Author: George Lipsitz
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of American political culture. This book is a substantially revised and expanded work developed from the author's heralded 1981 Class and Culture in Cold War America.
Rainbow at Midnight
Author: George Lipsitz
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of American political culture. This book is a substantially revised and expanded work developed from the author's heralded 1981 Class and Culture in Cold War America.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063947
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of American political culture. This book is a substantially revised and expanded work developed from the author's heralded 1981 Class and Culture in Cold War America.
A Rainbow in the Night
Author: Dominique Lapierre
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786745843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's “Elect,” chosen to rule over the continent. Their saga—bloody, ferocious, and fervent—would culminate three centuries later in one of the greatest tragedies of history: the establishment of a racist regime in which a white minority would subjugate and victimize millions of blacks. Called apartheid, it was a poisonous system that would only end with the liberation from prison of one of the moral giants of our time, Nelson Mandela. A Rainbow in the Night is Dominique Lapierre's epic account of South Africa's tragic history and the heroic men and women—famous and obscure, white and black, European and African—who have, with their blood and tears, brought to life the country that is today known as the Rainbow Nation.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786745843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were among God's “Elect,” chosen to rule over the continent. Their saga—bloody, ferocious, and fervent—would culminate three centuries later in one of the greatest tragedies of history: the establishment of a racist regime in which a white minority would subjugate and victimize millions of blacks. Called apartheid, it was a poisonous system that would only end with the liberation from prison of one of the moral giants of our time, Nelson Mandela. A Rainbow in the Night is Dominique Lapierre's epic account of South Africa's tragic history and the heroic men and women—famous and obscure, white and black, European and African—who have, with their blood and tears, brought to life the country that is today known as the Rainbow Nation.
Almost Midnight
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9781529003772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Almost Midnight: Two Festive Short Stories by New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell contains two wintery short stories, decorated throughout with gorgeous black and white illustrations by Simini Blocker. 'Midnights' is the story of Noel and Mags, who meet at the same New Year's Eve party every year and fall a little more in love each time . . . 'Kindred Spirits' is about Elena, who decides to queue to see the new Star Wars movie and meets Gabe, a fellow fan. 'Midnights' was previously published as part of the My True Love Gave to Me anthology, edited by Stephanie Perkins and 'Kindred Spirits' was previously published as a World Book Day title.
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
ISBN: 9781529003772
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Almost Midnight: Two Festive Short Stories by New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell contains two wintery short stories, decorated throughout with gorgeous black and white illustrations by Simini Blocker. 'Midnights' is the story of Noel and Mags, who meet at the same New Year's Eve party every year and fall a little more in love each time . . . 'Kindred Spirits' is about Elena, who decides to queue to see the new Star Wars movie and meets Gabe, a fellow fan. 'Midnights' was previously published as part of the My True Love Gave to Me anthology, edited by Stephanie Perkins and 'Kindred Spirits' was previously published as a World Book Day title.
The Night Rainbow
Author: Claire King
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408824671
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea's father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief and isolated from the village by her Englishness, has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach her - although she tries desperately to do so.Then Pea meets Claude, a man who seems to love the meadow as she does and who always has time to play. Pea believes that she and Margot have found a friend, and maybe even a new papa. But why do the villagers view Claude with suspicion? And what secret is he keeping in his strange, empty house?Elegantly written, haunting and gripping, The Night Rainbow is a novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion and the dangers of an overactive imagination.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408824671
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
During one long, hot summer, five-year-old Pea and her little sister Margot play alone in the meadow behind their house, on the edge of a small village in Southern France. Her mother is too sad to take care of them; she left her happiness in the hospital, along with the baby. Pea's father has died in an accident and Maman, burdened by her double grief and isolated from the village by her Englishness, has retreated to a place where Pea cannot reach her - although she tries desperately to do so.Then Pea meets Claude, a man who seems to love the meadow as she does and who always has time to play. Pea believes that she and Margot have found a friend, and maybe even a new papa. But why do the villagers view Claude with suspicion? And what secret is he keeping in his strange, empty house?Elegantly written, haunting and gripping, The Night Rainbow is a novel about innocence and experience, grief and compassion and the dangers of an overactive imagination.
Class and Culture in Cold War America
Author: George Lipsitz
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Ava the Sunset Fairy
Author: Daisy Meadows
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545270448
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Ava the Sunset Fairy's bag of sunbeam dust has disappeared. The girls are sure that Jack Frost is behind it! Can they help Ava find her magic, so the sun can finally set?
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545270448
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Ava the Sunset Fairy's bag of sunbeam dust has disappeared. The girls are sure that Jack Frost is behind it! Can they help Ava find her magic, so the sun can finally set?
Midnight Rainbow
Author: LINDA HOWARD
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1489209883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Grant Sullivan - tough, rugged and handsome - is a retired military expert entrusted with a mission deep in the Costa Rican jungle: to find Jane Hamilton Greer, a wealthy socialite who has been taken hostage by rebels. When Grant rescues the self-possessed Jane by literally throwing her over his shoulder, no love is lost between them. But as the rebels pursue them, they're forced to work together, and soon the jungle begins to smoulder in more ways than one.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1489209883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Grant Sullivan - tough, rugged and handsome - is a retired military expert entrusted with a mission deep in the Costa Rican jungle: to find Jane Hamilton Greer, a wealthy socialite who has been taken hostage by rebels. When Grant rescues the self-possessed Jane by literally throwing her over his shoulder, no love is lost between them. But as the rebels pursue them, they're forced to work together, and soon the jungle begins to smoulder in more ways than one.
A Rainbow at Midnight
Author: George Lipsitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Working class
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow
Author: Cooper Edens
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780671749521
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents advice for a variety of situations, including what to do if the sky falls, the bus doesn't come, the sun never shines again, and there is no happy ending.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780671749521
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Presents advice for a variety of situations, including what to do if the sky falls, the bus doesn't come, the sun never shines again, and there is no happy ending.
Zara the Starlight Fairy
Author: Daisy Meadows
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545270464
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Previously published: London: Orchard U.K., 2010.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545270464
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Previously published: London: Orchard U.K., 2010.