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Victorian Telegraphy Before Nationalization

Simone Fari

But I would like to thank individually Graeme Gooday, Richard John, Colin Hempstead and Gabriele Balbi, who in various moments have given me much competent advice. I would also like to recall the precious exchanges with the participants ...

The Formative Years of the Telegraph Union

Simone Fari

London: MacMillan and Co, 1930. Badenoch A., and A. Fickers. “Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures.” In Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe, ...

The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

Claudia Card

A convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir, published in 2003.

Nina Simone

Kerry Acker

Traces the life and accomplishments of Nina Simone, singer, pianist, and civil rights activist, who was known for her unique sound.

Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in ...

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Chapter 15 Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society Mark Kremer Introduction No book embodies the postwar ideals of democratic progress more than Simone de Beauvoir's The Second ...

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Inlcrnaiionally acclaimed conductor Simone Young has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of Opera Australia, succeeding Moffatt Oxenbould who will be leaving at theend of the year 2001. From 2001, Simone will divide her time ...

Simone Martini Complete Edition

Andrew Martindale

A study of the life and work of the painter Simone Martini (c.1284-1344) whoas well-respected during his life-time but subsequently was considered lessmportant than Giotto and his followers.

Rewriting the Return to Africa: Voices of Francophone ...

Anne M. François

Two other essays in the collection analyze metaphors of exile in Simone Schwarz -Bart's Ti Jean L'Horizon (1979). ... Writing from Guadeloupe (2000); Simone James Alexander's Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women ( 2001); ...

Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir

Karen Vintges

Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre.

First Intelligence: Using the Science and Spirit of Intuition

Simone Wright

And, according to Simone Wright, we often forget or don’t understand how to use the best tool available: our intuition, which is our “first intelligence” that can cut through the chatter to inherent wisdom.

Medieval Islamic Maps: An Exploration

Karen C. Pinto

... Guggenheim fellowship announcement for Simone Pinet's forthcoming research and book The Task of the Cleric: Three Studies on the “Libro de Alexandre”(in progress) (http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/simone-pinet/, accessed May 22, ...

Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean ...

Abigail L. Palko

See Simone A. James Alexander, Mother Imagery in ... Women's Fictions of History; Florence Ramond Jurney, Voix/es libres: Maternité et identité dans la littérature antillaise; Dorsía Smith Silva and Simone A. James Alexander (eds.), Feminist ...

Smart Citizens, Smarter State: The Technologies of Expertise ...

Beth Simone Noveck

Governments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government.

Scott O'Dell

Simone Payment

Scott O'Dell / by Simone Payment. p. cm.—(The library of author biographies) Includes ... From SCOTTO'DELL, by David Russell, Twayne Publishers, O 1999, Twayne Publishers. Reprinted by permission of the Gale Group. Copyright © 1993 ...

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness

Simone Browne

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted.

Intuition - din første intelligens

Simone Wright

En lærebog i intuition, som tager udgangspunkt i den nyeste viden om de indre organer. Simone Wright kalder intuition for “den første intelligens”, fordi den udvikles længe, før vi udstyres med en hjerne.

The Making of Modern Afghanistan

B. Hopkins

See Ernest Tucker, 'Nadir Shah and the Ja'fari Madhhab Reconsidered', Iranian Studies. For an idea of Nadir's relationship with those chiefs, see Peter Avery, ' Nadir Shah and the Afsharid Legacy', in The Cambridge History of Iran: From ...

John French, fashion photographer: 14 November 1984-10 March ...

John French

91 Woollen trouser suit and hat Andre Courreges, Paris Simone d'Aillencourt The Sunday Times, August 30, 1964. 92 Embroidered evening coat, satin trousers and bonnet Andre Courreges, Paris Simone d'Aillencourt The Sunday Times, ...

The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority

Andreas Rieck

... S. Kazim Ja'fari, Karim Bakhsh Haidari, S. Muhammad Ali Shamsi, Pir S. Nawazish Ali (Jahanian Shah), S. Malik Mahdi Hasan 'Alavi, S. Jamil Husain Rizvi and Khwaja Muhammad Latif Ansari; from the APSC: Muhammad Bashir Ansari, ...