German photojournalist Meike Fischer, on the other hand, sees a cultural tragedy a lost chapter in her city's history.
To facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle, and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery itself.
A perceptive chapter on "cultural lock-in" deals with blind spots that produce "a collective failure of the mental processes" at a vulnerable giant like I.B.M. in the 1980's as personal computers swept the industry.
Among the many themes of "Wittgenstein's Poker," the most human involves not so much the space between character and achievement ("Nasty Men Make Nice Things; Unpleasant People Think Important Thoughts" is, after all, the headline on almost every chapter in cultural history) as the more ticklish, almost taboo subject of intellectual glamour.
Surely not all of the recovered music will stay in circulation, but in the process of sorting through it, one illuminates a once-bright artistic period between the wars, a chapter of cultural history that has too often been obscured by the implacably dark shadow of its own future.
The manual includes a chapter titled "Cultural Engagements," offering guidance to small-unit leaders on building relationships with wavering village elders and trust among distrustful village residents — a process that cannot be left to senior officers who may be back at headquarters.
p Chapter 23: Cultural networks.
In this pairing of cultural texts across each chapter, Day embraces the critical complexities of Asian North American cultural criticism.
Charles Wilkins in The Globe and Mail found Remembering Winter, the chapter about cultural and social memories of winter to be the "most personal and poignant" and entertaining.
We have been greatly moved by the voluntary offers of help, the contributions from people of limited financial resources and the enthusiasm of school students coming together to assist in the effort to save this important chapter of cultural heritage of Greece.
