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Ducktails, Drive-ins, and Broken Hearts
An Unsweetened Look at '50s Music
Av Hank Davis
Häftad, 2023
385 kr
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An unflinching look at the triumphs and tragedies of '50s rock and roll, from the biggest stars, like Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins, to those who barely grabbed the spotlight.They all tried, but few singers and musicians from the 1950s became stars. Yet many of them had stories to tell that were far …
Manors and Historic Homes of the Hudson Valley
Häftad, 2023
385 kr
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A classic guide to the history and architecture of the historic manors and homes of the Hudson River ValleyHarold Donaldson Eberlein's The Manors and Historic Homes of the Hudson Valley has been considered an essential and elegant resource ever since its first publication by J.B. Lippincott in …
Bhagavad Gītā
Twenty-fifth–Anniversary Edition
Inbunden, 2009
746 kr
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An interlinear edition of the spiritual classic that provides devanagari, transliterated Sanskrit, and English versions of the Gītā.For years, this edition of the Bhagavad Gītā has allowed all those with a lively interest in this spiritual classic to come into direct contact with the richness and …
New York Art Deco
A Guide to Gotham's Jazz Age Architecture
Häftad, 2017
357 kr
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The first guidebook devoted exclusively to New York City's Art Deco treasures.Winner of a 2017–2018 New York City Book Award presented by the New York Society Library Of all the world's great cities, perhaps none is so defined by its Art Deco architecture as New York. Lively and informative, New …
Italian American Experience in New Haven
Images and Oral Histories
Häftad, 2009
436 kr
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A compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.Using interviews and photographs, Anthony Riccio provides a vital supplement to our understanding of the Italian immigrant experience in the United States. In conversations around kitchen tables …
When Huai Flowers Bloom
Stories of the Cultural Revolution
Av Shu Jiang Lu
Häftad, 2011
429 kr
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Depicts the Cultural Revolution through stories in a variety of voices.Set against China's turbulent years between the early 1960s and the late 1970s, When Huai Flowers Bloom is the literary memoir of a young girl who manages to sustain love, imagination, and strength during this most chaotic time. …
New York and Slavery
Time to Teach the Truth
Häftad, 2008
328 kr
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Challenges readers to rethink the way we view the nation's past and race relations in the present.Blending historical narrative with ideas for engaging young people as historians and thinkers, Alan J. Singer introduces readers to the truth about the history of slavery in New York State, and, by …
Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India
Hāla's Sattasaī
Häftad, 2009
408 kr
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The oldest surviving anthology of lyric poems from India, the Sattasai presents the many aspects of love and provides a realistic counterpart to the Kāmasūtra.An elegant translation of the Sattasaī (or Seven Hundred), India's earliest collection of lyric poetry, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient …
Fairy Tales
A New History
Häftad, 2009
453 kr
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Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. …
When Play Was Play
Why Pick-up Games Matter
Inbunden, 2009
1643 kr
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A celebration of childhood pick-up games.When Play Was Play offers a fascinating look at the disappearing world of childhood pick-up games. Drawing on his own experiences as well as a wealth of interviews and surveys, Ronald Bishop tells why these loosely structured games mattered-camaraderie, …
Naked Lives
Inside the Worlds of Exotic Dance
Häftad, 2009
169 kr
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Looks at the experience of being an exotic dancer in different kinds of strip clubs.Is stripping good or bad for the women who do it? According to sociologist Mindy S. Bradley-Engen, there's no simple answer. An exotic dancer's experiences can be both empowering and degrading: at times a dancer can …
Black Soldiers of New York State
A Proud Legacy
Inbunden, 2009
1643 kr
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Concise history of the valiant service of New York's African American soldiers.The heroic saga of New York State's African American soldiers, largely untold, comes to life in these pages. Drawing on a wealth of sources, some newly discovered, author Anthony F. Gero tells of their two centuries of …
With an Iron Pen
Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry
Av Tal Nitzan, Rachel Tzvia Back
Häftad, 2009
251 kr
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A groundbreaking collection of forty-two Israeli poetic voices protesting the occupation of the West Bank.The eighty-eight poems in With an Iron Pen, all originally written in Hebrew, offer a collective protest to the continuing Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Palestinian territories-"the …
Going Blind
A Memoir
Häftad, 2009
429 kr
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Memoir and meditation on blindness.Finalist for the 2010 Minnesota Book Award presented by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library Mara Faulkner grew up in a family shaped by Irish ancestry, a close-to-the-bone existence in rural North Dakota, and the secret of her father's blindness-along …
Reason for Crows
A Story of Kateri Tekakwitha
Av Diane Glancy
Häftad, 2009
430 kr
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The story of a 17th century Mohawk woman's interaction with her land, the Jesuits, and the religion they brought.In The Reason for Crows, award-winning author Diance Glancy retells the story of Kateri Tekakwitha, a seventeenth-century Mohawk woman who converted to Christianity and later became …
New York Sings
400 Years of the Empire State in Song
Häftad, 2009
