Author: Patrick Huber
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832251
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
An exploration of the origins and development of American country music in the Piedmont's mill villages celebrates the colorful cast of musicians and considers the impact that urban living, industrial music, and mass culture had on their lives and music.
Linthead Stomp
Author: Patrick Huber
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832251
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
An exploration of the origins and development of American country music in the Piedmont's mill villages celebrates the colorful cast of musicians and considers the impact that urban living, industrial music, and mass culture had on their lives and music.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832251
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
An exploration of the origins and development of American country music in the Piedmont's mill villages celebrates the colorful cast of musicians and considers the impact that urban living, industrial music, and mass culture had on their lives and music.
Inside Out & Back Again
Author: Thanhha Lai
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702251178
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702251178
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Moving to America turns H&à's life inside out. For all the 10 years of her life, H&à has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, the warmth of her friends close by, and the beauty of her very own papaya tree. But now the Vietnam War has reached her home. H&à and her family are forced to flee as Saigon falls, and they board a ship headed toward hope. In America, H&à discovers the foreign world of Alabama: the coldness of its strangers, the dullness of its food, the strange shape of its landscape, and the strength of her very own family. This is the moving story of one girl's year of change, dreams, grief, and healing as she journeys from one country to another, one life to the next.
Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
Author: Jonathon Green
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780304366361
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9780304366361
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1600
Book Description
With its unparalleled coverage of English slang of all types (from 18th-century cant to contemporary gay slang), and its uncluttered editorial apparatus, Cassell's Dictionary of Slang was warmly received when its first edition appeared in 1998. 'Brilliant.' said Mark Lawson on BBC2's The Late Review; 'This is a terrific piece of work - learned, entertaining, funny, stimulating' said Jonathan Meades in The Evening Standard.But now the world's best single-volume dictionary of English slang is about to get even better. Jonathon Green has spent the last seven years on a vast project: to research in depth the English slang vocabulary and to hunt down and record written instances of the use of as many slang words as possible. This has entailed trawling through more than 4000 books - plus song lyrics, TV and movie scripts, and many newspapers and magazines - for relevant material. The research has thrown up some fascinating results
Tobacco Culture
Author: John van Willigen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Whereas most crops drive farmers apart as they compete for the best prices, the price controls on tobacco bring growers together. The result is a culture unlike any other in America, one often forgotten or overlooked as federal and state governments fight over the spoils of the tobacco settlement. Tobacco Culture describes the process of raising a crop of burley from the perspective and experience of the farmers themselves. In the process of gathering information for the book, the authors performed most steps in the tobacco production process, from dropping plants, burning seedbeds, topping, and cutting to stripping and baling the finished product. Van Willigen and Eastwood document both present practices and historical developments in tobacco farming at the very moment a way of life stands poised for dramatic change. In addition to growing practices, the authors found other common threads linking growers and tobacco producing regions. Where tobacco is grown, it often becomes the major cash crop and carries the health of the economy. Farmer Oscar Richardson states, "It's bread and butter. It's the industry of the community, the state as a whole.... You take tobacco out of Kentucky and this farmland wouldn't be worth a nickel." Combining cultural anthropology and oral history, John van Willigen and Susan Eastwood have created a remarkable portrait of the heart of the burley belt in Central Kentucky.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183987
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Whereas most crops drive farmers apart as they compete for the best prices, the price controls on tobacco bring growers together. The result is a culture unlike any other in America, one often forgotten or overlooked as federal and state governments fight over the spoils of the tobacco settlement. Tobacco Culture describes the process of raising a crop of burley from the perspective and experience of the farmers themselves. In the process of gathering information for the book, the authors performed most steps in the tobacco production process, from dropping plants, burning seedbeds, topping, and cutting to stripping and baling the finished product. Van Willigen and Eastwood document both present practices and historical developments in tobacco farming at the very moment a way of life stands poised for dramatic change. In addition to growing practices, the authors found other common threads linking growers and tobacco producing regions. Where tobacco is grown, it often becomes the major cash crop and carries the health of the economy. Farmer Oscar Richardson states, "It's bread and butter. It's the industry of the community, the state as a whole.... You take tobacco out of Kentucky and this farmland wouldn't be worth a nickel." Combining cultural anthropology and oral history, John van Willigen and Susan Eastwood have created a remarkable portrait of the heart of the burley belt in Central Kentucky.
