Bacardi Limited Biennial 2008

Bacardi Limited Biennial 2008
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Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433083482947
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Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Bacardi Limited Biennial 2008 by :

The Bermuda National Gallery and Bacardi Limited are proud to present the 2008 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Bermuda Art. The 8th Biennial, features 86 works by 41 local artists, selected by an international jury from more than 250 submissions from 68 artists. The Biennial comprises of work completed by Bermudian and resident artists between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2007. The exhibition was open to all Bermudian artists on the Island or overseas as well as foreign nationals who were resident in Bermuda for at least six months during the competition period. The distinguished international jurors for this year's Biennial were Mark Krisco, Artist, Curator, and instructor of the Art Institute of Chicago and Franklin Sirmans, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.

The Treasures and Pleasures of Bermuda

The Treasures and Pleasures of Bermuda
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Total Pages : 236
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ISBN-10 : 1570232318
ISBN-13 : 9781570232312
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Treasures and Pleasures of Bermuda by : Ron Krannich

Laid back, civil, and upscale, beautiful Bermuda is one of the most popular lifestyle destinations for North Americans. This book examines Bermuda with special attention to shopping, accommodations, and restaurants in Hamilton, St George, and the Royal Naval Dockyard.

The Fundamentals of Creative Design

The Fundamentals of Creative Design
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9782940411610
ISBN-13 : 2940411611
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fundamentals of Creative Design by : Gavin Ambrose

Introduces students to the various aspects of the graphic design. This title provides a fresh introduction to the key elements of the discipline and looks at the following topics: design thinking, format, layout, grids, typography, colour, image and print and finish.

Creole America

Creole America
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 081223930X
ISBN-13 : 9780812239300
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis Creole America by : Sean X. Goudie

Creole America reveals how literary culture in the New Republic period is formed not only by expansionist designs on the North American continent, but also a push for commercial empire in the hemisphere via the roots and routes of the West Indian trades. Celebrated and denigrated, West Indian immigrant Alexander Hamilton--chief architect of the United States as an "empire for commerce" as Washington's Secretary of the Treasury--came to embody the great uneasiness that many U.S. Americans expressed about the unpredictable, and potentially disastrous, effects on the nation and national character of extensive relations between the slave colonies of the West Indies and the putatively free and democratic states of the independent mainland. Sean X. Goudie examines such anxiety and ambivalence as characteristic of what he provocatively terms the New Republic's "creole complex." Goudie demonstrates how distinctions between U.S. and West Indian bodies and commodities blur amid ongoing U.S. participation in the treacherous West Indian trades. Creole America thus compels readers to come face-to-face with disturbing affiliations between U.S. and West Indian creole characters and cultures at the turn of the nineteenth century

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9780300195873
ISBN-13 : 0300195877
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Jeff Koons by : Scott Rothkopf

With over 200 illustrations of iconic works as well as preparatory studies and historic photographs, this book offers fresh insight into Koons’s polarizing and influential career.

Review of WIC Food Packages

Review of WIC Food Packages
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Publisher : National Academies Press
Total Pages : 587
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ISBN-10 : 9780309380003
ISBN-13 : 0309380006
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Review of WIC Food Packages by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serve over 8 million pregnant women, and mothers of and their infants and young children. Today the program serves more than a quarter of the pregnant women and half of the infants in the United States, at an annual cost of about $6.2 billion. Through its contribution to the nutritional needs of pregnant, breastfeeding, and post-partum women; infants; and children under 5 years of age; this federally supported nutrition assistance program is integral to meeting national nutrition policy goals for a significant portion of the U.S. population. To assure the continued success of the WIC, Congress mandated that the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reevaluate the program's food packages every 10 years. In 2014, the USDA asked the Institute of Medicine to undertake this reevaluation to ensure continued alignment with the goals of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. This, the second report of this series, provides a summary of the work of phase I of the study, and serves as the analytical underpinning for phase II in which the committee will report its final conclusions and recommendations.

The United Nations, Peace and Security

The United Nations, Peace and Security
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : 9781139456944
ISBN-13 : 1139456946
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The United Nations, Peace and Security by : Ramesh Thakur

Preventing humanitarian atrocities is becoming as important for the United Nations as dealing with inter-state war. In this book, Ramesh Thakur examines the transformation in UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. He asks why, when and how force may be used and argues that the growing gulf between legality and legitimacy is evidence of an eroded sense of international community. He considers the tension between the US, with its capacity to use force and project power, and the UN, as the centre of the international law enforcement system. He asserts the central importance of the rule of law and of a rules-based order focused on the UN as the foundation of a civilised system of international relations. This book will be of interest to students of the UN and international organisations in politics, law and international relations departments, as well as policymakers in the UN and other NGOs.

Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura

Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura
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Publisher : Broadview Press
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9781770482340
ISBN-13 : 1770482342
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura by : Leonora Sansay

Based on Leonora Sansay’s eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay’s writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the postrevolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura, Sansay’s second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a duel in an effort to protect his wife’s reputation, Laura finds herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about early American literary history. This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from periodical literature about Haiti, engravings, letters written by Sansay to her friend Aaron Burr, historical material related to the Burr trial for treason, and excerpts from literature referenced in the novels.

Multi-stakeholder Governance and the Internet Governance Forum

Multi-stakeholder Governance and the Internet Governance Forum
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Publisher : Terminus Press
Total Pages : 641
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ISBN-10 : 9780980508406
ISBN-13 : 0980508401
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Multi-stakeholder Governance and the Internet Governance Forum by : Jeremy Malcolm

"Multi-stakeholder governance is a fresh approach to the development of transnational public policy, bringing together governments, the private sector and civil society in partnership. The movement towards this new governance paradigm has been strongest in areas of public policy involving global networks of stakeholders, too intricate to be represented by governments alone. Nowhere is this better illustrated than on the Internet, where it is an inherent characteristic of the network that laws, and the behaviour to which those laws are directed, will cross national borders; resulting not only in conflicts between national regimes, but also running up against the technical and social architecture of the Internet itself. In this book, Jeremy Malcolm examines the new model of multi-stakeholder governance for the Internet regime that the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) represents. He builds a compelling case for the reform of the IGF to enable it to fulfil its mandate as an institution for multi-stakeholder Internet governance."--Provided by publisher.

The Language of Architecture

The Language of Architecture
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Publisher : Rockport Publishers
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9781627880480
ISBN-13 : 1627880488
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis The Language of Architecture by : Andrea Simitch

DIVLearning a new discipline is similar to learning a new language; in order to master the foundation of architecture, you must first master the basic building blocks of its language – the definitions, function, and usage. Language of Architecture provides students and professional architects with the basic elements of architectural design, divided into twenty-six easy-to-comprehend chapters. This visual reference includes an introductory, historical view of the elements, as well as an overview of how these elements can and have been used across multiple design disciplines./divDIV /divDIVWhether you’re new to the field or have been an architect for years, you’ll want to flip through the pages of this book throughout your career and use it as the go-to reference for inspiration, ideas, and reminders of how a strong knowledge of the basics allows for meaningful, memorable, and beautiful fashions that extend beyond trends./divDIV /divDIVThis comprehensive learning tool is the one book you’ll want as a staple in your library./divDIV /div