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Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

Shana Priwer

This volume reveals Da Vinci's phenomenal accomplishments, including mathematical discoveries, investigating the secrets of the human body, inventing a robot and even his plan to divert the entire Arno River.
Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in ...

Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in ...

Shana Bernstein

In this book, Shana Bernstein uses World War II and Cold War Los Angeles as a locus of civilrights activity and explores its roots in multiracial organizing.
Women's Movements: Networks and Debates in Post-communist ...

Women's Movements: Networks and Debates in Post-communist ...

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She refers to an article by Shana Penn on the role of women in "Solidarity".4 Shana Penn, an American scholar and journalist, came to Poland in 1990 and made interviews with women who were active in the dissident movement and in ...
The Wild Truth of Tea: Unraveling the Complex Tea Business, ...

The Wild Truth of Tea: Unraveling the Complex Tea Business, ...

Shana Zhang

Unraveling the Complex Tea Business, Keys to Health and Chinese Tea Culture Shana Zhang, J.T. Hunter ... To my business partner JT Hunter, who is also my best friend in the world, I am deeply appreciative of your faith in me and the ...
George Clooney: The Illustrated Biography

George Clooney: The Illustrated Biography

Shana Cushman

The story of George Clooney, from baseball wannabe in Kentucky to one of Hollywood's highly rated leading men.
Performative Democracy

Performative Democracy

Elzbieta Matynia

Among the writings on the subject is Shana Penn, Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005). See also Kondratowicz, Szminka na Sztandarze; and Graff, Swiat po ...
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the ...

Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the ...

Shana L. Redmond

An interdisciplinary cultural history, Anthem reveals how this “sound franchise” contributed to the growth and mobilization of the modern, Black citizen.
Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in ...

Escaping the Dark, Gray City: Fear and Hope in ...

Benjamin Heber Johnson

Shana Bernstein graciously read bumbling and early drafts of a few chapters, pushing me especially to think about the connections between environment and human health. Three anonymous reviewers for the press all did excellent jobs, ...
The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native ...

The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native ...

Kim Cary Warren

Thanks to Shana Bernstein, Marisela Chavez, Dawn Mabalon, Rachel Jean- Baptiste, and especially Cecilia Tsu for reading the pages that I decided to keep, as well as the ones that I did not. Roberta Durham, Valerie McGuire, Sile O' Modhrain ...
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

Erica Renee Edwards

... Shana L. Redmond writes of the UNIA anthem, “'Ethiopia (Thou Land of Our Fathers),” the “repetitive and ceremonial aspect of the anthem's performance forced women to negotiate their roles within the category of 'persons' as well as their ...
Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland

Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland

Shana Penn

This work reveals the story of how these brave women ran Solidarity and the main opposition newspaper, "Tygodnik Mazowsze".
Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the ...

Between Mao and McCarthy: Chinese American Politics in the ...

Charlotte Brooks

Meredith Oda, Madeline Hsu, Shana Bernstein, Jason Chang, and Naoko Shibusawa offered useful comments on the conference papers that became part of the manuscript. Jonathan Soffer, Kristin Cellelo, Lara Vapnek, Vanessa May, Libby ...
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Couples with Mixed HIV ...

Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Couples with Mixed HIV ...

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Asha Persson, Shana D. Hughes. Riley, N. E. (1994). Interwoven lives: Parents, marriage, and Guanxi in China. Journal of Marriage and Family, 56(4), 791–803. Sengupta, S., Banks, B., Jonas, D., Miles, M. S., & Smith, G. C. (2011).
Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and ...

Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and ...

