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Author: E. Elena Songster Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199393680 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
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A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds little notable historical significance in China. Although it has existed in the territory of present-day China since the Pliocene epoch, its widespread popularity there is not only recent, but almost sudden. In Panda Nation, E. Elena Songster links the emergence of the giant panda as a national symbol to the development of nature protection in the People's Republic of China. The panda's transformation into a national treasure exemplifies China's efforts in the mid-twentieth century to distinguish itself as a nation through government-directed science and popular nationalism. The story of the panda's iconic rise offers a striking reflection of China's recent and dramatic ascent as a nation in global status.
Author: Charles W. Darling Publisher: Lanham, Md. :$bUniversity Press of America,$cc1992. ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 432
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A revised and updated edition (first in 1983) of Darling's wonderful compilation of North American folk music in the Anglo-Scots-Irish- African tradition, with notes, discographies, bibliography, and a new section on mail-order companies specializing in folk music. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: E. Elena Songster Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199393680 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 265
Book Description
A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds little notable historical significance in China. Although it has existed in the territory of present-day China since the Pliocene epoch, its widespread popularity there is not only recent, but almost sudden. In Panda Nation, E. Elena Songster links the emergence of the giant panda as a national symbol to the development of nature protection in the People's Republic of China. The panda's transformation into a national treasure exemplifies China's efforts in the mid-twentieth century to distinguish itself as a nation through government-directed science and popular nationalism. The story of the panda's iconic rise offers a striking reflection of China's recent and dramatic ascent as a nation in global status.
Author: Leon Dallin Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages ISBN: Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 332
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[The songs are divided into these categories:] birthday; Christmas; cowboy, herding, and Plains; Hanukkah; love, sentiment, and nostalgia; lullaby and sleep, Mother Goose and nursery; nonsense, novelty, and fun; patriotic, valor, and freedom; praise, worship, and Gospel; railroad; rounds and canons; ships, sea, and water; singing games, dance, and action; spiritual and plantation; Thanksgiving; work; foreign language.-About this book.
Author: Ginger Wadsworth Publisher: Yosemite Conservancy ISBN: 1930238347 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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Coyote is separated from her mate by a rockfall and searches the park to find him. Sometimes silent, occasionally observed, always watchful, Coyote makes her way from one memorable site to another, singing a lonely song of yips and yowls. Gorgeous watercolor paintings of Yosemite illuminate this ultimately satisfying story, while the text closely observes one of the park's most familiar kind of wild resident. Young readers will discover much about coyotes, and will also delight in spotting the places they too have visited—Half Dome, Sentinel Bridge, Stoneman Meadow, the Ahwahnee, and more.
Author: William Loren Katz Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439115869 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 181
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Black women were always part of America's westward expansion. Some escaped slavery to live with the Native Americans, while others traveled west after the Civil War to settle the new lands. They came as servants and as independent pioneers struggling to make a life in the wilderness. Brief text and extraordinary photos record many of the black women who went West to find a new life for themselves and their families.
Author: Joshua Dubler Publisher: ISBN: 0190949155 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 265
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Changes in the American religious landscape enabled the rise of mass incarceration. Religious ideas and practices also offer a key for ending mass incarceration. These are the bold claims advanced by Break Every Yoke, the joint work of two activist-scholars of American religion. Once, in an era not too long past, Americans, both incarcerated and free, spoke a language of social liberation animated by religion. In the era of mass incarceration, we have largely forgotten how to dream-and organize-this way. To end mass incarceration we must reclaim this lost tradition. Properly conceived, the movement we need must demand not prison reform but prison abolition. Break Every Yoke weaves religion into the stories about race, politics, and economics that conventionally account for America's grotesque prison expansion of the last half century, and in so doing it sheds new light on one of our era's biggest human catastrophes. By foregrounding the role of religion in the way political elites, religious institutions, and incarcerated activists talk about incarceration, Break Every Yoke is an effort to stretch the American moral imagination and contribute resources toward envisioning alternative ways of doing justice. By looking back to nineteenth century abolitionism, and by turning to today's grassroots activists, it argues for reclaiming the abolition "spirit."
Author: Paul Watt Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110816174X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 265
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This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture and facilitated their consumption. Taking an international perspective, chapters focus on songsters from Ireland, North America, Australia and Britain and the varied public and private contexts in which they were used and exploited in oral and print cultures.
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