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Gyprock

By: Brian Echenberg

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This book portrays me accurately as an individual with a severe case of OCD as well as a form of Tourette's syndrome. Most of my life has been dysfunctional especially from the age of 18 to 60 and has been accompanied by severe anger and destructive issues. I talk about my unique experiences in these regards and my living in largely demolished living quarters. I also discuss my early development and the source of my problems. I hope some readers, will be fascinated by my past circumstances and strange behavior accompanying my existence. The title of this short book refers to all the walls and gyprock I've punched and kicked in. Gyprock.

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Gyprock, Breaking Dangerous Habits

Berlin 1945

By: Brian Echenberg

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Berlin 1945

By: Brian Echenberg

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Thomas Sankara

A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa

By: Brian J. Peterson

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Thomas Sankara

A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa

By: Brian J. Peterson

Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers the first complete biography in English of the dynamic revolutionary leader from Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara. Coming to power in 1983, Sankara set his sights on combating social injustice, poverty, and corruption in his country, fighting for women's rights, direct forms of democracy, economic sovereignty, and environmental justice. Drawing on government archival sources and over a hundred interviews with Sankara's family members, friends, and closest revolutionary colleagues, Brian J. Peterson details Sankara's political career and rise to power, as well as his assassination at age 37 in 1987, in a plot led by his close friend Blaise Compaoré. Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa offers a unique, critical appraisal of Sankara and explores why he generated such enthusiasm and hope in Burkina Faso and beyond, why he was such a polarizing figure, how his rivals seized power from him, and why T-shirts sporting his image still appear on the streets today.

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Indiana University Press

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0253053781

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9780253053787

The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum

The McCord, 1921-1996

By: Brian Young

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The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum

The McCord, 1921-1996

By: Brian Young

Museums and cultural institutions across North America and Europe are being transformed by budget cuts, re-evaluation of their cultural missions, evolving concepts of museology, and changing audiences, making Brian Young's trenchant history of a prestigious university museum, Montreal's McCord Museum of Canadian History, especially pertinent. In The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum Young elucidates the relationship between museums and communities by examining the nineteenth-century social context of the family who bequeathed their collection to McGill University and the collection's fate in an academic institution. Tracing the museum's history from its founding by David Ross McCord, he emphasizes the centrality of elite women to the culture of the museum and its survival in the twentieth century, the museum's importance as the collective memory of Montreal's English-speaking elite, and the difficulty academic historians have had in dealing with material history. He recounts a sorry tale of mismatched institutional and intellectual cultures that culminated in the university's transfer of custodial responsibility to a corporate museum board and the collapse of the museum's central research and conservation mandates. The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum reveals the complex and often conflicting relationships between private collectors, curators, museum and university officials, volunteers, researchers, philanthropic foundations, the state, and the public. It shows how the makeup, interests, and perspectives of these groups have changed over the course of the century, leading to the current crisis in which many museums are forced to function according to a corporate culture in which the dictates of audience size, marketing, and public relations experts dominate the priorities of curators and collections, the needs of scholars and students, and the interests of communities. Young exposes the present-day conflict between cultural institutions operating ahistorically and often without any social vision and a public demanding greater help in understanding the past. It will be of interest to everyone who cares about culture, museums, and public memory.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773571647

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9780773571648

The Clash

By: Brian J. Bowe

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The Clash

By: Brian J. Bowe

Punk rock innovators the Clash were the first group to bring this style of high-energy music to the top of the charts. Their songs were explosive acts of defiance that combined the sounds of rockabilly, reggae, funk, and hip-hop. This engaging book examines how the group used music, art, and fashion to deliver a strong political message. Through full-color photographs, fascinating direct quotations, and informative sidebars, readers will discover how in the band's short history, the Clash created exciting and brand-new sounds and spoke out against racism and consumerism. Moving beyond hits such as "Rock the Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" this text reveals why some called the group "the only band that matters.

