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Book Why We Love Parades

Download or read book Why We Love Parades written by Doug Matthews and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do millions of people attend the victory parades of winning sports teams, travel across the world to attend a carnival, march and chant for social justice, cheer homecoming soldiers, or watch enraptured as a princess or celebrity rides in a stately coach to their wedding? The author answers these questions and more in this unique examination of the great parades and processions of history. Part chronology, part social history, this book outlines why parades are more than the simplistic, ephemeral entertainment we sometimes assume them to be, as people are often deeply affected by regalia, costumes and uniforms, dances and floats. The book traces the fascinating origins and development of carnival parades, religious processions, protest marches, victory parades, circus parades, parade floats, ship sail-pasts and aerial fly-pasts.

Book The Personality of American Cities

Download or read book The Personality of American Cities written by Edward Hungerford and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Seeking Higher Ground

Download or read book Seeking Higher Ground written by M. Marable and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina of August-September 2005, one of the most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history, dramatically illustrated the continuing racial and class inequalities of America. In this powerful reader, Seeking Higher Ground, prominent scholars and writers examine the racial impact of the disaster and the failure of governmental, corporate and private agencies to respond to the plight of the New Orleans black community. Contributing authors include Julianne Malveaux, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Ronald Walters, Chester Hartman, Gregory D. Squires, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Alan Stein, and Gene Preuss. This reader is the second volume of the Souls Critical Black Studies Series, edited by Manning Marable, and produced by the institute for Research in African-American Studies of Columbia University.

Book Reports and Documents

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 2366 pages

Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 2366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leading the Parade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Burgess
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2019-02-08
  • ISBN : 1475848854
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Leading the Parade written by Janet Burgess and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading the Parade is a book for teachers and leaders who are faced with the task of leading teams of peers. With little formal training and more responsibilities, teacher leaders seek answers and direction that will help them build strong professional teams to support student learning. Using a leadership framework followed by Q/A’s, the author helps leaders understand the dynamics in which they are working and provides answers, useful tools, resources, activities and conversation starters that move teams forward.

Book Parade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerry S Grafstein
  • Publisher : Mosaic Press
  • Release : 2017-10-27
  • ISBN : 177161241X
  • Pages : 670 pages

Download or read book Parade written by Jerry S Grafstein and published by Mosaic Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parade – A Tribute to Remarkable Contemporaries compiles many of the Honourable Jerry S. Grafstein’s greatest speeches and tributes from over three decades in politics and public office. With chapters on renowned Canadian political and cultural figures such as Morley Callaghan, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Joe Clark, Oscar Peterson and Peter Gzowski, together these tributes offer a rich portrait of individuals that have shaped Canada and the world.

Book Chicago s Italians

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  • Author : Dominic Candeloro
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780738524566
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Chicago s Italians written by Dominic Candeloro and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1850, Chicago has felt the benefits of a vital Italian presence. These immigrants formed much of the unskilled workforce employed to build up this and many other major U.S. cities. From often meager and humble beginnings, Italians built and congregated in neighborhoods that came to define the Chicago landscape. Post-World War II development threatened this communal lifestyle, and subsequent generations of Italian Americans have been forced to face new challenges to retain their ethnic heritage and identity in a changing world. With the city's support, they are succeeding.

Book Silent Parade

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  • Author : Keigo Higashino
  • Publisher : Minotaur Books
  • Release : 2021-12-14
  • ISBN : 1250624827
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book Silent Parade written by Keigo Higashino and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With its stopwatch timing, locked-room murder and perplexing abundance of alibis.... Readers are in store for plenty of surprises." —Wall Street Journal Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in Silent Parade, a complex and challenging mystery—several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence. A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There’s a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn’t indicted, he returns to mock the girl’s family. And this isn’t the first time he’s been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases. The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously convenient but the people with all the best motives have rock solid alibis. DCI Kusanagi turns once again to his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the string of impossible-to-prove murders.

Book The Great Parade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Théberge
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300103751
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The Great Parade written by Pierre Théberge and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful book that showcases how circus figures and artifacts have been portrayed in art over the past two centuries The circus is a dazzling world filled with acrobats and harlequins, tumblers and riders, monsters and celestial creatures. Now this engaging book sets that world in a new light, examining how painters, sculptors, and photographers from the eighteenth century to the present have used the circus as a springboard for their imaginative expression and have envisioned the clown as a metaphor for the modern artist. The book presents more than 175 works by such artists as Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rouault, Picasso, Chagall, and Léger. Some of these are masterful works shown for the first time; these range from the 18-meter stage curtain Picasso designed in 1917 for Erik Satie's ballet Parade to more intimate works such as Nadar and Tournachon's photographs of Pierrot as played by celebrated mime Charles Debureau.

