Martin Meredith
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Language
English
Description
Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast in refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule. Finally, the defiant white prime minister Ian Smith was forced to step down and Mugabe was elected president. Initially he promised reconciliation between white and blacks, encouraged Zimbabwe's economic and social development, and was...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Nelson Mandela stands out as one of the most admired political figures of the twentieth century. It was his leadership and moral courage above all that helped to deliver a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa after years of racial division and violence and to establish a fledgling democracy there.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Winner of the 2013 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Robert Penn Warren Center and Western Kentucky University" "Co-Winner of the 2013 Sonia Rudikoff Prize, Northeast Victorian Studies Association" "Winner of the 2012 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association" Meredith Martin is associate professor of English at Princeton University.
Why do we often teach English poetic meter by the Greek terms iamb and trochee?...
Author
Publisher
Institute of Contemporary Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A survey of the work of Arlene Shechet, this book presents more than two decades of sculpture in the artist's characteristically diverse assortment of materials. Arlene Shechet has emerged as one of contemporary art's most inspiring and innovative sculptors. This book presents over twenty years of work in a diversity of materials, from plaster to cast paper, and from glass to ceramic. These materials, unlike most, are liquid before they are solid....
