Address by Frederic R. Coudert [at] Constitution Day Dinner, New York City, September 17, 1937

Address by Frederic R. Coudert [at] Constitution Day Dinner, New York City, September 17, 1937
Title Address by Frederic R. Coudert [at] Constitution Day Dinner, New York City, September 17, 1937 PDF eBook
Author Frederic René Coudert
Publisher
Pages 16
Release 1937
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress
Publisher
Pages 768
Release 1970
Genre Catalogs, Union
ISBN

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The Severed Head

The Severed Head
Title The Severed Head PDF eBook
Author Julia Kristeva
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 208
Release 2012
Genre Art
ISBN 0231157207

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Renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Kristeva (Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection) offers an extended consideration of artistic figurations of the severed head, the organizing theme to an exhibition she coordinated at the Louvre in 1998. Though she follows a single historical trajectory, moving from Paleolithic skull cults to antique Greek sculpture to the Surrealist drawings, Kristeva eschews the disciplinary constraints of art history, instead employing psychoanalysis to explore the intertwined problems of representation and mortality posed by the severed head. For Kristeva, the capacity to figure the life of the mind first requires a confrontation with this horrific object that stands at the boundary between life and death, registering not only the loss of corporeal form but also subjective interiority. Though this book does not engage with recent images of decapitation, it is not without contemporary political-cultural import; for Kristeva, these cruel artistic figurations offer us the capacity to contemplate the sacred within a technology-driven contemporary visual culture. Verdict While a challenging text, this beautifully written and richly layered meditation on mortality and representation will undoubtedly appeal to those readers interested in semiotic and psychoanalytically informed readings of art.-Jonathan Patkowski, CUNY Graduate Ctr.(c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary

Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary
Title Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary PDF eBook
Author Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Publisher James Lorimer & Company
Pages 673
Release 2015-07-22
Genre History
ISBN 1459410696

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This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971

Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Title Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 PDF eBook
Author New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher
Pages 570
Release 1979
Genre Library catalogs
ISBN 9780816103201

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Select Documents of English Constitutional History

Select Documents of English Constitutional History
Title Select Documents of English Constitutional History PDF eBook
Author George Burton Adams
Publisher
Pages 582
Release 2019-07-25
Genre
ISBN 9789353806286

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Episodes from a Hudson River Town

Episodes from a Hudson River Town
Title Episodes from a Hudson River Town PDF eBook
Author Clesson S. Bush
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 276
Release 2011-08-01
Genre History
ISBN 1438440359

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Winner of the 2012 Award for Excellence presented by the Greater Hudson Heritage Network The seemingly unremarkable Hudson River town of New Baltimore has had its ups and downs, you could certainly say that. Here, generations of families have worked the fields until the yield tapped out, built and repaired ships and barges until the steam age died, and harvested ice until refrigeration made "icebox" a quaint colloquialism. Yet despite the various economic, social, and military forces that have transformed the town, New Baltimore and its residents have endured, celebrating their triumphs and enduring their tragedies. Drawing on original town board minutes, Greene County surrogate and land records, federal and state military records, land patents, colonial documents, conversations with local residents, censuses, and period newspapers, town historian Clesson S. Bush provides an authentic portrait of a small-town community, making the routine—and drama—of small-town life on the Hudson River come alive.