Book Waiting for The Parade

Download or read book Waiting for The Parade written by Roger O'Guin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are reading this, you must have come upon it not by happenstance but by a predictable course of events that we call kismet or fate. You may be seeking answers that have not yet come your way, and perhaps they are within this book. All too often many people cling to useless, outdated, ineffective codes of behavior that keep them chained to mediocrity or sameness which, is a life they believe to be their inheritance but, want to dream their way out of! They have no idea that they can in fact, dictate their way out of it and prescribe new possibilities and directions through a new state of mind. The course of our lives is not static, not predetermined but, fluid, flexible. We can change our attitudes and consequently change our future. It’s being done all of the time by others who have figured this out. Despite feelings of entrapment there is a built-in resolution in all of us. An insight or intuition that can be cultivated and will bring new possibilities for the future. Uncertainty then is the enemy of success and the continuum becomes success or failure, both choices being ours to embrace. But too often people choose compliance. They decide to conform to the life they already know and avoid the unfamiliar. So, they choose the same behaviors while overlooking the possibilities that could begin a new and exciting future. My book, Waiting for the Parade, details information on the individual aspects of success and is a unique approach to personal development. It outlines a system of success that has proved effective for Americans competing in the workforce or struggling with life’s personal challenges. The book also contains historical facts on political movements, especially socialism, that are not always healthy for the American people or their wallets. I believe it is time for us to speak out and become voices for truth, sanity, and reality. Many people have become swayed by misinformation, so I have chosen politics, especially socialism, as an example of how a limited education can bring about unintended but large-scale consequences. I have included historical research that exposes the real outcomes of long-term and amateurish socialist attempts at governing. One of the most important elements of my work is the posing and answering of important questions. Are our chosen leaders creative or divisive? Are they really helping our country or dividing it? Are we all capable of learning and achievement? Can all of us succeed if each of us is provided with personally tailored education and opportunity?

Book Peoples on Parade

Download or read book Peoples on Parade written by Sadiah Qureshi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the phenomenon of human exhibitions in nineteenth-century Britain and considers how this legacy informs understandings of race and empire today.

Book Pandemonium and Parade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Dylan Foster
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0520253620
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Pandemonium and Parade written by Michael Dylan Foster and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monsters known as yōkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese imagination over three centuries.

Book The Surrealist Parade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wayne Andrews
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780811211277
  • Pages : 198 pages

Download or read book The Surrealist Parade written by Wayne Andrews and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the surrealist movement, includes brief profiles of leading surrealist artists and writers, and discusses the aims of the moveme

Book The Elements Parade

Download or read book The Elements Parade written by Tom Burnett and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Elements Parade is a high-wire act of voices from beyond our world with some identifying themselves as personalities we recognize, such as Michelangelo. Then the elements appear before us, explaining each element’s role in the formation of a human child in the womb. The story ends with a powerful appearance by someone else you’ve heard of but never heard from.

Book Parade s End

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ford Madox Ford
  • Publisher : BookRix
  • Release : 2014-05-28
  • ISBN : 3736814437
  • Pages : 1442 pages

Download or read book Parade s End written by Ford Madox Ford and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parade's End is a tetralogy (four related novels) by Ford Madox Ford. It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals. The four novels were originally published under the titles: Some Do Not ..., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and Last Post. They were combined into one volume as Parade's End, which has been ranked at number 57 on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list. J. Gray hailed "possibly the greatest 20th-century novel in English". Likewise, Mary Gordon labelled it as "quite simply, the best fictional treatment of war in the history of the novel". The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, "the last Tory", a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. His wife Sylvia is a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wife's child.

Book Tiara s Hat Parade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kelly Starling Lyons
  • Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
  • Release : 2020-04-01
  • ISBN : 0807579483
  • Pages : 35 pages

Download or read book Tiara s Hat Parade written by Kelly Starling Lyons and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Christopher Award - Books for Young People WSRA Children's Literature: Picture This 2021 Recommendation List Penn GSE Graduate School of Education, The Best Books for Young Readers of 2020 Black Caucus of the American Library Association BCALA, 2020 Best of the Best Booklist Read Across America, Picture Book of the Month March 2021 A mother-daughter story about celebrating a special fashion tradition. Tiara has a gift for storytelling; her momma has a gift for making hats. When a new store opens that sells cheaper hats, Momma has to set her dreams aside, but Tiara has an idea for helping Momma's dreams come true again.

Book Prince and the Parade and Sign O  The Times Era Studio Sessions

Download or read book Prince and the Parade and Sign O The Times Era Studio Sessions written by Duane Tudahl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[W]ill command the rapt attention of casual fans and scholars alike." Booklist, Starred Review From Prince's superstardom to studio seclusion, this second book in the award-winning Prince Studio Sessions series spotlights how Prince, the biggest rock star on the planet at the time, risked everything to create some of the most introspective music of his four-decade career. Duane Tudahl takes us on an emotional and intimate journey of love, loss, rivalry, and renewal revealed through unprecedented access to dozens of musicians, singers, studio engineers, and others who worked with him and knew him best—with never-before-published memories from the Revolution, the Time, the Family, and Apollonia 6. Also included is a heartfelt foreword by musical legend Elton John about his time and friendship with Prince.