The Hollow Man
Author: G. Patrick Huskins
Publisher: G Patrick Huskins
ISBN: 0981213200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
One by one, Boston's leading citizens are disappearing without a trace. When Hollywood homicide detective Frank Buchanan's estranged uncle becomes the latest victim, he turns to his resourceful, albeit lethally unbalanced friend, Daniel Rourke, for assistance. Cold-shouldered by the local authorities, the two friends embark on an off-the-books, undercover search of Beantown's sordid underbelly for Buchanan's uncle. The stakes are soon raised as the carefully choreographed, artfully mutilated bodies of the missing men and women begin to appear at various city landmarks. At each scene a cryptic note is found: 'Out of sight, out of mind.' In the final frantic moments leading up to the killers' explosive endgame, Daniel and Buchanan catch scent of their trail, following it deep into the underground labyrinth of a private gentlemen's club named The Colosseum, deeper still into a secret past long thought dead and buried, a past that everyone involved, Buchanan included, is loathe to exhume.
Publisher: G Patrick Huskins
ISBN: 0981213200
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
One by one, Boston's leading citizens are disappearing without a trace. When Hollywood homicide detective Frank Buchanan's estranged uncle becomes the latest victim, he turns to his resourceful, albeit lethally unbalanced friend, Daniel Rourke, for assistance. Cold-shouldered by the local authorities, the two friends embark on an off-the-books, undercover search of Beantown's sordid underbelly for Buchanan's uncle. The stakes are soon raised as the carefully choreographed, artfully mutilated bodies of the missing men and women begin to appear at various city landmarks. At each scene a cryptic note is found: 'Out of sight, out of mind.' In the final frantic moments leading up to the killers' explosive endgame, Daniel and Buchanan catch scent of their trail, following it deep into the underground labyrinth of a private gentlemen's club named The Colosseum, deeper still into a secret past long thought dead and buried, a past that everyone involved, Buchanan included, is loathe to exhume.
Lesson on Depravity
Author: Celia Crown
Publisher: Celia Crown
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
She’s so naive that she’s gullible. Coco isn’t a heroine in her story, but she’s a princess in his. She has nothing; her home is gone, her name had been lost in the days of homelessness, and her sense of worth was never there to begin with. Alistair gave her everything she would have ever wanted and more, but she wants something that is a foolish idea. She wants to find herself, become a strong-willed woman, and prove to the world that she can work with a badly dealt set of cards. How stupid. Freedom is simply a word, a mere fantasy before she realizes that she can’t live without him. “This is not a punishment, princess; it’s a lesson you have to learn.”
Publisher: Celia Crown
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
She’s so naive that she’s gullible. Coco isn’t a heroine in her story, but she’s a princess in his. She has nothing; her home is gone, her name had been lost in the days of homelessness, and her sense of worth was never there to begin with. Alistair gave her everything she would have ever wanted and more, but she wants something that is a foolish idea. She wants to find herself, become a strong-willed woman, and prove to the world that she can work with a badly dealt set of cards. How stupid. Freedom is simply a word, a mere fantasy before she realizes that she can’t live without him. “This is not a punishment, princess; it’s a lesson you have to learn.”
The Outsiders
Author: S. E. Hinton
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781442000995
Category : Bullying
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A revealing account of the tensions, fears, and frustrations of gang life from a teenage boy's point of view
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781442000995
Category : Bullying
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A revealing account of the tensions, fears, and frustrations of gang life from a teenage boy's point of view
Gothiniad
Author: Surazeus Astarius
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 138726656X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Gothiniad of Surazeus - Oracle of Gotha presents 150,792 lines of verse in 1,948 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1993 to 2000.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 138726656X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Gothiniad of Surazeus - Oracle of Gotha presents 150,792 lines of verse in 1,948 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 1993 to 2000.
