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Book Synopsis Patchwork States by : Adnan Naseemullah
Download or read book Patchwork States written by Adnan Naseemullah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patchwork States argues that patterns of political violence in South Asia are rooted in state-building during and after colonial rule.
Book Synopsis The United States Patchwork Pattern Book by : Barbara Bannister
Download or read book The United States Patchwork Pattern Book written by Barbara Bannister and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1976-06-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 quilt blocks for the 50 states from "Hearth & Home" Magazine.
Book Synopsis Patchwork Leviathan by : Erin Metz McDonnell
Download or read book Patchwork Leviathan written by Erin Metz McDonnell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption and ineffectiveness are often expected of public servants in developing countries. However, some groups within these states are distinctly more effective and public oriented than the rest. Why? Patchwork Leviathan explains how a few spectacularly effective state organizations manage to thrive amid general institutional weakness and succeed against impressive odds. Drawing on the Hobbesian image of the state as Leviathan, Erin Metz McDonnell argues that many seemingly weak states actually have a wide range of administrative capacities. Such states are in fact patchworks sewn loosely together from scarce resources into the semblance of unity. McDonnell demonstrates that when the human, cognitive, and material resources of bureaucracy are rare, it is critically important how they are distributed. Too often, scarce bureaucratic resources are scattered throughout the state, yielding little effect. McDonnell reveals how a sufficient concentration of resources clustered within particular pockets of a state can be transformative, enabling distinctively effective organizations to emerge from a sea of ineffectiveness. Patchwork Leviathan offers a comprehensive analysis of successful statecraft in institutionally challenging environments, drawing on cases from contemporary Ghana and Nigeria, mid-twentieth-century Kenya and Brazil, and China in the early twentieth century. Based on nearly two years of pioneering fieldwork in West Africa, this incisive book explains how these highly effective pockets differ from the Western bureaucracies on which so much state and organizational theory is based, providing a fresh answer to why well-funded global capacity-building reforms fail—and how they can do better.
Book Synopsis Our Patchwork Nation by : Dante Chinni
Download or read book Our Patchwork Nation written by Dante Chinni and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary new way to understand America's complex cultural and political landscape, with proof that local communities have a major impact on the nation's behavior-in the voting booth and beyond. In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, the media have often reduced America to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. In response to that oversimplification, journalist Dante Chinni teamed up with political geographer James Gimpel to launch the Patchwork Nation project, using on-the-ground reporting and statistical analysis to get past generalizations and probe American communities in depth. The result is Our Patchwork Nation, a refreshing, sometimes startling, look at how America's diversities often defy conventional wisdom. Looking at the data, they recognized that the country breaks into twelve distinct types of communities, and old categories like "soccer mom" and "working class" don't matter as much as we think. Instead, by examining Boom Towns, Evangelical Epicenters, Military Bastions, Service Worker Centers, Campus and Careers, Immigration Nation, Minority Central, Tractor Community, Mormon Outposts, Emptying Nests, Industrial Metropolises, and Monied Burbs, the authors demonstrate the subtle distinctions in how Americans vote, invest, shop, and otherwise behave, reflect what they experience on their local streets and in their daily lives. Our Patchwork Nation is a brilliant new way to debate and examine the issues that matter most to our communities, and to our nation.
Book Synopsis Patchwork States by : Adnan Naseemullah
Download or read book Patchwork States written by Adnan Naseemullah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patchwork States argues that the subnational politics of conflict and competition in South Asian countries have roots in the history of uneven state formation under colonial rule. Colonial India contained a complex landscape of different governance arrangements and state-society relations. After independence, postcolonial governments revised colonial governance institutions, but only with partial success. The book argues that contemporary India and Pakistan can be usefully understood as patchwork states, with enduring differences in state capacity and state-society relations within their national territories. The complex nature of territorial governance in these countries shapes patterns of political violence, including riots and rebellions, as well as variations in electoral competition and development across the political geography of the Indian subcontinent. By bridging past and present, this book can transform our understanding of both the legacies of colonial rule and the historical roots of violent politics, in South Asia and beyond.
Book Synopsis Quilt of States by : Adrienne Yorinks
Download or read book Quilt of States written by Adrienne Yorinks and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quilt maps of all 50 states of the United States of America are placed in order of statehood. Includes "State Facts, Contributors, A Note from the Author/Illustrator, and Index."
