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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955

By: John Pen La Farge

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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955

By: John Pen La Farge

The interviews collected in this book preserve the old Santa Fe, the one people are still looking for. The interviewees represent a cross-section of Santa Fe during the best of times: native Santa Feans, both Spanish American and Anglo, artists, immigrants, those who came by accident, those who came intending to stay, those who fought to preserve the older cultures' traditions and values.

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UNM Press

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0826320155

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Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955

By: John Pen La Farge

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Scripting the Santa Fe Legend, 1920-1955

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John La Farge, a Biographical and Critical Study

By: James L. Yarnall,John La Farge

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John La Farge, a Biographical and Critical Study

By: James L. Yarnall,John La Farge

John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study is the first biography in a century of the American painter, illustrator, muralist, stained-glass artist, and writer. Examining La Farge's career from his youth to his late rebound as a decorative artist-from New York City and New England to Europe to Japan to the South Seas-this is also the only biography to date composed independently of the artist and his estate.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409411729

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9781409411727

American Artist In The South Sea

By: John La Farge

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American Artist In The South Sea

By: John La Farge

The American artists John La Farge preceded Gauguin to the Pacific, and in their time his reputation as the modern Pacific painter far overshadowed that of the Frenchman. This remarkable work is the record of a year-long artistic odyssey through the South Seas, during which La Farge braved the volcanoes of Hawaii, visited Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa, was adopted by a noble Tahitian family and journeyed through the wild hills of Fiji, painting and sketching lyrical studies of island life. Lavishly illustrated with his work, this account of the Polynesian adventures that La Farge shared with his friend the historian Henry Adams is an important contribution to the literary and artistic heritage of the Pacific and a revealing insight into the life of a complex and fascinating man.

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599

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Routledge

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1317856791

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9781317856795

Cooperation and resistance

By: John T. Lauridsen

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Cooperation and resistance

By: John T. Lauridsen

Den forste systematiske samling og registrering af mere end 50 ars udgivelser om Danmark under den tyske besaettelse 1940-45. Registreringen er foretaget pa grundlag af en gennemgang af bogfortegnelser, tidsskriftindekser, Dansk Historisk Bibliografi, andre fag- og lokalbibliografier samt over 100 tidsskrifter. Tillige er registreret dokumentar- og spillefilm om besaettelsestiden. I alt 8600 poster, med person- og stedregister.

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8772895683

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9788772895680

Real Life at the White House

Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence

By: John Whitcomb,Claire Whitcomb

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Real Life at the White House

Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence

By: John Whitcomb,Claire Whitcomb

An irresistible chronological overview of daily life in the presidential residence. Divided into 42 chapters representing each succeeding administration, this survey is brimming with fun facts, tantalizing tidbits, and memorable anecdotes detailing two centuries of domestic bliss and strife in the White House. From George Washington, who chose the sight and initiated work on the presidential mansion, to Bill Clinton, whose well-documented White House escapades titillated and scandalized the nation, each individual president has contributed to the mystique of the most readily recognized home in the U.S. Together with scores of drawings, portraits, and photographs, the breezy text chronicles the significant physical, social, and emotional changes wrought by each First Family as they sought to personalize daily life in the White House.

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540

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Psychology Press

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0415939518

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9780415939515

Dixie Bohemia

A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s

By: John Shelton Reed

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Dixie Bohemia

A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s

By: John Shelton Reed

In the years following World War I, the New Orleans French Quarter attracted artists and writers with its low rents, faded charm, and colorful street life. By the 1920s Jackson Square had become the center of a vibrant if short-lived bohemia. A young William Faulkner and his roommate William Spratling, an artist who taught at Tulane University, resided among the "artful and crafty ones of the French Quarter." In Dixie Bohemia John Shelton Reed introduces Faulkner's circle of friends -- ranging from the distinguished Sherwood Anderson to a gender-bending Mardi Gras costume designer -- and brings to life the people and places of New Orleans in the Jazz Age. Reed begins with Faulkner and Spratling's self-published homage to their fellow bohemians, "Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles." The book contained 43 sketches of New Orleans artists, by Spratling, with captions and a short introduction by Faulkner. The title served as a rather obscure joke: Sherwood was not a Creole and neither were most of the people featured. But with Reed's commentary, these profiles serve as an entry into the world of artists and writers that dined on Decatur Street, attended masked balls, and blatantly ignored the Prohibition Act. These men and women also helped to establish New Orleans institutions such as the Double Dealer literary magazine, the Arts and Crafts Club, and Le Petit Theatre. But unlike most bohemias, the one in New Orleans existed as a whites-only affair. Though some of the bohemians were relatively progressive, and many employed African American material in their own work, few of them knew or cared about what was going on across town among the city's black intellectuals and artists. The positive developments from this French Quarter renaissance, however, attracted attention and visitors, inspiring the historic preservation and commercial revitalization that turned the area into a tourist destination. Predictably, this gentrification drove out many of the working artists and writers who had helped revive the area. As Reed points out, one resident who identified herself as an "artist" on the 1920 federal census gave her occupation in 1930 as "saleslady, real estate," reflecting the decline of an active artistic class. A charming and insightful glimpse into an era, Dixie Bohemia describes the writers, artists, poseurs, and hangers-on in the New Orleans art scene of the 1920s and illuminates how this dazzling world faded as quickly as it began.

