Author: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618607037
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A baby in a stroller sleeps listening to loud city noises, from ten horns beeping to two motorbikes roaring, until awakened by the soft chirp of one sparrow.
City Lullaby
Author: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618607037
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A baby in a stroller sleeps listening to loud city noises, from ten horns beeping to two motorbikes roaring, until awakened by the soft chirp of one sparrow.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618607037
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A baby in a stroller sleeps listening to loud city noises, from ten horns beeping to two motorbikes roaring, until awakened by the soft chirp of one sparrow.
City Songs and American Life, 1900-1950
Author: Michael L. Lasser
Publisher:
ISBN: 1580469523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Nothing defines the songs of the great American songbook more richly and persuasively than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriter such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas 'Fats' Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Many of these remarkably deft and forceful creators were native New Yorkers. Others got to Gotham as fast as they could. Either way, it was as if, from their vantage point on the West Side of Manhattan, these artists were describing America--not its geography of politics, but its heart--to Americans and to the world at large. In City songs and American life, 1900-1950, renowned author and broadcaster Michael Lasser offers an evocative and probing account of the popular songs--including some written originally for the stage or screen--that America heard, and sang, and danced to during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. Lasser demonstrates how the spirit of the teeming city pervaded these wildly diverse songs. Often that spirit took form overtly in songs that portrayed the glamor of Broadway of the energy and jazz age culture of Harlem. But a city-bred spirit--or even a specifically New York City way of feeling and talking--also infused many other widely known and loved songs, stretching from the early decades of the century to the twenties (the age of the flapper, bathtub gin, and women's right to vote), the Great Depression, and, finally, World War II. Throughout this remarkable book, Lasser emphasizes how the soul of city life, as echoes in the nation's songs, developed and changed in tandem with economic, social, and political currents in America as a whole"--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1580469523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"Nothing defines the songs of the great American songbook more richly and persuasively than their urban sensibility. During the first half of the twentieth century, songwriter such as Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Dorothy Fields, George and Ira Gershwin, and Thomas 'Fats' Waller flourished in New York City, the home of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Harlem. Many of these remarkably deft and forceful creators were native New Yorkers. Others got to Gotham as fast as they could. Either way, it was as if, from their vantage point on the West Side of Manhattan, these artists were describing America--not its geography of politics, but its heart--to Americans and to the world at large. In City songs and American life, 1900-1950, renowned author and broadcaster Michael Lasser offers an evocative and probing account of the popular songs--including some written originally for the stage or screen--that America heard, and sang, and danced to during the turbulent first half of the twentieth century. Lasser demonstrates how the spirit of the teeming city pervaded these wildly diverse songs. Often that spirit took form overtly in songs that portrayed the glamor of Broadway of the energy and jazz age culture of Harlem. But a city-bred spirit--or even a specifically New York City way of feeling and talking--also infused many other widely known and loved songs, stretching from the early decades of the century to the twenties (the age of the flapper, bathtub gin, and women's right to vote), the Great Depression, and, finally, World War II. Throughout this remarkable book, Lasser emphasizes how the soul of city life, as echoes in the nation's songs, developed and changed in tandem with economic, social, and political currents in America as a whole"--Dust jacket flap.
