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Author : Michael Olesker
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411601
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Front Stoops in the Fifties written by Michael Olesker and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olesker's doo-wop portrait of Baltimore is nostalgic, but it has a hard edge.
Author : Michael Dolan
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504090470
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The American Porch written by Michael Dolan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former American History editor explores the creation and restoration of an essential part of a twentieth-century home’s identity—the American porch. “In this delightful look at an American icon, journalist and documentary scriptwriter . . . Dolan traces the history of the porch, using this history to explore subjects such as architecture, history, slavery, colonialism, trade, anthropology, sociology, consumer behavior, and publishing.” —Library Journal In 1981, Michael Dolan and his wife, Eileen O’Toole, bought a 1926 suburban bungalow in the Palisades area of Washington, DC. It was a fixer-upper and DIY project that consumed their lives for twelve years. As rooms were transformed with updated electrical wiring and plumbing, the house’s porch became a storage area, rotating appliances, furniture, and construction materials as they were used and discarded. After the interior renovation was completed, Michael finally turned his attention to the porch, working with contractors to resurrect it—a reconstruction that inspired him to uncover the history of porches and their significance as a symbolic piece of Americana. “In praise of the porch: Come up and sit a spell.” —USA Today “A wry, well-researched look at the place and the people who rocked, talked and courted on [the American porch] for three centuries.” —Parade “The porch is making a comeback, gradually replacing its humbler rival the deck, which the traditionalist Dolan refers to as the platform shoe or leisure suit of American architecture.” —Time “Dolan amply demonstrates that the porch is primarily a means of escaping the heat and, almost as important, a locus for casual social interaction.” —Publishers Weekly
Author : Lisa M. Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317562216
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book American Architects and the Single-Family Home written by Lisa M. Tucker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects’ Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they developed related to public spaces, private spaces, and service spaces for living; details about the books they published to promote good design; as well as new essays from contemporary practitioners will inspire your own designs. More than 200 black and white images.
Author : Beth L. Bailey
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412470
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book From Front Porch to Back Seat written by Beth L. Bailey and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey offers a provocative view of how we sought out mates-and of what accounted for our behavior. More than a quarter-century has passed since the dating system Bailey describes here lost its coherence and dominance. Yet the legacy of the system remains a strong part of our culture's attempt to define female and male roles alike.
Author : Thomas De Witt Talmage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Fifty sermons written by Thomas De Witt Talmage and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : " "Cereal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Convenient Houses, with Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper written by " "Cereal and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas de Witt TALMAGE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Fifty Sermons ... Phonographically Reported and Revised. Second Series written by Thomas de Witt TALMAGE and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Pyne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698168704
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Fifty Mice written by Daniel Pyne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if a man is placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program against his will? And doesn’t even know what he supposedly knows that merits a new name, a new identity, a new life? Jay Johnson is an Average Joe, a thirty-something guy with a job in telephone sales, a regular pick-up basketball game, and a devoted girlfriend he seems ready to marry. But one weekday afternoon, he’s abducted on a Los Angeles Metro train, tranquilized, interrogated, and his paper trail obliterated. What did he see, what terrible crime—or criminal—is he keeping secret? It must be something awfully big. The trouble is, Jay has no clue. Furious and helpless, and convinced that the government has made a colossal mistake, Jay is involuntarily relocated to a community on Catalina Island—which turns out to be inhabited mainly by other protected witnesses. Isolated in a world of strangers, Jay begins to realize that only way out is through the twisted maze of lies and unreliable memories swirling through his own mind. If he can locate—or invent—a repressed memory that might satisfy the Feds, maybe he can make it back to the mainland and his wonderful, even if monotonous, life. Set in a noir contemporary L.A. and environs, Fifty Mice is a Hitchcockian thriller as surreal and mysterious as a Kafka nightmare. Chilling, paranoiac, and thoroughly original, it will have readers grasping to distinguish what is real and what only seems that way.
