Beyond The Surface Christopher Columbus And The Kaleidoscope Of American Identity

Author : Davis Truman
Publisher : Vincenzo Nappi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798223210160

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Beyond the Surface Christopher Columbus and the Kaleidoscope of American Identity by Davis Truman Pdf

"Beyond the Surface: Christopher Columbus and the Kaleidoscope of American Identity" invites readers on an enlightening journey through the intricate layers of history, culture, and identity that have shaped the Americas. In this captivating exploration, the book delves deep into the legacy of Christopher Columbus, unearthing the complex intersections of triumph and tragedy, discovery and displacement. With meticulous research and vivid storytelling, it uncovers the multifaceted facets of Columbus's impact, unveiling the profound effects on indigenous civilizations, European expansion, and the forging of a New World identity. Seamlessly weaving together historical narratives, cultural analyses, and contemporary reflections, the book illuminates the kaleidoscope of influences that have contributed to the diverse tapestry of American identity, challenging readers to confront the nuanced truths that lie beyond conventional narratives. "Beyond the Surface" is a thought-provoking odyssey that compels us to examine the past to understand better the present and chart a more inclusive, empathetic future.

Author : Jacquelyn Days Serwer
Publisher : National Museum of American Art
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015047135143

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American Kaleidoscope by Jacquelyn Days Serwer Pdf

American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art features fourteen contemporary artists who live and work in the United States. The book's three major themes - Spiritual Expressions, Shared Concerns, and Historical Perspectives - are discussed in an insightful introductory essay by Jacquelyn Days Serwer, chief curator at the National Museum of American Art. Building on these themes, brief essays on each of the artists by Serwer and other members of the NMAA curatorial staff illuminate the chosen works in the context of the careers of these artists. Forty-one of their paintings, sculptures, and installations are illustrated in color, supplemented by eighty-six black-and-white reproductions.

Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780671792251

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Class by Paul Fussell Pdf

This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art and society
ISBN : UCBK:C064401303

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American Kaleidoscope by Anonim Pdf

American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art features fourteen contemporary artists who live and work in the United States. The book's three major themes - Spiritual Expressions, Shared Concerns, and Historical Perspectives - are discussed in an insightful introductory essay by Jacquelyn Days Serwer, chief curator at the National Museum of American Art. Building on these themes, brief essays on each of the artists by Serwer and other members of the NMAA curatorial staff illuminate the chosen works in the context of the careers of these artists. Forty-one of their paintings, sculptures, and installations are illustrated in color, supplemented by eighty-six black-and-white reproductions.

Author : Mai Palmberg
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9171064419

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National Identity and Democracy in Africa by Mai Palmberg Pdf

Province of South Africa

Author : Jean Lau Chin,Joseph E. Trimble
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483312446

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Diversity and Leadership by Jean Lau Chin,Joseph E. Trimble Pdf

Although leadership theories have evolved to reflect changing social contexts, many remain silent on issues of equity, diversity, and social justice. Diversity and Leadership, by Jean Lau Chin and Joseph E. Trimble, offers a new paradigm for examining leadership by bringing together two domains—research on leadership and research on diversity—to challenge existing notions of leadership and move toward a diverse and global view of society and its institutions. This compelling book delivers an approach to leadership that is inclusive, promotes access for diverse leaders, and addresses barriers that narrowly confine our perceptions and expectations of leaders. Redefining leadership as global and diverse, the authors impart new understanding of who our leaders are, the process of communication, exchange between leaders and their members, criteria for selecting, training, and evaluating leaders in the 21st century, and the organizational and societal contexts in which leadership is exercised.

Author : Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 189403788X

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Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Pdf

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's Islands of Decolonial Love is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.

Author : Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 067455163X

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The Mass Ornament by Siegfried Kracauer Pdf

The Mass Ornament today remains a refreshing tribute to popular culture, and its impressively interdisciplinary writings continue to shed light not only on Kracauer's later work but also on the ideas of the Frankfurt School, the genealogy of film theory and cultural studies, Weimar cultural politics, and, not least, the exigencies of intellectual exile.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951002415170D

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : Martin Farquhar Tupper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Proverbs
ISBN : OXFORD:600059489

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Proverbial Philosophy by Martin Farquhar Tupper Pdf

Author : Lorcan Dempsey
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838919972

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The Network Reshapes the Library by Lorcan Dempsey Pdf

Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems.

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307829658

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Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said Pdf

A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.

Author : John Elizabeth Stintzi
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551528748

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My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi Pdf

The brilliant new novel from the fiercely talented author of Vanishing Monuments, shortlisted for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award On the morning of June 2, 2016, a jogger in Central Park notices a mass of stone in the centre of the reservoir, a mass that—three weeks later—will have grown into an active stratovolcano nearly two and a half miles tall. This inexplicable event seems to coincide with an escalation of strange phenomena happening around the world. For readers of Karen Tei Yamashita and Haruki Murakami and fans of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights, My Volcano sets the mythic and absurd against the starkly realistic, attempting to portray what it feels like to live in a burning world stricken numb. My Volcano is a pre-apocalyptic vision following a global and diverse cast of characters, each experiencing private and collective eruptions: an eight-year-old boy in Mexico City finds himself 500 years in the past, where he lives through the fall of the Aztec Empire; a folktale scholar in Tokyo studies a story with indeterminate origins about a woman coming down a mountain to destroy villages and towns; a white trans writer living in Jersey City struggles to write a sci-fi novel about a thriving civilization on an impossible planet; a nurse with Doctors without Borders works with Syrian refugees in Greece as she tries to grapple with the trauma of surviving an American bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan; a nomadic herder in Mongolia is stung by a bee and finds himself transformed into a green, thorned, flowering creature that aims to cleanse the world’s most polluted places on its path toward assimilating every living thing on Earth into its consciousness. With audacious structure and poetic prose, My Volcano is an electrifying tapestry on fire. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. This book is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Author : Duncan Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198785392

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How Change Happens by Duncan Green Pdf

"DLP, Developmental Leadership Program; Australian Aid; Oxfam."

Author : Lois Tyson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136615566

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Critical Theory Today by Lois Tyson Pdf

Critical Theory Today is the essential introduction to contemporary criticial theory. It provides clear, simple explanations and concrete examples of complex concepts, making a wide variety of commonly used critical theories accessible to novices without sacrificing any theoretical rigor or thoroughness. This new edition provides in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today: feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, reader-response theory, new criticism, structuralism and semiotics, deconstruction, new historicism, cultural criticism, lesbian/gay/queer theory, African American criticism, and postcolonial criticism. The chapters provide an extended explanation of each theory, using examples from everyday life, popular culture, and literary texts; a list of specific questions critics who use that theory ask about literary texts; an interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby through the lens of each theory; a list of questions for further practice to guide readers in applying each theory to different literary works; and a bibliography of primary and secondary works for further reading.