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Author : Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Publisher : Ice Cube Press
ISBN 13 : 9781888160529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)
Download or read book An Endless Skyway written by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and published by Ice Cube Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 38 State Poets from all around the USA.
Author : Woody Guthrie
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316321923
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book This Land Is Your Land written by Woody Guthrie and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated version of the classic Woody Guthrie folk song, perfect for a family singalongs! Since its debut in the 1940s, Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" has become one of the best-loved and most timely folk songs in America, inspiring activism and patriotism for all. This classic ballad is now brought to life in a richly illustrated edition for the whole family to share. Kathy Jakobsen's detailed paintings, which invite readers on a journey across the country, create an unforgettable portrait of our diverse land and the people who live it.
Author : Julie Schaper
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617751618
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Twin Cities Noir written by Julie Schaper and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Local editors Schaper and Horwitz have assembled a noteworthy collection of noir-infused stories mixed with laughter...The Akashic noir short-story anthologies are avidly sought and make ideal samplers for regional mystery collecting." --Library Journal "Crime fans who missed the first round will find this expanded version worthwhile." --Publishers Weekly "The best pieces in the collection turn the clich s of the genre on their head . . . and despite the unseemly subject matter, the stories are often surprisingly funny." --City Pages (Minneapolis) "If you've never read an Akashic Noir book, Twin Cities Noir is a fine place to start." --San Francisco Book Review/Sacramento Book Review "A fun...read...particularly ripe for picking by locals who'll delight in recognizing their stomping grounds in the stories, but with enough unexpected turns to make it worthwhile for those outside the Midwest, too." --KnightsArts Brand-new stories from John Jodzio, Tom Kaczynski, and Peter Schilling, Jr., in addition to the original volume's stories by David Housewright, Steve Thayer, Judith Guest, Mary Logue, Bruce Rubenstein, K.J. Erickson, William Kent Krueger, Ellen Hart, Brad Zellar, Mary Sharratt, Pete Hautman, Larry Millett, Quinton Skinner, Gary Bush, and Chris Everheart. "St. Paul was originally called Pig's Eye's Landing and was named after Pig's Eye Parrant--trapper, moonshiner, and proprietor of the most popular drinking establishment on the Mississippi. Traders, river rats, missionaries, soldiers, land speculators, fur trappers, and Indian agents congregated in his establishment and made their deals. When Minnesota became a territory in 1849, the town leaders, realizing that a place called Pig's Eye might not inspire civic confidence, changed the name to St. Paul, after the largest church in the city . . . Across the river, Minneapolis has its own sordid story. By the turn of the twentieth century it was considered one of the most crooked cities in the nation. Mayor Albert Alonzo Ames, with the assistance of the chief of police, his brother Fred, ran a city so corrupt that according to Lincoln Steffans its 'deliberateness, invention, and avarice has never been equaled.' As recently as the mid-'90s, Minneapolis was called 'Murderopolis' due to a rash of killings that occurred over a long hot summer . . . Every city has its share of crime, but what makes the Twin Cities unique may be that we have more than our share of good writers to chronicle it. They are homegrown and they know the territory--how the cities look from the inside, out . . ."
Author : Lee Eisenberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439160619
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Shoptimism written by Lee Eisenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this smart, engaging book, Lee Eisenberg, best-selling author of The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life, leads us on a provocative and entertaining tour of America's love/hate affair with shopping, a pursuit that, even in hard times, remains a true national pastime. Why do we shop and buy the way we do? In a work that will explain much about the American character, Eisenberg chronicles the dynamics of selling and buying from almost every angle. Neither a cheerleader for consumption nor an anti-consumerist scold, he explores with boundless curiosity the vast machinery aimed at inducing us to purchase everything from hair mousse to a little black dress. He leads us, with understated humor, into the broad universe of marketing, retailing, advertising, and consumer and scientific research--an arsenal of powerful forces that combine to form what he calls "The Sell Side." Through the rest of the book, Eisenberg leads us through the "Buy Side" -- a journey directly into our own hearts and minds, asking among other questions: What are we really looking for when we buy? Why are we alternately excited, guilt-ridden, satisfied, disappointed, and recklessly impulsive? What are our biases, need for status, impulses to self-express, that lead us individually to buy what we buy? Are you a classic buyer (your head wants to do the right thing), or a romantic buyer (your heart just wants to have fun)? How do men and women differ in their attitudes towards shopping, and does the old cliche -- "Women shop, men buy" -- apply any longer? Of special interest are the author's findings on the subject of What Makes a Good Buy? We all purchase things that we sooner or later regret, but what are the guidelines for making purchases that we'll never regret? What, for instance, defines the perfect gift? Brimming with wit and surprise, Shoptimism will be delightful and instructive reading for anyone with a credit card and a healthy curiosity about American culture, through good times and bad. For here, in one vivid journey, is a memorable, panoramic portrait of our everyday self-delusions, desires, and dreams.
