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Introduction to Contemporary Art in China (eBook, PDF)

The book is a collection of fifteen introductory essays excerpted from the Annual of Contemporary Art in China, covering the years from 2005 to 2019, showcasing the development and changing landscapes of contemporary art in China. The Annual documents exhibitions, events, creative practices, and critical literature concerning contemporary art in China since 2005. Based on archival documentation and statistics data from these annuals, notable phenomena, events, and discourses from a given year, as well as key works and artists are reviewed in each introduction, with no ideological or market-driven undertone. The author unravels industrial and institutional factors, while also broaching important issues of abstract art, new media art and so on, and probing the historical and socio-cultural context as well. In this regard, the book offers a panorama of contemporary Chinese art and critically engages with the art scene in China, including Hongkong, Taiwan, and among the Chinese diaspora. The title will appeal to scholars, students and general readers interested in contemporary art history, art criticism, contemporary Chinese art, iconography, and contemporary art theory.

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Narcissistic Abuse: Understanding Narcissism and 7 Steps to Take Your Revenge with a Narcissist While Recovering from Toxic Relationships , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min

Are you currently recovering from a narcissist? Are you looking for a guide which clearly breaks down their destructive behaviors, along with how to stop them?With a motivational undertone designed to help you recover from a toxic relationship, Narcissistic Abuse:Understanding Narcissism and 7 Steps to Take Your Revenge with a Narcissist While Recovering from Toxic Relationships will unveil the secrets of narcissistic behavior and the powerful steps that you can take to stop them in their tracks!Inside this practical and enlightening audiobook, you’ll discover all you need to know about narcissists and their damaging forms of abuse, including:Identifying and understanding narcissists and their behaviorismNarcissist warning signs - how to know if you’re stuck in their webThe different ways narcissists get into your headDeveloping the mind-set to take back the control of your lifeThe vulnerable points of a narcissistThe seven powerful steps you can use to take your revenge!From understanding the way that narcissists isolate and control their victims to the methods you need to take to break free, this audiobook is a powerful and detailed guide designed to help you develop your mind-set, identify narcissistic behaviors, and reclaim control of your life and future.Don’t waste your time - rediscover your self-worth, break free, and recover from narcissistic abuse with this incredible audiobook.Get on the road to a better life, by clicking on the "buy now" button. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Erin Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/162980/bk_acx0_162980_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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The Sky Is Yours: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 938min

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY: Wall Street Journal • NPR • New York Public Library • LitHub • Mental Floss “Influenced by the likes of Jane Austen and Rick and Morty, Smith tackles timely issues while leaving room for some delicious reality TV references.” (Entertainment Weekly)In the burned-out, futuristic city of Empire Island, three young people navigate a crumbling metropolis constantly under threat from a pair of dragons that circle the skies. When violence strikes, reality star Duncan Humphrey Ripple V, the spoiled scion of the metropolis' last dynasty; Baroness Swan Lenore Dahlberg, his tempestuous, death-obsessed betrothed; and Abby, a feral beauty he discovered tossed out with the trash; are forced to flee everything they've ever known. As they wander toward the scalded heart of the city, they face fire, conspiracy, mayhem, unholy drugs, dragon-worshippers, and the monsters lurking inside themselves. In this bombshell of a novel, Chandler Klang Smith has imagined an unimaginable world: scathingly clever and gorgeously strange, The Sky Is Yours is at once faraway and disturbingly familiar, its singular chaos grounded in the universal realities of love, family, and the deeply human desire to survive at all costs.Praise for The Sky Is Yours:“It’s a mesmeric world, comic in the way teenage voyages of self-discovery inevitably are, but with an undertone of menace, horror, even hints of allegory. Satire, too . . . Smith’s imagination is inexhaustible. The Sky Is Yours is a great and disturbing debut, which colonizes a new realm of the magic city.” (The Wall Street Journal)“Smith’s gifts of imagination are staggering.... Much like Lev Grossman’s The Magicians and Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky before it, The Sky is Yours fi ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kirsten Potter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/005468/bk_rand_005468_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Yoga for Beginners: Nidra & Sutras Pantajaly Guide, Spirituality & Meditation Philosophy. Relieve Stress & Anxiety, Increase Body Flexibility, Spirit & Mind's Health with Easy Poses for Mindfulness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have been bombarded with intrusive thoughts of seemingly debilitating anxiety and are struggling to find the most effective means of lowering the levels of stress that are circulating in your body? What about those of you who have attempted to tackle some kind of physical regiment but found it to be too demanding on your body or have grown less fond of this kind of activity due to its highly competitive nature? Maybe you've reached out to numerous people and have been recommended to try yoga to acquire a new heightened sense of tranquility and to help you come to the belief that you have control over your life. If any of these situations are applicable to your circumstances, then Yoga for Beginners: Nidra and Sutras Pantajaly Guide, Spirituality and Meditation Philosophy. Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Increase Body Flexibility, Spirit, and Mind's Health with Easy Poses for Mindfulness is the perfect book for you.Now, I know that for many of you, the word yoga is synonymous with making body postures that resemble trees or remaining seated in a cross-legged position while closing your eyes and breathing incredibly heavily, which is not an incorrect assumption or assessment to make. However, these are merely parts of a much larger and much more complex kind of exercise that has an incredibly strong spiritual and philosophical undertone to it as well. The whole point of this book is to provide an elaborate and detailed analysis of what a person can learn from yoga as well as the reasoning as to why so many Americans have become fascinated by and addicted to the practice of yoga in the first place.Inside this book, you'll find:A description of the lengthy history of yoga and how it was cultivated and shaped within the subcontinent of India before being introduced to the Western world and how yoga became formally introduced into mainstream American societyFresh i ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elise Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/173416/bk_acx0_173416_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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Stellar Fire

