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Author :Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Publisher :Metropolitan Museum of Art ISBN 13 :1588395049 Total Pages :210 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (883 download)
Book Synopsis Ink Art by : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Download or read book Ink Art written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2013 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Featuring 70 works in various media--paintings, calligraphy, photographs, woodblock prints, video, and sculpture--that were created during the past three decades, Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China will demonstrate how China's ancient pattern of seeking cultural renewal through the reinterpretation of past models remains a viable creative path. Although all of the artists have transformed their sources through new modes of expression, visitors will recognize thematic, aesthetic, or technical attributes in their creations that have meaningful links to China's artistic past. The exhibition will be organized thematically into four parts and will include such highlights as Xu Bing's dramatic Book from the Sky (ca. 1988), an installation that will fill an entire gallery; Family Tree (2000), a set of vivid photographs documenting a performance by Zhang Huan in which his facial features--and his identity--are obscured gradually by physiognomic texts that are inscribed directly onto his face; and Map of China (2006) by Ai Weiwei, which is constructed entirely of wood salvaged from demolished Qing dynasty temples." --
Book Synopsis Hand-book of Chronology and History by : George Palmer Putnam
Download or read book Hand-book of Chronology and History written by George Palmer Putnam and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Studies on the Illustrated Theban Funerary Papyri of the 11th and 10th Centuries B.C. by : Andrzej Niwinski
Download or read book Studies on the Illustrated Theban Funerary Papyri of the 11th and 10th Centuries B.C. written by Andrzej Niwinski and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. Ed by : John Julian
Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations. Ed written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations ... by : John Julian
Download or read book A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations ... written by John Julian and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Caste written by Isabel Wilkerson and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author. #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews Winner of the Carl Sandberg Literary Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Award Longlist • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist • Kirkus Prize Finalist “As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.” In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched, and beautifully written narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their outcasting of the Jews; she discusses why the cruel logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she writes about the surprising health costs of caste, in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. Original and revealing, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of American life today.
Book Synopsis The Proper Decoration of Book Covers by : Mindell Dubansky
Download or read book The Proper Decoration of Book Covers written by Mindell Dubansky and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Morse by Grolier Club member Mindell Dubansky and two thoughtful essays on her work and influence by scholars in the field of nineteenth-century decorative arts is followed by a comprehensive--and lavishly illustrated--survey of all the known works by the designer, drawn from the personal collection of Mindell Dubansky, and from the resources of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Designed by Jerry Kelly, and printed in an edition of 1100 copies.
Book Synopsis The Global Findex Database 2017 by : Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Download or read book The Global Findex Database 2017 written by Asli Demirguc-Kunt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.
Book Synopsis Medieval Art by : Michael Byron Norris
Download or read book Medieval Art written by Michael Byron Norris and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2005 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This educational resource packet covers more than 1200 years of medieval art from western Europe and Byzantium, as represented by objects in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the contents of this resource are: an overview of medieval art and the period; a collection of aspects of medieval life, including knighthood, monasticism, pilgrimage, and pleasures and pastimes; information on materials and techniques medieval artists used; maps; a timeline; a bibliography; and a selection of useful resources, including a list of significant collections of medieval art in the U.S. and Canada and a guide to relevant Web sites. Tote box includes a binder book containing background information, lesson plans, timeline, glossary, bibliography, suggested additional resources, and 35 slides, as well as two posters and a 2 CD-ROMs.
Book Synopsis Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions by :
Download or read book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India, Their Religion and Institutions written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of The People of India by : J. Muir
Download or read book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of The People of India written by J. Muir and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.
Download or read book Nigger written by Randall Kennedy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?
Book Synopsis Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India, their religion and institutions by : John J. Muir
Download or read book Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India, their religion and institutions written by John J. Muir and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1868-01-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Inquiry whether the Hindus are of trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race. 3d ed. 1874 by : John Muir
Download or read book Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Inquiry whether the Hindus are of trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race. 3d ed. 1874 written by John Muir and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dead Hand written by David Hoffman and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified documents from deep inside the Kremlin, David E. Hoffman examines the inner motives and secret decisions of each side and details the deadly stockpiles that remained unsecured as the Soviet Union collapsed. This is the fascinating story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and a previously unheralded collection of scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and spies changed the course of history.
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