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The Wand In The Word : Conversations With Writers Of Fantasy
Funny Business : Conversations With Writers Of Comedy
Instant Asia : Fast Forward Through The Architecture Of A Changing Continent
Mainly The Truth : Interviews With Mark Twain
The Lonely Soldier : The Private War Of Women Serving In Iraq

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Helen BenedictPublication Details
BookBeacon Press2009Description
More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. Each of these stories is unique, yet collectively they add up to a heartbreaking picture of the sacrifices women soldiers are making for this country.Benedict ends by showing how these women came to face the truth of war and by offering suggestions for how the military can improve conditions for female soldiers?including distributing women more evenly throughout units and rejecting male recruits with records of violence against women. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) DS79.76 .B445 2009 AVAILABLE
Filming Difference : Actors, Directors, Producers, And Writers On Gender, Race, And Sexuality In Film

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edited by Daniel BernardiPublication Details
Book1st edUniversity of Texas Press2009Description
Addressing representation and identity in a variety of production styles and genres, including experimental film and documentary, independent and mainstream film, and television drama, Filming Difference poses fundamental questions about the ways in which the art and craft of filmmaking force creative people to confront stereotypes and examine their own identities while representing the complexities of their subjects. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PN1995.9.S62 F55 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
What Makes A Great Exhibition?

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Paula Marincola, editorPublication Details
BookPhiladelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage2006Links
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For better or worse, museums are changing from forbidding bastions of rare art into audience-friendly institutions that often specialize in ?blockbuster? investigates the challenges facing American and European contemporary art in particular, exploring such issues as group exhibitions, video and craft, and the ways that architecture influences the nature of the exhibitions under its roof. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) N4395 .W47 2006 AVAILABLE
Odyssey : The Photographs Of Linda Connor

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featuring a conversation with Robert Adams, Emmet Gowin, and Linda Connor ; essay by William L. FoxPublication Details
BookChronicle Books2008Description
This career-spanning retrospective collects Connor’s haunting photos including her renowned prints from century-old glass-plate astronomical negatives from Lick Observatory contextualized by an unprecedented three-way conversation between Linda and two modern luminaries Robert Adams and Emmet Gowin. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) TR654 .C65474 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? : Being Young And Arab In America

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Moustafa BayoumiPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Description
The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Arab and Muslim Americans are the new, largely undiscussed ?problem? Under the cover of the terrorist attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the explosion of political violence around the world, a fundamental misunderstanding of the Arab and Muslim American communities has been allowed to fester and even to define the lives of the seven twentysomething men and women whom we meet in this book. We meet Sami, an Arab American Christian, who navigates the minefield of associations the public has of Arabs as well as the expectations that Muslim Arab Americans have of him as a marine who fought in the Iraq war. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E184.A65 B35 2008 AVAILABLE
Texas Blues : The Rise Of A Contemporary Sound

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Alan GovenarPublication Details
BookTexas A&M University Press2008Description
Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML394 .G68 2008 AVAILABLE
The Jazz Ear : Conversations Over Music

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Ben RatliffPublication Details
Book1st edTimes Books2008Links
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An intimate exploration into the musical genius of fifteen living jazz legends, from the longtime New York Times jazz critic Jazz is conducted almost wordlessly: John Coltrane rarely told his quartet what to do, and Miles Davis famously gave his group only the barest instructions before recording his masterpiece ?Kind of Blue.? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML394 .R38 2008 AVAILABLE
Dan Graham : Beyond

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organized by Bennett Simpson and Chrissie Iles ; essays by Rhea Anastas … [et al.] ; interviews with Dan Graham by Kim Gordon, Rodney Graham, and Nicolás Guagnini ; manga by Fumihiro Nonomura and Ken TanimotoPublication Details
BookMuseum of Contemporary Art2009Description
Essays: Chrissie Iles on Graham’s performance work Bennett Simpson on Graham’s interest and works in rock music Beatriz Colomina on Graham’s architectural pavilions Rhea Anastas on Graham’s early formation and short-lived operation of the John Daniels Gallery Mark von Schlegell on Graham’s interest in science fiction Mark Francis on Graham’s Public Space/Two Audiences (1976) Alexandra Midal on Graham’s conceptual works for magazine pages and magazine design Philippe Vergne on Graham’s puppet opera Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty (2004) Kim Gordon interview with Graham on their collaborations and music Rodney Graham interview with Graham on jokes and humor in art Distributed for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles February 15-March 25, 2009 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City June 25-October 2009 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis November 2009-February 2010 (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) N6537.G674 A4 2009 AVAILABLE
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