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Book Lum

    Lum

    Book Details:
  • Author : Libby Ware
  • Publisher : She Writes Press
  • Release : 2015-10-20
  • ISBN : 1631520040
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Lum written by Libby Ware and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lum has always been on the outside. At eight, she was diagnosed with what we now call an intersex condition and is told she can't expect to marry. Now, at thirty-three, she has no home of her own but is shuttled from one relative's house to another—valued for her skills, but never treated like a true member of the family. Everything is turned upside down, however, when the Blue Ridge Parkway is slated to come through her family’s farmland. As people take sides in the fight, the community begins to tear apart—culminating in an act of violence and subsequent betrayal by opponents of the new road. However, the Parkway brings opportunities as well as loss.

Book BERTHA LUM PB

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  • Author : Mary Evans O'Keefe Gravalos
  • Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
  • Release : 1991-03-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book BERTHA LUM PB written by Mary Evans O'Keefe Gravalos and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1991-03-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ART & ARCHITECTURE

Book Lum and Abner

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  • Author : Randal L. Hall
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-12-14
  • ISBN : 081318925X
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Lum and Abner written by Randal L. Hall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s radio stations filled the airwaves with programs and musical performances about rural Americans—farmers and small-town residents struggling through the Great Depression. One of the most popular of these shows was Lum and Abner, the brainchild of Chester "Chet" Lauck and Norris "Tuffy" Goff, two young businessmen from Arkansas. Beginning in 1931 and lasting for more than two decades, the show revolved around the lives of ordinary people in the fictional community of Pine Ridge, based on the hamlet of Waters, Arkansas. The title characters, who are farmers, local officials, and the keepers of the Jot 'Em Down Store, manage to entangle themselves in a variety of hilarious dilemmas. The program's gentle humor and often complex characters had wide appeal both to rural southerners, who were accustomed to being the butt of jokes in the national media, and to urban listeners who were fascinated by descriptions of life in the American countryside. Lum and Abner was characterized by the snappy, verbal comedic dueling that became popular on radio programs of the 1930s. Using this format, Lauck and Goff allowed their characters to subvert traditional authority and to poke fun at common misconceptions about rural life. The show also featured hillbilly and other popular music, an innovation that drew a bigger audience. As a result, Arkansas experienced a boom in tourism, and southern listeners began to immerse themselves in a new national popular culture. In Lum and Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age of Radio, historian Randal L. Hall explains the history and importance of the program, its creators, and its national audience. He also presents a treasure trove of twenty-nine previously unavailable scripts from the show's earliest period, scripts that reveal much about the Great Depression, rural life, hillbilly stereotypes, and a seminal period of American radio.

Book Everything Is Relevant

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  • Author : Ken Lum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-01-31
  • ISBN : 9781988111001
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Everything Is Relevant written by Ken Lum and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything is Relevant: Writings on Art and Life, 1991-2018 brings together texts by Canadian artist Ken Lum. They include diary entries, articles, catalogue essays, curatorial statements, a letter to an editor, and more. Along the way, the reader learns about late modern, postmodern, and contemporary art practices, as well as debates around issues such as race, class, and monumentality. Penetrating, insightful, and often moving, Lum's writings are essential for understanding his varied practice, which has often been prescient of developments within contemporary art.

Book The Nanjing Massacre

Download or read book The Nanjing Massacre written by Wing Tek Lum and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The subject is the notorious Japanese occupation of Nanjing, China, in 1937. The poems capture all perspectives of the tragedy--from the weary, casually cruel Japanese soldiers to the uncomprehending child victims, and from the desperate helpless parents and the brutalized comfort women to the bloodless yet vicious bureaucrats of death."--P. 4 of cover.

Book Damned Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Gin Lum
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 0199843112
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Damned Nation written by Kathryn Gin Lum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the world. Kathryn Gin Lum poses a number of vital questions: Why did the fear of hell survive Enlightenment critiques in America, after largely subsiding in Europe and elsewhere? What were the consequences for early and antebellum Americans of living with the fear of seeing themselves and many people they knew eternally damned? How did they live under the weighty obligation to save as many souls as possible? What about those who rejected this sense of obligation and fear? Gin Lum shows that beneath early Americans' vaunted millennial optimism lurked a pervasive anxiety: that rather than being favored by God, they and their nation might be the object of divine wrath.

Book The Return of Lum  Urusei Yatsura

Download or read book The Return of Lum Urusei Yatsura written by Rumiko Takahashi and published by . This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ran's jealous heart gets the best of her again, she launches two ill-conceived plans to try to steal Ataru from Lum. Plus, Sakura concocts a love potion, Ten molts his horns, and a ghost cat haunts the Moroboshi household.

Book Other Wordly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yee-Lum Mak
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2016-10-11
  • ISBN : 1452163111
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book Other Wordly written by Yee-Lum Mak and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible ebook for lovers of words and those lost for words alike.

