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Book The Prince of Orange County

Download or read book The Prince of Orange County written by Paul Kareem Tayyar and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age novel set in the 1980s, "The Prince of Orange County" chronicles the boyhood adventures of Thomas Kabiri, a playground hoops phenom whose life changes over the course of one summer while his father is out of the country.

Book A People s Guide to Orange County

Download or read book A People s Guide to Orange County written by Elaine Lewinnek and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At first encounter, Orange County can resemble the incoherent sprawl that geographer James Howard Kunstler named The Geography of Nowhere: a car-dependent, seemingly bland space designed most of all for efficient capitalist consumption. But it is somewhere, too, and learning its stories helps it become more than its boosters' slogans. Writers Lisa Alvarez and Andrew Tonkovich, residents of Orange County's remote Modjeska Canyon, describe this whole county as "a much-constructed and -contrived locale, a pestered and paved landscape built and borne upon stories of human development... of destruction as well as, happily, of enduring wild places." In a similar vein, essayist D. J. Waldie, chronicler of the bordering suburb of Lakewood, asserts that "becoming Californian ... means locating yourself" in "habitats of memory" that connect ordinary, local areas with broader themes. Moving beyond sentimentality, nostalgia, and so many sales pitches that omit far too much, Waldie echoes Michel de Certeau's call to "awaken the stories that sleep in the streets." That is the goal of this book. Inspired by Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng's A People's Guide to Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2012), as well as the People's Guides to Boston and San Francisco that have followed it, we offer this guidebook for locals, tourists, students, and everyone who wants to understand where they really are. This book is organized with regional chapters, sorted roughly north to south by community. Within each city, sites are listed alphabetically. After the group of entries for each city, we recommend nearby restaurants as well as other sites of interest for visitors. Readers may explore this book geographically or use the thematic tours in the appendix to consider environmental politics, Cold War legacies, the politics of housing, LGBTQ spaces, or Orange County's carceral state. The appendix also contains suggestions for teachers using this book, engaging students in cognitive mapping, close reading, popular-culture analysis, and creating additional entries of people's history. While many local histories tend to focus on a few white settlers, this book places attention on the people, especially the subaltern ones who are hierarchically under others, including workers, people of color, youth, and LGBTQ individuals. No single book can represent an entire county, so we have chosen to concentrate on the lesser-known power struggles that have happened here and influenced the landscape that we all share. We could not include everyone, of course. We are mindful that other groups are currently creating more people's history on this landscape that we hope our readers will continue to explore. In Orange County, excavating the diverse past can be frowned upon or actively repressed by those invested in selling Orange County in the style of its booster Anglo settlers from 150 years ago. This book tells the diverse political history beyond the bucolic imagery of orange-crate labels. We hope it will inspire readers to further explore Orange County and reflect on even more sites that could be included in the ordinary, extraordinary landscape here"--

Book On Time

Download or read book On Time written by Morris Day and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir by Morris Day of The Time centering around his lifelong relationship and association with Prince"A vital, illuminating, and wildly entertaining autobiography." -Billboard "Great book! Great storytelling!" -LENNY KRAVITZ "Lean, slick, cooler than Santa Claus, and surprisingly tender, this book not only traces Day's history in Minneapolis funk, but doubles as an intimate recollection of his time with Prince." -BEN GREENMAN, author of Dig If You Will The Picture Brilliant composer, smooth soul singer, killer drummer, and charismatic band leader, Morris Day has been a force in American music for the past four decades. In On Time, the renowned funkster looks back on a life of turbulence and triumph, chronicling his creative process with an explosive prose that mirrors his intoxicating music. A major theme throughout the book is Morris's enduring friendship and musical partnership with Prince, from their early days on the Minneapolis scene to selling out stadiums and duking it out as rivals in Purple Rain. Eventually, Morris went on to release four albums with a new band of his very own, The Time; however, before long, increasing tensions between the two performers set them down separate paths. Through the years, the fierce brotherly love between Morris and Prince kept bringing them back together-until pride, ego, and circumstance interfered. Two months before Prince's untimely death, the two finally started to make amends. But Morris never could have imagined it would be the last time he'd ever see his friend again.

