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American Vintage

Author : Paul Lukacs
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393325164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book American Vintage written by Paul Lukacs and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the James Beard Foundation, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Clicquot Wine Book of the Year awards How did a country with no winemaking traditions of its own suddenly become a world leader? Paul Lukacs offers a full history, from seventeenth-century experiments to the fall of wine during the dark days of Prohibition through its remarkably rapid upswing in recent decades. The tale is replete with quirky heroes and visionaries who changed the course of wine history: from Nicholas Longsworth, a diminutive, nineteenth-century real estate tycoon and the founding father of American wine, to the Mondavis and Gallos, the powerful first families of American wine in the modern era.

The Vintage Book of American Women Writers

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307744965
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of American Women Writers written by Elaine Showalter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provocative collection of 350 years of poetry and fiction by American women. From Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet to Margaret Fuller to Harriet Beecher Stowe, readers will encounter scores of lesser-known and forgotten writers who fully deserve to be rediscovered and enjoyed by new generations. Our famous women writers, including contemporary stars like Annie Proux and Jhumpa Lahiri, are showcased in their full literary context, offering an epic overview of the canon in one monumental, dazzling volume. This landmark anthology features the best work of our best American women, and was inspired and informed by the author's groundbreaking history celebrating women writers, A Jury of Her Peers.

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030776513X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of African American Poetry written by Michael S. Harper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.

The American Vintage Furniture

Author : Acme Furniture
Publisher : Two Virgins
ISBN 13 : 9784908406126
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The American Vintage Furniture written by Acme Furniture and published by Two Virgins. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special collection including over 500 photographs of American vintage furniture. ACME Furniture is a Japanese company with over thirty-five years of history. They sell well-maintained American vintage furnishings and original products. This distinctive collection contains fascinating pictures of vintage furnitures taken by the buyers at ACME Furniture in America. You'll feel like you're back in the 1960s looking at these photos of vintage and retro furniture.

The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories

Author : Julio Ortega
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories written by Julio Ortega and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000-12-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories, Julio Ortega and Carlos Fuentes present the most compelling short fiction from Mexico to Chile. Surreal, poetic, naturalistic, urbane, peasant-born: All styles intersect and play, often within a single piece. There is "The Handsomest Drown Man in the World," the García Márquez fable of a village overcome by the power of human beauty; "The Aleph," Borges' classic tale of a man who discovers, in a colleague's cellar, the Universe. Here is the haunting shades of Juan Rulfo, the astonishing anxiety puzzles of Julio Cortázar, the disquieted domesticity of Clarice Lispector. Provocative, powerful, immensely engaging, The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories showcases the ingenuity, diversity, and continuing excellence of a vast and vivid literary tradition.

Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves

Author : Ann-Janine Morey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271066946
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves written by Ann-Janine Morey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life—family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love—as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, subservience, and violence. In Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves, Ann-Janine Morey presents a collection of antique photographs of dogs and their owners in order to investigate the meanings associated with the canine body. Included are reproductions of 115 postcards, cabinet cards, and cartes de visite that feature dogs in family and childhood snapshots, images of hunting, posed studio portraits, and many other settings between 1860 and 1950. These photographs offer poignant testimony to the American romance with dogs and show how the dog has become part of cultural expressions of race, class, and gender. Animal studies scholars have long argued that our representation of animals in print and in the visual arts has a profound connection to our lived cultural identity. Other books have documented the depiction of dogs in art and photography, but few have reached beyond the subject’s obvious appeal. Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves draws on animal, visual, and literary studies to present an original and richly contextualized visual history of the relationship between Americans and their dogs. Though the personal stories behind these everyday photographs may be lost to us, their cultural significance is not.

This Republic of Suffering

Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375703837
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book This Republic of Suffering written by Drew Gilpin Faust and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

Author : Tobias Wolff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679745136
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories written by Tobias Wolff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1994 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variously funny, frightening, poignant, and exhilarating, these collected stories displays the best American writers at the peak of their powers and the national narrative at its most eloquent, truthful, and inventive. The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches. Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Mona Simpson, "Lawns"; Ann Beattie, "A Vintage Thunderbird"; Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"; Stuart Dybek, "Chopin in Water"; Ron Hansen, "Wickedness"; Denis Johnson, "Emergency"; Edward P. Jones, "The First Day"; John L'Heureux, "Departures"; Ralph Lombreglia, "Men Under Water"; Robert Olmstead, "Cody's Story"; Jayne Anne Phillips, "Home"; Susan Power, "Moonwalk"; Amy Tan, "Rules of the Game"; Stephanie Vaughn, "Dog Heaven"; Joy Williams, "Train"; Dorothy Allison, "River of Names"; Richard Bausch, "All The Way in Flagstaff, Arizona"; and more.

Typical American

Author : Gish Jen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547524099
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Typical American written by Gish Jen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “irresistible novel” of Chinese immigrants navigating the American dream is “startling [and] heartrending, without ever losing its comic touch” (Entertainment Weekly). Gish Jen reinvents the American immigrant story through the Chang family, who first come to the United States with no intention of staying. But when the Communists assume control of China in 1949, Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and his wife Helen find themselves in a crisis, struggling to cling to their old-world ideas of themselves. But soon they begin to dream the American dream of self-invention. They transform, poignantly and ironically, from people who disparage all that is “typical American” to people who aspire to the American ideal. With droll humor and a deep empathy for her characters, Gish Jen creates a superbly engrossing story that sparkles with wit while challenging the reader to reconsider what it means to be a typical American. “No paraphrase could capture the intelligence of Gish Jen’s prose, its epigrammatic sweep and swiftness . . . . The author just keeps coming at you line after stunning line.” —The New York Times Book Review

