Americana

Americana handlar inte nödvändigtvis om det verkliga USA utan mer om vår gemensamma dröm om landet. Det är en bok för dig som drömt om Farmor Ankas perfekta äppelpaj-slajsar sen du var barn, följde Sop...

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Två moderna klassiker i en volym, med nyskrivet förord av Fredrik Strage Patrick Bateman är ung, snygg, välutbildad och framgångsrik. Han rör sig med arrogant självklarhet bland bankpalats och lyxkrogar i 1980-talets New York. Men status och riked...

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Klassiska amerikanska pajer som får det att vattnas i munnen. Enkla, effektiva recept på amerikanska efterrätter. Gamla godingar som rabarberpaj och katrinplommonpaj blandas med spännande läckerheter som Mississippi mud, pecan och coconut cream. H...

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Amerikanska gudar utkom för första gången 2001 och har översatts till över 30 språk. Efter tre år i fängelse vill Shadow inget hellre än att återvända till sin fru Laura och leva ett stillsamt liv med henne. Men bara dagar innan han friges nås han...

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David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall view...

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Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his onl...

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I ett förfallet Detroit står triangeldramat mellan den destruktiva Carter och de mycket olika tvillingbröderna Vladmir och Jack i centrum. Sara Stridsberg rör sig där hon är som bäst: runt teman av förlorad framgång och konsten att falla, mot en b...

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His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising ex...

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"Inspirerad av amerikansk snabbmat har Frederik Zäll skrivit en riktigt rolig kokbok. Han poängterar att han vill laga snabbmaten i lugn och ro, så en del recept kräver både långsamma förberedelser och dito tillagning. Boken är indelad i tre ...

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Har du drömt om Farmor Ankas perfekta äppelpaj-slajsar sen du var barn och följde du Sopranos mest på grund av Carmelas ziti-gratänger? Kollar du regelbundet om de bästa restaurangscenerna frånMad Menpå Youtube och har du någonsin googlat Dolly Pa...

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Sommaren 1896 lämnade män, kvinnor och barn Nås i Dalarna och for till Palestina för att invänta Jesus återkomst. De anslöt sig till American Colony, en frireligiös sekt styrd av amerikanskan Anna Spafford. Kring Nåsbornas öde spann Selma Lagerlöf...

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The red, white and blue colour combination has been a perennial favourite among quilters for years. This book has a terrific collection of patterns from a pillow to table runners to wall and throw quilts ranging from beginner to confident beginner...

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Reacting against the accelerating pace of modern life and too-much-information technology, young urban dwellers are carving out a new space, one brilliantly surveyed in "United States of Americana". Here we find barbers who instruct men ...

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Foreword by George F. WillWith a new Preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of CongressA lavishly illustrated history of America's game, from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress.One of the most seductively designed books about the ...

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If We Are Brave has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

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A suite of poems that channels the legendary singer-songwriter Ritchie Valens to examine and question mid-twentieth-century conceptions of race and art, identity and desire Ragged and raging across the spectrums of cognition, race, and gender, Tar...

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Reconsidering American Power offers trenchant studies by renowned scholars who reassess the role of the social sciences in the construction and upkeep of the Pax Americana. The thematic image for this enterprise is the 'fiery hunt' for Ahab's whal...

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The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays t...

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Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dicki...

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Colleen Glenney Boggs puts animal representation at the center of the making of the liberal American subject. Concentrating on the formative and disruptive presence of animals in the writings of Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, and Emily Dicki...

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This handsome book, the second volume of selections from the Jane Katcher Collection, presents a superlative group of American folk and decorative arts created primarily in New England, New York, and Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries. It...

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An in-depth look at the transformative influence of Mexican artists on their U.S. counterparts during a period of social change The first half of the 20th century saw prolific cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico, as artists and ...

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Harley-Davidson bikers . . . Grand Canyon river rats. . . Mormon archaeologists . . . Spelling bee prodigies . . . For more than fifteen years, best-selling author and historian Hampton Sides has traveled widely across the continent exploring the ...

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With more than one million copies in print since its first publication in 1959, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of 13-year-old Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California in 1849.

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The history of moonshining is a long one, and no one tells it better than the men who once made a living from it deep in the heart of Appalachia. Originally published in 1972, “Moonshining as a Fine Art” takes you through the their tim...

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The Foxfire Americana Library brings you back-to-basics recipes for breads, cornbreads, puddings, cakes, and pies that are just as easily baked on a modern oven as the traditional Appalachian woodstoves where they began. For adventurous cooks, thi...

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Out of the kitchens and cupboards of Appalachia comes a warmhearted collection of tried-and-true methods for pickling and preserving fruits and vegetables. Part history, part practical recipe book, here homegrown cooks offer advice on ev...

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Great for hunters, fishermen, and adventurous cooks, this illustrated entry in the Foxfire Americana Library shares a wealth of information from Appalachian experts on how to dress and cook meats and small game, including fish, hog, raccoon, ...

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A collection of spine-tingling Appalachian ghost stories and tall tales passed down from generation to generation.  Whether they tell of faucets that drip blood, monster catfish that lurk at the bottom of quarries, or strange lights on the mo...

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