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A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture
Michael Kammen Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 080782836X Release Date: 2003-12-03 |
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In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse print sources from family genealogical registers to seed catalogs, the four seasons appear and reappear as a theme in American culture.In this richly illustrated book, Michael Kammen traces the appeal of the four seasons motif in American popular culture and fine arts from the seventeenth century to the present. Its symbolism has evolved through the years, Kammen explains, serving as a metaphor for the human life cycle or religious faith, expressing nostalgia for rural life, and sometimes praising seasonal beauty in the diverse American landscape as the most spectacular in the world. Kammen also highlights artists' and writers' shift in attention from the glories of seasonal peaks to the dynamics of seasonal transitions as American life continued to accelerate and change through the twentieth century.
Few symbols have been as pervasive, meaningful, and symptomatic in the human experience as the four seasons, and as Kammen shows, in its American context the annual cycle has been an abundant and abiding source of inspiration in the nation's cultural history.
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A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Social History
Zachary J.S. Falck Manufacturer: Journal of Social History ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000EBECP4 Release Date: 2006-01-25 |
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Social History, published by Journal of Social History on December 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1097 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Gopher's Loafers
H. L. Ross Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0671432036 |
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Ceres: Celestial Legend, Volume 4: Chidori (Ceres, Celestial Legend)
Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1591166098 |
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WOW .......2006-04-23
One of my favorite volumes.......2005-06-28
Great volume.......2005-06-17
One of My Favorites (A bit of a spoiler, warning).......2005-02-25
I love this book.......2004-11-23
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Chidori (Ceres, Celestial Legend, Vol. 4)
Manufacturer: VIZ Media LLC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 156931828X |
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Here is another exciting installment in the popular manga series. After she sees Ceres and Yuhi fly off the Mikage Corporation building, a girl named Chidori wants to find the airborne duo. Locating them, she asks Yuhi to grant her crippled brother's wish to fly. They discover that he is part of the Mikage Corporation's genome experiment!Customer Reviews:
Enter Chidori another tennyo.......2003-11-26
My fav book of the series so far..........2003-08-19
The Story Continues.......2003-07-15
From here on, you'll have to find out via other people or by reading it. It picks up where Suzumi left off and continues to gather steam. It will make you want to find out what happens in the next volume, Mikage, even more. It will answer what happens to Touya and what change is occuring in Aki.
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Listen Kids 1: Book with Audio CD
David Harrington; Charles LeBeau; Dana Chaffin Manufacturer: Language Solutions Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1929274033 |
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--Listen Kids! creates a warm and whimsical world populated by dragons wizards, clowns, children and other loveable characters. --- The audio brings this world to life--close your eyes and you can almost see the characters as they speak and interact. The world of Listen Kids includes music, songs, and stories. --- The rhythmic chants in Listen Kids really rock. They are fun but not childish. The songs entertain but don t talk down to the children. The unforgettable stories introduce the grammar points in an imaginative and playful context. ---- Listen Kids! takes a unique approach in teaching children English. It is the first children's course book that is 100 percent listening. --- Each page in the book is also a track on the CD. Listen Kids! has another unique feature. It's self checking. The child is able to check the answer by listening to the CD. How is this done? By relating all of the answers to colors. The child only needs to know the seven colors used in the book in order to gain self confidence with English. Listening has never been this much fun!!!
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Chinchin chidori no naku koe wa: Nihonjin ga kiita tori no koe
Nakami Yamaguchi Manufacturer: Taishukan Shoten ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 4469220671 |
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A performance study of deadlock resolution in distributed systems (Report)
Chidori Kawamura Boeheim Manufacturer: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006OZ6XQ |
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Peter Sellers: A Celebration
ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000HWYN36 |
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Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany (Weimar and Now, No 6)
Thomas J. Saunders Manufacturer: University of California Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0520083547 |
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The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture.