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... International Conference on Concurrent Engineering Shuo-Yan Chou, Amy J. C. Trappey, Jerzy Pokojski, Shana Smith ... [4] W.J. Zhang, D. Zhang, ”A general Methodology for Developing Intelligent CAE System- a model based reasoning ...
The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry

The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry

Wendy Doniger

At Stanford University, in the autumn of 2010, I was privileged to talk about the project with the Andrew W. Mellon Scholars in the Humanities: Sarah Carey, Julie Draskoczy, Kate Elswit, Brendan Fay, Shana Goldin-Perschtbacher, Andrew ...
Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches

Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches

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38 Shana L. Redmond, Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (New York: New York University Press, 2014), 2. 39 Redmond, Anthem, 2. 40 Interviews with former Living Stage ensemble members and ...
Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th ...

Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis: Essays in Honor of the 75th ...

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Some Reflections When in Warsaw in 1991, the American journalist Shana Penn interviewed Irena Grudzińska. Penn was surprised to learn that in 1969 Grudzińska had emigrated from Poland: the other Solidarity activists had spoken of ...
Vanished Ideology, A: Essays on the Jewish Communist ...

Vanished Ideology, A: Essays on the Jewish Communist ...

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Quoted in Shana Bernstein, Bridges of Reform: Inter-racial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 130–32. 9. Recent publications in American Jewish historiography that consider the JPFO  ...
Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the ...

Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the ...

Shana L. Redmond

847 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 1945), 2. Robert Rodgers Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South ( Chapel Hill: ...
Proceedings of DETC

Proceedings of DETC

American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Design Engineering Division

... Pennsylvania, USA SHAPE SIMILARITY MATCHING WITH OCTREE REPRESENTATIONS Jingsheng Zhang Shana Smith Human-Computer Interaction Graduate Program Iowa State University Proceedings of 24th International Conference ...
Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy

Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy

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... Black Israelites: e Rise of American Black Israelite Religions (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 113–34; Shana L. Redmond, Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the Aican Diaspora (New York: New ...
Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR

Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR

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See, for instance, Kristi Long on the household in the Polish culture of resistance, or Shana Penn on women's role in Solidarność: Kristi Long, We All Fought for Freedom: Women in Poland's Solidarity Movement (Boulder, CO: Westview Press , ...
The Melleray Alphabet

The Melleray Alphabet

Monica Byrne

... Aadan DeLeon-Job, Dylan DeLeon-Job, Christine Delmonico, Lincoln Dennis, Paul DesCombaz, Andrew DeYoung, Luke Dones, Tjebbe Donner, Crystal Dreisbach, Shana DuBois, Boykin Dunlap Bell, Danielle Durchslag, James Dymond, ...
Food Biosensors:

Food Biosensors:

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C, 2010, 114, 21427. C. Shana, h. yang, d. han, Q. Zhang, a. ivaska and L. niu, Biosens. Bioelectron., 2010, 25, 1070. S. Bong, y.-r. kim, i. kim, S. woo, S. uhm, j. Lee and h. kim, Electrochem. Commun., 2010, 12, 129. S. mubeen, t. Zhang, n.
Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism in Poland

Solidarity's Secret: The Women who Defeated Communism in Poland

Shana Penn

Mentors, colleagues, readers, editors, publishers, and friends include Agata Araszkiewicz, Janice Baker- Weil, Dagmara Baraniew- ska, Erin Barclay, Tressa Berman, Chris Caes, Kim Chernin, Roma Ciesla, Violetta Cywicka, Arwen Donahue, ...
Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary ...

Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary ...

Jane Sloan

Lian ai Ii jie I Season of Love I986 D D: Wuer Shana S: Wen Xiaoyu l9605.A young ... Nii er jing I A Bible for Daughters I986 D: Bao Qicheng A: Yan Xiaopin, Zhang Min, Zhang Xiaolin, Zhen Shuzhi “A mother worries about her three daughters' ...
Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song

Who Should Sing Ol' Man River?: The Lives of an American Song

Todd R. Decker

NYT, 13 June 1949, “'Ol' Man River' Retained.” Decker, Show Boat, 147. Jordan Goodman, Paul Robeson: A Watched Man (London: Verso, 2013), 118, 172. Goodman, Paul Robeson, 25. Shana L. Redmond, Anthem: Social Movements and ...

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