Encyclopaedias and reference works Books
The University of Chicago Press Fashionable Food Seven Decades of Food Fads
Book SynopsisThroughout, Lovegren supplements recipes - some mouth-watering, some appalling - from classic cookbooks and family magazines with humorous anecdotes that chronicle how society and kitchen technology influenced the way we lived and how we ate.Trade Review"In recent years, the subject of food has been one primarily of seriousness verging on reverence. While that may be wholly justified, it's refreshing to have a good laugh (at ourselves) every now and then." - Library Journal; "In often hilarious fashion, Lovegren chronicles hundreds of wacky fads as the nation's cooks moved from frozen fishsticks and fat-free brownies to Szechwan shrimp alfredo." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch"
£24.49
The University of Chicago Press On My Honor
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The University of Chicago Press Dancing at Armageddon Survivalism and Chaos in
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The University of Chicago Press Loving Little Egypt
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The University of Chicago Press Food Webs
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The University of Chicago Press Shoot The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio
Book SynopsisDocuments the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can.Trade Review"One cannot deny that Pirandello's plays and novels reveal a surprising individuality - ironic, inventive, and sometimes fantastical.... He serves up old wine in new bottles, carrying the thoughts and emotions of men into striking and unusual situations, replenishing their force by shifting their orbit from the commonplace to the extraordinary." - New York Times (1927)"
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The University of Chicago Press Cut Time
Book SynopsisChronicles the author's immersion in the fight world, from the brutal classroom of the gym to the spectacle of fight night. An award-winning writer and ringside veteran, he unearths the hidden wisdom in any kind of fight, from barroom brawl to HBO extravaganza. In this book he makes the fight world relevant to us, whether we're fans or not.Trade Review"Cut Time should be read not just by fight aficionados but also by fans of intelligent nonfiction writing.... An absorbing read." - Sports Illustrated "Just when you think it's all been written, a good writer takes a shining new look at an old subject and breathes life into it.... Rotella has preserved the blow-by-blow and the grandeur of another age but has somehow expanded the ring to include his own generation's proclivities and sensibility." - Los Angeles Times "A wonderful book.... Cut Time is aimed at everyone, even readers who can't imagine that they could ever learn anything from men slugging it out in a ring. They can." - Wall Street Journal "Rotella finds in boxing not only entertainment, but worthy and sustaining metaphors for battles outside the ring.... Thoughtful and crafted." - Boston Globe"
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The University of Chicago Press Natural Born Celebrities
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The University of Chicago Press Hoodlums
Book SynopsisMartin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of African American history, you think of its heroesindividuals endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black villains? Villains, just as much as heroes, have helped define the black experience. Ranging from black slaveholders and frontier outlaws to serial killers and gangsta rappers, Hoodlums examines the pivotal role of black villains in American society and popular culture. Here, William L. Van Deburg offers the most extensive treatment to date of the black badman and the challenges that this figure has posed for race relations in America. He first explores the evolution of this problematic racial stereotype in the literature of the early Republicdocuments in which the enslavement of African Americans was justified through exegetical claims. Van Deburg then probes antebellum slave laws, minstrel shows, and the works of proslavery polemicists to consider how whites conceptualized blacks as members of an inferior and dangerous race. Turning to key works by blacks themselves, from the writings of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois to classic blaxploitation films like Black Caesar and The Mack, Van Deburg demonstrates how African Americans have combated such negative stereotypes and reconceptualized the idea of the badman through stories of social banditscontroversial individuals vilified by whites for their proclivity toward evil, but revered in the black community as necessarily insurgent and revolutionary. Ultimately, Van Deburg brings his story up-to-date with discussions of prison and hip-hop culture, urban rioting, gang warfare, and black-on-black crime. What results is a work of remarkable virtuositya nuanced history that calls for both whites and blacks to rethink received wisdom on the nature and prevalence of black villainy.
