Category: South

By Elaine Eff

Painted displays have lengthy been synonymous within the well known mind's eye with the Baltimore row condo. Picturesque, sensible, and quirky, window and door monitors decorated with scenic perspectives at the same time supply privateness and air flow in crowded neighborhoods. As an city folks artwork, painted monitors flourished in Baltimore, although they didn't originate there--precursors date to early eighteenth-century London. They have been a fixture on positive houses and companies in Europe and the US through the Victorian period. yet because the hand-crafted reveal yielded to commercial construction, the whimsical artifact of the elite sessions was once unexpectedly reworked into an merchandise for mass intake. old examples at the moment are a rarity, yet in Baltimore the people artwork continues to be a great deal alive.

The Painted monitors of Baltimore takes a primary examine this liked icon of 1 significant American urban throughout the phrases and photographs of dozens of self-taught artists who hint their creations to the able and not likely brush of 1 Bohemian immigrant, William Oktavec. In 1913, this nook grocer begun a kinfolk dynasty encouraged generations of artists who proceed his craft to this present day. The publication examines the roots of painted cord textile, the ethnic groups the place painted displays were at domestic for a century, and the way forward for this artwork form.

By Katie Elzer-Peters

By Catherine Badgley, John Kelley, David Pilbeam, Steven Ward (auth.), John R. Lukacs (eds.)

By Rudolf Anich, Jonathan Crush, Susanne Melde, John O. Oucho

This booklet bargains leading edge insights on South–South human mobility. It incorporates a choice of papers that spotlight frequently missed mobility styles between and inside areas within the worldwide South in addition to deal with severe realities confronted via South-South migrants.

This ebook completely investigates key problems with the migration debate, spanning from the terminological and contextual that means of migration and improvement. It additionally significantly examines the various key good points that human mobility within the international South is characterised via, together with the superiority of intra-regional and hard work mobility, the function of diasporas groups in constructing international locations, South-South remittances styles, the impression of environmental elements at the choice emigrate and the emerging variety of baby migrants.

By rigorously relocating the lens from the often tested South–North and North–North events to human mobility in the Southern areas of the realm, this publication questions the conventional notion of the migration paradigm. It bargains wisdom and insights that may aid to extend the controversy in addition to stimulate extra learn in this very important subject and, optimistically, advertise destiny actions geared toward the safety of migrants and their households residing within the South. hence, it's a great source for migration students, policy-makers and improvement practitioners.

By I. F. Stone

I think this ebook serves a threefold function. it's a case-study within the chilly struggle. it's also a research in battle propaganda, in easy methods to learn newspapers and reliable files in wartime. Emphasis, omission, and distortion instead of outright mendacity are the instruments of the conflict propagandists, and this booklet can help the reader to profit the best way to learn their output - and sift out the proof - for himself. eventually this ebook is what it purports to be, no longer "inside stuff" or keyhole revelations however the hidden historical past of the Korean battle, the proof to be present in the professional bills themselves if texts are rigorously tested and experiences collated. -- excerpt from author's preface

By Darwin Porter

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By Fritz Oehlschlaeger

Arguably essentially the most very important American writers operating this day, Wendell Berry is the writer of greater than fifty books, together with novels and collections of poems, brief tales, and essays. A renowned spokesman for agrarian values, Berry often defends such practices and concepts as sustainable agriculture, fit rural groups, connection to put, the pleasures of labor, and the interconnectedness of life.

In The fulfillment of Wendell Berry: The challenging background of affection, Fritz Oehlschlaeger presents a sweeping engagement with Berry's complete corpus. The publication introduces the reader to Berry's common philosophy and aesthetic via cautious attention of his essays. Oehlschlaeger can pay specific recognition to Berry as an agrarian, citizen, and patriot, and likewise examines the impression of Christianity on Berry's writings. a lot of the ebook is dedicated to full of life shut readings of Berry's brief tales, novels, and poetry. The success of Wendell Berry is a comprehensive...

By Ron McAdoo

No matter if you are looking for anything particular so as to add for your domestic decor, a valuable merchandise out of your early life, or simply out searching for the joys of it, antiquing could be a stress-free and worthwhile adventure. Take the guesswork out of these weekend tours with Antiquing in North Texas. during this thorough advisor to vintage retailers, shops, and flea markets within the North Texas zone, every one institution is rated by means of stars and buck symptoms, in keeping with caliber, volume, and cost, through longtime specialist antiquers. With handy maps and concise overviews, this e-book is a must-read for the devoted collector in addition to the start antiquer.

By Sister Mary Bernard Deggs, Virginia Meacham Gould, Charles E. Nolan

Between New Orleans' so much compelling tales is that of the Sisters of the Holy kin, which used to be based within the nineteenth century and nonetheless flourishes at the present time. The community's tricky early years are portrayed in a extraordinary account via one among the sisters, Mary Bernard Deggs. whereas Deggs didn't formally sign up for the group until eventually 1873, as a pupil on the sisters' early university she may have recognized Henriette Delille and the opposite founders. It used to be now not until eventually 1852 that the sisters have been capable of take their first reliable vows and alternate their blue percale robes for black ones, and it used to be 1873 prior to they have been authorized to put on a proper non secular behavior. This neighborhood of combined race confronted nearly insurmountable stumbling blocks, however the ladies remained unflagging of their commitment to the terrible, to schooling, and to the care of the aged and the orphaned -- to the desires of "their people."

By Andrew C. Nahm

This dictionary makes an attempt to offer a balanced and goal view of South Korea, delivering an extended viewpoint and overlaying different features of South Korean existence. Nahm contains family, political, and social occasions, overseas affairs, fiscal and cultural advancements, and the lads and girls who've stimulated the country's background. The dictionary's chronology and historic narrative, despite the fact that, conceal the full background of Korea for the good thing about readers who've very little wisdom of the general heritage of the Korean humans.