Leah (Worlds Apart)

Romance

Baker, Andrea

Paranormal

Rose Wall Publications

It is a simple truth that throughout history, certain rapes have become "famous." Old Master painters depicted sexual violence again and again, generally representing it as the transcendent work of heroes. Traditional Catholic stories teach that it is better to die during an attempted rape than it is to survive a completed one.
In19th- and 20th-century America, notorious fear about the sexuality of black men 
wreaked havoc. From the days of Reconstruction through to the Central Park Jogger, wild accusations justified the literal and metaphoric lynching of men perceived as threats to white power. 
Meanwhile, a revolution did take place. Conversations became public. Laws changed.
Andrea Baker's project is to reflect on the history of how rape has been depicted.
She draws images of sexual assault from both art history and contemporary visual culture, remaking them as spare white paper cutouts against a paper-packing-tape background. The swath of time from Mesopotamia to the present day is flattened and rolled out in unflinching continuity. As difficult as the material is, we do see progress within a history that is not always as distant we might prefer, and Baker is insistent that we celebrate our accomplishments, even as we continue to evolve.

Famous Rapes: From Mesopotamia to Steubenville

Arts & Photography

Water Street Press

This is a book about deciding not to die―about the obstinacy of being. And it’s a book of craft, in which steadiness of presence generates the illumination that flickers through states darkened by steady crisis. The world is blurred, not broken. And a lyric I comes to rest in the world.

Each Thing Unblurred is Broken

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Omnidawn

In the 1960s, as gentrification took hold of New York City, Jane Jacobs predicted that the city would become the true player in the global system. Indeed, in the 21st century more meaningful comparisons can be made between cities than between nations and states. Based on case studies of Melbourne, Austin and Berlin, this book is the first in-depth study to combine academic and industry analysis of the music cities phenomenon. Using four distinctly defined algorithms as benchmarks, it interrogates Richard Florida’s creative cities thesis and applies a much-needed synergy of urban sociology and musicology to the concept, mediated by a journalism lens. Building on seminal work by Robert Park, Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs, it argues that journalists are the cultural branders and street theorists whose ethnographic approach offers critical insights into the urban sociability of music activity.

The Great Music City: Exploring Music, Space and Identity (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)

Music

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Bob's Guide to Operational Learning: How to Think Like a Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) Coach

Business & Money

Edwards, Bob

Management & Leadership

Independently published

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