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"Artists Yael Bartana and Emily Jacir were both born in 1970. Their work in video, photography and other media explores what it means to be, respectively, Israeli and Palestinian. Addressing issues of national identity, displacement and personal freedom, they are among the most impressive artists of their generation." "Lee Miller (1907-1977) has a unique place in the history of twentieth century photography. She is best known for her Surrealist infused reports for Vogue Magazine during the Second World War." "This special book, which both accompanies and is a legacy of the exhibition Wherever I Am, includes essays on Yael Bartana''s work by award winning novelist Linda Grant and by curator Galit Eilat; on Emily Jacir''s work by critic Tom Vanderbilt and the late Edward W. Said, a writer and intellectual of world renown; and on Lee Miller''s wartime photography by David Alan Mellor, Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex." "With an introduction by Andrew Nairne, curator of Wherever I Am and Director of Modern Art Oxford, discussing the background to the exhibition, the book also includes reproductions of works by each artist, biographies and bibliographies."--BOOK JACKET.

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In desperation, high school senior Tom Sinclair turns to the Internet for help in locating his missing and possibly kidnapped girlfriend, Alice Brown, when he publishes her diary online.

At a time when the concept of religion-based politics has taken on new and sometimes ominous tones—even within the United States—it is not only right, but also urgently necessary that William Lee Miller revisit his profound exploration of the place of religious liberty and church and state in America. For this revised edition of The First Liberty, Miller has written a pointed new introduction, discussing how religious liberty has taken on deeper dimensions in a post-9/11 world. With new material on recent Supreme Court cases involving church-state relations and a new concluding chapter on America''s religious and political landscape, this volume is an eloquent and thorough interpretation of how religious faith and political freedom have blended and fused to form part of our collective history-and most importantly, how each concept must respect the boundaries of the other. Though many claim the United States to be a "Christian Nation," Miller provides a fascinatingly vivid account of the philosophical skirmishes and political machinations that led to the "wall of separation" between church and state. That famous phrase is Jefferson''s, though it does not appear in the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution. But Miller follows this seminal idea from three great standard-bearers of religious liberty: Jefferson, Madison, and Roger Williams. Jefferson, who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the precursor of the First Amendment of the Constitution; James Madison, who was politically responsible for Virginia''s acceptance of religious liberty and who, a few years later, helped draft the Bill of Rights; and the even earlier figure, the radical dissenter Roger Williams, who propounded the idea of religious freedom not as a rational secularist but out of a deeply held spiritual faith. Miller re-creates the fierce and vibrant debate among the founding fathers over the means of establishing public virtue in the absence of established religion—a debate that still reverberates in today''s passionate arguments about civil rights, school prayer, abortion, Christmas crèches, conscientious objection during warfare—and demonstrates how the right to hold any religious belief has dynamically shaped American political life.

William Lee Miller’s ethical biography is a fresh, engaging telling of the story of Lincoln’s rise to power. Through careful scrutiny of Lincoln’s actions, speeches, and writings, and of accounts from those who knew him, Miller gives us insight into the moral development of a great politician — one who made the choice to go into politics, and ultimately realized that vocation’s fullest moral possibilities. As Lincoln’s Virtues makes refreshingly clear, Lincoln was not born with his face on Mount Rushmore; he was an actual human being making choices — moral choices — in a real world. In an account animated by wit and humor, Miller follows this unschooled frontier politician’s rise, showing that the higher he went and the greater his power, the worthier his conduct would become. He would become that rare bird, a great man who was also a good man. Uniquely revealing of its subject’s heart and mind, it represents a major contribution to our understanding and of Lincoln, and to the perennial American discussion of the relationship between politics and morality.

A debut murder mystery written by KARE-11 TV (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) political reporter, Kerri Miller. When outspoken Governor and former lumberjack Edward "Bunyan" Hamm states in a "Patriot magazine" interview that women should not serve in the military during, his comments stirs up a controversy in his home state of Minnesota. The controversy attracts national journalist and feminist author Millicent Pine to St. Paul, much to the chagrin of Governor Hamm''s Press Secretary, Liz "The Barracuda" Barracosta. When Millicent Pine mysteriously disappears, intrepid local broadcast journalist Cate McCoy begins a search to find the missing journalist. Cate''s journey to the mystery''s surprising conclusion takes her all the way from Minnesota''s snowy capital city of St. Paul to steamy Mexican locales. Dead air delivers an intriguing mix of politics and murder, with an insider''s glimpse into the behind-the-scenes world of television journalism

This book offers an unprecedented insight into one of the most fascinating artistic relationships of the 20th century.

