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Author : David Brian Plummer
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781906486396
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of Coney written by David Brian Plummer and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Prentice
Publisher : New Harvest
ISBN 13 : 9780544262287
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)
Download or read book The Lost Tribe of Coney Island written by Claire Prentice and published by New Harvest. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.
Author : Robin Jaffee Frank
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300189902
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Coney Island written by Robin Jaffee Frank and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, and held there January 31-May 31, 2015; at the San Diego Museum of Art, Calif., July 11-October 13, 2015; at the Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., November 20, 2015-March 13, 2016; and at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex., May 11-September 11, 2016.
Author : Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813525341
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)
Download or read book For the Love of Pleasure written by Lauren Rabinovitz and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technological, economic and social landscape of the consumer society was formed between the 1880s and 1920s. The author of this study shows how cinema played a key role in changing the urban landscape, using Chicago as a model and linking cinema theory with women's studies.
Author : Rem Koolhaas
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1580934102
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Delirious New York written by Rem Koolhaas and published by The Monacelli Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture of congestion" -- and its architecture. "Manhattan," he writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself.
Author : Helene Barbara Weinberg
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870997009
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book American Impressionism and Realism written by Helene Barbara Weinberg and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the continuities and differences between American Impressionism and Realism. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Margaret Marsh
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429853
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Pursuit of Parenthood written by Margaret Marsh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging history of assisted reproductive technologies and their ethical implications. Finalist of the PROSE Award for Best Book in History of Science, Medicine and Technology by the Association of American Publishers Since the 1978 birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Brown, in England, more than eight million children have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technologies. From the start, they have stirred controversy and raised profound questions: Should there be limits to the lengths to which people can go to make their idea of family a reality? Who should pay for treatment? How can we ensure the ethical use of these technologies? And what can be done to address the racial and economic disparities in access to care that enable some to have children while others go without? In The Pursuit of Parenthood, historian Margaret Marsh and gynecologist Wanda Ronner seek to answer these challenging questions. Bringing their unique expertise in gender history and women's health to the subject, Marsh and Ronner examine the unprecedented means—liberating for some and deeply unsettling for others—by which families can now be created. Beginning with the early efforts to create embryos outside a woman's body and ending with such new developments as mitochondrial replacement techniques and uterus transplants, the authors assess the impact of contemporary reproductive technology in the United States. In this volume, we meet the scientists and physicians who have developed these technologies and the women and men who have used them. Along the way, the book dispels a number of fertility myths, offers policy recommendations that are intended to bring clarity and judgment to this complicated medical history, and reveals why the United States is still known as the "Wild West" of reproductive medicine.
Author : Hiram K. Myers
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462801943
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball written by Hiram K. Myers and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2005-06-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball is a heartrending and hilarious recounting of the quest for recognition and acceptance by a young boy amid the chaos of alcoholism, abuse, and deceit. Henry, a gentle old Black man, takes the boy into his heart and with words inspires him to overcome the forces trying to destroy him. His father, a handsome philandered, is transformed into a demon by alcohol. The mother’s weakness allows abuse and violence to dominate the boy’s life. His sister, six years older, is assigned responsibility for his care at too early an age; her resentment explodes into rage. Finally he faces the obstacles initiated by a tyrannical school administrator. “ . . . I found Myers’ story telling as compelling as the hard fiction of Walter Mosley . . . and Barbara Hambly . .. And even equal to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings . . . I laughed and I cried as he masterfully unfolded the twists and turns of his life. . . .” —Deborah Wright, Port Saint Joe, Florida. “I loved the book . . . . (In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball) . . . reminded me of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes . . . . hooked me from the start . . . How profound that just a few simple words can keep a child going.” —Gwen Hewitt, Canton, Oklahoma. “Those of us who from time to time deal with troubled children particularly ought to read this book . . . a reading experience in which I could hardly wait to get back to . . .” —Briefcase, Book Notes, Oklahoma City “What a magnificent book it (In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball) was. . . . “ —Kathryn Rager, Waco, Texas. . “I read the whole book before I put it down . . . loved it! . . .” —Linda Royal Bridges, Harrah, Oklahoma.
Author : Tara Altebrando
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101515058
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Dreamland Social Club written by Tara Altebrando and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane has traveled the world with her father and brother, but it's not until her fractured family-still silently suffering from the loss of Jane's mother many years before-inherits a house and a history in Coney Island that she finally begins to find a home. With the help of a new community of friends, a mermaid's secrets, and a tattooed love interest with traffic-stopping good looks, the once plain Jane begins to blossom and gains the courage to explore the secrets of her mother's past. Colorful characters, beautiful writing, and a vibrant, embattled beachfront backdrop make this the perfect summer read for anyone who has ever tried to find true love or a place to call home. Watch a Video
Author : Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231527217
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Electric Dreamland written by Lauren Rabinovitz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. Following the rise of American parks from 1896 to 1918, Rabinovitz seizes on a simultaneous increase in cinema and spectacle audiences and connects both to the success of leisure activities in stabilizing society. Critics of the time often condemned parks and movies for inciting moral decline, yet in fact they fostered women's independence, racial uplift, and assimilation. The rhythmic, mechanical movements of spectacle also conditioned audiences to process multiple stimuli. Featuring illustrations from private collections and accounts from unaccessed archives, Electric Dreamland joins film and historical analyses in a rare portrait of mass entertainment and the modern eye.
Author : Peter Conolly-Smith
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345203
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Translating America written by Peter Conolly-Smith and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World War I, German immigrants quickly gave up their own culture and assimilated into American mainstream life. But in Translating America, Peter Conolly-Smith offers a radically different analysis. He argues that German immigrants became German-Americans not out of fear, but instead through their participation in the emerging forms of pop culture. Drawing from German and English newspapers, editorials, comic strips, silent movies, and popular plays, he reveals that German culture did not disappear overnight, but instead merged with new forms of American popular culture before the outbreak of the war. Vaudeville theaters, D.W. Griffith movies, John Philip Sousa tunes, and even baseball games all contributed to German immigrants' willing transformation into Americans. Translating America tackles one of the thorniest questions in American history: How do immigrants assimilate into, and transform, American culture?
Author : Harding Cox
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528784324
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book Dogs and I written by Harding Cox and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dogs and I” is a collection of the authors anecdotes, musings and recollections related to dogs, specifically breeding and showing them. Full of interesting, useful information interspersed with personal stories and other notes, this volume will be of interest to breeders and owners alike, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “The Eternal Ego”, “Barking Dogs do not Bite”, “Fox Hounds and Cur Dogs”, “The Huntsman and the Greyhound Trainer”, “A Spacious Revenge”, “The Genuine Cynophilist”, “Imposters”, “The Obsession of Dog Showing”, “Dogs do not Bite Judges”, The Bulldog Bumble”, “An Action in Law”, “The Disappearing Lady!”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on dog breeding.
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Author : Michael D'Antonio
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250042380
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Never Enough written by Michael D'Antonio and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unauthorized biography of the controversial businessman recounts his early days in development while reviewing the unorthodox approach that brought him success and that fuels his insatiable quest for power.
