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With glowing reviews from respected historians such as Sir Martin Gilbert, who describes it as «a true tour de force», Indian Summer is narrative history at its most compelling.

Narrative history at its finest, this is a fascinating and readable biography of the often disregarded second president.

Not exact matches

Mallaby, a Washington Post columnist and a senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, begins in 1900 with the birth of hedge fund inventor Alfred Winslow Jones, and presses forward through a narrative history of this most inscrutable of financial vehicles, and the men (and they are overwhelmingly men) who have driven them.

Jason wrote: July 24, 2015 at 8:31 am «David has a history of using the guise of privacy to control the narrative.

It would appear that Mr. Mills et al and the Archbishop adhere to historical narratives at odds with each other regarding the history of the Zionist movement.

«Narrative and practical Christianity can, in its encounter with... other religions, keep hold of its eschatological and universal history of meaning without at the same time having to accept the histories of the other religions in a totality of meaning.»

In his History of the Peloponnesian War, for example, Thucydides recounts speeches at key points in his narrative: «Cleon... spoke as follows:...» «So Cleon spoke.

Their narrative history portrays it as being first given at the foot of Mount Sinai some twelve hundred fifty years before the birth of Jesus.

Technical details pursued through books could not be similarly pursued in an oral presentation, but the minister may be surprised at the mental ability of his people to chase an idea through paradoxes, dilemmas, myths, history, and dramatic narratives if the movement of the chase corresponds to the way they think through the issues of daily life.

This notice illustrates Luke's desire to set the gospel narrative in the context of world history; it also reflects a certain lack of familiarity with Jewish affairs, for only Caiaphas was high priest at the time (though his father - in - law Annas doubtless retained the title honorarily).

The camera shows her calling the Passion narrative «an extraordinary twist» on what actually happened, concluding: «It looks completely at odds with what we know about history.»

The New Testament suggests that existence does have a narrative quality, and that comic renewal is a possibility at points within the stream of history itself.

It's false narrative and revisionist history at its height.

Surely everyone knows the narrative — Mansell finally wins the F1 World Championship in 1992, then goes Stateside for 1993 and wins the IndyCar championship, thus becoming the only person in history to hold both titles at the same time.

Liverpool and Manchester United are still probably the two biggest clubs in England in terms of history and tradition as well as trophies, Manchester City are now serious players at the European level, Everton possess narrative in spades including not a few national titles and even the likes of Preston North End (The Invincibles, Tom Finney), Blackpool (Stanley Matthews, Jimmy Armfield), Blackburn Rovers (Alan Shearer et al.) and others have a position in the upper consciousness of the game.

12.06 pm: Simon Schama will advise the government on how to put narrative British history at the heart of the curriculum, Gove announces.

Such pressure, in turn, encourages researchers to engage in «a host of biased practices [including] reinventing history to «predict» results that were, in fact, unexpected, or selectively reporting analyses that allow more publishable narratives,» continued Chambers, who is the editor in charge of handling Registered Reports at Royal Society Open Science, an online - only journal which covers all fields of science, engineering, and math.

But Sturm, senior scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Fairbanks, Alaska, had not done two things in his notable career: taken an outlandish trek to explore the human history of the North or written a narrative book.

Columbus at Hispaniola, from The Narrative and Critical History of America, edited by Justin Winsor, London, 1886.

Both of these films show individuals who are reassembling the narrative, making an attempt at the reconstruction and restoration of memory - as - history, however incomplete.

In addition to his directorial debut, Cheshire has written two narrative screenplays and recently taught a course on the history of film at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

April and the Extraordinary World Year: 2015 Director: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci Keeping real life global history straight in narratives that leapfrog across decades and centuries is tough enough — making sense of alternate history when it's articulated at breakneck speed throughout multiple eras of European cultural advancement is just downright strenuous.

These students at Claremont Middle School have just completed their slave narrative project, a unit that's been taught at the school by eighth - grade history and English teachers for three years.

This framework is perfect for history educators who want to improve upon the simplified «King - and - Parks» narrative and engage this critical content at the level of depth it deserves.

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

Mr Gove has stressed that he wants narrative British history to be «at the heart» of his curriculum review, and lamented the «trashing of our past».

I examine a wide variety of exhibit settings, including natural history museums, world's fairs, national monuments, shopping malls, and more to capture the perspectives of heterogeneous communities that have deployed extinct animals — at once mute and mutable icons — to support scientific, nationalistic, commercial, and religious narratives.

