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Book Working Days

Download or read book Working Days written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion. The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles. It records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success. It is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.

Book The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations

Download or read book The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations written by Robert Andrews and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 1291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations contains over 8,000 quotations from 1914 to the present. As much a companion to the modern age as it is an entertaining and useful reference tool, it takes the reader on a tour of the wit and wisdom of the great and the good, from Margot Asquith to Monica Lewinsky, from George V to Boutros Boutros-Galli and Jonathan Aitken to Frank Zappa.

Book Paper Trade Journal

Download or read book Paper Trade Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1938-07 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kristallnacht

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Gilbert
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2007-05-29
  • ISBN : 0061121355
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Kristallnacht written by Martin Gilbert and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early hours of November 10, 1938, Nazi storm troopers and Hitler Youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods across Germany, leaving behind them a horrifying trail of terror and destruction. More than a thousand synagogues and many thousands of Jewish shops were destroyed, while thirty thousand Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—was a decisive stage in the systematic eradication of a people who traced their origins in Germany to Roman times and was a sinister forewarning of the Holocaust. With rare insight and acumen, Martin Gilbert examines this night and day of terror, presenting readers with a meticulously researched, masterfully written, and eye-opening study of one of the darkest chapters in human history.

Book Contemporary Authors New Revision Series

Download or read book Contemporary Authors New Revision Series written by Scot Peacock and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.

Book World Fascism  2 volumes

Download or read book World Fascism 2 volumes written by Cyprian Blamires and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-09-18 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how, during the 20th century, evils such as totalitarianism, tyranny, war, and genocide became indelibly linked to the fascist cause, and examines the enduring and popular appeal of an ideology that has counted princes, poets, and war heroes among its most fervent adherents. From the followers of Hajj Amin Al-Husseini, the Arab leader who met with Adolf Hitler in November 1942 to the murderous death squads of the Croatian Ustasha to certain members of the British Establishment, fascism's heady brew of extreme nationalism and revolutionary violence has attracted followers from across all religions, races, and classes. Now widely reviled, fascism became an immensely powerful political force in Western Europe throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s. How did civilized nations like Italy, Germany, Austria, and others succumb to an ideology now regarded by the political mainstream as barbarous and beyond the pale? World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia covers all the key personalities and movements throughout the history of fascism and brings to light some of the ideology's lesser-known aspects, from Hindu extremists in India to the influential role of certain women in fascist movements. How did an ideology which was openly boastful of its belief in violence come to seduce the elites of some of the most civilized nations on earth? What can explain fascism's enduring appeal?

Book England Resounding

    Book Details:
  • Author : Keith Alldritt
  • Publisher : The Crowood Press
  • Release : 2019-08-26
  • ISBN : 0719829763
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book England Resounding written by Keith Alldritt and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectacular revival of serious music in England is a chief feature of the history of British culture from the turn of the twentieth century and after. For some two centuries the art form had stagnated in England, which was referred to, notoriously, by a German commentator as 'the land without music'. But then came a great renaissance. In the three linked essays that make up this book, Keith Alldritt, the most recent biographer of Vaughan Williams, examines the several phases and genres of this revival. A number of composers including Gustav Holst, Arnold Bax and William Walton contributed to the renewal. But this book presents the renaissance as centrally a continuity of enterprise, sometimes of riposte, running from Elgar to Vaughan Williams and then to Benjamin Britten. Their concern was with music at its most serious, though not unceasingly humourless. All three explored music's frontier with philosophy. They also probed the psychological impact of the unprecedently violent and destructive century in which they practised their art. Going beyond musicological comment, England Resounding essays insights into the historical, geopolitical and personal events that elicited the major works of these three great composers.

Book Christian Advocate and Journal and Zion s Herald

Download or read book Christian Advocate and Journal and Zion s Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 2142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Radio Psychics

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  • Author : John Benedict Buescher
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2021-08-24
  • ISBN : 1476642354
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book Radio Psychics written by John Benedict Buescher and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When radio broadcasting began in the early 1920s, the radio was a magic box aglow with the future, drawing humanity into a new age. Some thought it would dissolve the distance between time and place, others that human minds would become transparent, one tuned to another. Performers claiming psychic powers turned radio broadcasting into a fabulous money machine. These "mentalists," born from vaudeville, circuses, sideshows, and the Spiritualist and New Thought movements of the mid-late 19th century, used the language of wireless technology to explain their ability to see the past, present, and future. Casting their mystical knowledge as a scientifically honed craft, these mentalists persuaded millions to pay for dubious advice until governmental and public pressures forced them off the air. This book is a history of over 25 performers who practiced their art behind studio microphones during the early years of radio broadcasting, from about 1920 to 1940. Here, laid out for the first time, is the tale of how they made cash rain from the heavens and harnessed the sensation of the radio in search of wealth, health, love, and success.

