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Author : Dr. Alan N. Brown Publisher : Arcadia Publishing Page : 136 pages File Size : 48,6 Mb Release : 2023-08-21 Category : History ISBN : 9781439678626
Author Alan Brown leads readers on a stomach-churning turn through Florida's dark side . Florida sunshine beckons, but in can be unrelenting, too. And in the shadows, tragedy strikes. Ted Bundy leads a cast of serial killers who wrought havoc on the state. Storms spin onto its shores with landscape altering fury. Sharks lurk in the sea, and snakes and alligators lie wait in the swamps. Gangsters like Al Capone hit Miami Beach for a respite, but gangsters like Al Capone take no breaks from their trade. A woman spontaneously bursts into flames in St. Petersburg. Anthrax claims a life in Palm Beach. The Bermuda Triangle disappears vessels off the coast. Indeed, Florida knows boundless leisure, but it's just as familiar with catastrophe .
A wickedly smart, funny, and irresistibly off-kilter account of an improbable thousand-mile journey on foot into the heart of modern Florida, the state that Russell calls "America Concentrate." In the summer of 2016, Kent Russell--broke, at loose ends, hungry for adventure--set off to walk across Florida. Mythic, superficial, soaked in contradictions, maligned by cultural elites, segregated from the South, and literally vanishing into the sea, Florida (or, as he calls it: "America Concentrate") seemed to Russell to embody America's divided soul. The journey, with two friends intent on filming the ensuing mayhem, quickly reduces the trio to filthy drifters pushing a shopping cart of camera equipment. They get waylaid by a concerned citizen bearing a rifle; buy cocaine from an ex-wrestler; visit a spiritual medium. The narrative overflows with historical detail about how modern Florida came into being after World War II, and how it came to be a petri dish for life in a suddenly, increasingly diverse new land of minority-majority cities and of unrivaled ethnic and religious variety. Russell has taken it all in with his incomparably focused lens and delivered a book that is both an inspired travelogue and a profound rumination on the nation's soul--and his own. It is a book that is wildly vivid, encyclopedic, erudite, and ferociously irreverent--a deeply ambivalent love letter to his sprawling, brazenly varied home state.
Thousands of fascinating facts and figures on all aspects of life in the Sunshine State. This book, a combination atlas, directory, tourist guide, and reference manual, covers everything you want to know about the state of Florida. The current edition has updated statistics on all of the topics found in past annuals, a hurricane survival guide, and everything from basic history to residential requirements to live in the state of Florida. A very good resource for Florida natives as well as those planning to visit the state.
Bob Mizon, one of the world’s best known campaigners against the veil of light pollution that has taken away the starry sky from most of the world’s population, takes readers to a hundred places in the UK and the USA where the wonders of the night sky might still be enjoyed in perfect or near-perfect night skies. Visiting small hotels and simple campsites, and savoring vast dark-sky reserves where the night sky is actively protected, The Million-Star Hotel celebrates the black skies of yesteryear – which may become a reality for more and more of us as modern technology reins in lighting and puts it only where needed. How can you prepare for your stay beneath the stars? What astronomy can you do during the daytime? What kind of equipment will you need? Questions such as these are answered, and if town dwellers return inspired – and, Bob hopes, also inspired to look with fresh eyes at their own local lighting – there is enough information here for them to equip themselves for some urban astronomy too.
For a brief time following the end of the U.S. Civil War, American political leaders had an opportunity—slim, to be sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility—to remake society so that black Americans and other persons of color could enjoy equal opportunity in civil and political life. It was not to be. With each passing year after the war—and especially after Reconstruction ended during the 1870s—American society witnessed the evolution of a new white republic as national leaders abandoned the promise of Reconstruction and justified their racial biases based on political, economic, social, and religious values that supplanted the old North-South/slavery-abolitionist schism of the antebellum era. A Long Dark Night provides a sweeping history of this too often overlooked period of African American history that followed the collapse of Reconstruction—from the beginnings of legal segregation through the end of World War II. Michael J. Martinez argues that the 1880s ushered in the dark night of the American Negro—a night so dark and so long that the better part of a century would elapse before sunlight broke through. Combining both a “top down” perspective on crucial political issues and public policy decisions as well as a “bottom up” discussion of the lives of black and white Americans between the 1880s and the 1940s, A Long Dark Night will be of interest to all readers seeking to better understand this crucial era that continues to resonate throughout American life today.
