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Hans Hess: Selected Writings Volume 2 – Art in the 20th Century

by Hans Hess ...

Narrated by Rochelle Anne Swanson, Natasha Raskin Sharp, Adele Allen ...

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12 hours 1 min

Narrated and produced by Rochelle Anne Swanson.With additional image descriptions read by Natasha Raskin Sharp, highly-prized presenter of Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, and a much-loved and respected presenter of late-night music shows for BBC Radio Scotland.Editorial notes read by Adele Allen.To keep up to date with Manifesto Press, visit our socials @manifestopress.coopFollowing ... Read more

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Narrated and produced by Rochelle Anne Swanson.With additional image descriptions read by Natasha Raskin Sharp, highly-prized presenter of Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, and a much-loved and respected presenter of late-night music shows for BBC Radio Scotland.Editorial notes read by Adele Allen.To keep up to date with Manifesto Press, visit our socials @manifestopress.coopFollowing
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Hans Hess: Selected Writings Volume 1 - Art in the 19th Century

by Hans Hess ...

Narrated by Rochelle Anne Swanson, Natasha Raskin Sharp, Adele Allen ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Hans Hess: Selected Writings Volume 1 - Art in the 19th Century
Unabridged

7 hours 57 min

Narrated and produced by Rochelle Anne Swanson.With additional image descriptions read by Natasha Raskin Sharp, highly-prized presenter of Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, and a much-loved and respected presenter of late-night music shows for BBC Radio Scotland.Editor’s notes and citations read by Adele Allen.Find us @manifestopresscoopHess wrote in the 1960s and used ‘man’ ... Read more

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Narrated and produced by Rochelle Anne Swanson.With additional image descriptions read by Natasha Raskin Sharp, highly-prized presenter of Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!, and a much-loved and respected presenter of late-night music shows for BBC Radio Scotland.Editor’s notes and citations read by Adele Allen.Find us @manifestopresscoopHess wrote in the 1960s and used ‘man’
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Hans Hess: Selected Writings Volume 3 - Art & Ideology

by Hans Hess ...

Narrated by Rochelle Anne Swanson, Natasha Raskin Sharp, Adele Allen ...

Unabridged

9 hours 39 min

Purchase and listen to a pathbreaking exploration of art's relationship with power and ideology set out in Art and Ideology – the third volume of writings by emigre Marxist art critic Hans Hess.Hess's penetrating analysis reveals how 'what now replaces the function of art is advertising ' in our contemporary world, where 'the goods have become the gods'.It traces the transformation from art's ... Read more

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Purchase and listen to a pathbreaking exploration of art's relationship with power and ideology set out in Art and Ideology – the third volume of writings by emigre Marxist art critic Hans Hess.Hess's penetrating analysis reveals how 'what now replaces the function of art is advertising ' in our contemporary world, where 'the goods have become the gods'.It traces the transformation from art's
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Redefining Families

Implications for Children’s Development

Edited by Adele Eskeles Gottfried, Allen W. Gottfried ...

Families are undergoing dramatic changes in our society. Our tradi tional views are being challenged by new family arrangements. These new family arrangements are forcing redefinitions of what consti tutes a family and raising significant issues regarding the potential developmental consequences for children in these families, if such exist. Moreover, the ramifications of redefined families and ... Read more

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Families are undergoing dramatic changes in our society. Our tradi tional views are being challenged by new family arrangements. These new family arrangements are forcing redefinitions of what consti tutes a family and raising significant issues regarding the potential developmental consequences for children in these families, if such exist. Moreover, the ramifications of redefined families and
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Out of the Dark

by Adèle Geras ...

Narrated by Ben Allen ...

Unabridged

2 hours

Rob Stone comes back from the horrors of the First World War with a ruined face and a broken heart. Lonely, unable to forget the things he has seen, and haunted by the ghost of his dead Captain, all that Rob has left is a picture of the Captain's family. Rob sets out to find them, hoping that by bringing them the picture, he can bring peace to the Captain's ghost - and to his own troubled heart. ... Read more

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Rob Stone comes back from the horrors of the First World War with a ruined face and a broken heart. Lonely, unable to forget the things he has seen, and haunted by the ghost of his dead Captain, all that Rob has left is a picture of the Captain's family. Rob sets out to find them, hoping that by bringing them the picture, he can bring peace to the Captain's ghost - and to his own troubled heart.
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Race and Reconciliation in America

