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Book B  migb  y

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  • Author : James Green
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2022
  • ISBN : 0300266553
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book B migb y written by James Green and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first publication on the Yorùbá master sculptor Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition is the first monograph dedicated to the 50-year career of the Nigerian artist Moshood Olúṣọmọ Bámigbóyè (ca. 1885–1975). One of the most important Yorùbá sculptors of the twentieth century, Bámigbóyè is best known for the spectacular masks that he carved for religious festivals known locally as Ẹpa. Weighing up to 80 pounds and measuring over 4 feet tall, with intricate superstructures that could feature dozens of finely carved individual figures, these masks represent some of the most complex and elaborate works of Yorùbá art ever made. With 190 illustrations, this sumptuous volume presents masterpieces from Bámigbóyè’s workshop now housed in collections in America, Europe, and Nigeria. Essays situate Bámigbóyè’s work as part of Africa’s oldest and most dynamic art traditions and consider his sculpture in relation to contemporary Yorùbá art, culture, politics, and religion. With new and archival photographs and incorporating oral histories conducted with the artist’s family and community, this catalogue fills a critical void in African art-historical scholarship. Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery Exhibition Schedule: Yale University Art Gallery (September 9, 2022–January 8, 2023)

Book Bill Evans

Download or read book Bill Evans written by Keith Shadwick and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om den amerikanske jazzpianist Bill Evans (1929-1980)

Book The Blood Telegram

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  • Author : Gary J. Bass
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2013-09-24
  • ISBN : 0385350473
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book The Blood Telegram written by Gary J. Bass and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history—the first full account—of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world today. Giving an astonishing inside view of how the White House really works in a crisis, The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan’s military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free election. The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (today an independent Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people and sending ten million refugees fleeing to India—one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Nixon and Kissinger, unswayed by detailed warnings of genocide from American diplomats witnessing the bloodshed, stood behind Pakistan’s military rulers. Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik but by a bitter personal dislike of India and its leader Indira Gandhi, Nixon and Kissinger actively helped the Pakistani government even as it careened toward a devastating war against India. They silenced American officials who dared to speak up, secretly encouraged China to mass troops on the Indian border, and illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military—an overlooked scandal that presages Watergate. Drawing on previously unheard White House tapes, recently declassified documents, and extensive interviews with White House staffers and Indian military leaders, The Blood Telegram tells this thrilling, shadowy story in full. Bringing us into the drama of a crisis exploding into war, Bass follows reporters, consuls, and guerrilla warriors on the ground—from the desperate refugee camps to the most secretive conversations in the Oval Office. Bass makes clear how the United States’ embrace of the military dictatorship in Islamabad would mold Asia’s destiny for decades, and confronts for the first time Nixon and Kissinger’s hidden role in a tragedy that was far bloodier than Bosnia. This is a revelatory, compulsively readable work of politics, personalities, military confrontation, and Cold War brinksmanship.

Book HIV AIDS Surveillance

Download or read book HIV AIDS Surveillance written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wilkinson Book

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  • Author : Patricia Wilkinson Weaver Balletta
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book The Wilkinson Book written by Patricia Wilkinson Weaver Balletta and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancestry of General James Wilkinson (1757-1825) was born in Calvert County, Maryland to Joseph Wilkinson II (1731-1764) and Betty Heighe (1733-1802). The Wilkinson family first arrived from England in the early 1700s with Captain Joseph Wilkinson. Other ancestors arrived in the late 1600 and became influential in the colony of Maryland. In 1778 James married Ann Biddle and they were the parents of three children. After her death in 1807 he married Celestine Laveau Trudeau and they were the parents of four children. Descendants live in Louisiana and other parts of the United States.

Book The World Factbook

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  • Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The World Factbook written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act

Download or read book Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fouts Family of Indiana   Soybean Pioneers  1882 2012

Download or read book Fouts Family of Indiana Soybean Pioneers 1882 2012 written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2012 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Vital Statistics Report

Download or read book Monthly Vital Statistics Report written by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.). and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The World Factbook

Download or read book The World Factbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Background Notes  China

Download or read book Background Notes China written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Product Announcement

Download or read book Monthly Product Announcement written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clearinghouse Review

Download or read book Clearinghouse Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Swedes in Canada

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  • Author : Elinor Barr
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2015-07-27
  • ISBN : 1442695153
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book Swedes in Canada written by Elinor Barr and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1776, more than 100,000 Swedish-speaking immigrants have arrived in Canada from Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Ukraine, and the United States. Elinor Barr’s Swedes in Canada is the definitive history of that immigrant experience. Active in almost every aspect of Canadian life, Swedish individuals and companies are responsible for the CN Tower, ships on the Great Lakes, and log buildings in Riding Mountain National Park. They have built railways and grain elevators all across the country, as well as churches and old folks’ homes in their communities. At the national level, the introduction of cross-country skiing and the success of ParticipACTION can be attributed to Swedes. Despite this long list of accomplishments, Swedish ethnic consciousness in Canada has often been very low. Using extensive archival and demographic research, Barr explores both the impressive Swedish legacy in Canada and the reasons for their invisibility as an immigrant community.

Book Battles of the Red River War

Download or read book Battles of the Red River War written by J. Brett Cruse and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battles of the Red River War unearths a long-buried record of the collision of two cultures. In 1874, U.S. forces led by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie carried out a surprise attack on several Cheyenne, Comanche, and Kiowa bands that had taken refuge in the Palo Duro Canyon of the Texas panhandle and destroyed their winter stores and horses. After this devastating loss, many of these Indians returned to their reservations and effectively brought to a close what has come to be known as the Red River War, a campaign carried out by the U.S. Army during 1874 as a result of Indian attacks on white settlers in the region. After this operation, the Southern Plains Indians would never again pose a coherent threat to whites’ expansion and settlement across their ancestral homelands. Until now, the few historians who have undertaken to tell the story of the Red River War have had to rely on the official records of the battles and a handful of extant accounts, letters, and journals of the U.S. Army participants. Starting in 1998, J. Brett Cruse, under the auspices of the Texas Historical Commission, conducted archeological investigations at six battle sites. In the artifacts they unearthed, Cruse and his teams found clues that would both correct and complete the written records and aid understanding of the Indian perspectives on this clash of cultures. Including a chapter on historiography and archival research by Martha Doty Freeman and an analysis of cartridges and bullets by Douglas D. Scott, this rigorously researched and lavishly illustrated work will commend itself to archeologists, military historians and scientists, and students and scholars of the Westward Expansion.

Book Current Catalog

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  • Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1024 pages

Download or read book Current Catalog written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Book Welch

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  • Author : Vivian Welch Sharit
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Welch written by Vivian Welch Sharit and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: