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ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Davies, Marie Messenger / Messenger Davies, Maire / Davies, M. Ire Messenger, PUBLISHER: Routledge, Based on a study examining the meaning of the term "media literacy" in children, this volume concentrates on audiovisual narratives of television and film and their effects. It closely examines children's concepts of real and unreal and how they learn to make distinctions between the two. It also explores the idea that children are protected from the harmful effects of violence on television by the knowledge that what they see is not real. This volume is unique in its use of children's own words to explore their awareness of the submerged conventions of television genres, of their functions and effects, of their relationship to the real world, and of how this awareness varies with age and other factors. Based on detailed questionnaire data and conversations with 6 to 11-year-old children, carried out with the support of a fellowship at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, the book eloquently demonstrates how children use their knowledge of real life, of literature, and of art, in intelligently evaluating the relationship between television's formats, and the real world in which they live.
Belwin 21st Century Band Method, Level 3: B-Flat Clarinet
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Bullock, Jack / Maiello, Anthony, PUBLISHER: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., Level Three completes the curriculum for a three-year course of band. The third level book's format differs slightly from the previous levels to allow for longer exercises for the advancing students. It is also slightly more sophisticated in look for the older students. The third level delves into more major and minor keys and scales, changing keys, and more advanced rhythms and meters, including easy mixed meter pieces. Rock-style, jazz-style, specifically swing rhythms, and more syncopated rhythms are included. The book is divided into eight units, each introducing a new key signature. After Units 2, 4, 6, and 8, selections are included for performance opportunities: full band, Duet Plus, solo with band accompaniment, and, after Unit 8, two full band commissioned pieces by well-known writers Carl Strommen and Mike Story. Popular songs include: The Magnificent Seven * Caravan * Proud Mary * Begin the Beguine * Pennsylvania * Take Five. Classical pieces, folk songs from around the world and American folk songs make playing in the band fun, as well as exposing students to many different cultures and styles of music.
Box 3 CD - Glenn Miller The All-Time Greatest Hits
3 CD Starlite AAD CD 1: 1. Pennsylvania . Moonlight Serenade 3. In The Mood 4. American Patrol 5. I Know Why 6. Chattanooga Choo Choo 7. I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo 8. Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me) 9. The Chestnut Tree 10. Three Little Fishes (Itty Bitty Poo) 11. Say "Si Si" 12. Tuxedo Junction 13. Sleepy Lagoon 14. Little Brown Jug CD 2: 1. String Of Perls 2. Song Of The Volga Boatmen 3. Perfidia 4. St. Louis Blues March 5. Anvil Chorus 6. Johnson Rag 7. My Melancholy Baby 8. Sun Valley Jump 9. Sunrise Serenade 10. Serenade In Blue 11. Juke Box Saturday Night 12. Stardust . Deep In The Heart Of Texas 14. Bugle Call Rag CD 3: 1. People Like You And Me 2. Jeep Jockey Jump 3. Moonlight Serenade 4. Don't Be That Way 5. Boon Shot 6. Measure For Measure 7. The Spirit Is Willing 8. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto 9. At Last 10. I Got Rhythm 11. Jersey Bounce 12. On Army Team 13. Swingin' At The 14. I Hear You Screaming
ANTICA MAPPA STATI UNITI
Una interessante e attraente mappa originale, antica, incisa in acciaio degli Stati Uniti. La mappa è stata disegnata e incisa per John Tallis da John Rapkin e pubblicata dalla London Printing and Publishing Company nell'Illustrato Illustrato e Storia Moderna del Mondo, a Londra nel . La mappa è presentata all'interno di un bordo decorativo ed è illustrata (da J. Marchant) con diverse scene finemente incise che rappresentano una "Buffalo Hunt", "Pennsylvania Treaty with the Indians" e il Washington Monument. Il bordo decorativo include anche ritratti di Washington e di Franklin. La mappa e le vignette sono colorate in maniera attraente e la superficie stampata misura circa 340mm x 245mm con i margini oltre ed è rivolta in bianco. Rapporto di condizione: eccellente condizione generale; Piccola lacrima chiusa di circa 1 cm ai margini superiore e destro (che non influenzano l'area stampata); Una perdita molto piccola al margine nell'angolo inferiore destro (che non influenza ancora l'area stampata); Vecchio residuo adesivo al bordo inferiore del foglio, ben al di fuori dell'area stampata; Occasionali piccole macchie di età / segni di gestione ai margini. Si prega di studiare le fotografie con attenzione per apprezzare appieno la condizione. PER MAGGIORI INFO VISITA IL SITO
