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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
100 Places to See After You Die is written in the style of iconic bestselling travel guides. But instead of recommending must-see destinations in Mexico, Thailand, or Rome, this book outlines journeys through the afterlife, as dreamed up over the past 5,000 years of human history by our greatest prophets, poets, mystics, artists, and TV showrunners.
Author
Language
English
Description
More than sixty pieces exploring a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts the author's experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Prepare yourself for the kind of fun that requires safety goggles as the team takes on tales of exploding pants, steam-powered machine guns, and jailbreak methods, and blasts a host of hoaxes to smithereens.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xii, 210 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book the author shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity by marketing the South as a region still dedicated to America's pastoral traditions. She examines how southerners themselves embraced the imaginary romance of the region's past.
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
pages [34]-52 : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Information on the following motion picture theaters which opened in Knoxville between 1872 and 1920: Staub Theatre -- Edison Theatorium -- Theoto --Edison --Grand Theater -- Columbia (later the Empire)-- Crystal -- Lyceumn (later the Majestic) -- Arcade -- Bijou -- Lincoln (Knoxville's first colored theater) -- Lyric Theater (colored theater) -- Gem (colored theater) -- Bonita -- Gay (later the Strand) -- Queen -- Riviera.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
Oklahoma paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 850 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources -- fiction, Hollywood westerns, and the writings of Hollywood figures and Washington leaders -- to show how the racialist theory of Anglo-Saxon ascendance and superiority (embodied in Theodore Roosevelt's The Winning of the West), rather...
Author
Series
Lamar memorial lectures / Mercer University volume no. 29
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[1986]
Physical Desc
xii, 119 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Delve into this "delightful" (Bloomberg News) collection of Malcolm Gladwell's writings from The New Yorker, in which the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia focuses on "minor geniuses" and idiosyncratic behavior to illuminate the ways all of us organize experience.
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety...
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety...
Author
Language
English
Description
Explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters, and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of individuals from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self-delusion, and magical thinking.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
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Description
Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. And yet today, unlikeable female characters are everywhere in film, TV, and wider pop culture. For the first time ever, they are being accepted by audiences and even showered with industry awards. We are finally accepting that women are--gasp--fully fledged human beings....
20) Bellwether
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Language
English
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Description
Connie Willis has won more awards than anyone else in SF and fantasy for her work. Her skill is convincingly reinforced in this novella that combines such disparate subjects as chaos theory, sheep-raising and true love. Willis slyly lampoons society's herd mentality as she weaves the tale of a statistician and a scientist whose collaboration produces hilarious results, and may lead them to the stunning breakthrough for which they've been searching....
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