`A comprehensive, balanced and judicious treatment of biographical methods in social research, made all the more useful to students by its careful delineation of the practicalities involved′ - Raymond M Lee, Royal Holloway, University of London Specifically designed for those carrying out biographical, life history or family history research, this concise guide covers the methods and issues involved. The author demonstrates that biographical research is a distinctive way of conceptualizing social activity. The three main approaches to biographical and family history research are covered: - Realist - focused around grounded-theory techniques of interviewing; - Neo-positivist - more structured interview techniques; - Narrative - with emphasis on the active construction of life stories through the interplay between interviewer and interviewee. An invaluable introduction to the field, which contains much that will be of interest to the experienced practitioner, the book will be ideal for researchers in sociology, psychology, political science, social policy or anthropology.

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In the 1830s slavery was so deeply entrenched that it could not even be discussed in Congress, which had enacted a "gag rule" to ensure that anti-slavery petitions would be summarily rejected. This stirring book chronicles the parliamentary battle to bring "the peculiar institution" into the national debate, a battle that some historians have called "the Pearl Harbor of the slavery controversy." The campaign to make slavery officially and respectably debatable was waged by John Quincy Adams who spent nine years defying gags, accusations of treason, and assassination threats. In the end he made his case through a combination of cunning and sheer endurance. Telling this story with a brilliant command of detail, Arguing About Slavery endows history with majestic sweep, heroism, and moral weight. "Dramatic, immediate, intensely readable, fascinating and often moving."--New York Times Book Review

"Good fortune offered this nation an unusual chance at ideal nation-forming and... some honorable leaders seized that chance", writes William Lee Miller in The Business of May Next, and none among the founders made more of the opportunity than did James Madison, subject of this engaging work. Madison is depicted during the critical years between 1784 and 1791, when he was so active in articulating the governmental aims of the fledgling nation that he sometimes found himself in official dialogue with himself. More than simply a historical and biographical account, the book traces Madison''s political and theoretical development as a means of illuminating its larger theme, the moral and intellectual underpinnings of the American nation. With a sound grasp of his material and a refreshing style Miller reveals how Madison''s research into republics and his influence on the writing of the Constitution are central to the values for which the nation stands. From an examination of Madison''s notes, Miller traces Madison''s early research into other republics and their weaknesses. He reveals how Madison''s thinking shaped the Virginia Plan, which, in turn, shaped the United States Constitution and the nation''s institutions. The author writes that Madison sought the strands of Republicanism in history and gave republican ideals new and lasting institutional expression. He shows how the making of republican institutions became a collaboration, and how the newly created institutions contained within themselves provision for their own continuing alteration and for the involvement and influence of collective humanity down through the years. Miller follows Madison through the Constitutional Convention("the business of May next") to the great national argument on behalf of the Constitution, notably through the Federalist papers. Of particular interest are his discussions of the constitutional deliberations over religious freedom and the institution of slavery.

Fashion model, photographer, friend of the Surrealists, war correspondent: the remarkable Lee Miller had a varied career. Her superb photographic work is now being rediscovered, and it forms the basis for the major touring exhibition that this book accompanies. In the 1920s Lee Miller, already a successful fashion model in New York, set off for Paris to pursue her growing interest in working behind the camera. Armed with an introduction from Steichen, she sought out the Surrealist photographer Man Ray, and announced herself as his new pupil. Together they developed the technique of solarization, and Miller went on to establish herself as a photographer in her own right. In the early thirties, in New York, she broke new ground by taking models out of the studio and photographing them on location in city streets. She returned to Paris and during the war years served as an acccredited war correspondent for Vogue. She was the only photographer on hand during the invasion of St. Malo, and was the frist photojournalist to report the horrors of Dachau. After the war, Miller married the Surrealist painter and writer Roland Penrose and settled in England. She gradually withdrew from commercial work, but she continued to photograph the friends who came to visit -- Picasso, Miro, Noguchi, Max Ernst, and Braque among them. Here is a rich selection of Lee Miller''s finest photographs, one that will ensure her place among the great photographers of the twentieth century.

Philosophy of Creativity is a prolegomenon in the field of philosophical studies of creativity. The book sets forth a cross and multi-cultural point of view, emphasizing points of agreement between seminal thinkers and living traditions over the whole earth. The seven chapters turn about the philosophical and spiritual notion of creativity. Creativity is presented as metaparadigm, or the philosophical way that critiques and transcends paradigms, while intrepreting them in light of this novel meta-paradigmatic perspective. This work draws important insights from major philosophical traditions in both the Orient and the Western world such as Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Pragmatism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, and Process Philosophy.

In "a chilling documentary history of America''s above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s, Miller takes on the subject and universalizes it, at the same time giving it the flavor of a Dos Passos novel" ("Kirkus Reviews").

Two Americans discover a brontosaurus family in the African jungle and try to protect it from evil men who are after the unusual find.

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