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Author | : Robert Hughes |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781860463723 |
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Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
Author | : Jennifer D. Keene |
Publisher | : Pearson |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2009-07-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780205764051 |
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Author | : Jennifer L. Roberts |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2014-01-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520251849 |
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"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."
Author | : Anthony Downs |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2001-06-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815723091 |
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In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing. Copublished with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Author | : Arthur Nelson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1351178075 |
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With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three 'megapolitan' areas that will dominate the nation’s economy by midcentury. These 'megapolitan' areas are networks of metropolitan areas sharing common economic, landscape, social, and cultural characteristics. The rise of 'megapolitan' areas will change how America plans. For instance, in an area comparable in size to France and the low countries of the Netherlands and Belgium – considered among the world's most densely settled – America's 'megapolitan' areas are already home to more than two and a half times as many people. Indeed, with only eighteen percent of the contiguous forty-eight states’ land base, America's megapolitan areas are more densely settled than Europe as a whole or the United Kingdom. Megapolitan America goes into spectacular demographic, economic, and social detail in mapping the dramatic – and surprisingly optimistic – shifts ahead. It will be required reading for those interested in America’s future.
Author | : Quinton Dixie |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2011-08-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0807000469 |
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In 1935, at the height of his powers, Howard Thurman, one of the most influential African American religious thinkers of the twentieth century, took a pivotal trip to India that would forever change him—and that would ultimately shape the course of the civil rights movement in the United States. When Thurman (1899–1981) became the first African American to meet with Mahatma Gandhi, he found himself called upon to create a new version of American Christianity, one that eschewed self-imposed racial and religious boundaries, and equipped itself to confront the enormous social injustices that plagued the United States during this period. Gandhi’s philosophy and practice of satyagraha, or “soul force,” would have a momentous impact on Thurman, showing him the effectiveness of nonviolent resistance. After the journey to India, Thurman’s distinctly American translation of satyagraha into a Black Christian context became one of the key inspirations for the civil rights movement, fulfilling Gandhi’s prescient words that “it may be through the Negroes that the unadulterated message of nonviolence will be delivered to the world.” Thurman went on to found one of the first explicitly interracial congregations in the United States and to deeply influence an entire generation of black ministers—among them Martin Luther King Jr. Visions of a Better World depicts a visionary leader at a transformative moment in his life. Drawing from previously untapped archival material and obscurely published works, Quinton Dixie and Peter Eisenstadt explore, for the first time, Thurman’s development into a towering theologian who would profoundly affect American Christianity—and American history.
Author | : Frank Sietzen |
Publisher | : Collector's Guide Publishing |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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This book looks at the inside deliberations that led to President George W Bush's space exploration initiative. The author team has been granted unprecedented access to senior policy makers as the plan was assembled during 2003 and 2004. Sietzen and Cowing will give exclusive details on the meetings between President George Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, and senior members of the White House staff as the planning process began. In addition Sietzen and Cowing will examine how policy was translated from paper into hardware designs including the first outline of the plan's new space vehicle and how the inspiration behind the architecture once used in the Apollo program was summoned back to guide 21st century space planners. Sietzen and Cowing will describe how the Columbia accident and the political outcry for a new central goal for the US space program gave rise to what would become the most far reaching change in US space policy in a generation. Readers will have the most comprehensive look available on what this new space vision will do for human exploration of the Solar System -- and how nearly everything NASA does will change as a result. New Moon Rising: The Making of America's Space Vision and the Remaking of NASA, by Frank Sietzen, Jr. and Keith L. Cowing, to be published July 2004. The team broke the story on the space plan in the pages of the Washington Times and in the United Press International wire service. Portions of the book were serialised in the Times in a multi-part background article called "Why Some Said the Moon: The Exclusive Inside Story of the Bush Space Vision" published in January 2004.
Author | : Chris Lascelles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-04-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781734731507 |
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Author | : William L. Davis |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2020-04-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1469655675 |
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In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
Author | : Lawrence M. Miller |
Publisher | : New York : W. Morrow |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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This book examines the new values, visions, and spirit that are arising in the American corporation. It is not concerned merely with the techniques of the new management, it is concerned with its soul. Eight primary values are identified with this new management in part one. Part two presents a model for creating strategic and tactical changes to build the new corporate culture.