Roy: 2801 books
Melinda Camber Porter In Conversation With Roy Lichtenstein
New York Green Street Mural 1983, Vol 1, No 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The conversation between Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) and Melinda Camber Porter (1953-2008) took place on December 18, 1983, when Roy Lichtenstein’s Greene Street Mural drew crowds to Leo Castelli’s landmark SoHo Greene Street Gallery in downtown New York. Roy Lichtenstein describes to Melinda...
by Susan Goldman Rubin, Roy Lichtenstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Welcome to Roy's house! Come on in and take a look around. There is a big sofa with room for lots of friends, three red fish swimming in a bowl, a yellow chair for reading, and, of course, Roy's studio, filled with paintbrushes. Susan Goldman Rubin pairs her simple narrative style with the energetic...
by Roy Underhill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.' Through his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop,' and his previous books, Roy has...
In Translation
The Gabrielle Roy-Joyce Marshall Correspondence
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Gabrielle Roy was one of the most prominent Canadian authors of the twentieth century. Joyce Marshall, an excellent writer herself, was one of Roy's English translators. The two shared a deep and long-lasting friendship based on a shared interest in language and writing. In Translation offers a critical...
by Roy Cross
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
The Airfix company was formed in 1939 and, since it produced its first plastic kit in 1949, grew to be the United Kingdom's leading model kit manufacturer. Several generations of young and young-at-heart modellers have made Airfix kits and, despite turbulent times in the 1970s and 1980s when the company...
by Roy Spence
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Roy Spence was raised in a family of huggers. When his dad—Big Roy, the biggest hugger of them all—passed away at the age of ninety-five, Roy Jr. started the healing process and discovered a more profound purpose behind the power of hugs.
Roy inherited his dad’s way of greeting both friends...
Homeopathic Guide for Travelers
Remedies for Health and Safety
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Ravi Roy and Carola Lage-Roy present a wealth of strategies for using homeopathic medicine to stay happy and healthy while traveling. A bestseller in its original German edition, The Homeopathic Guide for Travelers is equally useful for backpackers, business travelers, and even luxury vacationers....
by Roy Galan
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Roy Galán analiza la realidad que le rodea, que nos rodea, de un modo profundamente personal y crítico. Irrepetible es su libro, un libro único que nos lleva hasta las profundidades del sentimiento: un libro para mimarse y para mimar.
Irrepetible es una ventana hacia este planeta. Un libro...
by Arundhati Roy
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 7, 2015
«Nelle mani di Arundhati le parole diventano armi, le armi dei movimenti di massa.»
Naomi Klein
«La polemica di Arundhati Roy è importante e necessaria... dobbiamo esserle grati per il suo coraggio e il suo talento.»
Salman Rushdie
C’è un luogo in India che, più di ogni altro,...
Developmental State and Millennium Development Goals
Country Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Prior to the 2016 Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations (UN) had eight "global goals" set out to all 191 UN member states at that time, and at least 22 international organizations. Seven out of the eight United National Millennium Development Goals are social goals. The attainment...
Long Time Leaving
Dispatches from Up South
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
“I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I’m pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents’ people are deep Southern from many generations, and I spent a little over a third of my life, including the presumably most formative...
Mariana Castillo Deball & Roy Wagner
Kojotenanthropologie. Ein Gespräch in Worten und Zeichnungen (dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 024)
Language: German
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In Roy Wagners anthropologischem Ansatz ist das Unausgesprochene, Ungehörte, Unbekannte genauso wichtig wie das Vorhandene. Das Nicht-Anwesende, von Wagner als »Anti-Zwilling« bezeichnet, ist wesentlich für die Entstehung von Kultur und ihre Erforschung. In diesem Notizbuch schafft Mariana Castillo...
Reds, Whites, and Blues
Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the...
Field Notes on Democracy
Listening to Grasshoppers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Arundhati Roy is among the most well-known writers and social justice activists in the world today, with a committed global audience. Her best-selling 1997 novel "The God of Small Things" and her courageous, popular interviews and essays on war and peace, contemporary India and Kashmir,...