Author : Will Kaufman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163798
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Mapping Woody Guthrie written by Will Kaufman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I ain’t got no home, I’m just a-roamin’ round,” Woody Guthrie lamented in one of his most popular songs. A native of Oklahoma, he was still in his teens when he moved to Pampa, Texas, where he experienced the dust storms that would play such a crucial role in forming his identity and shaping his work. He later joined thousands of Americans who headed to California to escape the devastation of the Dust Bowl. There he entered the West Coast stronghold of the Popular Front, whose leftward influence on his thinking would continue after his move in 1940 to New York, where the American folk music renaissance began when Guthrie encountered Pete Seeger and Lead Belly. Guthrie kept moving throughout his life, making friends, soaking up influences, and writing about his experiences. Along the way, he produced more than 3,000 songs, as well as fiction, journalism, poetry, and visual art, that gave voice to the distressed and dispossessed. In this insightful book, Will Kaufman examines the artist’s career through a unique perspective: the role of time and place in Guthrie’s artistic evolution. Guthrie disdained boundaries—whether of geography, class, race, or religion. As he once claimed in his inimitable style, “There ain’t no such thing as east west north or south.” Nevertheless, places were critical to Guthrie’s life, thought, and creativity. He referred to himself as a “compass-pointer man,” and after his sojourn in California, he headed up to the Pacific Northwest, on to New York, and crossed the Atlantic as a merchant marine. Before his death from Huntington’s disease in 1967, Guthrie had one more important trip to take: to the Florida swamplands of Beluthahatchee, in the heart of the South. There he produced some of his most trenchant criticisms of Jim Crow racism—a portion of his work that scholars have tended to overlook. To map Guthrie’s movements across space and time, the author draws not only on the artist’s considerable recorded and published output but on a wealth of unpublished sources—including letters, essays, song lyrics, and notebooks—housed in the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This trove of primary documents deepens Kaufman’s intriguing portrait of a unique American artist.
Author : Jung Ha Kim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780788501661
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Bridge-makers and Cross-bearers written by Jung Ha Kim and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers what it is to be a women in the context of the Korean-American church. Drawing on participant observation, interviews, and a review of historical documents, Jun Ha Kim focuses on four major issues: the role of religious institutions within ethnic communities, the role of Christian churches as patriarchal institutions, issues of status inconsistency and role conflict in marginalized communities, and the relative importance of gender and race-ethnicity in shaping the identities of women of color.
Download or read book American Motorcyclist written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-06 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Motorcyclist magazine, the official journal of the American Motorcyclist Associaton, tells the stories of the people who make motorcycling the sport that it is. It's available monthly to AMA members. Become a part of the largest, most diverse and most enthusiastic group of riders in the country by visiting our website or calling 800-AMA-JOIN.
