Radio Voices

Radio Voices

Author: Michele Hilmes

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780816626212

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Looks at the history of radio broadcasting as an aspect of American culture, and discusses social tensions, radio formats, and the roles of African Americans and women


Mapping the Terrain

Mapping the Terrain

Author: Suzanne Lacy

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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"In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... "--Amazon.


Monster theory [electronic resource]

Monster theory [electronic resource]

Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1996-11-15

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1452900558

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The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. Through a historical sampling of monsters, these essays argue that our fascination for the monstrous testifies to our continued desire to explore difference and prohibition.


The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick

The Encyclopedia of Stanley Kubrick

Author: Gene D. Phillips

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780816043880

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Surveys the director's life and career with information on his films, key people in his life, technical information, themes, locations, and film theory.


Discovering Texas History

Discovering Texas History

Author: Bruce A. Glasrud

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2014-09-09

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0806147849

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"'Discovering Texas History' is a historiographical reference book that will be invaluable to teachers, students, and researchers of Texas history. Chapter authors are familiar names in Texas history circles--a 'who's who' of high profile historians. Conceived as a follow-up to the award winning (but increasingly dated) 'A Guide the History of Texas' (1988), 'Discovering Texas History' focuses on the major trends in the study of Texas history since 1990. In part one, topical essays address significant historical themes, from race and gender to the arts and urban history. In part two, chronological essays cover the full span of Texas historiography from the Spanish era to the modern day. In each case, the goal is to analyze and summarize the subjects that have captured the attention of professional historians so that 'Discovering Texas History' will take its place as the standard work on the history of Texas history"--


500 Years of New Words

500 Years of New Words

Author: Bill Sherk

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2004-09

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1550025252

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If you ever use words and find yourself wondering where they came from, who wrote them first, and why they became necessary, then you will savour 500 Years of New Words, a new volume that takes you on an exciting journey through the English language from the days before Shakespeare to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The entries are arranged not alphabetically but in chronological order based on the earliest known year that each word was printed or written down.


Bandit Country

Bandit Country

Author: Toby Harnden

Publisher:

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780340980941

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South Armagh was firstdescribed as "Bandit Country" by Merlyn Rees when he was Northern Ireland's Secretary of State, and for nearly three decades it has been the most dangerous posting in the world for soldiers. Toby Harnden has stripped away the myth and propaganda associated with South Armagh to produce one of the most compelling and important books of the subject. Drawing on secret documents and interviews in South Armagh s recent history, he tells the inside story of how the IRA came close to bringing the British state to its knees. For the first time, the identities of the men behind the South Quay and Manchester bombings are revealed. Packed with new information, "Bandit Country" penetrates the IRA and the security forces in South Armagh."


Deviant Women

Deviant Women

Author: Tiina Mäntymäki

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783631643297

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This volume explores the representation of female deviance from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives in a wide range of texts across time, cultures and genres. In this way, it elucidates a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity as well as diverse sites of negotiations of female resistance.


Coronado's Children

Coronado's Children

Author: J. Frank Dobie

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0292789408

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“This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas.” —Basic Texas Books Written in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. “These people,” Dobie writes in his introduction, “no matter what language they speak, are truly Coronado’s inheritors . . . I have called them Coronado’s children. They follow Spanish trails, buffalo trails, cow trails, they dig where there are no trails; but oftener than they dig or prospect they just sit and tell stories of lost mines, of buried bullion by the jack load . . .” This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses. “As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays.” —The New York Times “Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night.” —Chicago Evening Post


America's National Game

America's National Game

Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13:

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This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.