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Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1364
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Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sven A. Kirsten
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSouth Sea Dreams around the cocktail bar - on the trail of the forgotten Tiki cult of the Fifties. One of the most bizarre chapters of American Pop Culture awaits rediscovery.
Author: John Klapper
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1571139095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative, critical, historically informed, yet accessible reassessment of writers who remained in Nazi Germany and Austria yet expressed nonconformity - even dissent - through their fiction.
Author: John Updike
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-03-13
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0679645721
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Trapped in their cozy catacombs, the couples have made sex by turns their toy, their glue, their trauma, their therapy, their hope, their frustration, their revenge, their narcotic, their main line of communication and their sole and pitiable shield against the awareness of death.”—Time One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal. Praise for Couples “Couples [is] John Updike’s tour de force of extramarital wanderlust.”—The New York Times Book Review “Ingenious . . . If this is a dirty book, I don’t see how sex can be written about at all.”—Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times Book Review
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1930
Total Pages: 2754
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tim Laman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1426209584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1957
Total Pages: 1672
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)
Author: Sven Kirsten
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Published: 2014-07-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783836555081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolynesian Pop Icon: How Tiki became an American dream Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and architecture. Published in connection with an exhibition at the prestigious Mus�e du quai Branly in Paris, Tiki Pop traces the development of Tiki as romantic vision and cultural appropriation. Follow Tiki from James Cook's first Pacific Island expeditions, through Gauguin's exotic paintings, Hollywood jungle fantasies, and elaborate temples erected to celebrate Tiki as the god of recreation. With hundreds of previously unpublished images, Tiki the pop icon unfolds from its earliest, enthusiastic beginnings to its spectacular downfall in the dawning awareness of the Western world's colonial misdeeds. This book is the culmination of the extensive research of Sven Kirsten, urban archaeologist, Tiki sage, and author of earlier TASCHEN books, The Book of Tiki and Tiki Modern, which first recovered the figure of Tiki from obscurity. In his widely lauded graphic style, Kirsten places venerable ancient godheads next to their Polynesian pop counterparts, movie posters next to matchboxes, comic strips next to Robinson Crusoe illustrations. The result is at once a visual feast, a piece of cultural history, and a tribute to a very particular vision of paradise. Text in English, French, and German