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The Home Place: Life in Rural Prince Edward Island in the 1920s and 30s
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In The Home Place, Jean Halliday MacKay paints a vivid picture of life in the early part of the 20th century, documenting memories of life in the home and on the farm, in the one-room school and in the community. She begins with a brief look at the Halliday family’s arrival to Belfast as “Selkirk Settlers” in the early 1800s. There they settled and farmed, becoming part and parcel of the Island’s historical landscape. Written especially for her family, this book is primarily about the time of Jean’s growing up. These are her stories: her memories of life in the home and on the farm, in the one-room school and in the community.
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- A Superb Look at the Yankee Clipper
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Joe DiMaggio: An American Icon (Daily News Legends Series)
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DiMaggio: Setting the Record Straight
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No other man represents baseball's Golden Age better than the Yankee Clipper. No other source can better capture the glory of those days than the Daily News. From the very beginning of Joe DiMaggio's career to his passing in 1999, the Daily News was there to cover his life and career. This book covers Joe's entire career, plus the public aspects of his relationship with Marilyn Monroe, his family, and his life after baseball.
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A Superb Look at the Yankee Clipper.......2006-12-09
This is my favorite book on the legendary Joe DiMaggio. Part of the Daily News Legends Series it is chock full of the newspaper stories that covered Joe DiMaggio's career and life on and off the field. The stories reflect not a retrospective look at DiMaggio like most books, but rather the events as they were viewed at the time, in the language of the time. A delightful read that is accompanied by a good many photos (mostly black and white) and is sure to please any baseball fan.
Excellent compilation of a fantastic career........1999-03-20
If you are a baseball fan, then this compilation as put together by the N.Y. Daily News is a must have.The depth of their files, as shown in this book, comes through to allow those fans of Joe D. to relive both the good and not so good times of a grand career. With his passing, a certain style and grace was lost to us all. This book will go a long way in helping us remember it.
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New York Times Film Reviews 1987-1988 (New York Times Film Reviews)
Random House
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You've seen them: They sip double-tall, nonfat lattes, chat on cell phones, and listen to NPR while driving their immaculate SUVs to Pottery Barn to shop for $48 titanium spatulas. They tread down specialty cheese aisles in top-of-the-line hiking boots and think nothing of laying down $5 for an olive-wheatgrass muffin. They're the bourgeois bohemians--"Bobos"--an unlikely blend of mainstream culture and 1960s-era counterculture that, according to David Brooks, represents both America's present and future: "These Bobos define our age. They are the new establishment. Their hybrid culture is the atmosphere we all breathe. Their status codes now govern social life." Amusing stereotypes aside, they're an "elite based on brainpower" and merit rather than pedigree or lineage: "Dumb good-looking people with great parents have been displaced by smart, ambitious, educated, and antiestablishment people with scuffed shoes."
Bobos in Paradise is a brilliant, breezy, and often hilarious study of the "cultural consequences of the information age." Large and influential (especially in terms of their buying power), the Bobos have reformed society through culture rather than politics, and Brooks clearly outlines this passing of the high-class torch by analyzing nearly all aspects of life: consumption habits, business and lifestyle choices, entertainment, spirituality, politics, and education. Employing a method he calls "comic sociology," Brooks relies on keen observations, wit, and intelligence rather than statistics and hard theory to make his points. And by copping to his own Bobo status, he comes across as revealing rather than spiteful in his dead-on humor. Take his description of a typical grocery store catering to discriminating Bobos: "The visitor to Fresh Fields is confronted with a big sign that says 'Organic Items today: 130.' This is like a barometer of virtue. If you came in on a day when only 60 items were organic, you'd feel cheated. But when the number hits the three figures, you can walk through the aisles with moral confidence."
Like any self-respecting Bobo, Brooks wears his erudition lightly and comfortably (not unlike, say, an expedition-weight triple-layer Gore-Tex jacket suitable for a Mount Everest assault but more often seen in the gym). But just because he's funny doesn't mean this is not a serious book. On the contrary, it is one of the more insightful works of social commentary in recent memory. His ideas are sharp, his writing crisp, and he even offers pointed suggestions for putting the considerable Bobo political clout to work. And, unlike the classes that spawned them--the hippies and the yuppies--Brooks insists the Bobos are here to stay: "Today the culture war is over, at least in the realm of the affluent. The centuries-old conflict has been reconciled." All the more reason to pay attention. --Shawn Carkonen
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Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.
In his bestselling work of "comic sociology," David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today's upper class -- those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation.
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A picturesque description of American upper-middle class life (though a bit exaggerated!).......2007-06-16
The perfect book to read in a long flight. Come to think about it, if you happen to be flying abroad and this is not your first time, you'll probably find a lot of yourself described in this book. And that is regardless of your nationality! Easy to read and amusing though a bit exaggerated as the people they describe in the book are not upper-class but upper-middle class. Yet, I would definitely recommend it.
