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Landscape with Invisible Hand

M. T. Anderson
Landscape with Invisible Hand Book PDF

Author : M. T. Anderson
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780763697235

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Landscape with Invisible Hand by M. T. Anderson Pdf

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson returns to future Earth in a sharply wrought satire of art and truth in the midst of colonization. When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth — but not necessarily an unwelcome one. Can it really be called an invasion when the vuvv generously offered free advanced technology and cures for every illness imaginable? As it turns out, yes. With his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s miraculous medicine, Adam and his girlfriend, Chloe, have to get creative to survive. And since the vuvv crave anything they deem classic Earth culture (doo-wop music, still life paintings of fruit, true love), recording 1950s-style dates for the vuvv to watch in a pay-per-minute format seems like a brilliant idea. But it’s hard for Adam and Chloe to sell true love when they hate each other more with every passing episode. Soon enough, Adam must decide how far he’s willing to go — and what he’s willing to sacrifice — to give the vuvv what they want.

1950s Memory Lane

Hugh Morrison
1950s Memory Lane Book PDF

Author : Hugh Morrison
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-27
Category : Adult education
ISBN : 1548412910

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1950s Memory Lane by Hugh Morrison Pdf

This book is aimed at patients with early stage dementia who like reading but find it hard to follow 'normal' books. With large print, short easy to follow paragraphs and plenty of illustrations, the book looks at everyday life in the 1950s in the USA and Britain. It is intended to help stimulate long-term memories of those who lived through the 1950s, with sections on music, films, fashion, sport, holidays and much more.When read together with a relative or carer, it can also help promote conversation and reminiscence. The book does not mention dementia or memory loss, or anything that could cause distress or embarrassment to patients, and it is written in a simple but not childish style. It can equally be enjoyed by those without memory loss, for example, grandparents reading together with grandchildren to help them learn about the 'old days'. '... a few residents have read the book and had a look through it. There have been some great responses particularly when I sat with one of our residents and we looked through it together, it triggered many memories and conversation.' - Emma Bennett, Activities Co-Ordinator, Grove Care Home, Bristol.

British Tv & Film Culture in the 1950s

Su Holmes
British Tv Film Culture in the 1950s Book PDF

Author : Su Holmes
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015060847749

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British Tv & Film Culture in the 1950s by Su Holmes Pdf

This book focuses on the emerging historical relations between British television and film culture in the 1950s. Drawing upon archival research, it does this by exploring the development of the early cinema programme on television - principally Current Release (BBC, 1952-3), Picture Parade (BBC, 1956) and Film Fanfare (ABC, 1956-7) - and argues that it was these texts which played the central role in the developing relations between the media. Particularly when it comes to Britain, the early co-existence of television and cinema has been seen as hostile and antagonistic, but in situating these programmes within the contexts of their institutional production, aesthetic construction and reception, the book aims to 'reconstruct' television's coverage of the cinema as crucial to the fabric of British film and television culture at the time. It demonstrates how the roles of cinema and television - as media industries and cultural forms, but crucially as sites of screen entertainment - effectively came together at this time in such a way that is unique to this decade.

Big Rigs of the 1950s

Ronald G. Adams
Big Rigs of the 1950s Book PDF

Author : Ronald G. Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Tractor trailer combinations
ISBN : 1610605748

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Big Rigs of the 1950s by Ronald G. Adams Pdf

The continued improvement of roadways and the dawn of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s was a boon to American industry in general and the trucking industry in particular. This marque-by-marque photo collection provides a comprehensive and nostalgic look back at the rapid development of the tractor-trailer rigs that resulted. Manufacturers like GMC, Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, White, Freightliner, Peterbilt, Kenworth, Diamond T, International, Mack, Autocar, Brockway and Sterling are shown hauling everything from Cadillacs to cabbage across town, up the coast and over mountain passes. Thorough captions describe the development and history of each model as depicted in archival black-and-white and period color photography.

