Author: Frederick Leroy Sargent
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Category : National flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Victoria Langland
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822395614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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Speaking of Flowers is an innovative study of student activism during Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–85) and an examination of the very notion of student activism, which changed dramatically in response to the student protests of 1968. Looking into what made students engage in national political affairs as students, rather than through other means, Victoria Langland traces a gradual, uneven shift in how they constructed, defended, and redefined their right to political participation, from emphasizing class, race, and gender privileges to organizing around other institutional and symbolic forms of political authority. Embodying Cold War political and gendered tensions, Brazil's increasingly violent military government mounted fierce challenges to student political activity just as students were beginning to see themselves as representing an otherwise demobilized civil society. By challenging the students' political legitimacy at a pivotal moment, the dictatorship helped to ignite the student protests that exploded in 1968. In her attentive exploration of the years after 1968, Langland analyzes what the demonstrations of that year meant to later generations of Brazilian students, revealing how student activists mobilized collective memories in their subsequent political struggles.

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service. Subcommittee on Census and Population
Publisher:
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Category : Emblems, National
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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Author: Gail Tsukiyama
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312274815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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"It is Tokyo in 1939. On the Street of a Thousand Blossoms, two orphaned brothers are growing up with their loving grandparents, who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows unusual skill at the national obsession of sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of creating hand-carved masks for actors in the Noh theater." "Across town, a renowned sumo master, Sho Tanaka, lives with his wife and their two young daughters: the delicate, daydreaming Aki and her independent sister, Haru. Life seems full of promise as Kenji begins an informal apprenticeship with the most famous maskmaker in Japan and Hiroshi receives a coveted invitation to train with Tanaka. But then Pearl Harbor changes everything. As the ripples of war spread to both families' quiet neighborhoods, all of the generations must put their dreams on hold - and then find their way in a new Japan."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Publisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1038

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Includes list of members.

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Kermit R. Mercer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312048441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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This story follows a company of French soldiers arriving at The City of Verdun one month after the initial German attack in February 1916. This 300-day battle was one of the most terrible in history. The author lived in the Verdun area for 18 months in the years 1955-56 while serving with the USAF in military communications in the NATO defense of Europe. Through the story, we live the lives of these young soldiers, both French and German, as they desperately attack or defend the totally destroyed landscape about them. We look into the lives of the privates as well as the highest levels of command; all are warriors. These soldiers have names, personalities, loved ones and dreams. You will see some in the hospitals still within the range of artillery and further back. The women, in this story, each in their own way, work to hold society together. This story is for anyone that has served in the military of their country. It is a historical novel of the Battle of Verdun in 1916.

Author: Debra Prinzing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983272687
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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First there was "slow food." Now there's "slow flowers," local and fresh: no chemical-laden, lifeless blooms flown in from afar. Acclaimed garden writer Debra Prinzing wants to show us the rich, floral bounty closer to home. In Slow Flowers, she takes us through the seasons to create 52 vibrant, sensual bouquets using only locally sourced materials - even in winter.--

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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1694

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