by Adele Logan Alexander, Tom Allen, Bernard Bergreen, Douglas Blackmon, Katrina Brown, Krista Buccellato, Lonnie Bunch, Deepak Chopra, Gail Christopher, Nancy Clair, Chuck Conconi, John Connolly, Stephen Cropper, Jason Dean, Debbie Dingell, Jan Smith-Donaldson, Maria Echaveste, Christopher Edley, Mary Farrell, Raul Fernandez, Patricia Finneran, Badi Foster, LaToya Foster, D'Angelo Gardner, Helene Gayle, Kevin Gover, Tammy Haddad, Elyas Harris, Dorothy Height, Zelda Heller, Fred Hochberg, Murray Horwitz, Noel Ignatiev, Bruce Jacobs, Joe Klein, Jay Lavender, Reta Lewis, The Honorable John Lewis, Michael Liberty, Joe Madison, Sharon Malone, Marlon Marshall, Robbie McCauley, Alexis McGill, Sgt Maj. Alford McMichael, Natalie Moody, Dawn Moore, Joy Moore, Minyon Moore, Westley Moore, Beverly Morgan-Welch, Judith Mowry, Marilyn Ordover, Joshua Packwood, Jennifer Pardo, Richard North Patterson, Erica Payne, Colette Phillips, Mark Planning, Sally Quinn, Stephanie Robinson, Amanda Sage, David Schoen, Gerald Talbot, Robert Talbot, Marc Titus, Enola Gay Aird, James Allen, Louis Gossett Jr., Ambassador Marc Grossman, Rev. Roger Hambrick, Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, The Honorable Henry Kennedy Jr., Hon. William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Sam Donaldson, General Jim Jones, Peggy McIntosh, William Smith, Rev. Gerald Tyler, Marjorie Valbrun, Ronald Walters, Harriet A. Washington, Rabbi Avi Weiss, Michael Wenger, Thomas Wharton, Armstrong Williams, Doug Wilson, Jay Winik, Simeon Wright, Paul Zimmerman, David Zirin, John Zogby ...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the ... Read more

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Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the
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Parallel Worlds

The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin

by Adele Logan Alexander ...

When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat's daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown. Their union took place in a world of refinement and privilege, but both William and Ida had mixed-race backgrounds, and their country therefore placed ... Read more

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When William Henry Hunt married Ida Alexander Gibbs in the spring of 1904, their wedding was a dazzling Washington social event that joined an Oberlin-educated diplomat's daughter and a Wall Street veteran who could trace his lineage to Jamestown. Their union took place in a world of refinement and privilege, but both William and Ida had mixed-race backgrounds, and their country therefore placed
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Princess of the Hither Isles

A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South

by Adele Logan Alexander ...

A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination"Both a definitive rendering of a life and a remarkable study of the interplay of race and gender in an America whose shadows still haunt us today."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr."If you combine the pleasures of a seductive novel, discovering a real American ... Read more

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A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination"Both a definitive rendering of a life and a remarkable study of the interplay of race and gender in an America whose shadows still haunt us today."—Henry Louis Gates, Jr."If you combine the pleasures of a seductive novel, discovering a real American
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Princess of the Hither Isles

A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South

by Adele Logan Alexander ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

12 hours 3 min

A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination.Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at ... Read more

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A compelling reconstruction of the life of a black suffragist, Adella Hunt Logan, blending family lore, historical research, and literary imagination.Born during the Civil War into a slaveholding family that included black, white, and Cherokee forebears, Adella Hunt Logan dedicated herself to advancing political and educational opportunities for the African American community. She taught at
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Homelands and Waterways

The American Journey of the Bond Family, 1846-1926

by Adele Logan Alexander ...

This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom.Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a ... Read more

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This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom.Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a
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War Girls

by Adèle Geras, Melvin Burgess, Berlie Doherty, Mary Hooper, Anne Fine, Matt Whyman, Theresa Breslin, Sally Nicholls, Rowena House, Sufiya Ahmed ...

1914: war has broken out across Europe and beyond. Nothing will ever be the same again for those caught up in the conflict.This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever. A courageous nurse risks her life on the Front Line; a young woman uncovers a spy in wartime London; and a grief-stricken sister comes to understand the heroism and ... Read more

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1914: war has broken out across Europe and beyond. Nothing will ever be the same again for those caught up in the conflict.This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever. A courageous nurse risks her life on the Front Line; a young woman uncovers a spy in wartime London; and a grief-stricken sister comes to understand the heroism and
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Wünsche für dein Leben

by Adèle Geras ...

Narrated by Verena von Behr, Gerd Wameling ...

Unabridged

36 min

Pass auf dich auf! Alles Gute! Immer wieder begleiten wir geliebte Menschen mit solchen Worten in einen neuen Lebensabschnitt. Diese warmherzige Hörbuchfassung schickt stellvertretend einen kleinen Hasen auf eine Reise in die Welt und in die Selbstständigkeit. Wie findet er sich ohne seine Eltern zurecht? Wohin wird sein Weg ihn führen? Und wird er Freunde finden?Herzlicher kann man gute Wünsche ... Read more

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Pass auf dich auf! Alles Gute! Immer wieder begleiten wir geliebte Menschen mit solchen Worten in einen neuen Lebensabschnitt. Diese warmherzige Hörbuchfassung schickt stellvertretend einen kleinen Hasen auf eine Reise in die Welt und in die Selbstständigkeit. Wie findet er sich ohne seine Eltern zurecht? Wohin wird sein Weg ihn führen? Und wird er Freunde finden?Herzlicher kann man gute Wünsche
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