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  GLOBO ARTE JUNE 2022 ISSUE - AN...

  Globo Arte team

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  Hi guys this is the JUNE 2022 Magazine issue, which contains artists interviews to inspire artists, and so much more to help the artist in their art career,it contains artist interviews, art-related topics articles and question of the month, step of the month and social media updates

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  The Museum of the Wood Age

  Max Adams

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  A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood – the material that shaped human history. 
  As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species. Beginning with an investigation of the material properties of various species of wood, The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of six basic devices – wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley – and in so doing reveals the myriad ways in which wood has been worked throughout human history. From the simple bivouacs of hunter-gatherers to sophisticated wooden buildings such as stave churches; from the decorative arts to the humble woodworking of rustic furniture; Max Adams fashions a lattice of interconnected stories and objects that trace a path of human ingenuity across half a million years of history.

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  Jonathan Swift's A Modest...

  Jonathan Swift

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  "A Modest Proposal" is author Jonathan Swift's infamous and shocking satirical essay in which he suggests that the plight of the poor in Ireland could be eased if they simply agreed to sell their children to the elites of society to be used as food.   
  Swift, disgusted by the apparent disdain and apathy exhibited by the ruling classes over the sufferings of the poor in Ireland used this essay to lampoon and attack the Protestant leaders, whose anti-Catholic policies were causing hardship and famine in his own country. A classic use of Juvenalian satire (wherein the objects of the satire are made to appear monstrous and heartless), "A Modest Proposal" has become such a famous treatise that the title itself has become a synonym for such satire today.   
  Swift's brilliant and hard-hitting essay is presented here in its original and unabridged format and includes a brief biography of Jonathan Swift.

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  Partners in Crime: The new...

  Elsie Marks

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  Assassin Maisie Baxter returns in an action-packed, hilarious enemies-to-lovers thriller for fans of Katy Brent, Jesse Sutanto and Ally Carter. 
  'Incredibly addictive… It's fast-paced, exhilarating and I was totally there for every last word' ***** 
  'Totally bonkers, and that is a such a good thing' ***** 
  Assassin Maisie Baxter returns in an action-packed, hilarious enemies-to-lovers thriller for fans of Katy Brent, Jesse Sutanto and Ally Carter. 
  Maisie Baxter finally has it all. She’s killing it at work, literally, her friendships have never been stronger and, best of all, there’s gorgeous new boyfriend Will. After overthrowing a global conspiracy together, they’re well and truly in the honeymoon phase. 
  So why can’t she shake the feeling she’s doing everything wrong? 
  When a routine gig leads to an infamous crime organisation, Maisie finds herself drawn into a complex web of jealousy, betrayal and secrets. As unexpected figures from her – and Will’s – past resurface, Maisie must decide who she can trust to protect the ones she loves… 
  For fans of Isabella Maldonado (A Forgotten Kill), and Simon Gervais (The Last Guardian).

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  The Orchid Folios

  Mok Zining

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  “When you take an orchid out of its pot, you must first loosen the roots’ hold on the soil. Late last evening as I unravelled the braids of the shattered phalaenopsis, I saw how the ends were white and shrivelled from neglect. You have to do it gently—it’s like combing hair. I remember Mum’s fingers running through mine, and mine through hers, until the final months when all of it started to fall.” 
   
   
  A pot shatters. An arrangement falls apart. A florist finds herself amidst the scattered leaves of history. At once a poetry collection and a documentary novella, The Orchid Folios reimagines the orchid as a living, breathing document of history: a history that enmeshes the personal, colonial, linguistic, and biotechnological with the Vanda Miss Joaquim, the symbol of Singapore’s postcolonial hybridity. While the Orchid has shaped the fantastical narratives that govern our multiracial City in a Garden, it continues to shape-shift and bloom on its own terms, challenging us to imagine a decolonised Singapore. This is the organism at the heart of The Orchid Folios—by turns stark and unruly, documenting and challenging the narratives that are the roots of our national consciousness.

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  Slow Travel New Mexico -...

  Judith Fein

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  Winner of the 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Travel 
   
   
   
  Slow travel is the secret to opening doors, meeting people, participating in surprising events, experiencing joy, and making each trip—no matter how short or long—deeper, richer, and an adventure that is uniquely yours. 
   
   
   
  Award-winning travel journalists and Santa Fe residents Judith Fein and Paul Ross crisscross New Mexico, finding unforgettable adventures listeners can personally experience such as painting with an abstract artist on the Navajo Reservation, visiting a wolf refuge, cruising in a lowrider, hiking in a volcano, gourmet dining at Zuni Pueblo, seeing a ghost, tracking the true Billy the Kid . . . and so much more. 
   
   
   
  Slow Travel New Mexico is an invitation to show up in a place and let it reveal itself to you—on its own terms. It's not about going off the beaten path. It's about going off the beaten mental path by learning to look, see, open up, and explore differently. It's a guide to unforgettable experiences.

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