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Chapters: Leo Mckern, Cate Blanchett, Peter Finch, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Hugh Jackman, Jon English, F. Matthias Alexander, Miranda Otto, Rose Byrne, Bert Newton, Robert Helpmann, Judith Anderson, Andrew Hansen, Reg Livermore, David Knijnenburg, Nellie Stewart, Bud Tingwell, Michael Blakemore, Lisa Mccune, Madeleine Orr, Lulu Pinkus, Dennis Olsen, David Wenham, Gary Files, Guy Pearce, Fay Kelton, Ned Manning, Matthew Newton, Stuart Wagstaff, Roy Rene, Lloyd Lamble, Elizabeth Alexander, Drew Anthony, Monica Maughan, Jason Gardiner, Liz Harris, Ian Turpie, Sigrid Thornton, Barry Creyton, Garry Mcdonald, Bryan Brown, Rowena Wallace, Frank Harvey, Jonathan Hyde, Craig Mclachlan, Trisha Noble, Robyn Archer, Bethany Lee, Vince Colosimo, Mae Busch, Kym Gyngell, George Selth Coppin, Jude Kuring, Gustavus Vaughan Brooke, Tom Oliver, Nadine Garner, Aimee Horne, Justine Clarke, Richard Walley, Jacqueline Mckenzie, Keith Michell, Robyn Nevin, Clarissa Kaye, June Bronhill, Bille Brown, Thelma Scott, Elizabeth Sharland, Georgie Parker, Deidre Rubenstein, Coral Browne, Zoe Caldwell, Anna Skellern, Philip Quast, Barry Crocker, Toby Schmitz, Catherine Mcclements, Genevieve O'reilly, John Bluthal, Ruth Cracknell, Freya Stafford, Barry Sullivan, Mary Ward, Melanie Parry, Adam Garcia, Marc Mcdermott, Jacki Weaver, Leeanna Walsman, John Mccallum, John Wood, Nicholas Gledhill, Xavier Samuel, Gordon Chater, Barbara Angell, Noel Ferrier, Amanda Harrison, Toni Lamond, Simon Burke, Caroline O'connor, Robert Greig, Alan Edwards, Mark Priestley, Paul Bishop, Jaason Simmons, Louise Van Veenendaal, John Bell, Gregan Mcmahon, Bettina Welch, Brett Budgeon, Marie Lohr, Amanda Muggleton, Ross Skiffington, Martin Crewes, Dion Boucicault, Jr., Helen Dallimore, Kym Valentine, Maggie Moore, Barry Quin, Ron Haddrick, Lech Mackiewicz, Justin Truloff, Scott Mcgregor, Jesse Rosenfeld, John Stanton, Lindy Davies, Richard Grieve, Geoff Morrell, George Sutton Tit...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=160126 ... Read more

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Chapters: Greg Egan, Hugo Weaving, Missy Higgins, Gary Forrester, J. M. Coetzee, Desmond Ford, Percy Grainger, Vanessa Amorosi, Elle Macpherson, Benjamin Speed, Mark Oliphant, Jackie O, Isabel Lucas, Ben Lee, Sophie Monk, Abbie Cornish, Axella Johannesson, Val Plumwood, Radha Mitchell, Cliff Young, Michael Guy Chislett, Pippa Black, Xavier Rudd, Murray Rose, Dave Hughes, Victor Peirce, Chris Ross. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 138. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983) is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor, her No. 1 albums are The Sound of White (2004) and On a Clear Night (2007), and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in Melbourne, she played piano by age six and sang at twelve. While boarding at Geelong Grammar School, she wrote a song for an assignment which was then entered into the national Unearthed radio competition for unsigned artists. Higgins won and signed recording contracts with Eleven and Warner Bros. After taking time off, backpacking in Europe, she recorded her first album The Sound of White, which was released in 2004. The album, and its first single, "Scar" both went to No. 1 on the relevant Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Charts. Its second single, "The Special Two", went to No. 2. Higgins was nominated for five ARIA Music Awards that year and won 'Best Pop Release' for "Scar". In 2005 she was nominated for seven more awards and won five. She won her seventh ARIA in 2007. In 2006, Higgins wrote new material for her second album, and following a US tour she recorded On a Clear Night, which gave her another No. 1 single with "Steer". Higgins has conducted several well received Australian tours and performed ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6996933 ... Read more