Led Zeppelin - In The Light
Led Zeppelin - In The Light LP Etichetta: Zipp Zapp Records - none Scaletta: A1 You Shook Me A2 Communication Breakdown A3 I Can't Quit You Baby A4 Dazed And Confused B1 What Is And What Should Never Be B2 Communication Breakdown B3 Travelling Riverside Blues B4 Whole Lotta Love C1 Rock 'N' Roll C2 Whole Lotta Love C3 Stairway To Heaven D1 Heartbreaker D2 Thank You Medley: D3.1 Messin' The Blues D3.2 Honey Bee D3.3 Whole Lotta Love Side A1-4: Top Gear, Playhouse Theatre, Westminster, London, England on March 3rd, . Side B1-4: Maida Vale Studio 4 (BBC - Top Gear with John Peel), London, England on June 24th, . Side C1-3: Live Aid, John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 13th, . Side D1-2: Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, Canada March 21st, . Side D3: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, England on April 1st, . Condizione supporti: Near Mint (NM or M-) Condizione copertina: Near Mint (NM or M-) Per spedizioni in tutta Europa, ad eccezione di Italia e Slovenia: € (fino a 2 kg). Per spedizioni in Italia o Slovenia: 9,00 € (fino a 10 kg) Per spedizioni al di fuori dell'Europa contattatemi.
Aubrey Beardsley, Imp of the Perverse
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Weintraub, Stanley, PUBLISHER: Pennsylvania State University Press, At twenty, "the Fra Angelico of Satanism," as Roger Fry was to call Aubrey Beardsley, was working as an obscure clerk in a London life insurance company. Three years later he was the most notorious--and perhaps the most influential--artist in England. His controversial drawings for Oscar Wilde's Salome were so daring and different that someone quipped that Wilde's play illustrated Beardsley's art. His work as art editor of the two most famous magazines of the 's, The Yellow Book and The Savoy, consolidated his fame although he was unreasonably dragged into the Wilde scandal and nearly destroyed by it. By the time he produced his strikingly scabrous drawings for a pornographer publisher's Lysistrata he was dying, yet still incredibly productive. But he had already indelibly stamped the age with his name. In a front-page review in the New York Times Book Review in , art critic John Russell wrote of Beardsley that "as a biography--a life's story" the book "needs no successsor." Aubrey Beardsley: Imp of the Perverse began as an updating of the original biography but new material at hand and the need to reinterpret Beardsley from the perspective of augmented life-records made a mere updating impractical, especially since the climate for publishing has become far more receptive to truth in biography, however explicit.
Callsign: Spectre
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Noecker, Jeff, PUBLISHER: iUniverse.com, "Callsign: Spectre" is the true story of a young man from a small town in Pennsylvania who grows up and enlists in the United States Air Force at nineteen. Nearly forty years after the fact, Jeff Noecker recounts his combat flight experiences from the Vietnam War flying in an AC-130 Spectre gunship. The story follows him from his initial air force training to being accepted into an unusual Special Operations unit. What sets this story apart from the others that have been written about Vietnam is the Spectre gunship that Noecker flew in on his missions. While the US Air Force was flying hundreds of F-4s, F-105s, B-52s, OV-10s, O-2s, A-7s in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, there were only fourteen AC-130A Spectre gunships in theater and only one squadron that flew them-Noecker's squadron. There were even fewer than fourteen when the program began in ; the first few flew out of a base in Vietnam. The stories contained here resemble a diary, presenting both personal anecdotes of Noecker's and of stories he heard over the course of his time in service. Some of these may seem a bit farfetched, but Noecker sticks to the facts as much as possible. Unbelievable as some of the stories sound, his tales of his time in the air are unmistakably true.
