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Curating Context - Beyond The Gallery And Into Other Fields
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Curating Context describes a field where the curatorial practice is extended beyond curating exhibitions into working with entire contexts. It articulates the why and how of curating art projects that gain their meaning in relation to a surrounding context, or which need a specific structure in ord...
Curating Context describes a field where the curatorial practice is extended beyond curating exhibitions into working with entire contexts. It articulates the why and how of curating art projects that gain their meaning in relation to a surrounding context, or which need a specific structure in order to play out. In this practice, curatorial considerations are interwoven with the production, and the intentions of artists and curators lead the way rather than institutional structures. The texts and conversations in this book reflect on how these curatorial methodologies not only situate works in different places, but also transfer curatorial methods into other fields, such as the contexts of law, urban development, and constructions of the civic. This exciting curatorial approach where each project sets new demands, requires very specific skills rarely taught in curatorial programs. Curating Context is an attempt to share a sustained conversation among practitioners in the field.
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Sh*t For Brains - Trivia You Can't Unknow
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Did you know that Big Bird was originally supposed to fly on the doomed Challenger Space Shuttle? Or that smelling your own farts was considered a cure for the bubonic plague? Now those are things you can't unlearn. Born out of love for trivia and hatred for boring, bland facts, SH*T FOR BRAINS is ...
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Did you know that Big Bird was originally supposed to fly on the doomed Challenger Space Shuttle? Or that smelling your own farts was considered a cure for the bubonic plague? Now those are things you can't unlearn. Born out of love for trivia and hatred for boring, bland facts, SH*T FOR BRAINS is the ultimate wild ride of truth-from hilarious pop culture factoids to little-known insights from history, this twisted trivia book will make you laugh, cry, and maybe even cringe. A great gift for tweens, teens, and your bar trivia pals, SH*T FOR BRAINS is not-so-average trivia for not-so-average people.
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Drunk
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While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place. Drunk elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdot...
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<p>While plenty of entertaining books have been written about the history of alcohol and other intoxicants, none have offered a comprehensive, convincing answer to the basic question of why humans want to get high in the first place.<br/><br/><i>Drunk</i> elegantly cuts through the tangle of urban legends and anecdotal impressions that surround our notions of intoxication to provide the first rigorous, scientifically-grounded explanation for our love of alcohol. Drawing on evidence from archaeology, history, cognitive neuroscience, psychopharmacology, social psychology, literature, and genetics, <i>Drunk</i> shows that our taste for chemical intoxicants is not an evolutionary mistake, as we are so often told. In fact, intoxication helps solve a number of distinctively human challenges: enhancing creativity, alleviating stress, building trust, and pulling off the miracle of getting fiercely tribal primates to cooperate with strangers. Our desire to get drunk, along with the individual and social benefits provided by drunkenness, played a crucial role in sparking the rise of the first large-scale societies. We would not have civilization without intoxication.<br/>From marauding Vikings and bacchanalian orgies to sex-starved fruit flies, blind cave fish, and problem-solving crows, <i>Drunk</i> is packed with fascinating case studies and engaging science, as well as practical takeaways for individuals and communities. The result is a captivating and long overdue investigation into humanity's oldest indulgence-one that explains not only <i>why</i> we want to get drunk, but also how it might actually be good for us to tie one on now and then.</p>
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Hollywood
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'Essential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' Irish Times 'Absorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' Sight & Sound 'Hollywood's ultimate oral history.' New Yorker The greatest conversation in the history of Hollywood. From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture ...
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'Essential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' Irish Times 'Absorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' Sight & Sound 'Hollywood's ultimate oral history.' New Yorker The greatest conversation in the history of Hollywood. From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a reader 'listen in' on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera - Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Harold Lloyd - the biggest behind it - Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the musicians, writers, sound men, editors, make-up artists, and even script timers, messengers, and publicists who shaped what was heard and seen on screen. Legendary film scholar Jeanine Basinger and New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson have undertaken the monumental task of weaving these thousands of hours of talk into a conversation that is lively, funny, insightful, historically accurate and authentically honest in its portrait of workaday Hollywood.
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The Rest Is History
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Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. Pre-order your copy now. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The na...
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<b>Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town.</b> <b>Pre-order your copy now.</b> From the chart-topping podcast <i>The Rest is History</i>, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn't even think to ask: <b>- Did the Trojan War actually happen? - What was the most disastrous party in history? - Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius? - How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill's cover? - Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from Atlantis?</b> Whether it is sending historical figures to Casa Amor in a series of Love Island, ranking history's most famous eunuchs and pigeons (including Winky, the unsung hero of the Second World War), or debating the meaning of greatness, there is nothing too big or too small for Tom and Dominic to unpick. So run your Egyptian milk bath, strap up your best Spartan sandals, and prepare for a journey down the highways and byways of the human past. . .
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Queer Heroes Of Myth And Legend
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Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories ...
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<p>Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.<br/><br/>Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (explored in Madeleine Miller's bestseller <i>Song of Achilles</i>), join the cult of Antinous (inspiration for Oscar Wilde), get down with pansexual god Set in Egyptian myth, and fall for Zimbabwe's trans God Mawi. And from modern pop-culture, through Dan Jones's witty, upbeat style, learn more about 90s fan obsessions <i>Xena: Warrior Princess</i> and <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>, Neil Gaiman's <i>American Gods</i> and the BBC's <i>Doctor Who</i>.<br/><br/><i>Queer </i><i>Heroes of Myth & Legend </i>brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.</p>
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Our Moon
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'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study' CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth 'Boyle's writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read' REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred 'A sweeping, l...
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<p>'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'<br/><b>CHRIS HADFIELD, author of <i>An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth</i></b><br/><br/>'Boyle's writing shines, shifting through time and space, science and sentiment; a luminous read'<br/><b>REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of <i>Kindred</i></b><br/><br/>'A sweeping, lyrical new account of our cosmic neighbour'<br/><b>PETER BRANNEN, author of <i>The Ends of the World</i></b><br/><b><br/>Every living being throughout history, across time and geography, has gazed up at the same moon.</b><br/><br/>From the first prehistoric life that crawled onto land guided by the power of the tides, to the division of time into months and seasons for the first humans, the moon has driven the expansion and development of our world.<br/><br/>It has inspired scientific discovery and culture from the ancient astronomers to the scientific revolution of Copernicus and Galileo, from the 1969 Apollo landings to writers and artists, and stirred an inexhaustible desire to know where we come from and how we got here.<br/><br/>And as astronauts around the world prepare to return to the Moon - opening up new frontiers of discovery, profit and politics - <i>Our Moon</i> tells the dazzling story of how the Moon has shaped life as we know it, fuelled dramatic change across the globe and could be the key to humanity's future.</p>
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From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven expose of the real Kennedy Curse-the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem-and the women who hav...
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