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Chapters: Mel Gibson, Baz Luhrmann, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Pamela Stephenson, Miranda Otto, Judy Davis, Toni Collette, Emilie de Ravin, Ian Roberts, Simon Baker, Sam Worthington, Colin Friels, Richard Roxburgh, Jacqueline Mckenzie, Robyn Nevin, Philip Quast, Anna Torv, Catherine Mcclements, Genevieve O'reilly, Mark Ferguson, Helen Morse, Andrea Mcewan, Helen Dallimore, Steve Bisley, Hugh Sheridan, Susie Porter, Darren Yap, Aaron Jeffery, Daniel Lapaine, Bridie Carter, Claudia Bassols, Jessica Marais, Timothy Conigrave, Bojana Novakovic, Josh Lawson, Tom Long, Tom Burlinson, Charles Mesure, Jeremy Sims, Danielle Carter. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 202. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Mel Colm-Cille Gerard Gibson, AO (born January 3, 1956) is an American Australian actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney when he was 12 years old and later studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. After appearing in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon series, Gibson went on to direct and star in the Academy Award-winning Braveheart. Gibson's direction of Braveheart made him the sixth actor-turned-filmmaker to receive an Academy Award for Best Director. In 2004, he directed and produced The Passion of the Christ, a controversial but successful film that portrayed the last hours of the life of Jesus Christ. The movies he has acted in have grossed more than two billion dollars in the U.S. alone. Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children, and the second son of Hutton Gibson and Irish-born Anne Patricia (née Reilly). His paternal grandmother was the Australian opera soprano, Eva Mylott (18751920). One of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor. Gibson's first name comes ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=44219 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Hubert Ogunde, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nduka Odizor, Umaru Yar'adua, Hugo Weaving, Samantha Orobator, Chidi Odiah, Onyekachi Apam, Endurance Idahor, Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Sani Emmanuel, John Obi Mikel, Victor Nsofor Obinna, Kalu Uche, Terry Envoh, Abdul Ajagun, Emmanuel Ekpo, Omoh Ojabu, Élé Asu, Kenneth Omeruo, Halimat Ismaila, Sanusi Turay, Onyekachi Nwoha, Peter Akinola. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Hubert Ogunde (né le 31 mai 1916 à Ososa, mort le 4 avril 1990 à Londres) est un dramaturge nigérian considéré comme le père du théâtre moderne au Nigéria. Hubert Ogunde, un inventeur missionnaire. Hubert Ogunde s'inspire à la fois du théâtre Alarinjo et des danses de l'Egundun, des compositions yorouba récentes de chants d'église, sans oublier l'influence du Théâtre Acrobatique d'Ilorin, pour fonder en 1944 une nouvelle pratique théâtrale en Afrique de l'Ouest. En 1943, l'Église d'Ebute Metta propose à Hubert Ogunde, ancien professeur et officier de police de présenter un Opéra de chants locaux (en langue Yorouba) afin de financer la construction d'un nouvelle église. Le 10 juin 1944 a lieu la représentation de l'Opéra Le Jardin d'Eden et Le Trône d'Or au Glover Memorial Hall à Lagos. Ce travail dirigé par Hubert Ogunde fonde sa recherche d'une nouvelle forme théâtrale et musicale yorouba. Elle respecte la structure traditionnelle du programme des danses Egundun et du théâtre Alarinjo qui commencent par un chœur d'ouverture (chant à l'unisson), hommage à la lignée des ancêtres et aux dieux tutélaires, suivi de la narration dansée et chantée (sans dialogues), et clos par un chant unique, suivi d'une danse collective pendant laquelle les spectateurs sont libres de partir ou de rester. Sa forme s'inspire, da...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Peter Finch, Hugo Weaving, Fay Kelton, Lloyd Lamble, Frank Harvey, John Bluthal, Bill Kerr, John Meillon, Leonard Teale, Albert Collins, Neva Carr Glyn, Ida Elizabeth Osbourne, Dick Bentley, Joy Nichols, Ron Randell, Willie Fennell, Alwyn Kurts. Excerpt:Albert "Joe" Collins (1883 1951) was an Australian painter and actor born in Aotearoa , New Zealand . He had been named for Prince Albert , Queen Victoria 's consort but to everyone (including himself), he was "Joe". Teaching career He left New Zealand to teach in Abbotsleigh School for Girls in Wahroonga 1906 1912. Among his students was Grace Cossington Smith He next taught at Redlands School, Cremorne from 1913 1916. The school yearbook reported that Mr Collins class for design is fast becoming a popular one. There is evidently no lack of talent, and some of the work done shows great promise for the future. One notable student was Alison Rehfisch (née Green). He awarded a special prize to another student, Jean Sulman for designing a new cover for the school magazine which remained in use from 1915 to 1938. After quitting formal teaching, he continued private tutoring. One such student was Muriel Cornish. Painting From 1916 1951 he was a director of advertising firm "Smith and Julius" (founded by Sydney Ure Smith and Harry Julius) which specialised in quality art work for prestigious clients such as Dunlop and Berlei . Artists they employed included Frank Burdett, Harold Cazneaux , Adrian Feint , Lloyd Rees , Fred Britton, George Frederick Lawrence, James Muir Auld , Roland Wakelin , Roy de Maistre , Percival Leason and Bill Sparrow. In 1923 he was an invited foundation member of the Australian Watercolour Institute along with Hans Heysen , Norman Lindsay , Blamire Young , Arthur Streeton , John D Moore, John Eldershaw and Sy... ... Read more

