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Author : David Barker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937073015
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Death at the Flea Circus written by David Barker and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814784666
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book It's One O'Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride written by Susan Ware and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most beloved radio show hosts of the 1940s and 1950s, Mary Margaret McBride (1899—1976) regularly attracted between six and eight million listeners to her daily one o'clock broadcast. During her twenty years on the air she interviewed tens of thousands of people, from President Harry Truman and Frank Lloyd Wright to Rachel Carson and Zora Neale Hurston. This is her story. Five decades after their broadcast, her shows remain remarkably fresh and interesting. And yet McBride—the Oprah Winfrey of her day—has been practically forgotten, both in radio history and in the history of twentieth-century popular culture, primarily because she was a woman and because she was on daytime radio. Susan Ware explains how Mary Margaret McBride was one of the first to exploit the cultural and political importance of talk radio, pioneering the magazine-style format that many talk shows still use. This radio biography recreates the world of daytime radio from the 1930s through the 1950s, confirming the enormous significance of radio to everyday life, especially for women. In the first in-depth treatment of McBride, Ware starts with a description of how widely McBride was revered in the mid-1940s—the fifteenth anniversary party for her show in 1949 filled Yankee Stadium. Once the readers have gotten to know Mary Margaret (as everyone called her), Ware backtracks to tell the story of McBride’s upbringing, her early career, and how she got her start in radio. The latter part of the book picks up McBride's story after World War II and through her death in 1976. An epilogue discusses the contemporary talk show phenomenon with a look back to Mary Margaret McBride’s early influence on the format.
Author : Eugene Racond
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595917879
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Stickball and Egg Creams written by Eugene Racond and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-02-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the streets of the Bronx in New York were not paved with gold, the 1940s and 1950s were the golden years for author Eugene Racond. In this personal memoir, he shares his experiences and what it was like growing up in that era in this special borough. Now in his mid-seventies, Racond chronicles his life from childhood to adolescence. Written with humor and heart, Stickball and Egg Creams provides a glimpse into this special time in America. From vacations in the Jewish Catskills, to his escapades sneaking cigarettes, excursions to Coney Island, and stickball games with friends, this narrative provides a nostalgic look at the 1940s and '50s. In addition, Racond recounts his family's hardships in Poland and Russia, their arrival from Europe, and their strong will to succeed in the United States. Racond shares his oftentimes humorous views on modern society and politics in Stickball and Egg Creams. But more than anything, this heartwarming memoir portrays the feeling that growing up in the Bronx was something to be proud of.
Author : Lisa T. Sarasohn
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142144139X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Getting Under Our Skin written by Lisa T. Sarasohn and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How vermin went from being part of everyone's life to a mark of disease, filth, and lower status. For most of our time on this planet, vermin were considered humanity's common inheritance. Fleas, lice, bedbugs, and rats were universal scourges, as pervasive as hunger or cold, at home in both palaces and hovels. But with the spread of microscopic close-ups of these creatures, the beginnings of sanitary standards, and the rising belief that cleanliness equaled class, vermin began to provide a way to scratch a different itch: the need to feel superior, and to justify the exploitation of those pronounced ethnically—and entomologically—inferior. In Getting Under Our Skin, Lisa T. Sarasohn tells the fascinating story of how vermin came to signify the individuals and classes that society impugns and ostracizes. How did these creatures go from annoyance to social stigma? And how did people thought verminous become considered almost a species of vermin themselves? Focusing on Great Britain and North America, Sarasohn explains how the label "vermin" makes dehumanization and violence possible. She describes how Cromwellians in Ireland and US cavalry on the American frontier both justified slaughter by warning "Nits grow into lice." Nazis not only labeled Jews as vermin, they used insecticides in the gas chambers to kill them during the Holocaust. Concentrating on the insects living in our bodies, clothes, and beds, Sarasohn also looks at rats and their social impact. Besides their powerful symbolic status in all cultures, rats' endurance challenges all human pretentions. From eighteenth-century London merchants anointing their carved bedsteads with roasted cat to repel bedbugs to modern-day hedge fund managers hoping neighbors won't notice exterminators in their penthouses, the studies in this book reveal that vermin continue to fuel our prejudices and threaten our status. Getting Under Our Skin will appeal to cultural historians, naturalists, and to anyone who has ever scratched—and then gazed in horror.
