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Daily Life in 1950s America

Author : Nancy Hendricks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in 1950s America written by Nancy Hendricks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the era firmly within the American experience, this reference illuminates what daily life was really like in the 1950s, including for people from the "Other America"—those outside the prosperous, white middle class. 'Daily Life in 1950s America shows that the era was anything but uneventful. Apart from revolutionary changes during the decade itself, it was in the 1950s that the seeds took root for the social turmoil of the 1960s and the technological world of today. The book's interdisciplinary format looks at the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life of average Americans. Readers can look at sections separately according to their interests or classroom assignment, or can read them as an ongoing narrative. By entering the homes of average Americans, far from the corridors of power, we can make sense of the 1950s and see how the headlines of the era translated into their daily lives. This readable and informative book is ideal for anyone interested in this formative decade in American life. Well-researched factual material is presented in an engaging way, along with lively sidebars to humanize each section. It is unique in blending the history, popular culture, and sociology of American daily life, including those of Americans who were not white, middle class, and prosperous.

Europe - What's in a Name

Author : Peter H. Gommers
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058671493
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Europe - What's in a Name written by Peter H. Gommers and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Europe is a word that is almost daily on our lips. But how far do we have to go back in order to find the origins of its name? The first part of this beautifully illustrated book traces the geographical and mythological basis of Europe's name. Who came up with the idea to distinguish the world in continents with proper names? The search will bring the reader back to the early history of mankind. How did the ancient Egyptians see the world and populations around them? Where did the Hebrews get the idea to split the world in three? And what was the world-picture in ancient Greece, laid down in geographic treatises and fragments? Where did the name 'Europe' originate from? Could it be from a person, either mortal or divine? In ancient Greek literature the name 'Europa' appears quite frequently for Greek goddesses and Greek women. Strangely enough, the best known Europa myth concerns a Phoenician princess, loved by the Greek god Zeus. Many mythographs doubt the Asian descent of the Phoenician Europa. Is her real origin to be located on mainland Greece? How can the contradicting Greek myths be interpreted, and was the name universally accepted as the name for the continent? In the second part of this book, the author tells the amazing story of how the Arts have treated the Europa myths for almost three millennia. He shows the extraordinary influence of the personification of the geographic continent Europe on literature, music, sculpture, painting, tapestry and other applied arts. All this clearly demonstrates the vivid interest in Europe for the subject throughout the ages and illustrates, according to Karel van Miert in his Foreword, our common European culture.

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

Author : Patrick Cheney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019107778X
Total Pages : 803 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature written by Patrick Cheney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes. OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional assumptions about literary 'periods', the processes of canon-formation, and the relations between literary and non-literary discourse. It conceives of 'reception' as a complex process of dialogic exchange and, rather than offering large cultural generalizations, it engages in close critical analysis of literary texts. It explores in detail the ways in which English writers' engagement with classical literature casts as much light on the classical originals as it does on the English writers' own cultural context. This second volume, and third to appear in the series, covers the years 1558-1660, and explores the reception of the ancient genres and authors in English Renaissance literature, engaging with the major, and many of the minor, writers of the period, including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, and Jonson. Separate chapters examine the Renaissance institutions and contexts which shape the reception of antiquity, and an annotated bibliography provides substantial material for further reading.

Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature

Author : Martin Munro
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846318548
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature written by Martin Munro and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile and Post-1946 Haitian Literature provides readers with an excellent introduction to recent Haitian literature, one of the richest literary traditions in the Americas. Martin Munro focuses on works written after 1946, a period in which exile has become the dominant theme in Haitian literature. Using this notion of Haitian writing as a literature of exile, Munro analyzes key novels by the most important figures of each generation of the past sixty years, including Jacques Stephen Alexis, René Depestre, Émile Ollivier, Dany Laferrière, and Edwidge Danticat.

Starship Troopers

Author : Robert Anson Heinlein
Publisher : Ace
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starship Troopers written by Robert Anson Heinlein and published by Ace. This book was released on 1987 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a futuristic military adventure a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War

Opera

Author : Franklin Mesa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476605378
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Opera written by Franklin Mesa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopedia includes entries for 1,153 world premiere (and other significant) performances of operas in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers, composers, librettists, and conductors. Fully indexed and with a bibliography.

Epic and Romance Criticism: English and American epics and metrical romances

Author : Arthur Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Epic and Romance Criticism: English and American epics and metrical romances written by Arthur Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent, 1000-1200

Author : E.M.C. van Houts
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104023352X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent, 1000-1200 written by E.M.C. van Houts and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Normans in France and England left a rich legacy in historiography and literature, which is the subject of this volume. Dr van Houts first deals with the Scandinavian inheritance, which together with contacts with Danish England and Byzantium led to an interesting mix of pagan and ecclesiastical themes. Next she analyses the propaganda that followed the Norman conquest of England, in which the panegyrics written by French clerks eager to gain favour contrast markedly with the almost unanimous condemnation of William’s actions on the Continent. Included is the earliest history of the battle of Hastings written in England, here published with a new English translation. The last papers consider the role of women in the transmission of knowledge about the past: in their families they passed on memories, and their importance as commissioners, readers and informants of chroniclers must also not be underestimated.

