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Book Synopsis Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State by : Wenkai He
Download or read book Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State written by Wenkai He and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing similar circumstances, did not. He’s explanation for China’s failure at a critical moment illuminates one of the most important but least understood transformations of the modern world.
Book Synopsis Paths to the Past by : Francis Pryor
Download or read book Paths to the Past written by Francis Pryor and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the hidden corners and forgotten crevices of Britain's landscapes, from lost rural treasures to unseen urban gems. Landscapes reflect and shape our behaviour. They make us who we are and bear witness to the shifting patterns of human life over the generations. Bringing to bear a lifetime's digging, archaeologist Francis Pryor delves into Britain's hidden urban and rural landscapes, from Whitby Abbey to the navvy camp at Risehill in Cumbria, from Tintagel to Tottenham's Broadwater Farm. Through fields, woods, moors, roads, tracks and towns, he reveals the stories of our physical surroundings and what they meant to the people who formed them, used them and lived in them. These landscapes, he stresses, are our common physical inheritance. If we can understand how to make them yield up their secrets, it will help us, their guardians, to maintain and shape them for future generations.
Book Synopsis Paths Toward Democracy by : Ruth Berins Collier
Download or read book Paths Toward Democracy written by Ruth Berins Collier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the experiences of Western Europe and South America, Professor Collier delineates a complex and varied set of patterns of democratization.
Book Synopsis Entangled Paths Towards Modernity by : Augusta Dimou
Download or read book Entangled Paths Towards Modernity written by Augusta Dimou and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important and innovative comparative study of socialist movements and regimes of modernization in the Balkans, encompassing Serbian populism, Bulgarian social democracy and Greek communism. It makes an original contribution both to the history of political ideas and to the political sociology of radical and socialist movements. It provides a fascinating account of the transplantation of ideologies that were adopted from Western Europe and from Russia into the very different environment of the Balkans, and traces their adaptation and their reception in this new environment. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Paths to the Absolute by : John Golding
Download or read book Paths to the Absolute written by John Golding and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking account of the meaning of abstract painting From Mondrian's bold geometric forms to Kandinsky's use of symbols to Pollock's "dripped paintings," the richly diverse movement of abstract painting challenges anyone trying to make sense of either individual works or the phenomenon as a whole. Applying his insights as an art historian and a painter, John Golding offers a unique approach to understanding the evolution of abstractionism by looking at the personal artistic development of seven of its greatest practitioners. He re-creates the journey undertaken by each painter in his move from representational art to the abstract—a journey that in most cases began with cubism but led variously to symbolism, futurism, surrealism, theosophy, anthropology, Jungian analysis, and beyond. For each artist, spiritual quest and artistic experimentation became inseparable. And despite their different techniques and philosophies, these artists shared one goal: to break a path to a new, ultimate pictorial truth. The book first explores the works and concerns of three pioneering European abstract painters—Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky—and then those of their American successors—Pollock, Newman, Rothko, and Still. Golding shows how each painter sought to see the world and communicate his vision in the purest or most expressive form possible. For example, Mondrian found his way into abstraction through a spiritual response to the landscape of his native Holland, Malevich through his apprehension of the human body, Kandinsky through a blend of religious mysticism and symbolism. Line and color became the focus for many of their creative endeavors. In the 1940s and 50s, the Americans raised the level of pictorial innovation, beginning most notably with Pollock and his Jung-inspired concept of action. Golding makes a powerful case that at its best and most profound, abstract painting is heavily imbued with meaning and content. Through a blend of biography, art analysis, and cultural history, Paths to the Absolute offers remarkable insights into how a sense of purpose is achieved in painting, and how abstractionism engaged with the intellectual currents of its time. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Book Synopsis Paths in the Rainforests by : Jan M. Vansina
Download or read book Paths in the Rainforests written by Jan M. Vansina and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 1990-10-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vansina’s scope is breathtaking: he reconstructs the history of the forest lands that cover all or part of southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, the Congo, Zaire, the Central African Republic, and Cabinda in Angola, discussing the original settlement of the forest by the western Bantu; the periods of expansion and innovation in agriculture; the development of metallurgy; the rise and fall of political forms and of power; the coming of Atlantic trade and colonialism; and the conquest of the rainforests by colonial powers and the destruction of a way of life. “In 400 elegantly brilliant pages Vansina lays out five millennia of history for nearly 200 distinguishable regions of the forest of equatorial Africa around a new, subtly paradoxical interpretation of ‘tradition.’” —Joseph Miller, University of Virginia “Vansina gives extended coverage . . . to the broad features of culture and the major lines of historical development across the region between 3000 B.C. and A.D. 1000. It is truly an outstanding effort, readable, subtle, and integrative in its interpretations, and comprehensive in scope. . . . It is a seminal study . . . but it is also a substantive history that will long retain its usefulness.”—Christopher Ehret, American Historical Review
Book Synopsis Paths to Peace by : Jane Breskin Zalben