Author : Carroll Edward Lisby
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469122944
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Presto! Laughter written by Carroll Edward Lisby and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thing magicians like to hear even more than oohs and ahhs is laugher. They know laughter means a happy, satisfied audience, which means more bookings and higher fees. If youd like to add new laughs to your act but have despaired of finding suitable material take heart. Here is the resource countless magicians have been waiting for: Carroll Lisbys Presto! Laughter: More Than 2,800 New Laugh-Lines for Your Favorite Magic Tricks. Not a batch of old, recycled jokes, Presto! Laughter is instead a goldmine of magic-themed laugh-lines that you can drop in at appropriate times during a performance.
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307777790
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Visiting Mrs. Nabokov written by Martin Amis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tantalizing collection of classic essays from one of the most gifted writers of his generation. • "The brainy, sarcastic, tender intelligence at the center of these pieces can make you laugh out loud: they can also move you to tears." —People Martin Amis brings the same megawatt wit, wickedly acute perception, and ebullient wordplay that characterize his novels. He encompasses the full range of contemporary politics and culture (high and low) while also traveling to China for soccer with Elton John and to London's darts-crazy pubs in search of the perfect throw. Throughout, he offers razor-sharp takes on such subjects as: American politics: "If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight-year blackout. Numb, pale, unhealthily dreamless: eight years of Do Not Disturb." Chess: "Nowhere in sport, perhaps in human activity, is the gap between the tryer and the expert so astronomical.... My chances of a chess brilliancy are the 'chances' of a lab chimp and a type writer producing King Lear." "His fascination with the observable world is utterly promiscuous: he will address a cathedral and a toilet seat with the same peeled-eyeball intensity." —John Updike
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Robbins
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553897888
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Another Roadside Attraction written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Written with a style and humor that haven’t been seen since Mark Twain.”—Los Angeles Times What if the Second Coming didn’t quite come off as advertised? What if “the Corpse” on display in that funky roadside zoo is really who they say it is—what does that portend for the future of western civilization? And what if a young clairvoyant named Amanda reestablishes the flea circus as popular entertainment and fertility worship as the principal religious form of our high-tech age? Another Roadside Attraction answers those questions and a lot more. It tell us, for example, what the sixties were truly all about, not by reporting on the psychedelic decade but by recreating it, from the inside out. In the process, this stunningly original seriocomic thriller is fully capable of simultaneously eating a literary hot dog and eroding the borders of the mind. “Hard to put down because of the sheer brilliance and fun of the writing. The sentiments of Brautigan and the joyously compassionate omniscience of Fielding dance through the pages garbed colorfully in the language of Joyce.”—Rolling Stone
Author : A.S. King
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101994932
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Dig written by A.S. King and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Michael L. Printz Medal ★“King’s narrative concerns are racism, patriarchy, colonialism, white privilege, and the ingrained systems that perpetuate them. . . . [Dig] will speak profoundly to a generation of young people who are waking up to the societal sins of the past and working toward a more equitable future.”—Horn Book, starred review “I’ve never understood white people who can’t admit they’re white. I mean, white isn’t just a color. And maybe that’s the problem for them. White is a passport. It’s a ticket.” Five estranged cousins are lost in a maze of their family’s tangled secrets. Their grandparents, former potato farmers Gottfried and Marla Hemmings, managed to trade digging spuds for developing subdivisions and now they sit atop a million-dollar bank account—wealth they’ve refused to pass on to their adult children or their five teenage grandchildren. “Because we want them to thrive,” Marla always says. But for the Hemmings cousins, “thriving” feels a lot like slowly dying of a poison they started taking the moment they were born. As the rot beneath the surface of the Hemmings’ white suburban respectability destroys the family from within, the cousins find their ways back to one another, just in time to uncover the terrible cost of maintaining the family name. With her inimitable surrealism, award winner A.S. King exposes how a toxic culture of polite white supremacy tears a family apart and how one determined generation can dig its way out.
Author : William Weintraub
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996014
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Getting Started written by William Weintraub and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With letters from Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, and Brian Moore Getting Started is a wonderful memoir, a collection of extraordinary letters, and a brilliant recreation of a time when Canadian writers were set to make their mark in the world for the first time. Writer Brian Moore emigrated from Ireland to Canada in the late 1940s and found work at the Montreal Gazette, where he also found William Weintraub embarking upon a career as a freelance journalist. When he travelled to Paris, Weintraub saw an old friend and former Gazette writer, Mavis Gallant, who filled him in on the tribulations of the expatriate writer’s life (“My room is enormous and the radiator very small indeed”). Gallant introduced Weintraub to another Montreal writer, Mordecai Richler, also pursuing a career as a novelist while living a gloriously Bohemian life. Weintraub joined Richler for a while in Ibiza (he later introduced him to Brian Moore), and later they kept in touch. (“Dear Bill: I got your highly unintellectual letter yesterday and it confirmed my suspicions that you slipped a chair under your arse in the Deux Magots as soon as you arrived in Paris and probably haven’t moved since.”) In these years, Gallant had her short stories published for the first time in the New Yorker, Moore methodically churned out money-making thrillers while working on The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, and Richler wrote his first acclaimed book, The Acrobats. Weintraub, meanwhile, returned to Montreal, where he saw published his brilliant comic novel, Why Rock the Boat? William Weintraub weaves together his own memories of the 1950s with letters both to and from his literary colleagues. The letters and his recollections are always fascinating, often hilarious, and provide intimate insight into the lives and work of some of Canada’s finest contemporary writers.
Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of the Missing Man written by Enid Blyton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mystery of the Missing Man" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : John Fullerton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780861966516
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Allegories of Communication written by John Fullerton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Author : Baktash Vafaei
Publisher : StateGuides
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Washington Travel Guide * In Search of Undiscovered Treasures * USA eBook written by Baktash Vafaei and published by StateGuides. This book was released on with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington's Hidden World: In Search of Undiscovered Treasures" is a fascinating journey through the Evergreen State that appeals to adventurous explorers and the curious alike. This book invites its readers to embark on a unique adventure where they will uncover the mysterious and often overlooked treasures of Washington State. In the pages of this book, readers are immersed in a world that lies beyond the well-known tourist attractions. It highlights hidden places and unexplored gems that are often overlooked by the crowd. The authors take readers on a journey to off-the-beaten-path mountain trails, dreamy lakes, historic sites, and quaint villages rarely found in guidebooks. The stories in this book tell of the people and communities that care for and preserve these undiscovered treasures. They offer insight into the cultural diversity, history, and natural beauty that Washington has to offer. From deserted beaches on the coast to breathtaking viewpoints in the mountains, these sites are a window to the hidden gems just waiting to be explored by curious travelers. "Washington's Hidden World: In Search of Undiscovered Treasures" is a book for those seeking adventure in their own doorstep or looking for new ways to experience this fascinating state. It inspires you to get off the beaten path and discover the often-overlooked wonders of Washington that will amaze anyone.
Author : Lesley M. M. Blume
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 145210350X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Let's Bring Back written by Lesley M. M. Blume and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated A-to-Z tribute to old-fashioned items worth rediscovering: “Wistful . . . charming . . . like a stroll down memory lane.” —Elle Whatever happened to cuckoo clocks? Or bed curtains? Why do we have so many “friends” while doing away with the much more useful word “acquaintance”? All of these things, plus hot toddies, riddles, proverbs, corsets, calling cards, and many more, are due for a revival. Throughout this whimsical, beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of nostalgia, Lesley M.M. Blume breathes new life into the elegant, mysterious, and delightful trappings of bygone eras, honoring the timeless tradition of artful living along the way. Inspired by her much loved Huffington Post column of the same name and featuring entries from famous icons of style and culture, Let’s Bring Back leads readers to rediscover the things that entertained, awed, beautified, satiated, and fascinated in eras past. “Witty . . . recommended reading.” —Country Living “If you’re feeling lousy and you read this book, it awakens you to things that have made you happy in your life. It reminds you of a time when certain things ideas, gestures got you through . . . and revels in an idea of life that’s lived in 3-D, not 2-D.” —Sally Singer, editor, T: The New York Times Magazine
Author : Compiled By : Kuldeep Saluja
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788128806513
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Unofficial Joke Book of Japan written by Compiled By : Kuldeep Saluja and published by Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.. This book was released on with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Penny Warner
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 1451631472
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Preschooler Play & Learn written by Penny Warner and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Complete Book of Games and Learning Activities for Preschoolers! Child development expert Penny Warner offers 150 illustrated ideas for games and activities designed to stimulate your preschooler's learning and development. Preschooler Play & Learn is designed to help children reach their full potential and have a good time along the way. The Most Complete Book of Games and Learning Activities for Preschoolers! Child development expert Penny Warner offers 150 illustrated ideas for games and activities designed to stimulate your preschooler's learning and development. For each game and activity, Preschooler Play & Learn includes: recommended ages, a detailed list of easy-to-find materials, a bulleted list of the skills that preschoolers will learn, step-by-step instruction, clear illustrations, variations for added fun and enhanced learning, and safety tips and other helpful hints. Preschooler Play & Learn is designed to help children reach their full potential and have a good time along the way.
