Download or read book Moment in Time written by Press Association and published by HarperCollins (UK). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Moment in Time is an innovative, stylish photographic tour of millennium celebrations and events across five continents, with 300 colour pictures. Aimed squarely at the international market, through its 300 photographs A Moment in Time shows how the turn of the millennium was marked on every continent of the planet. This book will be a unique, innovative celebration of the planetâe(tm)s cultural diversity, and that factor that undeniably unifies us all âe" Time. Published in partnership with one of the biggest global news syndication agencies, the bookâe(tm)s 300 pictures will be laid out in a graphic, immediate way to show events as they unfolded on 31 December 1999 and 1 January 2000; text of no more than 10,000 words will give concise, punchy descriptions of other events, some minor incidents, some of great magnitude, and all selected to convey the essence of the experience. Structurally and editorially, A Moment in Time has been planned to work equally coherently for all co-edition partners around the world. Using a system of separate, compartmentalized signatures for each of the time zones that can be bound in a different order, each co-edition will give local celebrations top billing before travelling east to discover how the rest of the world rose to the occasion.
Download or read book The Status of the District of Columbia s Year 2000 Conversion Compliance and Technology Improvement Plan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 2000 Millennium Celebration Record Book written by Kyles, S. R. (Shannon R.) and published by Greensville, Ont. : Greensleeves Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Millennium Celebration Record Book is a keepsake or memento album in which to record the events surrounding a gathering in the year 2000. There is no doubt that people will be after keepsakes, and what better than a keepsake of a great time had by family and friends? Wouldn't you love to know what your great grandparents had to eat on Dec. 31 1899, or at a family gathering in 1900? Won't it be fun for our great-grandchildren to have a record of what we were doing, how we did it, and what we wore? This book is aimed at every large family gathering, every special group celebration, every New Year's party, tail gate party, birthday party or bash between Sept. 1999 to Dec. 31, 2000.
Download or read book Millennium Communities Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Media and Cultural Transformation in China written by Haiqing Yu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media is integral to China’s changing culture in the age of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and its project of re-imagining national identity that is essential to the post-socialist reform agenda. It describes how the Party-state can effectively use media events to pull social, cultural and political resources and forces together in the name of national rejuvenation. However, it also illustrates how non-state actors can also use reporting of media events to dispute official narratives and advance their own interests and perspectives. It discusses the implications of this interplay between state and non-state actors in the Chinese media for conceptions of identity, citizenship and ethics, identifying the areas of mutual accommodation and appropriation, as well as those of conflict and contestation. It explores these themes with detailed analysis of four important ‘media spectacles’: the media events surrounding the new millennium celebrations; the news reporting of SARS; the media stories about AIDS and SARS; and the media campaign war between the Chinese state and the Falun Gong movement.
Download or read book Millennium Communities Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Questioning the Millennium written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of Questioning the Millennium, best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould applies his wit and erudition to one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium. In 1950 at age eight, prompted by an issue of Life magazine marking the century's midpoint, Stephen Jay Gould started thinking about the approaching turn of the millennium. In this beautiful inquiry into time and its milestones, he shares his interest and insights with his readers. Refreshingly reasoned and absorbing, the book asks and answers the three major questions that define the approaching calendrical event. First, what exactly is this concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted? How did the name for a future thousand-year reign of Jesus Christ on earth get transferred to the passage of a secular period of a thousand years in current human history? When does the new millennium really begin: January 1, 2000, or January 1, 2001? (Although seemingly trivial, the debate over this issue tells an intriguing story about the cultural history of the twentieth century.) And why must our calendars be so complex, leading to our search for arbitrary regularity, including a fascination with millennia? This revised edition begins with a new and extensive preface on a key subject not treated in the original version. As always, Gould brings into his essays a wide range of compelling historical and scientific fact, including a brief history of millennial fevers, calendrical traditions, and idiosyncrasies from around the world; the story of a sixth-century monk whose errors in chronology plague us even today; and the heroism of a young autistic man who has developed the extraordinary ability to calculate dates deep into the past and the future. Ranging over a wide terrain of phenomena--from the arbitrary regularities of human calendars to the unpredictability of nature, from the vagaries of pop culture to the birth of Christ--Stephen Jay Gould holds up the mirror to our millennial passions to reveal our foibles, absurdities, and uniqueness--in other words, our humanity.
Download or read book The Millennium written by Nick Hanna and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in one handy package is everything readers need to know about the coming millennium--celebrations and parties, pilgrimages and festivals, millennium projects, and much more. Illustrations.
Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-17 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of New Year s Holidays Worldwide written by William D. Crump and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the world's myriad cultures and their associated calendars, the idea of a "New Year" is relative and hardly specifies a universal celebration or even a universal point in time. Ways of celebrating the New Year range from the observances of religious rituals and superstitions to social gatherings featuring particular foods, music, dancing, noisemaking, fireworks and drinking. This first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to the New Year includes 320 entries that give a global perspective on the New Year, beyond its traditional Western associations with Christmas. National or regional entries detail the principal traditions and customs of 130 countries, while 27 entries discuss major calendar systems in current use or of significant historical interest. The remaining entries cover a wide variety of subjects including literary works, movies, and television specials; the customs of specific ethnic groups; universal customs such as toasting and drinking; football bowl games and parades; and the New Year celebrations at the White House and the Vatican.
Download or read book The British Catalogue of Music written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Millennium Guide written by Richard Knight and published by Trailblazer Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not too early to make plans for New Years Eve 1999. The new millennium will be here sooner than you think, so now's the time to book hotel reservations and dinner plans. "The Millennium Guide" is the definitive companion to celebrations around the world including events and activities taking place in 30 countries. Here's where to be among the first to see the year 2000 (Figi and Tonga); here's where to be the last to see the year 2000 (Western Samoa and the Cook Islands). "The Millennium Guide" also contains other interesting facts, such as that 400 million bottles of champagne will be consumed that night and that Tonga's International Date Line Hotel has been fully-booked for over a decade. Richard Knight has fully investigated the plans of every country around the world and listed what's going on in every major continent, including the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, Australia and more. Did you know the Fijians will light up the 180 meridian International Date Line so that it will be visible from space or that the Chinese plan to illuminate the Great Wall of China with laser light launched from orbiting satellites? There are also cruise suggestions and useful general information for the millennium traveler. So, when you party like it's 1999, remember to make a reservation first.
Download or read book The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History written by A. Iriye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 1267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and edited by many of the world's foremost scholars of transnational history, this Dictionary challenges readers to look at the contemporary world in a new light. Contains over 400 entries on transnational subjects such as food, migration and religion, as well as traditional topics such as nationalism and war.
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
