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Pelican Guide to the Louisiana Capitol

By: Ellen Roy Jolly,James Calhoun

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Pelican Guide to the Louisiana Capitol

By: Ellen Roy Jolly,James Calhoun

The most beautiful of America's fifty statehouses, the Louisiana capitol in Baton Rouge ranks second behind the New Orleans Superdome as the state's leading tourist attraction-and this comprehensive guidebook shows why. Constructed in 1932 under the reign of Huey Long at a cost of only $5 million, the thirty-four-story tower houses some of the most impressive examples of art deco architecture in America. A companion work to Pelican's lavish pictorial volume, The Louisiana Capitol, published in 1977, this book is an ideal in-hand guide for on-site observation, appreciation, and understanding of the capitol's art and history.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455610291

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9781455610297

The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

By: Ellen Luchinsky

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The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

By: Ellen Luchinsky

The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.

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1384

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Routledge

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1135659265

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9781135659264

The Cherokee Syllabary

Writing the People's Perseverance

By: Ellen Cushman

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The Cherokee Syllabary

Writing the People's Perseverance

By: Ellen Cushman

In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation—the Cherokee syllabary—helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of Sequoyah’s syllabary from script to print to digital forms. Breaking with conventional understanding, author Ellen Cushman shows that the syllabary was not based on alphabetic writing, as is often thought, but rather on Cherokee syllables and, more importantly, on Cherokee meanings. Employing an engaging narrative approach, Cushman relates how Sequoyah created the syllabary apart from Western alphabetic models. But he called it an alphabet because he anticipated the Western assumption that only alphabetic writing is legitimate. Calling the syllabary an alphabet, though, has led to our current misunderstanding of just what it is and of the genius behind it—until now. In her opening chapters, Cushman traces the history of Sequoyah’s invention and explains the logic of the syllabary’s structure and the graphic relationships among the characters, both of which might have made the system easy for native speakers to use. Later chapters address the syllabary’s enduring significance, showing how it allowed Cherokees to protect, enact, and codify their knowledge and to weave non-Cherokee concepts into their language and life. The result was their enhanced ability to adapt to social change on and in Cherokee terms. Cushman adeptly explains complex linguistic concepts in an accessible style, even as she displays impressive understanding of interrelated issues in Native American studies, colonial studies, cultural anthropology, linguistics, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Profound, like the invention it explores, The Cherokee Syllabary will reshape the study of Cherokee history and culture. Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806185481

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9780806185484

Warman's Flea Market Price Guide

By: Don Johnson,Ellen Tischbein Schroy

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Warman's Flea Market Price Guide

By: Don Johnson,Ellen Tischbein Schroy

An illustrated guide to finding good values on over 700 categories of collectibles at flea markets.

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380

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Warman's

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0873492463

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9780873492461

Kaye Gibbons

A Literary Companion

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Kaye Gibbons

A Literary Companion

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

With novels like Ellen Foster and A Virtuous Woman, award-winning writer Kaye Gibbons has gained both critical acclaim and a large, devoted following among readers. This literary companion equips the reader with information about characters, plots, dates, allusions, literary motifs, and themes from the bestselling author's works. After an annotated chronology of Gibbons' life, the work presents 103 A-Z entries that include Snodgrass's analysis, cover the writings of reviewers and critics, and provide selected bibliographies. Appendices offer an historical timeline with references to corresponding historical events from Gibbons' novels, along with a list of 42 topics for group or individual research projects.

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McFarland

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147661119X

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9781476611198

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Pelican Guide to the Louisiana Capitol

Pelican Guide to the Louisiana Capitol

The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

The Cherokee Syllabary

The Cherokee Syllabary

Warman's Flea Market Price Guide

Warman's Flea Market Price Guide

Kaye Gibbons

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