Stellar Fire has become a track title on another album. This album has been deleted due to technical issues. If these can be overcome it may be re-released one day, but until then most of the tracks are on Silk Stone and Silver Wood anyway. I've left the old description below just in case you (or me) needed to read it:)... While planet rock was erupting from the riffs, rock and roll of the 1960s, the music for this suite was being jammed in coal sheds in Yorkshire and the Streets of Paris. Bands were scraped together from among friends and battered used equipment. Talent mattered first, to survive where audiences could enjoy destruction as much as entertainment. With roots tangled across both sides of a meandering track, these songs draw inspiration from rock, blues and classical lore. They are untainted by tuition or formality and have easy, friendly vocals. With a guitar style born of 60s and 70s rock/blues, they were recorded and produced in a back bedroom, using Audacity software... The Aviator riff draws you into a refreshing yet familiar world. With Irish roots, it's beat nods and stomps, as a story based in the living lore of rock-pop from the 70s fires your imagination. The battered Fender Stratocaster guitar of Rory Gallagher is an adulated icon of rock and blues. Tribute is paid here both lyrically and tonally to the aching wonder that Leo Fender released to the public in 1954 - the year that Alex Oliver, the album's composer, was born. As he wrests the sound of singing winds and crying beasts from his own guitar, Alex calmly leads us through the song like an eminent sage. It's like we are sitting round a glowing fire. Good story teller that he is, you can feel the thunderbird rising as the tale unfolds. It is as if an alien has arrived - the feeling people got when the guitar was first electrified. May the dust never settle on your dreams. Comparing the guitar to a gamut of heroic devices (hence aviator), Aviator celebrates everything we love about our musical heritage, as it slid sensationally from blues through 60s pop to rock. It is anthemic and driving...it will compel air guitarists and dancers alike to enjoy it to the full. One (Stellar Fire) Then, as the ariel moan of a biplane sustains sweet memories of the mad biker that is aviator, we are swiftly introduced to a guitar fanfare announcing a softer mood. With lyrics taken from Celtic, Gael and Manx myths (with a bit of Patrick Moore thrown in), One - Stellar Fire is not what you'd immediately guess to be a love song. Giving us the album title, this tale speaks of how forces beyond human reckoning enrich our lives and loves. An unashamed tenderness is evident in the conversations that two guitars enjoy in the intro, softly swished along on cymbals. The Hispano-Irish anthem then moves along with the rhythm, which is wrought purely from an acoustic guitar. Peruvian influence can be traced in the vocal harmonies that are eased along with bright arpeggios. The lyric of One tells us that love which comes to us is a gift of the universe, and maybe we should learn to live with it and not fight it. ...where two riders meet, in the skies over love... Whilst we contemplate the somewhat deep opening lyric for such an airy piece, an Appalachian guitar solo echoes as if played in woodlands. It stirs primeval spirits that move softly, yet unstoppably through every cell of our being. Then with a joyous, almost Christmassy feel, a violin technique on the guitar takes the riff towards a concluding verse. The cosmic undertone in this lyric enforces the album's theme, telling of stars that hide from the day... 1960s pop music influences the design this piece, which now runs to the close with a sustained uplifting chant, riding on the chorus. A gentle fade brings closure, not to one, but two tracks. Distant guitars emulate the image of the vocal line - love is like a comet flight. They finally recede into silence, allowing an important moment of contemplation between tracks. Son of The Night Having effortlessly flowed from rock and blues to pop, the mood suddenly changes. Son of the Night comes in through a door we did not know existed. At first, we feel continuity as Tibetan chants and mountain horns instil a quiet inner mood - like a soft conclusion to the work. You can almost feel the pull of distant planets, as your mind floats into Himalayan serenity. Then the drums, bass and guitar release their fury into the mythical calm. It is as if the powers of meditation have suddenly cracked a cosmic whip - brought you back to the here and now, in the entity of an album that reads like a painted cave. Son of the Night flies like a dragon through dark Tolkeinesque skies. It is the beast of human consciousness, telling us with an inner voice about how much we have achieved - and deceived for ourselves. Ranging from the right to wander wherever we like on this and other planets, to the fact that we barely understand ourselves, this song's lyrics enjoy a pure, unadulterated rock foundation. It is a driven thing - with vigour Vivaldi might use. An unexpected tumultuous end to the album, this is a vehicle for the free voice of the electric guitar, to soar in ways that release and inspire us. From the coarse driven rhythm to the sweeter, haunting lead guitars, we are allowed to experience extremes of emotion. The chaos of the first break sorts itself into patterns we barely understand, creating melody from a myriad notes, showering like sparks from a blade. It's Eastern mystery and promise settle the unrest, just long enough for us to hear the next part of the saga. 'Illuminated views across eternal rivers gleam', it sings, taunting the cowardice our forefathers and some latter-day leaders have shown. Fear of the truth is not just the domain of the wrong-doer, people are often mislead by their good intentions. A second guitar solo is one of the composer's favourite traits. They allow his music to go to higher plains of enjoyment, enforcing the mood of a lyric or riff. The second break in Son of the Night follows a breathy moment of spiritual realisation, where suddenly we can see our potential and our soul screams for it to be realised. This time the guitar has an orgiastic resolve, the sweetness of on old lover revisiting our bosom, the excitement of a new one... Just as the album started with an old familiar feel - like you'd known it all your life - so too it seems it might leave us with a refrain as familiar as our favourite t-shirt. But in the last moment, conscious perhaps that we can be forgetful, an a capella line shouts and hisses vengeance, like something escaped from a horror movie. With that, the album is gone from our speakers, gone from our headphones - gone from the air we breath, yet it remains with us like the feeling we get as we leave a cinema... ...Inspired by heroes, thrilled by beauty, invincible, strong, yet philanthropic. Thanks to Stellar Fire, now we can all feel like super heroes.

