Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805061789
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After learning about maps in school, Lisa maps all the favorite places of her dog Penny.
Mapping Penny's World
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805061789
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After learning about maps in school, Lisa maps all the favorite places of her dog Penny.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805061789
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
After learning about maps in school, Lisa maps all the favorite places of her dog Penny.
Measuring Penny
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805065725
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Lisa's homework assignment is to measure something. The fun begins when she decides to measure her dog, Penny.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805065725
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Lisa's homework assignment is to measure something. The fun begins when she decides to measure her dog, Penny.
Satchmo Blows Up the World
Author: Penny VON ESCHEN
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Penny Von Eschen escorts us across the globe, backstage and onstage, as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and other jazz luminaries spread their music and their ideas further than the State Department anticipated. Both in concert and after hours, through political statements and romantic liaisons, these musicians broke through the government's official narrative and gave their audiences an unprecedented vision of the black American experience. In the process, new collaborations developed between Americans and the formerly colonized peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East--collaborations that fostered greater racial pride and solidarity. Though intended as a color-blind promotion of democracy, this unique Cold War strategy unintentionally demonstrated the essential role of African Americans in U.S. national culture. Through the tales of these tours, Von Eschen captures the fascinating interplay between the efforts of the State Department and the progressive agendas of the artists themselves, as all struggled to redefine a more inclusive and integrated American nation on the world stage.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674044711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Penny Von Eschen escorts us across the globe, backstage and onstage, as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and other jazz luminaries spread their music and their ideas further than the State Department anticipated. Both in concert and after hours, through political statements and romantic liaisons, these musicians broke through the government's official narrative and gave their audiences an unprecedented vision of the black American experience. In the process, new collaborations developed between Americans and the formerly colonized peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East--collaborations that fostered greater racial pride and solidarity. Though intended as a color-blind promotion of democracy, this unique Cold War strategy unintentionally demonstrated the essential role of African Americans in U.S. national culture. Through the tales of these tours, Von Eschen captures the fascinating interplay between the efforts of the State Department and the progressive agendas of the artists themselves, as all struggled to redefine a more inclusive and integrated American nation on the world stage.
Knee High and Livin' Large
Author: Stacy Wall
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780609602362
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Welcome to my inside flap. You know, most inside flaps in books try to sum up what the book's all about, and they usually have plenty of fancy terms like, "magically woven," or "packed with laughs," or "a triumph of the human spirit." And, of course, all of this is just a thinly veiled attempt to get you, the book browser, to buy the book. But not on my inside flap, no sir. I've got too many stories to tell, and I can't waste any space. So, with that in mind, here's a caption for the photograph of me on pages 58-59. I really enjoy a nice traditional Japanese steam bath. And so do my two lovely companions, Timori (left) and Masako. They're both flight attendants for a Japanese airline. And before you get any ideas, we're just friends. You know Tyra's the only one for me.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9780609602362
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Welcome to my inside flap. You know, most inside flaps in books try to sum up what the book's all about, and they usually have plenty of fancy terms like, "magically woven," or "packed with laughs," or "a triumph of the human spirit." And, of course, all of this is just a thinly veiled attempt to get you, the book browser, to buy the book. But not on my inside flap, no sir. I've got too many stories to tell, and I can't waste any space. So, with that in mind, here's a caption for the photograph of me on pages 58-59. I really enjoy a nice traditional Japanese steam bath. And so do my two lovely companions, Timori (left) and Masako. They're both flight attendants for a Japanese airline. And before you get any ideas, we're just friends. You know Tyra's the only one for me.
World History Time Lines
Author: Penny Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764159749
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A chronological listing of historical events from prehistoric times to the present.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780764159749
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A chronological listing of historical events from prehistoric times to the present.
The Biggest Hole in the World
Author: Penny Little
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340911686
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Charlie, his dad and Doggo the dog are at the seaside. Charlie decides to dig the biggest hole he can in the sand. Nothing strange here you might think - until he falls in!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340911686
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Charlie, his dad and Doggo the dog are at the seaside. Charlie decides to dig the biggest hole he can in the sand. Nothing strange here you might think - until he falls in!
It's Probably Penny
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805073898
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Lisa and her class learn about probability.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805073898
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Lisa and her class learn about probability.
Everyday Spirituality
Author: S. MacKian
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230365302
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality. By exploring the everyday impacts of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices, the book examines contemporary spirituality and how critical social science can map and understand it.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230365302
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book puts spirit back at the heart of spirituality. By exploring the everyday impacts of alternative spiritual beliefs and practices, the book examines contemporary spirituality and how critical social science can map and understand it.
Let's Do
Author: Rebecca Meacham
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574411853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2004. In the nine stories of Let's Do, various calamities strike ordinary Midwesterners, who cope with a mixture of good intentions and ineptitude. Balancing humor with painful clarity, author Rebecca Meacham pulls readers into the lives of characters who struggle with--and more often against--change.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574411853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2004. In the nine stories of Let's Do, various calamities strike ordinary Midwesterners, who cope with a mixture of good intentions and ineptitude. Balancing humor with painful clarity, author Rebecca Meacham pulls readers into the lives of characters who struggle with--and more often against--change.
Reading the Cozy Mystery
Author: Phyllis M. Betz
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476641692
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study. This anthology brings together a groundbreaking collection of essays that examine the cozy mystery from a range of critical viewpoints. The authors engage with the standard classification of a cozy, the characters who appear in its pages, the environment where the crime occurs and how these elements reveal the cozy story's complexity in surprising ways. Essays analyze cozy mysteries to argue that Agatha Christie is actually not a cozy writer; that Columbo fits the mold of the cozy detective; and that the stories' portrayals of settings like the quaint English village reveal a more complicated society than meets the eye.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476641692
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
With their intimate settings, subdued action and likeable characters, cozy mysteries are rarely seen as anything more than light entertainment. The cozy, a subgenre of crime fiction, has been historically misunderstood and often overlooked as the subject of serious study. This anthology brings together a groundbreaking collection of essays that examine the cozy mystery from a range of critical viewpoints. The authors engage with the standard classification of a cozy, the characters who appear in its pages, the environment where the crime occurs and how these elements reveal the cozy story's complexity in surprising ways. Essays analyze cozy mysteries to argue that Agatha Christie is actually not a cozy writer; that Columbo fits the mold of the cozy detective; and that the stories' portrayals of settings like the quaint English village reveal a more complicated society than meets the eye.