Author : Pamela Hemenway Simpson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0816676194
A celebration of corn palaces, crop art, and butter sculpture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Author : Michael Kinerk
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2001-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Theatre owners in small towns and big cities alike built new showplaces in this style or renovated older buildings to catch the mood of the moment. Streamlined with flowing curves in gleaming metal, replete with geometric patterns and a wealth of frosted and mirrored glass, these "moderne" theatres were the height of fashion through the 1930s and 1940s, and they remain cherished landmarks.".
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
Page : 1808 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Benjamin Cummings Truman
Publisher :
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Demographic surveys
ISBN :
Author : Michael Waters
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1101908033
A unique Pocket Poets anthology of a hundred years of poetic tributes to the silver screen, from the silent film era to the present. The variety of subjects is dazzling, from movie stars to bit players, from B-movies to Bollywood, from Clark Gable to Jean Cocteau. More than a hundred poets riff on their movie memories: Langston Hughes and John Updike on the theaters of their youth, Jack Kerouac and Robert Lowell on Harpo Marx, Sharon Olds on Marilyn Monroe, Louise Erdrich on John Wayne, May Swenson on the James Bond films, Terrance Hayes on early Black cinema, Maxine Kumin on Casablanca, and Richard Wilbur on The Prisoner of Zenda. Orson Welles, Leni Riefenstahl, and Ingmar Bergman share the spotlight with Shirley Temple, King Kong, and Carmen Miranda; Bonnie and Clyde and Ridley Scott with Roshomon, Hitchcock, and Bresson. In Reel Verse, one of our oldest art forms pays loving homage to one of our newest—the thrilling art of cinema.
Author : Rebecca Rupp
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2011-10-07
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1603427864
Discover why Roman gladiators were massaged with onion juice before battle, how celery contributed to Casanova’s conquests, how peas almost poisoned General Washington, and why some seventeenth-century turnips were considered degenerate. Rebecca Rupp tells the strange and fascinating history of 23 of the world’s most popular vegetables. Gardeners, foodies, history buffs, and anyone who wants to know the secret stories concealed in a salad are sure to enjoy this delightful and informative collection.
Author : Dorothy Schwieder
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,44 MB
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1587296764
In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schweider reveals a place of fascinating grassroots politics, economic troubles and triumphs, surprising cultural diversity, and unsung natural beauty. Above all, this is the history of the people of Iowa and the lives they have led—the accomplishments of both ordinary and not-so-ordinary Iowans.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Cynthia Clampitt
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0252096878
Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.
