Everything Explained That Is Explainable
Everything Explained That Is Explainable

Author: Denis Boyles

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0307389782

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Everything Explained That Is Explainable is the audacious, utterly improbable story of the publication of the Eleventh Edition of the legendary Encyclopædia Britannica. It is the tale of a young American entrepreneur who rescued a dying publication with the help of a floundering newspaper, and in so doing produced a series of books that forever changed the face of publishing. Thanks to the efforts of 1,500 contributors, among them a young staff of university graduates as well as some of the most distinguished names of the day, the Eleventh Edition combined scholarship and readability in a way no previous encyclopedia had (or ever has again). Denis Boyles’s work of cultural history pulls back the curtain on the 44-million-word testament to the age of reason that has profoundly shaped the way we see the world.

Life
Life

Author: John Ames Mitchell

Publisher:

Published: 1907

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13:

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Psyche
Psyche

Author: Louis Couperus

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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"Psyche" by Louis Couperus is a twentieth-century reimagining of the ancient fable of Psyche, Eros and Cupid. Written from a Dutch perspective and using Dutch culture as a background, this book is a magical retelling of the Greek and Roman myth. The book is the story of growing into the person you want to be, finding love, gaining courage, and doing what it takes to find your happily ever after.

Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones
Snake Oil, Hustlers and Hambones

Author: Ann Anderson

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1476601127

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Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer. Combining elements of the circus, theater, vaudeville, and good old-fashioned entrepreneurship, the showmen of the American medicine show sold tonics, ointments, pills, extracts and a host of other "wonder-cures," guaranteed to "cure what ails you." While the cures were seldom miraculous, the medicine show was an important part of American culture and of performance history. Harry Houdini, Buster Keaton, and P.T. Barnum all took a turn upon the medicine show stage. This study of the medicine show phenomenon surveys nineteenth century popular entertainment and provides insight into the ways in which show business, advertising, and medicine manufacture developed in concert. The colorful world of the medicine show, with its Wild West shows, pie-eating contests, clowns, and menageries, is fully explored. Photographs of performers and of the fascinating handbills and posters used to promote the medicine show are included.