Search Results - "Preluders"

The Presbyterian Church of East Africa an account of its Gospel Missionary Society origins, 1895-1946 / by Wamagatta, E. N.

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to the coming of the missionaries -- Kikuyuland and the Kikuyu people -- Imposition of colonial rule -- The GMS and its establishment in Kenya -- The People's Church of Christ -- The AIM connection -- Establishment in Kikuyuland -- The abortive Kibichoi Mission station -- GMS Kambui and Ng'enda mission stations -- Challenges to missionary work -- Reception of the missionaries in Kikuyuland -- Conflict with Kikuyu culture -- Attributes of GMS missionaries -- The educational approach to missionary work -- The pioneering period -- The era of growth and challenges -- African quest for high schools -- Problems with the government -- Problems with educational work -- The medical approach to missionary work -- The medical personnel -- The struggle against "witch doctors" -- Other gospel connections -- The government connection -- The evangelical approach to missionary work -- Conversion and GMS baptisms -- Persecution of mission adherents -- A time of growth and expansion -- Confrontation with Kikuyu nationalism -- Confrontation with Kikuyu cultural nationalism -- Spiritual slumber in Kikuyuland -- African leadership in the GMS church -- Merger with the Church of Scotland mission -- Financial problems -- The abortive GMS AIM merger -- Schism in the People's Church of Christ -- Human resources and other problems -- The road to the GMS-CSM merger.…”
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Recovering the Piedmont past : unexplored moments in nineteenth-century Upcountry South Carolina history /

Table of Contents: “…Reid and the Reidville schools, 1857-1905 / Timothy P. Grady -- Prelude to Little Bighorn : the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in the South Carolina Upcountry / Andrew H. …”
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Who owns the Crown lands of Hawaii? by Van Dyke, Jon M.

Table of Contents: “…Land tenure at the eve of Western contact -- Before the Mahele -- The Mahele -- The government lands -- The transfer of lands from Kauikeaouli to Alexander Liholiho (1854-55) -- The passing of Alexander Liholiho (1863) -- In the matter of the estate of his Majesty Kamehameha IV (1864) -- The 1865 statute making the Crown lands inalienable -- The ascension of William Charles Lunalilo to the throne (1872) -- The transition between the Kamehameha line and Kaläkaua's Keawe-a-heulu line -- Claus Spreckels, Princess Ruth Keelikolani, and the claim to a half -- Interest in the Crown lands -- The inalienable Crown lands (1865-93) -- 1887 Bayonet Constitution and the Reciprocity/Pearl-Harbor Treaty : preludes to overthrow -- Population, voting and citizenship in the Kingdom of Hawaii -- The 1893 overthrow of the kingdom -- The Republic of Hawaii (1894-98) -- The 1895 Land Act -- Annexation by the United States (1898) -- The Crown lands during the territorial period (1898-1959) -- Liliuokalani v. …”
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The unfinished war Korea / by Lee, Bong

Table of Contents: “…Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.…”
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A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War : Money, Finance and Occupation (Belgium, its Enemies, its friends, 1939-1945) / by Wee, Herman van der

Table of Contents: “…A Small Nation in the Turmoil of the Second World War; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Prelude to a New World Conflict; The policy of neuTraliTy under discussion; The problem of governing under occupaTion; Getting The gold stock to safety; Chapter 2. …”
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The cultural contradictions of democracy political thought since September 11 / by Brenkman, John

Table of Contents: “…-- No exit -- Conclusion: Prelude to the unknown -- Ideas and errors -- Arendt with Berlin -- Liberty without democracy versus democracy without liberty? …”
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Princess Noire the tumultuous reign of Nina Simone / by Cohodas, Nadine

Table of Contents: “…: September 1947-May 1950 -- Prelude to a fugue : June 1950-May 1954 -- The arrival of Nina Simone : June 1954-June 1956 -- Little girl blue : July 1956-December 1958 -- A fast rising star : 1959 -- Simone-ized : 1960 -- You can't let them humiliate you : January 1961-December 13, 1961 -- Respect : December 14, 1961-December 1962 -- Mississippi goddam : 1963 -- Don't let me be misunderstood : 1964 -- My skin is black : 1965 -- Images : 1966 -- My only groove is moods : 1967 -- Black gold : 1968 -- To be young, gifted and black : 1969 -- I have become more militant : 1970 -- Definite vibrations of pride : 1971 -- This ain't no Geraldine up here : 1972 -- Where my soul has gone : 1973-1976 -- I am not of this planet : 1977-1978 -- Loving me is not enough : 1979-1981 -- Fodder on her wings : 1982-1988 -- Nina's back-- again : 1989-1992 -- A single woman : 1993-1999 -- The final curtain : 2000-2003.…”
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Palaeolithic cave art at Creswell Crags in European context

