Download or read book Cheap Amusements written by Kathy Peiss and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.
Download or read book Amusements in Mathematics written by Henry Ernest Dudeney and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney
Download or read book With Amusement for All written by LeRoy Ashby and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.
Download or read book Wheels Life and Other Mathematical Amusements written by Martin Gardner and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This is the original 1983 edition and contains columns published from 1970-1972. It includes three columns on the game of Life.
Download or read book Rough Amusements written by Ben Neihart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire Madame C.J. Walker (the washerwoman who marketed the most successful straightening technique for African American hair), A'Lelia was America's first black poor little rich girl, using her inheritance to throw elaborate, celebrity-packed parties in her Westchester Mansion and her 136th Street would-be salon, 'Dark Tower'. In Rough Amusements, third in Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series, Neihart takes us into the heart of A'Lelia's world-gay Harlem in the 1920s. In tracing its cultural antecedents, he delves into the sexual subculture of nineteenth-century New York, exploring mixed-race prostitution; the bachelorization of New York society; French Balls ("the most sophisticated forum for testing the boundaries of urban sexual behavior"); and The Slide (New York's most depraved nineteenth-century bar). Using A'Lelia's lavish parties as a jumping-off point, Neihart traces the line connecting Davy Crockett's world without women to Walt Whitman's boundless love of beautiful men to A'Lelia's cultivation of the racial, social, and sexual risk that defined the Harlem Renaissance.
Download or read book Amusement Park Rides written by Martin Easdown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ride on a rollercoaster is the highlight of any trip to an amusement or theme park, and such attractions have been entertaining the public for well over a century. From the first mass-produced rollercoaster, the Switchback Railway, through to the giant wooden coasters of the inter-war period, seaside historian Martin Easdown uses historic postcards and photographs to chart their development and that of other amusement rides including revolving towers, aerial rides, Ferris wheels and water chutes, all of which were produced from the late Victorian era in myriad forms. Essential to the very existence of such amusement venues as Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Margate Dreamland, these much-loved rides are not so far removed from their modern-day equivalents as they might at first appear.
Download or read book Going Out written by David Nasaw and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were overrepresented in parodic form on stage. This stigmatization of the African American, Nasaw argues, was the glue that cemented an otherwise disparate audience, muting social distinctions among "whites," and creating a common national culture.
Download or read book Action Park written by Andy Mulvihill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Citizen Kane does Adventureland." —The Washington Post The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son. Often called "Accident Park," "Class Action Park," or "Traction Park," Action Park was an American icon. Entertaining more than a million people a year in the 1980s, the New Jersey-based amusement playland placed no limits on danger or fun, a monument to the anything-goes spirit of the era that left guests in control of their own adventures--sometimes with tragic results. Though it closed its doors in 1996 after nearly twenty years, it has remained a subject of constant fascination ever since, an establishment completely anathema to our modern culture of rules and safety. Action Park is the first-ever unvarnished look at the history of this DIY Disneyland, as seen through the eyes of Andy Mulvihill, the son of the park's idiosyncratic founder, Gene Mulvihill. From his early days testing precarious rides to working his way up to chief lifeguard of the infamous Wave Pool to later helping run the whole park, Andy's story is equal parts hilarious and moving, chronicling the life and death of a uniquely American attraction, a wet and wild 1980s adolescence, and a son's struggle to understand his father's quixotic quest to become the Walt Disney of New Jersey. Packing in all of the excitement of a day at Action Park, this is destined to be one of the most unforgettable memoirs of the year.
Download or read book Worldly Amusements written by William Wistar Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hand Book of Useful and Ornamental Amusements and Accomplishments Including Artificial Flower Making Engraving Etching Painting in All its Styles Modelling Carving in Wood Ivory and Shell also Fancy Work of Every Description written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book Activities and Amusements at Camp Funston written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on War Claims and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to a Friend on Fashionable Amusements written by Benevolus and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amusement written by Albany Walker and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amusement is the darkly sweet duel POV stalker romance you didn't know you needed. Love isn't found it's unavoidable. My life seems rather simple from the outside. I'm the devoted daughter to a former rodeo champion. I never wanted to follow my mother's footsteps into the arena. My boots are firmly planted in the dirt on our family farm, but an accident changed everything. Now I spend my nights on a stage, and my days in the barn. Dancing has paid the bills for the past two years, but no one knows my secret. Or so I thought. She's everything I shouldn't want, but exactly what I crave. She bleeds innocence the way I radiate darkness. The moment she walked into my club, she was mine. She just didn't know it. I'll be the one to ruin her, and she will love every second.
Download or read book Christianity and Amusements written by Richard Henry Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relation of Public Amusements to Public Morality Especially of the Theatre to the Highest Interests of Humanity written by Henry Whitney Bellows and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Amusements of a Man of Fashion A Novel written by Norman Nugent and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cassell s book of in door amusements card games and fireside fun written by Cassell, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