Plumbersutra
Author: Cecilia J. Kochanowski
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595830528
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
After several years in Europe, author Cecilia Kochanowski returns to the United States with her husband and two daughters. Sadly resigning themselves to the fact that they cannot afford to return to a Manhattan home-and while wasted on jet lag-Kochanowski manages to buy a faded yellow cottage in a sleepy village nestled in the Hudson Valley. When moving day actually comes, Kochanowski wishes it away, even though she spent months anticipating the momentous occasion. All aspects of the move back to the States are a shock: the commute to work is long, the local varmints voracious, and the cottage nearly blows up from a gas leak only five days after the family moves in. Though a product of the American suburbs, Kochanowski quickly realizes that she no longer remembers how to live in the country of her birth-even less so than her Polish husband. Will their newly purchased but aging house ever feel like home? As they negotiate their prejudice against their new home, the family confronts the village zoning board, a cowboy plumber, and a coven of petty bureaucrats on their chaotic odyssey of home renovation, uninformed gardening, and sporadic child rearing in the witty memoir Plumbersutra.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595830528
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
After several years in Europe, author Cecilia Kochanowski returns to the United States with her husband and two daughters. Sadly resigning themselves to the fact that they cannot afford to return to a Manhattan home-and while wasted on jet lag-Kochanowski manages to buy a faded yellow cottage in a sleepy village nestled in the Hudson Valley. When moving day actually comes, Kochanowski wishes it away, even though she spent months anticipating the momentous occasion. All aspects of the move back to the States are a shock: the commute to work is long, the local varmints voracious, and the cottage nearly blows up from a gas leak only five days after the family moves in. Though a product of the American suburbs, Kochanowski quickly realizes that she no longer remembers how to live in the country of her birth-even less so than her Polish husband. Will their newly purchased but aging house ever feel like home? As they negotiate their prejudice against their new home, the family confronts the village zoning board, a cowboy plumber, and a coven of petty bureaucrats on their chaotic odyssey of home renovation, uninformed gardening, and sporadic child rearing in the witty memoir Plumbersutra.
City Creatures
Author: Gavin Van Horn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022619289X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"Published in collaboration with The Center for Humans and Nature"--Title page verso.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022619289X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
"Published in collaboration with The Center for Humans and Nature"--Title page verso.
The City Sleeps
Author: Charles Mulford Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
In This City
Author: SAJAY MAMPILLY
Publisher: SAJAYM
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
‘In this City’ is a collection of poems written by the author Sajay Mampilly, during the course of his stay in Bangalore in the period 2004 to 2012. These poems are autobiographical in nature, representing a sketch of his life and surroundings as seen through his eyes.
Publisher: SAJAYM
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
‘In this City’ is a collection of poems written by the author Sajay Mampilly, during the course of his stay in Bangalore in the period 2004 to 2012. These poems are autobiographical in nature, representing a sketch of his life and surroundings as seen through his eyes.
City Stories
Author: James Phillips
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474245587
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life? What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever? What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour? City Stories is a new type of cabaret drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories, and a love-letter to London. Composed up of five discrete yet interwoven stories, each taking the form of a monologue or duologue, and performed with specifically composed songs, City Stories looks at a variety of experiences of love and loss via a range of people living in the UK's capital. Elegantly written and beautifully constructed, these pieces look at the varieties of love and how it might save us, showing James Phillips's writing at his very best. City Stories received its world premiere at St James's Theatre, London, in 2013 and has since gone on to establish a year-long residency at the theatre.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474245587
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
What happens when someone tells you that you're the answer to the riddle of life? What happens when a stranger in Starbucks gives you something that will change your world forever? What happens if the world starts to fall asleep, hour by hour? City Stories is a new type of cabaret drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories, and a love-letter to London. Composed up of five discrete yet interwoven stories, each taking the form of a monologue or duologue, and performed with specifically composed songs, City Stories looks at a variety of experiences of love and loss via a range of people living in the UK's capital. Elegantly written and beautifully constructed, these pieces look at the varieties of love and how it might save us, showing James Phillips's writing at his very best. City Stories received its world premiere at St James's Theatre, London, in 2013 and has since gone on to establish a year-long residency at the theatre.
Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!
Author: Robert Burleigh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416940529
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
From morning until night, a city is filled with such sounds as the roars and snores of a subway ride, the flutters and coos of pigeons, and the shouts and beeps of drivers in traffic.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416940529
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
From morning until night, a city is filled with such sounds as the roars and snores of a subway ride, the flutters and coos of pigeons, and the shouts and beeps of drivers in traffic.
