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Author : Grace Muilenburg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Kansas Scene written by Grace Muilenburg and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for outsiders visiting Kansas ; topographic & geological features.
Author : Kansas Geological Survey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Kansas Scene written by Kansas Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rufus B. Sage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Wild Scenes in Kansas and Nebraska, the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies written by Rufus B. Sage and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stratford Festival Collection (University of Guelph)
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Oklahoma! written by Stratford Festival Collection (University of Guelph) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Kansas City Star Books
ISBN 13 : 0974000922
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Kansas City Then and Now written by and published by Kansas City Star Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photos and text of this book are about Kansas City in the 19th and 20th centuries. Scenes from the past and new photos show how these places have changed or have remained the same with little change.
Author : Gerald R. Butters
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826266037
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Banned in Kansas written by Gerald R. Butters and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This first book-length study of state film censorship examines the unique political, social, and economic factors that led to its implementation in Kansas, taking a look at why censorship legislation was enacted, what the attitudes of Kansans were toward censorship, and why it lasted for half a century"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803262914
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Queering Kansas City Jazz written by Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City’s music, culture, and stars are well covered, Queering Kansas City Jazz supplements the grand narrative of jazz history by including queer identities in the city’s history while framing the jazz-scene experience in terms of identity and space. Cabarets, gender impressionism clubs, and sites of sex tourism in Kansas City served as world-making spaces for those whose performance of identity transgressed hegemonic notions of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide a critical deconstruction of how the jazz scene offered a space for nonnormative gender practice and performance and acted as a site of contested identity and spatial territory. Few books examine the changing ideas about gender in the turn-of-the-century Great Plains, under the false assumption that people in middle-American places experienced cultural shifts only as an aftershock of events on the coasts. This approach overlooks the region’s contested territories, identities, and memories and fails to adequately explain the social and cultural disruptions experienced on the plains. Clifford-Napoleone rectifies this oversight and shows how Kansas City represents the complexity of the jazz scene in America as a microcosm of all the other people who made the culture, clubs, music, and cabarets of the age possible.
Author : Kenneth S. Davis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243737
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Kansas: A History written by Kenneth S. Davis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984-06-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No state's creation was more dramatic, more at the center of national attention, more involved in fundamental moral conflict, than that of Kansas. In a sense, the state's history began with the arrival of the first Puritans of New England and the first slaves of Virginia. The States And The Nation Series, of which this volume is a part, is designed to assist the American people in a serious look at the ideals they have espoused and the experiences they have undergone in the history of the nation.
Author : Melvin Litton
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1346 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Kansas Murder Trilogy written by Melvin Litton and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2023-08-17 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in one volume, the complete Kansas Murder Trilogy. KING HARVEST In the summer of 1975 a group of young men known as “the boys” make their stab for freedom harvesting wild hemp, or marijuana, on the Kansas plains. Several are Vietnam vets, and all are somehow marked, at odds with their time. They see themselves as inheritors of the mythic West, like buffalo hunters in league with their captain, Frankie Sage. As long as they remain unarmed their crime is counted only a misdemeanor. But a rival gang led by Valentine LaReese is prone to gunplay. The two are fated to clash. Privy to the action is CC Holtz, “King of the county,” who like any king demands tribute. Early on a double murder on the border of two counties calls out both sheriffs. Their investigation and the free-spirited harvest run parallel till all trails converge, leading to a wry, dramatic climax. BANKS OF THE RIVER Jack Marshal, known as “the Lion,” is a prideful sinner and reckless womanizer. When his 15-year-old daughter, Bonny, winds up pregnant by an old running buddy, Jack is outraged. And when the man is found dead, Jack is charged with murder. Alongside the coming trial play the many goings-on in a small Kansas town, summer 1960. There’s Ruthie, Jack's sister and local femme fatale, who does what with whom and when she pleases; the old priest, Father Horabet, who harbors sins of his own; Anna, Jack's wife, who quietly sustains herself and her daughter through the storm of scandal; and Johnny, Jack’s son, who faces howls of scorn pitching in little league baseball. Finally the town gathers for Jack’s trial. Beyond the drama of guilt or innocence plays the question of how men and women grapple for meaning in their wary coexistence. For temptation like the sunrise returns each day, even as we imagine ourselves standing on the banks of the river, we are immersed, carried in a greater current. SKIN FOR SKIN Part mystery and part myth born of fact and rumor left buried in the Kansas dirt. The story opens with a murder as desperate as the voice that stirs from the dust in witness. This voice, or knowing, haunts a young man, Faris Clayton, who will play in events to come. Time and place, 1934, Elim, Kansas. The action involves six gamblers initially robbed and a seventh absent that fateful night who is killed through foolish mischance. And whose older brother vows vengeance. Amid the swirl of death two farm families, the Claytons and the Wales, struggle to survive the drought and depression. Faris knows the gamblers, the victim, and the widow. Guesses the why of things and carries the burden of his knowing. Vera Ellen Wales, or Elle, stands at a greater remove and innocence. Enters the story a girl of 14 and matures into a young woman of 16 when she and Faris finally meet and lace hands. Meanwhile in Elim, guilt and madness play to the final scene.
