Summary Book Review 100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries [2 volumes] by Robert C. Sickels:
Download or read book 100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries [2 volumes] written by Robert C. Sickels and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and thought-provoking read challenges readers to consider entertainers and entertainment in new ways, and highlights figures from outside the worlds of film, television, and music as influential "pop stars."
Summary Book Review Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Impressionists (Entertainers) by Wikipedia contributors:
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Impressionists (Entertainers) written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography by Mary K. Mannix:
Download or read book Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography written by Mary K. Mannix and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent starting point for both reference librarians and for library users seeking information about family history and the lives of others, this resource is drawn from the authoritative database of Guide to Reference, voted Best Professional Resource Database by Library Journal readers in 2012. Biographical resources have long been of interest to researchers and general readers, and this title directs readers to the best biographical sources for all regions of the world. For interest in the lives of those not found in biographical resources, this title also serves as a guide to the most useful genealogical resources. Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Summary Book Review Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Dance Musicians by Wikipedia contributors:
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Author :Victoria R. Williams Publisher :ABC-CLIO Release Date :2022-01-31 ISBN 10 :9781440877445 Pages :267 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.7/5 (744 users download)
Summary Book Review London: Geography, History, and Culture by Victoria R. Williams:
Download or read book London: Geography, History, and Culture written by Victoria R. Williams and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London is one of the largest cultural and financial centers in the world. How did it become the capital city of the United Kingdom, and what is life like in this global city today? Narrative chapters cover a wide range of topics in this volume, examining such themes as location, people, history, politics, economy, environment and sustainability, local crime and violence, security issues, natural hazards and emergency management, culture and lifestyle, London in pop culture, and London's future. Inset boxes entitled "Life in the City" include personal memoirs from people who are from or have lived in London, allowing readers a glimpse into daily life in the city. Sidebars, a chronology, and a bibliography round out the text. This volume is ideal for students and general readers who are interested in learning about life in this global city.
Download or read book New Keywords written by Tony Bennett and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2005-05-02 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.
Download or read book Warsaw written by Ron Nowicki and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Warsaw: The Cabaret Years is the first full portrait in English of Warsaw's cultural life between the world wars. The Golden Era of Warsaw, from 1919 to 1939, witnessed one of the richest cultural and artistic scenes of Europe. Poland's capital abounded with poets, novelists, filmmakers, artists, and architects. Literary magazines, opera, symphonic music, and theater flourished along with audacious cabarets - the Sphinx, Black Cat, Mirage, and the legendary Qui Pro Quo - that rivaled those of Berlin. Foreign journalists called Warsaw "the Paris of Eastern Europe."" "Among the luminaries living and working in Warsaw at the time were writers Czeslaw Milosz and Isaac Bashevis Singer, pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (once the prime minister), actress Ida Kaminska, and cabaret star Hanka Ordonowna. Artur Rubinstein performed with the Warsaw Symphony, and George Bernard Shaw premiered some of his plays in Warsaw." "Warsaw: The Cabaret Years paints a vivid picture of a city overflowing with champagne, extravagance, and raucous cabarets, a city that boasted over sixty cinemas but still had unpaved roads. This historical narrative explores a society moving ineluctably toward the disaster of World War II, yet leaving a trail of brilliant achievements."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Shahrzad written by and published by Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to History, reads one of the endless opening pages of this dense paperback. The Shahrzad collective (Shirana Shahbazi, Manuel Krebs, Tirdad Zolghadr) once again tackles geopolitical aesthetics via idiosyncratic linkages of metonymy and allegory, textual poetics and iconic images, blunt content and overbearing design. In the words of the collective: "These days, it seems that even in those prosperous, provincial environs we call the West, history is becoming a more complex affair than the Eurocentric teleology of 'how we ended up the joyous pinnacle of civilization, happy as pigs in shit.'... And yet, throughout this apparent free-for-all, History as we know it persists." The upshot of all that theorizing is a densely and decoratively set compendium of material from Pliny the Elder, Michael Jackson and Christopher Columbus, among other luminaries, set under headings including "The Death of the Historian," "The Great Wall of China," "Mystery" and "Ali G."
Author :James David Hart Publisher :New York : Oxford University Press Release Date :1983 ISBN 10 :UOM:39076006596139 Pages :920 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review The Oxford Companion to American Literature by James David Hart:
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to American Literature written by James David Hart and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.