Mars!

Author : Jeff Rovin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mars! written by Jeff Rovin and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sirens of Titan

Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Sirens of Titan written by Kurt Vonnegut and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sanskrit Epics

Author : John Brockington
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004492674
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Sanskrit Epics written by John Brockington and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahābhārata (including Harivaṃśa) and Rāmāyaṇa, the two great Sanskrit Epics central to the whole of Indian Culture, form the subject of this new work. The book begins by examining the relationship of the epics to the Vedas and the role of the bards who produced them. The core of the work, a study of the linguistic and stylistic features of the epics, precedes the examination of the material culture, the social, economic and political aspects, and the religious aspects. The final chapter presents the wider picture and in conclusion even looks into the future of epic studies. In this long overdue survey work the author synthesizes the results of previous scholarship in the field. Herewith a coherent view is built up of the nature and the significance of these two central epics, both in themselves, and in relation to Indian culture as a whole.

The Macmillan Dictionary of Biography

Author : Barry Owen Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349049158
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Macmillan Dictionary of Biography written by Barry Owen Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-06-18 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mr. Mikey's Video Views; Volume One

Author : J. Michael Dlugos
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552123162
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Mr. Mikey's Video Views; Volume One written by J. Michael Dlugos and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Mikey's Video Views started as a response to the three-line reviews found in most review guides, and the "self-serving" and exceedingly picky reviews written by most "popular critics." Mr. Mikey is a movie lover, and has fun and enjoys virtually every movie he sees. His reviews reflect this love of movies.

Foothold in the Heavens

Author : Ben Evans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441963421
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Foothold in the Heavens written by Ben Evans and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foothold in the Heavens, the second volume in the A History of Human Space Exploration series, focuses upon the 1970s, the decade in which humanity established real, longterm foothold in the heavens with the construction and operation of the first space stations. It marked a transitional phase between the heady, race-to-the-Moon days of the Sixties and efforts to make space travel more economical, more frequent and more 'routine.' Space exploration in the Seventies, although dominated by Soviet achievement, saw the first efforts of mankind to really 'live' and work in space, producing results of direct benefit to humans on Earth. The emphasis changed from the gung-ho, 'strap-it-on-and-go' pioneers of the Sixties to the more practical exploitation of space for science, medicine, and technology. This book focuses on each mission launched between April 1971 and April 1981: from the launch of the world's first space station to the end of operations of Salyut 6, and from the expanded, lengthy exploration of the Moon on Apollo 15 to the first flight of the Shuttle.

Cheap Tricks and Class Acts

Author : John Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786400935
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cheap Tricks and Class Acts written by John Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the behind-the-scenes production secrets of the Hollywood films of the 1950s.

Frank Zappa and the And

Author : Paul Carr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317133153
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Frank Zappa and the And written by Paul Carr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays, documented by an international and interdisciplinary array of scholars, represents the first academically focused volume exploring the creative idiolect of Frank Zappa. Several of the authors are known for contributing significantly to areas such as popular music, cultural, and translation studies, with expertise and interests ranging from musicology to poetics. The publication presents the reader with an understanding of the ontological depth of Zappa's legacy by relating the artist and his texts to a range of cultural, social, technological and musicological factors, as encapsulated in the book's title - Frank Zappa and the And. Zappa's interface with religion, horror, death, movies, modernism, satire, freaks, technology, resistance, censorship and the avant-garde are brought together analytically for the first time, and approached non chronologically, something that strongly complies with the non linear perspective of time Zappa highlights in both his autobiography and recordings. The book employs a variety of analytical approaches, ranging from literary and performance theory, 'horrality' and musicology, to post modern and textually determined readings, and serves as a unique and invaluable guide to Zappa's legacy and creative force.

Hammer Complete

Author : Howard Maxford
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476629145
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Hammer Complete written by Howard Maxford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know everything there is to know about Hammer Films, the fabled "Studio that Dripped Blood?" The lowdown on all the imperishable classics of horror, like The Curse of Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula and The Devil Rides Out? What about the company's less blood-curdling back catalog? What about the musicals, comedies and travelogues, the fantasies and historical epics--not to mention the pirate adventures? This lavishly illustrated encyclopedia covers every Hammer film and television production in thorough detail, including budgets, shooting schedules, publicity and more, along with all the actors, supporting players, writers, directors, producers, composers and technicians. Packed with quotes, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, credit lists and production specifics, this all-inclusive reference work is the last word on this cherished cinematic institution.