Author : Robert H. Lengel
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525519875
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book The Front Porch Revolution written by Robert H. Lengel and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A piece of music is more than the sum and sequence of its notes. The spaces between the notes, the rests or silences, are just as essential. Without those spaces, the notes do not properly relate to each other and even the most profound composition degrades into mere noise. Front porches metaphorically represent those rest-spaces in our lives and they are vanishing. Without them we are denying ourselves access to our music and possibility – and the evidence is clear at all levels of interaction. The social and political discourse in this country has, of late, eroded into noise and acrimony, dialogue having been abandoned for weaponized partisan monologues. Diatribes and rhetoric are gleefully accelerated like charged particles online, and on competing TV news and talk radio shows. In fact, this dynamic is experienced in meetings of any scale where diverse perspectives clash around topics we care about. But ask yourself, what is being accomplished beyond gridlock, frayed relationships and destructive polarization. We need to meet in new ways. The Front Porch Revolution is about the need to reassert true conversation and dialogue and reaffirm an earnest commitment to genuine communication. If anything is to be accomplished (and there is much that needs to be accomplished) we must be able to hear ourselves think and be present with our personal stories that give context to that thinking. This is more likely to happen on front porches than on the floor of Congress, in board rooms, in classrooms or on Facebook or Twitter. Viewing the world from the front porch invites a new way of thinking about our communication challenges, leadership and what we have become in the absence of front porches. Based on decades of research and first-hand experience at the Center for Professional Excellence at the University of Texas at San Antonio, The Front Porch Revolution maps out a lucid thoughtful and hopeful path forward to possibility.
Author : Milton Crane
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553272942
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Fifty Great American Short Stories written by Milton Crane and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1984-08-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, far-reaching collection of stories from Washington Irving to John Updike. The Classic Stories Edgar Allan Poe’s Ms. Found in a Bottle Bret Harte’s The Outcasts of Poker Flat Sherwood Anderson’s Death in the Woods Stephen Vincent Benét’s By the Waters of Babylon The Great Writers Melville James Dreiser Faulkner Hemingway Steinbeck McCullers The Little-Known Masterpieces Edith Wharton’s The Dilettante Finley Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley on the Popularity of Fireman Charles M. Flandrau’s A Dead Issue James Reid Parker’s The Archimandrite’s Niece
Author : Michael S. Foley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809054825
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Front Porch Politics written by Michael S. Foley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal. It is widely believed that Americans of the 1970s and '80s were exhausted by the upheavals of the '60s and eager to retreat to the private realm. When they did take action, it was mainly to express their disillusionment with government by supporting the right. In fact, as Michael Stewart Foley shows, neither of these assumptions is correct. On the community level, the 1970s and '80s saw vibrant new forms of political activity emerge. Tenants challenged landlords, farmers practiced civil disobedience to protect their land, and laid-off workers asserted a right to own their idled factories. Activists fought to defend the traditional family or to expand the rights of women, while entire towns organized to protest the toxic sludge in their basements. In all these arenas, Americans were propelled by their own experiences into the public sphere. Disregarding conventional ideas of "left" and "right," they turned to political action when they perceived an immediate threat to the safety and security of their families, homes, or dreams. Front Porch Politics is a people's history told through on-the-ground experiences. Recalling crusades famous and forgotten, Foley shows how Americans followed their outrage into the streets. Their distinctive style of visceral, local, and highly personal activism remains a vital resource for the renewal of American democracy"--
Author : Michael Stewart Foley
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 0374711089