Esiste la Florida dei parchi divertimenti, degli alberghi, delle spiagge e dei surfisti. Ed esiste la Florida della contea di Citrus, nella cosiddetta Costa della Natura, dove c’è la natura perché non ci sono parchi divertimenti né alberghi né spiagge. E dove regnano i redneck al posto dei surfisti, e piante che fioriscono e marciscono sfacciatamente al posto di giardini rigogliosi. Toby McNurse ha quattordici anni e tante ferite dentro di sé: non ha mai avuto un padre e non ha piú una madre, abita in una casa malandata con uno zio che si arrangia pulendo cose che nessuno osa pulire, dai mattatoi ai vecchi motori incrostati, e discorre incessantemente e pateticamente di suicidio. Toby frequenta la scuola locale, dove impera il professor Hibma, un uomo insicuro e confuso che riesce a pontificare per venti minuti filati sulle mostruosità del capitalismo, la rivoluzione diventata merce, i poveri che hanno ormai la pizza e l’erba assicurata, i moralisti e gli artisti che se ne fregano di tutto. Toby infrange le regole e accumula punizioni, ma senza gioia nella disobbedienza, né rabbia. Le vuote passioni dei suoi compagni di classe – musica, droga, piccoli crimini, sesso – non significano nulla per lui. La droga è una cosa patetica. I flirt, umilianti. I furti e altra robaccia simile, ridicoli. Nella classe di Toby è arrivata da poco Shelby Register, trasferitasi in Florida con il padre e la sorellina dopo la morte della mamma. Shelby è carina, sveglia, sogna di fuggire in qualche paese lontano ed è attratta da Toby, pur sapendo che quello della brava ragazza che si innamora di un teppista è il classico luogo comune. Ma per Shelby i ragazzi normali sono una noia, quindi ben venga il luogo comune. Toby, tuttavia, non è affatto un vandalo qualsiasi, un banale teppistello angosciato come tanti. Toby è un ragazzo che, nel profondo della sua anima, è piú terribile di tutti i delinquenti minorili della contea messi insieme. Un malinconico destinato a infliggere danni ben piú gravi di quelli che Shelby o il professor Hibma osano pensare, e che, al cospetto di Shelby e di Kaley Register, la sorellina di quattro anni dai capelli che scintillano come un’esca nell’acqua, sa che è giunta la sua ora... l’ora di fare finalmente quello per cui è venuto al mondo. Magnificamente scritto, inquietante, commovente e ilare insieme, Dark Florida ha rivelato sulla scena letteraria americana e internazionale il talento di John Brandon, uno scrittore capace di illuminare, con crudo e poetico realismo, il lato oscuro della gioventú odierna. «Un giovane grande scrittore che farà molta strada». San Francisco Chronicle «Con Dark Florida John Brandon si aggiunge alla schiera di quegli scrittori che non smettono di ricordarci che il mondo reale è molto piú inquietante della letteratura. Il risultato è una grande storia con una voce eccezionale, ricca di personaggi che risultano veri proprio perché estremi». New York Times «John Brandon è uno scrittore dalla prosa infallibile – a metà strada tra Denis Johnson ed Elmore Leonard». Davy Rothbart «Dark Florida è un romanzo incantevole, con un tocco di dolente ilarità... Fa sorridere anche quando infligge un colpo al cuore, ed è uno dei migliori libri mai scritti sull’adolescenza». Dan Chaon
Author : Susan J. Fernandez,Robert P. Ingalls Publisher : University Press of Florida Page : 328 pages File Size : 45,5 Mb Release : 2022-05-31 Category : Performing Arts ISBN : 9780813072388
Sunshine in the Dark by Susan J. Fernandez,Robert P. Ingalls Pdf
Florida has been the location and subject of hundreds of feature films, from Cocoanuts (1929) to Monster (2004). Portraying the state and its people from the silent era to the present, these films have explored the multitude of Florida images and cliches that have captured the public's imagination--a nature lover's paradise, a wildlife refuge, a tourist destination, home to the "cracker," and a haven for the retired, the rich, the immigrant, and the criminal. Sunshine in the Dark is the first complete study of how the movie industry has immortalized Florida’s extraordinary scenery, characters, and history on celluloid. Historians Fernández and Ingalls have identified more than 300 films about Florida--many of them shot on location in the state--to analyze how filmmakers from the Marx Brothers and John Huston to Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola have portrayed the state and its people. Prior to the 1960s, cinematic trips to Florida usually brought happy endings in movies like Moon Over Miami (1942), but since the 1970s, films like Scarface (1982) have emphasized the state's menacing aspects. In the authors' analysis of the films, which examines location settings, plotlines, and characters, they find a bevy of Florida stereotypes among the leading characters--from the struggling crackers in The Yearling (1946) to the drug-addicted con man in Adaptation (2002). Featuring more than 100 still photographs from movies, as well as filmographies by year and genre, the book is an encyclopedic resource for movie fans and anyone interested in Florida popular culture.
Transactions of the American Entomological Society and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences by American Entomological Society Pdf
Raptors of the World: A Field Guide by James Ferguson-Lees,David A. Christie Pdf
Raptors of the World (Helm, 2001) is the definitive handbook to this most popular group of birds. This new field guide uses all of the plates from Raptors of the World, with a concise, revised text on facing pages, to create a conveniently-sized, lightweight field reference covering all 340 raptor species. Several of the plates have been reworked and repainted for this guide. The book also has an updated colour distribution map for each species. Much of the extensive introductory material has been retained in this guide, with the addition of a complete species list containing all subspecies and brief details of their ranges. Armed with this guide, birders will be able to identify with confidence any raptor encountered anywhere in the world.