National Past Time

National Past Time
Author: Jude Morgan
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147598359X

For Peter Fox, being a bowling alley proprietor was a calling. Right from the beginning, the Upstate New York village of Koopersville embraced Peter's glistening new bowling alley with its modern automatic pinsetters, and Koopersville Bowl quickly became the heart and soul of the village. Peter's dream business opened in 1962, and year after year, the bowling alley was the place where the trials and tribulations of growing up in a small New England town were transformed into the dreams and hopes of the future. Anything was possible at Koopersville Bowl. But one day Peter Fox died, and the village stopped breathing. The moral fabric of the entire community broke, yet Peter's extended family tried to adjust to their loss. As Peter's eldest son, Paul Fox knew it was his duty to help his mother carry on; what's more, it was what his father would have wanted. And that's exactly what he did. Even so, sometimes unexpected things do happen. In the game of bowling there is only one way to salvage your score, and that is to throw strikes. Perfect games are hard to come by. But in life, as Paul soon finds out, there are always new beginnings, new games to be played, and old memories that can never be taken away.

National Past-times

National Past-times
Author: Ann Anagnost
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822319696

Anthropologist Ann Anagnost explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the body of the nation. Using interviews and participant observation as well as close readings of official documents and propaganda materials, and popular media, Anagnost notes discontinuities in the nation's self-description--as though redefined at critical junctures in recent history. Photos.

Silent Cries: From the Hearts of Alcoholics and Addicts

Silent Cries: From the Hearts of Alcoholics and Addicts
Author: W. Lionel Carrega
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2015-07-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0692026843

Personal stories of addicts and alcoholics from every socio-economic background, racial and educational upbringing. The book details their journey of attempts to become independent of rehabilitation programs and gives the most valid reasons for their difficulties and struggles to free themselves of their indulgences. It discusses and lays the blame on permanent molecular and physiological changes as the culprit. It discusses marijuana in a changing world by looking at its economics and health benefits. Silent Cries provides research material from JAMA, scientific literature from numerous specialists from world renowned leading institutions for medical training and research, to corroborate evidence that the new approach to psychiatric decisions are based on "cosmetic psychiatry" as currently practiced from the new DSM 5.

Chinese Politics

Chinese Politics
Author: Peter Gries
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135149992

Written by a team of leading China scholars this text interrogates the dynamics of state power and legitimation in 21st Century China. Despite the continuing economic successes and rising international prestige of China there has been increasing social protests over corruption, land seizures, environmental concerns, and homeowner movements. Such political contestation presents an opportunity to explore the changes occurring in China today – what are the goals of political contestation, how are Chinese Communist Party leaders legitimizing their rule, who are the specific actors involved in contesting state legitimacy today and what are the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People’s Republic? Key subjects covered include: the legitimacy of the Communist Party internet censorship ethnic resistance rural and urban contention nationalism youth culture labour relations. Chinese Politics is an essential read for all students and scholars of contemporary China as well as those interested in the dynamics of political and social change.

Istanbul, Open City

Istanbul, Open City
Author: Ipek Türeli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317111753

Urban theory traditionally links modernity to the city, to the historical emergence of certain forms of subjectivity and the rise of important developments in culture, arts and architecture. This is often in response to technological, economic and societal transformations in the nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries in select Euro-American metropolises. In contrast, non-Western cities in the modern period are often considered through the lens of Westernization and development. How do we account for urban modernity in "other" cities? This book seeks to highlight cultural creativity by examining the diverse and shifting ways Istanbulites have defined themselves while they debate, imagine, build and consume their city. It focuses on a series of exhibitionary sites, from print press/photography, cinema/films, exhibitions of architectural heritage, theme parks and museums, and explores the links between these popular depictions through shared practices of representation. In doing so it argues that understanding how the future is imagined through images and interpretations of the past can broaden current theoretical thinking about Istanbul and other cities. In line with postcolonial calls for a comparative urbanism that decouples understanding of the modern from its privileged association with Western cities, this book offers a new perspective on the lens of urban modernity. It will appeal to urban geographers and historians, cultural studies scholars, art historians and anthropologists as well as planners, architects and artists.

A Little Pretty Pocket-book

A Little Pretty Pocket-book
Author: John Newbery
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2022-05-29
Genre: Art
ISBN:

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is a children's book written by John Newbery. It is commonly thought to be the first children's book ever made, and provides a code of conduct for boys and girls in different social settings.

Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2009
Genre: Law
ISBN:

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

The Last Yankee

The Last Yankee
Author: Society for American Baseball Research (Sabr)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1999-01-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780910137775

A collection of articles, essays, statistics, and lore on the game of baseball.