Men In Black Dresses

Author : Yvonne L. Seng
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781439104569

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Men in Black Dresses by Yvonne L. Seng Pdf

If we pause long enough, we can hear, above the din of our planet's rapid globalization and technological advancement, the quiet voices of spiritual leaders from ancient faiths. Middle East historian Yvonne Seng asks, What can these modern Desert Fathers with their long history of survival advise us on the future of our planet? Her intellectual quest rapidly becomes a personal journey that turns her Western training and perceptions on their head. Men In Black Dresses takes the reader behind the walls of desert monasteries, Sufi enclaves, ancient cathedrals and mosques -- where the author knocks, uninvited, and waits for the wise men to allow her in. Once inside, they discuss the universal concerns of the environment and the Internet, the building of a global community, and the education of coming generations, as well as the state of the human spirit.

Author : John Harvey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-12-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 0226318834

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Men in Black by John Harvey Pdf

Concentrating on the general shift away from color that began around 1800, Harvey traces the transition to black from the court of Burgundy in the fifteenth century, through sixteenth-century Venice, seventeenth-century Spain and the Netherlands. He uses paintings from Van Eyck and Degas to Francis Bacon, religious art, period lithographs, wood engravings, costume books, newsphotos, movie stills and related sources in his compelling study of the meaning of color and clothes.

Author : Jim Keith
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781948803083

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Casebook On the Men In Black by Jim Keith Pdf

According to the lore, UFO witnesses are sometimes harassed or intimidated by mysterious men dressed entirely in black. Are they government agents, sinister aliens or interdimensional creatures? Jim Keith follows up his previous books with this investigation of various Men in Black stories. Known to Ufologists as M.I.B.s, Keith chronicles the strange goings on surrounding UFO activity and often bizarre cars that they arrive in—literal flying cars! Chapters include: Black Arts; Demons and Witches; Black Lodge; Maury Island; On a Bender; The Silence Group; Overlords and UMMO; More Black Ops; Indrid Cold; M.I.B.s in a Test Tube; Green Yard; The Hoaxers; Gray Areas; You Will Cease UFO Study; Beyond Reality; The Real/Unreal Men in Black; Deciphering a Nightmare; more.

Author : Maria M. Gillan
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1550711563

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Italian Women in Black Dresses by Maria M. Gillan Pdf

Italian Women in Black Dresses reads like a memoir, detailing the life of a family across generations and giving us a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around which this family revolves. The mother's stories and words shape the lives of her daughter and granddaughter, but this book is about much more than ethnicity. Gillan's work succeeds in transcending any single identity category and explores instead the multiple ways in which each of us learns to identify him or herself.

Author : SELAHATTİN AYDOĞDU
Publisher : selahattin aydoğdu
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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TEMPLE OF THE TIMELESSNESS by SELAHATTİN AYDOĞDU Pdf

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Author : José Blanco F.,Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst,Heather Vaughan Lee,Mary Doering
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1679 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610693103

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Clothing and Fashion [4 volumes] by José Blanco F.,Patricia Kay Hunt-Hurst,Heather Vaughan Lee,Mary Doering Pdf

This unique four-volume encyclopedia examines the historical significance of fashion trends, revealing the social and cultural connections of clothing from the precolonial times to the present day. This sweeping overview of fashion and apparel covers several centuries of American history as seen through the lens of the clothes we wear—from the Native American moccasin to Manolo Blahnik's contribution to stiletto heels. Through four detailed volumes, this work delves into what people wore in various periods in our country's past and why—from hand-crafted family garments in the 1600s, to the rough clothing of slaves, to the sophisticated textile designs of the 21st century. More than 100 fashion experts and clothing historians pay tribute to the most notable garments, accessories, and people comprising design and fashion. The four volumes contain more than 800 alphabetical entries, with each volume representing a different era. Content includes fascinating information such as that beginning in 1619 through 1654, every man in Virginia was required to plant a number of mulberry trees to support the silk industry in England; what is known about the clothing of enslaved African Americans; and that there were regulations placed on clothing design during World War II. The set also includes color inserts that better communicate the visual impact of clothing and fashion across eras.

Author : Robert Laxalt
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780874173956

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The Land of My Fathers by Robert Laxalt Pdf

In 1960, renowned Nevada writer Robert Laxalt moved himself and his family to a small Basque village in the French Pyrenees. The son of Basque emigrants, Laxalt wanted to learn as much as he could about the ancient and mysterious people from which he was descended and about the country from which his parents came. Thanks to his Basque surname and a wide network of family connections, Laxalt was able to penetrate the traditional reserve of the Basques in a way that outsiders rarely can. In the process, he gained rare insight into the nature of the Basques and the isolated, beautiful mountain world where they have lived for uncounted centuries. Based on Laxalt’s personal journals of this and a later sojourn in 1965, The Land of My Fathers is a moving record of a people and their homeland. Through Laxalt’s perceptive eyes and his wife Joyce’s photographs, we observe the Basques’ market days and festivals, join their dove hunts and harvests, share their humor and history, their deep sense of nationalism, their abiding pride in their culture and their homes, and discover the profound sources of the Basques’ strength and their endurance as a people. Photography by Joyce Laxalt.

