Protecting the Home Front

Protecting the Home Front

Author: Michael Scheibach

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1476672121

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Formed in 1951, the Federal Civil Defense Administration said that "the importance of women in civil defense can scarcely be overstated." Comprising 70 percent or more of civil defense workers at the height of the Cold War, American women served as FCDA wardens, auxiliary police, nurses, home preparedness advisors, coordinators of mass feeding drills, rescue and emergency management personnel, and in various local, state, regional and national organizations. The author examines the diverse roles they filled to promote homeland protection and preparedness at a time when atomic war was an imminent threat.


Hurricane Diane

Hurricane Diane

Author: Madeleine George

Publisher: Concord Theatricals

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 0573708037

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Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and shes returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? In this Obie-winning comedy with a twist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.


Thomas and Friends: Annual 2023

Thomas and Friends: Annual 2023

Author: Thomas & Thomas & Friends

Publisher: Farshore

Published: 2022-08-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780008507664

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Join in with engines old and new in this year's Thomas Annual! Packed full of activities, stories and posters of your engine friends. The Thomas and Friends Annual 2023 iincludes stories from classic Thomas as well as the brand new series, All Engines Go! Full of mazes, spot the differences, colouring pages, quizzes, character facts and posters, this Annual is the perfect Christmas gift for little train lovers! Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for 75 years. He ranks alongside other beloved characters such as Paddington Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage.


Marisol and Warhol Take New York

Marisol and Warhol Take New York

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Publisher: Andy Warhol Museum

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9781735940212

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A tale of two Pop artists in 1960s New York This book charts the emergence of Marisol Escobar (1930-2016) and Andy Warhol (1928-87) in New York during the dawn of Pop art in the early 1960s. Through essays, interviews and prose, the book explores the artists' parallel rise to success, the formation of their artistic personas, their savvy navigation of gallery relationships and the blossoming of their early artistic practices from 1960 to 1968. The exhibition features key loans of Marisol's work from major global collections, along with iconic works and rarely seen films and archival materials from the Andy Warhol Museum's collection. By situating Marisol's work in dialogue with Warhol's, this new collection of writing seeks to reclaim the importance of her art; reframe the strength, originality and daring nature of her work; and reconsider her as one of the leading figures of the Pop era.