Celebration of American Life
Title | Celebration of American Life PDF eBook |
Author | Barb Adams |
Publisher | Kansas City Star Books |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2002-10 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9780972273930 |
This much-talked about block-of-the-month project published in The Kansas City Star is available as a book! The patterns celebrate America's greatest virtues, such as Liberty, Opportunity, Diversity, Humor and more. Created by best-selling authors and the women of Blackbird Designs, the book also features six projects.
All Around the Year
Title | All Around the Year PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Santino |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780252065163 |
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.
Listening is an Act of Love
Title | Listening is an Act of Love PDF eBook |
Author | David Isay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Interviews |
ISBN | 9781429555500 |
Commentary In American Life
Title | Commentary In American Life PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Friedman |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1592131069 |
Founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945 as a monthly journal of "significant thought and opinion, Jewish affairs and contemporary issues," Commentary magazine has through the years had a far-reaching impact on American politics and culture. Commentary in American Life traces this influence over time, especially in creating the neoconservative movement. The authors of each chapter also consider the ways the magazine shaped and reflected major cultural and literary trends in the United States. The end result offers a full accounting of one of the most important journals of American political thought, providing insight into the development of American collective politics and culture over the last six decades.
Kentucky
Title | Kentucky PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Lowe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 125 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Kentucky |
ISBN |
We Gather Together
Title | We Gather Together PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore Carl Humphrey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN |
This book is about gatherings and food and about how people come together to create meaningful bonds. Discusses the role of foods and the bahaviors associated with those foods in such festive events as clambakes, barbecues, birthday parties, Seders, Halloween, and Old Folks Days, among others. Contains recipes.
Listening is an Act of Love
Title | Listening is an Act of Love PDF eBook |
Author | David Isay |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781594201400 |
Companion CD features 18 stories transcribed and printed in the book Listening is an Act of Love, plus one bonus story.