Download or read book The Connoisseur written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In Search of Emily written by Masako Takeda and published by Quale Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Writing. Memoir. Asian American studies. IN SEARCH OF EMILY: JOURNEYS FROM JAPAN TO AMHERST is Takeda'saccount of several journeys to the United States from Japan to study the poetry, and life, of Emily Dickinson.Takeda not onlyrecounts how she discovered the places Dickinson lived, but she also relates how Dickinson touches her life and the lives of people she met along the way. Takeda also explores her relation to her native Japan from her vantage point in the U.S. and what it means to live abroad as a Japanese woman. She also tackles the problem of learning, living and writing in a second language. IN SEARCH OF EMILY chronicles the transformation of a young Japanese girl's blossoming interest in poetry into a lifelong pursuit after the enigmatic Emily Dickinson. MASAKO TAKEDA was born in Nagano, Japan, in 1945. She grew upin Osaka, where she now lives. Graduated from Kyoto University in 1972, Masako initially taught it Mie University and has been teaching at Osaka Shoin Women's Un

Download or read book Africa s First Peacekeeping Operation written by Terry M. Mays and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981 the Organization of African Unity (OAU) mandated and fielded the first regional peacekeeping operation since the Arab League's mission in Kuwait 20 years earlier. Battalion-sized contingents from Nigeria, Senegal, and Zaire were joined by smaller observer contingents from other OAU members in an effort to provide a buffer zone between the two main factions in the Chadian civil war. Mays opens his analysis by providing an overview of the concept of peacekeeping. Several definitions are offered to help distinguish between the various types of peace operations. After examining the concept hegemon, he looks at the ways regional and subregional hegemons utilize peacekeeping operations as foreign policy tools as they protect their interests. Mays argues that Nigeria, as a West African hegemon, served as the moving force behind the mandating and fielding of the OAU peacekeeping mission in Chad. Rather than being purely humanitarian in nature, Nigeria's motivation included the removal of French and later Libyan soldiers from a weak state on its border. However, Nigeria could not perform the task alone. France and the United States were instrumental as well in the mandating and fielding process. French and American interests stemmed from concern over Libyan motives in Chad. Nigeria kept the effort to mandate the peacekeeping operation alive for two years; France proved to be the stimulus behind persuading the Chadian government to accept the deployment of OAU peacekeepers and prompting the Senegalese to contribute a battalion to the mission; the United States contributed by keeping France and Nigeria focused on a peacekeeping solution and helping persuade Zaire to join the mission. Mays offers the first comprehensive examination of the OAU peacekeeping mission and reviews the political and military organization of the force as well as its deployment, redeployment plans, logistics, and operations between the Chadian factions. Utilizing an extensive collection of resources, including interviews with participants, diplomats, and government documents, he provdies a detailed examination of every meeting/conference between 1979 and 1981 that discussed a peacekeeping option for Chad. Factors of success in traditional peacekeeping operations are applied to the OAU mission, and he concludes by reviewing the impact of the 1981-1982 OAU operation on current African peacekeeping trends. An invaluable analysis for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with peacekeeping, international relations, and African studies.

Download or read book Conversational Capital written by Bertrand Cesvet and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell presents an important idea without any ‘how to.’ Now Bertrand Cesvet provides the ‘how to’ you need to create ‘Tipping Points’ for your business and success. This book is a compelling presentation of a powerful idea. This is how the new world will do business. Highly recommended if you care about your future.” Stewart Emery, coauthor of international best-seller Success Built to Last “Ultimately, magic is unexplainable. Still, Conversational Capital provides the most insightful analysis of what makes our shows ring in the heart of fans.” Guy Laliberte, founder, Cirque du Soleil “Like all great ideas, Conversational Capital is at its core simple: word-of-mouth momentum can be created, harnessed, and used to build consumer passion for a brand better and more cost-effectively than almost any other marketing medium.” Rupert Duchesne,CEO of Aeroplan “Marketing is an art that Conversational Capital turns smartly into science. This book provides the complete prescription for getting consumers excited about your ideas.” Jim Champy, coauthor, Reenginering the Corporation, and author, Outsmart! Embed into Your Products and Experiences the Ingredients that Drive Advocacy: Create products and services that consumers find truly significant Intensify consumption experiences to transform your brands into market leaders Don’t settle for serendipity: manage and control the word-of-mouth around your brand by manipulating eight powerful experience amplifiers For all the books that speak of the value of consumer advocacy, few indicate how to create it to begin with. Armed with a compelling set of examples from their own work in fostering leading brands, the authors reveal the triggers of word-of-mouth and a process to embedding them in your own products, helping you create stuff people love to talk about. From Bertrand Cesvet, chairman of Sid Lee, a leading purveyor of experiential design and communications services that leverages commercial creativity for breakthrough brands including Cirque du Soleil, adidas, and Red Bull. 1% of the proceeds from the royalties earned by the authors will be donated to the One Drop Foundation. The mission of the One DropTM Foundation is to fight poverty around the world by giving everyone access to safe water.

