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Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America

Radical Gestures: Feminism and Performance Art in North America

Jayne Wark

Wark brings together a wide range of artists, including Lisa Steele, Martha Rosler, Lynda Benglis, Gillian Collyer, Margaret Dragu, and Sylvie Tourangeau, and provides detailed readings and viewings of individual pieces, many of which have ...
History of Drug Containers and Their Labels

History of Drug Containers and Their Labels

George B. Griffenhagen

JAYNE's ALTERATIVE was introduced in 1851 by David Jayne of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and Jayne's Expectorant was first marketed in 1858. Jayne's products were packaged in clear glass panel bottles embossed Dr. D. Jayne's ...
Dispositions

Dispositions

McKenzie Wark

Armed with only a notebook and a handheld global positioning device, Wark tracks the secret passage free time and free thought through the spaces of an everyday life.
Plain Jayne

Plain Jayne

Laura Drewry

At first glance, it seemed to be mostly children's stuff, but Jayne moved closer just incase shewas missing anykids' books. “Nick! Great to seeyou.” Marathon Barbie. Jayne didn't have to look upto know Nick was grinning from earto freaking ear.
The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious ...

The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious ...

McKenzie Wark

The Situationists tried to escape the world of twentieth-century spectacle and failed in the attempt. Wark argues that they may still help us to escape the twenty-first century, while we still can. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

McKenzie Wark

In Molecular Red, Wark looks for a way to understand, and perhaps even combat, this implacable force. He revisits the work of Alexander Bogdanov--Lenin's rival--and the great proletkult writer and engineer Andrei Platonov.
Calamity Jayne: Calamity Jayne Mysteries book #1

Calamity Jayne: Calamity Jayne Mysteries book #1

Kathleen Bacus

He handed me a copy of his paper, headline reading, 'Calamity Jayne Solves Hometown Whodunit,' complete with my high school graduation picture. I made a sour milk face at the grainy portrait and way-big hair. "How does it feel to help hunt ...
The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out ...

The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages out ...

Mckenzie Wark

Following his acclaimed history of the Situationist International, The Beach Beneath the Street, McKenzie Wark continues the SI’s story, charting its post-sixties legacy and putting the late work of the Situationists in a broader, deeper ...
Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events

Virtual Geography: Living with Global Media Events

McKenzie Wark

" -- Times Literary Supplement "... this is a stimulating, even moving, book, dense with ideas and with many quotable lines." -- The New Statesman "Wark is one of the most original and interesting cultural critics writing today.
50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International

50 Years of Recuperation of the Situationist International

McKenzie Wark

In 50 Years of Recuperation McKenzie Wark, the critically acclaimed author of A Hacker Manifesto,explores how our contemporary understanding of art, politics, and even reality itself has been shaped by these original culture jammers.
Jayne Sullivan, Army brat

Jayne Sullivan, Army brat

Cathy Sharpe

Being a part of a Military family, Jayne Sullivan is quiet, shy and always follows the rules.
North: An Adventure

North: An Adventure

Amanda Linehan

Jayne is on the run. With a bag full of stolen money, a new friend she met while stealing his car, and an old adversary out to get her, Jayne heads north looking for a better life.
The Strange Case of Finley Jayne

The Strange Case of Finley Jayne

Kady Cross

Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'.
Childhood, Family, Alcohol

Childhood, Family, Alcohol

Mark Jayne

Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children’s understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role ...
Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children ...

Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children ...

Jayne Schooler

FOREWORD: PARENTING TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN: THE IMPACT ON FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE PARENTS Sharon Kaplan Roszia ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: FACING THE REALITY OF THE NEED Jayne E. Schooler PART ...
The Fight Within: A Story of Women in Recovery

The Fight Within: A Story of Women in Recovery

Norma Miller

The end result is a book that tells the story of Jayne 'who is all of you and who is none of you." "The Fight Within" views the heartbreak, tragedy, and pain suffered by the addict/alcoholic, Jayne, in an accepting and hopeful manner.
Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene

McKenzie Wark

A radical new way to think about the environment: the Carbon Liberation Front
Exploring Iran: The Photography of Erich F. Schmidt, 1930-1940

Exploring Iran: The Photography of Erich F. Schmidt, 1930-1940

Ayse Gursan-Salzmann

The Photography of Erich F. Schmidt, 1930-1940 Ayse Gursan-Salzmann, Erich Friedrich Schmidt. two years after their marriage. In one of his letters to Jayne, May 10, 1934, Schmidt thanked Jayne for having been his "best" best man at his  ...
The Virtual Republic: Australia's Culture Wars of the 1990s

The Virtual Republic: Australia's Culture Wars of the 1990s

McKenzie Wark

A wide-ranging survey of Australian cultural life in the 1990s.
General Intellects: Twenty-Five Thinkers for the ...

General Intellects: Twenty-Five Thinkers for the ...

Mckenzie Wark

Covering topics such as culture, politics, work, technology, and the Anthropocene, each chapter is a concise account of an individual thinker, providing useful context and connections to the work of the others.
The Virgin Banker

The Virgin Banker

Jayne-Anne Gadhia

This is not a conventional biography, nor a ‘how to do it’ business book.
John Oliver Hobbes: her life and work

John Oliver Hobbes: her life and work

Margaret M. Maison

This was William Francis Brown, a priest of the South- wark diocese, destined to become a Monsignor, Rector of St. Anne's, Vauxhall and Bishop of Pella. He had been an admirer of her work since 1 89 1 , but their friendship really began ...
The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out ...

The Spectacle of Disintegration: Situationist Passages Out ...

McKenzie Wark

Following the work of the Situationist International after May 1968, this companion volume to The Beach Beneath the Street puts the work of the Situationists in a broader and deeper context, documenting their contemporary relevance and ...
Gamer Theory

Gamer Theory

McKenzie Wark

Gamer Theory uncovers the significance of games in the gap between the near-perfection of actual games and the imperfect gamespace of everyday life in the rat race of free-market society.
The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin, and Censorship

The Money Shot: Cinema, Sin, and Censorship

Jane Mills

Iconoclastic analysis of Australian cinema based on rejection of censorship and the author's passion for popular culture. Volume in the media.culture series edited by McKenzie Wark.
Shield's Lady

Shield's Lady

Jayne Ann Krentz

Sarianna was a cool, confident businesswoman, an outcast from the East determined to regain her rightful status.

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