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The Southern African country of Zambia with 72 tribes has experienced tremendous social turmoil during the last 48 years. The 13 million citizens migrated into the cities and professionals immigrated and scattered abroad in a growing Diaspora. The diversity of the Zambian society and globalization has created a cultural crisis. "Satisfying Zambian Hunger for Culture" discusses social and political history, gender rites of passage, food, religion, witchcraft, and recommendations for contemporary life in the 21st century. The17 chapter book puts the diverse Zambian African tribal customs, culture and technology into the modern digital age.
Beginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehensive survey of Western dramatic theory. In this expanded edition the author has updated the book and added a new concluding chapter that focuses on theoretical developments since 1980, emphasizing the impact of feminist theory.
Enter the Web Design Playground and start experimenting with all aspects of creating a web page—from design, to development, to publishing—in an easy-to-use free online workspace. This exciting second edition of Web Design Playground is fully updated with new technologies and thoughtful approaches for building modern websites. You’ll have a blast experimenting with a landing page, photo gallery, portfolio site, and more while you learn important web design skills. In Web Design Playground, Second Edition you’ll learn essential tools of the web design trade, such as: Structuring a web page with HTML Styling a web page with CSS Modern page layout techniques Using colors in web design M...
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No matter which specific needs you have in a dictionary, every question associated with dictionaries and dictionary purchasing is addressed in Kister's Best Dictionaries for Adults and Young People. The book features the author's authoritative reviews and expert commentary as he evaluates 300 separate publications.
In 1989, the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University, Durham, celebrating its fiftieth year of educating black librarians and information professionals, held a symposium which examined the past, present, and future of this important topic. The papers cover a range of topics, including black leadership, international and minority-student recruiting, the role of blacks in the profession, the political environment, the probable impact of the coming technological and societal changes of the 21st century, and NCCU's considerable contributions to the profession. Contributors include Floyd B. McKissick, Sr., Jimmy R. Applegate, Michael L. Henninger, Floyd W. Hayes, III, Dario J. Villa, Jane Jurgens, Mary F. Lenox, E.J. Josey, Major R. Owens, Hannah Diggs Atkins, Joyce C. Wright, Ismail Abdullahi, Danny P. Wallace, Margaret Myers, Kathryn C. Stevenson, Patsy Hansel, Benjamin F. Speller, Jr., and Myles M. Jackson.
"Twelve essays explore the history of Seattle and King County, Washington, with a special focus on social, cultural, and ethnic history...Meet King County's earliest vaudevillians, welfare mothers, restaurateurs, African American coal miners, Scandinavian immigrants, shapers of Young Men's Buddhist Association, and Jewish women founders of Settlement House. Here are also the modern Mexican American voters and recent Vietnamese immigrants, reflecting in interviews on the forces that impact their Seattle experiences"--Back cover.
Commemorates the centennial of the American Dialect Society and explores the dynamism of American English. This volume features traditional usage studies as well as current topics in language variation: sexist language, electronic mail, slang, and capitalization of ethnic labels.
A collection of writings from the "New York Times" column "On Language" which provide observations on grammar, usage, and etymology.