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Wonderland
Author | : Steven Johnson |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1509837299 |
"Everyone knows the old saying "necessity is the mother of invention," but if you do a paternity test on many of the modern world's most important ideas or institutions, you will find, invariably, that leisure and play were involved in the conception as well." Most history books don't concern themselves with delight. History is the serious business of war, treaties, governments and monarchs. This is a different kind of history book. Steven Johnson argues that if you want to understand how we got to now, you have to understand pleasure and play. A staggering amount of the landscape of modern life is populated by environments and technology designed to entertain and delight us. Here history of popular entertainment, arguing that the pursuit of novelty and wonder is a powerful driver of world-shaping technological change. Throughout history, he locates the cutting edge of innovation wherever people are working the hardest to keep themselves and others amused.He introduces us to the colorful innovators of leisure: the explorers, proprietors, showmen, and artists who changed the trajectory of history with their luxurious wares, exotic meals, taverns, gambling tables, and magic shows.
The Selling of Wonderland
Author | : Chris Joseph Magoc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 934 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Yellowstone National Park |
ISBN | : |
Hollandale the Wonderland
Author | : Albert Lea Farms Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 1927* |
Genre | : Hollandale (Minn.) |
ISBN | : |
Alice in Wonderland
Author | : Lewis Carroll |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781514278895 |
One of the most popular and most quoted books in English, Alice in Wonderland was the creation of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), a distinguished scholar, mathematician, and author who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Written for young readers but enjoyed equally by adults, the wonderfully fantastic tale is credited with revolutionizing children's literature and liberating it from didactic constraints. The story is deeply but gently satiric, enlivened with an imaginative plot and brilliant use of nonsense, as it relates Alice's adventures in a bizarre, topsy-turvy land underground. There she encounters a cast of strange characters and fanciful beasts, including the White Rabbit, March Hare, Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse and grinning Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, the dreadful Queen of Hearts, and a host of other unusual creatures. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Sold American
Author | : Charles F. McGovern |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 553 |
Release | : 2009-01-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080787664X |
At the turn of the twentieth century, an emerging consumer culture in the United States promoted constant spending to meet material needs and develop social identity and self-cultivation. In Sold American, Charles F. McGovern examines the key players active in shaping this cultural evolution: advertisers and consumer advocates. McGovern argues that even though these two professional groups invented radically different models for proper spending, both groups propagated mass consumption as a specifically American social practice and an important element of nationality and citizenship. Advertisers, McGovern shows, used nationalist ideals, icons, and political language to define consumption as the foundation of the pursuit of happiness. Consumer advocates, on the other hand, viewed the market with a republican-inspired skepticism and fought commercial incursions on consumer independence. The result, says McGovern, was a redefinition of the citizen as consumer. The articulation of an "American Way of Life" in the Depression and World War II ratified consumer abundance as the basis of a distinct American culture and history.
Reports of the Tax Court of the United States
Author | : United States. Tax Court |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1324 |
Release | : 1952 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN | : |
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author | : New York (State). Court of Appeals. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Volume contains: 211 NY 572 (Ertsaas v. Wonderland) 211 NY 559 (Ewell v. Southard) 211 BY 374 (Fish v. D., L. & W. R.R .Co.) 211 NY 65 (Fitzgerald v. O'Rourke E. Const. Co.) 211 NY 15 (Flatauer v. Loser) 211 NY 575 (Foley v. Solvay Process Co.) 211 NY 47 (Francis v. Gaffey) 211 NY 30 (Grogan v. Dooley)
Billboard
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1982-08-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.