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Enslow Publishing, LLC

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1978503474

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9781978503472

Leadership and Responsibility in the second World War

By: Brian Farrell

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Leadership and Responsibility in the second World War

By: Brian Farrell

Leadership and Responsibility in the Second World War examines how well political, diplomatic, and military leaders, particularly in Great Britain, handled the daunting challenge of a worldwide conflagration. It seeks to determine if a connection can be delineated between leadership, responsibility, success, and failure - specifically if any connection can be found between reluctance to shoulder responsibility and failure to produce results. In doing so, the authors challenge widely accepted views on major wartime controversies, such as the role of Neville Chamberlain and his Conservative party at the outbreak of the war, the reasons the British failed to reach an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1939, and the motives that drove Claus von Stauffenberg to attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

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0773571612

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9780773571617

So clean

Lord Leverhulme, soap and civilisation

By: Brian Lewis

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So clean

Lord Leverhulme, soap and civilisation

By: Brian Lewis

This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers’ Sunlight Soap empire. Unlike previous biographies, which have focused on the man’s life story and eccentricities, or just considered one aspect of his career, So clean places him squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent historical scholarship. Much more than a warts-and-all biography, the book uses Lever as an entry-point for contextualized and comparative essays on the history of advertising; on factory paternalism, town planning, the Garden City movement and their ramifications across the twentieth century; and on colonialism and forced labour in the Belgian Congo and the South Pacific. It concludes with a discussion of his extraordinary attempt, in his final years, to transform crofting and fishing in the Outer Hebrides. Written in an engaging and accessible style, So Clean will appeal to academics and students working in business, social, cultural and imperial history.

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Manchester University Press

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1526130432

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Dark Age

The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa

By: Brian Titley

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The Political Odyssey of Emperor Bokassa

By: Brian Titley

A gripping political biography of one of Africa's most controversial leaders.

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0773524185

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Islamization from Below

The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

By: Brian J. Peterson

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Islamization from Below

The Making of Muslim Communities in Rural French Sudan, 1880-1960

By: Brian J. Peterson

The colonial era in Africa, spanning less than a century, ushered in a more rapid expansion of Islam than at any time during the previous thousand years. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, Brian J. Peterson considers for the first time how and why rural peoples in West Africa "became Muslim" under French colonialism.Peterson rejects conventional interpretations that emphasize the roles of states, jihads, and elites in "converting" people, arguing instead that the expansion of Islam owed its success to the mobility of thousands of rural people who gradually, and usually peacefully, adopted the new religion on their own. Based on extensive fieldwork in villages across southern Mali (formerly French Sudan) and on archival research in West Africa and France, the book draws a detailed new portrait of grassroots, multi-generational processes of Islamization in French Sudan while also deepening our understanding of the impact and unintended consequences of colonialism.

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Yale University Press

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0300152736

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9780300152739

HIV/AIDS in the Post-HAART Era

Manifestations, Treatment, and Epidemiology

By: John C. Hall,Brian John Hall,Clay J. Cockerell

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HIV/AIDS in the Post-HAART Era

Manifestations, Treatment, and Epidemiology

By: John C. Hall,Brian John Hall,Clay J. Cockerell

The science of the virus and its effects and the clinical approaches to its treatment and transmission prevention are placed in the context of the history and epidemiology of the HIV-AIDS pandemic. Each organ system of the body is explored as to manifestations of the disease, treatment now and in the future, as well as what the disease has taught us about the immune response. The science of epidemiology, which is so important in allowing for tracking of the disease and potential limitation of transmission, is another aspect of AIDS explored in detail. The pandemic manifests differently in different parts of the world, and the relevance of the volume is enhanced by its international group of contributors. No other text provides the historical and epidemiological context of this disease along with an update of diagnosis and treatment. The underlying science and epidemiology of AIDS are not neglected, so the student or clinician who is treating patients with AIDS can gain a full understanding of HIV/AIDS in individual patients and in their communities.

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1607951053

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Gyprock

Gyprock

Gyprock, Breaking Dangerous Habits

Gyprock, Breaking Dangerous Habits

Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara

The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum

The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum

The Clash

The Clash

Leadership and Responsibility in the second World War

Leadership and Responsibility in the second World War

So clean

So clean

Dark Age

Dark Age

Islamization from Below

Islamization from Below

HIV/AIDS in the Post-HAART Era

HIV/AIDS in the Post-HAART Era

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