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Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany. (book reviews): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
David Culbert Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00092WI90 Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on December 1, 1994. The length of the article is 838 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Bohemian Fifths
Hans Werner Henze Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0691006830 |
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It comes as no surprise that Hans Werner Henze's autobiography, like his music, is alternately elegant, dense, and humorous, with a clear love of history and classical beauty. Henze covers both his life and work through 1995; readers may find themselves looking back to Artur Rubinstein's My Young Years to find a musician who has written an autobiography with as much style. Of special interest is Henze's first detailed public comment on the events surrounding the notorious canceled premiere of Das Floss der Medusa. There is also a long sequence of diary entries from his second visit to Cuba. The diary format effectively conveys his initial excitement in the country, which clearly sets off his later disillusionment with Castro. Anecdotes about almost all of Henze's music abound, but the most interesting comments are about music in general--why he hates cello sonatas, why he likes to write for the guitar, why electronic music is unsuitable for ballet. Henze writes beautifully about Mozart ("the link between artistry and simplicity"), Mahler, William Walton, and the Naples debut of Maria Callas. There is a straightforward description of how he composes and a section describing the philosophy behind his festival at Montepulciano.Stewart Spencer's translation is everywhere elegant. In Wiesbaden, we read, one finds "only old ladies with equally ancient hats and poodles." Readers who have come to Henze's music via the Grammy-nominated new recording of the ballet Undine will find helpful information on that work, both about the premiere production and a major revival in 1998. --William R. Braun
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Hans Werner Henze is one of the world's leading composers. His autobiography is frank, impassioned, and alive with memorable images and characters and graphic accounts of the creative process and performances of his music.Henze's unhappy childhood during the onset of Fascism found release in music, which, in spite of the disruption of the war, became the center of his life. He studied composition but began to make a career as a ballet conductor, until his creativity found expression in music that, by the early 1950s, had begun to distance itself from the fashionable but dogmatic rules of serialism in favor of his own individualistic conception of beauty. In both the political and sexual spheres, Hans Werner Henze is an outsider whose utopian dreams of a humane communism have always had to contend with reality. In musical and cultural matters, however, he is one of the best-connected and most influential figures of the postwar era and his autobiography brims with personal stories and observations of such luminaries as Igor Stravinsky, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ingeborg Bachmann, Luchino Visconti, and Hans Magnus Enzensberg. A true cosmopolitan, he is happiest living in Italy, where his innate lyricism has found a natural home.
"Bohemian fifths" are intervals that were played by Bohemian horn players, and which, according to Baroque and Classical rules, were proscribed. Henze's writing protests the lack of freedom that such a prohibition implies, both in music and in life.
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This is a very honest book and gives you insight of Henze works's.......2005-12-28
Fascinating reading by a Bohemian musical aristocrat.......1999-06-09
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The Bonny Cravat: A Grove play; the sixty-fifth play of the Bohemian Club presented at the Grove, July 31, 1970
George Shearing Manufacturer: Bohemian Club ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B0006EOBU0 |
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The PROPHECY. The Eighty-Fifth Grove Play of the Bohemian Club.
J. Thomas - Author. Arnott, Peter R. - Director. Rosch Manufacturer: The Bohemian Club, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MZ957M |
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Rip Van Winkle: The fifty-fifth Grove Play of the Bohemian Club as performed by its members in the Bohemian Grove, 1960
Charles Hart Manufacturer: Bohemian club ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006ED9QM |
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A CHRONICLE Of OUR YEARS. Commemorating the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the founding of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. 1872. 1947. [incorporating] The YESTERYEARS. A Masque of Memories. A Composite Play with an Original Prologue by William H. Smith, Jr.
William H. [Bohemian Club / Fine Press]. Smith Manufacturer: Bohemian Club, ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MZ95G8 |
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Alice in puzzle-land. A Carrollian tale for children under eighty. With an introduction by Martin Gardner. Illustrated by Greer Fitting.
Raymond M. SMULLYAN Manufacturer: William Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000ORE6M2 |
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Alice In Puzzle-Land A Carrollian Tale For Children Under Eighty
Raymond Smullyan Manufacturer: Morrow ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000NPCA6O |
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Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty
Raymond Smullyan Manufacturer: Penguin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MBBYZW |
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How to Make Meetings Work!
Michael Doyle Manufacturer: Berkley Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0425138704 |
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Holding Productive and Effective Meetings.......2006-12-06
Great condition.......2006-11-06
A Comprehensive Book on Meetings!.......2003-03-03
why don't they teach this in business school?.......2001-01-25
the handbook of successful meetings.......1999-05-19
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How to Make Meetings Work
david straus michael doyle ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: 0515071218 |
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Handbook for sales meetings, conventions and conferences, and how to make them work,
Joseph David Cooper Manufacturer: National Sales Development Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007ECBVU |
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How to Make Meetings Work
Michael Doyle Manufacturer: Jove ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000GRSPWC |
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How to Make Meetings Work
Malcolm Peel Manufacturer: Kogan Page ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1850915075 |
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How to Make Meetings Work
Michael; Straus, David Doyle Manufacturer: Jove Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000NY4L4Y |
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I Can't Take Your Call Right Now, I'm In A Meeting: How to make time invested in meetings pay off
Chris Clark-Epstein Manufacturer: Link Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0964393352 |
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Meetings: How to Make Them Work for You
John E. Tropman , and Gersh Morningstar Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0442282974 |
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How to work a medical meeting: companies traveling the trade show and conference circuit must always make the most of their experiences--good or bad.(HEALTHCARE ... An article from: Nutraceuticals World
Erik Goldman Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000P0JJW0 Release Date: 2007-03-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Nutraceuticals World, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1827 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Make Your Meetings Count!: How Storyboarding With Ideas Can Help Your Work Team Plan, Solve Problems, Make Better Decisions
Durward Humes Manufacturer: Kendall Hunt Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0787216461 |
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An excellent guide for enhancing team problem solving.......2000-04-05
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