Book Synopsis The Big Book of Patchwork by : Judy Hopkins
Download or read book The Big Book of Patchwork written by Judy Hopkins and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with exciting projects--50 in all--this collection provides extraordinary value. Choose from decorative crib quilts, lap quilts, and bed-sized quilts in a variety of fabric combinations. Create everything from two-fabric designs to scrappy multiple-fabric quilts. Featuring traditional patchwork and fast cutting and piecing techniques, these quilts have broad appeal--as one would expect from such a well-loved designer!
Book Synopsis State Capitals Quilt Blocks by : Barbara Bannister
Download or read book State Capitals Quilt Blocks written by Barbara Bannister and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis United States Patchwork Patterns Coloring Book by : Carol Schmidt
Download or read book United States Patchwork Patterns Coloring Book written by Carol Schmidt and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty nifty full-page designs re-create one of the most popular quilt series ever, Hearth & Home's States-of-the-Union series. Each ready-to-color patchwork quilt design celebrates one of the 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming. In addition to the full-page quilt illustrations, each block is shown individually for reference.
Book Synopsis A Patchwork Shawl by : Shamita Das Dasgupta
Download or read book A Patchwork Shawl written by Shamita Das Dasgupta and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Patchwork Shawl sheds light on the lives of a segment of the U.S. immigrant population that has long been relegated to the margins. It focuses on women's lives that span different worlds: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and the United States. This collection of essays by and about South Asian women in America challenges stereotypes by allowing women to speak in their own words. Together they provide discerning insights into the reconstruction of immigrant patriarchy in a new world, and the development of women's resistance to that reconstruction. Shamita Das DasGupta's introduction also acquaints readers with the psychological topography of the South Asian community. A Patchwork Shawl considers topics from re-negotiation of identity to sexuality, violence to intimacy, occupations to organizing within the community. The essays bear witness to women's negotiations for independent identities, their claim to their own bodies, and the right to choose relationships based on their own histories and truths. They bring new understanding to the intersection of gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and class.
Download or read book Patchwork written by Ellen Banda-Aaku and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing. In this coming-of-age novel, acclaimed author Ellen Banda-Aaku offers a profound exploration into the effects of stigma, class, and family dynamics in 1970s Zambia. Pumpkin is a nine-year-old girl pulled between two vastly different worlds – that of her father, the wealthy and power-hungry Joseph Sakavungo, and her mother, his unstable mistress. As Pumpkin attempts to come to terms with her own identity, she struggles to fashion a future for herself out of the torn patchwork of her parents' lives. Beautifully constructed, Banda-Aaku has crafted a story that is in equal parts uplifting and bittersweet.
Book Synopsis Polly Prindle's Book of American Patchwork Quilts by : Alice I. Gammell
Download or read book Polly Prindle's Book of American Patchwork Quilts written by Alice I. Gammell and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Quilts of Valor by : Quilts of Valor Foundation
Download or read book Quilts of Valor written by Quilts of Valor Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Quilts of Valor Foundation was founded in 2003, its mission was to cover our nation's military touched by war--that is, to cover them with quilts and honor their service. A volunteer team donates their time and materials to make a quilt collaboratively. Since its beginning, this all-volunteer organization with close to 7,000 members nationwide has awarded more than 180,000 Quilts of Valor. This book explains the history of military quilts since our nation's beginning, and features a Quilt of Valor to represent each of our 50 states. Also included are 16 quilt patterns to choose from, to inspire you to make your own Quilt of Valor. The organization's Under Our Wings project, which brings young people into Quilts of Valor and encourages them to learn to sew, is featured, too.
Book Synopsis The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt by : Carrie A. Hall
Download or read book The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt written by Carrie A. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of quiltmaking, describes quilting techniques, and shows traditional and modern designs
Book Synopsis Useful Patchwork Gifts by : Chuck Nohara
Download or read book Useful Patchwork Gifts written by Chuck Nohara and published by Japan Publications. This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are easy-to-learn precision piecing methods that will help you create a variety of creative, handmade gifts for any occasion.
Book Synopsis The Complete Book of Seminole Patchwork by : Beverly Rush
Download or read book The Complete Book of Seminole Patchwork written by Beverly Rush and published by Madrona Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World's Fair by : Merikay Waldvogel
Download or read book Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World's Fair written by Merikay Waldvogel and published by Thomas Nelson Publishers. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contest was not without its controversy. When it was announced, rules stated that preference would be given to quilts which developed the Century of Progress theme. However, when the prizes were awarded, commemorative quilts were ignored in favor of traditional patterns. Disgruntled contestants complained to Sears that the judges were biased in favor of tradition. The winning quilt, called the Unknown Star, was entered by Margaret Rogers Caden of Lexington, Kentucky. Much of the work on Ms. Caden's quilt was done by seamstresses who sewed for hire, in violation of contest rules.
