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Author | : Sheboygan County Historical Research Center |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780988375970 |
Filled with odd and interesting history, the Random Local History Reader uses photos, advertisements, news articles and much more to entertain you. What is the real story of the Dead Horse? Who was the Black Terror of Sheboygan? Have you ever read an obituary for an outhouse? Learn the meaning of the term, Yeggman. Find out why Cupid was baffled. And read the full story behind the murder of revered, early teacher, John Sexton. Great reading for quiet time, you'll enjoy every story and photo included in this random collection of historical gems.
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Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Elmer James Ferguson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Adrian Nicole LeBlanc |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439124892 |
Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves. Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.
Author | : Carol Kammen |
Publisher | : AltaMira Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0759120501 |
The Encyclopedia of Local History addresses nearly every aspect of local history, including everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field. The second edition highlights local history practice in each U.S. state and Canadian province.
Author | : Daniel Mackay |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-08-11 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 0786450479 |
Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned elements, rarely focus on them. Instead, playing a fantasy role-playing game is much like acting out a scene from a play, movie or book, only without a predefined script. Players take on such roles as wise wizards, noble knights, roguish sellswords, crafty hobbits, greedy dwarves, and anything else one can imagine and the referee allows. The players don't exactly compete; instead, they interact with each other and with the fantasy setting. The game is played orally with no game board, and although the referee usually has a storyline planned for a game, much of the action is impromptu. Performance is a major part of role-playing, and role-playing games as a performing art is the subject of this book, which attempts to introduce an appreciation for the performance aesthetics of such games. The author provides the framework for a critical model useful in understanding the art--especially in terms of aesthetics--of role-playing games. The book also serves as a contribution to the beginnings of a body of criticism, theory, and aesthetics analysis of a mostly unrecognized and newly developing art form. There are four parts: the cultural structure, the extent to which the game relates to outside cultural elements; the formal structure, or the rules of the game; the social structure, which encompasses the degree and quality of social interaction among players; and the aesthetic structure, concerned with the emergence of role-playing as an art form.
Author | : Alberto Manguel |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Books |
ISBN | : 9780140166545 |
Author | : Christina K. Schaefer |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Archival resources |
ISBN | : 9780806315157 |
This book's aim is simple: to identify resources in the Washington, DC area that will aid family historians in tracing their ancestors. In meeting that goal, it shows the researcher precisely what genealogical resources are available in the nation's capital and where they can be found. More than a tool, this book is a resource in itself.
Author | : M. Williams |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317900324 |
This practical but inspiring book considers what local history is, why researching it is valuable and rewarding, and how we should go about it. Issues addressed include: getting oral and documentary evidence; keeping records; the nature of data, information and knowledge; and their use to create the different products of local history research. Michael Williams is both a professional scientist and a local historian of long standing, and he uses both sides of his experience in a text that is at once rigorous about the historical process, and also a fascinating - and often moving - account of his adventures into the past of his own family and community. He demonstrates local history methodology through his research into ancestry, migration, work, war and religion in the towns and villages of England and Wales. It is richly illustrated throughout.
Author | : W. Tsai |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230246710 |
Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern lifestyles and changing social attitudes in China as it underwent modernization.