Table of Contents: “…Bahn -- The palaeolithic rock art of Creswell Crags : prelude to a systematic study / Sergio Ripoll and Francisco J. …”
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The drama of possibility experience as philosophy of culture / by McDermott, John J. (John Joseph), 1932-

Table of Contents: “…: experience as pedagogical -- Ill-at-ease : the natural travail of ontological disconnectedness -- "Turning" backward : the erosion of moral sensibility -- The inevitability of our own death : the celebration of time as a prelude to disaster -- Isolation as starvation : John Dewey and a philosophy of the handicapped -- Bequeathing -- Poem : deadlines -- Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? …”
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Black Racialization and Resistance at an Elite University / by Hampton, Rosalind, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Cover ; Title page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgments ; Prelude ; Finding a Conversation ; "Becoming" an Activist -- 1. …”
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Catalogue raisonné as memoir a composer's life / by Argento, Dominick

Table of Contents: “…-- Tria Carmina Paschalia -- Postcard from Morocco -- A ring of time -- Jonah and the whale -- To be sung upon the water -- A water bird talk -- From the diary of Virginia Woolf -- The voyage of Edgar Allan Poe -- In praise of music -- Miss Havisham's fire -- A thanksgiving to God, for his house -- Let all the world in every corner sing -- Miss Havisham's wedding night -- Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Fire variations -- I hate and I love (Odi et Amo) -- The Andrée exposition -- Prelude for Easter dawning -- Casa Guidi -- Casonova's homecoming -- Le Tombeau d'Edgar Poe -- Capriccio for clarinet and orchestra -- Te Deum (Verba Domini Cum Verbis Populi) -- The aspern papers -- Easter day -- The angel Israfil -- A Toccata of Galuppi's -- Everyone sang -- The dream of Valentino -- To God "in memoriam M. …”
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Pastoralism in Africa : past, present and future /

Table of Contents: “…Specialisation and diversification among African pastoral societies / Michael Bollig and Michael Schnegg -- Herders before pastoralism : prehistoric prelude in the eastern Sahara / Rudolph Kuper and Heiko Riemer -- 'I hope your cattle are well' : archaeological evidence for early cattle-centred behaviour in the eastern Sahara of Sudan and Chad / Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Nadja P�ollath -- Trajectories to pastoralism in northern and central Kenya : an overview of the archaeological and environmental evidence / Paul Lane -- From first stock keepers to specialised pastoralists in the West African savanna / Veerle Linseele -- A short history of early herding in Southern Africa / Karim Sadr -- Establishing a pre-colonial 'modern' cattle and gun society : (re-)pastoralisation, mercantile capitalism and power amongst Herero in nineteenth century central Namibia / Dag Henrichsen -- The emergence of commercial ranching under state control and the encapsulation of pastoralism in African reserves / Christo Botha -- Land, boreholes and fences : the development of commercial livestock farming in the Outjo district, Namibia / Ute Dieckmann -- The political ecology of specialisation and diversification : long-term dynamics of pastoralism in East Pokot District, Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias �Osterle -- Social-ecological change and institutional development in a pastoral community in north-western Namibia / Michael Bollig -- Pastoral belonging : causes and consequences of part-time pastoralism in north-western Namibia / Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli and Clemens Greiner -- State, conflict and pastoralism in contemporary eastern Chad : the case of Zaghawa-Tama relationships / Babett J�anszky and Grit Jungstand -- Unofficial trade when states are weak : the case of cross-border livestock trade in the Horn of Africa / Peter D. …”
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Historical Anthology of Music by Women /

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- "Allegro," from Trio for violin, cello, and piano (1921) -- Germaine Tailleferre / by Leonie Rosentiel -- "Modere sans lenteur," from Sonata in C-sharp minor for violin and piano (1923) -- Ruth Crawford Seeger / by Judith Tick -- Prelude No. 2, for piano (1924) -- "Rat Riddles," from Three Songs for Contralto, Oboe, Percussion, and Orchestral Ostinati (1930) -- "Andante" and "Allegro possibile," from String Quartet (1931) -- Miriam Gideon / by Barbara A. …”
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Scars of war, wounds of peace the Israeli-Arab tragedy / by Ben-Ami, Shlomo

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Modular systems for energy usage management / by Shah, Yatish T.

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Guido Cavalcanti poet of the rational animal / by Stone, Gregory B.

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Traces of the Old, Uses of the New : The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies / by Earhart, Amy E., 1969-

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Berlioz in Time : From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown / by Bloom, Peter

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Witness Through the Imagination : Jewish American Holocaust Literature / by Kremer, S. Lillian, 1939-

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Emerging trends in disruptive technology management for sustainable development /

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