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Reinventing Leona

Author : Lynne Gentry
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414366574
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Leona written by Lynne Gentry and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leona Harper loves being a pastor's wife. Except for the little tiff with her grown children, Leona feels her life is right on track with the wishes of the Almighty ... until her husband drops dead in the pulpit. When the church board decides to fill the Reverend's vacated position, Leona is forced to find a paying job, mend her fractured family, and tackle her fears. Can the faith of an overwhelmed widow withstand the added heartache of two resentful children and several underhanded church members? If Leona can't trust God, how will she learn to trust herself?

Reinventing Hollywood

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648789X
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Hollywood written by David Bordwell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable ways. Soundtracks flaunted voice-over commentary, and characters might pivot from a scene to address the viewer. Incidents were replayed from different characters’ viewpoints, and sometimes those versions proved to be false. Films now plunged viewers into characters’ memories, dreams, and hallucinations. Some films didn’t have protagonists, while others centered on anti-heroes or psychopaths. Women might be on the verge of madness, and neurotic heroes lurched into violent confrontations. Combining many of these ingredients, a new genre emerged—the psychological thriller, populated by women in peril and innocent bystanders targeted for death. If this sounds like today’s cinema, that’s because it is. In Reinventing Hollywood, David Bordwell examines the full range and depth of trends that crystallized into traditions. He shows how the Christopher Nolans and Quentin Tarantinos of today owe an immense debt to the dynamic, occasionally delirious narrative experiments of the Forties. Through in-depth analyses of films both famous and virtually unknown, from Our Town and All About Eve to Swell Guy and The Guilt of Janet Ames, Bordwell assesses the era’s unique achievements and its legacy for future filmmakers. Reinventing Hollywood is a groundbreaking study of how Hollywood storytelling became a more complex art and essential reading for lovers of popular cinema.

Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical

Author : Robert L. McLaughlin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496808568
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical written by Robert L. McLaughlin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of American musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean. Sondheim's brilliant array of work, including such musicals as Company, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Into the Woods, has established him as the preeminent composer/lyricist of his, if not all, time. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical places Sondheim's work in two contexts: the exhaustion of the musical play and the postmodernism that, by the 1960s, deeply influenced all the American arts. Sondheim's musicals are central to the transition from the Rodgers and Hammerstein-style musical that had dominated Broadway stages for twenty years to a new postmodern musical. This new style reclaimed many of the self-aware, performative techniques of the 1930s musical comedy to develop its themes of the breakdown of narrative knowledge and the fragmentation of identity. In his most recent work, Sondheim, who was famously mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II, stretches toward a twenty-first-century musical that seeks to break out of the self-referring web of language. Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical offers close readings of all of Sondheim's musicals and finds in them critiques of the operation of power, questioning of conventional systems of knowledge, and explorations of contemporary identity.

Catherine's Pursuit

Author : Lena Dooley Nelson
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1621360202
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Catherine's Pursuit written by Lena Dooley Nelson and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThe search for her sisters will become a spiritual journey for the entire family./divDIVRaised by her father, Catherine McKenna has never lacked for anything, surrounded by people to take care of her every need. On her eighteenth birthday she discovers that not only did her mother die when she was born, but she also has two identical sisters. Although her father vowed not to look for his daughters, Catherine made no such promise. Setting out on her own with one clue and her maid in tow, she’s bound and determined to find her sisters./divDIV /divCollin Elliott has seen better days. After losing his ship to a violent and unexpected storm, he is trying to recover—physically and emotionally. When Angus McKenna sends him to find, follow, and protect his pampered daughter, he wants nothing more than to finish his task and return home. Can he help her find her sisters? And will the discoveries they make along the way teach them both what’s most important in life?

Redefining The Soul Mate

Author : Leona Marie Hetherington
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1456814672
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Redefining The Soul Mate written by Leona Marie Hetherington and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fantasy/Action/Adventure thriller, the rogue demon Leachim tricks Princess Lolana of Cloudlife into the vortex of fire where she is born as a human child named Elle. As her chosen soul mate, Leachim is dictated by the Cloudlife chief council to find a means to benefit the princess or to be destroyed as negative energy and forced to the Nebula for all eternity. Leachim has other plans for the princess and her human energy source when he discovers she is the destined protector to save the planet. The Cover and illustrations are designs of Lousiana native artist Angela Weddle.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder

Author : Sarah Tindal Kareem
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191003123
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder written by Sarah Tindal Kareem and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth-century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that wonder is integral to—rather than antithetical to—the developing techniques of novelistic fiction. Positioning its reader on the cusp between recognition and estrangement, between faith and doubt, modern fiction hinges upon wonder. Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder unfolds its new account of fiction's rise through surprising readings of classic early novels—from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe to Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey—and brings to attention lesser-known works, most notably Rudolf Raspe's Baron Munchausen's Narrative of His Marvellous Travels. In this bold new account, the eighteenth century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's relocation from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a reevaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.

Reinventing Traditional Alaska Native Performance

Author : Thomas Riccio
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Traditional Alaska Native Performance written by Thomas Riccio and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Riccio's work vividly demonstrates the capacity of the human being, whomever they are, to cross over the gap that unfortunately exists between people. Dr. Riccio through the mechanism of theatre, has cleverly built a bridge between differing worldviews, and has done it well. This kind of bridging is magical and sometimes mystical, which is appropriate for Alaska native cultures and the art of performance.