1950s in Vogue

Rebecca Tuite
1950s in Vogue Book PDF

Author : Rebecca Tuite
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780500294376

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1950s in Vogue by Rebecca Tuite Pdf

A large-scale publication dedicated to the 1950s as captured in the pages of American Vogue. This book is illustrated by fashion’s greatest photographs of that period—the era when the magazine became the cultural force it is today. One of only seven editors in chief in American Vogue’s history, Jessica Daves has remained one of fashion’s most enigmatic figures. Diana Vreeland’s direct predecessor in the role, it is Daves who first catapulted the magazine into modernity. A testament to a changing America on every level, Daves’s Vogue was the first to embrace a “high/low” blend of fashion in its pages and to introduce world-renowned artists, literary greats, and cultural icons into every issue, offering the reader a complete vision of how design, interiors, architecture, entertaining, art, literature, and culture all connected and contributed to refining and defining taste and personal style. Daves profiled icons of American style, from John and Jackie Kennedy to Charles and Ray Eames, alongside Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, and Balenciaga creations. Organized in multifaceted, thematic chapters, 1950s in Vogue features carefully curated photographs, illustrations, and page spreads from the Vogue archives (with iconic images as well as lesser-known wonders), and unpublished photographs and letters from Jessica Daves’s personal archives. Revealing a fascinating and hitherto little-explored moment in Vogue history, 1950s in Vogue is a must-have reference for lovers of fashion, photography, and style.

Bad Old Days

Alan J. Levine
Bad Old Days Book PDF

Author : Alan J. Levine
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412811972

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Bad Old Days by Alan J. Levine Pdf

For many, especially those on the political left, the 1950s are the "bad old days." The widely accepted list of what was allegedly wrong with that decade includes the Cold War, McCarthyism, racial segregation, self-satisfied prosperity, and empty materialism. The failings are coupled with ignoring poverty and other social problems, complacency, conformity, the suppression of women, and puritanical attitudes toward sex. In all, the conventional wisdom sees the decade as bland and boring, with commonly accepted people paralyzed with fear of war, Communism, or McCarthyism, or all three. Alan J. Levine, shows that the commonly accepted picture of the 1950s is flawed. It distorts a critical period of American history. That distortion seems to be dictated by an ideological agenda, including an emotional obsession with a sentimentalized version of the 1960s that in turn requires maintaining a particular, misleading view of the post-World War II era that preceded it. Levine argues that a critical view of the 1950s is embedded in an unwillingness to realistically evaluate the evolution of American society since the 1960s. Many--and not only liberals and those further to the left--desperately desire to avoid seeing, or admitting, just how badly many things have gone in the United States since the 1960s. Bad Old Days shows that the conventional view of the 1950s stands in opposition to the reality of the decade. Far from being the dismal prelude to a glorious period of progress, the postwar period of the late 1940s and 1950s was an era of unprecedented progress and prosperity. This era was then derailed by catastrophic political and economic misjudgments and a drastic shift in the national ethos that contributed nothing, or less than nothing, to a better world.

French National Cinema

Susan Hayward
French National Cinema Book PDF

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134933556

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French National Cinema by Susan Hayward Pdf

This examination of France's national cinema takes its primary artefact, the feature film and discusses both popular cinema and the `avant garde' cinema that contests it. Susan Hayward argues that writing on French national cinema has tended to focus on either `great' film-makers or on specific movements, addressing moments of exception rather than the global picture. Her work offers a thorough and much-needed historical textualisation of those moments and relocates them them in their wider political and cultural context. Beginning with an `ecohistory' of the French film industry, she then traces the various movements in French cinema and the directors associated with them, including the avant-garde, Poetic-Realist, New Wave and today's postmodern cinema. Her analysis includes, amongst other considerations, the social and political concerns these cinemas reflect.

The Magic Book

Anonim
The Magic Book Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Magic
ISBN : 0710502427

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The Magic Book by Anonim Pdf

When a young man goes to work for a bookbinder, he promises not to read a very special book. But his curiosity leads him to this book of magic. Many changes come about from the magic he learns.

As Seen on TV

Karal Ann Marling
As Seen on TV Book PDF

Author : Karal Ann Marling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674735293

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As Seen on TV by Karal Ann Marling Pdf

America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked--and how we looked--mattered, a decade of design that comes to vibrant life in As Seen on TV. From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for with a gaze newly trained by TV. A study in style, in material culture, in art history at eye level, this book shows us as never before those artful everyday objects that stood for American life in the 1950s, as seen on TV.

Mid-century Modern

Cara Greenberg
Mid century Modern Book PDF

Author : Cara Greenberg
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Furniture
ISBN : 0517884755

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Mid-century Modern by Cara Greenberg Pdf

Taking full advantage of the ressurgence in popularity of retro-fifties design, this highly praised book lets the reader rediscover the wonders of boomerang-shaped coffee tables, the funky curvaciousness of biomorphic furniture, the industrial sleekness of cool metals, unusual angles, and other design delights. Photos.

