Bringing Up Daddy

Bringing Up Daddy
Author: Stella Bruzzi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2019-07-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1838714731

Offering a broad perspective on the Hollywood dad, looking at important Hollywood fathers and discussing films from many genres, this book adopts a multi-faceted theoretical approach, making use of psychoanalysis, sociology and masculinity studies and contextualising the father figure within both Hollywood and American history.

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion

Amazons of the Huk Rebellion
Author: Vina A. Lanzona
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2009-04-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0299230937

Labeled “Amazons” by the national press, women played a central role in the Huk rebellion, one of the most significant peasant-based revolutions in modern Philippine history. As spies, organizers, nurses, couriers, soldiers, and even military commanders, women worked closely with men to resist first Japanese occupation and later, after WWII, to challenge the new Philippine republic. But in the midst of the uncertainty and violence of rebellion, these women also pursued personal lives, falling in love, becoming pregnant, and raising families, often with their male comrades-in-arms. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred veterans of the movement, Vina A. Lanzona explores the Huk rebellion from the intimate and collective experiences of its female participants, demonstrating how their presence, and the complex questions of gender, family, and sexuality they provoked, ultimately shaped the nature of the revolutionary struggle. Winner, Kenneth W. Baldridge Prize for the best history book written by a resident of Hawaii, sponsored by Brigham Young University–Hawaii

Staff Operations

Staff Operations
Author: Richard Winship Stewart
Publisher: Fort Leavenworth, Kan. : U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1991
Genre: Korean War, 1950-1953
ISBN:

Retro Ranch

Retro Ranch
Author: C. W. Welch
Publisher: Collectors Press, Inc.
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2005
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 193311200X

Howdy pardners! Welcome to the Retro Ranch, a place where Stetson-clad mavericks wrangle longhorns by day and chow at the chuck wagon by night. Retro Ranch: A Roundup of Classic Cowboy Cookin' is a complete guide to cowboy cooking featuring hearty, simple ingredients for gourmet grub in the back country. From dinner favourites to delicious desserts, leaving the comforts of the kitchen has never been easier. Vintage western images, ranch-hand lingo, and a Dutch oven tutorial combine to make this a must-have for any cowboy cook. With boot-scootin' breads and six-shooter soups and sides, you'll be rustling up hearty vittles in no time. Simple, easy-to-find ingredients will have you covered whether you're aiming to recreate campfire cooking in the kitchen or heading out on the open trail. With recipes like breads, stews, taters, cakes, and more even the slickest city slicker feel at home on the range.

Charlie Russell Roundup

Charlie Russell Roundup
Author: Brian W. Dippie
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780917298479

A collection of essays by various authors that explore the work, influence, and legacy of American cowboy artist and writer Charles M. Russell.

Revolutionary Horizons

Revolutionary Horizons
Author: Abigail McEwen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300216815

Following the trajectories of two pioneering artist groups, this groundbreaking book explores the development of abstract art, and its political stakes, in 1950s Cuba.

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup

The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup
Author: Mitchel Cohen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1510735143

“We are being poisoned, and this book is sounding a well-informed alarm. Read it. Get educated and then join the thousands rising up against those who care more for profit than the health of our bodies and our earth.”–Eve Ensler, New York Times bestselling author Chemical poisons have infiltrated all facets of our lives – housing, agriculture, work places, sidewalks, subways, schools, parks, even the air we breathe. More than half a century since Rachel Carson issued Silent Spring – her call-to-arms against the poisoning of our drinking water, food, animals, air, and the natural environment – The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup takes a fresh look at the politics underlying the mass use of pesticides and the challenges people around the world are making against the purveyors of poison and the governments that enable them. The scientists and activists contributing to The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup, edited by long-time Green activist Mitchel Cohen, explore not only the dangers of glyphosate – better known as “Roundup” – but the campaign resulting in glyphosate being declared as a probable cancer-causing agent. In an age where banned pesticides are simply replaced with newer and more deadly ones, and where corporations such as Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and DuPont scuttle attempts to regulate the products they manufacture, what is the effective, practical, and philosophical framework for banning glyphosate and other pesticides? The Fight Against Monsanto's Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides takes lessons from activists who have come before and offers a radical approach that is essential for defending life on this planet and creating for our kids, and for ourselves, a future worth living in.

Edward M. Almond and the US Army

Edward M. Almond and the US Army
Author: Michael E. Lynch
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813178002

This study presents a comprehensive look at a complex man who exhibited an unfaltering commitment to the military and to his soldiers but whose career was marked by controversy. As a senior Army officer in World Wars I and II, Lt. Gen. Edward M. Almond lived by the adage that "units don't fail, leaders do." He was chosen to command the 92nd Infantry Division—one of only two African American divisions to see combat during WWII—but when the infantry performed poorly in Italy in 1944–1945, he asserted that it was due to their inferiority as a race and not their maltreatment by a separate but unequal society. He would later command the X Corps during the Inchon invasion that changed the course of the Korean War, but his accomplishments would be overshadowed by his abrasive personality and tactical mistakes. This book addresses how Almond's early education at the Virginia Military Institute, with its strong Confederate and military influences, shaped his military prowess. Presented is a thorough assessment of Almond's military record; how he garnered respect for his aggressiveness, courage in combat, strong dedication, and leadership; and how he was affected by the loss of his son and son-in-law in combat during WWII. Following the war, Almond would return to the US to assume command of the US Army War College, but would find himself unprepared for a changing world. This volume asserts that since his death, his bigoted views have come to dominate his place in history and undermine his military achievements.