The Twentieth Century Unlimited

The Twentieth Century Unlimited
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Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044086967338
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Synopsis The Twentieth Century Unlimited by : Robert Fullerton

Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi

Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780820347318
ISBN-13 : 0820347310
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi by : Tiyi Makeda Morris

Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated in 1961 to sustain the civil rights movement, the organization also revitalized black women's social and political activism in the state through its diverse agenda and grassroots approach.

Infinite Possibilities

Infinite Possibilities
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015059228190
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Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Infinite Possibilities by :

Infinite Possibilities offers new perspectives on the phenomenon of seriality in the medium of drawings and the visual arts. It includes drawings from the 1960s to the present by 29 artists from Japan, South America, the United States, and Europe. Whether looking at serial images in historical, political, mathematical, philosophical, or theoretical perspectives, Infinite Possibilities is a remarkable discourse on a fundamental aspect of contemporary artistic creativity. The artists included range from the emerging to the canonical; among them are Jennifer Bartlett, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Gloria Ortiz-Hernandez, Richard Serra, and Tony Smith.

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry

The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 769
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ISBN-10 : 9780374533182
ISBN-13 : 0374533180
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry by : Ilan Stavans

Presents a diverse sample of twentieth century Latin American poems from eighty-four authors in Spanish, Portuguese, Ladino, Spanglish, and several indigenous languages with English translations on facing pages.

Twentieth Century Limited

Twentieth Century Limited
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Publisher : Temple University Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9781439904718
ISBN-13 : 1439904715
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Twentieth Century Limited by : Jeffrey Meikle

Classic, indispensable introduction to industrial design in the last century.

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century

The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century
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Publisher : Del Rey
Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9780345449511
ISBN-13 : 0345449517
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century by : Harry Turtledove

Explore fascinating, often chilling “what if” accounts of the world that could have existed—and still might yet . . . Science fiction’s most illustrious and visionary authors hold forth the ultimate alternate history collection. Here you’ll experience mind-bending tales that challenge your views of the past, present, and future, including: • “The Lucky Strike”: When the Lucky Strike is chosen over the Enola Gay to drop the first atomic bomb, fate takes an unexpected turn in Kim Stanley Robinson’s gripping tale. • “Bring the Jubilee”: Ward Moore’s novella masterpiece offers a rebel victory at Gettysburg which changes the course of the Civil War . . . and all of American history. • “Through Road No Wither”: After Hitler’s victory in World War II, two Nazi officers confront their destiny in Greg Bear’s apocalyptic vision of the future. • “All the Myriad Ways”: Murder or suicide, Ambrose Harmon’s death leads the police down an infinite number of pathways in Larry Niven’s brilliant and defining tale of alternatives and consequences. • “Mozart in Mirrorshades”: Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner explore a terrifying era as the future crashes into the past—with disastrous results. . . . as well as “The Winterberry” by Nicholas A. DiChario • “Islands in the Sea” by Harry Turtledove • “Suppose They Gave a Peace” by Susan Shwartz • “Manassas, Again” by Gregory Benford • “Dance Band on the Titanic” by Jack L. Chalker • “Eutopia” by Poul Anderson • “The Undiscovered” by William Sanders • “The Death of Captain Future” by Allen Steele • and “Moon of Ice” by Brad Linaweaver The definitive collection: fourteen seminal alternate history tales drawing readers into a universe of dramatic possibility and endless wonder.

Utah in the Twentieth Century

Utah in the Twentieth Century
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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : 9781457181108
ISBN-13 : 145718110X
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Utah in the Twentieth Century by : Brian Q. Cannon

The twentieth could easily be Utah’s most interesting, complex century, yet popular ideas of what is history seem mired in the nineteenth. One reason may be the lack of readily available writing on more recent Utah history. This collection of essays shifts historical focus forward to the twentieth, which began and ended with questions of Utah’s fit with the rest of the nation. In between was an extended period of getting acquainted in an uneasy but necessary marriage, which was complicated by the push of economic development and pull of traditional culture, demand for natural resources from a fragile and scenic environment, and questions of who governs and how, who gets a vote, and who controls what is done on and to the contested public lands. Outside trade and a tourist economy increasingly challenged and fed an insular society. Activists left and right declaimed constitutional liberties while Utah’s Native Americans become the last enfranchised in the nation. Proud contributions to national wars contrasted with denial of deep dependence on federal money; the skepticism of provocative writers, with boosters eager for growth; and reflexive patriotism somehow bonded to ingrained distrust of federal government.

Capital

Capital
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 928
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ISBN-10 : 9781784781576
ISBN-13 : 1784781576
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Capital by : Kenneth Goldsmith

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page homage to New York City Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources—histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels, government documents, emails—and organized into interpretive categories that reveal the philosophical architecture of the city, Capital is the ne plus ultra of books on the ultimate megalopolis. It is also a book of experimental literature that transposes Walter Benjamin’s unfinished magnum opus of literary montage on the modern city, The Arcades Project, from nineteenth-century Paris to twentieth-century New York, bringing the streets and its inhabitants to life in categories such as “Sex,” “Central Park,” “Commodity,” “Loneliness,” “Gentrification,” “Advertising,” and “Mapplethorpe.” Capital is a book designed to fascinate and to fail—for can a megalopolis truly ever be captured in words? Can a history, no matter how extensive, ever be comprehensive? Each reading of this book, and of New York, is a unique and impossible project.

History of the Twentieth Century

History of the Twentieth Century
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Publisher : Rosetta Books
Total Pages : 723
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ISBN-10 : 9780795337321
ISBN-13 : 0795337329
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis History of the Twentieth Century by : Martin Gilbert

A chronological compilation of twentieth-century world events in one volume—from the acclaimed historian and biographer of Winston S. Churchill. The twentieth century has been one of the most unique in human history. It has seen the rise of some of humanity’s most important advances to date, as well as many of its most violent and terrifying wars. This is a condensed version of renowned historian Martin Gilbert’s masterful examination of the century’s history, offering the highlights of a three-volume work that covers more than three thousand pages. From the invention of aviation to the rise of the Internet, and from events and cataclysmic changes in Europe to those in Asia, Africa, and North America, Martin examines art, literature, war, religion, life and death, and celebration and renewal across the globe, and throughout this turbulent and astonishing century.