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Teen Reflections, Then and Now
Angelo feels challenged because he's not very good at most activities, except reading. Then he leaves his friends to attend a scholarship high school. Nerissa, fifteen years old and physically challenged, has her dream of returning to summer camp shattered. What do these teenagers learn as they face their challenges? Read these memoirs to find out.
Pedigree and Panache
"Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social distinction. The marketing of auction houses and the works they sell has resulted in firms attaining authoritative positions and the ability both to influence and reflect collecting tastes. Pedigree and panache is the first comprehensive history of the art auction in Australia. In this fascinating work, Shireen Huda investigates the construction of the glamorous reputation of art auctions and art auction houses. Featuring absorbing case studies of key art auctions and major art auction houses in Australia (including Christies, Sothebys and Deutscher-Menzies) the work provides an overview of the origin and international development of art auctions. The development of the Australian marketplace is then explored, detailing colonial inception and continuing until Christies' withdrawal of its saleroom presence in 2006."--Provided by publisher.
On the Viewing Platform
A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama’s influence on art, photography, and film This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-cultural phenomenon, often linked to an imperial worldview. Yet it also transformed modes of viewing and exerted a lasting, visible impact on filmmaking techniques, museum displays, and contemporary installation art. On the Viewing Platform offers close readings of works ranging from proto-panoramic Renaissance cityscapes and 19th-century paintings and photographs to experimental films and a wide array of contemporary art. Extensively researched and spectacularly illustrated, this volume proposes an expansive new framework for understanding the histories of art, film, and spectatorship.
The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria
In The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria, author Mohammad Ahmad Wali examines the implementation of public policy in Nigeria with an emphasis on Sokoto State from 1976 to 1991, from the perspective of an insider. Thoroughly documented and researched, The Dynamics of Policy Implementation in Nigeria first dissects the explanations provided for both the success and failure of the government's efforts at moving policy forward. Wali specifically investigates the Operation Move Ahead education policy that has failed to achieve its objectives. A comprehensive presentation of the region's history, religion, politics, and socioeconomic structure provides the background from which to analyze the issues. With charts and diagrams, Wali discusses the four main obstacles to implementation in the Sokoto State bureaucracy: governmental instability, governmental overload, socioeconomic problems, and the infrastructural inadequacies confronting policy implementers. The crucial role of implementation analysis is to identify the factors which affect the achievement of policy objectives.
The Burneys from North Carolina
Families of four brothers: 1. John Burney (ca. 1710-1761), who married Elizabeth Cheek (d. aft. 1765) bef. 1738 in Beaufort, N.C., and died in Orange, N.C. She was born in North Carolina to Richard and Jane Randolph? Cheek. Descendants of John Burney carried the family name as far west as Texas and Oklahoma. Burneys of this line were among the original members of Stephen Austin's Texas colony. 2. Simon Burney (ca. 1720-1792) was married to Elizabeth Hardy? He owned land in Beaufort Co., N.C. in 1741. 3. William Burney, whose will was dated 1760 in North Carolina; and the fourth brother, James Burney, of whom nothing more is known. Family members live in Texas, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, California, Oklahoma, Missouri, Mississippi, Florida and elsewhere. Includes the Burney line of two brothers, John and Charles Burney of Guilford Co., N.C., originally of Ireland?. John (1725-1794) married Catherine Lackey, and Charles (d. 1787) married Mary Lackey. Both were daughters of William and Rebecca Lackey. This line has not been proven to be related to the above lineage through the four brothers.
The Pursuit of Happiness
In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the perils and disappointments of American racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican online communities and their participation in trips organized by Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the...
Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820
This is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.