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Chapters: William Friese-Greene, Hugo Weaving, Jonathan Pearce, Ashley Pharoah, Anthony Verity. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an English, Nigeria born, Australian raised film and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy, Elrond in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Megatron in the Transformers series and V in V for Vendetta. Weaving was born in University Teaching Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria, to English parents Anne, a tour guide and former teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. A year after his birth, his family returned to England, living in Bedford and Brighton before relocating to Melbourne and Sydney in Australia, Johannesburg in South Africa, and then returning to England again. While in England, he attended the independent boarding school Queen Elizabeth's Hospital. His family moved back to Australia in 1976, where he attended another private school, Sydney's Knox Grammar School. He later graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981. Weaving's first major role was in the 1984 Australian television series Bodyline, as the English cricket captain Douglas Jardine. Weaving appeared in the Australian miniseries The Dirtwater Dynasty in 1988 and also as Geoffrey Chambers in the drama Barlow and Chambers: A Long Way From Home. He starred opposite Nicole Kidman in the 1989 film Bangkok Hilton. In 1991, Weaving received the Australian Film Institute's "Best Actor" award for his performance in the low-budget Proof. He also appeared as Sir John in the 1993 Yahoo Serious comedy Reckless Kelly, a lampoon of the famous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. Weaving first received international attention in the hit Priscilla, Queen of the Desert in 1...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=170977 ... Read more

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This combo pack features a Blu-ray copy of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in high definition and a standard DVD version of the film.

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Title: The Matrix: segunda parte. (En Proyeccion).(The Matrix: Reloaded )(Resena de pelicula)
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Collected and highly valued all over the world, Navajo weaving has been the subject of many aesthetic and historic studies. Grounded in archival research and cultural and economic approaches, this new book situates Navajo weavers within the economic history of the Southwest and debunks the romantic stereotypes of weavers and traders that have dominated the literature.

Beginning with an analysis of trader archives revealing that nearly all Navajo textiles were wholesaled by weight until the 1960s, M'Closkey scrutinizes the complex interactions among artists, dealers, collectors, and museum curators that have facilitated the explosion in value of those old weavings. She also examines the production of Mexican copies of Navajo-style rugs, which in recent years has combined with the market for pre-1950 textiles to diminish the demand for contemporary Navajo weavings. Navajo patterns, she points out, remain unprotected by copyright because traditional designs have been in the public domain for decades.

Much of the exploitation M'Closkey delineates has been justified by the ethnographic classification of functional textiles as nonsacred crafts. But the author's conversations with Navajo weavers suggest that their motivations for weaving go far beyond economics. Weavers' feelings for hozho, the Navajo concept of harmonious beauty, encompass far more than any western concept of aesthetics. M'Closkey shows that the weavers' views of their work are marginalized when the work is treated as a collectible craft and culture is split from commodity.

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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT--HISTORY MADE CLEAR
This is a book I would have been proud to have written, but Kathy M'Closkey has done it exceedingly well. She has told a long overdue and in-depth history of Navajo weaving that binds together themes usually glossed over or ignored in most academic texts--both art historical and ethnographic--and sets the record straight. One of her central and most telling points is that, given the past (and still current) Anglo-dominated marketing and auction systems, the more Navajo women wove, the poorer they became.

The author also addresses the problem of knockoffs of Dine' creativity and design seen today in the increasing number of overseas copies (from Mexico, India, Europe, and elsewhere) of Navajo weaving designs being marketed in the U.S. and sold worldwide.

Richly documented from the records of traders, trading posts, government, and other original sources--especially the testimony of the Dine' (Navajo) weavers themselves--the author gives voice to a history too-long hidden from the general public and now made clear and plain. "Swept Under the Rug" reveals how the weavings were severed from their makers' stories and how, because of this, the prevailing and standard "history" of Navajo weaving does not reflect Dine' values, but rather those of an externally controlled access to the public and marketplace. Fair-trade grassroots indigenous initiatives and cooperatives such as Black Mesa Weavers for Life and Land, Sheep Is Life, the Dine' College Navajo Textile Project, and others, are starting to bring about change and empower the Dine', through the work of their own hands, to reach the market directly, reclaiming the present and a future for the wool and weavings at the core of their culture and economy.

This book is a must-read complement to the few books in print about Navajo weaving that give voice to the Dine' themselves, such as in"Weaving A World: Textiles and the Navajo Way of Seeing," by Roseann S. Willink and Paul G. Zolbrod, and in parts of"Woven by the Grandmothers: Nineteenth-Century Textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian," ed. by Eulalie H. Bonar. ... Read more