Author : Marjory Wentworth
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 161117323X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)
Download or read book New and Selected Poems written by Marjory Wentworth and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring assortment of new and "best of" works by South Carolina's poet laureate New and Selected Poems includes more than fifty poems from Marjory Wentworth's previous three collections, Noticing Eden, Despite Gravity, and The Endless Repetition of an Ordinary Miracle, plus twenty-eight new poems. This collection serves as a capstone to Wentworth's tenure as South Carolina poet laureate, a title she has held since 2003. Thematically Wentworth's poems invite us to view nature as a site of reflection and healing, to consider the power of familial bonds and friendships, and to broaden our awareness of human rights and social justice. Regional settings appear throughout, indicative of Wentworth's commitment to represent her adopted home state of South Carolina in her work. She skillfully employs a variety of forms, from prose poems to sonnets to elegies to list poems, making for a rich and interesting trek through this "best of" collection of her poems to date. This collection includes a foreword by the poet Carol Ann Davis, author of Psalm and Atlas Hour and assistant professor of English at Fairfield University.
Author : Miles Orvell
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042025743
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Public Space and the Ideology of Place in American Culture written by Miles Orvell and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We typically take public space for granted, as if it has continuously been there, yet public space has always been the expression of the will of some agency (person or institution) who names the space, gives it purpose, and monitors its existence. And often its use has been contested. These new essays, written for this volume, approach public space through several key questions: Who has the right to define public space? How do such places generate and sustain symbolic meaning? Is public space unchanging, or is it subject to our subjective perception? Do we, given the public nature of public space, have the right to subvert it? These eighteen essays, including several case studies, offer convincing evidence of a spatial turn in American studies. They argue for a re-visioning of American culture as a history of place-making and the instantiation of meaning in structures, boundaries, and spatial configurations. Chronologically the subjects range from Pierre L'Enfant's initial majestic conceptualization of Washington, D.C. to the post-modern realization that public space in the U.S. is increasingly a matter of waste. Topics range from parks to cities to small towns, from open-air museums to airports, encompassing the commercial marketing of place as well as the subversion and re-possession of public space by the disenfranchised. Ultimately, public space is variously imagined as the site of social and political contestation and of aesthetic change.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2007 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frans H. van Eemeren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027294240
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Argumentation in Practice written by Frans H. van Eemeren and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1950s the study of argumentation has developed from a marginal part of logic and rhetoric into a genuine interdisciplinary academic discipline. After having first been primarily concerned with creating an adequate philosophical perspective on argumentation, argumentation theorists have gradually shifted their focus of attention to a more immediate concern with the ins and outs of argumentative praxis. What exactly are the characteristics of situated argumentative discourse in different argumentative ‘action types’? How is the discourse influenced by institutional and contextual constraints? In what way can prominent cases of argumentative discourse be fruitfully analysed? Argumentation in Practice aims to provide insight into some important facets of argumentative praxis and the different ways in which it can be approached. The first part of this volume, ‘Conceptions of problems in argumentative practice’, introduces useful theoretical perspectives. The second part, ‘Empirical studies of argumentative practice’, contains both empirical studies of a general kind and several types of specific case studies.
Author : Kip Tellez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317250958
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Teaching English Learners written by Kip Tellez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the teaching of English language learners (ELL) by exploring topics not typically covered in theory or methods textbooks. Although methods texts commonly draw readers through well-known strategies such as the audio-lingual method, this book, by contrast, focuses attention on how music can advance and improve language skills. Looking broadly at the sociocultural implications of ELD, Tellez examines the role of the teacher in introducing and inspiring students to learn both a new language and a new society. Furthermore, he offers alterative views of language, and shows how a deeper understanding of it can shape and enrich the lives of both students and teachers. Drawing upon progressive pragmatic philosophy of Dewey, Addams, and Rorty, this book helps teachers to understand the important lineage and profession they have joined (or will join), and the urgent role they play as agents of democratic ideals and actions."
Author : Ellen DeGeneres
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743253663
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Funny Thing Is . . . written by Ellen DeGeneres and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-10-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable reference for anyone who knows how to read—or wants to fool people into thinking they do—The Funny Thing Is... is sure to make you laugh. Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling My Point...And I Do Have One, way back in 1996. Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a work that is both easy to use and very funny. Along with her trademark ramblings, The Funny Thing Is... contains hundreds of succinct insights into her psyche and offers innovative features including: -More than 50,000 simple, short words arranged in sentences that form paragraphs. -Thousands of observations on everyday life—from terrible fashion trends to how to handle seating arrangements for a Sunday brunch with Paula Abdul, Diane Sawyer, and Eminem. -All twenty-six letters of the alphabet.