Wilde Style

Author : Neil Sammells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317879503
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Wilde Style written by Neil Sammells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new study of the major prose and plays of Oscar Wilde argues that his dominant aesthetic category is not art but style. It is this major emphasis on style and attitude which helps mark Wilde so graphically as our contemporary. Beginning with a survey of current Wilde criticism, the book demonstrates the way his own critical essays anticipate much contemporary cultural theory and inform his own practice as a writer.

Reinvention Roundtable

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinvention Roundtable written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reinventing Certainties

Author : Matthew Wheelock Stahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Certainties written by Matthew Wheelock Stahl and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education

Author : Paul T. Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815798583
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education written by Paul T. Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter schools are among the most debated and least understood phenomena in American education today. At the heart of these matters is a contested question of accountability. To survive, charter schools must make and keep promises about what students will experience and learn under their purview. However, unlike public schools, charter schools do not rely exclusively on their relationship with school districts. They must also look to parents, teachers, and donors to cooperatively establish expectations of a particular school and its mission. Aimed toward elected officials, school reform activists, and educators, this book is the result of the first national-scale study of charter school accountability. The authors researched one hundred-fifty schools and sixty authorizing agencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Michigan. These states contain the majority of charter schools that have been operating for three years or more and represent the major differences in state charter school legislation. The authors include interviews from a range of participants in the field©¡from state legislators and administrators to principals, teachers, and parents. In assessing the structure of accountability as it works internally to bolster external confidence, Hill and Lake suggest the struggle of charter schools actually complements those of standards based reform. Both seek to transform public education to make schools responsible for performance, not compliance.

English Creek

Author : Ivan Doig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476745145
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book English Creek written by Ivan Doig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prize-winning portrait of a time and place—Montana in the 1930s—that at once inspires and fulfills a longing for an explicable past, Ivan Doig has created one of the most captivating families in American fiction, the McCaskills. The witty and haunting narration, a masterpiece of vernacular in the tradition of Twain, follows the events of the Two Medicine country's summer: the tide of sheep moving into the high country, the capering Fourth of July rodeo and community dance, and an end-of-August forest fire high in the Rockies that brings the book, as well as the McCaskill family's struggle within itself, to a stunning climax. It is a season of escapade as well as drama, during which fourteen-year-old Jick comes of age. Through his eyes we see those nearest and dearest to him at a turning point—“where all four of our lives made their bend”—and discover along with him his own connection to the land, to history, and to the deep-fathomed mysteries of one’s kin and one’s self.

The Apis Bull

Author : C. Brooks
Publisher : Publish America
ISBN 13 : 9781424137336
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Apis Bull written by C. Brooks and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Apis Bull is a novel about an embittered veteran returning home after World War II to take up where he had left off two years before, that of farming along with his dominating father and an unloving mother. During one of his military assignments, Doyle Cutteridge had been introduced to an ancient Egyptian cult of the Apis Bulls. Apis enters into the farmeras life back in Indiana. The handsome artistic farmer, while attempting to work in partnership with his father, becomes romantically involved with an ambitious, independent city girl with an ugly secret. As Doyle and Abby struggle to find their destiny with each other in the changing world of post-World War II, they are forced to cope with a sudden tragedy that compromises their future relationship. What brilliant creation caused a bizarre reaction that broke the spell of repressed guilt and desire?

Federal Quality News

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Quality News written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Otherwise Engaged

Author : Amanda Quick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110162101X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Otherwise Engaged written by Amanda Quick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller! Miss Amity Doncaster, world traveler, is accustomed to adventure and risk. Benedict Stanbridge, a man of science and a spy for the Crown, has faced danger in the darker corners of foreign lands. Now they are about to face a threat that is shockingly close to home… One does not expect to be kidnapped on a London street in broad daylight. Yet Amity Doncaster barely escapes with her life after she is trapped in a carriage with the killer known in the press as the Bridegroom. He is unwholesomely obsessed by her scandalous connection to Benedict Stanbridge—gossip about their hours alone in a ship’s stateroom seems to have crossed the Atlantic faster than any sailing vessel could. Benedict refuses to let this resourceful, daring woman suffer for her romantic link to him—as tenuous as it may be. For a man and woman so skilled at disappearing, so at home in the exotic reaches of the globe, escape is always an option. But each intends to end the Bridegroom’s reign of terror in London. And as they join forces and prepare to confront an unbalanced criminal in the heart of the city they love, they must also face feelings that neither can run from...

Pinned for Murder

Author : Elizabeth Lynn Casey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101443898
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Pinned for Murder written by Elizabeth Lynn Casey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The members of South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle are as loyal and close-knit as the day is long. But when the richest and meanest woman in town turns up murdered, the new Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair finds that some threads can bind dangerously tight.

Transnational South America

Author : Ori Preuss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317435206
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Transnational South America written by Ori Preuss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between South American cities—mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro—during the period of their modernization. The book reconstructs this largely overlooked trend toward connectedness both as an objective process and as an assemblage of visions and policies concentrating on diverse transnational practices such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, cultural diplomacy, intertextuality, and institutional and personal contacts. Inspired by the entangled history approach and the spatial turn in the humanities, the book highlights the importance of cross-border exchanges within the South American continent. It thus offers a correction to two major traditions in the historiography of ideas and identities in modern Latin America: the predominance of the nation-state as the main unit of analysis, and the concentration on relationships with Europe and the U.S. as the main axis of cultural exchange. Modernization, it is argued, brought segments of South America’s capital cities not only close to Paris, London, and New York, as is commonly claimed, but also to each other both physically and mentally, creating and recreating spaces, ways of thinking, and cultural-political projects at the national and regional levels.