Dreaming the Present

Dreaming the Present
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781469667942
ISBN-13 : 1469667940
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreaming the Present by : Irvin J. Hunt

This is a story of art and movement building at the limits of imagination. In their darkest hours, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, but forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces "cooperatives," local challenges to global capital, where people pooled all they had to meet their needs. By reading their activism as an artistic practice, Irvin Hunt argues that their primary need was to free their movement from the logic of progress. From a remarkably diverse archive, Hunt extrapolates three new ways to describe the time of a movement: a continual beginning, a deliberate falling apart, and a simultaneity, a kind of all-at-once-ness. These temporalities reflect how a people maneuvered the law, reappropriated property, built autonomous communities, and fundamentally reimagined what a movement can be. Their movement was not the dream of a brighter day; it was the making of today out of the stuff of dreams. Hunt offers both an original account of Black mutual aid and, in a world of diminishing futures, a moving meditation on the possibilities of the present.

Dreaming in Books

Dreaming in Books
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9780226669724
ISBN-13 : 0226669726
Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreaming in Books by : Andrew Piper

Examining novels, critical editions, gift books, translations, and illustrated books, as well as the communities who made them, Dreaming in Books tells a wide-ranging story of the book's identity at the turn of the nineteenth century. In so doing, it shows how many of the most pressing modern communicative concerns are not unique to the digital age but emerged with a particular sense of urgency during the bookish upheavals of the romantic era. In revisiting the book's rise through the prism of romantic literature, Piper aims to revise our assumptions about romanticism, the medium of the printed book, and, ultimately, the future of the book in our so-called digital age."--Pub. desc.

Dreaming the Actual

Dreaming the Actual
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 418
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ISBN-10 : 9780791492697
ISBN-13 : 0791492699
Rating : 4/5 (97 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreaming the Actual by : Miriyam Glazer

This book introduces the powerful and provocative new fiction and poetry of Israel's women writers to an English-speaking audience. Read together, the stories and poems in this book will help to create a more sophisticated understanding of Middle Eastern passions and realities, and will foster a wealth of discussion about the meanings of homeland, exile, and diaspora; women's sexuality and spirituality; gender roles; the legacy of the Holocaust; the tensions and reconciliations of religion and secular life; the effects of war; and the power of memory. In her introduction, Miriyam Glazer vividly reconstructs the diversities, tensions, and complexity of current Israeli literature, and the book reflects the multiculturality of modern-day Israel by including stories and poems originally written in Arabic, Russian, Hebrew, and English. Brief biographical and critical introductions are provided for each writer, and the book features specially commissioned and new translations of twenty stories and seventy-five poems, many available here for the first time in English.

Group Dreaming

Group Dreaming
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Publisher : Wordminder Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0972910328
ISBN-13 : 9780972910323
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Group Dreaming by : Jean Campbell

Jean Campbell's book looks at the power that two or more people can tap when striving to dream the same dreams. She describes several different group dreaming experiments conducted over a period of ten years and tells about The World Dreams Peace Bridge.

Our Dreaming Mind

Our Dreaming Mind
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0345396669
ISBN-13 : 9780345396662
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Our Dreaming Mind by : Robert L. Van de Castle

"A MASTERPIECE ON DREAMS...This book is a singular resource.... If it inspires you to remember your dreams, this book will change your life. If it inspires you to act on your dreams, this book will change the world." --Henry Reed Author of Getting Help from Your Dreams and Dream Solutions In this brilliantly researched and thorough study, internationally recognized dream authority Robert L. Van de Castle examines the vital role that dreams have played throughout history, from the dreams of ancient Sumerian kings to the pioneering dream research of nineteenth-century psychologists. Our Dreaming Mind delves into the most provocative experiments that scientists are conducting on the dreaming mind in this century and surveys ongoing dream experiments: dreams and sexual arousal, the impact of pregnancy on dreams, the connection between dreams and creativity, and the possibility of paranormal dreams. "In Our Dreaming Mind, Robert Van de Castle pulls decades of accumulated wisdom together in a sweeping panorama unsurpassed in the literature for its scope, its insight, and its ability to captivate its readers. --Stanley Krippner Director of The Saybrook Institute Editor of Dream Time and Dream Work "IMMENSELY READABLE...A monumental history of dreams." --Publishers Weekly "Our Dreaming Mind is really a dream come true--the most comprehensive, authoritative, and inspiring book on dreams I know about. At heart, this book is about human consciousness and our place in the universe. A magnificent contribution." --Larry Dossey, M.D. Author of Meaning & Medicine: A Doctor's Tales of Breakthrough and Healing AN ALTERNATE SELECTION OF THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

Creative Dreaming

Creative Dreaming
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 276
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780684801728
ISBN-13 : 0684801728
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Creative Dreaming by : Patricia Garfield

With more than 250,000 copies sold, this classic exploration of dreams and how to use them has been updated to reflect recent research on dreams and dreaming.

Dreaming the Present

Dreaming the Present
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 9798890857873
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Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Dreaming the Present by : Irvin J. Hunt

"In their darkest hours over the course of the twentieth century, W. E. B. Du Bois, Ella Baker, George Schuyler, and Fannie Lou Hamer gathered hundreds across the United States and beyond to build vast, now forgotten, networks of mutual aid: farms, shops, schools, banks, daycares, homes, health clinics, and burial grounds. They called these spaces "cooperatives," local challenges to global capital, where people pooled all they had to meet all their needs. By reading their activism as an artistic practice, Irvin J. Hunt argues that their overarching need was to free their movement from the logic of progress. Steeped in the wonders of this movement's material afterlife, Hunt extrapolates three non-progressive forms of movement time: a continual beginning, a deliberate falling apart, and a kind of all-at-once simultaneity. These temporalities describe how these leaders, along with their circles, maneuvered the law, reappropriated property, expressed the pleasures of resistance, challenged the value of longevity, built autonomous communities, and fundamentally reimagined what a movement can be"--

Dream a World Anew

Dream a World Anew
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Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781588345684
ISBN-13 : 1588345688
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Dream a World Anew by : Nat'l Museum African American Hist/Cult

Dream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading scholars, curators, and authors with objects from the museum's collection to present a thorough exploration of African American history and culture. The first half of the book bridges a major gap in our national memory by examining a wide arc of African American history, from Slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Great Migrations through Segregation, the Civil Rights Movement, and beyond. The second half of the book celebrates African American creativity and cultural expressions through art, dance, theater, and literature. Sidebars and profiles of influential figures--including Harriet Tubman, Robert Smalls, Ida B. Wells, Mordecai Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, and many others--provide additional context and interest throughout the book. Dream a World Anew is a powerful book that provides an opportunity to explore and revel in African American history and culture, as well as the chance to see how central African American history is for all Americans.

Dream

Dream
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1896232043
ISBN-13 : 9781896232041
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Dream by : Susan V. Bosak

Illustrated text urges the reader to nurture his or her dreams and work to make them a reality.

You Go Girl-- Keep Dreaming

You Go Girl-- Keep Dreaming
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Publisher : Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.
Total Pages : 68
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0883968320
ISBN-13 : 9780883968321
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis You Go Girl-- Keep Dreaming by : Ashley Rice

Whether you want to be an astronaut or athlete or artist or are currently trying to deal with the ups and downs of school and making your way, the road can be scary sometimes. Penelope lets you know that there is greatness in the idea of trying, trying, and trying again and that the best parts of ourselves are often found when we "mess up."