Acting in the night [[electronic resource] ] : Macbeth and the places of the Civil War / / Alexander Nemerov |
Autore | Nemerov Alexander |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
Disciplina | 792.0973/09034 |
Soggetto topico |
Theater and society - Washington (D.C.) - History - 19th century
Theater - Washington (D.C.) - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
1863
19th century abraham lincoln acting american art american history american life american politics art historians civil war buffs civil war era civil war democracy discussion books drama dramatic performance dramatic english drama historical performances literary criticism live arts macbeth performing arts play performance poetic consciousness politics shakespeare technology theatre tragedy united states wallace stevens washington dc |
ISBN |
1-283-27728-X
9786613277282 0-520-94744-4 |
Classificazione |
15.85
18.05 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Drop That Dyes the Seas -- 1. A Stone's Throw: Charlotte Cushman -- 2. The Flame of Place: Abraham Lincoln -- 3. The Glass Case: Interior Life in Washington, D.C. -- 4. Acoustic Shadows: The Battle of Bristoe Station -- 5. Center of Echoes: Castle Murray, Fauquier County, Virginia -- 6. Ghosts: The Death of Colonel Thomas Ru‹n, October 17, 1863 -- 7. Sound and Fury: Nature in Virginia -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791880103321 |
Nemerov Alexander
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Alexander the Great and the mystery of the elephant medallions / / Frank L. Holt |
Autore | Holt Frank Lee |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. : , : University of California Press, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 198 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 737/.22/0938 |
Collana | Hellenistic culture and society |
Soggetto topico |
Coins, Ancient
Coins, Greek Elephants in numismatics |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghanistan
alexander the great ancient history ancient medallions battle of the hydaspes river biographical biography conquests discussion books elephant medallions european history hellenistic culture hellenistic period hellenistic society historians historical perspective india iraq megalomania myths and legends nonfiction numismatics popular history rajah porus retrospective supernatural success theology of war war warfare |
ISBN |
1-282-35812-X
9786612358128 0-520-93878-X 1-59734-457-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ONE. Man of Mystery -- TWO. A Treasure -- THREE. Picking a Fight -- FOUR. Whose Pachyderm, Whole or Halved? -- FIVE. Another Treasure -- SIX. A Closer Look -- SEVEN. A Dark and Stormy Night -- APPENDIX A. THE PUBLISHED ELEPHANT MEDALLIONS -- APPENDIX B. SOME POSSIBLE FORGERIES OF THE LARGE MEDALLION -- APPENDIX C. THE 1973 IRAQ HOARD -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777369003321 |
Holt Frank Lee
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The Anatomy of Harpo Marx / / Wayne Koestenbaum |
Autore | Koestenbaum Wayne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
Disciplina |
792.702/8092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Comedians - United States
Comedians -- United States -- Biography Marx, Harpo Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964 Motion picture actors and actresses - United States Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography Music, Dance, Drama & Film Drama |
Soggetto non controllato |
barbra streisand
beauty book club reads books for movie lovers bookstore finds discussion books drama easy to read entertainment industry film and television heart racing how to be funny how to make a comedy film human struggles insightful analysis learning while reading leisure reads life struggle lively love marx brothers nonfiction stories page turner pleasure reading relatable characters romance satisfying endings the art of acting vacation reads walter benjamin what is method acting |
ISBN |
1-280-11654-4
9786613520838 0-520-95198-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Early Ecstatic Emptiness -- II. Later Astonishments -- III. The Idiot Tumbles Back to the Beginning of Time |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790015303321 |
Koestenbaum Wayne
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Audiotopia [[electronic resource] ] : music, race, and America / / Josh Kun |
Autore | Kun Josh |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (321 p.) |
Disciplina | 782.42164/0973/0904 |
Collana | American Crossroads |
Soggetto topico |
Popular music - United States - History and criticism
Music - Social aspects - United States Multiculturalism - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
america
american culture american identity american studies art and music artists bronx critical analysis cultural studies discussion books ethnic demographic studies ethnic differences ethnic minorities havana hip hop klezmer latin rock literary movements los angeles modern history music and culture music historians music history music lovers music studies music nonfiction popular music race issues racial history racial issues retrospective us borders |
ISBN |
1-282-76321-0
9786612763212 1-4237-1729-5 0-520-93864-X 1-59875-582-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Strangers among Sounds -- One. Against Easy Listening -- Two. The Yiddish Are Coming -- Three. Life According to the Beat -- Four. Basquiat's Ear, Rahsaan's Eye -- Five. I,Too, Sing América -- Six. Rock's Reconquista -- Conclusion: La Misma Canción -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783318803321 |
Kun Josh
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Autobiography of Mark Twain : Volume 1, Reader's Edition / / Mark Twain; Harriet E. Smith |
Autore | Twain Mark <1835-1910, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (455 p.) |
Disciplina | 817 |
Soggetto topico |
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
19th century literature
american history american literature author autobiographies autobiography memoir autobiography of mark twain book collector books book lover books books about mark twain classical writing coffee table books discussion books easy to read english class books family of mark twain famous american authors history of mark twain learning while reading literary criticism mark twain fan books mark twain ideas mark twain life pass on books remastered book sam clemens |
ISBN |
1-280-11678-1