Book The Prince and the Porker

Download or read book The Prince and the Porker written by Peter Bently and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pignatius was passing the palace one day, when he saw ten fresh buns left to cool on a tray... Sneaking into the palace, looking for more treats, Pignatius tries on a wig and some clothes and the servants mistake him for the real prince! Of course the rein of this porky impostor can't last long, but when the actual prince returns, he saves Pignatius's bacon. It turns out that he's always wanted a double to deal with a particularly frightening dragon... his Aunt Alice!

Book Prince of Foxes

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  • Author : Samuel Shellabarger
  • Publisher : Bridgeworks
  • Release : 2002-07-31
  • ISBN : 1461623391
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Prince of Foxes written by Samuel Shellabarger and published by Bridgeworks. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early 1500s in Renaissance Italy this novel is the story of Andrea Orsini, a peasant boy who rises far and becomes a secret agent for Cesare Borgia, who entrusts him with the most delicate political, military and romantic missions, Orson Welles was cast as Borgia, Tyronne Power as Orsini in the film version.

Book Saint Michael the Archangel

Download or read book Saint Michael the Archangel written by James F. Day and published by Our Sunday Visitor. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle! Throughout salvation history, Saint Michael the Archangel has appeared when God's people needed spiritual protection, healing, and victory. Today, many faithful still turn to him for assistance, and parishes across the world pray to him to defend our Church. But what do we really know about Saint Michael? In Saint Michael the Archangel you'll discover the fascinating "biography" of the angel whose mission from God is to do battle against Satan and all the evil spirits. Weaving together Scripture, history, papal documents, and popular devotion, author James Day fills in the gaps of our knowledge about Saint Michael, revealing the impact the mighty defender has on individuals, the Church, and the world. Saint Michael the Archangel also highlights the main shrines dedicated to Saint Michael, and includes the text of prayers, hymns, and poems written to honor him. ABOUT THE AUTHOR James Day is a frequent contributor to Catholic Exchange, Crisis, and Catholic World Report, and is the author of Father Benedict: The Spiritual and Intellectual Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI. He is a producer and operations manager for EWTN's West Coast Studio at the Christ Cathedral campus in Orange County, California.

Book Machiavelli for Moms

Download or read book Machiavelli for Moms written by Suzanne Evans and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counsels parents on how to manage a rambunctious family, sharing the author's successes with experimenting with such tactics as instilling a fear of consequences, withholding unnecessary details, and using gentle manipulation.

Book The History of Orange County New York

Download or read book The History of Orange County New York written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Orange County New York is a work by Russel Headley. It presents the historical happenings of OC while focusing on the development of ideas and institutions and local social and economic conditions.

Book Let Us Now Praise Ordinary Things

Download or read book Let Us Now Praise Ordinary Things written by Kareem Tayyar and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nearly everyone I know, when asked what they'll miss when they leave this world, has a list. On mine is Kareem Tayyar's latest collection, "Let Us Now Praise Ordinary Things," which is so full of loveliness and hope and beauty it makes me wish the world and everything and everyone in it immortal. This collection - in the spirit of Pablo Neruda, Rumi, and that beloved chronicler of ordinary things, Amy Krause Rosenthal, who left this earth way too soon - celebrates everything from talking to houseplants, to singing in the shower, to late-night drive-throughs and hippies with "hearts as wide as their bell bottom jeans." Open to any work in this wonderful collection and I promise you'll find a golden tether to this life. Especially beautiful are Tayyar's meditations on teaching and students, who, he writes in "On Teaching," are "the ones who soon enough will set about beautifying the world in ways I cannot even begin to imagine." I could not even begin to imagine a collection this full of life and joy. Praise Kareem Tayyar, who gives us his heart and voice at a time when it feels more urgent than ever."-Lori Jakiela, Author of "Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe"

Book Consieosophy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Prince Nasir Akim Bey
  • Publisher : Bookbaby
  • Release : 2018-08-20
  • ISBN : 9780997991819
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Consieosophy written by Prince Nasir Akim Bey and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consieosophy is the science, study and anatomy of the ethereal being that animates energy through and within every property of what we call life.