339 kr
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New York's fascinating history as presented in song.In New York Sings, musicologist and folklorist Jerry Silverman has compiled a remarkable collection of songs about the people, places, and events of New York's 400-year history-from Henry Hudson's Half Moon to Pete Seeger's Clearwater, from …
White Savage
William Johnson and the Invention of America
Häftad, 2009
274 kr
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Brings a strikingly original perspective to Johnson's life, and suggests new ways of thinking about Johnson's part in creating a nation he did not live to see.William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Roman Catholic family to become a Protestant in the …
Family Place
A Hudson Valley Farm, Three Centuries, Five Wars, One Family
Av Leila Philip
Häftad, 2009
206 kr
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One woman's journey to uncover her family's history and understand the ties that bind us to a particular place.Encompassing three centuries of manor lords and tenant farmers, Civil War heroes and renegade aunts, award-winning author Leila Philip tells the story of her ancestral Hudson Valley home, …
Bhagavad Gītā
Twenty-fifth–Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2009
453 kr
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An interlinear edition of the spiritual classic that provides devanagari, transliterated Sanskrit, and English versions of the Gītā.For years, this edition of the Bhagavad Gītā has allowed all those with a lively interest in this spiritual classic to come into direct contact with the richness and …
Revelation of the Breath
A Tribute to Its Wisdom, Power, and Beauty
Häftad, 2009
404 kr
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Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath.Faced with unrelenting stresses from daily news, relationships, health, and financial conditions, and unsatisfied with the temporary and side-effect-riddled relief that pharmaceuticals provide, millions are finding measures of peace and …
Go, Tell Michelle
African American Women Write to the New First Lady
Av Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Peggy Brooks-Bertram
Häftad, 2009
182 kr
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Treasury of letters written by African American women to Michelle Obama.Winner of the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award, in the category of edited volume, presented by the Association of Black Women Historians"You are me. When I look at you, I see me. I see the young African American …
Woodstock
Av Joel Makower
Häftad, 2009
326 kr
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The definitive oral history of the Woodstock rock festival."The definitive study of the mega-concert."-Rolling Stone"Woodstock comes alive here, even if the music itself seems almost incidental to the backstage dramas." Publishers WeeklyWoodstock: the Oral History is the definitive, electrifying …
Summer Pleasures, Winter Pleasures
A Hudson Valley Cookbook
Inbunden, 2009
321 kr
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A light-hearted cookbook that reflects the historical and culinary heritage of the Hudson Valley.Whether it's grilled corn on the patio or a hot bowl of soup by the fire, the foods we eat are often intimately connected to the seasons of the year. For twenty years, award-winning food writer and …
Blows to the Head
How Boxing Changed My Mind
Av Binnie Klein
Häftad, 2020
284 kr
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A provocative tale of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing."I peered through the Venetian blinds in our den, with its view of the playground next door, and watched mournfully as the popular girls played softball. I wanted to run fast, hit hard, and wear a cute …
Old Guard
Av Mieczysław Lurczyński, Gerald W. Speca
Häftad, 2010
343 kr
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A brutal and unflinchingly honest portrayal of the effects of concentration camp life on the human psyche.Brutally and unflinchingly honest in its depiction of the effects of concentration camp life on the human psyche, Mieczysław Lurczyński's The Old Guard is one of the earliest works of Holocaust …
Hidden Children of France, 1940-1945
Stories of Survival
Häftad, 2010
267 kr
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Interviews with eighteen Jewish "hidden children" of France and Belgium, telling the story of their survival during World War II.The history of France's "hidden children" and of the French citizens who saved six out of seven Jewish children and three-fourths of the Jewish adult population from …
Feathers of Hope
Pete Dubacher, the Berkshire Bird Paradise, and the Human Connection with Birds
Häftad, 2015
394 kr
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A joyful journey through Pete Dubacher's Berkshire Bird Paradise, and a thoughtful contemplation of our relationship to birds and nature.Feathers of Hope takes the reader on a joyful journey through the Berkshire Bird Paradise in Grafton, New York. Founded and maintained by Pete Dubacher, the …
Shrouds of White Earth
Häftad, 2011
430 kr
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—Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist's long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to ParisWinner of the 2011 American Book Award presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Shrouds of White Earth, an innovative novel about a contemporary Native …
Shrouds of White Earth
Inbunden, 2010
291 kr
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—Pointed, absorbing novel about an indigenous artist's long journey of creativity and coming-of-awareness from White Earth Reservation to ParisWinner of the 2011 American Book Award presented by the Before Columbus Foundation Shrouds of White Earth, an innovative novel about a contemporary Native …
Body Shots
Hollywood and the Culture of Eating Disorders
Häftad, 2011
247 kr
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Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, Body Shots offers a compelling case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the "eating disordered culture" represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of …
