Author: Dianne Cramer
Publisher: Balboa Press
Published: 2018-02-09
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1504311809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →City Girl Goes Bush: An Eleven Year Odyssey tells the story of a young girl whose deepest desire was to live in Central Australia on an outback station, which she did from early 1955 until the end of 1965.
Author: Jenna Bush Hager
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1538711435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The former first daughters share intimate stories and reflections from the Texas countryside to the storied halls of the White House and beyond. Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood by their father's side when he took the same oath. They spent their college years watched over by Secret Service agents and became fodder for the tabloids, with teenage mistakes making national headlines. But the tabloids didn't tell the whole story. In Sisters First, Jenna and Barbara take readers on a revealing, thoughtful, and deeply personal tour behind the scenes of their lives, as they share stories about their family, their unexpected adventures, their loves and losses, and the sisterly bond that means everything to them.
Author: Raelene Hall
Publisher:
Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780645668001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following on from 'A Legitimate Bush Woman' this is a book of columns sharing both the humorous and series side of life as viewed by the author from her home on a million acre cattle station.
Author: Nadine George-Graves
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2010-07-08
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 029923553X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Their unique aesthetic borrows from classical and contemporary dance techniques and theater characterization exercises, incorporates breath and vocalization, and employs space and movement to instill their performances with emotion and purpose. Urban Bush Women concerts are also deeply rooted in community activism, using socially conscious performances in places around the country—from the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, and the Joyce, to community centers and school auditoriums—to inspire audience members to engage in neighborhood change and challenge stereotypes of gender, race, and class. Nadine George-Graves presents a comprehensive history of Urban Bush Women since their founding in 1984. She analyzes their complex work, drawing on interviews with current and former dancers and her own observation of and participation in Urban Bush Women rehearsals. This illustrated book captures the grace and power of the dancers in motion and provides an absorbing look at an innovative company that continues to raise the bar for socially conscious dance.
Author: Jane Adams
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1839758511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A memoir of a young teacher's experience as a volunteer in a rural school in Northern Nigeria.
Author: S.P. Sree
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9788176258432
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Papers presented at an international seminar held at Visakhapatnam
Author: Nicholas Lemann
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2007-08-21
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781429923613
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away. Nicholas Lemann opens his extraordinary new book with a riveting account of the horrific events of Easter 1873 in Colfax, Louisiana, where a white militia of Confederate veterans-turned-vigilantes attacked the black community there and massacred hundreds of people in a gruesome killing spree. This was the start of an insurgency that changed the course of American history: for the next few years white Southern Democrats waged a campaign of political terrorism aiming to overturn the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and challenge President Grant'ssupport for the emergent structures of black political power. The remorseless strategy of well-financed "White Line" organizations was to create chaos and keep blacks from voting out of fear for their lives and livelihoods. Redemption is the first book to describe in uncompromising detail this organized racial violence, which reached its apogee in Mississippi in 1875. Lemann bases his devastating account on a wealth of military records, congressional investigations, memoirs, press reports, and the invaluable papers of Adelbert Ames, the war hero from Maine who was Mississippi's governor at the time. When Ames pleaded with Grant for federal troops who could thwart the white terrorists violently disrupting Republican political activities, Grant wavered, and the result was a bloody, corrupt election in which Mississippi was "redeemed"—that is, returned to white control. Redemption makes clear that this is what led to the death of Reconstruction—and of the rights encoded in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. We are still living with the consequences.