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Cheap Amusements

Author: Kathy Peiss
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439905533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
The dilemmas of work and leisure for women at the turn-of-the-century.

After Dinner Amusements: Which Would You Choose?

Author: Chronicle Books
Publisher: After Dinner Amusements
ISBN: 9781452167473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Amusements in Mathematics

Author: Henry Ernest Dudeney
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752309725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678

Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements

Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470463628
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This is the original 1983 edition and contains columns published from 1970-1972. It includes three columns on the game of Life.

With Amusement for All

Author: LeRoy Ashby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813123976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 713

Book Description
With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.

Science Experiments and Amusements for Children

Author: Charles Vivian
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486149323
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Seventy-three easy experiments — requiring only materials found at home or easily available, such as candles, coins, steel wool, etc. — illustrate basic phenomena like vacuum, simple chemical reactions, and more. All safe. Modern, well-planned.

Rough Amusements

Author: Ben Neihart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596918632
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
When A'Lelia Walker died in 1931 after a midnight snack of lobster and chocolate cake washed down with champagne, it marked the end of one of the most striking social careers in New York's history. The daughter of rags-to-riches multi-millionaire Madame C.J. Walker (the washerwoman who marketed the most successful straightening technique for African American hair), A'Lelia was America's first black poor little rich girl, using her inheritance to throw elaborate, celebrity-packed parties in her Westchester Mansion and her 136th Street would-be salon, 'Dark Tower'. In Rough Amusements, third in Bloomsbury's Urban Historicals series, Neihart takes us into the heart of A'Lelia's world-gay Harlem in the 1920s. In tracing its cultural antecedents, he delves into the sexual subculture of nineteenth-century New York, exploring mixed-race prostitution; the bachelorization of New York society; French Balls ("the most sophisticated forum for testing the boundaries of urban sexual behavior"); and The Slide (New York's most depraved nineteenth-century bar). Using A'Lelia's lavish parties as a jumping-off point, Neihart traces the line connecting Davy Crockett's world without women to Walt Whitman's boundless love of beautiful men to A'Lelia's cultivation of the racial, social, and sexual risk that defined the Harlem Renaissance.