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ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Normal Instructor
Author: Hints
Author: Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
Book Description
Merchants Record and Show Window
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Category : Display of merchandise
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Normal Instructor and Teachers World
Author: Christmas in the Crosshairs
Author: Gerry BowlerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019049901X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
An Anglican priest hands out brass knuckles to his congregation, preparing to battle anti-Christmas fanatics. Fascists insist that the Winter Solstice is the real Christmas, while Communists stage atheist musicals outside of churches on Christmas Eve. Activists vandalize shops that start touting the holiday in October and anti-consumerists sing parody carols in shopping malls. Is there a war on Christmas? As Gerry Bowler demonstrates in Christmas in the Crosshairs, there is and always has been a war, or several wars, on Christmas. A cherished global phenomenon, Christmas is the biggest single event on the planet. For Christians it is the second-most sacred date on the calendar, but it also engages billions of people who are caught up in its commercialism, music, sentiment, travel, and frenetic busyness. Since its controversial invention in the Roman Empire, Christmas has struggled with paganism, popular culture, and fierce Christian opposition; faced abolition in Scotland and New England; and braved neglect and near-death in the 1700s, only to be miraculously reinvented in the 1800s. The twentieth century saw it banned by Bolsheviks and twisted by Nazis. Since then, special interest groups of every stripe have used the holiday's massive popularity to draw attention to their causes. Christmas in the Crosshairs tells the story of the tug-of-war over Christmas, replete with cross-dressing priests, ranting Puritans, and atheist witches. In this eye-opening history of Christmas and its opponents from the beginning up to the present day, Bowler gives us a shocking, and richly entertaining, new look at the tradition we thought we knew so well.
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Author: Elizabeth P. BemisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Kindergarten Review
Author: Cleveland Foreign Language Newspaper Digest
Author: United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Dancing in a Distant Place
Author: Isla DewarPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429937548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A warm and intelligent novel about a young teacher who throws herself into the lives of her students in the hopes of forgetting the past, only to find it returning more vividly than ever.When Iris Chisholm arrives in the tiny Scottish Highland community of Green Cairns, she's still in a state of shock--not so much from her husband's untimely death as from the discovery that he'd gambled away all their money and even their home. In addressing the problems of the children at the school where she works, Iris finds distractions from worries. Further distractions come in the shape of a honey-tongued lawyer and a gentle handyman. This is a novel with wit and heart from an author who is quickly rising in the ranks of international women's fiction authors.