Juliet, Naked
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hornby, Nick, PUBLISHER: Riverhead Books, From the beloved "New York Times"- bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love. Annie loves Duncan-or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't. Duncan really loves Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter who stopped making music ten years ago. Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. In doing so, she initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. Tucker's been languishing (and he's unnervingly aware of it), living in rural Pennsylvania with what he sees as his one hope for redemption amid a life of emotional and artistic ruin-his young son, Jackson. But then there's also the new material he's about to release to the world: an acoustic, stripped-down version of his greatest album, "Juliet"-entitled, "Juliet, Naked." What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And miles away, a restless, childless woman looks for a change? "Juliet, Naked" is a powerfully engrossing, humblingly humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise.
Writing Huck Finn: Mark Twain's Creative Process
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Doyno, Victor A., PUBLISHER: University of Pennsylvania Press, In "Writing Huck Finn," Vic Doyno offers a new, accessible, and innovative approach to America's favorite novel. He presents new material from the revised manuscript of "Huckleberry Finn" and also draws upon Samuel Clemen's unpublished family journal, his correspondence, and his concerns about the lack of an international copyright law. Doyno focuses on Twain's creative artistry in stylistic matters, such as tone of voice, characterization, humor, plot, description, and imagery, using genetic criticism to reveal how the novel grew through creative revision. He also uses the evidence from the manuscript to explore new thematic interpretations about the role of nobility and religion in the novel. Generations of readers have loved Twain's masterpiece but have been confused or vexed by the novel's ending. Doyno offers some surprising information about topics as varied as literacy, the economics of authorship, and the leasing of Black convicts. This information provides a new, coherent, and satisfying reading of the ending. Although there have been several perceptive books about "Huckleberry Finn," none reveals so much about the composition process and about how Twain created his meanings. Creative writers will be fascinated to learn how Twain revised his work-in-progress to sustain the reader's interest, scholars of American literature will discover many new interpretations-- and all readers will gain new perspectives on this rewarding masterpiece and on the survival of our national literature.
I Never Had to Duck: Adventures in the Peacetime Marine
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Peters, C. a. (Chuck), PUBLISHER: iUniverse.com, In this engaging memoir, retired Pittsburgh public servant C.A. (Chuck) Peters tells the captivating story of his ardent, lifelong love of and "undistinguished" service in the United States Marine Corps. His affair started when he was a "Junior Marine" during World War Two in a little Ohio River town, continued through his commissioning as a second lieutenant in March of and discharge as a reserve captain in . While attending Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania, Peters endeavored to enlist in the Corps' Platoon Leaders Course only to be rejected for poor eyesight. A year later he tried again, and through a combination of chart memorization and lowered standards, he was accepted. After surviving the grueling twelve-week PLC selection process, Peters, in March , reported to the Corps' six-month-long Basic School at Quantico, Virginia. Once there he muddled through and in October of joined the famed First Marine Division in California where he experienced peacetime active service with the Marines. He met his future wife and love of his life, Georgina Chamberlain, at Thiel College. They were wed in July of , over the strenuous objections of both families, and remained happily married until her untimely death in December of . "I NEVER HAD TO DUCK" reveals Peters' love of the Marine Corps through true stories of his adventures in the storied Corps. But he also weaves tales of friends and acquaintances who served as Marines who did have to duck.
The Catcher in the Rye.