A to Zoo
Author: Rebecca L. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 3583
Book Description
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 3583
Book Description
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
New York Style: Tales Of Suspense: Tantalizing Excitement In The City
Author: LaToya Lawrence
Publisher: LaToya Lawrence
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Three short stories that include thrills in a mixture of fictional towns around New York. . New York Style: Tales of Suspense Tantalizing Excitement in The City! – Join this two hundred sixty-five-page psychological thrill ride of murder, mystery, suspense, a bit of the supernatural, and fun! Tale one: Two Of A Kind Is Blood thicker than murder? There is a secret buried deep in the soil of Cherry Hill. In a town of beautiful cities, lakes, and villages where trees grow tall, flowers bloom free, and the neighbors are friendly. Is there an uncovered truth rising upon the surface? One of cruelness among rebellious youth? Or could it just be a hereditary factor where bloodline goes bad, and murder goes right. Mysterious murders take place in the lovely upscale town of Cherry Hills throughout Pennington, New York—killings and deaths that shock and bewilder residents in a city where scandalous crimes run sparse. There had not been such incident since the highly publicized murders that took place in early winter of January 1981 on Oakwood St. in the home of Evelyn and Ryan Barker. Tale two: The Lovers What is it that is masquerading as ordinary, lurking brazenly on forbidden territory? Is there a price for playing with magic or is magic worth paying the price for? Deep in the city streets of Manhattan lies a place for those who want to take a gamble at chance. One may get lucky, or one may lose out. In any fashion, delving in, one must accept the consequence that what was bought cannot be returned as there is no way to buy back what was once sold. It is not wise to mess with things that are considered taboo as what is taboo can come back around to mess with you. A young man consults a voodoo priest and gets more than he bargains for when he takes home a personalized spell-kit, and all goes wrong. Tale three: Summer Fling In a world of their own craziness, impulse, and greed, do you really know who the people around you are when they do not even know and cannot trust themselves? Riding on a rollercoaster they cannot function to get off of— continuously spinning around only to come to nowhere to get them back to their sphere. Dealing with them is enough to drive one crazy but a little craziness allows one to deal with the drive to survive. A successful woman takes a setback to bounce back in her career even stronger than ever before— inciting unknown events from the past of those around her to reveal mind-boggling secrets and mysteries that result in a multiple chain of unexpected murders.
Publisher: LaToya Lawrence
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Three short stories that include thrills in a mixture of fictional towns around New York. . New York Style: Tales of Suspense Tantalizing Excitement in The City! – Join this two hundred sixty-five-page psychological thrill ride of murder, mystery, suspense, a bit of the supernatural, and fun! Tale one: Two Of A Kind Is Blood thicker than murder? There is a secret buried deep in the soil of Cherry Hill. In a town of beautiful cities, lakes, and villages where trees grow tall, flowers bloom free, and the neighbors are friendly. Is there an uncovered truth rising upon the surface? One of cruelness among rebellious youth? Or could it just be a hereditary factor where bloodline goes bad, and murder goes right. Mysterious murders take place in the lovely upscale town of Cherry Hills throughout Pennington, New York—killings and deaths that shock and bewilder residents in a city where scandalous crimes run sparse. There had not been such incident since the highly publicized murders that took place in early winter of January 1981 on Oakwood St. in the home of Evelyn and Ryan Barker. Tale two: The Lovers What is it that is masquerading as ordinary, lurking brazenly on forbidden territory? Is there a price for playing with magic or is magic worth paying the price for? Deep in the city streets of Manhattan lies a place for those who want to take a gamble at chance. One may get lucky, or one may lose out. In any fashion, delving in, one must accept the consequence that what was bought cannot be returned as there is no way to buy back what was once sold. It is not wise to mess with things that are considered taboo as what is taboo can come back around to mess with you. A young man consults a voodoo priest and gets more than he bargains for when he takes home a personalized spell-kit, and all goes wrong. Tale three: Summer Fling In a world of their own craziness, impulse, and greed, do you really know who the people around you are when they do not even know and cannot trust themselves? Riding on a rollercoaster they cannot function to get off of— continuously spinning around only to come to nowhere to get them back to their sphere. Dealing with them is enough to drive one crazy but a little craziness allows one to deal with the drive to survive. A successful woman takes a setback to bounce back in her career even stronger than ever before— inciting unknown events from the past of those around her to reveal mind-boggling secrets and mysteries that result in a multiple chain of unexpected murders.