Fodor's San Francisco 1987
Author | : Fodor's |
Publisher | : Fodor's |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1987-02-12 |
Genre | : San Francisco (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780679014003 |
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Author | : Fodor's |
Publisher | : Fodor's |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1987-02-12 |
Genre | : San Francisco (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780679014003 |
Author | : Carol Barrington |
Publisher | : Fodor's |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1985-02-01 |
Genre | : San Francisco (Calif.) |
ISBN | : 9780679011705 |
Author | : Jasmin Darznik |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0399182314 |
A spellbinding debut novel about the trailblazing Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, who defied society's expectations to find her voice and her destiny. "Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal." All through her childhood in Tehran, Forugh Farrokhzad is told that Persian daughters should be quiet and modest. She is taught only to obey, but she always finds ways to rebel, gossiping with her sister among the fragrant roses of her mother's walled garden, venturing to the forbidden rooftop to roughhouse with her three brothers, writing poems to impress her strict, disapproving father, and sneaking out to flirt with a teenage paramour over café glacé. During the summer of 1950, Forugh's passion for poetry takes flight, and tradition seeks to clip her wings. Forced into a suffocating marriage, Forugh runs away and falls into an affair that fuels her desire to write and to achieve freedom and independence. Forugh's poems are considered both scandalous and brilliant; she is heralded by some as a national treasure, vilified by others as a demon influenced by the West. She perseveres, finding love with a notorious filmmaker and living by her own rules, at enormous cost. But the power of her writing only grows stronger amid the upheaval of the Iranian revolution. Inspired by Forugh Farrokhzad's verse, letters, films, and interviews, and including original translations of her poems, this haunting novel uses the lens of fiction to capture the tenacity, spirit, and conflicting desires of a brave woman who represents the birth of feminism in Iran, and who continues to inspire generations of women around the world.--Amazon.
Author | : Gregory Hayes |
Publisher | : Harvard, Mass. : Harvard Common Press |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Beckman |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307908186 |
Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping the national character in profound and lasting ways. In the nation’s earlier eras, revelers flouted Puritans, Patriots pranked Redcoats, slaves lampooned masters, and forty-niners bucked the saddles of an increasingly uptight middle class. In the twentieth century, fun-loving Americans celebrated this heritage and pushed it even further: flappers “barney-mugged” in “petting pantries,” Yippies showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, and B-boys invented hip-hop in a war zone in the Bronx. This is the surprising and revelatory history that John Beckman recounts in American Fun. Tying together captivating stories of Americans’ “pursuit of happiness”—and distinguishing between real, risky fun and the bland amusements that paved the way for Hollywood, Disneyland, and Xbox—Beckman redefines American culture with a delightful and provocative thesis. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Author | : Mark Craig |
Publisher | : Triumph Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1633196712 |
100 Things Vikings Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resources guide for true fans of the Minnesota Vikings. Whether you're a die-hard booster from the days of Fran Tarkenton or a new supporter of Teddy Bridgewater, these are the 100 things all fans need to know and do in their lifetime. It contains every essential piece of Minnesota knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1200 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Booksellers and bookselling |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gleb Tsipursky |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2016-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822981254 |
Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture. The primary local venues for Soviet culture were the tens of thousands of clubs where young people found entertainment, leisure, social life, and romance. Here sports, dance, film, theater, music, lectures, and political meetings became vehicles to disseminate a socialist version of modernity. The Soviet way of life was dutifully presented and perceived as the most progressive and advanced, in an attempt to stave off Western influences. In effect, socialist fun became very serious business. As Tsipursky shows, however, Western culture did infiltrate these activities, particularly at local levels, where participants and organizers deceptively cloaked their offerings to appeal to their own audiences. Thus, Soviet modernity evolved as a complex and multivalent ideological device. Tsipursky provides a fresh and original examination of the Kremlin's paramount effort to shape young lives, consumption, popular culture, and to build an emotional community—all against the backdrop of Cold War struggles to win hearts and minds both at home and abroad.