PS: Read "Class" by Paul Fussel if you really want to understand the American Class System.
Hilarious Because Its True!.......2007-03-30
Go to any college campus, resort town, or urban-chic hotspot in America today and David Brooks' "Bobos In Paradise," could act as an incredibly detailed and relevant tour guide. Everyone knows a Bobo whether they realize it or not...in fact they may be one themselves, though they would never admit it. After reading this book I realized that I am in fact a Bobo. Brooks cracked the code for me on things I had always noticed, but never been able to put into words regarding the new class of society forming in America; the exotic coffee drinking, urban outfitter/anthropologie wearing, mutual fund owning, I go climb Himalayan ranges barefoot and drink yak's milk tea with the sherpas over Spring Break for fun because all the "tourists" stay in Kathmandu, class of society. The people that will not like this book are the ones that take themselves way too seriously...most likely because they are probably Bobos too, but too proud to admit it. Entertaining to say the least!
Entertaining Read.......2007-03-29
I had to read this book for a freshman level economics class, and wasn't looking forward to it. However, it was good. It tends to drag on toward the middle, but overall is entertaining and you will find yourself recognizing people you know or even yourself.
Not all poseurs.......2006-11-06
Intermingling witty observations with a fluid expository style, the author paints a multifaceted picture of the hybrid gypsy/ conventional trappings of many of today's upscale professionals. He even coins a term bobo, a contraction of the phrase bohemian - bourgouisie to categorize this demographic.
What I find troubling in Brooks' thesis is his interpretation that adaptations of the aesthetic motifs and insignia from any cultural or economic group other than of one's own heritage is necessarily an act of pretension. His view seems to be that the bobo lifestyle is predicated on an "I'm more globally and ecologically conscious than you" one upmanship which basically boils down to consumerism and display on a grand scale. Any lifestyle could be a pretension. A well-meaning attempt at synthesizing appealing aspects of other heritages need not brand one as a poseur. After all, there is much evidence to show that cultural intermingling (not always of benign impetus) has been more the rule than the exception in human history.
Brooks does not explore the "why's" of boboism. The ease and frequency of international travel, as well as the massive influx to the USA of immigrants, the acceptance of marriage outside one's demographic and the diversity promoted by institutes of higher education could well be contributing factors. Also, the very traits that helped bobos rise to their economic level - innovativeness and creativity - could themselves motivate bobos to explore the kinds of novelty Brooks describes in their personal lives.
Bobos has helped me define my world.......2006-10-28
This is one of the most useful books I have read in the past year.
I live immersed in a Burning Man, neo-hippies-with-money world, and so many things about my friends, my culture and my own life made no sense until I read this book. I found particularly compelling the story about the clash between the old WASP elites and the rising technocratic, bohemian elite in the 1960s. The "Sixties" is, I believe, much better understood as a clash between elites.
I believe the next great clash of elites will be between national elites and global elites. Watch for it.
I am Bobo. Hear me Roar.
Thank you, Mr. Brooks, for giving me a context for my culture.
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Spectacular Showers for Brides, Babies, and Beyond
Madeline Barillo
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Planning a shower can be a daunting task--especially since contemporary showers are no longer reserved strictly for female guests to honor brides and expectant mothers. Spectacular Showers for Brides, Babies, and Beyond takes the guesswork and anxiety out of planning and hosting a shower. It covers every type of shower party, from traditional bridal, couple, and baby showers to specialty showers for retirements, going-away-to-college, grandparents, and more. The author serves up a generous helping of recipes, practical checklists, and economical suggestions for decorating and catering.
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Roger Miller believes that students learn best when they are motivated, and that motivation comes when they connect an idea to their day-to-day lives. That is why every chapter of Economics Today is packed with thought-provoking applications that give immediate, common-sense reinforcement to economic concepts. From international to local, corporate to consumer, policy to personal, these examples spark lively discussion both in and out of the classroom. The result is that students gain a natural understanding of economic theory and analysis, and they learn to use economic reasoning in their everyday decisions.
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Economics Today: The Micro View, 2001-2002 Edition with Economics in Action 2001-2002 Version (11th Edition)
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Economics Today: The Micro View
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great book.......2004-12-30
this book, economics today- the micro view, took a complex subject and made it very easy to understand, and enjoyable. the student access kit, study guide and reference card was also very helpul, and went along perfectly with the book.
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Economic Today Micro View
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Economics Today Micro View/Your Economic Life the Practical Applications of Economics
Roger LeRoy Miller
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Economics Today Micro View/Your Economic Life the Practical Applications of Economics
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Economics today, the micro view
E. G West
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requierd reading.......2000-05-31
this is the requierd text for my microeconomics class. varry dry stuff but thurough and well organised
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