American Comic Book Chronicles

William Schelly,Bill Schelly
American Comic Book Chronicles Book PDF

Author : William Schelly,Bill Schelly
Publisher : American Comic Book Chronicles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1605490547

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American Comic Book Chronicles by William Schelly,Bill Schelly Pdf

1950 : Variety on the newstand -- 1951 : Before the storm -- 1952 : Expansion -- 1953 : EC soars, Fawcett crashes -- 1954 : Comics in crisis -- 1955 : Censored! -- 1956 : Birth of the silver age -- 1957 : Turbulence and transition -- 1958 : National takes the lead -- 1959 : The silver age gains traction

The Golden Age of Science Fiction

John Wade
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Book PDF

Author : John Wade
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1526729253

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The Golden Age of Science Fiction by John Wade Pdf

John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the 'golden age of science fiction'. It was a wonderful decade for science fiction, but not so great for young fans. With early television broadcasts being advertised for the first time as 'unsuitable for children' and the inescapable barrier of the 'X' certificate in the cinema barring anyone under the age of sixteen, the author had only the radio to fall back on - and that turned out to be more fertile for the budding SF fan than might otherwise have been thought. Which is probably why, as he grew older, rediscovering those old TV broadcasts and films that had been out of bounds when he was a kid took on a lure that soon became an obsession.For him, the super-accuracy and amazing technical quality of today's science fiction films pale into insignificance beside the radio, early TV and B-picture films about people who built rockets in their back gardens and flew them to lost planets, or tales of aliens who wanted to take over, if not our entire world, then at least our bodies. This book is a personal account of John Wade's fascination with the genre across all the entertainment media in which it appeared - the sort of stuff he revelled in as a young boy - and still enjoys today.

Roy of the Rovers

Andy Jacobs,FRANK. COLQUHOUN PEPPER (JOE.),Joe Colquhoun
Roy of the Rovers Book PDF

Author : Andy Jacobs,FRANK. COLQUHOUN PEPPER (JOE.),Joe Colquhoun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781087172

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Roy of the Rovers by Andy Jacobs,FRANK. COLQUHOUN PEPPER (JOE.),Joe Colquhoun Pdf

Celebrate 65 years of the greatest football comic ever! They don't come much more iconic than Roy of the Rovers. The Melchester Rovers striker of legend first appeared in 1954, and went on to become beloved of millions of British boys across decades of footballing adventures. Celebrating 65 years of goals and glory in 2019, this first in a spectacular new luxury treasury series collects the very best stories from the first decade of Roy of the Rovers comics. THE BIRTH OF AN ICON! Roy Race is only a schoolboy - but the scouts from the mighty Melchester Rovers have spotted his talent, and now he's on his way to a career as professional footballer! But how will Roy settle into the ranks at Rovers? Can he deal with the competition, the pressure, and the fan's expectations? One thing's for certain: if he's going to become a club legend, he better get his scoring boots on... The legend begins here! An icon of British comics and sporting history is born, with his origin presented in glorious hardback for the first time!

Celebrating You and the 1980s

Anonim
Celebrating You and the 1980s Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elm Hill Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1404184724

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Celebrating You and the 1980s by Anonim Pdf

Just open this Party in a Book for hours of nostalgic fun. From an overview of the decade, to songs and albums that were tops of the charts, popular television shows, Academy Award-winning movies, and books that everyone bought-to historic events and people that shaped our nation and the world, everything about the eighties is inside this book! You'll find lists of the decade's Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, World Series and NBA Championship winners, as well as highlights from a myriad of other sporting events. There's clothing trends, hairstyles, interior design references, popular foods-even a recipe representative of the era! With slang and buzzwords on every page, you'll be reminded of pop culture references that are still heard today, and remember things that society has moved beyond (neon spandex biker shorts).Each 24-page book has a presentation page at the front, plus an autograph spread for partygoers to convey their best wishes to the recipient. Additionally, a CD at the back sets the mood with three of the most popular songs of the era. Music titles to come.

Dolls and Accessories of the 1950s

Dian Zillner
Dolls and Accessories of the 1950s Book PDF

Author : Dian Zillner
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0764322427

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Dolls and Accessories of the 1950s by Dian Zillner Pdf

Provides a more comprehensive overview of the doll products of the 1950s than any one book has ever done. Baby dolls, little girl dolls, teen dolls, and fashion dolls are all pictured. A price guide is also included.