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Название:Americans at Midlife: Caught between Generations
Автор: Rosalie G. Genovese
Издательство: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey
Год: 1997
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 150
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Размер: 9 MB
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Americans at Midlife is an exploration of the middle years within the framework of trends in the larger society, including longer life expectancy and an aging population; changes in marriage, divorce, and family composition; increased participation of women in the labor force; and the growth of two-income families.Major interests at midlife center around work and careers, current and future economic well-being, and planning for retirement. Other major concerns involve relationships with younger and older generations: boomerang kids who leave home and return, and aging parents, often healthy and active now, who may need care in their later years.

Название:Colonial Ch’olti’: The Seventeenth-Century Mor?n Manuscript
Автор: John S. Robertson, Danny Law, Robbie A. Haertel
Издательство: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 64
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At the time of the Spanish conquest, Ch’olti’ was spoken throughout much of the southern Maya lowlands in what is present-day Pet?n and Chiquimula, and is closely related to that spoken by the authors of the Classic Maya inscriptions. This book presents for the first time a facsimile, transcription, English and Spanish translation, and grammatical analysis of the Mor?n Manuscript, a Colonial-era document that provides the sole attestation of Ch’olti’. In addition to its value as a chronicle of the Colonial period, the Mor?n Manuscript is crucial to our understanding of the Classic Maya, particularly their language, captured in thousands of intricately carved and painted hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Название:American Musical Theater: A Chronicle
Автор: Gerald Bordman
Издательство: Williston, VT : Clearvue & SVE, Inc.
Год: 2001
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 936
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Размер: 88 MB
Язык: English

Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its original publication in 1978. In this third edition, he offers authoritative summaries on the general artistic trends and developments for each season on musical comedy, operetta, revues, and the one-man and one-woman shows from the first musical to the 1999/2000 season. With detailed show, song, and people indexes, Bordman provides a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production.

Название: Elongated Skulls Of Peru And Bolivia: The Path Of Viracocha
Автор: Brien Foerster
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Год: 2015
Формат: epub/pdf(conv.)
Страниц: 174
Размер: 26.6 Mb
Язык: English

Cranial deformation of human skulls was a phenomenon that existed on all inhabited continents, and especially the case about 2000 years ago among the elite of societies. Nowhere was it more prevalent than it the countries now known as Peru and Bolivia. In this book the author shows how many ancient South American societies, such as the Inca had elongated heads, and that this cultural practice may be traced back to mysterious ancestors with very complex genetics origins.

Название:The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics
Автор: Evelynn M. Hammonds, Rebecca M. Herzig
Издательство: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 397
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A collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships between race and science through two centuries of American history.

Название:American Writers, Supplement XV
Автор: Leonard Unger, Jay Parini
Издательство: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Charles Scribner's Sons, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 662
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This collection of critical and biographical articles covers hundreds of notable authors from the 17th century to the present day. Signed essays, 12-15 pages in length by noted scholars, provide thought-provoking insights into the lives, careers and works of American writers. Each Supplement covers approximately 20 additional authors.

Название:On the Edge of the Sea: Mural Painting at Tancah-Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Автор: Arthur G. Miller
Издательство: Dumbarton Oaks
Год: 1982
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 162
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Размер: 44 MB
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This book is divided into six chapters, with three appendices, one on the Tancah ceramic sequence by Joseph W. Ball, one on the human skeletal remains by Frank P. Saul, and one on archaeological mollusca by Anthony P. Andrews. The illustrations arc abundant, with 145 figures that include black-and-white photo- graphs, maps, plans, and line drawings, with an additional 47 color plates at the end.

Название:American Drama in the Age of Film
Автор: Zander Brietzke
Издательство: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 224
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Is theater really dead? Does the theater, as its champions insist, really provide a more intimate experience than film? If so, how have changes in cinematic techniques and technologies altered the relationship between stage and film? What are the inherent limitations of representing three-dimensional spaces in a two-dimensional one, and vice versa?   American Drama in the Age of Film examines the strengths and weaknesses of both the dramatic and cinematic arts to confront the standard arguments in the film-versus-theater debate. Using widely known adaptations of ten major plays, Brietzke seeks to highlight the inherent powers of each medium and draw conclusions not just about how they differ, but how they ought to differ as well. He contrasts both stage and film productions of, among other works, David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Sam Shepard’s True West, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Margaret Edson’s Wit, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, and August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.

Название:The Rhode Island State Constitution: A Reference Guide (Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States)
Автор: Patrick T. Conley, Robert G. Flanders
Издательство: Westport, Conn. : Praeger
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 353
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The historical evolution of the Rhode Island Constitution is outlined in this comprehensive volume. Each section of the Rhode Island Consitiution is analyzed completely. The authors also offer a detalied historigraphical essay as a guide to further research and study.

Название:Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840–1920 (City of Promises)
Автор: Annie Polland, Daniel Soyer
Издательство: NYU Press
Год: 2013
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 543
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New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America's greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume set of original research, pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world.