The A to Z of the Fashion Industry

Author : Francesca Sterlacci
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810868830
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of the Fashion Industry written by Francesca Sterlacci and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of clothing begins with the origin of man, and fashionable dress can be traced as far back as 25,000 years ago. Recent scientific explorations have uncovered graves in northern Russia with skeletons covered in beads made of mammoth ivory that once adorned clothing made of animal skin. The Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans each made major contributions to fashion's legacy from their textile innovations, unique clothing designs and their early use of accessories, cosmetics, and jewelry. During the Middle Ages, "fashion trends" emerged as trade and commerce thrived allowing the merchant class to afford to emulate the fashions worn by royals. However, it is widely believed that fashion didn't became an industry until the industrial and commercial revolution during the latter part of the 18th century. Since then, the industry has grown exponentially. Today, fashion is one of the biggest businesses in the world, with hundreds of billions of dollars in turnover and employing tens of millions of workers. It is both a profession, an industry, and in the eyes of many, an art. The A to Z of the Fashion Industry examines the origins and history of this billion-dollar industry. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations.

Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry

Author : Francesca Sterlacci
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810864193
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry written by Francesca Sterlacci and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry examines the origins and history of this billion-dollar industry. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations.

60 Years of Fender

Author : Tony Bacon
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879309664
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book 60 Years of Fender written by Tony Bacon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2010 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fender is the most successful modern guitar maker, and this revised and updated book celebrates 60 years of the company's instruments. It tells the complete year-by-year story of Fender's development from the early years until the present day, accompanied by an unrivalled gallery of colour photographs of instruments, players, and memorabilia. Leo Fender introduced the world to the solidbody electric guitar in 1950 with the instrument now known as the Telecaster. He soon added two further classics: the Precision Bass (1951) and the Stratocaster (1954). Fender's sleek, adaptable guitars fuelled the pop music boom of the 60s, and since that time they have been heard in the hands of virtually every guitarist of note, from Buddy Holly to Kurt Cobain, from Eric Clapton to John Mayer. This book is a beautiful, detailed examination of six decades of great guitars and the fine music they continue to inspire.

THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS

Author : CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE CHIEF AMERICAN POETS written by CURTIS HIDDEN PAGE, PH. D. and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Retro Stitchery

Author : Beverly McCullough
Publisher : Martingale
ISBN 13 : 1683561376
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Retro Stitchery written by Beverly McCullough and published by Martingale. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spend an evening stitching any of the designs in this book and you'll instantly remember what you've always loved about embroidery: it's fun, you can see the design quickly take shape right before your eyes, and in the end you have a delightful piece to brighten your home or office. From beautiful florals to inspirational sayings to whimsical tacos (yes, tacos!), you'll find more than a dozen designs to make you smile. Beverly McCullough of Flamingo Toes provides easy embroidery and finishing instructions so you can display pieces in hoops, on pillows or zip bags, and even on cork and clothing. Beverly's inspiring designs and ideas will make it a pleasure to take each stitch.

American Scissors and Shears

Author : Philip R. Pankiewicz
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 161233251X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book American Scissors and Shears written by Philip R. Pankiewicz and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Scissors and Shears provides an historical overview of more than 100 companies and individuals involved in producing scissors and shears in the United States from the mid-1800s to approximately 1930. Accompanying and enhancing the text are hundreds of photographs, advertisements, and patents of the many varieties of antique and vintage scissors produced during this time period. The book will prove invaluable to tool collectors, cutlery collectors (including knives and scissors), sewing enthusiasts, history buffs in general, and to those interested in early American industries. Some books have provided broad overviews of the history of scissors; others have investigated sewing implements, including scissors. None to date have provided the in-depth survey of American-made scissors presented in American Scissors and Shears.

The Telecaster Guitar Book

Author : Tony Bacon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493079247
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Telecaster Guitar Book written by Tony Bacon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new version of Tony Bacon's Six Decades of the Fender Telecaster shows how the world's first commercially successful solidbody electric guitar still attracts musicians more than 60 years since its birth in California. Today, it is more popular than ever and for many guitarists has overtaken the Stratocaster as the Fender to own and play. The Tele is the longest-lived solidbody electric, played by everyone from Muddy Waters to Keith Richards, from Radiohead to Snow Patrol. Its sheer simplicity and versatility are vividly illustrated here through interviews with Jeff Beck, James Burton, Bill Kirchen, John 5, and more. The book is three great volumes in one: a compendium of luscious pictures of the most desirable Teles, a gripping story from the earliest days to the latest exploits, and a detailed collector's guide to every Tele ever made. Packed with pictures of great players, collectable catalogs, period press ads, and cool memorabilia, The Telecaster Guitar Book is the one Tele book that all guitar fans will want to add to their collection.

Wine By Design

Author : Victor W. Geraci
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1948908433
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Wine By Design written by Victor W. Geraci and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its eighteenth-century beginnings, the Santa Barbara wine industry achieved success by embracing a “wine by design” model. In this process farmers, winemakers, and entrepreneurs overcome roadblocks like diseases, government policies and regulations, and environmental concerns by utilizing the latest technological advances coupled with agribusiness capitalism. As the American demand for premium wine grapes intensified in the late twentieth century, the Northern California wine industry rapidly grew its boutique and innovative local designer winemaking to increase profit to meet demand and compete on a global scale. Set in the context of the regional, national, and global wine community, this story illuminates a regional story of how the Santa Barbara wine industry found solutions to current market conditions while utilizing local traditions to develop a new version of local wine terroir. An accomplishment that allowed them to compete in the global marketplace yet develop highly specialized wine that is unique to the region. By employing leading-edge technology and entrepreneurship, the California Central Coast region of Santa Barbara became a model for the American vision of agricultural innovation and an integral part of the international wine trade, developing a personalized version of local wine terroir.