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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 5: Language
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The fifth volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores language and dialect in the South, including English and its numerous regional variants, Native American languages, and other non-English languages spoken over time by the region's immigrant communities.
Among the more than...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 6: Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Transcending familiar categories of "black" and "white," this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture complicates and enriches our understanding of "southernness" by identifying the array of cultures that combined to shape the South. This exploration of southern ethnicities examines the...
American Wine
A Comprehensive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
The incomparable Anthony Dias Blue—the world's leading expert on American wine—has revised and updated his definitive reference on America's wine-producing regions and wines. Both entertaining and informative American Wine takes the risk out of choosing the best wines and the best values—with...
by David Levinson (Editor), Karen Christensen (Editor), Roberta Park (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
This convenient book provides fascinating information about sports throughout the world. Over 245 separate pieces written by the world's greatest authorities offer everything you could possibly want to know about hundreds of sports, including traditional sports and national games, and sporting events....
Science Fact and Science Fiction
An Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2006
Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how...
by Adolphe-Basile Routhier, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: June 8, 2015
Extrait "En février 1884, je voyageais en Sicile, jouissant avec délices de la douceur de son climat, et admirant avec enthousiasme les impérissables monuments dont la Grèce antique a doté ce charmant pays. Car c'est là qu'il faut aller, pour retrouver encore debout les plus beaux et les plus grands...
Grotte de Lascaux
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Partez à la découverte de la grotte de Lascaux avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
La découverte de Lascaux fit soudainement entrer l'art dans la préhistoire de l'humanité ; c'était en 1940, alors que les recherches préhistoriques nées en France et particulièrement développées dans...
Charles Baudelaire
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Partez à la découverte de Charles Baudelaire avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Paul Valéry, dans une conférence de 1924 dont le texte, Situation de Baudelaire, fut publié dans le recueil Variété (1924-1944), a fait du poète des Fleurs du mal le pionnier de la modernité; pour...
Georges Simenon
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Partez à la découverte de Georges Simenon avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Georges Simenon est l'auteur d'une de ces œuvres qui sont à elles seules tout un univers. Marcel Aymé n'a-t-il pas dit de lui qu'il était “un Balzac, sans les longueurs” ? En effet, comme le souligne Alain...
La Lorgnette littéraire
Dictionnaire des grands et des petits auteurs de mon temps
Language: French
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Extrait : "ABOUT (Edmond). — De l'esprit, de l'activité et du bonheur. Un type essentiellement parisien. Grâce à une polémique qui a dépassé le but, le bruit de Tolla est devenu presque un succès. Dans Les Mariages de Paris il y a un courant d'observation moderne bien suivi ; mais quelquefois...
by Professor Ivan J. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Dreams are not attempts to conceal your true feelings from the waking mind, but rather they are a window to your unconscious. They serve to guide the waking self to achieve wholeness and offer a solution to a problem you are facing in your waking life.
It is important to retell your dream in...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 16: Sports and Recreation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their "leisure," reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust
The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in...
e-Pedia: Mila Kunis
Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis (born August 14, 1983) is an American actress
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis () (born August 14, 1983) is an American actress. In 1991, at the age of seven, she moved from Ukraine to Los Angeles with her family. After being enrolled in acting...