Download or read book Traditional Chinese Folk Customs written by Zhengming Du and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Traditional Chinese Folk Customs provides the reader with a kaleidoscopic view of social and cultural phenomena in various different areas and ethnic communities in China, in both ancient times and the present. Although the extent to which such old customs are still prevalent in Chinese society today varies, these traditions have had an undeniable impact on the contemporary Chinese way of life. Furthermore, given the growing consciousness of the importance of protecting traditional cultures, a number of folk customs that had once fallen to the verge of extinction are now being recovered, while others are still often found in Chinese literary works even if they have fallen out of common usage. As such, this book offers interesting insights into an often overlooked aspect of Chinese culture"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Got a Revolution written by Jeff Tamarkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most successful and influential rock band to emerge from San Francisco during the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane created the sound of a generation. Their smash hits "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit" virtually invented the era's signature pulsating psychedelic music and, during one of the most tumultuous times in American history, came to personify the decade's radical counterculture. In this groundbreaking biography of the band, veteran music writer and historian Jeff Tamarkin produces a portrait of the band like none that has come before it. Having worked closely with Jefferson Airplane for more than a decade, Tamarkin had unprecedented access to the band members, their families, friends, lovers, crew members, fellow musicians, cultural luminaries, even the highest-ranking politicians of the time. More than just a definitive history, Got a Revolution! is a rock legend unto itself. Jann Wenner, editor-in-chief and publisher of Rolling Stone, wrote, "The classic [Jefferson] Airplane lineup were both architects and messengers of a psychedelic age, a liberation of mind and body that profoundly changed American art, politics, and spirituality. It was a renaissance that could only have been born in San Francisco, and the Airplane, more than any other band in town, spread the good news nationwide."
Download or read book The History of Ancient Greek Sports and Athletic Festivals written by Edward Norman Gardiner and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The first part of this book is dedicated solely to the history of Greek athletics. The second part is more technical, though it may perhaps appeal to those who are actively interested in athletics. It consists of a number of chapters, each complete in itself, dealing with the details of Greek athletics. Content: History of Greek Athletics and Athletic Festivals From the Earliest Times to 393 A.D. Athletics in Homer The Rise of the Athletic Festival The Age of Athletic Festivals, Sixth Century B.C. The Age of the Athletic Ideal, 500-440 B.C. Professionalism and Specialization, 440-338 B.C. The Decline of Athletics, 338-146 B.C. Athletics under the Romans The Olympic Festival The Pythian, Isthmian, and Nemean Festivals The Athletic Festivals of Athens The Athletic Exercises of the Greeks The Stadium The Foot-Race The Jump and Halteres Throwing the Diskos Throwing the Javelin The Pentathlon Wrestling Boxing The Pankration The Hippodrome The Gymnasium and the Palaestra
Download or read book Woodstock Then and Now written by Alex Ludwig and published by Clemson University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 1969, a dairy farm in the state of New York hosted a pivotal moment in the history of pop music. Taking place only two years after the “Summer of Love” and one year after the tumultuous events of 1968, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair put an exclamation point on the transformational decade of the 1960s. Joni Mitchell did not attend Woodstock, but her song of the same name captures an opposition inherent to the turbulent and divisive era. “We are stardust . . . caught in the devil’s bargain,” Mitchell sings, “and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden.” In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, Berklee College of Music hosted a week-long celebration that included conversations with luminaries from the era. Participants included Woodstock co-founder, Michael Lang; emcee, stage and lighting designer, Chip Monck; audio engineer, Bill Hanley; photographers Henry Diltz and Elliott Landy; public relations officer, Rona Elliot; and Gerardo Velez, drummer for Jimi Hendrix. Woodstock Then and Now commemorates the discussion between these Woodstock luminaries, making available the transcripts of this historic event.
Download or read book Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals written by Edward Norman Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Events Management written by Charles Bladen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary events management is a diverse and challenging field. This introductory textbook fully explores the multidisciplinary nature of events management and provides the student with all the practical skills and professional knowledge they need to succeed in the events industry. It introduces every core functional area of events management, such as marketing, finance, project management, strategy, operations, event design and human resources, in a vast array of different event settings from sport to political events. This new edition has been updated to include: New and updated content on technological developments in events such as virtual/hybrid events, artificial intelligence, virtual/augmented reality, holograms in music events, software for event planning and projection mapping. New content on eSports, the sustainability sector, employability skills, policy changes, diversity and inclusion, ethics and responsibility in events, and contemporary event safety and security issues including the threat of terrorism. New and updated case studies that cover a wider range of regions. A fully updated and extended companion website that includes web and video links, quizzes and a case study archive for students, as well as PowerPoint slides for instructors and a brand-new instructor manual full of teaching strategy ideas. Every topic is brought to life through vivid case studies, personal biographies and examples of best practice from the real world of events management. Written by a team of authors with many years’ experience of working in the events industry, Events Management: An Introduction is the essential course text for any events management programme.
Download or read book The Brown Mama Mindset written by Muffy Mendoza and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Brown Mama Mindset is a blueprint for Black moms on life, love and home. Single moms and married moms alike will find a set of parenting principles that will guide African-American moms on a journey to: Efficiently manifest your life's purpose on a timeline that is conducive to raising happy, healthy and well-rounded children. Engage in productive relationships from a place of self-love and abundance, rather than control and lack. View your home and the role of being a Brown Mama for what it really is: your own personal breeding ground for self-mastery. Rather than telling you how to be a mother, this book will help you understand that motherhood is not just about taking care of your children, it's about transforming into the woman that you are divinely destined to be.
