Download or read book Estatutos de la Cooperativa Industrial de Transportes San Blas written by Cooperativa Industrial de Transportes "San Blas" and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Estatutos de la Cooperativa de Servicios de Agencias de Transportes written by Cooperativa de Servicios de Agencias de Transportes (Valencia) and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Children Of The City written by David Nasaw and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.

Download or read book Instruments of Statecraft written by Michael McClintock and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1992 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fiscal Federalism and Political Decentralization written by Nuria Bosch and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. The three key issues required for a well designed financing system are analyzed in depth herein, namely: tax assignment, equalization grants (i.e. redistribution of money from the wealthy regions or the national government to poorer regions) and the role of regional government in the administration of taxes. Fiscal Federalism and Political Decentralization will be of particular interest to academics and researchers of economics, public economics, public finance and public choice. It will also appeal to politicians and policy makers as well as organizations and agencies related to the economy and fiscal federalism.

Download or read book Israel s Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood written by Idith Zertal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghost of the Holocaust is ever present in Israel, in the lives and nightmares of the survivors and in the absence of the victims. In this compelling and disturbing analysis, Idith Zertal, a leading member of the new generation of revisionist historians in Israel, considers the ways Israel has used the memory of the Holocaust to define and legitimize its existence and politics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, the author exposes the pivotal role of the Holocaust in Israel's public sphere, in its project of nation building, its politics of power and its perception of the conflict with the Palestinians. She argues that the centrality of the Holocaust has led to a culture of death and victimhood that permeates Israel's society and self-image. For the updated paperback edition of the book, Tony Judt, the world-renowned historian and political commentator, has contributed a foreword in which he writes of Zertal's courage, the originality of her work, and the 'unforgiving honesty with which she looks at the moral condition of her own country'.

Download or read book Music in America s Cold War Diplomacy written by Danielle Fosler-Lussier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentations program. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, this study illuminates the reception of these musical events, for the practice of musical diplomacy on the ground sometimes differed substantially from what the department's planners envisioned. Performances of music in many styles--classical, rock 'n' roll, folk, blues, and jazz--were meant to compete with traveling Soviet and Chinese artists, enhancing the reputation of American culture. These concerts offered large audiences evidence of America's improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Most important, these performances also built meaningful connections with people in other lands. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although these tours were sometimes conceived as propaganda ventures, their most important function was the building of imagined and real relationships, which constitute the essence of soft power"--Provided by publisher.

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Download or read book Our America written by Waldo David Frank and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Crosscurrents written by Felix Meyer and published by Paul Sacher Foundation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of how music and musicians have moved between North America and Europe and the positive exchanges that have resulted.

Download or read book Sound Diplomacy written by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-06-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German-American relationship was special long before the Cold War; it was rooted not simply in political actions, but also long-term traditions of cultural exchange that date back to the nineteenth century. Between 1850 and 1910, the United States was a rising star in the international arena, and several European nations sought to strengthen their ties to the republic by championing their own cultures in America. While France capitalized on its art and Britain on its social ties and literature, Germany promoted its particular breed of classical music. Delving into a treasure trove of archives that document cross-cultural interactions between America and Germany, Jessica Gienow-Hecht retraces these efforts to export culture as an instrument of nongovernmental diplomacy, paying particular attention to the role of conductors, and uncovers the remarkable history of the musician as a cultural symbol of German cosmopolitanism. Considered sexually attractive and emotionally expressive, German players and conductors acted as an army of informal ambassadors for their home country, and Gienow-Hecht argues that their popularity in the United States paved the way for an emotional elective affinity that survived broken treaties and several wars and continues to the present.

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Download or read book The Great Conductors written by Harold C. Schonberg and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1967 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'He is of commanding presence, infinite dignity, fabulous memory, vast experience, high temperament and serene wisdom. He has been tempered in the crucible but he is still molten and he glows with a fierce inner light. He is many things: musician, administrator, executive, minister, psychologist, technician, philosopher and dispenser of wrath. Like many great men, he has come from humble stock; and, like many great men in the public eye, he is instinctively an actor. As such, he is an egoist. He has to be. Without infinite belief in himself and his capabilities, he is as nothing. Above all, he is a leader of men. His subjects look to him for guidance. He is at once a father image, the great provider, the fount of inspiration, the Teacher who knows all ... . He has but to stretch out his hand and he is obeyed. He tolerates no opposition. His will, his word, his very glance, are law.' With this pyrotechnical description of the genus, Harold Schonberg begins his historical survey of the Great Conductors and their art. For the great conductor--from the time-beater of the thirteenth century to the maestro of today--is always the inspired leader who can impose his authority on the musicians who make up his orchestra. Thus it was with Bach, whom Schonberg pictures leading his forces seated at the clavier or with violin at his shoulder, and singing any part that was being wrongly performed. Thus it was with Handel, who threatened to throw a prima donna out of the window if she would not sing the notes as written. Thus it was even with Beethoven, because of his deafness a tragically bad conductor, who nevertheless tried to impose his will on the performers by practically creeping under the desk for pianissimo and jumping high with outstretched arms for the opposite. Before us through the pages of this book march the great conductors of the past and of the present. Schonberg evokes Lully, who beat time on the floor with a cane--so powerfully that he drove it into his foot on one occasion and died of the resulting gangrene. We meet Berlioz, 'in constant motion on the podium, exuding electricity ... who held absolute sway over his troops and played on them as a pianist upon the keyboard,' and Mendelssohn, the gentle, well-mannered aristocrat who ripped up scores and screamed at musicians who showed up drunk and fractious. And so through all the important composer-conductors--Wagner, Liszt, Mahler, Strauss. Then the moderns: the elemental Arturo Toscanini, the loving Bruno Walter, the witty and acrimonious Thomas Beecham--on and on to the youngest to earn a chapter to himself, the phenomenal Leonard Bernstein. With biography, anecdote, vivid description, and more than a hundred well-chosen prints and photographs, Mr. Schonberg gives a striking picture of each of these men, and dozens of others, showing just how and why they influenced the performance of classical music and how they developed a new and modern art--the art of conducting."--Dust jacket.

Download or read book Problematic Fossil Taxa written by Antoni Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problematic fossils--those groups of organisms that do not fit conveniently into any existing phylum--play a pivotal role in the reconstruction of the history of life, being in effect "early experiments." This lavishly illustrated volume provides careful analyses and descriptions--in anatomical, functional, and developmental terms--of most of the major problematic fossil taxa. Sixteen original papers, written by internationally recognized scholars, discuss the features that make these taxa problematic and that provide clues to their phylogenetic relationships. Since Precambrian groups have been well covered in the existing literature, Hoffman and Nitecki focus on Paleozoic, and especially Early Paleozoic organisms, although Precambrian biota are also discussed.

Download or read book The Limits of Community written by Helmuth Plessner and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plessner (1892-1985), a onetime student of Husserl and contemporary of Heidegger, achieved recognition as a German social philosopher who helped establish philosophical anthropology as a discipline in the post-World War II decades. Anticipating the rise of German fascism in The Limits of Community (1924), he presents the appeal and dangers of rejecting modern society for the sake of a political ideal-based community. Translator Wallace (philosophy, Sonoma State U., California) provides a balanced introduction to Plessner's Max Weber-influenced ideas. The volume lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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