Branch Street

Branch Street
Author: Marie Paneth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1944
Genre: Child psychology
ISBN:

Terror in the Balkans

Terror in the Balkans
Author: Ben Shepherd
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2012-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674065131

"Ben Shepherd ... uses Austro-Hungarian Army records to consider how the personal experiences of many Austrian officers during the Great War played a role in brutalizing their behavior in Yugoslavia. A comparison of Wehrmacht counter-insurgency divisions allows Shepherd to analyze how a range of midlevel commanders and their units conducted themselves in different parts of Yugoslavia, and why"--Jacket.

Green Energy for a Billion Poor

Green Energy for a Billion Poor
Author: Nancy Wimmer
Publisher: McRe Verlag Ug
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012
Genre: Business
ISBN: 9783943310009

Witness the economic and social innovations of Grameen Shakti, sister company of the Nobel Prize winning Grameen Bank. Shakti masters the unique art of rural business, letting five million people benefit from light, electricity and additional income. Shakti is the vanguard model for tackling the enormous market of a billion villagers living far from the electric grid in developing countries. Read about Shakti's inner mechanics, services, strategies and values--and understand its success. Enjoy the lively exotic stories told by pioneers in Bangladesh. Foreword by Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Laureate .".. I congratulate Nancy Wimmer for getting interested in the activities of Grameen Shakti and studying it so deeply to bring out what makes it work. She did not stop at presenting the philosophy and the impressive results produced by Grameen Shakti, she went beyond them to discover and understand the foot soldiers-cum-creators of Grameen Shakti. That makes this book very unique ..."

Empire on the Adriatic

Empire on the Adriatic
Author: H. James Burgwyn
Publisher: Enigma Books
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

The first full-length treatment of Mussolini's campaign against Yugoslavia reveals a brief but tragic chapter in Balkan history replete with ethnic cleansing and atrocities that set the stage for the violence in the 1990s.

Radical Artifice

Radical Artifice
Author: Marjorie Perloff
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0226657345

Explores the intricate relationships of postmodern poetics to the culture of network television, advertising layout, and the computer. Perloff argues that poetry today, like the visual arts and theater, is always "contaminated" by the language of mass media. Among the many poets Perloff discusses are John Ashbery, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Steve McCaffery, and preeminently, John Cage--Publisher.

The Beatles are Coming!

The Beatles are Coming!
Author: Bruce Spizer
Publisher: 498 Productions, LLC
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2003
Genre: Music
ISBN:

An account of the explosion of the Beatles' popularity in the U.S. includes 450 photos and images from period publications, album art work, merchandising and publicity materials, and documents from various legal tussles between record labels after the Beatles' worth became evident.

Memoirs of a Dada Drummer

Memoirs of a Dada Drummer
Author: Richard Huelsenbeck
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1991-06-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520073708

Huelsenbeck’s memoirs bring to life the concerns—intellectual, artistic, and political—of the individuals involved in the Dada movement and document the controversies within the movement and in response to it.

Making the New Europe

Making the New Europe
Author: M. L. Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1474290299

This volume evaluates the notion of European Unity in a period when European identity was subjected to the destructive consequences of Nazi and Fascist domination of much of the Continent. By presenting the competing visions of transformation and reconstruction played out during the war years the book aims to provide broader-based and more complex insights into forces that shaped the post-war period than those in conventional accounts that locate the thinking about European unity only in the years after 1945.