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Exploring Community Festivals and Events
ISBN: 9781138023284 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The development of the festival and event industry has seen large scale growth and extensive government support as a result of objectives to enhance and project the image of place and leverage positive sponsorship and regeneration opportunities. As we move deeper into austerity measures prompted by economic recession, community festivals and events as a sacred or profane time of celebration can be considered even more important than ever before. This book for the first time explores the role and importance of community, culture and its impact through festivals and events. Split into two... The development of the festival and event industry has seen large scale growth and extensive government support as a result of objectives to enhanc... |
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731,67 |
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Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's Day
ISBN: 9781938228933 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet on the second Sunday in May, we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or make the brunch reservation to honor our mothers, all because of her. Anna Jarvis organized the first official Mother's Day celebration in Grafton, West Virginia in 1908 and then spent decades promoting the holiday and defending it from commercialization. She designed her Mother's Day celebration around a sentimental view of motherhood and domesticity, envisioning a day venerating the daily services and sacrifices of mothers within the home. After Mother's Day became a...
Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet on the second Sunday in May, we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or make the brunch reservatio...
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107,86 |
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A-Z Dealing with Indians: A Secret Guide
ISBN: 9781508447672 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,43 |
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America's Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories
ISBN: 9780520284722 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America s culturally important holidays Christmas, Valentine s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Thanksgiving came to be what they are today, seasonal and religious celebrations heavily influenced by modern popular culture. Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday s traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today? Is Thanksgiving a religious or secular holiday? When did we begin trick-or-treating on Halloween? Appealing and...
America s Favorite Holidays explores how five of America s culturally important holidays Christmas, Valentine s Day, Easter, Halloween, and Tha...
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107,82 |
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The Myths That Stole Christmas
ISBN: 9780931779671 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Myths that Stole Christmas, Johnson argues that Christmas has been hijacked by seven different myths-seven myths that control how people conceive of and celebrate the holiday. Myth #1: Jesus Is the Reason for the Season Myth #2: There Is a War on Christmas Myth #3: Our Christmas Traditions Are Old-Fashioned Myth #4: Christmas Spending Is Good for the Economy Myth #5: Santa Claus Is Saint Nicholas Myth #6: The Santa Claus Lie Is Harmless Myth #7: Christmas Can't Change Historically, holiday celebrations served useful social functions; they smoothed tension between social classes; they...
In The Myths that Stole Christmas, Johnson argues that Christmas has been hijacked by seven different myths-seven myths that control how people concei...
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57,76 |
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The Christmas Virtues: A Treasury of Conservative Tales for the Holidays
ISBN: 9781599475165 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the all-star cast that brought you The Seven Deadly Virtues and The Dadly Virtues comes the ultimate Christmas survival guide: The Christmas Virtues.
The Christmas season is a minefield of terrors: The family get-togethers with weird uncles, the sloppy office parties, the annoying 10-page Look-at-Us holiday letters and we haven t even mentioned the Black Friday mobs and that wretched Alvin and the Chipmunks song that plays every 90 minutes on Pandora, whether you like it or not. Rum-pah-pah-pum. And don t forget the PC police lurking around every corner... From the all-star cast that brought you The Seven Deadly Virtues and The Dadly Virtues comes the ultimate Christmas survival guide: T...
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77,99 |
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Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
ISBN: 9781477310977 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosi, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the towns' diverse inhabitants, including those whose forced or slave labor produced the colonies' mineral wealth, Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Europeans, and creoles... Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents o... |
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117,02 |
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Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
ISBN: 9781477310502 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosi, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the towns' diverse inhabitants, including those whose forced or slave labor produced the colonies' mineral wealth, Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Europeans, and creoles... Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents o... |
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365,83 |
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Detroit's Thanksgiving Day Parade
ISBN: 9781531617745 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1924, Detroit's annual Thanksgiving parade has delighted people of all ages. The parade's spectacular balloons, floats, bands, special guests, and holiday spirit have made it the most celebrated civic event in Detroit. This book commemorates the parade tradition with a look back at over 75 years of magic and enchantment. A unique assortment of historic photographs leads readers on a nostalgic journey down Woodward Avenue and through the memories and hearts of generations.
Since 1924, Detroit's annual Thanksgiving parade has delighted people of all ages. The parade's spectacular balloons, floats, bands, special guests, a...
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123,27 |
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Memorializing Motherhood, Volume 15: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's Day
ISBN: 9781938228940 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or make the brunch reservation to honour our mothers, all because of her. Memorializing Motherhood explores the complicated history of Anna Jarvis's movement to establish and control Mother's Day, as well as the powerful conceptualization of this day as both a holiday and a cultural representation of motherhood.
Few know the name Anna Jarvis, yet we mail the card, buy the flowers, place the phone call, or make the brunch reservation to honour our mothers, all ...
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87,75 |
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Exploring Community Festivals and Events
ISBN: 9781138083240 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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234,09 |
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Llewellyn's Little Book of Halloween
ISBN: 9780738758213 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This pocket-sized book shares everything you need to know to celebrate when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest.
This pocket-sized book shares everything you need to know to celebrate when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest.
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57,76 |
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Thanksgiving Word Search
ISBN: 9781949651232 / Angielski / Miękka / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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37,36 |
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Trav-El-Ations: It's about People, Not Places
ISBN: 9781989242001 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,24 |
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Cinco de Mayo: The History of the Battle of Puebla and the Famous Holiday
ISBN: 9781096285717 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,08 |
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Dad Jokes Holiday Edition: Yule Love Them!
ISBN: 9781728200200 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When it comes to bad jokes, there's snowman like dad. Brace your elves for a winter punderland of the best dad jokes to make anyone sigh, groan, or roll their eyes.
When it comes to bad jokes, there's snowman like dad. Brace your elves for a winter punderland of the best dad jokes to make anyone sigh, groan, or ro...
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30,79 |
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Last Christmas
ISBN: 9781529404234 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Meryl Streep, Emily Watson... Actors, charity workers, singers and refugees share their memories of Christmases past and their hopes for future ones.
Bill Bailey, Emilia Clarke, Olivia Colman, Caitlin Moran, Meryl Streep, Emily Watson... Actors, charity workers, singers and refugees share their mem...
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50,40 |
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We're All Going On A SUMMER HOLIDAY
ISBN: 9781800319950 / Angielski / Miękka / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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172,59 |
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Festivals and Calendars of the Ancient Near East
ISBN: 9781934309643 / Angielski / Twarda / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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204,81 |
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35th Birthday Guest Book: Gold Frame and Letters Pink Roses Floral Watercolor Theme, Best Wishes from Family and Friends to Write in, Guests Sig
ISBN: 9788395816321 / Angielski / Twarda / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,91 |
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