Author : Jim Brandon
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89058353483
Weird America
Jim Brandon
Weird America
Weird America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Weird America book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Weird Like Us
Ann Powers
Author : Ann Powers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bohemianism
ISBN : 9780684838083
Weird Like Us by Ann Powers Pdf
Describes the various subcultures trying to reshape America today, and includes interviews with modern bohemians, who share their views on life.
The Old, Weird America
Greil Marcus
Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Picador
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429961589
The Old, Weird America by Greil Marcus Pdf
A Special Edition with a New Introduction and an Updated Discography This is Greil Marcus's acclaimed book on the secret music made by Bob Dylan and the Band in 1967, which introduced a phrase that has become part of the culture: "the old, weird America." It is this country that the book maps—the "playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of all stripes" (Luc Sante, New York magazine). In honor of Dylan's seventieth birthday, this special edition includes a new introduction, an updated discography, and a cover featuring never-before-seen photographs of the legendary recording sessions.
Invisible Republic #1
Gabriel Hardman,Corinna Bechko
Author : Gabriel Hardman,Corinna Bechko
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:JAN150568
Invisible Republic #1 by Gabriel Hardman,Corinna Bechko Pdf
Breaking Bad meets Blade Runner. Arthur McBride's planetary regime has fallen. His story is over. That is until reporter Croger Babb discovers the journal of Arthur's cousin, Maia. Inside is the violent, audacious hidden history of the legendary freedom fighter. Erased from the official record, Maia alone knows how dangerous her cousin really is... Creative team GABRIEL HARDMAN (KINSKI, "Intense" - A.V. Club) and CORINNA BECHKO (HEATHENTOWN, "Nuanced" _ Broken Frontier) brought you scifi adventure before (Planet of the Apes, Star Wars: Legacy, Hulk) but never this gritty or this epic.
The Old, Weird America
Toby Kamps,Michael Duncan,Colleen Josephine Sheehy
Author : Toby Kamps,Michael Duncan,Colleen Josephine Sheehy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015076125346
The Old, Weird America by Toby Kamps,Michael Duncan,Colleen Josephine Sheehy Pdf
Edited by Polly Koch. Foreword by Linda Shearer. Introduction by Toby Kamps.
Eccentric America
Jan Friedman
Author : Jan Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : IND:30000126687767
Eccentric America by Jan Friedman Pdf
A guide to all things wacky, weird, curious, and bizarre in the U.S.A., featuring approximately 1,000 festivals, attractions, tours, shopping, restaurants, hotels, and eccentric environments. photos. 51 maps.
The WEIRDest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780374710453
The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich Pdf
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.
Florida
Charlie Carlson
Author : Charlie Carlson
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 140276684X
Florida by Charlie Carlson Pdf
A guide to visiting the odd and less known tourist attractions in the state of Florida.
The New Roadside America
Doug Kirby,Ken Smith,Mike Wilkins
Author : Doug Kirby,Ken Smith,Mike Wilkins
Publisher : Touchstone
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 0671769316
The New Roadside America by Doug Kirby,Ken Smith,Mike Wilkins Pdf
There are wacky, one-of-a-kind treasures lurking among the Gaps and Burger Kings alongside our highways and byways, and The New Roadside America hightlights them all--covering every interest and organized for easy reference. 250 photographs; line drawings.
Only in America
Heather Alexander
Author : Heather Alexander
Publisher : 50 States
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711262843
Only in America by Heather Alexander Pdf
In Only In America, discover unique, strange, funny, record-breaking and downright unbelievable facts about every state in the USA.
Weird and Wonderful
Andrea Stulman Dennett
Author : Andrea Stulman Dennett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814718865
Weird and Wonderful by Andrea Stulman Dennett Pdf
A wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
Strange But True, America
John Hafnor
Author : John Hafnor
Publisher : John Hafnor
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0964817551
Strange But True, America by John Hafnor Pdf
Contains 101 curious tales and oddball facts about events and people from the fifty states.
The Call of the Weird
Louis Theroux
Author : Louis Theroux
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780330473484
The Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux Pdf
After a decade of making documentaries about offbeat characters on the fringes of US society, Louis had the urge to return to America and track down the people who most fascinated him. It would be a reunion tour, but this time without the cameras and the sense of performance being filmed inevitably brings. It would allow him to get closer to people, to discover what really motivated them and what had happened to the assorted dreamers, outlaws and eccentrics since he last saw them. On a journey that took him from the porn sets of Los Angeles to the gangsta rappers of Memphis, from a convention of UFO contactees in Arizona to Northern Idaho for a festive get-together of neo-Nazis, he asked what 'weird people' have to tell us about our own secret natures. Had he learned anything about himself by being among them? Do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us? Louis Theroux's first book is a hilarious, thought-provoking and at times surreal voyage into the heart of weirdness.
Awkward Rituals
Dana W. Logan
Author : Dana W. Logan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226818504
Awkward Rituals by Dana W. Logan Pdf
A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual. In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, there was an awkward persistence of sovereign rituals, vestiges of a monarchical past that were not easy to shed. In Awkward Rituals, Dana Logan focuses our attention on these performances, revealing the ways in which governance in the early republic was characterized by white Protestants reenacting the hierarchical authority of a seemingly rejected king. With her unique focus on embodied action, rather than the more common focus on discourse or law, Logan makes an original contribution to debates about the relative completeness of America’s Revolution. Awkward Rituals theorizes an under-examined form of action: rituals that do not feel natural even if they sometimes feel good. This account challenges common notions of ritual as a force that binds society and synthesizes the self. Ranging from Freemason initiations to evangelical societies to missionaries posing as sailors, Logan shows how white Protestants promoted a class-based society while simultaneously trumpeting egalitarianism. She thus redescribes ritual as a box to check, a chore to complete, an embarrassing display of theatrical verve. In Awkward Rituals, Logan emphasizes how ritual distinctively captures what does not change through revolution.
Strange Highways
Jerry Coleman
Author : Jerry Coleman
Publisher : Whitechapel Productions
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : WISC:89082597816
