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Author : Hints
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Hints to country bumpkins, by a country bumpkin written by Hints and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bobby Braddock
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826503780
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Bobby Braddock written by Bobby Braddock and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you know country music, you know Bobby Braddock. Even if you don't know his name, you know the man's work. "He Stopped Loving Her Today." "D-I-V-O-R-C-E." "Golden Ring." "Time Marches On." "I Wanna Talk About Me." "People Are Crazy." These songs and numerous other chart-topping hits sprang from the mind of Bobby Braddock. A working songwriter and musician, Braddock has prowled the streets of Nashville's legendary Music Row since the mid-1960s, plying his trade and selling his songs. These decades of writing songs for legendary singers like George Jones, Tammy Wynette, and Toby Keith are recounted in Bobby Braddock: A Life on Nashville's Music Row, providing the reader with a stunning look at the beating heart of Nashville country music that cannot be matched. If you're looking for insight into Nashville, the life of music in this town, and the story of a force of nature on the Row to this day, Bobby Braddock will take you there.
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Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Month written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Judy written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virgil K. Y. Ho
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199282714
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Understanding Canton written by Virgil K. Y. Ho and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this periodindulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impacton the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that thecommon people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city lifeand popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.
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Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Clinic written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arianne M. Gaetano
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208535
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Out to Work written by Arianne M. Gaetano and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of rural Chinese women who, while still in their teens, moved from villages to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and schoolteachers. By pursuing new opportunities afforded by migration and strategically applying accumulated knowledge and resources, these women were able to forge better lives for themselves and their families. But as this book also makes clear, broader social inequalities persist to make these women's futures precarious. "This book's unique approach offers readers an intimate look at the impact of labor migration on young women over a ten-year period. We follow Gaetano's informants as they adapt to Beijing, visit their home villages, and move on to new jobs and postmarital homes. Gaetano does an excellent job showing how these young female migrants navigate constraints and challenges, enhancing their own and their family's social and economic status."—Hong Zhang, Colby College "This fresh, highly readable book demonstrates vividly how gender norms and rural-urban inequalities not only shaped women's identities and aspirations but also had palpable physical and material consequences for them. Yet despite the discrimination and hardship they experienced, they were able to build better lives for themselves. Gaetano's book convincingly shows that labor migration has increased many rural women's possibilities for exercising agency."—Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford
Author : James Thurber
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598533126
Total Pages : 1209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (LOA #90) written by James Thurber and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 1209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of the American humorist’s best work—including “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”—plus original drawings and a chronology of Thurber’s own troubled life James Thurber, whimsical fantasist and deadpan chronicler of everyday absurdities, brought American humor into the 20th century. His comic persona, a modern city-dweller whose zaniest flights of free association are tinged with anxiety, remains hilarious, subtly disturbing, and instantly recognizable. Here, in over 1,000 pages, editor Garrison Keillor presents the best and most extensive collection ever assembled. Pieces include “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and “The Catbird Seat,” the brilliantly satirical Fables for Our Time, the classic My Life and Hard Times, and the best of The Owl in the Attic, Let Your Mind Alone!, My World—And Welcome to It, and the other famous books. Plus 500 wonderful drawings, including The Seal in the Bedroom and celebrated sequences like “The Masculine Approach” and “The War Between Men and Women.” Rounding out the volume is a selection from The Years with Ross, a memoir of the New Yorker publisher, and a number of wonderful early pieces never collected by Thurber. Only a book of this scope can do justice to Thurber’s extraordinary career and to the many unexpected turns of his comic genius. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author : Dulce Maria Cardoso
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 152940245X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Violeta among the Stars written by Dulce Maria Cardoso and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: suddenly I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, for some time, seconds, hours, I can do nothing, suddenly I stop Violeta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, in the midst of a fearsome storm. When her tired eyes close for just a second, her car veers off the road, rolls down a muddy embankment, over and over, and comes to rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground. And as she lies amid the wreckage of her car, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's life will quite literally flash before her eyes . . . Scenes from her past overlap with what happened right before the accident: her upbringing with her distant, critical mother; her father's mysterious double-life; her troubled relationship with her daughter; her life on the road as she drives between waxing product-selling appointments with breaks at motorway service stations, the abuse from other travellers mocking her size, the alcohol, the risky encounters with lorry drivers on filthy public toilet floors... Violeta Among the Stars weaves memories and feelings as Violeta reflects on her death, her life, her reality and her dreams. An astonishing portrait of a seemingly insignificant life, from one of Portugal's greatest living writers. Translated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-Quintana Ángel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of the Financial Times, and his translations include the anthology Other Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil and The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso. With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
Author : Chad Beguelin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593512448
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Showmance written by Chad Beguelin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Showmance is ready for the big time....Beguelin crafts a story you never want to end.” —Steven Rowley, New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants A down-on-his-luck Broadway playwright is marooned in rural Illinois in this sharply funny queer rom-com Noah Adams’s career as a playwright is circling the drain, thanks to a scorching review of his first Broadway musical. So when a family emergency sends him back to his Podunk hometown of Plainview, Illinois, he figures he’ll hide out for a bit. But to Noah’s horror, his agent has secretly arranged for him to stage an amateur version of the career-ruining musical at the local community theater. As if trying to work with a bunch of artless amateurs wasn’t enough, Noah runs into Luke, the jerk from his high school years, everywhere he goes. Luke somehow grew up to be beloved by everyone in town…and undeniably gorgeous. As rehearsals begin, Noah is surprised by his cast’s insights, the warmth of the town he’d dismissed, and the reality of what happened with Luke all those years ago. Just how much has Noah misjudged?