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Front Porch Politics written by Michael Stewart Foley and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading this book revives the spirit of civic action today for those who are unjustifiably forlorn about overcoming injustice."—Ralph Nader An on-the-ground history of ordinary Americans who took to the streets when political issues became personal The 1960s are widely seen as the high tide of political activism in the United States. According to this view, Americans retreated to the private realm after the tumult of the civil rights and antiwar movements, and on the rare occasions when they did take action, it was mainly to express their wish to be left alone by government—as recommended by Ronald Reagan and the ascendant New Right. In fact, as Michael Stewart Foley shows in Front Porch Politics, this understanding of post-1960s politics needs drastic revision. On the community level, the 1970s and 1980s witnessed an unprecedented upsurge of innovative and impassioned grass roots political activity. In Southern California and on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, tenants challenged landlords with sit-ins and referenda; in the upper Midwest, farmers vandalized power lines and mobilized tractors to protect their land; and in the deindustrializing cities of the Rust Belt, laid-off workers boldly claimed the right to own their idled factories. Meanwhile, activists fought to defend the traditional family or to expand the rights of women, while entire towns organized to protest the toxic sludge in their basements. Recalling Love Canal, the tax revolt in California, ACT UP, and other crusades famous or forgotten, Foley shows how Americans were propelled by personal experiences and emotions into the public sphere. Disregarding conventional ideas of left and right, they turned to political action when they perceived, from their actual or figurative front porches, an immediate threat to their families, homes, or dreams. Front Porch Politics is a vivid and authoritative people's history of a time when Americans followed their outrage into the streets. Addressing today's readers, it is also a field guide for effective activism in an era when mass movements may seem impractical or even passé. The distinctively visceral, local, and highly personal politics that Americans practiced in the 1970s and 1980s provide a model of citizenship participation worth emulating if we are to renew our democracy.
Author : Louis Henry Gibson
Publisher : THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Convenient Houses : With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper, Architect and Housewife written by Louis Henry Gibson and published by THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.. This book was released on 1892 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convenient Houses : With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper, Architect and Housewife When the reader is familiar with the writer’s general purposes, it is easier to understand the details of his work. This book is intended to deal with houses in a housekeeping spirit. In doing this, the architect has in mind convenience, stability, and that ideal of housekeepers, beauty of surroundings. In carrying out this idea, the relation of architecture to good and economical housekeeping is first considered. Following this division is “A Journey through the House.” It begins at the porch, moves through the different rooms, and stops to consider the various details. This brings about not only a consideration of the general arrangement of a house, but such details as kitchens and pantries, plumbing, laundry, and heating. These first two sections of the book—“The Architect and the Housewife,” and “A Journey through the House”—are, in a measure, educational. After this, and in keeping with the general principles that have been set forth, plans of fifty convenient houses are illustrated and described. For the most part, they are houses that have been built. The next section is devoted to practical house-building. It is constructed by taking a complete specification for everything which may concern a dwelling-house, and ridding it, as far as possible, of all technicalities; thus putting in form all practical house-building questions for the benefit of the owner. Following this is the consideration of business points in building, which sets forth methods of letting contracts with the view of securing the best results without waste of money. The closing section is devoted to the getting of a home,—how to arrange the monthly-payment schemes, building-association plans, and other methods for getting a house on easy instalments.
Author : David Newhall Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sketches of Lynn, Or, The Changes of Fifty Years written by David Newhall Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Shwaiko
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664135669
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Fifty-One Tales and Miracles Too written by David Shwaiko and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyway, there are fifty-one short tales in this book. My great buddy Fritz has provided the images. I think he does a great job. So, read and enjoy.
Author : Thomas de Witt TALMAGE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Every-Day Religion; Being a Fourth Series of Fifty Sermons Delivered in Brooklyn Tabernacle, Etc written by Thomas de Witt TALMAGE and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Swan Morrison
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445274353
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (452 download)
Download or read book People of Few Words - Volume 2 - Fifty More Writers from the Writers' Showcase of the Short Humour Site written by Swan Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-06 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People of Few Words - Volume 2 is the second collection of work by contributors to the Short Humour Site from across the world. It contains one piece of 500 word 'Short Humour' by each of fifty writers, together with a brief biography of each writer.
