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The Making of Middlebrow Culture

By: Joan Shelley Rubin

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The Making of Middlebrow Culture

By: Joan Shelley Rubin

The proliferation of book clubs, reading groups, "outline" volumes, and new forms of book reviewing in the first half of the twentieth century influenced the tastes and pastimes of millions of Americans. Joan Rubin here provides the first comprehensive analysis of this phenomenon, the rise of American middlebrow culture, and the values encompassed by it. Rubin centers her discussion on five important expressions of the middlebrow: the founding of the Book-of-the-Month Club; the beginnings of "great books" programs; the creation of the New York Herald Tribune's book-review section; the popularity of such works as Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy; and the emergence of literary radio programs. She also investigates the lives and expectations of the individuals who shaped these middlebrow institutions--such figures as Stuart Pratt Sherman, Irita Van Doren, Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John Erskine, William Lyon Phelps, Alexander Woollcott, and Clifton Fadiman. Moreover, as she pursues the significance of these cultural intermediaries who connected elites and the masses by interpreting ideas to the public, Rubin forces a reconsideration of the boundary between high culture and popular sensibility.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807864269

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9780807864265

BIG BOOK of COASTERS (Leisure Arts #5855)

By: Ann Townsend,Terry A. Ricioli,Kathleen Hurley,Kathy Wirth,Joan E. Ray

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BIG BOOK of COASTERS (Leisure Arts #5855)

By: Ann Townsend,Terry A. Ricioli,Kathleen Hurley,Kathy Wirth,Joan E. Ray

Big Book of Coasters includes 43 projects.

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Leisure Arts

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1464704139

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9781464704130

A YEAR of TISSUE BOX COVERS (Leisure Arts #5846)

By: James R. Green,Jimmy Morris,Barbara Breitwieser,Joan E. Ray,Paula Jacobson

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A YEAR of TISSUE BOX COVERS (Leisure Arts #5846)

By: James R. Green,Jimmy Morris,Barbara Breitwieser,Joan E. Ray,Paula Jacobson

A Year of Tissue Box Covers includes 12 designs.

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Leisure Arts

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1464704074

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9781464704079

From Grandma to You

Childcare Wisdom for a New Generation

By: Joan D. Hellstrom,Susan D. Findlay,Connie E. Ray

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From Grandma to You

Childcare Wisdom for a New Generation

By: Joan D. Hellstrom,Susan D. Findlay,Connie E. Ray

When it comes to babies and child-rearing, few sources are more reliable, experienced and downright loving than Grandma. Featuring the counsel of over 60 grandmothers and a trusted pediatrician, these never before published recommendations, solutions, and sanity-saving techniques have benefited hundreds of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters. Readers will get time-tested advice on everything from food schedules (what to eat and when), to attachments (how to handle pacifiers, blankies, bottles, and thumbs), as well as effective, natural remedies for a host of ailments. Each chapter provides a section for mothers to record their thoughts and what their own mom said, making this an essential collection of tidbits, tricks, and tried and true measures from the women who know best.

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156

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402718683

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9781402718687

From Neri to Nashville

By: Freddie Joan Armstrong Goetz Goodpasture,Freddie A. Goetz,Freddie Joan Armstong

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From Neri to Nashville

By: Freddie Joan Armstrong Goetz Goodpasture,Freddie A. Goetz,Freddie Joan Armstong

Throughout this book Freddie Goodpasture continually goes back to what has sustained her: her family, her friends, and God's continual providence. She has lived a remarkable life. Within these pages are stories that are full of interesting history, humorous adventure, sorrowful tragedy, but most of all the successes of a godly woman.

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542

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0966440005

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9780966440003

Shaping the Bar

The Future of Attorney Licensing

By: Joan Howarth

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Shaping the Bar

The Future of Attorney Licensing

By: Joan Howarth

The comprehensive source on attorney licensing and how to reform it. In Shaping the Bar, Joan Howarth describes how the twin gatekeepers of the legal profession—law schools and licensers—are failing the public. Attorney licensing should be laser-focused on readiness to practice law with the minimum competence of a new attorney. According to Howarth, requirements today are both too difficult and too easy. Amid the crisis in unmet legal services, record numbers of law school graduates—disproportionately people of color—are failing bar exams that are not meaningful tests of competence to practice. At the same time, after seven years of higher education, hundreds of thousands of dollars of law school debt, two months of cramming legal rules, and success on a bar exam, a candidate can be licensed to practice law without ever having been in a law office or even seen a lawyer with a client. Howarth makes the case that the licensing rituals familiar to generations of lawyers—unfocused law degrees and obsolete bar exams—are protecting members of the profession more than the public. Beyond explaining the failures of the current system, this book presents the latest research on competent lawyering and examples of better approaches. This book presents the path forward by means of licensing changes to protect the public while building an inclusive, diverse, competent, ethical profession. Thoughtful and engaging, Shaping the Bar is both an authoritative account of attorney licensing and a pragmatic handbook for overdue equitable reform of a powerful profession.

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Stanford University Press

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1503633691

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9781503633698

In Search of Respect and Equality

Life Incidents of Slave and Free Women in North America and European Colonies

By: Joan-Yvette Campbell

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In Search of Respect and Equality

Life Incidents of Slave and Free Women in North America and European Colonies

By: Joan-Yvette Campbell

In Search of Respect and Equality" includes the captivating experiences of slave and free women from North America and European colonies. Although the lives of the slave and free women were dissimilar, and they also resided in different countries, they appeared to possess commonalities. For instance, they shared mutual values and expectations to be free, educated, self-sufficient, and live a life of respect and equality. The women resided in countries such as the United States, Canada, Jamaica, Brazil, Cuba, Barbados, Antigua, St. Croix, Trinidad and Tobago, the African continent, and other nations. The book also uncovers controversial issues such as Mary Seacole's setbacks as a result of Florence Nightingale's continued unwanted interferences. "In Search of Respect and Equality" should be an inspiration to readers all over the world.

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Joan-Yvette Campbell

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1479250074

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9781479250073

First of All

Significant "firsts" by American Women

By: Joan McCullough

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Significant "firsts" by American Women

By: Joan McCullough

Presents little known background information about women who achieved fame, noteriety, or no notice at all for being the first woman in some given category.

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Holt McDougal

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003057644X

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9780030576447

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The Making of Middlebrow Culture

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