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press A Handbook of Biological Illustration
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£27.85
University of Illinois Press The People
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£18.99
University of Illinois Press Barrelhouse Words
Book SynopsisAn exhaustive, engrossing lexicon of blues idiomsTrade Review"An impeccably scholarly, irresistibly readable guide to the language heard on the recordings of the great blues singers who were active in the first half of the 20th century."--Wall Street Journal "A very useful and mamlishly good book."--Juke Blues "A treat for anyone who loves language, and who sees it as a living, breathing entity."--PopMatters Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsAuthor's NoteIntroductionSelect Annotated Bibliography of Dictionary SourcesGeneral BibliographyInformants Cited in TextAbbreviations and Symbols Used in TextA Blues Dialect DictionaryAppendixIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Wedding Etiquette For Dummies
Book SynopsisYour expert guide to the dos and don'ts of getting married Your wedding should be fun, exciting, and worry-free-but most brides, grooms, and their families run into sticky situations or unique circumstances that surround etiquette. Now, there's a definitive guide that provides the solutionsfor all those dilemmas big and small.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Engaging in Proper Wedding Etiquette from the Start 5 Chapter 1: Incorporating Etiquette into Your Wedding 7 Chapter 2: Announcing Your Engagement with Elegance 13 Chapter 3: Tastefully Using Technology during Wedding Planning 31 Chapter 4: Deciding on Finances and Planning Responsibilities Upfront 39 Part II: The Main Event: Planning Your Ceremony and Reception 59 Chapter 5: Checking Out Ceremony Styles 61 Chapter 6: Nailing Down the Basics of Ceremony Protocol 77 Chapter 7: Perfecting Your Reception Plans 95 Part III: Working on Wedding Details with Your Manners Intact 113 Chapter 8: Putting Together Your Wedding Party 115 Chapter 9: Choosing Appropriate Wedding Attire and Doing So with Grace 135 Chapter 10: Assembling the Guest List 151 Chapter 11: Carefully Composing Your Invitations and Announcements 163 Chapter 12: Registering for Gifts and Giving Your Own 191 Chapter 13: Observing Etiquette Rules at Festivities before the Wedding 199 Part IV: Behaving on the Big Day and Beyond 209 Chapter 14: Minding Your Manners at the Ceremony 211 Chapter 15: Celebrating with Class at the Reception 231 Chapter 16: Acting Properly after the Wedding 245 Part V: The Part of Tens 253 Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Working with Your Vendors and Wedding Planner 255 Chapter 18: Nearly Ten Guidelines for Getting Married the Second Time Around 259 Index 263
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John Matthew Ministries Farewell to God Charles Templeton
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Manchester University Press Riches of the Rylands The Special Collections of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRiches of the Rylands is a sumptuous production, even by the high standards of the usual glossy coffee-table treasures volume. It features over 140 lavishly illustrated items, described briefly by eighty contributors, in thirteen sections. -- .Table of ContentsForeword – Jan WilkinsonIntroduction – John R. Hodgson1. Beyond books: from papyrus to pixels – Stella K. Halkyard2. Through painted windows: the art of illumination – John R. Hodgson3. First impressions: the early years of European printing – Julianne Simpson4. Master binders and their craft – Caroline Checkley-Scott and John R. Hodgson5. ‘A definite claim to beauty’: the private presses – John R. Hodgson6. Envisioning space: maps and atlases – Donna M. Sherman7. ‘Lively oracles of God’: The Bible from antiquity to modernity – Elizabeth Gow 8. ‘So many paths’: religious traditions across the world – Elizabeth Gow 9. ‘On the shoulders of giants’: science, technology and medicine – James N. Peters, Julianne Simpson and Janet L. Wallwork10. ‘Between the covers’: a literary miscellany – Fran Baker11. Illustrated imaginative children’s literature – Ian Rogerson 12. Power, politics and propaganda: the story of Britain from 1215 – Dorothy J. Clayton 13. Manchester: local connections – Julie RamwellIndex
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Mirror of Literature Amusement and Instruction
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