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The Waist High Culture
Author: Thomas Griffith
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2015-08-23
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781340107772
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Waist-High in the World
Author: Nancy Mairs
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2001-01-17
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0807070025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a blend of intimate memoir and passionate advocacy, Nancy Mairs takes on the subject woven through all her writing: disability and its effect on life, work, and spirit.
American Photography and the American Dream
Author: James Guimond
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780807843086
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looks at how documentary photographers have contested the idea of the American dream, and discusses the work of Francis Benjamin Johnston, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, William Klein, Diane Arbus, and Robert Frank
Mass Media in Modern Society
Author: Norman Jacobs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-10-31
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1000662306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this lively and yet scholarly book, creative artists, people who direct channels of communications, and social scientists present their numerous positions and deeply felt disagreements.
Signposts in a Strange Land
Author: Walker Percy
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-03-29
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1453216375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Writings on the South, Catholicism, and more from the National Book Award winner: “His nonfiction is always entertaining and enlightening” (Library Journal). Published just after Walker Percy’s death, Signposts in a Strange Land takes readers through the philosophical, religious, and literary ideas of one of the South’s most profound and unique thinkers. Each essay is laced with wit and insight into the human condition. From race relations and the mysteries of existence, to Catholicism and the joys of drinking bourbon, this collection offers a window into the underpinnings of Percy’s celebrated novels and brings to light the stirring thoughts and voice of a giant of twentieth century literature.
Democracy: A Short, Analytical History
Author: Roland N. Stromberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-11
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1317473175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text sums up the democratic experience in modern Western civilisation. It defines the term and notes the confusions in it, and its changing meanings over the past two centuries or so. It records criticisms, and is especially concerned with the conditions that are neccessary for it to exist. This encompasses a comprehensive literature which the author seeks to summarise and present to the reader in accessible form. It is appropriate material for course reading in Westen civilisation, intellectual history, political thought, and philosophy.
The Pacific Northwest
Author: Raymond D. Gastil
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2010-04-23
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0786455918
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Pacific Northwest--for the purposes of this book mostly Oregon and Washington--has sometimes been seen as lacking significant cultural history. Home to idyllic environmental wonders, the region has been plagued by the notion that the best and brightest often left in search of greater things, that the mainstream world was thousands of miles away--or at least as far south as California. This book describes the Pacific Northwest's search for a regional identity from the first Indian-European contacts through the late twentieth century, identifying those individuals and groups "who at least struggled to give meaning to the Northwest experience." It places particular emphasis on writers and other celebrated individuals in the arts, detailing how their lives and works both reflected the region and also enhanced its sense of self.
The Fifties
Author: Douglas T. Miller
Publisher: VNR AG
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780385112482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Surveys the social, cultural, and political history of the United States during the decade of the 1950's.
Writers and Politics
Author: Conor Cruise O'Brien
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2015-02-19
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0571324266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arguably Conor Cruise O'Brien's most influential and admired book was this brilliant collection of essays - on history, literature and public affairs - first published in 1965. 'I can still remember the excitement with which I discovered a copy of Writers and Politics, in a provincial library in Devonshire thirty years ago. Nobody who tries to write about either of those subjects, or about "the bloody crossroads" where they have so often met, can disown a debt to the Cruiser.' Christopher Hitchens, London Review of Books 'When a liberal can write such pieces as "Mercy and Mercenaries", "Journal de Combat", "Varieties of Anti-Communism", "A New Yorker Critic", and "Generation of Saints", an important voice has returned to our culture.' Raymond Williams, Guardian