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Salinger, J. D., PUBLISHER: Little Brown and Company, Anyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories - particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme - With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
Dischi in vinile assortiti a prezzi bassissimi
Vendo dischi in vinile 33 giri causa inutilizzo. Sono in buone condizioni; il prezzo è trattabile e sono vendibili in blocco e singolarmente. Il materiale si trova a Magenta (MI). Faccio consegna a mano a Magenta e, previo accordo, nelle zone limitrofe e a Milano. Per la spedizione, a vostro carico, a voi la scelta del metodo. Se scegliete metodi non tracciabili, in caso di smarrimento del pacco, non mi assumo responsabilità. Per domande, chiarimenti e qualsiasi cosa vi passi per la testa sul materiale, contattatemi! Ecco i dischi in lista: "The Kingston Trio" di Kingston Trio "Radici" di Francesco Guccini "Burattino Senza Fili" di Edoardo Bennato "Rage in Eden " di Ultravox "Album Concerto" di Francesco Guccini & I Nomadi "The Animals Film" di Robert Wyatt "Los Machucambos In Phase 4" di Los Machucambos "Como Swings" di Perry Como "I am Cold" di Rip Rig + Panic "Sicilia Folk" di Tony Sangiorgi "Monolith" di Kansas "Nature's Secret" di Michael Cassidy "Volunteers" di Jefferson Airplane "Paul Anka Sings His Big 15" di Paul Anka "Récital n°3" di Les Petits Chanteurs De Sainte-Jeanne D'Arc - Nancy "Io che non sono l'imperatore" di Edoardo Bennato "Amerigo" di Francesco Guccini "Memory Serves" di Material "Made In U.S.A. (Successi Americani Vol. 2)" di VVAA "Top '76 Volume 3" di VVAA "Vivaldi Boccherini Salieri" di Giovane Orchestra da Camera "Beethoven 9 Symphonien Karajan" di Berliner Philharmoniker "Gospels & Spirituals" di The Pennsylvania Gospel Group - The Pearls Of Joy "Effetti Sonori / Sound Effects Vol. 5" di No Artist
EPIPHONE ARCHTOP JOE PASS EMPEROR CHITARRA ELETTRICA
CHITARRA ELETTRICA ARCHTOP - USATO - Joe Pass era conosciuto come il "Re della chitarra Bebop." Cresciuto nei pressi di Jamestown, in Pennsylvania, da adolescente Joe si diresse verso New York dove la sua inventiva, le linee fluide, la conoscenza armonica avanzata, e le idee melodiche apparentemente senza fine sono state immediatamente riconosciute. Forse il miglior lavoro di Pass è stato per l'etichetta Pablo di Norman Granz, con sede a Los Angeles. Durante la sua carriera, Joe ha registrato con il meglio dei grandi del jazz tra cui Les McCaan, Ella Fitzgerald, Chet Baker, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown e Milt Jackson. Caratteristiche principali Body: Acero Top: Abete Manico: Acero, SlipTaper profilo a "C" Capotasto: mm (1.68") Tastiera: Palissandro con intarsi a blocchi pearloid e copertura truss-rod Joe Pass signature Pickup: Alnico Classic humbucker Battipenna: NON PRESENTE Controlli: 1x Volume manico, 1x Tono manico, 1x Volume ponte, 1x Tono ponte Ponte: Floating in palissandro Cordiera: Vintage dorata Meccaniche: Grover 16:1 Colore: Vintage Sunburst LO STRUMENTO SI PRESENTA IN BUONISSIME CONDIZIONI GENERALI, FRETS AL 95%, NO GRAFFI O SEGNI EVIDENTI (TRANNE UNA MICRO AMMACCATURA SULLA TAVOLA ARMONICA). IL PICK GUARD ORIGINALE E' STATO SMARRITO DAL PRECEDENTE PROPRIETARIO E NON E' QUINDI PIU' DISPONIBILE. CORREDATA DI HARD-CASE IN LEGNO CONSEGNA A MANO A PADOVA O SPEDIZIONE A CARICO DELL'ACQUIRENTE DA ELECTRIC LADYLAND GUITAR SHOP STRUMENTI MUSICALI PADOVA TANTE ALTRE INTERESSANTI OFFERTE!