Author : Salman Rushdie
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588362795
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Step Across This Line written by Salman Rushdie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the great novelists of our day, a vital, brilliant new book of essays, speeches and articles essential for our times. Step Across This Line showcases the other side of one of fiction’s most astonishing conjurors. On display is Salman Rushdie’s incisive, thoughtful and generous mind, in prose that is as entertaining as it is topical. The world is here, captured in pieces on a dazzling array of subjects: from New York’s Amadou Diallo case to the Wizard of Oz, from U2 to fifty years of Indian writing, from a tribute to Angela Carter to the struggle to film Midnight’s Children. The title essay was originally delivered at Yale as the 2002 Tanner lecture on human values, and examines the changing meaning of frontiers in the modern world -- moral and metaphorical frontiers as well as physical ones. The collection chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual journeys, but it is also an intimate invitation into his life: he explores his relationship to India through a moving diary of his first visit there in over a decade, “A Dream of Glorious Return.” Step Across This Line also includes “Messages From the Plague Years,” a historic set of letters, articles and reflections on life under the fatwa. Gathered together for the first time, this is Rushdie’s humane, intelligent and angry response to a grotesque threat, aimed not just at him but at free expression itself. Step Across This Line, Salman Rushdie’s first collection of non-fiction in a decade, has the same energy, imagination and erudition as his astounding novels -- along with some very strong opinions.
Author : George P. McCabe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Forces Molding and Muddling the Movies written by George P. McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Craig Miner
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700614249
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Kansas written by Craig Miner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2002-10-21 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kansas is not only the Sunflower State, it's the very heart of America's heartland. It is a place of extremes in politics as well as climate, where ambitious and energetic people have attempted to put ideals into practice-a state that has come a long way since being identified primarily with John Brown and his exploits. Craig Miner has written a complete and balanced history of Kansas, capturing the state's colorful past and dynamic present as he depicts the persistence of contrasting images of and attitudes toward the state throughout its 150 years. A work combining serious scholarship with great readability, it encompasses everything from the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the evolution-creationism controversy, emphasizing the historical moments that were pivotal in forming the culture of the state and the diverse group of people who have contributed to its history. Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State is the first new state history to appear in over twenty-five years and the most thoroughly researched ever published. Written to enlighten general readers within and well beyond the state's borders, it offers coverage not found in previous histories: greater attention to its cities-notably Wichita-and to its south central and western regions, accounts of business history, contributions of women and minorities, and environmental concerns. It presents the dark as well as the bright side of Kansas progressivism and is the first Kansas history to deal with the post-World War II era in any significant detail. Craig Miner has spent almost forty years researching, teaching, and writing Kansas history and has dug deeply into primary sources-especially gubernatorial papers-that shed new light on the state. That research has enabled him to assemble a wider cast of characters and more entertaining collection of quotations than found in earlier histories and to better show how individual initiative and entrepreneurial aspirations have profoundly influenced the creation of present-day Kansas. Ranging from the days of cattle and railroads to the era of oil and agribusiness, this history situates the state in its own terms rather than as a sidebar to a larger American epic. Miner brings to its pages an identifiable Kansas character to preserve what is distinctive about the state's identity for future generations, echoing what one Kansan said over half a century ago: "Kansas is simply Kansas. May she never be tempted to become anything else."
Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623760151
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Kansas, a Guide to the Sunflower State written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1939 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Kansas ... Sponsored by the State Department of Education.
Author : George Henry Nettleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Yale Pageant, 21 October 1916 written by George Henry Nettleton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Forsyth Hunt
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book How to Choose a Farm, with a Discussion of American Lands written by Thomas Forsyth Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Frisch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190467355
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow written by Walter Frisch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the Rainbow" exploded into worldwide fame upon its performance by Judy Garland in the MGM film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939). Voted the greatest song of the twentieth century in a 2000 survey, it is a masterful, delicate balance of sophistication and child-like simplicity in which composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg poignantly captured the hope and anxiety harbored by Dorothy's character. In Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow, author Walter Frisch traces the history of this song from its inception during the development of The Wizard of Oz's screenplay, to its various reinterpretations over the course of the twentieth century. Through analysis of the song's music and lyrics, this Oxford Keynotes volume provides a close reading of the piece while examining the evolution of its meaning as it traversed widely varying cultural contexts. From its adoption as a jazz standard by generations of pianists, to its contribution to Judy Garland's role as a gay icon, to its reemergence as a chart-topping recording by Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, "Over the Rainbow" continues to engage audiences and performers alike in surprising ways. Featuring a companion website with audio and video supplements, this book leaves no path unexplored as it succeeds in capturing the extent of this song's impact on the world.
Author : Kansas Geological Survey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Annual Bulletin on Mineral Resources of Kansas written by Kansas Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
