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In the mid-1950s, an innovative group of women at General Motors
(dubbed the Damsels of Design by marketers) and their counterparts
at Ford, Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, and Tucker changed automotive
history forever. Read the untold story of the women who excelled in
the Mad Men era of automobile and industrial design. Recruited by
top CEOs at automotive companies, they developed many of the
products we take for granted today. Learn about Helene Rother, who
designed the instrument panel, hardware, and seat construction for
midcentury Cadillacs; Elizabeth Thatcher Oros, the first female
trained in industrial design; and discover the history behind the
child safety seat latch and car doors with lights. An extraordinary
story of exceptional women, Damsels in Design sheds light on those
who have too long been in the shadows.
Examines the making and remaking of Nairobi, one of Africa's most
fragmented, vibrant cities, contributing to debates on urban
anthropology, the politics of the past and postcolonial
materialities. What does it mean to make a life in an African city
today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by collapsing urban
infrastructures and amid fantastical promises of hypermodern,
globalised futures, try to ensure a place for themselves in the
city's future? Exploring the relationship between the remains of
empire and the global city, and themes of urban belonging and
exclusion, housing and security, Constance Smith examines the
making and remaking of one ofAfrica's most fragmented, vibrant
cities. Nairobi is on the cusp of radical urban change. As in other
capital cities across Africa, the Kenyan government has launched
"Vision 2030", an urban megaproject that envisions the capital as a
"world class metropolis", a spectacular new node in a network of
global cities. Yet as a city born of British colonialism,
Nairobians also live amongst the dilapidated vestiges of imperial
urban planning; spaces designed to regulate urban subjects. Based
on extensive ethnographic research in a dilapidated, colonial-era
public housing project built as a model urban neighbourhood but
which is now slated for demolition, Smith explores how projects of
self-making and city-making are entwined. She traces how it is
through residents' everyday lives - in the mundane, incremental
work of home maintenance, in the accumulation of stories about the
past, in ordinary people's aspirations for the future - that urban
landscapes are formed, imaginatively, materially and unpredictably,
across time. Nairobi emerges as a place of pathways and plans,
obstructions and aspirations, residues and endurances, thatinflect
the way that ordinary people produce the city, generating practices
of historymaking, ideas about urban belonging and attempts to
refashion "Vision 2030" into a future more meaningful and inclusive
to ordinary city dwellers. Published in association with the
British Institute in Eastern Africa. Kenya, Uganda,
Tanzania,Rwanda: Twaweza Communications
Examines the making and remaking of Nairobi, one of Africa's most
fragmented, vibrant cities, contributing to debates on urban
anthropology, the politics of the past and postcolonial
materialities. What does it mean to make a life in an African city
today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by collapsing urban
infrastructures and amid fantastical promises of hypermodern,
globalised futures, try to ensure a place for themselves in the
city's future? Exploring the relationship between the remains of
empire and the global city, and themes of urban belonging and
exclusion, housing and security, Constance Smith examines the
making and remaking of one ofAfrica's most fragmented, vibrant
cities. Nairobi is on the cusp of radical urban change. As in other
capital cities across Africa, the Kenyan government has launched
"Vision 2030", an urban megaproject that envisions the capital as a
"world class metropolis", a spectacular new node in a network of
global cities. Yet as a city born of British colonialism,
Nairobians also live amongst the dilapidated vestiges of imperial
urban planning; spaces designed to regulate urban subjects. Based
on extensive ethnographic research in a dilapidated, colonial-era
public housing project built as a model urban neighbourhood but
which is now slated for demolition, Smith explores how projects of
self-making and city-making are entwined. She traces how it is
through residents' everyday lives - in the mundane, incremental
work of home maintenance, in the accumulation of stories about the
past, in ordinary people's aspirations for the future - that urban
landscapes are formed, imaginatively, materially and unpredictably,
across time. Nairobi emerges as a place of pathways and plans,
obstructions and aspirations, residues and endurances, thatinflect
the way that ordinary people produce the city, generating practices
of historymaking, ideas about urban belonging and attempts to
refashion "Vision 2030" into a future more meaningful and inclusive
to ordinary city dwellers. Published in association with the
British Institute in Eastern Africa. Kenya, Uganda,
Tanzania,Rwanda: Twaweza Communications
Title: One Way of Love. A novel.]Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The
collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from
some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written
for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any
curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages
past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes
song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Smith, Constance; 1893 1892]. 3 vol.; 8 . 012637.l.2.
Title: One Way of Love. A novel.]Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The
collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from
some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written
for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any
curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages
past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes
song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Smith, Constance; 1893 1892]. 3 vol.; 8 . 012637.l.2.
Title: One Way of Love. A novel.]Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection
includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The
collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from
some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written
for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any
curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages
past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes
song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was
compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic
record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool
in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library
Smith, Constance; 1893 1892]. 3 vol.; 8 . 012637.l.2.
This informative bibliographic study provides the most thorough
survey available of the literature on voluntary associations. The
authors first sketch major theories on the origin, growth, and
functions of voluntary associations and discuss the place of
associations in political theory, viewing especially the unproven
assumption that voluntary associations are beneficial to a
democratic society. They then survey the findings on the role of
voluntary associations in the political and social structure
(abroad as well as in the United States). The specific
organizations themselves are covered and the final chapter views a
recent development in the field-volunteers in government service,
such as the Peace Corps. The final section of each chapter is an
annotated bibliography of works cited in the text or related to its
subject; over 600 items are listed.
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