Chase's Calendar of Events 2021
Chase's Calendar of Events 2021

Author: Editors of Chase's

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-10-27

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13: 1641434244

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Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s date book since 1957, Chase's is the definitive, authoritative, day-by-day resource of what the world is celebrating and commemorating. From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical anniversaries to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2021, Chase's also features extensive appendices as well as a companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2021 is packed with special events and observances, including National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth The 400th anniversary of the Plymouth pilgrim Thanksgiving The 200th independence anniversary from Spain of its Central and South American colonies. The 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre Scores of new special days, weeks and months Birthdays of new world leaders, office holders, and breakout stars And much more! All from the reference book that Publishers Weekly calls "one of the most impressive reference volumes in the world."

Chase's Calendar of Events 2025
Chase's Calendar of Events 2025

Author: Editors of Chase's

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-09-09

Total Pages: 753

ISBN-13:

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Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! Since 1957, Chase's Calendar of Events lists everything worth knowing and celebrating for each day of the year: 12,500 holidays, national days, historical milestones, famous birthdays, festivals, sporting events and more. "One of the most impressive reference volumes in the world." -- Publishers Weekly From national days to celebrity birthdays, from historical milestones to astronomical phenomena, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the must-have reference used by experts and professionals—a one-stop shop with 12,500 entries for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. Completely updated for 2025, Chase's also features extensive appendices (astronomical data, major awards, perpetual calendar) as well as an exclusive companion website that puts the power of Chase's at the user's fingertips. 2025 is packed with special events and observances, including National days and public holidays of every nation on Earth Scores of new special days, weeks and months--such as the International Day for the Arabian Leopard (Feb 10), American Sparkling Wine Day (July 3) or Reduce Your Lawn Day (May 20). Birthdays of new world leaders, lauded authors, sports stars and breakout celebrities Info on milestone anniversaries, such as the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the 250th birth anniversary of Jane Austen, the 150th birth anniversary of Mary McLeod Bethune, the 50th anniversary of the cult filmThe Rocky Horror Picture Show, the 25th anniversary of the first human habitation of the International Space Station, and much more. Information on such special events as the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation and Expo 2025 And much more!

History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Iowa (1854-2021)
History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Iowa (1854-2021)

Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi

Publisher: Soyinfo Center

Published: 2021-08-10

Total Pages: 1800

ISBN-13: 1948436469

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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 325 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Dictionary of World Biography
Dictionary of World Biography

Author: Barry Jones

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2022-11-30

Total Pages: 1005

ISBN-13: 1760465526

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Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post‑industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the *Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016. He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.

The Gothic Peckinpah
The Gothic Peckinpah

Author: Tony Williams

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2024-05-03

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1835532802

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This book argues for the importance of Gothic in understanding one of the key elements within the films of Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984). Although occasionally noted in the past, the Gothic has been generally overlooked when most critics consider the work of Sam Peckinpah with the exception of the Freudian based Crucified Heroes (1979) by Terence Butler. This work not only examines the films made after that date, especially the often dismissed The Osterman Weekend (1983) and the two music videos he made for Julian Lennon, but also places the director within the context of the developing work on Gothic that has since appeared. Peckinpah has been identified as the director of one undisputed masterpiece, The Wild Bunch (1969). By focussing on the key role Gothic plays in most of the director’s work, this book offers a way to see Peckinpah beyond The Wild Bunch and the Western, viewing him as a director who had the potential of evolving further, had circumstances permitted, to continue his critique of American life within the developing lens of the Gothic.

Fearless on Everest
Fearless on Everest

Author: Julie Summers

Publisher: The Mountaineers Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780898867961

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* Includes never-before-published letters and photographs * Written by an Irvine family member Mallory and Irvine. These two names have been inextricably joined since the two climbers disappeared on Mount Everest more than 75 years ago. Could they have been the first to reach the summit of the world's highest mountains-some 30 years earlier than Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Mallory's story has been well chronicled, but Irvine has always been overshadowed by his more famous climbing partner and little has been written about him. Who was he? Why was he invited by the British Everest Committee to join the 1924 expedition despite his limited mountaineering experience? And why did Mallory, 16 years his senior, select Irvine as his partner for the final assault on the summit? Julie Summers, great niece of Sandy Irvine, has been fascinated since childhood by the story of Uncle Sandy. In May 2000, Julie made an astonishing discovery: a long forgotten and unopened trunk containing Irvine's letters and photographs from Everest. Drawing on these and other material, Julie writes a revealing story of a fearless young adventurer whose life and death linked him with one of the greatest mountaineering legends of all time.

