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Author : Harvey Manes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578428819
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Collecting Art written by Harvey Manes and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know about starting an art collection.
Author : Whitman Publishing
Publisher : Whitman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780794834067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Collecting Rare Coins for Pleasure and Profit written by Whitman Publishing and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to coin collecting for beginners. Everything from buying tips to coin storage. This title will cover all the basics that beginning collectors need to know.
Author : Paul Bloom
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039307711X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like written by Paul Bloom and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging, evocative…[Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling." —NPR Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing’s history, origin, and deeper nature.
Author : Mary Gaitskill
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524749141
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book This Is Pleasure written by Mary Gaitskill and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Bad Behavior in the 1980s, Mary Gaitskill has been writing about gender relations with searing, even prophetic honesty. In This Is Pleasure, she considers our present moment through the lens of a particular #MeToo incident. The effervescent, well-dressed Quin, a successful book editor and fixture on the New York arts scene, has been accused of repeated unforgivable transgressions toward women in his orbit. But are they unforgivable? And who has the right to forgive him? To Quin’s friend Margot, the wrongdoing is less clear. Alternating Quin’s and Margot’s voices and perspectives, Gaitskill creates a nuanced tragicomedy, one that reveals her characters as whole persons—hurtful and hurting, infuriating and touching, and always deeply recognizable. Gaitskill has said that fiction is the only way that she could approach this subject because it is too emotionally faceted to treat in the more rational essay form. Her compliment to her characters—and to her readers—is that they are unvarnished and real. Her belief in our ability to understand them, even when we don’t always admire them, is a gesture of humanity from one of our greatest contemporary writers.
Author : Sappharia Mayer
Publisher : Eidyllio Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1648930301
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (489 download)
Download or read book An Exquisite Pleasure written by Sappharia Mayer and published by Eidyllio Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is the line between agony and pleasure? Lexus Davenport bet everything to dive into the deep end of this unknown world. For weeks she's experienced agony in many forms, at the hand of Estate. Now, sitting on the edge of it all, will her new contract bring a new perspective? Will she embrace her alternative path to pleasure or will pain be her only relief?
Author : Elizabeth A. T. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain written by Elizabeth A. T. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain presents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Joseph, Beuys, Christo, Iìigo Manglano-Ovalle, KerryJames Marshall, Mariko Mori, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare and H. C. Westermann. In an introductory essay, chief curator Elizabeth Smith discusses key trends in art from World War II to the present and provides a brief history of the MCA and its collection. Additional, accessible short texts by the curatorial staff of the MCA focus on individiual works.
Author : Shirley M. Mueller
Publisher : Lucia Marquand
ISBN 13 : 9780999652275
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (522 download)
Download or read book Inside the Head of a Collector written by Shirley M. Mueller and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collecting objects gives enormous pleasure to approximately one third of the population. On the other hand, the same pursuit can engender pain. Now, for the first time, scientific research in neuro- and behavioral economics gives us a way to enhance the positive aspects of collecting and minimize the negative. Author Shirley M. Mueller, MD, relates her own experiences as a serious collector and as a neuroscientist to examine different behavioral traits which characterize collectors"--
Author : Rudi Matthee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832608
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Pursuit of Pleasure written by Rudi Matthee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphaël du Mans, provided Iranians with damagh, gave them a "kick," got them into a good mood. By tracing their historical trajectory and the role they played in early modern Iranian society (1500-1900), Rudi Matthee takes a major step in extending contemporary debates on the role of drugs and stimulants in shaping the modern West. At once panoramic and richly detailed, The Pursuit of Pleasure examines both the intoxicants known since ancient times--wine and opiates--and the stimulants introduced later--tobacco, coffee, and tea--from multiple angles. It brings together production, commerce, and consumption to reveal the forces behind the spread and popularity of these consumables, showing how Iranians adapted them to their own needs and tastes and integrated them into their everyday lives. Matthee further employs psychoactive substances as a portal for a set of broader issues in Iranian history--most notably, the tension between religious and secular leadership. Faced with reality, Iran's Shi`i ulama turned a blind eye to drug use as long as it stayed indoors and did not threaten the social order. Much of this flexibility remains visible underneath the uncompromising exterior of the current Islamic Republic.
Author : Teresa Cremin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317678850
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Building Communities of Engaged Readers written by Teresa Cremin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading for pleasure urgently requires a higher profile to raise attainment and increase children’s engagement as self-motivated and socially interactive readers. Building Communities of Engaged Readers highlights the concept of ‘Reading Teachers’ who are not only knowledgeable about texts for children, but are aware of their own reading identities and prepared to share their enthusiasm and understanding of what being a reader means. Sharing the processes of reading with young readers is an innovative approach to developing new generations of readers. Examining the interplay between the ‘will and the skill’ to read, the book distinctively details a reading for pleasure pedagogy and demonstrates that reader engagement is strongly influenced by relationships between children, teachers, families and communities. Importantly it provides compelling evidence that reciprocal reading communities in school encompass: a shared concept of what it means to be a reader in the 21st century; considerable teacher and child knowledge of children’s literature and other texts; pedagogic practices which acknowledge and develop diverse reader identities; spontaneous ‘inside-text talk’ on the part of all members; a shift in the focus of control and new social spaces that encourage choice and children’s rights as readers. Written by experts in the literacy field and illustrated throughout with examples from the project schools, it is essential reading for all those concerned with improving young people’s enjoyment of and attainment in reading.
Author : Judy Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917860829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Judy Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the history, social ties, fashion, dance, and music of second lines, participatory parades put on by New Orleans's network of social aid and pleasure clubs. "Dancing in the Streets" brings together historical photographs with the work of ten contemporary second line photographers, profiles all clubs active today, and explores the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tradition"--
Author : CoCo Poetress Amoure
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304489698
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Pleasure, Passion, Pain -- My Heart’s Cry A Collection of Poetry written by CoCo Poetress Amoure and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with love, sensuality & hope. It will touch on lives experiences.
Author : Peter Galassi (Museumskurator)
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort written by Peter Galassi (Museumskurator) and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (246 download)
Download or read book ABC for Book Collectors written by John Carter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lou Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781643620176
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book We Both Laughed in Pleasure written by Lou Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from Sullivan's meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives.
Author : Nina Leger
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 184627687X
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Collection written by Nina Leger and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PRIX ANAS NIN Jeanne moves from room to room. In the anonymous hotel bedrooms of Paris - Hotel Agate, Hotel Prince Albert, Hotel Prince Monceau, Hotel Coypel, Hotel Nord & Champagne - she undresses man after man, forgetting faces, names, pleasures, thoughts, and all physical attributes but one. In her head, a palace of memories is being built, image by new image, lover by new lover. There is no pathologizing Jeanne; she resists it. There is no way to impose a story on Jeanne; she escapes it. There is no pitying Jeanne, no lusting after Jeanne, no uncovering the secret to Jeanne; she won't allow it. Jeanne moves from room to room.
Author : Carole S. Vance
Publisher : Pandora Press
ISBN 13 : 9780044408673
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Pleasure and Danger written by Carole S. Vance and published by Pandora Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a contribution to the discussion of sexuality for women - sexual danger and sexual pleasure.
Author : Kim Gallon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252043222
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Pleasure in the News written by Kim Gallon and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance—arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity. Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Sensational coverage also expanded African American women’s sexual consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth African American urban communities. Informative and empowering, Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press in African American history and advancement while shedding light on the important cultural and social role that sexuality played in the power of the black press.