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Better Part of You

Hailing from Saskatoon Canada, Ash Jones combines the Goo Goo Dolls and Ben Harper with a strong undertone of Axl Rose, carving out a musical niche all of his own. Combining the essential elements of poetry, pop sensibility, innate musicianship and powerful thought invoking melody, Ash fishhooks listeners with raw emotion and sincerity. 'Everything I write comes from personal experience, I'm basically just trying to delve inside people and connect with the array of emotions life has to offer.' After years of honing his craft in the trenches of the Saskatchewan acoustic scene, Ash released his debut independent release "Crashing Down" in 2002. The title track was instantly well received, earning Ash a place in the top 12 out of 10,000 entries in the 2003 Canadian National Songwriting Competition. After the competition Ash enlisted Veteran Canadian rockers Angelo Frassetto, Steve Bunka, and Kyle Kildaw from the Touchtone Gurus to perform on and help produce his album "Better Part of You'. Like all great laid plans and intentions, the album was to be released in 2007 once Ash had moved to the London, England but the 'perfect mix' seemed to elude the project for the next few years. Ash continued to live and perform in London throughout 2006 and 2007 garnering great performance reviews. On why "Better Part of You" took so long to complete, Ash states " I had a vision in my mind of how I wanted this album to sound and a plan for how I wanted to achieve it but with so many players and their often competing visions to contend with, a lot of the plans overtime, became unglued. At the end of the day it is the album I've always wanted and dreamed of making. It sounds exactly as I intended and regardless of the time it took to create, I stand proud behind it and will now release it into the atmosphere and let fate take it's course." "Better Part of You" will be internationally released on Nov 20th 2010.

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