Making Faces, Playing God: Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup by Thomas Morawetz, ISBN 0292752474
"This book is entirely unique, very well written, dramatic, and, at the same time, philosophical. It is likely to appeal to a very large audience, including anybody interested in the visual arts, in film, in theater, in philosophical problems of transformation, and in the unconscious generally."--Melvin R. Lansky, M.D., UCLA Medical School and Los Angeles Psychoanalytic InstituteWearing a mask--putting on another face--embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy of self-transformation and satisfies the human desire to become "the other." Morawetz begins by discussing the cultural role of fantasies of transformation and what these fantasies reveal about questions of personal identity. He next turns to professional makeup artists and describes their background, training, careers, and especially the techniques they use to create their art. Then, with numerous before-during-and-after photos of transformational makeups from popular and little-known shows and movies, ads, and artist's demos and portfolios, he reveals the art and imagination that go into six kinds of mask-making--representing demons, depicting aliens, inventing disguises, transforming actors into different (older, heavier, disfigured) versions of themselves, and creating historical or mythological characters.
Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education with DVD
Accompanied by an abridged 55-minute DVD, this full-color book creates a series of unforgettable echoes on America's long history of yearning, betrayal, victory, and relentless desire for educational justice. Includes teaching resources.
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A History of the Arab Peoples by Albert Hourani, ISBN 0674010175
In a panoramic view encompassing 12 centuries of Arab history and culture, Hourani brilliantly illuminates the people and events that have fundamentally shaped the Arab world. Noted Islamic scholar Ruthven brings the story up to date from the mid-1980s.
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Race and Nation
"Race and Nation" is the first book to compare the racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. It is the creation of nineteen scholars who are experts on locations as far-flung as China, Jamaica, Eritrea, Brazil, Germany, Punjab, and South Africa. The contributing historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of literary and cultural studies have engaged in an ongoing conversation, honing a common set of questions that dig to the heart of racial and ethnic groups and systems.
Guided by those questions, they have created the first book that explores the similarities, differences, and the relationships among the ways that race and ethnicity have worked in the modern world. In so doing they have created a model for how to write world history that is detailed in its expertise, yet also manages broad comparisons.
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Gendered Freedoms
In May 1862, hundreds of African-American freed themselves in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and in the process destroyed the South's fundamental structure of power--the plantation household. Yet at the moment of freedom, southerners did not discard what they knew. Instead, blacks and whites, men and women constructed competing visions of freedom based on their particular understanding of household authority. Gendered Freedoms explores this first generation of freedom and presents an intimate history of the political consciousness of the franchised and disenfranchised during the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Mississippi Delta. Gendered Freedoms is the first book to analyze black and white southerners' subjective understandings of the household, challenging us to reexamine the relationship between identity and political consciousness. Where others emphasize the household principally as a structure based on an ideology of power, Nancy Bercaw demonstrates how deeply household hierarchies...
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A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820S-1990s by Carolyn Gray LeMaster, ISBN 1557283044
One of the most comprehensive studies ever done on a state's Jewish community, A Corner of the Tapestry is the story - untold until now - of the Jews who helped to settle Arkansas and who stayed and flourished to become a significant part of the state's history and culture. LeMaster has spent much of the past sixteen years compiling and writing this saga. Data for the book have been collected in part from the American Jewish Archives, American Jewish Historical Society, the stones in Arkansas's Jewish cemeteries, more than fifteen hundred articles and obituaries from journals and newspapers, personal letters from hundreds of present and former Jewish Arkansans, congregational histories, census and court records, and some four hundred oral interviews in a hundred cities and towns in Arkansas. This meticulous work chronicles the lives and genealogy of not only the highly visible and successful Jews who settled in Arkansas, but also those who comprised the warp and woof of society. It is a...
A Corner of the Tapestry: A History of the Jewish Experience in Arkansas, 1820S-1990s by Carolyn Gray LeMaster, ISBN 1557283044
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Gods, Genes, and Consciousness: Nonhuman Intervention in Human History
A provocative look at how Advanced Beings (angels and extraterrestrials) have been influencing human history since the dawn of time through contributions to the roots of language, technology, math, science, and more.
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Mapping the Skies by Walter G. Oleksy, ISBN 0531120317
Good map skills are vital to the study of geography, and this new series of nonfiction chapter books will help intermediate-grade readers build a solid foundation for understanding the science of mapmaking and what maps tell us about history, the world, the seas, and the skies.
Mapping the Skies by Walter G. Oleksy, ISBN 0531120317
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EasyMount Adapter Plate for Large Screens, EZADP-02
- The EasyMount EZADP-02 expands the maximum bolt pattern for certain large televisions
- Increases vertical spacing by 5.5"
- Increases horizontal spacing by 9.5".
- All mounting hardware included for wood studs, concrete and/or masonry
- This adapter is necessary with the EZLCDP-02 for Phillips flat panel televisions 42" and larger.
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