Book Awkwafina s NYC

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  • Author : Nora Lum
  • Publisher : Potter Style
  • Release : 2015-04-14
  • ISBN : 0804185379
  • Pages : 716 pages

Download or read book Awkwafina s NYC written by Nora Lum and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking shoes? Check. Metrocard? Check. Sombrero? (Just a suggestion.) ONWARD! Let Awkwafina—the Queens-born rap artist of “NYC Bitches” fame—be your guide to the hidden gems of New York City (natives, we’re talking to you, too.) with 10 walking tour adventures that you don’t need a trust fund to enjoy. Travel back in time exploring revolutionary-era Tottenville or Louis Armstrong's house in Corona. Gorge yourself on the haute-cuisine of the street-savvy, from authentic pierogi in Little Poland to steam dumplings in Flushing. Roll with Awkwafina, and she’ll show you the neighborhoods you never knew you were missing (and a few you were missing the point of). This edition includes enhaced features that allow you to connect to a map from each checkpoint and plot your next moves at the click of a button.

Book Mule Trader

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  • Author : William R. Ferris
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2010-12-01
  • ISBN : 1604735554
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Mule Trader written by William R. Ferris and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mule trader's tales from a culture enriched by his fascinating presence

Book Instant Pot Recipe Collection

Download or read book Instant Pot Recipe Collection written by Flo Lum and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 50,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel, Flo Lum has 3 years of experience creating simple and delicious Instant Pot recipes that have helped and inspired thousands of viewers.Did you buy an Instant Pot because everyone seems to have one? Is it sitting idle in your cupboard? Whether you are new to pressure cooking or a seasoned cook, you will enjoy making these flavourful recipes for your family. These easy recipes are just some of our family favourites and we hope they will be yours too. It brings me great joy to teach and inspire people to make simple and delicious meals!"You make the THE BEST Instant pot videos! You actually season your food and use more advanced techniques, instead of throwing it all in and making a bland mess. Please keep sharing them. I'm getting one for Christmas and I'm watching all of your videos to prepare." - bizaeralkia, YouTube subscriber"Have made several of your instant pot recipes and a big thumbs up to you. Well done. We are enjoying them and look forward to many more." - Doris Powell, YouTube subscriber"Thanks so much for sharing your story. I started watching your instant pot videos and have learned a lot, been entertained, and reminded of Grandma wisdom I had forgotten over the years. So many practical and sensible recipes and ideas from such a young couple. Please keep sharing your story!" - Starla Manley, YouTube subscriber"Flo and Dude, thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipes! Though I have Instant Pot cook books, I often cook from your YouTube videos. Thank you again!!" - Randy Fukuda, YouTube subscriber"LOVE your channel! Thanks for sharing :) I watched all of your instant pot videos, after 2 months of having one I finally found the confidence to open it and cook something. I've never looked back :)" - Virginia Perkinson, YouTube subscriber

Book Evidence based Policing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthia M. Lum
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9780198719946
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Evidence based Policing written by Cynthia M. Lum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that evidence-based policing is not just the process of evaluating police practices, but also about translating that knowledge into digestible and useable forms, as well as institutionalizing research processes and findings into everyday policing systems so that research can be used.

Book The Moon Pearl

Download or read book The Moon Pearl written by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-09-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Thousand Pieces of Gold comes The Moon Pearl, the story of Rooster, Shadow, and Mei Ju, who become fast friends while members of a girls’ house, where young daughters are taught to become daughters-in-law. These girls, however, want neither to marry nor become nuns (the only options open to them at this time). They choose instead to support themselves through their skills in embroidery and silk production. Though ostracized by their families, attacked, and barely able to find sustenance and shelter, these sze saw, or self-combers as they will come to be called, manage to create lives that they alone control. An amazing true-life story, The Moon Pearl offers an empowering vision of womanhood in China.

Book A Comparative Study of Islamic Finance in Australia and the UK

Download or read book A Comparative Study of Islamic Finance in Australia and the UK written by Imran Lum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides valuable insights into the practical challenges faced by the nascent Islamic finance industry and compares the Australian experience to developments in the UK. It contributes to a greater understanding of how Muslims living as a minority in Australia and the UK negotiate Islamic doctrine in secular societies by focusing on one aspect of this negotiation, namely the prohibition of ribā. There is little debate in the Islamic tradition on the prohibition of ribā. The differences, however, lie in the interpretation of ribā and the question of how Muslims live in a society that is heavily reliant on interest and conventional banking, yet at the same time adhere to Islamic guidelines. Through the words of religious leaders, Muslim professionals and university students, Imran Lum provides real accounts of how Muslims in Australia and the UK practically deal with conventional banking and finance products such as home loans, savings accounts and credit cards. He also explores Muslim attitudes towards Islamic finance and queries whether religion is the sole determining factor when it comes to its uptake. Drawing on his own unique experience as a practitioner responsible for growing an Islamic business in a conventional bank, Lum provides a firsthand account of the complexities associated with structuring Islamic finance products that are not only sharia compliant but also competitive in a non-Muslim jurisdiction. Using ṣukūk bonds as a case study, he highlights the tangible and non-tangible barriers to product development, such as tax and regulatory requirements and the rise of Islamophobia. Combining academic and industry experience, Lum unpacks the relationship of Islamic finance with Muslim identity construction in the West and how certain modalities of religiosity can lead to an uptake of Islamic finance, while others can lead to its rejection.

Book The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary

Download or read book The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Return Lum  Vol  2

Download or read book The Return Lum Vol 2 written by Rumiko Takahashi and published by Viz Media. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the academic year ends, Lum and friends enjoy a vacation at Mendo's villa. Highlights of the summer are two episodes of grand bikini theft, an all-you-can-eat buffet that reveals the secret of Sakura's shapely figure, a contortionist yoga class, and a party-crashing sea monster.