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The Spectacular

Zoe Whittall
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Author : Zoe Whittall
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443455251

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It’s taboo to regret motherhood. But what would happen if you did? Shifting perspectives and time periods, The Spectacular is a multi-generational story exploring sexuality, gender and the weight of reproductive freedoms, from the author of The Best Kind of People It’s 1997 and Missy’s band has finally hit the big time as they tour across America. At age twenty-two, Missy gets on stage every night and plays the song about her absent mother that made the band famous. The only girl in the band, she’s determined to party just as hard as everyone else, loving and leaving someone in every town—until she’s left stranded at the border because of a forgotten party favour. Forty-something Carola is just surfacing from a sex scandal at the yoga centre where she has been living when she sees her daughter, Missy, for the first time in ten years—on the cover of a music magazine. Ruth, eighty-three, is planning her return to the Turkish seaside village where she spent her childhood. But when her granddaughter, Missy, crashes at her house, she decides it’s time the strong and stubborn women in her family find a way to understand one another again. In this book, by turns sharp and provocative, Zoe Whittall captures three generations of very different women who struggle to build an authentic life in the absence of traditional familial and marital structures. Definitions of family, romance, gender and love will radically change as they seek out lives that are nothing less than spectacular.

Spectacular Homes of the Pacific Northwest

Brian Carabet,John Shand
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Author : Brian Carabet,John Shand
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0974574740

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More than 250 photographs of nearly 40 leading designers in Washington and Oregon.

Spectacular Blackness

Amy Abugo Ongiri
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Author : Amy Abugo Ongiri
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813928593

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Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity. While other books have adopted either a literary approach to the language, poetry, and arts of these movements or a historical analysis of them, Ongiri's captures the cultural and political interconnections of the postwar period by using an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from cinema studies and music theory. She traces the emergence of this Black aesthetic from its origin in the Black Power movement's emphasis on the creation of visual icons and the Black Arts movement's celebration of urban vernacular culture.

Spectacular Bid

Peter Lee
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Author : Peter Lee
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780813177830

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“Lee does a masterful job of telling the entire and real story of a racing star who overcame numerous obstacles . . . a book that you cannot put down!” —Brian Zipse, managing partner of Derby Day Racing On the morning of the 1979 Belmont Stakes, Spectacular Bid stepped on a safety pin in his stall, injuring his foot. He had impressively won the first two races—the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness—but finished third in the Belmont, most likely due to his injury, making him one win shy of becoming the sport’s third straight Triple Crown champion. But that loss did not prevent him from becoming one of horse racing’s greatest competitors. After taking two months to recover, the battleship gray colt would go on to win twenty-six of thirty races during his career, with two second-place finishes and one third. He was voted the tenth greatest Thoroughbred of the twentieth century according to Blood-Horse magazine, and A Century of Champions places him ninth in the world and third among North American horses—even ahead of the renowned Man o’ War. This horse biography tells the story of the honest and not-so-glamorous colorful characters surrounding the champion—including Bud Delp, the brash and cocky trainer who was distrustful of the Kentucky establishment, and Ron Franklin, the nineteen-year-old jockey who buckled under the stress and pressure associated with fame—and how they witnessed firsthand the splendor and triumphs of Spectacular Bid. Including contemporary newspaper accounts of Bid’s exploits and interviews with key players in his story, this is an encompassing look into the legacy of one of horse racing’s true champions.

Spectacular Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 1

Gerry Conway,Archie Goodwin,Bill Mantlo,Jim Shooter
Spectacular Spider Man Masterworks Vol 1 Book PDF

Author : Gerry Conway,Archie Goodwin,Bill Mantlo,Jim Shooter
Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781302498917

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Collects Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #1-15. In 1976, Spidey notched his second solo series under the direction of Gerry Conway and Sal Buscema. With his first live-action series on the horizon, the world wanted to know just who this Peter Parker guy was. Spectacular not only expanded opportunities for web-slinging wonder, but it also provided a platform to expand upon and explore the world of Spidey's incomparable cast - J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, Flash Thompson and more! Of course, there was no shortage of villains - including the Vulture and Morbius - or iconic guest stars, ranging from the White Tiger to the Inhumans!

Spectacular Listening

Byrd McDaniel
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Author : Byrd McDaniel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197620465

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In ways both mundane and sensational, listening can be an expressive act, enabling people to stage consumption as a public practice -- what author Byrd McDaniel calls "spectacular listening." With a range of compelling ethnographic case studies, McDaniel investigates a broad shift in contemporary listening norms and the stakes for listeners with disabilities. He reveals how listening-as-performance can be an opportunity for play, as well as a critical practice that exposes ableism in music institutions, technologies, and discourse.

The Age of Spectacular Death

Michael Hviid Jacobsen
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Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000171976

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This book explores death in contemporary society – or more precisely, in the ‘spectacular age’ – by moving beyond classic studies of death that emphasised the importance of the death taboo and death denial to examine how we now ‘do’ death. Unfolding the notion of ‘spectacular death’ as characteristic of our modern approach to death and dying, it considers the new mediation or mediatisation of death and dying; the commercialisation of death as a ‘marketable commodity’ used to sell products, advance artistic expression or provoke curiosity; the re-ritualisation of death and the growth of new ways of finding meaning through commemorating the dead; the revolution of palliative care; and the specialisation surrounding death, particularly in relation to scholarship. Presenting a range of case studies that shed light on this new understanding of death in contemporary culture, The Age of Spectacular Death will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, psychology and anthropology with interests in death and dying.