Author :Edwin De Leon Publisher : Release Date :2005 ISBN 10 :UOM:39015062849727 Pages :224 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Summary Book Review Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad by Edwin De Leon:
Download or read book Secret History of Confederate Diplomacy Abroad written by Edwin De Leon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the South's most urgent priorities in the Civil War was obtaining the recognition of foreign governments. Edwin De Leon, a Confederate propagandist charged with wooing Britain and France, opens up this vital dimension of the war in the earliest known account by a Confederate foreign agent. First published in the New York Citizen in 1867-68, De Leon's memoir subsequently sank out of sight until its recent rediscovery by William C. Davis, one of the Civil War field's true luminaries. Both reflective and engaging, it brims with insights and immediacy lacking in other works, covering everything from the diplomatic impact of the Battle of Bull Run to the candid opinions of Lord Palmerston to the progress of secret negotiations at Vichy. De Leon discusses, among other things, the strong stand against slavery by the French and a frustrating policy of inaction by the British, as well as the troubling perceptions of some Europeans that the Confederacy was located in South America and that most Americans were a cross between Davy Crockett and Sam Slick. With France's recognition a priority, De Leon published pamphlets and used French journals in a futile attempt to sway popular opinion and pressure the government of Napoleon III. His interpretation of the latter's meeting with Confederate diplomat John Slidell and the eventual mediation proposal sheds new light on that signal event. De Leon was a keen observer and a bit of a gossip, and his opinionated details and character portraits help shed light on the dark crevices of the South's doomed diplomatic efforts and provide our only inside look at the workings of Napoleon's court and Parliament regarding the Confederate cause. Davis adds an illuminating introduction that places De Leon's career in historical context, reveals much about his propagandist strategies, and traces the history of the Secret History itself. Together they open up a provocative new window on the Civil War.
Summary Book Review Luminaries in the Natural World by Anna Marie Eleanor Roos:
Download or read book Luminaries in the Natural World written by Anna Marie Eleanor Roos and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that the luminaries were transformed from peerless bodies that radiated powerful forces into objects of scientific study, and in the case of the moon, a place to visit imaginatively with its own geography and probable inhabitants. Utilizing literary, historical, and visual evidence, Luminaries in the Natural World indicates how and why these changes in solar and lunar perceptions occurred among the scientific community from 1400 to 1680, breaking new ground with its emphasis on influences from cartography, astrology, and hermeticism.
Summary Book Review A Diary of the Century by Edward Robb Ellis:
Download or read book A Diary of the Century written by Edward Robb Ellis and published by Kodansha Amer Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a selection from the author's journals, including reflections on his exchanges with such luminaries as Louis Armstrong and Eleanor Roosevelt and countless ordinary people
Author :Timothy Liu Publisher :Talisman House Pub Release Date :2000 ISBN 10 :UOM:39015050709974 Pages :488 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4./5 ( users download)
Download or read book Word of Mouth written by Timothy Liu and published by Talisman House Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in order of the poets' birthdates, so that the book shades gradually from older luminaries of the poetry scene to bright newcomers, an anthology covers a vast range of work by twentieth-century gay American male poets.
Author :Ross Russell Publisher :Univ of California Press Release Date :1971 ISBN 10 :0520018532 Pages :292 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.2/5 (1 users download)
Summary Book Review Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest by Ross Russell:
Download or read book Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest written by Ross Russell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the twenties through the forties, Kansas City was the jazz city. Lester Young, Jack Teagarden, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Charlie Christian, Mary Lou Williams, and Charlie Parker are just a few of the jazz luminaries discussed in Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest, the essential account of the evolution of the Kansas City style from its ragtime roots to the birth of bebop. Book jacket.
Summary Book Review Models of Narrative by David K. Danow:
Download or read book Models of Narrative written by David K. Danow and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-12-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of models in works of literature has been largely overlooked by literary scholars. Models of Narrative undertakes to focus on this often central role. In analyzing the concept and practice of literary modeling, Danow leads the reader on a search for order, patterns, and familiar concepts in literary works. Addressing a wide array of literary works by such luminaries as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Garcia Marquez and Hawthorne, Danow examines these works in terms of 'narrative universals' such as time, space and speech. In addition, he distinguishes between theory and practice, treating the notion of literal and figural relations and offering concrete literary criticism.
Summary Book Review The Journals of Mary Butts by Mary Butts:
Download or read book The Journals of Mary Butts written by Mary Butts and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British modernist writer Mary Butts (1890-1937), now recognized as one of the most important and original authors of the inter-war years, led an unconventional life. She encountered many of the most famous figures in early twentieth-century literature, music, and art and came to know some of them intimately. These luminaries figure prominently in journals in which Butts chronicled the development of her craft between 1916 and her untimely death in 1937. This volume is the first substantial edition of her journals. Introduced and annotated by Nathalie Blondel, the leading authority on Butts's life and works, the book reveals the workings of a complex and distinctive mind while offering insights into her fascinating era.
Download or read book Hazel Scott written by Karen Chilton and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this fascinating biography, Karen Chilton traces the brilliant arc of the gifted and audacious black performer Hazel Scott from international star to ultimate obscurity." "In this first biography of an important but overlooked African American pianist, singer, actor, and activist, Hazel Scott's contributions are finally recognized."--BOOK JACKET.
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