kafafi, John Kelsey, Alex Kitnick, Tina Kukielski, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, David Levine, Olia Lialina, Guthrie Lonergan, Jordan Lord, Jens Maier-Rothe, Shawn Maximo, Jennifer McCoy, Kevin McCoy, Gene McHugh, Tom Moody, Ceci Moss, Katja Novitskova, Marisa Olson, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Alexander Provan, Morgan Quaintance, Domenico Quaranta, Raqs Media Collective, Alix Rule, Timur Si-Qin, Josephine Berry Slater, Paul Slocum, Rebecca Solnit, Wolfgang Staehle, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Ben Vickers, Michael Wang, Tim Whidden, Anicka Yi, and Damon Zucconi

Greece by Prejudice

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Greece by Prejudice by : Daphne Athas

Download or read book Greece by Prejudice written by Daphne Athas and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American novelist tells of year spent with Greek relatives, mainly in the poor agricultural district of Hora in the Peloponnesus.

Colonial Homes in North Carolina

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Book Synopsis Colonial Homes in North Carolina by : John V. Allcott

Download or read book Colonial Homes in North Carolina written by John V. Allcott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-28 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Colonial Homes in North Carolina', John V. Allcott meticulously explores the architectural history and significance of colonial homes in the region. His prose is scholarly and detailed, providing a comprehensive look at the evolution of these homes from their early beginnings to their present state. Allcott's attention to detail and historical context make this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in the intersection of architecture and history in North Carolina. The book is filled with beautiful illustrations and photographs that bring to life the exquisite craftsmanship of these homes, enriching the reader's understanding of the subject. John V. Allcott, a renowned architectural historian, brings his expertise and passion for preserving historical buildings to 'Colonial Homes in North Carolina'. His research and background in the field make him uniquely qualified to delve into the intricate details of these homes and their importance in the region's history. Allcott's dedication to showcasing the beauty and significance of colonial homes shines through in his writing, captivating readers with his knowledge and insights. I highly recommend 'Colonial Homes in North Carolina' to anyone interested in the history and architecture of the region. John V. Allcott's thorough examination of these homes offers a fascinating and educational read for architecture enthusiasts, historians, and anyone curious about North Carolina's rich colonial heritage.

A Place Called Heaven

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis A Place Called Heaven by : Cecil Foster

Download or read book A Place Called Heaven written by Cecil Foster and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the troubled state of race relations in Canada -- the gap between what Canada promises its black immigrant, and what it delivers.

Variety (September 1926); 84

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Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014178619
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (786 download)

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Book Synopsis Variety (September 1926); 84 by : Variety

Download or read book Variety (September 1926); 84 written by Variety and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Public Servants

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262034816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Servants by : Johanna Burton

Download or read book Public Servants written by Johanna Burton and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays, dialogues, and art projects that illuminate the changing role of art as it responds to radical economic, political, and global shifts. How should we understand the purpose of publicly engaged art in the twenty-first century, when the very term “public art” is largely insufficient to describe such practices? Concepts such as “new genre public art,” “social practice,” or “socially engaged art” may imply a synergy between the role of art and the role of government in providing social services. Yet the arts and social services differ crucially in terms of their methods and metrics. Socially engaged artists need not be aligned (and may often be opposed) to the public sector and to institutionalized systems. In many countries, structures of democratic governance and public responsibility are shifting, eroding, and being remade in profound ways—driven by radical economic, political, and global forces. According to what terms and through what means can art engage with these changes? This volume gathers essays, dialogues, and art projects—some previously published and some newly commissioned—to illuminate the ways the arts shape and reshape a rapidly changing social and governmental landscape. An artist portfolio section presents original statements and projects by some of the key figures grappling with these ideas.

Transtrender

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Publisher : Quimerica Books / Ugly Duckling Presse
ISBN 13 : 9781937027841
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (278 download)

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Book Synopsis Transtrender by : Manuel Arturo Abreu

Download or read book Transtrender written by Manuel Arturo Abreu and published by Quimerica Books / Ugly Duckling Presse. This book was released on 2016 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. TRANSTRENDER is a book of lyric poems investigating the impossibility of language to express the bodily and social experience of transness. Written from an afrolatinx trans position, the work deals with the trap of visibility, the coloniality of gender, and the refusal of cogency in a moment where trans is trending (that is, being commodified and whitewashed). abreu manically darts from image to image in their poems, working in a digitally-influenced poetic register which, as Brian Droitcour describes, "looks like flarf but isn't." The result is a text that resists opportunities for the reader to connect the dots, instead pushing toward an expanded lyric awareness in which poiesis does not betray its site-specificity, and gender nonconformity is not confined to a false narrative of emergence from white modernity. Divided into four sections: untitled, naming, site-specific poems, amotivational speech.

Too Much Pi Will Give You a Large Circumference - Wide Ruled Composition Book

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781726265942
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (659 download)

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Book Synopsis Too Much Pi Will Give You a Large Circumference - Wide Ruled Composition Book by : Math Math Laughs

Download or read book Too Much Pi Will Give You a Large Circumference - Wide Ruled Composition Book written by Math Math Laughs and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - 7.5" x 9.7" - 120 lined pages - Wide Rule line spacing with 5244 digits of Pi on the back cover. - If you love math and reciting the digits of Pi you'll love this composition notebook. - The classic composition book size makes it the perfect notebook for taking notes in school or work or taking with you anywhere you go. - Wide ruled lined pages are perfect for class notes from Elementary School, Middle School, High School, and college. It's also a fun alternative to plain notebooks and note pads for mathematicians and business people. - Soft, matte finish cover is a joy to hold. - Makes a great gift for math students and an awesome present for math teachers and engineers.

Born on Pi Day Birthday March 14th Maths Math 3. 14 Number PI Notebook 6x9,Journal 114 Lined Pages,Diary for Women and Girl

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Total Pages : 114 pages
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Book Synopsis Born on Pi Day Birthday March 14th Maths Math 3. 14 Number PI Notebook 6x9,Journal 114 Lined Pages,Diary for Women and Girl by : Heather Haseman

Download or read book Born on Pi Day Birthday March 14th Maths Math 3. 14 Number PI Notebook 6x9,Journal 114 Lined Pages,Diary for Women and Girl written by Heather Haseman and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notebook is perfect for your journal or daily use. You can also make this as gifts for your friends and family. Perfect notebook for work or classes.Perfect Gift for Women or Girl. Beautiful cover design Specifications: Cover Finish: Matte Dimensions: 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) Interior: Blank, White Paper, Lined Pages: 114