The Paris of Appalachia
Author: Brian O'Neill
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13:
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Pittsburgh
Author: Stefan Lorant
Publisher: Authors Edition, Incorporated
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 678
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Appalachian Reckoning
Author: Anthony Harkins
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781946684783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover
Uncle John's Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1684124980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It’s an actual fact—Uncle John is the most entertaining thing in the bathroom! Uncle John and his team of devoted researchers are back again with an all-new collection of weird news stories, odd historical events, dubious “scientific” theories, jaw-dropping lists, and more. This entertaining 31st anniversary edition contains 512 pages of all-new articles that will appeal to readers everywhere. Pop culture, history, dumb crooks, and other actual and factual tidbits are packed onto every page of this book. Inside, you’ll find . . . Dogs and cats who ran for political office The bizarre method people in Victorian England used to resuscitate drowning victims The man who met his future pet—a stray dog—while running across the Gobi Desert Searching for Planet X—the last unknown planet in our solar system Twantrums—strange Twitter rants that had disastrous effects The true story of Boaty McBoatface And much more!
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Zachary Quinto
Author: Monique Vescia
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1477778934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Zachary Quinto is one of the great success stories of today, and once readers learn that he didn’t let his sexual orientation hold him back, they will be inspired to reach for the stars as well. Most people don’t know that Quinto hid his sexuality for many years. Only when he came out did his fans truly embrace him. This book details the arc of Quinto’s life to date, including his early years in Hollywood playing small roles and his later stardom, eventually taking over Leonard Nimoy’s role as Spock in the Star Trek remake.
Appalachia in the Making
Author: Mary Beth Pudup
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0807888966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and 'other' because of their perceived geographical, social, and economic isolation. These essays, by fourteen eminent historians and social scientists, illuminate important dimensions of early social life in diverse sections of the Appalachian mountains. The contributors seek to place the study of Appalachia within the context of comparative regional studies of the United States, maintaining that processes and patterns thought to make the region exceptional were not necessarily unique to the mountain South. The contributors are Mary K. Anglin, Alan Banks, Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee, Wilma A. Dunaway, John R. Finger, John C. Inscoe, Ronald L. Lewis, Ralph Mann, Gordon B. McKinney, Mary Beth Pudup, Paul Salstrom, Altina L. Waller, and John Alexander Williams
Frederick Delius
Author: Lionel Carley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-18
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0429849192
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1998, Carley collates twelve essays by an international group of contributors reflects the truly cosmopolitan nature of Delius’s life and his music. They reveal the manner in which he absorbed the culture of the nations he came to know, their music, art and literature, and the influences they brought to bare on his own work. Also discussed are some of the often mixed, but rarely equivocal reactions that performances of his music have reactions over the years, with Lionel Carley’s in-depth study of the first production of Foleraadet in 1897, and a wide ranging analysis by Don Gillespie and Robert Beckhard of the critical reception of Delius’s music in the United States between 1909 and 1920.
The Handcraft Revival in Southern Appalachia, 1930-1990
Author: Garry Barker
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780870497032
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the essentials of the subject in a concise and practical manner; concepts and procedures are illustrated with clear line drawings and photos. For rehabilitation technicians. An active participant in craft guilds of the southern Appalachians presents a chronological record of how vanishing crafts were rescued, and the politics and economics of their continuing revival. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Dear Appalachia
Author: Emily Satterwhite
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0813130115
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 employs the innovative new strategy of examining fan mail, reviews, and readers’ geographic affiliations to understand how readers have imagined the region and what purposes these imagined geographies have served for them. As Emily Satterwhite traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades, from the Gilded Age (1865–1895) to the present, she finds that every generation has produced an audience hungry for a romantic version of Appalachia. According to Satterwhite, best-selling fiction has portrayed Appalachia as a distinctive place apart from the mainstream United States, has offered cosmopolitan white readers a sense of identity and community, and has engendered feelings of national and cultural pride. Thanks in part to readers’ faith in authors as authentic representatives of the regions they write about, Satterwhite argues, regional fiction often plays a role in creating and affirming regional identity. By mapping the geographic locations of fans, Dear Appalachia demonstrates that mobile white readers in particular, including regional elites, have idealized Appalachia as rooted, static, and protected from commercial society in order to reassure themselves that there remains an “authentic” America untouched by global currents. Investigating texts such as John Fox Jr.’s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriette Arnow’s The Dollmaker (1954), James Dickey’s Deliverance (1970), and Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain (1997), Dear Appalachia moves beyond traditional studies of regional fiction to document the functions of these narratives in the lives of readers, revealing not only what people have thought about Appalachia, but why.