Life, Death, and Doughnuts
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kasdin, Karen / Kasdin, Karin, PUBLISHER: Strategic Book Publishing, It is and the Katharine Gibbs Secretarial School in New York City is teeming with women. Over doughnuts, Sarah, Mitzi, Iris, and Ellie form a quirky quartet of secretaries-to-be. What ensues is a lifelong friendship carried out primarily through monthly dinner parties composed of the four women and their tag-along husbands. Over a span of 50 years, children are born, hearts are broken, a president resigns, a war is lost, careers peak and crash, weight is gained and lost and gained again, and all the while food is burned, fondued, flambed, whipped up, and brought in. Sadly, but not uncommonly, the husbands pass away one by one, revealing the unfortunate fact that most women outlive their mates. The girlfriends' individual responses to widowhood illustrate that "moving on" can have a host of meanings and that grief has no time frame. As the friends face downtime, distance, and loss, each discovers that a 50-year friendship, a healthy dose of humor, and an occasional doughnut can trump whatever else life drops in your path. Karin Kasdin has authored four books, the most recent of which is Watsamatta U: A Get-A-Grip Guide to Staying Sane through Your Child's College Application Process. She currently writes a parenting blog for The Faster Times, which can be viewed at thefastertimes.com. Kasdin grew up in Rochester, New York, and now lives and writes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where she and her husband have raised three sons.
I RAGNI DI FERRO, B. H. Kendrick, MONDADORI 228
Baynard Hardwick Kendrick I RAGNI DI FERRO I CLASSICI DEL GIALLO MONDADORI 228 QUATTORDICINALE 21 ottobre Copertina morbida illustrata, rilegatura editoriale, pagine 206, formato cm. 11X18,5. Stato di conservazione: OTTIMO COME MOSTRANO LE IMMAGINI Baynard Hardwick Kendrick (Filadelfia, 8 aprile º gennaio ) è stato uno scrittore statunitense. Fu l'autore della serie di romanzi del mistero basati sulla figura di Duncan Maclain, un investigatore privato cieco che ha lavorato con i suoi due pastori tedeschi e la sua famiglia di assistenti per risolvere i misteri di omicidio. I romanzi sono stati la base per due film interpretati da Edward Arnold, Occhi nella notte () e The Hidden Eye (). Ha scritto anche usando lo pseudonimo di Richard Hayward. Kendrick è nato a Philadelphia e ha viaggiato in Canada per arruolarsi nell'Armata canadese durante la prima guerra mondiale. Tornato negli Stati Uniti, in Pennsylvania, venne onorato dopo il conflitto e continuò a scrivere. La scrittura di Kendrick riflette due interessi personali che egli aveva sviluppato - uno verso la cecità e l'abilità delle persone affette da questa inabilità e un secondo verso la storia della Florida. Nel vinse il premio Mystery Writers of America. Morì nel . Spese di spedizione euro 2 con posta prioritaria "piego di libri" o euro 4 con posta raccomandata "piego di libri", opportunamente protetto in custodia di cellofan e inviato dentro apposita busta postale imbottita a bolle d'aria. Non è prevista la consegna brevi manu Pagamento: c/c Postale Bonifico bancario Vaglia postale
Deadly Lessons: Understanding Lethal School Violence
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moore, Mark H. / Petrie, Carol V. / Braga, Anthony A., PUBLISHER: National Academy Press, How do we make sense of the tragedy of a school shooting or even draw objective conclusions from these incidents? Deadly Lessons is the outcome of the National Research Council's unique effort to glean lessons from six case studies of lethal student violence. These are powerful stories of parents and teachers and troubled youths, presenting the tragic complexity of the young shooter's social and personal circumstances in rich detail. The cases point to possible causes of violence and suggest where interventions may be most effective. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the potential threat, how violence might be prevented, and how healing might be promoted in affected communities. For each case study, Deadly Lessons relates events leading up to the violence, provides quotes from personal interviews about the incident, and explores the impact on the community. The case studies center on: -- Two separate incidents in East New York in which three students were killed and a teacher was seriously wounded. -- A shooting on the south side of Chicago in which one youth was killed and two were wounded. -- A shooting into a prayer group at a Kentucky high school in which three students were killed. -- The killing of 4 students and a teacher and the wounding of 10 others at an Arkansas middle school. -- The shooting of a popular science teacher by a teenager in Edinboro, Pennsylvania. -- A suspected copycat of Columbine in which six students were wounded in Georgia. For everyone who puzzles over these terrible incidents, Deadly Lessons offers a fresh perspective on the most fundamental of questions: Why?