Download or read book The Wanderer written by Monique Besten and published by dpr-barcelona. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wanderer was born out of words and urgency. They seem to be human, they try to find out what that means, but in order to do that, they have to become animal, river, object, equals and opposites, the same in their differences. In the beginning there were ideas. They were dwelling places. The Wanderer spent time in all of them, slowly growing, changing, becoming. Moving from one to the other, mirroring them, absorbing them. They became a map. A map for the future.

Download or read book European Fans in the 17th and 18th Centuries written by Miriam Volmert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 18th century, painted and printed fan leaves displayed an increasing variety of visual motifs and artistic subject matter, while many of them also addressed contemporary political and social topics. This book studies the visual and material diversity of fans from an interdisciplinary perspective. The individual essays analyze fans in the context of the fine and applied arts, discussing the role of fans in cultures of communication and examining them as souvenir objects and vehicles for political and social messages.

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Download or read book Undertones written by Maggie Lynch and published by Windtree Press. This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balancing a career and a relationship is never easy, and it's even harder when you are on the road and everyone wants a piece of you. Becoming a member of an all-woman acoustic band on the bluegrass festival circuit was certainly not what Michele Scott had envisioned for herself as a young music major. A pop star is what she'd set out to be. Instead, she found her soul in an upright bass and the mountain music that some called “hick.” Three weeks before Michele’s band sets out on their first tour she collides with the mesmerizing and irresistible David Blackstone—a man whose startling blue-green eyes and commanding presence make her insides melt like a spent candle. But Michele's last romance ended in heartbreak over her choice of career. She's worked far too hard to risk trying to manage a career and life on the road with a long distance relationship. Her music gives her life, yet her heart yearns for something more. Can a girl have it all? Trusting David is a risk that may give her everything she wants or it will close her heart forever.

Download or read book 100 Things Beatles Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die written by Gillian G. Gaar and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few music groups have been able to sustain a fan base over half a century that is as significant and devoted as those of the Beatles, and this entertaining guide to all things Fab Four rewards those fans with everything they need to know about the band in a one-of-a-kind format. Packed with history, trivia, lists, little-known facts, and must-do adventures that every Beatles fan should undertake, it ranks each item from one to 100. Fans of any generation will appreciate the songs, albums, places, personalities, and events that are relived and revealed from five decades of Beatles lore.

Download or read book Pretty Little Liars 12 Burned written by Sara Shepard and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling series The twelfth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit ABC Family TV show Pretty Little Liars. High school seniors Aria, Emily, Hanna, and Spencer have made some terrible mistakes, but nothing compares to what they did last spring break. Now the girls are packing their bags for a Caribbean cruise, hoping the trip will be a much-needed vacation from their stalker, A. But they should know by now that A won't be left high and dry. Sure enough, A shows up on deck, ready to send these pretty little liars to a watery grave. . . . . Full of unexpected twists and shocking revelations, Burned is the twelfth book in New York Times bestselling author Sara Shepard’s compelling Pretty Little Liars series.

Download or read book New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles written by Kenneth Womack and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatles are probably the most photographed band in history and are the subject of numerous biographical studies, but a surprising dearth of academic scholarship addresses the Fab Four. New Critical Perspectives on the Beatles offers a collection of original, previously unpublished essays that explore 'new' aspects of the Beatles. The interdisciplinary collection situates the band in its historical moment of the 1960s, but argues for artistic innovation and cultural ingenuity that account for the Beatles' lasting popularity today. Along with theoretical approaches that bridge the study of music with perspectives from non-music disciplines, the texts under investigation make this collection 'new' in terms of Beatles' scholarship. Contributors frequently address under-examined Beatles texts or present critical perspectives on familiar works to produce new insight about the Beatles and their multi-generational audiences.

Download or read book Madagascar written by Hilary Bradt and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough travel guide, brimming with character, for bother independent visitors and those on organised tours to Madagascar.

