Meredith: 1224 books
by Meredith Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
This book is about the Rolling Stones, british rock band that started to exist in 1962. Book consist 19 topics: Overview of the Rolling Stones, Important Friendships, Forming the Band, The Rolling stones cut a record deal, The Rolling Stones Roll into America, Parents hate the Stones, Their mega hit,...
by Meredith Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Let’s take a look at some of the facts about one of the most famous stars in the history of the porn industry, Jenna Haze. We will also take a look at an interview that Jenna gave where she speaks about her career, her life, her likes and dislikes, and some more. Read on to get an understanding...
The Ethical Meat Handbook
Complete Home Butchery, Charcuterie and Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Nutrition, environmental impact, ethics, sustainability—it seems like there's no end to the factors we must consider when we think about our food. At the center of the dietary storm is animal-based agriculture. Was your beef factory-farmed or pasture-raised? Did your chicken free range, or was it...
Diamonds, Gold, and War
The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between...
Afrikaner Odyssey
The Life and Times of the Reitz Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The odyssey of the Reitz family passes like a thread through the tapestry of South African history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Originally Dutch-Afrikaner gentry from the Cape, the family moved to the frontier settlement of Bloemfontein and played a key role in the building of...
Artificial Unintelligence
How Computers Misunderstand the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right.
In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted...
Mugabe
Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
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...
by Meredith Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
How much do you know about John W. Lennon and his contribution to the music world? If you are a fan of John W. Lennon, then this is definitely a must read. This book contains information about how John grew up, what motivated him to start his music career, his rise and fall and some of his controversial...
Soft is Fast
Simone Forti in the 1960s and After
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s “dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.
Simone Forti's art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City's advanced visual art,...
Miracle on the Salt River
Water, Family & Farming in the Arizona Desert
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Following enactment of the Reclamation Act, the first federally constructed dam broke ground in Arizona's Salt River Valley in 1905. With the inauguration of Roosevelt Dam, the distant dream of an abundant life in the desert became a reality. The dam and farmer-operated water distribution system tamed...
Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo
Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide...
Mr Modernsky: How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg
How Stravinsky Survived Schoenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Mr Modernsky tells a story about two heavyweights of twentieth-century classical music: Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg.It traces the gradual change there has been in the way these two great rivals are perceived, looks in their music for the reasons and reflects on the nature of modernity in...
by Sharon Meredith
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Barbados is a small Caribbean island better known as a tourist destination rather than for its culture. The island was first claimed in 1627 for the English King and remained a British colony until independence was gained in 1966. This firmly entrenched British culture in the Barbadian way of life,...
by Meredith Little, Natalie Jenne
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
Stylized dance music and music based on dance rhythms pervade Bach's compositions. Although the music of this very special genre has long been a part of every serious musician's repertoire, little has been written about it.
The original edition of this addressed works that bore the names of...