Author: Muriel Spark File Type: epub The author of Symposium and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie explores her own life in an autobiography designed to answer her readers most-asked question, are your novels autobiographical?

Author: Walter L. Adamson File Type: pdf This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century. Walter L. Adamson embarks on a lucid, wide-ranging exploration of the avant-garde practices through which the modernist generations after 1900 resisted the rise of commodity culture as a threat to authentic cultural expression. Taking biographical approaches to numerous avant-garde leaders, Adamson charts the rise and fall of modernist aspirations in movements and individuals as diverse as Ruskin, Marinetti, Kandinsky, Bauhaus, Purism, and the art critic Herbert Read. In conclusion, Adamson rises to the defense of the modernists, suggesting that their ideas are relevant to current efforts to think through what it might mean to create a vibrant, aesthetically satisfying form of cultural democracy.ReviewThis [is an] erudite, richly comparative study of avant-garde aesthetics and public engagement.--ModernismModernityFrom the Inside FlapAdamson leads his readers through intricate debates with care and skill. Even the non-specialist reader will come away with an understanding of the stakes in modernist studies.--Mary Gluck, author of Popular Bohemia Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century ParisNo serious student of the European avant-garde in the early twentieth century will be able to overlook this subtle and impassioned attempt to rethink its history its far-reaching ambitions and its strategies for achieving them, its successes and its failures. Because of Adamsons distinctive perspective and the breadth of his research, I persistently found myself being forced to rethink the history of the European avant-garde and question some of my own assumptions and conclusions.--Robert Wohl, author of The Spectacle of Flight Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1920-1950

Author: Nicholas Tomaiuolo File Type: pdf A guide to creating a comprehensive personal library using free web resources, this book demonstrates the steps to compiling a web library that includes a vast, rich collection of data, documents, e-books, reference materials, and images. Organized in accordance with the departments of a well-managed physical library, this guide shows librarians, potential librarians, and those who simply want to better organize their files how to access free material that can be used immediately. Free articles and indexes, digital reference services, electronic books, images, and software and hardware issues are covered. **

Author: Tactical technology Collective File Type: pdf sta guia es un recurso construido desde la base y pensado para nuestra creciente comunidad demujeres y personas trans*, activistas, defensoras de derechos humanos y tecnologas. Ha sido disenadapara aglutinar un compilado creciente de informaciones y recomendaciones utiles que resuenen connuestras necesidades, experiencias y activismos, cuando estamos conectadas pero tambien cuando nolo estamos. Los contenidos listados en esta guia han sido creados en respuesta a las demandas denuestra comunidad por ideas y asesoramiento en relacion a temas importantes pero que no seencontraban propiamente documentados en otros lugares. Por eso, esta guia se encuentra enconstruccion y no cubre muchos temas de gran interes, no obstante esperamos poder incluirlos en elfuturo gracias al apoyo y aportes de las personas que la lean. La guia actual cubre esencialmente dostemas que se superponenPrimero como podemos disenar presencias apropiadas (o un conjunto de ellas) que refuercennuestra habilidad para comunicar y trabajar de manera segura cuando estamos conectadas?Segundo como podemos de manera colaborativa crear espacios seguros (conectados o fisicos)que permitan a nuestras comunidades compartir, comunicar y crecer?