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Author : Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333774977
Total Pages : 1808 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Glwa;Encyclopedia of Class Art written by Palgrave Macmillan Limited and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 1808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia Tortajada
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642235700
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Impacts of Large Dams: A Global Assessment written by Cecilia Tortajada and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most controversial issues of the water sector in recent years has been the impacts of large dams. Proponents have claimed that such structures are essential to meet the increasing water demands of the world and that their overall societal benefits far outweight the costs. In contrast, the opponents claim that social and environmental costs of large dams far exceed their benefits, and that the era of construction of large dams is over. A major reason as to why there is no consensus on the overall benefits of large dams is because objective, authoritative and comprehensive evaluations of their impacts, especially ten or more years after their construction, are conspicuous by their absence. This book debates impartially, comprehensively and objectively, the positive and negative impacts of large dams based on facts, figures and authoritative analyses. These in-depth case studies are expected to promote a healthy and balanced debate on the needs, impacts and relevance of large dams, with case studies from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America.
Author : Yael Bentor
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004105416
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Consecration of Images and Stūpas in Indo-Tibetan Tantric Buddhism written by Yael Bentor and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the Indo-Tibetan ritual of rendering religious objects sacred concerns one of the fundamental Buddhist tantric processes of transformation into a chosen tantric Buddha. It provides a general discussion of the ritual as well as detailed analyses of each ritual step in the composite present-day consecration.
Author : Mark Stryker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733417006
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Destiny written by Mark Stryker and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Silas Farmer
Publisher : Detroit : Farmer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of Detroit and Michigan written by Silas Farmer and published by Detroit : Farmer. This book was released on 1884 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Conway
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738551128
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Detroit's Historic Fort Wayne written by James Conway and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michigan's historic Fort Wayne, located on the narrowest point of the Detroit River, is named for Revolutionary War hero Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne. The fort was built in the 1840s to protect Detroit from British invasion following the strife of the 1838 Patriot War in Canada. Originally constructed of earth and wood, the fortifications were rebuilt in masonry during the Civil War, but the fort has never mounted cannons, as peace came to the international border and remains to this day. Fort Wayne has served the military as a training center, home to infantry regiments, supply depot, prisoner of war camp, and major induction center. It was a source of work for the unemployed during the Great Depression, a place of confinement during the Red Scare of 1920, and home for those displaced by civil unrest in Detroit during the 1960s. The fort continues to invite people to its riverfront view, not as soldiers but as guests, to enjoy community events on its broad parade fields and to learn about those who lived, drilled, and worked there.
Author : Charles Puzzanchera
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437935028
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Juvenile Arrests (2007) written by Charles Puzzanchera and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report serves to assess the Nation¿s progress in addressing juvenile crime. The 2007 data bring some welcome news, as the recent trend of modest increases in juvenile arrests in 2005 and 2006 has been broken. The good news is reflected not only in the 2% decline in overall juvenile arrests and the 3% decline in juvenile arrests for violent crimes from 2006 to 2007 but also in the data for most offense categories, for males and females, and for white and minority youth. However, one area that merits continued attention is disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system. For example, the arrest rate for robbery among black juveniles was more than 10 times that for white youth in 2007. Charts and tables.
Author : Jean Alicia Elster
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 081434870X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book How It Happens written by Jean Alicia Elster and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intergenerational story of three Black women and their struggle to stake their claim to the American dream. How It Happensfollows the story of author Jean Alicia Elster’s maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson. Born in Tennessee in 1890, Dorothy May was the middle daughter of Addie Jackson, a married African-American housekeeper at one of the white boardinghouses in town, and Tom Mitchell, a commanding white attorney from a prominent family. Through three successive generations of African-American women, Elster intertwines the fictionalized adaptations of the defining periods and challenges—race relations, miscegenation, sexual assault, and class divisions—in her family’s history. A continuation of the plots begun in Elster’s two novels Who’s Jim Hines? and The Colored Car, How It Happens continues the story for an older audience and begins with Addie’s life before the turn of the century in the South as a married Black woman with three biracial daughters navigating the relationship between her husband and Tom Mitchell. Later the story shifts to Addie’s daughter Dorothy May’s experiences both as a child and later, as a teacher who, choosing between her career and marriage to a man she barely knows, moves to Detroit. The story moves along with Dorothy May’s daughter Jean, who, with the support of her mother and the memory of her grandmother, confronts and comes to terms with her role in society and the options available to her as a college-educated Black woman in the post–World War II industrial North. While there is struggle and hardship for each of these women, they each build off one other and continue to demand space in the world in which they live. Written for young adult readers, How It Happens carries the heart through the obstacles that still face women of color today and persists in holding open the door of communication between generations.
Author : Joel Stone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814348871
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (488 download)
Download or read book 100 Years of the Detroit Historical Society written by Joel Stone and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes look at the creation and evolution of a cultural institution in Detroit.