Download or read book The Avant Guards written by Carly Usdin and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a transfer student to the Georgia O’Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, former sports star Charlie is struggling to find her classes, her dorm, and her place amongst a student body full of artists who seem to know exactly where they’re going. When the school’s barely-a-basketball-team unexpectedly attempts to recruit her, Charlie’s adamant that she’s left that life behind...until she’s won over by the charming team captain, Liv, and the ragtag crew she’s managed to assemble. And while Charlie may have left the cut-throat world of competitive basketball in the dust, sinking these hoops may be exactly what she needs to find the person she truly wants to be. From Carly Usdin, the writer behind the hit series Heavy Vinyl, and artist Noah Hayes (Wet Hot American Summer) comes an ensemble comedy series that understands that it’s the person you are off the court that matters most. Collects The Avant-Guards issues #1-4.

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Download or read book Sweetwater Canyon Boxset Books 1 3 written by Maggie Lynch and published by Windtree Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sweetwater Canyon romantic women’s fiction boxset contains the first three books in the series: Undertones, Healing Notes, and Heart Strings. Join the all women Americana band as they travel on the road, enhance their careers, and try to find balance between their music, their home, and their hearts desire. Undertones – Michele’s Story She’s chosen music over men. He prefers casual to committed. Will their shared passion strike a life-changing chord? Music is the love of Michele Scott’s life. As the lead singer and bassist of an all-female band, touring means lots of sisterhood and no time for men. But when she meets David at a concert, her heart begins to change its tune… David Blackstone thinks romantic obligations are for fools. As a fiercely independent self-made millionaire, he’s content with casual flings. But when he offers his spare concert ticket to a pretty stranger, he finds himself wondering if his solo life might be better sung as a duet. As their strong feelings crescendo, David’s pushy style and Michele’s struggle to move past her ex’s abuse, put their happy ending in jeopardy. Can two willful souls overcome their stubbornness to write their love song, or will their rising passion end on a sour note? Healing Notes – Rachel’s Story She plays the fiddle to soothe her pain. He writes poetry to confront his past. Will two wounded hearts turn their laments into love? Rachel Cullen’s music is her therapy. Playing the fiddle with her all-female Americana band is her only escape from the specters of the past. When her newest student’s father attends a lesson, Rachel’s heavy heart skips a beat, but she fears she might be too broken to start again… Divorcee Noel Karshaw wants only the best role models around his precocious five-year-old girl. Careful not to repeat his past mistakes, he avoids all women with emotional baggage. And while his daughter’s new music teacher is indeed lovely, the wounded woman doesn’t meet his exacting standards. So why can’t he stop thinking about her? As their attraction becomes impossible to ignore, they’re the only ones who can decide how their love song ends. Will Rachel and Noel overcome their tragic pasts together, or will their bittersweet ballad fall flat? Heart Strings – Sarah’s Story Her guitar helped her leave. His grim news calls her home. Will she abandon the safety of her sisterhood to heal old wounds? Sarah Cosgrave escaped her alcoholic father’s depression by losing herself in her music and her faith. Playing guitar with Sweetwater Canyon gives her the loving family she never had. But when her ex-boyfriend shows up with unwelcome news, can her conviction sustain her on her long journey home? As the musician watches Tom care for her ailing father, she sees how much her ex has changed since he broke her heart. Pushing past her feelings of betrayal, Sarah rediscovers her hope for the future. But when an irrational woman from Tom’s past tests their faith, Sarah’s new mournful melody could end in silence… Buy this Sweetwater Canyon boxset at a huge discount to the individual books, and take these journeys of love and faith today!

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Download or read book Three Chords One Song written by Beatrice M. Hogg and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of their rock star father from a drug overdose, three very different sisters are forced together to decide what to do with their inheritance. But who was Mik DeSalle? Even though they share blood, they did not have the same father – Evelyn Shelton's father was Richard Shelton, a young man from Pittsburgh's working class who had a dream; Lucille Williams' father was Mik DeSalle, the famous guitarist with Sheffield Steel who left Richard Shelton behind as soon as he left his first family and boarded a plane to Los Angeles; Soleil DeSalle's father was a musician past his prime, slipping into drugs and apathy with his new Hollywood wife. Once the sisters decide to work together, they find that others want to share the wealth for their own selfish reasons. Faith, Soleil's drug addict mother, joins with Brad, Evelyn's exhusband, to get part of the fortune. But Faith doesn't just want money; she wants revenge, especially against Mariah Williams, Lucille's mother and Mik's one true love. But for the sisters to find happiness and peace and to triumph over the obstacles placed in their path, they need to reveal everything to each other. And that includes what really happened to Evelyn's brother Ricky – and what really happened to Mik.