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Author: Robert C. Hoffman
Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2001-10
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780757001055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSanta Claus, that most magical of fellows whose very name evokes the spirit of the season, is one of the holiday's most beloved icons. His mere presence manages to narrow generation gaps, brighten cold, dark December days, and elicit the spirit of giving in people everywhere.
Author: Robert Reed
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781574322903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterpersonal Skills and Health Professional Issues, third edition, prepares students for effective communication in a health professional role. The text provides the skills and strategies needed for health professionals to engage and better motivate patients. The text offers an ideal model for nonverbal communication and emphasizes how to read the “unspoken message”. Interpersonal Skills and Health Professional Issues is unique in its comprehensiveness, covering the communications and emotional experiences of the patient world and a framework for multicultural understanding. Case studies and exercises enhance the textbook experience, providing readers with a deeper understanding of how to reach patients and their families.
Author: Agatha E. Gilmore
Publisher: Red Rock Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781933176000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Santa Claus has come in many guises as these antique Christmas cards reveal," writes Aggie Gilmore in her introduction to this unique collection of cards from around around the world. Santa has worn yellow. He has worn green. He has worn purple. Before he became fat and jolly, he was lean, even mean. He has traveled on snowshoes, by goat-cart and on a donkey. St. Nick's roots go back to ancient Roman clowns and an early Christian saint from Turkey. His elves hail from Finland. Ms. Gilmore lightly and brightly explains the several versions of Santa featured on Christmas cards since their invention a century and a half ago. Each card here is a small work of art and a window onto Christmas past. The collection can be kept intact, or cards may be detatched.
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2012-02-15
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0547951906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s children. Inside would be a letter in a strange, spidery handwriting and a beautiful colored drawing or painting. The letters were from Father Christmas. They told wonderful tales of life at the North Pole: how the reindeer got loose and scattered presents all over the place; how the accident-prone North Polar Bear climbed the North Pole and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house into the dining room; how he broke the Moon into four pieces and made the Man in it fall into the back garden; how there were wars with the troublesome horde of goblins who lived in the caves beneath the house, and many more. No reader, young or old, can fail to be charmed by Tolkien’s inventiveness in this classic holiday treat.
Author: Monte Beauchamp
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780867197471
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith an additional 32 pages, superior printing and a secure hardcover binding, Krampus! picks up where the paperback edition of The Devil in Design (Fantagraphics, 2003) left off. In the early Christmas traditions of Western Europe, the Krampus was St. Nicholas' dark servant - a hairy, horned, supernatural beast whose pointed ears and long slithering tongue gave misbehaving children the creeps! Whereas St. Nick would reward children who had been good all year, those that had behaved badly were visited by the Krampus.
Author: György Buday
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Barbara Andrews
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-10-15
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1440234930
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exciting overview of the manufacturers, design and subject matter used in 19th and 20th century American postcards.
Author: Daniel Gifford
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-09-05
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 0786478179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early 20th century, postcards were one of the most important and popular expressions of holiday sentiment in American culture. Millions of such postcards circulated among networks of community and kin as part of a larger American postcard craze. However, their uses and meanings were far from universal. This book argues that holiday postcards circulated primarily among rural and small town, Northern, white women with Anglo-Saxon and Germanic heritages. Through analysis of a broad range of sources, Daniel Gifford recreates the history of postcards to account for these specific audiences, and reconsiders the postcard phenomenon as an image-based conversation among exclusive groups of Americans. A variety of narratives are thus revealed: the debates generated by the Country Life Movement; the empowering manifestations of the New Woman; the civic privileges of whiteness; and the role of emerging technologies. From Santa Claus to Easter bunnies, flag-waving turkeys to gun-toting cupids, holiday postcards at first seem to be amusing expressions of a halcyon past. Yet with knowledge of audience and historical conflicts, this book demonstrates how the postcard images reveal deep divides at the height of the Progressive Era.
Author: George J. Lankevich
Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780757001000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough images that span half a century, "Postcards from Times Square" presents pictures of an era that has been the home of movie palaces and playhouses, of elite restaurants and fast food chains, and of the best-known New Year's celebration in the world. 100 postcards.
Author: Suzanne Presley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1990-09-01
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780486264097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNothing says "Merry Christmas" like greetings from Santa Claus! Antique cards, most from the turn of the 20th century, offer a unique and jolly way to extend best holiday wishes.
