Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie

Cowgirls, Cockroaches and Celebrity Lingerie
Author: Michelle Lovric
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Museums may have a reputation for being boring, dusty and outdated but Michelle Lovric's new books crushes that stereotype and shows the fascinating, fun and sometimes frightening collections that are housed in the museums of today. There are museums devoted to Jell-O, liars, peanuts and the Dakota Dinosaur. From the Salem Witch Museum to Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum, via the House of Terror, take a tour of the worlds most unusual collections.

The United States of Strange

The United States of Strange
Author: Eric Grzymkowski
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2012-06-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1440536201

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of All Things Weird Sure, you probably know that George Washington was our first president and that Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered America in 1492, but did you know that there are more plastic flamingos in the United States than there are real ones and that Disneyland employees were not permitted to wear their own underwear while dressing in character until 2001? Behind the portrait of America that history classes, news reports, and boring documentaries have painted lies a strange and perplexing country that you couldn't imagine even in your wildest dreams. Featuring 1,001 shocking facts, this book reveals all the secrets and weirdness that you never knew about the United States. From the thirty-two(!) bathrooms in the White House to the fact that a single U.S.–made hamburger may contain meat from 100 different cows, these wacky tidbits will guarantee that you'll never look at this nation the same way again!

Private History in Public

Private History in Public
Author: Tammy S. Gordon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2010
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780759119352

Private History in Public examines history exhibits in small community museums and non-museum settings like bars, churches, and barbershops and argues that these exhibits promote dialogue on historical topics by engaging visitors with individualized perspectives.

Phallological Museum

Phallological Museum
Author: Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3643904703

In an age of various kinds of surgical and imaginary penis augmentations, the Icelandic Phallological Museum has appeared on the world stage as a tour-de-force of global castration and local creativity. In this timely book, Professor Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson portrays some of the aesthetic, political, moral, social, and cultural significance of the unique and internationally famous Icelandic Phallological Museum. The book shows that the museum both ridicules and undermines traditions in Western cultures, when it comes to the nature of histories, scholarly fields, and cultural institutions, simultaneously offering an alternative in knowledge production and cultural representation, by focusing on and displaying the highly sensitive subject of penises. (Series: Museums - Past and Present / Museen - Geschichte und Gegenwart - Vol. 7)

Teaching Primary Humanities

Teaching Primary Humanities
Author: Russell Grigg
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317861310

As primary subjects are increasingly being taught on an interdisciplinary level, Russell Grigg and Sioned Hughes have created an innovative new text, Teaching Primary Humanities. This new text explores current debate, encourages reflection and provides clear guidance on planning, teaching and assessing the humanities from the Early Years to Key Stage 2. Through a blend of theory and real-life examples, Grigg and Hughes demonstrate the contribution that history, geography and religious education can make to enhancing children’s thinking, literacy, numeracy and ICT skills. Whether you are a trainee or a practitioner, this book will develop your knowledge of how young children’s understanding of place, time and community can be fostered through a play-based curriculum. It will also benefit teachers of older children looking to encourage more independent learning in their schools. About the authors: Dr Russell Grigg is Head of the South West Wales Centre of Teacher Education. He is a trained primary inspector for England and Wales. He has written widely in the field of history and primary education including Wales in the Victorian Age and Becoming an Outstanding Primary Teacher. Dr Sioned Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Training at the South West Wales Centre of Teacher Education. She has published many educational materials, especially in primary geography. Her work on Patagonia was recognised by the Welsh Books Council as the ‘Bestselling Children’s Book’ in 2011.

Making the Scene

Making the Scene
Author: Stuart Robert Henderson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1442610719

Making the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca. It narrates the hip Village's development from its early coffee house days, when folksingers such as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell flocked to the scene, to its tumultuous, drug-fuelled final months. A flashpoint for hip youth, politicians, parents, and journalists alike, Yorkville was also a battleground over identity, territory, and power. Stuart Henderson explores how this neighbourhood came to be regarded as an alternative space both as a geographic area and as a symbol of hip Toronto in the cultural imagination. Through recently unearthed documents and underground press coverage, Henderson pays special attention to voices that typically aren't heard in the story of Yorkville - including those of women, working class youth, business owners, and municipal authorities. Through a local history, Making the Scene offers new, exciting ways to think about the phenomenon of counterculture and urban manifestations of a hip identity as they have emerged in cities across North America and beyond.

Porn Work

Porn Work
Author: Heather Berg
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2021-02-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469661934

Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes to explore what porn performers think of their work and how they intervene to hack it. Blending extensive fieldwork with feminist and antiwork theorizing, Porn Work details entrepreneurial labor on the boundaries between pleasure and tedium. Rejecting any notion that sex work is an aberration from straight work, it reveals porn workers' creative strategies as prophetic of a working landscape in crisis. In the end, it looks to what porn has to tell us about what's wrong with work, and what it might look like to build something better.

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society

Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society
Author: Kevin Evans
Publisher: Last Gasp
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780867198775

A template for pranksters, artists, adventurers and anyone interested in rampant creativity, this is the history of the most influential underground cabal that has never been exposed by the mainstream media. Rising from the ashes of the mysterious and legendary Suicide Club, the Cacophony Society at its zenith hosted chapters in most major US cities and influenced much of what was once called the 'underground'. Packed with original art, never before published photographs, original documents and incredulous news stories this is an homage to the San Francisco group.

Teaching Basic, Advanced, and Academic Vocabulary

Teaching Basic, Advanced, and Academic Vocabulary
Author: Robert J. Marzano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781943360338

"To guarantee students have a working knowledge of appropriate vocabulary before entering secondary school, educators need to establish an effective vocabulary program in their schools and classrooms. In Teaching Basic, Advanced, and Academic Vocabulary: A Comprehensive Framework for Elementary Instruction, author Robert J. Marzano provides elementary educators with a comprehensive framework for vocabulary instruction. Marzano defines three different tiers of vocabulary terms: (1) Tier 1 terms are those words that are frequently used in the English language, (2) Tier 2 terms appear less frequently, and (3) Tier 3 terms are specific to grade level and subject area. By organizing these terms into semantic clusters and subject areas, Marzano creates a powerful and unique approach to ensuring students build their vocabulary. By reading this book, K-5 teachers will obtain the tools and strategies needed to construct a solid foundation for literacy development in their classrooms"--

The Godwulf Manuscript

The Godwulf Manuscript
Author: Robert B. Parker
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 030756956X

New York Times bestselling author of the Spenser series of crime thrillers—Book 1 in the series “The toughest, funniest, wisest, private eye in the field these days.”—Houston Chronicle Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest. The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked “D”—for dead.