Download or read book Festivals Tourism and Social Change written by David Picard and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edied work explores the linkages between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilises the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, this book examines the festivals as ways of responding to various forms of crisis.
Download or read book Faiths and Festivals written by Christine Howard and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-have guide for early years practitioners designed to help explain world religions and festivals to young children in a way that is meaningful to them. This guide is designed to be a practical guide to explaining the main five world faiths to young children, as well some lesser-known faiths to young children in a way that makes sense to young children. The book is also full of activity ideas to tie in to a range of religious festivals throughout the year. Each festival contains background information on the festival and why it first started, as well as activities to encourage children's learning. Introducing young children is vital in our multi-cultural and multi-faith society, and this title will provide all early years practitioners with ideas on how to teach children to value diversity and respect other children's views and backgrounds.
Download or read book The Right to the Smart City written by Paolo Cardullo and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, Smart Cities initiatives are pursued which reproduce the interests of capital and neoliberal government, rather than wider public good. This book explores smart urbanism and 'the right to the city', examining citizenship, social justice, commoning, civic participation, and co-creation to imagine a different kind of Smart City.
Download or read book LIFE Woodstock at 50 written by The Editors of LIFE and published by Time Home Entertainment. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of LIFE Magazine present Woodstock at 50.
Download or read book ORDINARY LIFE FESTIVAL DAYS PB written by Leslie Mina Prosterman and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1995 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prosterman shows that the criteria for a good cow, a beautiful quilt, and an excellent squash remain the same at a structural level: straight lines, harmonious combinations, balance, evenness, symmetry. --from back cover.
Download or read book Tom Wolfe s America written by Kevin T. McEneaney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities remain perhaps his best-known works, Tom Wolfe's journalism and fiction continues to enjoy a large audience, perhaps chiefly because of the variety of his subjects and his controversial approach to them. Here, McEneaney offers an account of the man and his works, explaining along the way Wolfe's use of irony, his obsessive themes, and even his use of pranks. More comprehensive in scope than any preceding book on Wolfe, it offers accurate and accessible commentary based upon what Wolfe admits about his own work. In this new book, Wolfe's work is put in journalistic and literary context. The reliability of Wolfe's journalism is discussed, especially when there are alternative narrations to events he has depicted. McEneaney also examines the Wolfe's use of pranks that he plays on readers at times, and uncovers the influences on Wolfe that have contributed to his unique style. Finally, the author discusses Wolfe's impact on other writers. Readers will gain access into Wolfe's world through this detailed and colorful work.
Download or read book Wine and Punishment written by S. Fox and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2019 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the first in an engaging new mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Sarah Fox, the owner of a charming literary pub finds her fresh start on the rocks thanks to a case of murder." -- Publisher annotation.
Download or read book Zen Dust written by Antony Osler and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip down the lesser-known back roads of the Karoo, from Kimberley to Colesburg, this account finds divinity in the dust and Buddha in every pothole in South Africa. With gentle wisdom and deep compassion, the author connects with the people he meets along the way and shares their stories, past and present, as well as his own personal history and insights. The road is sprinkled with his special brand of poetry and interwoven with a fresh telling of the tale of Gotama, the man who would become Buddha.
Download or read book The Crossbow Murders an Asheville Mystery written by Kenneth Butcher and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Someone kills a master artist in his studio. Lt. Segal and his partner, Walter, race to the River Arts District to investigate. Weapon of choice? Crossbow. Quirky, even for Asheville. A new cop, Dinah, arrives to assist. Smart, athletic and absolutely fearless, Segal is impressed and welcomes her to the team. Segal’s life gets complicated. The victim was the brother of North Carolina’s first lady. Segal can’t decide if she is sincere or devious, but he can’t deny a powerful attraction. A second murder is discovered. Different part of town, different weapon, but none-the-less related to the first. Possible serial killer? The investigation leads Segal’s team through more twists and turns than the mountain roads around the city. From fifteenth century art, to Romeo and Juliet, shady real estate deals to crooked politicians and amateur militia of gun-worshiping louts, will the team be able to crack this case before disaster at the Renaissance fair?
Download or read book White Utopias written by Amanda J. Lucia and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformational festivals, from Burning Man to Lightning in a Bottle, Bhakti Fest, and Wanderlust, are massive events that attract thousands of participants to sites around the world. In this groundbreaking book, Amanda J. Lucia shows how these festivals operate as religious institutions for "spiritual, but not religious" (SBNR) communities. Whereas previous research into SBNR practices and New Age religion has not addressed the predominantly white makeup of these communities, White Utopias examines the complicated, often contradictory relationships with race at these events, presenting an engrossing ethnography of SBNR practices. Lucia contends that participants create temporary utopias through their shared commitments to spiritual growth and human connection. But they also participate in religious exoticism by adopting Indigenous and Indic spiritualities, a practice that ultimately renders them exclusive, white utopias. Focusing on yoga's role in disseminating SBNR values, Lucia offers new ways of comprehending transformational festivals as significant cultural phenomena.