Surly Girly
Author: M.E. Purfield
Publisher: trash books
ISBN: 1516397088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
She has the one psychic ability that will change the world for the better or the worse. Teen psychic Miki Radicci has worked with Elite on solving a few murders but this one is different. She must experience the death of a burnt body. No. The police are not involved. Tel-Com, the corporation that funds Elite, is the client. Miki quickly learns that Tel-Com has no interest in finding the killer of the burnt body. They want to know who the body saw at the time of his/her death: a twelve-year-old girl. Going against orders and her own kind, Miki searches for the little girl wanted dead or alive. A little girl that may change the world. Join the many readers of this fast-paced, action-filled urban fantasy that starts from the concrete sprawl of Manhattan and ends in the outer reaches of the woods where no one can find the bodies.
Publisher: trash books
ISBN: 1516397088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
She has the one psychic ability that will change the world for the better or the worse. Teen psychic Miki Radicci has worked with Elite on solving a few murders but this one is different. She must experience the death of a burnt body. No. The police are not involved. Tel-Com, the corporation that funds Elite, is the client. Miki quickly learns that Tel-Com has no interest in finding the killer of the burnt body. They want to know who the body saw at the time of his/her death: a twelve-year-old girl. Going against orders and her own kind, Miki searches for the little girl wanted dead or alive. A little girl that may change the world. Join the many readers of this fast-paced, action-filled urban fantasy that starts from the concrete sprawl of Manhattan and ends in the outer reaches of the woods where no one can find the bodies.
Fear and What Follows
Author: Tim Parrish
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617038679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, “This might be a controversial book, in the best way—controversial because it speaks to real and intractable problems and speaks to them with rare bluntness.” The narrative of Parrish's descent into fear and irrational behavior begins with bigotry and apocalyptic thinking in his Southern Baptist church. Living a life upon this volatile foundation of prejudice and apprehension, Parrish feels destabilized by his brother going to Vietnam, his own puberty and restlessness, serious family illness, and economic uncertainty. Then a near-fatal street fight and subsequent stalking by an older sociopath fracture what security is left, leaving him terrified and seemingly helpless. Parrish comes to believe that he can only be safe by allying himself with brute force. This brute influence is a vicious, charismatic racist. Under this bigot's terrible sway, Parrish turns to violence in the street and at school. He is even conflicted about whether he will help commit murder in order to avenge a friend. At seventeen he must reckon with all of this as his parents and neighbors grow increasingly afraid that they are “losing” their neighborhood to African Americans. Fear and What Follows is an unparalleled story of the complex roots of southern, urban, working-class racism and white flight, as well as a story of family, love, and the possibility of redemption.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617038679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Fear and What Follows is a riveting, unflinching account of the author's spiral into racist violence during the latter years of desegregation in 1960s and 1970s Baton Rouge. About the memoir, author and editor Michael Griffith writes, “This might be a controversial book, in the best way—controversial because it speaks to real and intractable problems and speaks to them with rare bluntness.” The narrative of Parrish's descent into fear and irrational behavior begins with bigotry and apocalyptic thinking in his Southern Baptist church. Living a life upon this volatile foundation of prejudice and apprehension, Parrish feels destabilized by his brother going to Vietnam, his own puberty and restlessness, serious family illness, and economic uncertainty. Then a near-fatal street fight and subsequent stalking by an older sociopath fracture what security is left, leaving him terrified and seemingly helpless. Parrish comes to believe that he can only be safe by allying himself with brute force. This brute influence is a vicious, charismatic racist. Under this bigot's terrible sway, Parrish turns to violence in the street and at school. He is even conflicted about whether he will help commit murder in order to avenge a friend. At seventeen he must reckon with all of this as his parents and neighbors grow increasingly afraid that they are “losing” their neighborhood to African Americans. Fear and What Follows is an unparalleled story of the complex roots of southern, urban, working-class racism and white flight, as well as a story of family, love, and the possibility of redemption.