Author : Teresa Kathryn Grisinger Reilly
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595440207
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Etiquette Lessons written by Teresa Kathryn Grisinger Reilly and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are proud to present more Etiquette Lessons! Volume II, Modern Manners, gives instructors, coaches and educators a seamless continuation of "Girls & Boys at the Table" and "Teens at the Table" etiquette programs. This book contains fresh, new lessons that build upon essential basic lessons in table manners, social protocol and beginning ballroom dance. They are all designed to continue authentic social learning experiences throughout the school year. These lessons have been tested with great results in Fall, Winter and Spring Terms including exams with each lesson and a dinner/dance at the end of each term. All of the lessons come with detailed lesson plans to guide teachers. Students use rhymes, props, learning snacks, menus, dance, movement and scripts to learn appropriate behavior for young people in modern society. Etiquette Lessons create social competence. They add social-awareness life skills to the elementary, middle school and high school experience. Etiquette Lessons give students life skills they need to become socially capable at each level of personal development. Polite social behavior taught in classes with groups of peers can improve student attitude and even lift academic achievement. By graduation, "Etiquette Lessons" students grow naturally more civil, enjoying more interaction with others. Etiquette students experience enhanced interest, appreciation and recognition from parents and teachers alike. These lessons have a way of bringing out the positive aspects of children and youth. Each is designed to teach traditional etiquette combined with modern, appropriate, considerate behavior that becomes increasingly interactive as students adapt. Each lesson introduces new, scientific and historical information about customs and skills students welcome as familiar and having worth. They practice etiquette together while gaining command of the roles of ladies and gentlemen.
Author : Jeffrey L. Meikle
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292726619
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Postcard America written by Jeffrey L. Meikle and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Great Depression through the early postwar years, any postcard sent in America was more than likely a “linen” card. Colorized in vivid, often exaggerated hues and printed on card stock embossed with a linen-like texture, linen postcards celebrated the American scene with views of majestic landscapes, modern cityscapes, roadside attractions, and other notable features. These colorful images portrayed the United States as shimmering with promise, quite unlike the black-and-white worlds of documentary photography or Life magazine. Linen postcards were enormously popular, with close to a billion printed and sold. Postcard America offers the first comprehensive study of these cards and their cultural significance. Drawing on the production files of Curt Teich & Co. of Chicago, the originator of linen postcards, Jeffrey L. Meikle reveals how photographic views were transformed into colorized postcard images, often by means of manipulation—adding and deleting details or collaging bits and pieces from several photos. He presents two extensive portfolios of postcards—landscapes and cityscapes—that comprise a representative iconography of linen postcard views. For each image, Meikle explains the postcard’s subject, describes aspects of its production, and places it in social and cultural contexts. In the concluding chapter, he shifts from historical interpretation to a contemporary viewpoint, considering nostalgia as a motive for collectors and others who are fascinated today by these striking images.
Author : Mark Nicholas
Publisher : Barely Lit Spaces Publications
ISBN 13 : 0982688849
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (826 download)
Download or read book Gabrielle's Land Too written by Mark Nicholas and published by Barely Lit Spaces Publications. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabrielle's night time journey begins as she prepares for bed. Traveling through the United States, narrated loosely by the iconic lyrics of Woody Guthrie's song This Land is Your Land, little Gabrielle discovers that this is her land too.
Author : David Witt
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423614844
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Scouter's Companion written by David Witt and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 100 years, boys of all ages have explored the mountains, forests, streams, and seas in the quest of fun, exploration, and service that the Boy Scouts of America has offered. The Scouter’s Companion collects photographs, vintage images, posters, and advertisements from these archives in commemoration of the BSA’s first 100 years. From campfire songs and survival skills, to classic quips from Boys’ Life and sage advice, this is a must-have for scouts of all ages.