Author : Richard Bak
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814333532
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Boneyards written by Richard Bak and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest burial mounds to today's simple street shrines, Boneyards: Detroit Under Ground reveals how Metro Detroiters have interred their dead and honored their memory. Author Richard Bak investigates the history of dozens of local cemeteries and also explores the cultural and business side of dying, from old-fashioned home funerals to the grave-robbing "resurrectionists" of the nineteenth century to modern funeral directors. Bak presents a mix of historic and contemporary photographs to illustrate each site or event alongside lively prose descriptions. Taken together, Bak's informative and often surprising historical snapshots span the entire metro area and three centuries of history. Boneyards visits the area's largest cemeteries-including Elmwood, Woodmere, Mount Olivet, Mount Elliott-and showcases some of their most intricate and unusual monuments. Bak also introduces readers to abandoned graveyards like William Ganong Cemetery in Westland, Millar Cemetery in Clinton Township, and Beth Olem Cemetery inside the GM Poletown Plant. Bak includes photos of some of the city's largest funerals, from those of automaker Henry Ford and orchestra conductor Ossip Gabrilovitch to civil rights icon Rosa Parks and rapper DeShaun "Proof" Holton. In addition, Bak tells the stories of the ordinary and the unclaimed in local cemeteries, along with the social changes like the creation of a "drive-through" funeral home in the 1970s, the "white flight" of interred family members from Detroit cemeteries, and the trend of local cemeteries adding graves that face Mecca to accommodate the growing Muslim population. Ultimately, Bak proves that our treatment of the dead reveals much about our culture and our values. Boneyards will be intriguing reading for Detroit historians, local residents, and anyone interested in the customs of memorializing past generations.
Author : Bryant Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611950007
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Haitian-English Dictionary written by Bryant Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion volume to our 6,000-word English-Haitian Dictionary. Contaings over 57,000 Haitian words and expressions. "There is no surer way to negate a people than to valify that which represnets their very essence: Their language. To defile the Haitian language is to defule the Haitian people."
Author : Paul Ganson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814340628
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book The Detroit Symphony Orchestra written by Paul Ganson and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to describe and document its origins in 1887 to the present day, relating its changing fortunes in light of the economic, demographic, and cultural history of the city of Detroit. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra: Grace, Grit, and Glory details the history of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as seen through the prism of the city it has called home for nearly 130 years. Now one of America’s finest orchestras, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra began in 1887 as a rather small ensemble of around thirty-five players in a city that was just emerging as an industrial powerhouse. Since then, both the city and its orchestra have known great success in musical artistry for the symphony and economic influence for the city. They have each faced crises as well—financial, social, and cultural—that have forced the DSO into closure three times, and the city to the brink of dissolution. Yet somehow, in the face of adversity, the DSO stands strong today, a beacon of perseverence and rebirth in a city of second chances. This is the first history of the DSO to document the orchestra from its earliest incarnation in the late nineteenth century to its current status as one of the top orchestras in the country. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra tells the story of the organization—the musicians, the musical directors, the boards, and the management—as they strove for musical excellence, and the consistent funding and leadership to achieve it in the changing economic and cultural landscape of Detroit. Author Laurie Lanzen Harris, with Paul Ganson, explores the cycles of glory, collapse, and renewal of the orchestra in light of the city’s own dynamic economic, demographic, and cultural changes. Any reader with an interest in Detroit history or the history of American smphony orchestras should have this book on his or her shelf.
Author : International Renewable Energy Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789295111011
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Biofuels for Aviation written by International Renewable Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aviation sector is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, at 2% of the human-induced total. The sector's transition to sustainable, renewable fuels, therefore, is crucial to meet the international climate targets set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement. This brief examines how the expansion of biofuels for jet aircraft can reduce emissions substantially compared to fossil-based jet fuel.
Author : Larry D. Lankton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814336965
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Hollowed Ground written by Larry D. Lankton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s. In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in the 1950s and produced another 4.4 billion pounds of copper through the 1990s. In addition to documenting companies and their mines, mills, and smelters, Hollowed Ground is also a community study. It examines the region's population and ethnic mix, which was a direct result of the mining industry, and the companies' paternalistic involvement in community building. While this book covers the history of the entire Lake Superior mining industry, it particularly focuses on the three biggest, most important, and longest-lived companies: Calumet & Hecla, Copper Range, and Quincy. Lankton shows the extent of the companies' influence over their mining locations, as they constructed the houses and neighborhoods of their company towns, set the course of local schools, saw that churches got land to build on, encouraged the growth of commercial villages on the margin of a mine, and even provided pasturage for workers' milk cows and space for vegetable gardens. Lankton also traces the interconnected fortunes of the mining communities and their companies through times of bustling economic growth and periods of decline and closure. Hollowed Ground presents a wealth of images from Upper Michigan's mining towns, reflecting a century and a half of unique community and industrial history. Local historians, industrial historians, and anyone interested in the history of Michigan's Upper Peninsula will appreciate this informative volume.
Author : David Solnit
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 : 9780872864207
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Globalize Liberation written by David Solnit and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A post-9/11 look at the new radicalism that has captured the imagination of activists worldwide.
Author : George A. Olah
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0323138071
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Chemistry of Energetic Materials written by George A. Olah and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of energetic materials is emerging from one primarily directed toward practical interests to an advanced area of fundamental research, where state-of-the-art methods and theory are used side by side with modern synthetic methods. This timely book integrates the recent experimental, synthetic, and theoretical research of energetic materials. Editors George Olah and David Squire emphasize the importance of structure and mechanism in determining properties and performances. They also explore new spectrometric methods and synthetic approaches in this useful reference. - Discusses structural analysis by x-ray crystallography - Explains chemical dynamics by photofragmentation translational spectroscopy - Covers kinetic analysis by ultrafast absorption and emission spectroscopy - Details syntheses of polycyclic caged amines, fuel additives, and polynitro compounds - Examines computer-aided design of monopropellants - Includes contributions by two Nobel laureates and five members of the National Academy of Sciences
Author : National Fisheries Center and Aquarium (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dolphins and Porpoises written by National Fisheries Center and Aquarium (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