Bellicans
Bellicans

Author: Constance D. Johnson

Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2024-01-08

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13:

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Minister Constance D. Johnson, MBA author of "Persevere Wrench" and "Forgiveness: Is It Too Late To Forgive?" Featuring: "A Kindle Of A Mother's Memoirs Of Love ~The Cent Of A Rose ~The Price Jesus Christ Paid!" writes for your reading pleasure and enjoyment this charming, delightful, fascinating, and thrilling novel "Bellicans" ~ An Inspiring and Quintessential Novel For Today's Time! This is a riveting and exhilarating novel that will fascinate you and may make for a splendid glossy soap opera or film. As you move through its pages, it will enkindle a desire in you to read on. Bellicans is so intriguing; it's like reading a good book and you can't stop turning the pages. You will realize that you too can identify with this story because the messages housed within are revealing of some of the effects of life, we all encounter. This novel seeks to "underscore" that wealth, fame, and fortune not held in perspective, has no real essence, and may be, all for naught! In today's climate we have experienced an abundance of hate crimes, indifference, and occlusion. We are overwhelmed with fake news, spoken falsehoods, and many wondering where do they go from here? This novel "Bellicans" endeavors to give [new] insights to take up the "cudgels" of a benign existence and challenges you to delve deep down inside to ably you to address this question. Lady Tishrei is an eccentric young lady (born of an aristocrat family) who was the "Bell of the Ball". She was lost, and then found. However, throughout her journey of life, she met with a series of pejorative issues that inevitably changed her life. The "satire" of this message is that some spend their entire life wandering from place to place and never set down roots. Some never find joy or happiness. Some never conquer their fears. Some never realize their potential to overcome their obstacles. And sadly, some never find true love. Bellicans seeks out to help you realize your weaknesses and change them, and your strengths and differences and embrace them. That you create a tolerance of others and believe that you can create your own success and soar into your victory and purpose in life. While you may be crestfallen, there is hope on the other side! No matter how you look on the outside of a shell, it is what is in your heart and soul that shines outwardly to others. Beauty is within--not without! Bellicans has esteemed and [chronicled] a blueprint for a good wholesome way to accomplish goals, if used in a positive way and not turned into a depravity. There is power there if you can harness it and keep it! Education is a bellwether of change. Being true to yourself and the issues around you are a good start to learning. Whereby, the whole trajectory of life can change. If you leave a carrot in the ground it will bloom into a beautiful flower with a sweet aroma that will eventually grow seeds, and from the seeds, more carrots will grow. You too can be like a carrot in your own life experiences--see how you can grow! As you careen through life and its challenges, whether you are rich and wealthy or poor and destitute--it contains no ambiguity! However, your heart and soul's destination, is a free choice given to us all! Now that you have made it to this point in your life; right now--live well!

The New Music
The New Music

Author: Theodor W. Adorno

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1509538097

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A year after the end of the Second World War, the first International Summer Course for New Music took place in the Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany. The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was intended to familiarize young composers and musicians with the music that, only a few years earlier, had been denounced as degenerate by the Nazi regime, and it soon developed into one of the most important events in contemporary music. Having returned to Germany in 1949 from exile in the United States, Adorno was a regular participant at Darmstadt from 1950 on. In 1955 he gave a series of lectures on the young Schoenberg, using the latter’s work to illustrate the relation between tradition and the avant-garde. Adorno’s three double-length lectures on the young Schoenberg, in which he spoke as a passionate advocate for the composer whom Boulez had declared dead, were his first at Darmstadt to be recorded on tape. The relation between tradition and the avant-garde was the leitmotif of the lectures that followed, which continued over the next decade. Adorno also dealt in detail with problems of composition in contemporary music, and he often accompanied his lectures with off-the-cuff musical improvisations. The five lecture courses he gave at Darmstadt between 1955 and 1966 were all recorded and subsequently transcribed, and they are published here for the first time in English. This volume is a unique document on the theory and history of the New Music. It will be of great value to anyone interested in the work of Adorno and critical theory, in German intellectual and cultural history, and in the history of modern music.

History of the Health Foods Movement Worldwide (1875-2021)
History of the Health Foods Movement Worldwide (1875-2021)

Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi

Publisher: Soyinfo Center

Published: 2021-07-31

Total Pages: 894

ISBN-13: 1948436450

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The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 205 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

Wilsonian Visions
Wilsonian Visions

Author: James McAllister

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1501759957

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In Wilsonian Visions, James McAllister recovers the history of the most influential forum of American liberal internationalism in the immediate aftermath of the First World War: The Williamstown Institute of Politics. Established in 1921 by Harry A. Garfield, the president of Williams College, the Institute was dedicated to promoting an informed perspective on world politics even as the United States, still gathering itself after World War I, retreated from the Wilsonian vision of active involvement in European political affairs. Located on the Williams campus in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, the Institute's annual summer session of lectures and roundtables attracted scholars, diplomats, and peace activists from around the world. Newspapers and press services reported the proceedings and controversies of the Institute to an American public divided over fundamental questions about US involvement in the world. In an era where the institutions of liberal internationalism were just taking shape, Garfield's institutional model was rapidly emulated by colleges and universities across the US. McAllister narrates the career of the Institute, tracing its roots back to the tragedy of the First World War and Garfield's disappointment in America's failure to join the League of Nations. He also shows the Progressive Era origins of the Institute and the importance of the political and intellectual relationship formed between Garfield and Wilson at Princeton University in the early 1900s. Drawing on new and previously unexamined archival materials, Wilsonian Visions restores the Institute to its rightful status in the intellectual history of US foreign relations and shows it to be a formative institution as the country transitioned from domestic isolation to global engagement.