Author: United States. Passport Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The United States Passport
Author: United States. Passport Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Man of the Century
Author: John Ramsden
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231131063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Man of the Century is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades--including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231131063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Man of the Century is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades--including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.
Department of State Publication
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Georgia Legends & Lore
Author: Alan Brown
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Settle in for a juicy bushel of Peach State bafflement.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Settle in for a juicy bushel of Peach State bafflement.
The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill
Author: Don Russell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806115375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Attempts to discern the truths behind the legends built up around his career.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806115375
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Attempts to discern the truths behind the legends built up around his career.
Legends of Khasak
Author: O. V. Vijayan
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143063674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A restlessness born of guilt and despair leads Ravi to embark on a journey that ends in the remote village of Khasak in the picturesque Palghat countryside in Kerala. A land from the past, potent with dreams and legends, enfolds the traveller in a powerful and unsettling embrace. Ravi is bewitched and entranced as everything around him-the villagers; their children whom he teaches in a makeshift school; the elders who see him as a threat; the toddy-tappers; the shamans-takes on the quality of myth. And then reality, painful and threatening, begins to intrude on the sojourner's resting place and Ravi begins to understand that there is no escape from the relentless dictates of karma... Often poetic and dark, always complex and rich, The Legends of Khasak, O.V. Vijayan's much-acclaimed first novel, translated into English by the author, is an extraordinary achievement
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143063674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A restlessness born of guilt and despair leads Ravi to embark on a journey that ends in the remote village of Khasak in the picturesque Palghat countryside in Kerala. A land from the past, potent with dreams and legends, enfolds the traveller in a powerful and unsettling embrace. Ravi is bewitched and entranced as everything around him-the villagers; their children whom he teaches in a makeshift school; the elders who see him as a threat; the toddy-tappers; the shamans-takes on the quality of myth. And then reality, painful and threatening, begins to intrude on the sojourner's resting place and Ravi begins to understand that there is no escape from the relentless dictates of karma... Often poetic and dark, always complex and rich, The Legends of Khasak, O.V. Vijayan's much-acclaimed first novel, translated into English by the author, is an extraordinary achievement
Michael Jackson - Legend
Author: Chas Newkey-Burden
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1843174472
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Michael Jackson: Legend honours the memory of a man who gave so much joy to so many millions around the world.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1843174472
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Michael Jackson: Legend honours the memory of a man who gave so much joy to so many millions around the world.
Edna Ferber's Hollywood
Author: J. E. Smyth
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292719841
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century--the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium sums to adapt her novels, creating some of the most memorable films of the studio era--among them Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. Her historical fiction resonated with Hollywood's interest in prestigious historical filmmaking aimed principally, but not exclusively, at female audiences. In Edna Ferber's Hollywood, J. E. Smyth explores the research, writing, marketing, reception, and production histories of Hollywood's Ferber franchise. Smyth tracks Ferber's working relationships with Samuel Goldwyn, Leland Hayward, George Stevens, and James Dean; her landmark contract negotiations with Warner Bros.; and the controversies surrounding Giant's critique of Jim-Crow Texas. But Edna Ferber's Hollywood is also the study of the historical vision of an American outsider--a woman, a Jew, a novelist with few literary pretensions, an unashamed middlebrow who challenged the prescribed boundaries among gender, race, history, and fiction. In a masterful film and literary history, Smyth explores how Ferber's work helped shape Hollywood's attitude toward the American past.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292719841
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century--the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium sums to adapt her novels, creating some of the most memorable films of the studio era--among them Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. Her historical fiction resonated with Hollywood's interest in prestigious historical filmmaking aimed principally, but not exclusively, at female audiences. In Edna Ferber's Hollywood, J. E. Smyth explores the research, writing, marketing, reception, and production histories of Hollywood's Ferber franchise. Smyth tracks Ferber's working relationships with Samuel Goldwyn, Leland Hayward, George Stevens, and James Dean; her landmark contract negotiations with Warner Bros.; and the controversies surrounding Giant's critique of Jim-Crow Texas. But Edna Ferber's Hollywood is also the study of the historical vision of an American outsider--a woman, a Jew, a novelist with few literary pretensions, an unashamed middlebrow who challenged the prescribed boundaries among gender, race, history, and fiction. In a masterful film and literary history, Smyth explores how Ferber's work helped shape Hollywood's attitude toward the American past.
Legendary Locals of Oxnard
Author: Jeffrey Wayne Maulhardt
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467100560
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The roots of Oxnard history begin on the fertile plain of western Ventura County. A century after the Native Chumash were interrupted by the Spanish Mission system, the rancho period that followed was slow to develop on the Oxnard Plain. By the late 19th century, groups of newcomers from Europe, Latin America, and the post-Civil War states began settling on the agricultural terrain. After experimenting with various dry crops, the introduction of the cash crop of sugar beets brought about the next wave of emigration from Asia, as well as a steady flow of emigrants from the Latin countries. As Oxnard has grown, so has its diverse population and the contributions from the many residents who have made this area their home for generations. Legendary Locals of Oxnard offers a glimpse of some of these individuals.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467100560
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The roots of Oxnard history begin on the fertile plain of western Ventura County. A century after the Native Chumash were interrupted by the Spanish Mission system, the rancho period that followed was slow to develop on the Oxnard Plain. By the late 19th century, groups of newcomers from Europe, Latin America, and the post-Civil War states began settling on the agricultural terrain. After experimenting with various dry crops, the introduction of the cash crop of sugar beets brought about the next wave of emigration from Asia, as well as a steady flow of emigrants from the Latin countries. As Oxnard has grown, so has its diverse population and the contributions from the many residents who have made this area their home for generations. Legendary Locals of Oxnard offers a glimpse of some of these individuals.
Commercial Fisheries Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fish trade
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fish trade
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description