The Waist-high Culture
Author: Thomas Griffith
Publisher:
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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Waist-High in the World
Author: Nancy Mairs
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2001-01-17
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0807070025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.
American Photography and the American Dream
Author: James Guimond
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780807843086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at how documentary photographers have contested the idea of the American dream, and discusses the work of Francis Benjamin Johnston, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, William Klein, Diane Arbus, and Robert Frank
The Official Rules
Author: Paul Dickson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2014-07-28
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0486797171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to Murphy's Law, "If anything can go wrong, it will." This humorous hardcover compilation offers variations on the well-known adage, including comic truths related to business matters, excuses, efficiency, and legal jargon.
The Fifties
Author: Douglas T. Miller
Publisher: VNR AG
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780385112482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the social, cultural, and political history of the United States during the decade of the 1950's.
Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program: Febuary 24, March 2, 9, 2000
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKInventing the American Astronaut
Author: Matthew H. Hersch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-10-08
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1137025298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military men and hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. However, early astronauts were hard-working and determined professionals - 'organization men' - who were calm, calculating, and highly attuned to the politics and celebrity of the Space Race. Many would have been at home in corporate America - and until the first rockets carried humans into space, some seemed to be headed there. Instead, they strapped themselves to missiles and blasted skyward, returning with a smile and an inspiring word for the press. From the early days of Project Mercury to the last moon landing, this lively history demystifies the American astronaut while revealing the warring personalities, raw ambition, and complex motives of the men who were the public face of the space program.
Folk Song Style and Culture
Author: Alan Lomax
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-12
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1351519662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSong and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, according to the methods explained in this volume. Cantometrics, which means song as a measure of man, finds that traditions of singing trace the main historic distributions of human culture and that specific traits of performance are communications about identifiable aspects of society. The predictable and universal relations between expressive communication and social organization, here established for the first time, open up the possibility of a scientific aesthetics, useful to planners.
Bakhtin in Contexts
Author: Amy Mandelker
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1995-11-22
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0810112698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Russian critic M. M. Bakhtin has recently become a major figure in contemporary theory beyond his traditional influence in Slavic literary studies. Bakhtin in Contexts explores the revolutionary impact Bakhtin's ideas have carried in contemporary discussion of language, art, culture, and social science in recent years. The contributors represent a broad range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, epitomizing the views of Russian and American specialists in those fields Bakhtin often referred to as "the human sciences." The diversity of perspective and flexibility of approach make this a unique contribution to Bakhtin studies and to the ongoing dialogue between Western and Russian theorists.
