Автор: Downing, K. K. Название: Heavy duty ISBN: 1472128699 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472128690 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 2275.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a visual and narrative history of the architectural evolution and urban development of Southwest Florida as shown in Fort Myers. The city`s famed McGregor Boulevard continues to draw visitors with its eclectic blend of houses and unique histories. Jared Beck and Pamela Miner share stories about the creators and owners of these one-of-a-kind properties, accompanied by striking photographs.
Автор: Norton Rebecca Huffstutler, Ripley Karen Downing Название: Medina Lake ISBN: 1531657141 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781531657147 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 4413.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
In recent years, girls' and mixed-gender ensembles have challenged the tradition of male-dominated gamelan performance. The change heralds a fundamental shift in how Balinese think about gender roles and the gender behavior taught in children's music education. It also makes visible a national reorganization of the arts taking place within debates over issues like women's rights and cultural preservation. Sonja Lynn Downing draws on over a decade of immersive ethnographic work to analyze the ways Balinese musical practices have influenced the processes behind these dramatic changes. As Downing shows, girls and young women assert their agency within the gamelan learning process to challenge entrenched notions of performance and gender. One dramatic result is the creation of new combinations of femininity, musicality, and Balinese identity that resist messages about gendered behavior from the Indonesian nation-state and beyond. Such experimentation expands the accepted gender aesthetics of gamelan performance but also sparks new understanding of the role children can and do play in ongoing debates about identity and power.
Автор: Robinson, Nick Название: Live From Downing Street HB ISBN: 0593066804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780593066805 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Цена: 2640.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The relationship between those who wield power and those whose job it is to tell us what they are doing has always been fraught with tension. Politicians now expect to be on camera and facing aggressive questions from the moment they open their front door to the moment they return home at night. Everything they say and do is instantly broadcast and dissected on 24-hour news channels, blogs and Twitter.
It was not always this way. "Live from Downing Street" takes us on an absorbing journey through the hard-fought battles for the right to tell the public about the decisions taken on their behalf. Parliament once imprisoned those who dared to report what MPs had said.
Broadcasters used to be banned by law from debating anything newsworthy and even from covering elections. Since that censorship ended, the two sides have clashed repeatedly. We follow the fluctuations of the power struggle from Walpole to modern times, dwelling in fascinating detail on those who fought back - Churchill, Wilson, Thatcher and Blair.
At the same time we learn of the emergence of the equally charismatic key players from radio and television: the Dimblebys, Day, Frost, Walden, Paxman and Humphrys. Nick Robinson provides a colourful and personal examination of what life is like as the BBC's Political Editor - a role described in a report for the White House as 'the most important job in British political journalism'. Peppered with informative but witty anecdotes, his account reveals his own considered view of the controversial issue of impartial reporting.
"Live from Downing Street" is a gripping story written by someone uniquely placed to add his own perceptive insights and observations.
Автор: Downing David C. Название: Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel ISBN: 1640603492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640603493 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2482.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It is 1940, and American Tom McCord, a 23-year-old graduate student, is in England researching the historical evidence for the legendary King Arthur. There he meets perky and intuitive Laura Hartman, a fellow American staying with her aunt in Oxford, and the two of them team up for an even more ambitious and dangerous quest.
Aided by the Inklings -- that illustrious circle of scholars and writers made famous by its two most prolific members, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien -- Tom and Laura begin to suspect that the fabled Spear of Destiny, the lance that pierced the side of Christ on the Cross, is hidden somewhere in England.
Автор: Downing Debra Burr Название: Mary Grace: and the Clarmont Girls ISBN: 1545665303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781545665305 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
After moving from Georgia to Ontario, Canada, Mary Grace discovered Clarmont Boarding School, an all-girls school not too far from her parents. For the sixteen-year-old only child, the opportunity for branching out and roommates was too good to pass up. In the classic English-looking castle that was Clarmont, this southern girl would be happy to make friends with her Canadian classmates, get involved with schemes, and learn to be a Clarmont lady. Boarding school would be everything Mary Grace wanted it to be with adventures, a new culture, and a bit of romance. Though at times there would be trials, with her faith, the love of her family, and good friends, she would make it through. Now, discover the story of Mary Grace.
In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. He explores how writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin drew on the ancient practice of divination, connecting the Greek idea of sympathetic magic to the German aesthetic concept of the attunement of mood and atmosphere.
Downing deftly traces the genealogical connection between reading and art in classical antiquity, nineteenth-century realism, and modernism, attending to the ways in which the modern re-enchantment of the world—both in nature and human society—consciously engaged ancient practices that aimed at preternatural prediction. Of particular significance to the argument presented in The Chain of Things is how the future figured into the reading of texts during this period, a time when the future as a narrative determinant or article of historical faith was losing its force. Elaborating a new theory of magic as a critical tool, Downing secures crucial links between the governing notions of time, world, the "real," and art.
ООО "Логосфера " Тел:+7(495) 980-12-10 www.logobook.ru
