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What is Bumblepuppy Bridge?Bumblepuppy Bridge is a wonderful stepping-stone to standard bridge. A total beginner can learn in an hour how to play t...

Reducere. In this fascinating book, Gustave Le Bon examines the psychology of crowds. He posits that crowds have personalities, just like individuals, and th...

Reducere. "Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings is for everyday readers looking for pithy sayings, deeper understanding of the Chinese culture and a unique l...

Reducere. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could understand what your favorite Kpop idol says to you or the jokes from your favorite Korean drama on Netflix? Ho...

An interactive companion to the world's most popular job-search book, updated for 2021, that helps you translate your personal interests into marke...

A native of Washington, DC, Philippa Smith-Tyler studied classical piano at The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She has...

Reducere. Churchill once said that "democracy is the worst form of government except for all others..." and in Popular Government, Henry Sumner Maine answers...

Reducere. The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival.Neville Isdell was a key player at Coca-Cola for more than th...

Want to invest in your business, in assets, shares or property? Making money by investing is never simple but there are rules - just not the same r...

An illustrated directory of techniques for painting 40 popular flowers.Illustrations: 128 Illustrations, color

Reducere. The poems of Natalie Shapero's third collection, Popular Longing, highlight the ever-increasing absurdity of our contemporary life. With her sharp,...

Reducere. YOU LOVE RESTAURANT FOOD...WHY NOT MAKE IT AT HOME?Packed with recipes for all your favorite entr es, appetizers, soups, salads and desserts from A...

About the AuthorDoug Alderson is the author of several books, including A New Guide to Old Florida Attractions: From Mermaids to Singing Towers (Pi...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Virgil MoorefieldNumber of pages: 168Collection: The MIT PressPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 11Co...

"One of the most practical and helpful how-to gardening books I have ever read." --The Oregonian Are you intimidated by pruning? Or tired of paying...

Reducere. This book shows how Ford's first large automotive plant-the Crystal Palace-transformed the sleepy village of Highland Park, Michigan, into an indus...

Reducere. The bus system that came to be known as the Greyhound Bus Company was founded by Carl Eric Wickman, an enterprising Swede of Hibbing, Minnesota. Th...

Fully revised and updated with fresh interviews and a striking new cover to celebrate its 25th anniversary, She Bop is the definitive in-depth stud...

Reducere. About the AuthorMichael R. Bradley has taught US History at Motlow College in Lynchburg, Tennessee, since 1970. He has hiked and camped in the Grea...

Reducere. -There are no definitive histories, - writes Elijah Wald, in this provocative reassessment of American popular music, -because the past keeps looki...

Reducere. With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to incarceration""But what does it mean--...

Reducere. This book contains a classic guide to the game of curling, looking at its history, equipment, different styles and techniques, and much more. Curli...

Reducere. The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles are the standard by which all others are judged. And they're now available in a compact, portable forma...

Publisher: Daraja PressAuthor(s): Ernest Wamba-Dia-WambaNumber of pages: 62Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 8Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. In the heart of the city of Phoenix, Arizona, sits the natural wonder of South Mountain Park and Preserve. It is an oasis of mountain terrain and d...

Christianity Rediscovered is more than just a classic missionary story. It is also a profound challenge, a call to a radical redefinition of what w...

Reducere. Don Cusic presents gospel music as part of the history of contemporary Christianity. From the psalms of the early Puritans through the hymns of Isa...

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Reducere. How would the history of Roman Catholic worship look if it were viewed first from the perspective of the "people in the pews" rather than through t...

Reducere. Jess Oppenheimer, the man Lucille Ball called the "brains" of I Love Lucy, gives us a rare first-hand look at television history as it was being ma...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Guy P. HarrisonMaybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. O...

Reducere. More than 60, 000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was wo...

Reducere. What is the Vermont Way? The term has been used to describe everything from the traditional way of making maple syrup to an ability to create somet...

Reducere. Pop music surrounds us - in our cars, over supermarket speakers, even when we are laid out at the dentist - but how often do we really hear what's ...

Reducere. What do Paul Bunyan, Charles Lindbergh, and Jesse Ventura have in common? Minnesota, of courseIn A Popular History of Minnesota, historian Norman K...

DescriptionA practical, ordinary person's guide to choosing, planting, and caring for the world's most popular plants, Shrubs & Hedges delivers all...

Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerg...

Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "bo...

Reducere. For two years, Philip Gambone traveled the length and breadth of the United States, talking candidly with LGBTQ people about their lives. In additi...

Mark Gorman examines the key role played by popular protest in the mid-Victorian campaigns to preserve Epping Forest and other open spaces in and n...

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon ...

Learn all the East Coast's many lighthouses with the newly updated and expanded The Lighthouse Handbook: New England and Canadian Maritimes, 4th Ed...

Recent social and political developments, including the presidential elections in the United States, antidemocratic state policies in Hungary and P...

Lunney explores Marlowe's engagement with the traditions of the popular stage in the 1580s and early 1590s and offers a new approach to his major p...

Genre Publics is a cultural history showing how new notions of 'the local' were produced in context of the Indonesian 'local music boom' of the lat...

Although The "Malleus" is recognized as an important medieval text, as a source it presents difficulties of contextual understanding and cannot be ...

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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x ...

This book argues that the periodic ceremonial intrusion into the everyday lives of people across the Ottoman Empire, which the annual royal birthda...

Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen in...

Reducere. During the early 1970s, the nation's turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin's kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city's progr...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could understand what your favorite Kpop idol says to you or the jokes from your favorite Korean drama on Netflix? Ho...

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First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously...

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Veronica Gago provides a new theory of neoliberalism by examining how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by internationa...

Reducere. Winner of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research (2006) Echo and Reverb ...

'Business-as-usual' has been transformed across the music industries in the post-CD age. Against widespread hype about the purported decline of the...

Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today's dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for "...

The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this, document...

DescriptionIn Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out ...

Reducere. This book of essays looks at the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott s film Blade Runner, especially the film s relati...

The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalitie...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chris McGowanAuthor: Ricardo PessanhaThis title includes discussions of developments in samba and other key genres, the ris...

Reducere. Speculative fiction--encompassing both science fiction and fantasy--has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing...

Reducere. Jos Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), a Mexican graphic artist, lived during one of Mexico's most chaotic times. The graphic illustrations he produced ...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hal...

Contributor(s): Author: Nicole RafterAuthor: Michelle BrownFrom a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic an...