Author : Rachel
Publisher : Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Loving the Mafia Boss by Rachel Pdf

“Loving him is like shaking hands with the devil. It will be exciting at the same time, scares you to death.” In her never-ending life, 23-year-old Ashley wanted nothing but a decent job to escape her poverty. But her life took a sudden twist and turn when she accidentally met Vincent, Capo of an infamous Mafia group. Ashley got dragged into his world and never thought it was going to haunt her in every way. He’s a dangerous man, and more importantly, he has special attention on her, and she finds it so frightening. Stuck in between her boring world and in his risky yet thrilling life, Ashley put in a compulsion to choose one, and he made sure that it has to be his world! Can Ashley evade his charisma? Or is she going to stop her senses that reacting to his ways?

Author : Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600067503

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Jerry: a Novel of Yankee American Life by Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols Pdf

Author : Jill Fields
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520223691

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An Intimate Affair by Jill Fields Pdf

Presents the history of twentieth-century lingerie. This book examines the ways cultural meanings are orchestrated by the 'fashion-industrial complex, ' and the ways in which individuals and groups embrace, reject, or derive meaning from these everyday, yet significant, intimate articles of clothing.

Author : Karin M. Ekström,Helene Brembeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000182828

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Elusive Consumption by Karin M. Ekström,Helene Brembeck Pdf

In the context of rising consumerism and globalization, books on consumption are numerous. These tend to be firmly rooted in particular disciplines, however sociology, anthropology, business or cultural studies and as a result often present a blinkered view. Charged with the mission of unravelling what consumption means and how it operates, the worlds leading experts were flown to a secluded location in Sweden to 'battle it out'. This pioneering book represents the outcome. Ranging from the 'little black dress' to on-line communities, Elusive Consumption challenges our very understanding of consumerism. How successful is the advertising world in manipulating our buying patterns? Does the global marketplace promote cultural homogeneity or heterogeneity? Is the West really more of a 'consumerist civilization' than other countries? Does the advertising of certain products influence a voters choice of political party? How are products associated and marketed to different genders? These controversial topics and many more are discussed. Covering virtually every aspect of the word 'consumerism', Elusive Consumption provides a state-of-the-art view of the highly commercialized society we inhabit today. Some might have it that consumers are unwitting pawns, completely lacking in agency. Others might argue that consumer choices are empowering and subtly shape production. Richard Wilk, Colin Campbell, John F. Sherry, Richard Elliott, Russell Belk, and Daniel Miller who offers the most persuasive argument in this battle royal?

Author : Martin Sampierre
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Italian Americans
ISBN : 0845348124

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The Legacy of Achille Martino by Martin Sampierre Pdf

Author : Malcolm Barnard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351583657

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Fashion Theory by Malcolm Barnard Pdf

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader brings together and presents a wide range of essays on fashion theory that will engage and inform both the general reader and the specialist student of fashion. From apparently simple and accessible theories concerning what fashion is to seemingly more difficult or challenging theories concerning globalisation and new media, this collection contextualises different theoretical approaches to identify, analyse and explain the remarkable diversity, complexity and beauty of what we understand and experience every day as fashion and clothing. This second edition contains entirely new sections on fashion and sustainability, fashion and globalisation, fashion and digital/social media and fashion and the body/prosthesis. It also contains updated and revised sections on fashion, identity and difference, and on fashion and consumption and fashion as communication. More specifically, the section on identity and difference has been updated to include contemporary theoretical debates surrounding Islam and fashion, and LGBT+ communities and fashion and the section on consumption now includes theories of 'prosumption'. Each section has a specialist and dedicated Editor's Introduction which provides essential conceptual background, theoretical contextualisation and critical summaries of the readings in each section. Bringing together the most influential and ground breaking writers on fashion and exposing the ideas and theories behind what they say, this unique collection of extracts and essays brings to light the presuppositions involved in the things we all think and say about fashion. This second edition of Fashion Theory: A Reader is a timeless and invaluable resource for both the general reader and undergraduate students across a range of disciplines including sociology, cultural studies and fashion studies.

Author : Willis Barnstone
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253110220

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We Jews and Blacks by Willis Barnstone Pdf

A central theme of this memoir by poet and translator Willis Barnstone is that of labels -- names, ethnicities, all distinctions that cause suspicion, anger, and destruction. A fresh and significant contribution to American letters, We Jews and Blacks wrestles with problems of identity, difference, and the human condition. It is a dramatic, whimsical, and literary work that also contains a number of Barnstone's poems, which offer a second view of an event, a crystallization of his thinking, both sorrowful and joyful. The book includes a dialogue with Yusef Komunyakaa and a small selection of his poems.

Author : Lulu Taylor
Publisher : Random House
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446410042

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Midnight Girls by Lulu Taylor Pdf

A glitzy, gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Her Frozen Heart. From the prestigious dormitories of Westfield to the irresistible socialite scene of present-day London: everywhere Allegra McCorquodale goes, scandal follows her. And in Allegra's shadow are her closest friends since school, the Midnight Girls. Romily de Lisle: super rich, brilliant and bored. She's as blessed as Allegra when it comes to looks, but she's a force to be reckoned with. And Imogen Heath: pretty, timid and hopelessly drawn to Allegra's reckless charm. She longs to be a part of the glitzy high-society world where her friends move with such ease. Once free of the cloistered worlds of school and university, the Midnight Girls face new and different challenges, but they are for ever bonded by a terrible secret they've sworn never to break. Bitter rivalries arise as their professional lives soon cross paths. Greed, tragedy and sinister passions threaten their allegiance and each of them stand to lose what they love most...