Download or read book Paths to Peace written by Jane Breskin Zalben and published by Dutton Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of sixteen peacemakers who made a difference in the world.-- Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Paths toward Utopia by : Cindy Milstein
Download or read book Paths toward Utopia written by Cindy Milstein and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consisting of ten collaborative picture-essays that weave Cindy Milstein’s poetic words within Erik Ruin’s intricate yet bold paper-cut and scratch-board images, Paths toward Utopia suggests some of the here-and-now practices that prefigure, however imperfectly, the self-organization that would be commonplace in an egalitarian society. The book mines what we do in our daily lives for the already-existent gems of a freer future—premised on anarchistic ethics like cooperation and direct democracy. Its pages depict everything from seemingly ordinary activities like using parks as our commons to grandiose occupations of public space that construct do-it-ourselves communities, if only temporarily, including pieces such as “The Gift,” “Borrowing from the Library,” “Solidarity Is a Pizza,” and “Waking to Revolution.” The aim is to supply hints of what it routinely would be like to live, every day, in a world created from below, where coercion and hierarchy are largely vestiges of the past. Paths toward Utopia is not a rosy-eyed stroll, though. The book retains the tensions in present-day attempts to “model” horizontal institutions and relationships of mutual aid under increasingly vertical, exploitative, and alienated conditions. It tries to walk the line between potholes and potential. Yet if anarchist and other autonomist efforts are to serve as a clarion call to action, they must illuminate how people qualitatively, consensually, and ecologically shape their needs as well as desires. They must offer stepping-stones toward emancipation. This can only happen through experimentation, by us all, with diverse forms of self-determination and self-governance, even if riddled with contradictions in this contemporary moment. As the title piece to this book steadfastly asserts, “The precarious passage itself is our road map to a liberatory society.”
Book Synopsis The Path to Tyranny by : Michael Newton
Download or read book The Path to Tyranny written by Michael Newton and published by Michael Newton. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how many free societies have fallen to tyranny and looks at the possibility that the United States could be next.
Download or read book Paths to Paradise written by Andre Gorz and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are moving into a world where a power elite allocates jobs: where commodities buy consumers: where socialist as well as capitalist dogma is an obstacle to comprehension.In this book, Andre Gorz returns to Marx's Grundrisse and the prophecy of early nineteenth century socialists and rediscovers a vision of post-capitalist society founded on the automation of work and the transcending of the exchange economy. He argues that we have reached the precise stage where these utopian insights become a reality. If the socialist movement is to have something to say to a generation whose identity is no longer shaped at work, it must grasp these insights.
Book Synopsis Paths to Prison by : Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt
Download or read book Paths to Prison written by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paths to Prison aims to expand the ways the built environment's relationship to and participation in the carceral state is understood in architecture. The collected essays implicate architecture in the more longstanding and pervasive legacies of racialized coercion in the United States.
Book Synopsis Path to the Stars by : Sylvia Acevedo
Download or read book Path to the Stars written by Sylvia Acevedo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. A meningitis outbreak in their underprivileged neighborhood left Sylvia Acevedo’s family forever altered. As she struggled in the aftermath of loss, young Sylvia’s life transformed when she joined the Brownies. The Girl Scouts taught her how to take control of her world and nourished her love of numbers and science. With new confidence, Sylvia navigated shifting cultural expectations at school and at home, forging her own trail to become one of the first Latinx to graduate with a master's in engineering from Stanford University and going on to become a rocket scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Simultaneously available in Spanish!
Book Synopsis Paths to Democracy by : Rosemary H. T. O'Kane
Download or read book Paths to Democracy written by Rosemary H. T. O'Kane and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How and why countries become democracies remain intriguing questions. This innovative volume provides a theoretically informed comparative investigation of the links between revolutions, totalitarianism and democracy. It will appeal to those interested in the relationship between history and democracy and the implications for the understanding of democracy today.
Book Synopsis The Path to the Double Helix by : Robert Olby
Download or read book The Path to the Double Helix written by Robert Olby and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a noted historian of science, this in-depth account traces how Watson and Crick achieved one of science's most dramatic feats: their 1953 discovery of the molecular structure of DNA.
Book Synopsis Paths to Your Past by : Pamela Boyer Sayre
Download or read book Paths to Your Past written by Pamela Boyer Sayre and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Paths to Public Histories by : Margot Finn
Download or read book New Paths to Public Histories written by Margot Finn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Paths to Public Histories challenges readers to consider historical research as a collaborative pursuit enacted across a range of individuals from different backgrounds and institutions. It argues that research communities can benefit from recognizing and strengthening the ways in which they work with others.
Book Synopsis Other Paths to Glory by : Anthony Price
Download or read book Other Paths to Glory written by Anthony Price and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Mitchell spends his days researching World War One. His quiet life in the library could hardly be more different to the carnage he studies, until Dr Audley of the Ministry of Defence comes to Paul to find out about a battle at the Somme.