Spectacular Modernity

Lisa Blackmore
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Author : Lisa Blackmore
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822982364

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Winner of the Fernando Coronil Prize for best book about Venezuela, awarded by the Venezuelan Studies Section of LASA. In cultural history, the 1950s in Venezuela are commonly celebrated as a golden age of modernity, realized by a booming oil economy, dazzling modernist architecture, and nationwide modernization projects. But this is only half the story. In this path-breaking study, Lisa Blackmore reframes the concept of modernity as a complex cultural formation in which modern aesthetics became deeply entangled with authoritarian politics. Drawing on extensive archival research and presenting a wealth of previously unpublished visual materials, Blackmore revisits the decade-long dictatorship to unearth the spectacles of progress that offset repression and censorship. Analyses of a wide range of case studies—from housing projects to agricultural colonies, urban monuments to official exhibitions, and carnival processions to consumer culture—reveal the manifold apparatuses that mythologized visionary leadership, advocated technocratic development, and presented military rule as the only route to progress. Offering a sharp corrective to depoliticized accounts of the period, Spectacular Modernity instead exposes how Venezuelans were promised a radically transformed landscape in exchange for their democratic freedoms.

Spectacular Bodies

Yvonne Tasker
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Author : Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134873005

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While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism. Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as `obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered, sexual and racial identities which took place during the 1980s, but reflects the influences of other media such as the new video culture. Her detailed discussion of the homoeroticism surrounding the muscleman hero, the symbolic centrality of blackness within the crime narrative, and the changing status of women within the genre, addresses the constitution of these identities through the shifting categories of gender, class, race, sex, sexuality and nation. Spectacular Bodies also examines the ambivalence of supposedly secure categories of popular cinema, questioning the existing terms of film criticism in this area and addressing the complex pleasures of this neglected form.

Spectacular Disappearances

Julia H. Fawcett
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Author : Julia H. Fawcett
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472119806

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A look at England's larger-than-life figures in the 18th century shines a spotlight on contemporary celebrity

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City

Rana AlMutawa
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Author : Rana AlMutawa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520395077

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Everyday Life in the Spectacular City by Rana AlMutawa Pdf

Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai interact with the city's so-called superficial spaces to create meaningful social lives. Rana AlMutawa shows that inhabitants adapt themselves to top-down development projects, from big malls to megaprojects. These structures serve residents' evolving social needs, transforming Dubai's spectacular spaces into personally important cultural sites. These practices are significant because they expand our understanding of agency as not only subversive but also adaptive. Through extensive fieldwork, AlMutawa, herself an Emirati native to Dubai, finds a more nuanced story of belonging. This story does not seek to uncover the "real" city that lies beneath the veneer of the spectacle, but rather to demonstrate that social meanings and forms of belonging take place within the spectacle itself. By offering an alternative to the discourse of authenticity and elucidating the dynamics of ambivalent belonging, AlMutawa belies stereotypes that portray Dubai's developments as alienating and inherently disempowering. Everyday Life in the Spectacular City speaks beyond the Middle East to a globalized phenomenon, for Dubai's spectacles are unexceptional in today's changing world.

I Spy Spectacular

Jean Marzollo
I Spy Spectacular Book PDF

Author : Jean Marzollo
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780545222785

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A collection of picture riddles for your enjoyment.

Spectacular Flirtations

Gillian Perry
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Author : Gillian Perry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123342987

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During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and written accounts of female performers. Focusing on the close relationship between the dramatic and visual arts at this time, this beautiful and stimulating book explores popular ideas of the actress as coquette, whore, celebrity, muse, and creative agent, charting her important symbolic role in contemporary attempts to professionalize both the theatre and the practice of fine art. Gill Perry shows how artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Hoppner or Lawrence produced complex images of female performers as fashion icons, coquettes, dignified queens or creative artists. The result is a rich interdisciplinary study of the Georgian actress. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Spectacular Britain

Kevin Sene
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Author : Kevin Sene
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781844866366

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From the Northern Lights to whirling coastal birds, and sunken villages to the annual deer rut, the UK is home to some of the world's finest natural spectacles. With this guide and a little luck, you too can experience the magic of seeing something truly extraordinary. Start planning your spectacular year with the help of this practical guide to the UK's most magical natural phenomena. This guide shows you when and where to go, and how to maximise your chances of a sighting, as well as explaining why these amazing spectacles occur in the first place. Sections cover: - Space: meteor showers, eclipses and supermoons, Northern Lights - Weather: hidden currents, mountain waves, named winds - Tides: tidal bores, tidal races, low tide walks - Land: autumn colours, wildflower displays, rutting deer - Rivers and lakes: salmon runs, sunken villages, waterfall wonders - Coast: wheeling waterbirds, seabird cities, seal pups Each spectacle is graded according to how easy it is to spot, and the author gives expert tips on achieving the best sighting. Scientific insights describe the astronomical, meteorological and ecological causes of events, which are brought to life through the stories of the people who know them best, from the glider pilots who ride mountain waves to the King's Guides who help people navigate the dangerous sands of Morecombe Bay. This is your starting point for some truly phenomenal adventures.

Spectacular Spiders

Linda Glaser
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Author : Linda Glaser
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761303862

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Describes, in simple text and illustrations, the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the black and yellow garden spider. Also includes information on some other types of spiders.