The Ancestors and Descendants of John Lewis Benson and His
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Benson, Ned Harold, PUBLISHER: Authorhouse, John Lewis Benson, born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, was an 8th generation descendant of John Benson, who arrived in America at Plymouth Colony on 11 April on the ship "Confidence." After being reared in Chautauqua County, New York, John Lewis Benson's father, William, took him to Rock Island County, Illinois, following his daughters who had already made the migration. Shortly after reaching his majority, John Lewis Benson went to "Bleeding Kansas" as part of the wave of Abolitionists who sought to "keep Kansas free," which action reflected the devout Puritan Calvinism of his Benson forebears. He enlisted in the 5th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry two months after the first canon was fired on Fort Sumter, and served until the end of the War of Rebellion, being mustered out on 22 June . He then returned to Kansas where he prospered, married, and fathered 5 children. He lost all his worldly possessions due to drought and the economic collapse following The Panic of , and then moved about Kansas seeking a new start. During this difficult period, his wife died, leaving him a widower with 4 children ages 6 to 11. He soon married a divorcee who brought her 3 children, ages 1 to 3, to the marriage. In his second marriage, John Lewis fathered three more children. After the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Territory were opened for settlement in , John Lewis and his blended family moved there and share-cropped 40 acres southeast of Guthrie, Oklahoma, which he eventually bought. He died on this farm on 23 March . This book by one of his great-grandsons tells the story of his life, the lives of his five sisters and one brother, and their ancestry back to 16th century Oxfordshire, England.
Jackie & Me
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gutman, Dan, PUBLISHER: HarperCollins, Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoscack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So for his report, Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball players ever, Jackie Robinson, to find out what it was like to be the man who broke baseball's color barrier. Joe plans on writing a prize-winning report. But he doesn't plan on a trip that will for a short time change the color of his skin -- and forever change his view of history and his definition of Golden Sower Award Masterlist (YA Cat.) and 00 Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award (Intermed. Cat.)Like every other kid in his class, Joe Stoshack has to write a report on an African American who's made an important contribution to society. Unlike every other kid in his class, Joe has a special talent: with the help of old baseball cards, he can travel through time. So for his report, Joe decides to go back to meet one of the greatest baseball players ever, Jackie Robinson, to find out what it was like to be the man who broke baseball's color barrier. Joe plans on writing a prize-winning report. But he doesn't plan on a trip that will for a short time change the color of his skin--and forever change his view of history and his definition of courage.
Infortunate: The Voyage - CL.
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Moraley, William, PUBLISHER: Penn State University Press, William Moraley's autobiography, originally published in , provides a rare view of life among the lower classes in England and the American middle colonies during the early eighteenth century. In , Moraley ventured as an indentured servant from England to the "American Plantations," where he worked in various jobs, rambled about the countryside, and mingled with white and black bonds people, laborers, artisans, Indians, and other common folk. His account brims over with observations about the geography and climate, the flora and fauna, and the customs, politics, religions, superstitions, material conditions, and daily lives of the inhabitants of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. Of special interest are his comments about servants, slaves, and Native Americans--groups frequently ignored by early travelers. Moraley's experiences were similar to those of many other eighteenth-century European immigrants who sold themselves into servitude, but he is among only a handful of people at the bottom of society who left memoirs of their lives. Smart, sassy, and articulate, Moraley narrates a take of adventure designed primarily to entertain. At times a rogue, a drunkard, a liar, a vagabond, and a petty thief, he boasts that he could "rake with the best of them." But the autobiography has considerable historical value as well. It depicts the life of a down-and-out artisan whose fortunes, like so many other bound laborers, did not substantially improve. The reasons for the different career paths of such working people have been the subject of much scholarly debate, and these memoirs can more firmly ground that controversy in actual human experience. The substantial introduction by Klepp and Smith reconstructs Moraley's life, relates the autobiography to the literary developments of the era, compares the careers of Moraley and Franklin, and discusses the author's social, political, and religious worlds. It also identifies and leaves open to differing interpretations a host of issues and paradoxes about eighteenth-century life raised by Moraley's account.
