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Author : Mary Dawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Book of Parties and Pastimes written by Mary Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Houdini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894740251
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Houdini's Book of Magic written by Harry Houdini and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Fair
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821440934
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Pastimes and Politics written by Laura Fair and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in incredible flux, framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration. Pastimes and Politics explores the era from the perspective of the urban poor, highlighting the numerous and varied ways that recently freed slaves and other immigrants to town struggled to improve their individual and collective lives and to create a sense of community within this new environment. In this study Laura Fair explores a range of cultural and social practices that gave expression to slaves’ ideas of emancipation, as well as how such ideas and practices were gendered. Pastimes and Politics examines the ways in which various cultural practices, including taarab music, dress, football, ethnicity, and sexuality, changed during the early twentieth century in relation to islanders’ changing social and political identities. Professor Fair argues that cultural changes were not merely reflections of social and political transformations. Rather, leisure and popular culture were critical practices through which the colonized and former slaves transformed themselves and the society in which they lived. Methodologically innovative and clearly written, Pastimes and Politics is accessible to specialists and general readers alike. It is a book that should find wide use in courses on African history, urbanization, popular culture, gender studies, or emancipation.
Author : Ellye Howell Glover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book "Dame Curtsey's" Book of Party Pastimes for the Up-to-date Hostess written by Ellye Howell Glover and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Krauthammer
Publisher : Forum Books
ISBN 13 : 0385349181
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Things That Matter written by Charles Krauthammer and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his keen insight into politics and government. His weekly column was a must-read in Washington and across the country. Don’t miss the best of Krauthammer’s intelligence, erudition and wit collected in one volume. Readers will find here not only the country’s leading conservative thinker offering a passionate defense of limited government, but also a highly independent mind whose views—on feminism, evolution and the death penalty, for example—defy ideological convention. Things That Matter also features several of Krauthammer’s major path-breaking essays—on bioethics, on Jewish destiny and on America’s role as the world’s superpower—that have profoundly influenced the nation’s thoughts and policies. And finally, the collection presents a trove of always penetrating, often bemused reflections on everything from border collies to Halley’s Comet, from Woody Allen to Winston Churchill, from the punishing pleasures of speed chess to the elegance of the perfectly thrown outfield assist. With a special, highly autobiographical introduction in which Krauthammer reflects on the events that shaped his career and political philosophy, this indispensible chronicle takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the fashions and follies, the tragedies and triumphs, of the last three decades of American life.
Author : Robert B. Parker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101546522
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Pastime written by Robert B. Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1992-04-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most personal and revealing Spenser thriller of all, Pastime is Robert B. Parker's electrifying masterpeice of crime fiction--a startling game of memory, desire, and danger that forces Spenser to face his own past. Ten years ago, he saved a teenage boy from a father's rage. Now, on the brink of manhood, the boy seeks answers to his mother's sudden disapearance. Spenser is the only man he can turn to. This time, it's more than a routine search for a missing person--Spenser must search his own soul...
Author : Ruth V. Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571678201
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Pastimes written by Ruth V. Russell and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sixth edition reflects almost 40 years of scholarship as well as professional and personal practice in recreation, parks, and tourism. The text has become one of the most widely adopted titles in university courses worldwide. In this new edition of the book, the phenomenon of leisure is presented through new research findings and contemporary societal dilemmas to suggest that leisure is one of the most interesting, relevant, and exciting subjects of study today. The book reflects a wide range of material from the disciplines of leisure studies, sociology, psychology, economics, political science, anthropology, geography, the humanities, and media and cultural studies. Indeed, more than a textbook, this is very much a point of view. Leisure is presented as a human phenomenon that is individual and collective, vital and frivolous, historical and contemporary, factual and subjective, and good and bad. As a learning tool, this sixth edition teaches more. It contains updated and new illustrations of concepts through field-based cases, biographical features, exploratory activities, and research studies. In the first part, leisure is defined as a condition of humanity. Its meanings are traced through the humanities and history, as well as in todays connotations. The benefits of leisure are presented, ranging from freedom to pleasure to risk to spirituality, and leisures benefit to healthful well-being is demonstrated. As well, part one of the text presents theories for explaining leisure behavior. Part Two discusses leisure as a cultural mirror -- its societal context. Chapters include leisure and anthropology, geography, technology, popular culture, and taboo recreation. Finally, in Part Three, the functional side of leisure is explored in terms of its instrumental relationship to work, money, time, and equity. Leisure systems of public, private, and commercial sponsorship are described to confirm leisures utility. Instructor resources and a website for student resources available.
Author : Mary Burnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by Mary Burnham and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curt Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496207394
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Presidents and the Pastime written by Curt Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Presidents and the Pastime draws on Curt Smith's extensive background as a former White House presidential speechwriter to chronicle the historic relationship between baseball, the "most American" sport, and the U.S. presidency. Smith, who USA TODAY calls "America's voice of authority on baseball broadcasting," starts before America's birth, when would‑be presidents played baseball antecedents. He charts how baseball cemented its reputation as America's pastime in the nineteenth century, such presidents as Lincoln and Johnson playing town ball or giving employees time off to watch. Smith tracks every U.S. president from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump, each chapter filled with anecdotes: Wilson buoyed by baseball after suffering disability; a heroic FDR saving baseball in World War II; Carter, taught the game by his mother, Lillian; Reagan, airing baseball on radio that he never saw--by "re-creation." George H. W. Bush, for whom Smith wrote, explains, "Baseball has everything." Smith, having interviewed a majority of presidents since Richard Nixon, shares personal stories on each. Throughout, The Presidents and the Pastime provides a riveting narrative of how America's leaders have treated baseball. From Taft as the first president to throw the "first pitch" on Opening Day in 1910 to Obama's "Go Sox!" scrawled in the guest register at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014, our presidents have deemed it the quintessentially American sport, enriching both their office and the nation.
Author : Stefan Szymanski
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815782599
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)
Download or read book National Pastime written by Stefan Szymanski and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Szymanski and Zimbalist pay special attention to the rich and complex evolution of baseball from its beginnings in America, and they trace modern soccer from its foundation in England through its subsequent expansion across the world.
Author : H.W. Wilson Company
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Standard Catalog for Public Libraries written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zaidee Mabel Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Standard Catalog for High School Libraries written by Zaidee Mabel Brown and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Library Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A.L.A. Catalog written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles A. Peverelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of American Pastimes written by Charles A. Peverelly and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811730334
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of hunting big game in the West and notes about animals pursued and observed.
Author : East St. Louis. Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by East St. Louis. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael L. Butterworth
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817317104
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Baseball and Rhetorics of Purity written by Michael L. Butterworth and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Butterworth argues that baseball cannot be viewed as an innocent diversion or escape and that by promoting myths of citizenship and purity, post-9/11 discourse concerning baseball ironically threatens the health of the democratic system. Instead, he highlights how the game on the field reflects a more complex and diverse worldview, and he makes a plea for the game's recovery, both as a national pastime and as a site for celebrating the best of who we are and who we can be. --Book Jacket.