Book Southern Literary Messenger

Download or read book Southern Literary Messenger written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ladies  Home Journal

Download or read book The Ladies Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Something about the Author

Download or read book Something about the Author written by Kevin S. Hile and published by Something about the Author. This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series covers individuals ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources, and photographs.

Book Artists in Ohio  1787 1900

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Sayre Haverstock
  • Publisher : Kent State University Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780873386166
  • Pages : 1096 pages

Download or read book Artists in Ohio 1787 1900 written by Mary Sayre Haverstock and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-volume guide to the early art and artists of Ohio. It includes coverage of fine art, photography, ornamental penmanship, tombstone carving, china painting, illustrating, cartooning and the execution of panoramas and theatrical scenery.

Book After the Gulag

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tyler C. Kirk
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2023
  • ISBN : 0253067510
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book After the Gulag written by Tyler C. Kirk and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the Soviet Union were sent to the harsh yet resource-rich Komi Republic. When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to Komi's local branches of the anti-Stalinist Memorial Society and history museums.Utilizing these previously unavailable personal records, alongside newspapers, photographs, interviews, and other non-state archival sources, After the Gulag sheds new light not only on how former prisoners experienced life after release but also how they laid the foundations for the future commemoration of Komi's dark past. Bound by a "camp brotherhood," they used informal social networks to provide mutual support amid state and societal oppression. Decades later, they sought rehabilitation with the help of the newly formed Memorial Society-the civic organization largely responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. In sharing their life stories and family archives with Memorial, they sustained an alternate history of the Soviet Union.Offering an unprecedented look at the legacies of mass repression under Stalin, After the Gulag explores how ordinary political prisoners from across the Soviet Union navigated life after release, using memoirs, letters, and art to translate their experiences and shape the politics of memory in post-Soviet Russia"--

Book Great City Parks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Tate
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2013-05-13
  • ISBN : 1135159432
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Great City Parks written by Alan Tate and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across Western Europe and North America. Collectively, they give a clear picture of why parks have been created, how they have been designed, how they are managed, and what plans are being made for them at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on unique research including extensive site visits and interviews with the managing organisations, this book is illustrated throughout with clear plans and professional photographs for each park. This book reflects a belief that well-planned, well-designed and well-managed parks remain invaluable components of liveable and hospitable cities.

Book Season of Birth

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellsworth Huntington
  • Publisher : New York J. Wiley 1938.
  • Release : 1938
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 494 pages

Download or read book Season of Birth written by Ellsworth Huntington and published by New York J. Wiley 1938.. This book was released on 1938 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writing Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher J. Castañeda
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2019-10-30
  • ISBN : 0252051602
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Writing Revolution written by Christopher J. Castañeda and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, the anarchist effort to promote free thought, individual liberty, and social equality relied upon an international Spanish-language print network. These channels for journalism and literature promoted anarchist ideas and practices while fostering transnational solidarity and activism from Buenos Aires to Los Angeles to Barcelona. Christopher J. Castañeda and Montse Feu edit a collection that examines many facets of Spanish-language anarchist history. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the essays investigate anarchist print culture's transatlantic origins; Latina/o labor-oriented anarchism in the United States; the anarchist print presence in locales like Mexico's borderlands and Steubenville, Ohio; the history of essential publications and the individuals behind them; and the circulation of anarchist writing from the Spanish-American War to the twenty-first century.Contributors: Jon Bekken, Christopher Castañeda, Jesse Cohn, Sergio Sánchez Collantes, María José Domínguez, Antonio Herrería Fernández, Montse Feu, Sonia Hernández, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo, Javier Navarro Navarro, Michel Otayek, Mario Martín Revellado, Susana Sueiro Seoane, Kirwin R. Shaffer, Alejandro de la Torre, and David Watson