The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education: George
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Williams, Roger L., PUBLISHER: Penn State University Press, The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being b the Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than being the inevitable consequence of the unfolding dynamic of institutional and socioeconomic forces, Williams argues, it was the active intervention and initiate of a handful of educational leaders that secured the colleges' future---above all, the activities of George W. Atherton. For nearly three decades, Atherton, who was the seventh president of the Pennsylvania State University, worked to secure consistent federal financial support for the colleges, which in their early years received little assistance from the states they were designed to benefit. He also helped to develop the institutions as comprehensive "national" universities grounded in the liberal arts and sciences---a conception that countered the prevailing view of the colleges as mainly agricultural schools.Atherton became the prime mover in the campaign to enact the Hatch Act, which encouraged the establishment of agricultural experiment stations at land-grant colleges. The act marked the federal government's first effort to provide continuous funding to research units associated with higher education institutions. At the same times, Atherton played a key role in the formation of the first association of such institutions: The Associations of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. It was the Association that provided the critical mass needed to lobby Congress successively and to approach the many opportunities andthreats the land-grant colleges faced during the period. Atherton was also deeply involved in the campaign for the Morrill Act of , which provided long-sought annual appropriations to land-grant colleges for a broad range of academic programs and encouraged steady growth in state support during the s. Roger Williams traces the motives and tactics behind a series of laws that made the federal government irreversibly committed to funding higher education and scientific research and provides rich new insights into the complexities, polarities, and inherent contradictions of the history of the American land-grant movement.
L'arte della caccia - Daniel P.Mannix - Garzanti 1°
Molto buono/ottimo - interno perfetto, compatto (due punti margine pagina e uno interno copertina) - lieve ingiallimento pagine, lievemente piu' accentuate ai margini - bordi leggero ingiallimento - sovracoperta un taglietto di mm 7 sul retro in alto a ridosso dell'aletta e una di 1 mm, per il resto perfetta. rilegato con sovracoperta - pagine illustrazioni fuori testo - cm 17.5 x 24.5 garzanti 1° ediz. in un'epoca in cui la caccia è avvilita a non rischioso quanto indiscriminato sterminio di animali, daniel p. mannix, gran cacciatore al cospetto di dio, che vive con la famiglia e un vero zoo in una fattoria della pennsylvania, propone un ritorno alla «nobile arte» dei tempi andati quando caccia voleva dire pericolo, difficoltà, abilità, lunga pazienza, contatto duro e vivo con la natura. perché gli uomini cacciano? non per istinto di uccidere, e ormai neppure per procurarsi il cibo. il piacere della caccia consiste nell'emozione dell'inseguimento e nella soddisfazione di vincere in astuzia la preda. l'uomo, cacciatore da sempre, ha inventato man mano mezzi più efficienti per uccidere. ed è stato costretto, nell'interesse stesso dello «sport,., a limitarsi alle armi da fuoco tradizionali e a restringerne l'uso a certe stagioni. altrimenti avrebbe sterminato la selvaggina. forse è venuto il tempo in cui l'uomo deve imporsi limiti ancor più rigidi. l'arte della caccia è un libro sulle tecniche insolite della caccia: dalla falconeria, lo sport medioevale per eccellenza, alla caccia con i ghepardi in india alla pesca degli squali e degli agujones nel messico. si tratta di sistemi a volte pri¬mitivi, come la caccia dei nandù con la boia o delle lepri con il bumerang; a volte caduti in disuso, come la pesca e la caccia con le lontre ammaestrate o lo sterminio dei topi da parte dei furetti; a volte sconosciuti e quasi incredibili, come la caccia ai passeri con i rospi. tutti hanno in comune una caratteristica: l'assenza delle armi da fuoco e in genere di tutti i mezzi moderni di distruzione e in tutti l'interesse principale è per l'animale non considerato semplicemente un bersaglio ma un avversario intelligente, che nel peggiore dei casi ha almeno una possibilità di successo. appassionante quanto lo studio degli animali è la descrizione delle armi antiche, che tornano di moda nei paesi dove il progresso tecnico troppo avanzato porta come reazione alla ricerca nel passato di un modo di vita più umano; e l'autore si augura che questo fenomeno riporti i cacciatori allo spirito vero della caccia, che è interesse per la vita della natura e rispetto della selvaggina come di un avversario con cui si combatte ad armi pari.
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