Author: Editors of Chase's
Publisher: Bernan Press
ISBN: 1598888595
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s datebook, Chase's is the definitive day-by-day resource of what America and the wider world are celebrating and commemorating. Founded in 1957 on a reputation for accuracy and comprehensiveness, this annual publication has become the must-have reference used by experts and professionals for more than fifty years. From celebrity birthdays to historical anniversaries, from astronomical phenomena to national awareness days, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the one-stop shop for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. The 2017 Edition of Chase's Calendar of Events brings you information about: The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses The 150th anniversary of the Dominion of Canada The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution The 100th anniversary of splitting the atom The 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birth anniversary and much more!
Chase's Calendar of Events 2017
Author: Editors of Chase's
Publisher: Bernan Press
ISBN: 1598888595
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s datebook, Chase's is the definitive day-by-day resource of what America and the wider world are celebrating and commemorating. Founded in 1957 on a reputation for accuracy and comprehensiveness, this annual publication has become the must-have reference used by experts and professionals for more than fifty years. From celebrity birthdays to historical anniversaries, from astronomical phenomena to national awareness days, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the one-stop shop for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. The 2017 Edition of Chase's Calendar of Events brings you information about: The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses The 150th anniversary of the Dominion of Canada The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution The 100th anniversary of splitting the atom The 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birth anniversary and much more!
Publisher: Bernan Press
ISBN: 1598888595
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Find out what's going on any day of the year, anywhere across the globe! The world’s datebook, Chase's is the definitive day-by-day resource of what America and the wider world are celebrating and commemorating. Founded in 1957 on a reputation for accuracy and comprehensiveness, this annual publication has become the must-have reference used by experts and professionals for more than fifty years. From celebrity birthdays to historical anniversaries, from astronomical phenomena to national awareness days, from award ceremonies and sporting events to religious festivals and carnivals, Chase's is the one-stop shop for everything that is happening now or is worth remembering from the past. The 2017 Edition of Chase's Calendar of Events brings you information about: The 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses The 150th anniversary of the Dominion of Canada The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution The 100th anniversary of splitting the atom The 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birth anniversary and much more!
The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History
Author: W. Rubinstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230304664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1083
Book Description
This authoritative and comprehensive guide to key people and events in Anglo-Jewish history stretches from Cromwell's re-admittance of the Jews in 1656 to the present day and contains nearly 3000 entries, the vast majority of which are not featured in any other sources.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230304664
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1083
Book Description
This authoritative and comprehensive guide to key people and events in Anglo-Jewish history stretches from Cromwell's re-admittance of the Jews in 1656 to the present day and contains nearly 3000 entries, the vast majority of which are not featured in any other sources.
Boom's Blues
Author: Wim Verbei
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496812530
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G. Boom (1920–1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the Netherlands was introduced to African American blues music and describes the equally dramatic and peculiar friendship that existed between Boom and jazz critic and musicologist Will Gilbert, who worked for the Kultuurkamer during World War II and had been charged with the task of formulating the Nazi's Jazzverbod, the decree prohibiting the public performance of jazz. Boom's Blues ends with the annotated and complete text of Boom's The Blues, providing the international world at last with an English version of the first book-length study of the blues. At the end of the 1960s, a series of thirteen blues paperbacks edited by Paul Oliver for the London publisher November Books began appearing. One manuscript landed on his desk that had been written in 1943 by a then twenty-three-year-old Amsterdammer, Frank (Frans) Boom. Its publication, to which Oliver gave the title Laughing to Keep from Crying, was announced on the back jacket of the last three Blues Paperbacks in 1971 and 1972. Yet it never was published and the manuscript once more disappeared. In October 1996, Dutch blues expert and publicist Verbei went in search of the presumably lost manuscript and the story behind its author. It only took him a couple of months to track down the manuscript, but it took another ten years to glean the full story behind the extraordinary Frans Boom, who passed away in 1953 in Indonesia.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496812530
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Boom's Blues stands as both a remarkable biography of J. Frank G. Boom (1920–1953) and a recovery of his incredible contribution to blues scholarship originally titled The Blues: Satirical Songs of the North American Negro. Wim Verbei tells how and when the Netherlands was introduced to African American blues music and describes the equally dramatic and peculiar friendship that existed between Boom and jazz critic and musicologist Will Gilbert, who worked for the Kultuurkamer during World War II and had been charged with the task of formulating the Nazi's Jazzverbod, the decree prohibiting the public performance of jazz. Boom's Blues ends with the annotated and complete text of Boom's The Blues, providing the international world at last with an English version of the first book-length study of the blues. At the end of the 1960s, a series of thirteen blues paperbacks edited by Paul Oliver for the London publisher November Books began appearing. One manuscript landed on his desk that had been written in 1943 by a then twenty-three-year-old Amsterdammer, Frank (Frans) Boom. Its publication, to which Oliver gave the title Laughing to Keep from Crying, was announced on the back jacket of the last three Blues Paperbacks in 1971 and 1972. Yet it never was published and the manuscript once more disappeared. In October 1996, Dutch blues expert and publicist Verbei went in search of the presumably lost manuscript and the story behind its author. It only took him a couple of months to track down the manuscript, but it took another ten years to glean the full story behind the extraordinary Frans Boom, who passed away in 1953 in Indonesia.