The often - failed struggle to define identity in the absence of a strong sense of place, of history, of home, lies at the center of both these narrative strands, which trace the brutal and beatific connections that tie these characters together.

Banquet at Delmonico's is social history at its finest, richest, and most appetizing, a brilliant narrative bristling with personal intrigue, tantalizing insights, and greater truths about American life and culture.

Bryson's wonderfully sly sense of humor and narrative skill are evident in this expansive look at a momentous season in U.S. history: the summer of 1927.

Today, he is the bestselling author of at least fourteen novels (often writing with a dual narrative style where the two voices are separated by the centuries), fifteen non-fiction books, various collections and a history series for children.

Steil's superb narrative combines diplomatic, economic and political history with descriptions of such episodes as the Berlin Airlift, along with vivid portraits of the diverse primary personalities, who were often at odds with each other.

What sets The Flamenco Academy above your average easy read is the irresistible drive and energy of the narrative, the rich settings and, of course, the history and intricacies of flamenco itself which, at one point, Didi describes as «obsessive - compulsive disorder set to a great beat»!

The Pulitzer Prize - winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history.

As with her article on Tezuka's peers, «Before the Forty - Niners» offers a rich, nuanced look at the development of manga that challenges some well - rehearsed narratives about the medium's history.

Operation Raccoon City also invites you to rewrite gaming history at one point in the game, somewhat plunging its narrative into irrelevance altogether, should you choose to do so.

Within this narrative, it shows early films by the likes of the Lumière brothers not to film buffs at festivals or as stills in history books but to a young audience (this is a film for kids) on commercial screens.

Her own work challenges these boundaries, as seen in her solo show Revenge, featuring consecutive paintings of black women protagonists and memorials to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, at Rochdale Art Gallery and the South Bank Centre, London, in 1992, which contested the pictorial narratives so frequently repeated in art history.

In Long Ago and Not True Anyway at Waterside Contemporary, curator Pierre d'Alancaisez explores a kind of history that exists beyond the dry material of archives, records, and established national narratives.

Highlighting new narratives in Mexico's modern art history, México 1900 — 1950 marks the first exhibition at the DMA organized by the Museum's new director, Agustín Arteaga.

In a time when feminist critiques are once again at the forefront of critical discourse, Jones's work is yet another reminder of the intertwined narratives of art history and identity politics.

It makes sense then, that O'Shea and I would revisit the history and the thinking behind the diversified and cross-platform project as our narrative, at least, comes full circle.

The inimitable John Bradford continues his raucous faux - naïve narrative renderings in «Hamilton, History, Lincoln and Paint» (through May 5 at Anna Zorina Gallery, 533 West 23rd Street; annazorinagallery.com).

Further highlights include Polly Apfelbaum's strips of textile that are combined to form a colorfully woven painting; Rashid Johnson's tropical enclave containing various unexpected elements from sculptures made with shea butter to video portraits; Katherine Bernhardt's monumental painting with tropical birds, cuddly robots and cigarette stubs, which at once editorializes and summarizes modern culture and the artist herself; an interactive multimedia installation by Nedko Solakov comprising nine sofas in the shapes of the nine Chinese characters constituting the phrase «I miss Socialism, maybe»; and Yu Hong's large - scale painting depicting a famous Chinese fable widely cited in both modern Chinese art history and Chinese Communist narratives.

The exhibition examines the objects themselves but also looks at the personal narratives of the mask sellers, drawing on the artist's own migration from Kenya to Canada in a series of works that create a shared history of identity and origin.

For their concurrent solo exhibitions at the Museum of the African Diaspora, Los Angeles based artists Alison Saar and Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle focus on the African American, and African, woman's body as a carrier of profound stories to create narratives that provoke awareness and revere both the beautiful and ugly sides of history.

A solo exhibition that is at once immersive and intricate, On the Wall: Nadia Haji Omar simultaneously alludes to the uniquely complex cultural histories of Sigiriya as a built and natural environment replete with overlapping religious narratives, artistic styles, and the calligraphic traditions of the Sinhalese and Tamil languages, among others.

Omer Fast's video works conflate factual and fictional narratives at the intersection of memory, history, and media.

Visit his website at www.georgeschmidt.com to witness history and narrative painting come alive as he walks us through his May 2012 solo exhibition at the University of Louisiana in a series of YouTube videos.

The narratives at play in their individual histories are hinted at, but never revealed.