1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716175203321

Titolo

Agnes De Jardins. April 28, 1926. -- Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1926

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 pages)

Collana

House report / 69th Congress, 1st session. House ; ; no. 1026

[United States congressional serial set ] ; ; [serial no. 8537]

Altri autori (Persone)

SweetThaddeus C. <1872-1928> (Republican (NY))

Soggetti

Ammunition

Claims

Defense contracts

Defense industries

Explosions

Factories

Government contractors

Industrial accidents

Industrial safety

Legislative amendments

Medical care

Mentally ill

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A variant spelling of claimant's name is found in this publication. Reference to H.R. "1602" in text printed in error; correct bill number is "1692."

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795743703321

Titolo

Stand-up comedy in Africa / / Izuu Nwankwọ, editor ; with a foreword by Ebenezer Obadare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-8382-7608-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages)

Disciplina

792.76

Soggetti

Stand-up comedy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and its Dispersal across Africa -- Part I Resisting and Reinventing the Status Quo -- Chapter 1 Confronting Racism and Colonialism in Cécile Djunga's and Trevor Noah's Stand-up Comedy -- Chapter 2 South African Vernacular Stand-Up Comedy as Performative Resistance -- Chapter 3 The People's Joker: The Popularity of Mr Jokes' Stand-up Comedy in Malawi -- Chapter 4 Resisting Shame and the Male Gaze: Humour Evocations in the Acts of Noha Kato and Real Warri Pikin -- Chapter 5 Discourse and Humour Strategies in Two-Person Stand-up Art in Nigeria -- Part II Circumventing Censorship and Taboo -- Chapter 6 In the Shadow of the 1994 Genocide: Arthur Nkusi and Stand-up Comedy in Rwanda -- Chapter 7 The Afterlife of Ugandan Stand-up Comedy: Examining the Multiple Roles and Jocular Devices of Teacher Mpamire -- Chapter 8 Scripted and Non-Scripted Humour in Stand-up Comedy: Techniques of Egypt's Comedian Ali Quandil -- Chapter 9 Reinventing Taboo in Kenyan Stand-up Comedy -- Part III Mechanics of being a Comedian -- Chapter 10 Africa on the British Stage: Laughter-Making Mechanics of Andi Osho and Daliso Chaponda -- Chapter 11 There's No Such Thing as 'Too Soon' Here: Taking Stock of South Africa's Comedy Boom -- Chapter 12 The Many-Sides of Kenyan Stand-up Comedy: A Stylistic Interrogation of the Acts of Jemutai, Professor Hamo and Oga Obinna -- Chapter 13 Nigeria's The



Mock News with Pararan: The Poetics of its Punchline -- About the Contributors.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910433230203321

Autore

Hu Angang

Titolo

2050 China : Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country / / by Angang Hu, Yilong Yan, Xiao Tang, Shenglong Liu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2021

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

981-15-9833-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 105 p.)

Collana

Understanding Xi Jinping’s Governance, , 2662-7426

Classificazione

POL028000POL054000SOC042000

Disciplina

320.95

Soggetti

Asia—Politics and government

Political science

Economic development

Asian Politics

Governance and Government

Development Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050 China,” it analyzes the factors and advantages of the Chinese road to socialist modernization, explores and summarizes the development goal and the basic logic of the socialist modernization of China, and further shows the general basis of the primary stage of socialism. According to the report delivered at the 19th Party Congress, and according to the “two-stage” strategic plan, this book looks ahead in detail to the overarching objective and sub-objectives of essentially achieving socialist modernization by 2035, discusses the building of a great modern socialist country in all respects from the perspective of the Party’s six-sphere integrated plan of economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization, and national defense construction, and



provides policy proposals. This book also analyzes the influence and the effect of the socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics on the world and it further presents the third centenary goal. In conclusion, this book is an elaboration of the work of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University. It reflects the intellectual innovation in the authors’ research on contemporary China, as well as the authors’ foresight and predictions about China’s future development.