Elizabeth
Author: Jennie Bond
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780762103690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Presented in lavish detail, this book is a picture-filled tribute to Britain's reigning queen, who will be celebrating the Golden Jubilee of her monarchy in 2002. 200+ bandw and full-color photos.
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
ISBN: 9780762103690
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Presented in lavish detail, this book is a picture-filled tribute to Britain's reigning queen, who will be celebrating the Golden Jubilee of her monarchy in 2002. 200+ bandw and full-color photos.
Salvaged Pages
Author: Alexandra Zapruder
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210833
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: viewing the Holocaust through the eyes of youth “Zapruder . . . has done a great service to history and the future. Her book deserves to become a standard in Holocaust studies classes. . . . These writings will certainly impress themselves on the memories of all readers.”—Publishers Weekly “These extraordinary diaries will resonate in the reader’s broken heart for many days and many nights.”—Elie Wiesel This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation. This seminal National Jewish Book Award winner preserves the impressions, emotions, and eyewitness reportage of young people whose accounts of daily events and often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust. The second paperback edition includes a new preface by Alexandra Zapruder examining the book’s history and impact. Simultaneously, a multimedia edition incorporates a wealth of new content in a variety of media, including photographs of the writers and their families, images of the original diaries, artwork made by the writers, historical documents, glossary terms, maps, survivor testimony (some available for the first time), and video of the author teaching key passages. In addition, an in-depth, interdisciplinary curriculum in history, literature, and writing developed by the author and a team of teachers, working in cooperation with the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, is now available to support use of the book in middle- and high-school classrooms.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300210833
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: viewing the Holocaust through the eyes of youth “Zapruder . . . has done a great service to history and the future. Her book deserves to become a standard in Holocaust studies classes. . . . These writings will certainly impress themselves on the memories of all readers.”—Publishers Weekly “These extraordinary diaries will resonate in the reader’s broken heart for many days and many nights.”—Elie Wiesel This stirring collection of diaries written by young people, aged twelve to twenty-two years, during the Holocaust has been fully revised and updated. Some of the writers were refugees, others were in hiding or passing as non-Jews, some were imprisoned in ghettos, and nearly all perished before liberation. This seminal National Jewish Book Award winner preserves the impressions, emotions, and eyewitness reportage of young people whose accounts of daily events and often unexpected thoughts, ideas, and feelings serve to deepen and complicate our understanding of life during the Holocaust. The second paperback edition includes a new preface by Alexandra Zapruder examining the book’s history and impact. Simultaneously, a multimedia edition incorporates a wealth of new content in a variety of media, including photographs of the writers and their families, images of the original diaries, artwork made by the writers, historical documents, glossary terms, maps, survivor testimony (some available for the first time), and video of the author teaching key passages. In addition, an in-depth, interdisciplinary curriculum in history, literature, and writing developed by the author and a team of teachers, working in cooperation with the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves, is now available to support use of the book in middle- and high-school classrooms.