Author : John George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World written by John George and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John George Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Smith
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750997753
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Folk Tales from the Garden written by Donald Smith and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The garden is an oasis, a pocket of nature in our busy modern lives, full of plants, animals, insects – and a fair bit of magic. Folk Tales from the Garden follows the seasons through a year of stories, garden lore and legends. Explore the changing face of nature just outside your front door, from the tale of the Creator painting her birds and the merits of kissing an old toad, to pixies sleeping in the tulips, and an unusually large turnip.
Author : Kenneth Rhienhart
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456789880
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book It Wasn't Me written by Kenneth Rhienhart and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read how Kenneth comes to his new home in North Oxfordshire England with his mother and stepfather, the new home being a small farm where Kenneth knows who will be expected to do all the work. Read how through all the hardships he manages to remain happy and bring excitement into his life by creating explosions, doing mind blowing experiments and building soapboxes. Read how accident prown Kenneth is and even on his first day at his new home he manages to collide with some escaping cattle and end up face down in a muddy stream. Read about the amazing illnesses he reads about in a Victorian home doctor book, that he manages to "get" and amazingly survive from, including an extremely dangerous strain of eboli. Read and laugh!
Author : Yu Hua
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307377989
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Brothers written by Yu Hua and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-01-27 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestseller in China, Brothers is an epic and wildly unhinged black comedy of modern Chinese society running amok. Here is China as we've never seen it before, in a sweeping, Rabelaisian panorama of forty years of rough-and-rumble Chinese history, from the madness of the Cultural Revolution to the equally rabid madness of extreme materialism. Yu Hua, award-winning author of To Live, gives us a surreal tale of two comically mismatched stepbrothers, Baldy Li, a sex-obsessed ne'er-do-well, and the bookish, sensitive Song Gang, who vow that they will always be brothers—a bond they will struggle to maintain over the years as they weather the ups and downs of rivalry in love and making and losing millions in the new China. Both tragic and absurd by turns, Brothers is a fascinating vision of an extraordinary place and time.
Author : Diagnosis
Publisher : [S.l.] : Printed for private circulation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Diagnosis of Non-Congregational Church Music. A Dialogue written by Diagnosis and published by [S.l.] : Printed for private circulation. This book was released on 1865 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Ferguson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807163821
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book An Artisan Intellectual written by Christopher Ferguson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Artisan Intellectual, Christopher Ferguson examines the life and ideas of English tailor and writer James Carter, one of countless and largely anonymous citizens whose lives dramatically transformed during Britain’s long march to modernity. Carter began his working life at age thirteen as an apprentice and continued to work as a tailor throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, first in Colchester and then in London. As the Industrial Revolution brought innovations to every aspect of British life, Carter took advantage of opportunities to push against the boundaries of his working-class background. He supplemented his income through his writing, publishing often unsigned books, articles, and poems on subjects as diverse as religion, death, nature, aesthetics, and theories of civilization. Carter’s words give us a fascinating window into the revolutionary forces that upended the world of ordinary citizens in this era and demonstrate how the changes in daily life impacted personal experiences and intellectual pursuits as well as labor practices and living and working environments. Ferguson deftly explores a forgotten tailor’s varied responses to the many transformations that produced the world’s first modern society.
