Sentences with phrase «unique cultural materials»

Paris, Washington D.C. — The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and 32 partner institutions today launched the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs.

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So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

The intensely bright light produced at the ESRF offers scientists unique opportunities to explore materials and living matter in a multitude of fields, ranging from chemistry and materials physics to archaeology and cultural heritage and from structural biology, health and life sciences to environmental sciences, information science and nanotechnologies.

More importantly, while the game's various towns and peoples have unique cultural backgrounds in the game's dialog and database entries, those things are rarely made material.

Through this worldwide project he collected photographs and source materials for a unique body of work for each country, and bestowed artworks in cultural institutions in each nation and one in the National Gallery of Art that was made during his travels.

Though each artist intersects with the material within their creative production, each capitalizes upon unique aspects of «textile» as cultural or historic carrier.

Selected by gallerist Rhonda Long - Sharp, the show's eight participating artists are internationally recognized for their mastery of material and for their unique ability to address issues about how society uses language to express cultural influences on human interaction.

Using hair, beads, tissue paper, rubber tires, plastic and other materials, the artists craft provocative forms and intricate surfaces that play on unique cultural meanings, personal memories and social agendas.

I make full use of each material's unique sculptural properties as well as its historical, cultural, and environmental resonances.

Celebrated for its frank industrial aesthetic (in structure and materials) marked by its unique free - spanning architecture, The Pompidou Centre (full name: «Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou»)- designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, and built 1971 - 77 - is a civic cultural institution which stands in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles.

And for those interested in working abroad, cultural relevancy must be underscored when looking at their unique value proposition and career marketing materials.

The most recent statistical profile of the material circumstances of Indigenous peoples» lives in Australia (48) indicates that addressing their disadvantage through policies that take no account of the unique social, political and cultural identity of Indigenous people has not proven successful.