Supercentenarians
Author: Heiner Maier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642115209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The International Database on Longevity (IDL) is the result of this ongoing effort. The IDL contains exhaustive information on validated cases of supercentenarians (people 110 years and older) and allows unbiased estimates of mortality after age 110. The main finding is remarkable: human mortality after age 110 is flat at a probability of death of 50% per year. The sixteen chapters of this book discuss age validation of exceptional longevity, data on supercentenarians in a series of countries, structure and contents of the IDL, and statistical analysis of human mortality after age 110. Several chapters include short accounts of specific supercentenarians that add life to demographic research.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642115209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? This book describes a concerted, international research effort undertaken with the goal of establishing a database that allows the best possible description of the mortality trajectory beyond the age of 110. The International Database on Longevity (IDL) is the result of this ongoing effort. The IDL contains exhaustive information on validated cases of supercentenarians (people 110 years and older) and allows unbiased estimates of mortality after age 110. The main finding is remarkable: human mortality after age 110 is flat at a probability of death of 50% per year. The sixteen chapters of this book discuss age validation of exceptional longevity, data on supercentenarians in a series of countries, structure and contents of the IDL, and statistical analysis of human mortality after age 110. Several chapters include short accounts of specific supercentenarians that add life to demographic research.
Contemporary Authors
The Birthday Almanac
Author: Claire Saunders
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN: 0711258791
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Have you ever wondered about the astrological significance of your birthday? Where the stars and planets align in the sky when we are born helps shape our personality and strengths. What does your star sign mean? What are your birth crystals, flowers and lucky talismans? Find out about the folk rituals associated with the month of your birth and their significance. This book will uncover the details of your place in the cosmos by looking to the stars and help you celebrate yours and friends birthday in harmony with your astrological calendar.
Publisher: Wide Eyed Editions
ISBN: 0711258791
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Have you ever wondered about the astrological significance of your birthday? Where the stars and planets align in the sky when we are born helps shape our personality and strengths. What does your star sign mean? What are your birth crystals, flowers and lucky talismans? Find out about the folk rituals associated with the month of your birth and their significance. This book will uncover the details of your place in the cosmos by looking to the stars and help you celebrate yours and friends birthday in harmony with your astrological calendar.
The New York Times 1998 Almanac
Author: John W. Wright
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140514056
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
-- The government, population, and history of every state in the United States -- The economy, population, and brief history of every country in the world -- The winners of the Academy Award in every major category since its inception in 1928 -- The names and lifetime statistics of every player in the Baseball Hall of Fame -- All Nobel laureates, and why they won their prizes -- Every endangered species in the United States, and their habitats -- Sales figures for every Fortune 500 company -- Obituaries of leading world figures -- The astronauts and accomplishments of every space flight in history The New York Times Almanac brings together more information on more subjects -- and in a more readable manner -- than any other almanac on the market. Up-to-date, with key facts and figures organized in an easily accessible fashion and set in historical context, this is the first choice for students, journalists, and researchers -- for anyone who needs timely, accurate information about the United States and other nations around the globe. Drawing on the unmatched resources of The New York Times, this volume gives more in-depth news than rival almanacs, and provides detailed coverage of many subjects omitted from other fact-finders.
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN: 9780140514056
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
-- The government, population, and history of every state in the United States -- The economy, population, and brief history of every country in the world -- The winners of the Academy Award in every major category since its inception in 1928 -- The names and lifetime statistics of every player in the Baseball Hall of Fame -- All Nobel laureates, and why they won their prizes -- Every endangered species in the United States, and their habitats -- Sales figures for every Fortune 500 company -- Obituaries of leading world figures -- The astronauts and accomplishments of every space flight in history The New York Times Almanac brings together more information on more subjects -- and in a more readable manner -- than any other almanac on the market. Up-to-date, with key facts and figures organized in an easily accessible fashion and set in historical context, this is the first choice for students, journalists, and researchers -- for anyone who needs timely, accurate information about the United States and other nations around the globe. Drawing on the unmatched resources of The New York Times, this volume gives more in-depth news than rival almanacs, and provides detailed coverage of many subjects omitted from other fact-finders.
The Teachers Calendar, School Year 2010-2011
Author: Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071743294
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The most authoritative and comprehensive calendar reference for teachers—now with online bonuses! Offers teachers a wealth of innovative ideas for lessons, bulletin boards, reports, and school calendars. New to this edition is a blog and podcast, which will add expanded content and more specific lesson plan ideas on an up-to-date basis. The Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events (Chicago, IL) is an in-house staff that compiles The Teachers Calendar.
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071743294
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
The most authoritative and comprehensive calendar reference for teachers—now with online bonuses! Offers teachers a wealth of innovative ideas for lessons, bulletin boards, reports, and school calendars. New to this edition is a blog and podcast, which will add expanded content and more specific lesson plan ideas on an up-to-date basis. The Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events (Chicago, IL) is an in-house staff that compiles The Teachers Calendar.