Book History of Orange County  New York

Download or read book History of Orange County New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A People s Guide to Orange County

Download or read book A People s Guide to Orange County written by Elaine Lewinnek and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Top Urban Planning Books of 2022, Planetizen The full and fascinating guidebook that Orange County deserves. A People’s Guide to Orange County is an alternative tour guide that documents sites of oppression, resistance, struggle, and transformation in Orange County, California. Orange County is more than the well-known images on orange crate labels, the high-profile amusement parks of Disneyland and Knott’s Berry Farm, or the beaches. It is also a unique site of agricultural and suburban history, political conservatism in a liberal state, and more diversity and discordance than its pop-cultural images show. It is a space of important agricultural labor disputes, segregation and resistance to segregation, privatization and the struggle for public space, politicized religions, Cold War global migrations, vibrant youth cultures, and efforts for environmental justice. Memorably, Ronald Reagan called Orange County the place “where all the good Republicans go to die,” but it is also the place where many working-class immigrants have come to live and work in its agricultural, military-industrial, and tourist service economies. Orange County is the fifth-most populous county in America. If it were a city, it would be the nation’s third-largest city; if it were a state, its population would make it larger than twenty-one other states. It attracts 42 million tourists annually. Yet Orange County tends to be a chapter or two squeezed into guidebooks to Los Angeles or Disneyland. Mainstream guidebooks focus on Orange County’s amusement parks and wealthy coastal communities, with side trips to palatial shopping malls. These guides skip over Orange County’s most heterogeneous half—the inland space, where most of its oranges were grown alongside oil derricks that kept the orange groves heated. Existing guidebooks render invisible the diverse people who have labored there. A People’s Guide to Orange County questions who gets to claim Orange County’s image, exposing the extraordinary stories embedded in the ordinary landscape.

Book History of Orange County  New York

Download or read book History of Orange County New York written by Edward Manning Ruttenber and published by Heart of the Lakes Publishing. This book was released on 1881 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masonic Standard

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book Masonic Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Wayne

Download or read book John Wayne written by Randy Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture. Middle America grew up with him in the late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in the 1940s, matured with him in the 1950s, and kept the faith with him in the 1960s and 1970s. . . . In his person and in the persona he so carefully constructed, middle America saw itself, its past, and its future. John Wayne was his country’s alter ego." Thus begins John Wayne: American, a biography bursting with vitality and revealing the changing scene in Hollywood and America from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War. During a long movie career, John Wayne defined the role of the cowboy and soldier, the gruff man of decency, the hero who prevailed when the chips were down. But who was he, really? Here is the first substantive, serious view of a contradictory private and public figure.

Book The American Counties

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Curry Aiken
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0810887614
  • Pages : 521 pages

Download or read book The American Counties written by Charles Curry Aiken and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans give little thought to their county's size, population, when it was created, or how its name came about. But such information can be very helpful to anyone, particularly researchers and genealogists, investigating local or state history. Drawing on information obtained from the 2010 Census, the 6th edition of The American Counties provides up-to-date data on each county's: -land area -population -county seat -date of creation -name origin -dates of governmental organization, elimination, and re-creation This edition includes information on counties created since the previous edition was published as well as more precise "date of creation" details for many colonial counties. If a county is named for a geographical feature--river, mountain, lake, etc.--the origin of the name and the meaning of any Indian or foreign words is provided. For those counties that were named after a specific individual, a brief sketch of the person's life is provided, including updated biographical information from previous editions. The Introduction has been expanded to address such topics as counties with similar names, persons who have more than one namesake county, the paucity of counties named for women, the practice of creating counties in uninhabited regions, and legislators naming counties for each other. At the request of many readers, the 6th edition contains new appendices ranking all counties nationally by population and area, as well as an appendix listing counties that have been eliminated. Containing information on all 3,143 counties and county equivalents (independent cities, parishes, boroughs, etc.) in the United States, the 6th edition of The American Counties is an essential resource for researchers looking for basic information on counties in the United States.