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LSU Press

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0807147664

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9780807147665

Prison of Culture

Beyond Black Like Me

By: John Griffin

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Prison of Culture

Beyond Black Like Me

By: John Griffin

The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin’s later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin’s ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality—a view he shared with greats such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton. Enlightening and forthright, this record also focuses on Griffin’s spiritual grounding in the Catholic monastic tradition, discussing the illuminating meditations on suffering and the author’s own reflections on communication, justice, and dying.

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162

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Wings Press

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1609401476

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9781609401474

What They Wished for

American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960-2004

By: Lawrence John McAndrews

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What They Wished for

American Catholics and American Presidents, 1960-2004

By: Lawrence John McAndrews

Though divided by race, class, gender, and party, Catholics have influenced issues of war and peace, social justice, and life and death among modern presidents in a profound way, from President Kennedy's election to John Kerry's run.

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518

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University of Georgia Press

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0820346837

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9780820346830

Our Osage Hills

Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century

By: Michael Snyder,John Joseph Mathews

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Our Osage Hills

Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century

By: Michael Snyder,John Joseph Mathews

This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from “Our Osage Hills,” a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews. Signed only with the initials “J.J.M.,” Mathews’s column featured regularly in the Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital during the early 1930s. While Mathews is best known for his novel Sundown (1934), the pieces gathered in this volume reveal him to be a compelling essayist. Marked by wit and erudition, Mathews’s column not only evokes the unique beauty of the Osage prairie, but also takes on urgent political issues, such as ecological conservation and Osage sovereignty. In Our Osage Hills, Michael Snyder interweaves Mathews’s writings with original essays that illuminate their relevant historical and cultural contexts. The result isan Osage-centric chronicle of the Great Depression, a time of environmental and economic crisis for the Osage Nation and country as a whole. Drawing on new historical and biographical research, Snyder’s commentaries highlight the larger stakes of Mathews’s reflections on nature and culture and situate them within a fascinating story about Osage, Native American, and American life in the early twentieth century. In treating topics that range from sports, art, film, and literature to the realities and legacies of violence against the Osages, Snyder conveys the broad spectrum of Osage familial, social, and cultural history.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611463025

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9781611463026

Wisconsin Wild Foods

100 Recipes for Badger State Bounties

By: John Motoviloff

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Wisconsin Wild Foods

100 Recipes for Badger State Bounties

By: John Motoviloff

Eating wildfoods is an act of union, of communion, with the earth. Passing from nature's hands to your own, wildfoods are the freshest, purest, and healthiest form of sustenance around." That spirit resounds through this celebration of Wisconsin fish and game cookery. From Camp-Style Trout to Door County Duck with Cherries, from Rabbit Cacciatore to Eastern European specialties like bigos and halushki, John Motoviloff presents enticing recipes for everything in your creel or game bag. Experience the adventure of Wisconsin Wildfoods! Book jacket.

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Big Earth Publishing

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1931599599

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9781931599597

Desert Wind

By: John Rhodes

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Desert Wind

By: John Rhodes

The most dangerous elements of today's world-international terrorism, geopolitics, diplomatic intrigue, secret nuclear weapons, and a global oil crisis-are stirred into a brew that threatens global peace and security. A shadowy terrorist mastermind conceives a plot to reshape and dominate the Middle East. His weapons are subtle deception and shocking violence. As his plan unfolds, he launches ruthless terror strikes against hapless civilians with surgical precision, exploits cancerous diplomatic tensions between Europe and America, and manipulates a gullible global media. Who can find him-let alone stop him-before it is too late? Israeli intelligence agent Moshe Bechman and Major Maria Menendez of the United States Marine Corp are drawn together as they unveil the plot, pursuing leads from Afghanistan and Riyadh to Paris and Washington DC. But they are distracted from the crisis by internal demons and emotional entanglements. Will they be able to prevent the world from plunging into economic and diplomatic chaos?

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iUniverse

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0595390145

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9780595390144

Catholic Culture in the USA

In and Out of Church

By: John Portmann

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Catholic Culture in the USA

In and Out of Church

By: John Portmann

This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity, to hold onto some essential portions of religious experience in an increasingly secular world. Catholic Culture in the USA articulates what is perhaps only implicit in other scholarship with regard to how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care. John Portmann defends these Catholic dissidents and explores alternative expressions of Catholic devotion. Taking a holistic approach, the author indicates cultural change as resulting from interaction among individual rights assertions, grassroots mobilization, scholarly production and legislative innovation.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0826441386

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9780826441386

From Housing the Poor to Healing the Sick

The Changing Institution of Paris Hospitals Under the Old Regime and Revolution

By: John Frangos

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From Housing the Poor to Healing the Sick

The Changing Institution of Paris Hospitals Under the Old Regime and Revolution

By: John Frangos

The modern concept of the hospital emerged during the first years of the French Revolution as healthcare institutions were transformed from housing for the poor into institutions for the sick. Author John E. Frangos begins this study with an examination of reform efforts and concludes with a review of developments in hospital reform.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838637051

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Book's by John Pen La Farge

Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

Turn Left at the Sleeping Dog

John La Farge, a Biographical and Critical Study

John La Farge, a Biographical and Critical Study

American Artist In The South Sea

American Artist In The South Sea

Cooperation and resistance

Cooperation and resistance

Real Life at the White House

Real Life at the White House

Dixie Bohemia

Dixie Bohemia

Prison of Culture

Prison of Culture

What They Wished for

What They Wished for

Our Osage Hills

Our Osage Hills

Wisconsin Wild Foods

Wisconsin Wild Foods

Desert Wind

Desert Wind

Catholic Culture in the USA

Catholic Culture in the USA

From Housing the Poor to Healing the Sick

From Housing the Poor to Healing the Sick

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