9786613521071 0-520-95244-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- An Early Attempt -- My Autobiography [Random Extracts from It] -- The Latest Attempt -- The Final (and Right) Plan -- Preface. As from the Grave -- Here begin the Florentine Dictations -- Now comes the New York dictation, beginning January 9, 1906 -- Appendix: Preliminary manuscripts and dictations -- Samuel L. Clemens: A Brief Chronology -- Family Biographies -- References -- Excerpt from Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778938303321 |
Twain Mark <1835-1910, >
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Becoming sinners [[electronic resource] ] : Christianity and moral torment in a Papua New Guinea society / / by Joel Robbins |
Autore | Robbins Joel <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (413 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.6/09957/7 |
Collana | Ethnographic studies in subjectivity |
Soggetto topico | Christianity - Papua New Guinea - Urapmin |
Soggetto genere / forma | Ethnography |
Soggetto non controllato |
1960s
anthropology baptist missionaries christian converts christian culture christian life christian missionaries christianity cultural anthropologists cultural change cultural perspective discussion books good and evil human condition melanesian society moral torment morality and sin nonfiction papua new guinea society papua new guinea rapid change religious experiences religious studies remote tribe sinfulness social anthropology social change theoretical urapmin |
ISBN |
9786612762888
1-282-76288-5 0-520-93708-2 1-59734-483-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part one : becoming sinners -- From salt to the law : contact and the early colonial period -- Christianity and the colonial transformation of regional relations -- Revival, second stage conversion, and the localization of the Urapmin Church -- Part two : living in sin -- Contemporary Urapmin in millennial time and space -- Willfulness, lawfulness, and Urapmin morality -- Desire and its discontents : free time and Christian morality -- Rituals of redemption and technologies of the self -- Millennialism and the contest of values -- Christianity, cultural change, and the moral life of the hybrid. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783388003321 |
Robbins Joel <1961->
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Before Wilde [[electronic resource] ] : sex between men in Britain's age of reform / / Charles Upchurch |
Autore | Upchurch Charles <1969-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.76/62094109034 |
Soggetto topico |
Gay men - Great Britain - History
Gay men - Great Britain - Social conditions Men - Sexual behavior - Great Britain - History - 19th century Homosexuality - Great Britain - History - 19th century Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
age of reform
british police british society changing perceptions discussion books early 19th century early victorian period economic changes england family changes great britain historical account history buffs history of sexuality homosexuality law changes literary national media nonfiction oscar wilde perceptions of sex political changes queer theory same sex attraction same sex desire sex between men social perspective western sexuality |
ISBN | 0-520-94358-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Understandings -- Part Two. Early Nineteenth-Century Changes -- Part Three. Implications -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779756703321 |
Upchurch Charles <1969->
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Building home [[electronic resource] ] : Howard F. Ahmanson and the politics of the American dream / / Eric John Abrahamson |
Autore | Abrahamson Eric John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
Disciplina |
332.3/2092
B |
Soggetto topico |
Mortgage loans - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Savings and loan associations - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century American Dream - History - 20th century |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century america
biographical book club books books for history lovers building your own company california history chronicles ahmanson discussion books entrepreneurship history of the american dream history of western united states history how to manage a business how to start a business howard ahmanson industrial history leisure reads managed economy political economy risk management southern california success in postwar america successful entrepreneurs urban history vacation books |
ISBN |
1-283-86030-9
0-520-95342-8 |
Classificazione | HIS036140 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Father as Mentor -- 2. Among the Lotus Eaters -- 3. Undertaker at a Plague -- 4. The Common Experience -- 5. Building Home -- 6. Scaling Up -- 7. Home and the State -- 8. Political Economy -- 9. Big Business -- 10. The Crest of a New Wave -- 11. Southland Patrician -- 12. Influence -- 13. Short of Domestic Bliss -- 14. Breakdown of Consensus -- 15. Crisis of the Managed Economy -- 16. A New Way of Life -- 17. A Personal Epic -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786583103321 |
Abrahamson Eric John
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The Catholic revolution [[electronic resource] ] : new wine, old wineskins, and the Second Vatican Council / / Andrew Greeley |
Autore | Greeley Andrew M. <1928-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 282/.73/09045 |
Soggetto topico | Councils and synods, Ecumenical |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
america american catholicism american catholics bishops catholic church catholic life catholic revolution catholicism christian christianity church history church leadership church reform clergy comparative religion discussion books nonfiction preachers religion and spirituality religious historians religious history religious scholars religious studies roman curia second vatican council theology vatican council ii |
ISBN |
1-282-35811-1
9781417510633 9786612358111 0-520-93877-1 1-59734-526-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A Catholic revolution -- The "confident" church -- The wineskins burst -- What happened? -- "Effervescence" spreads from the council to the world -- How do they stay? -- New rules, new prophets, and beige Catholicism -- Only in America? -- Why they stay -- Priests -- Recovering the Catholic heritage -- Religious education and beauty -- Authority as charm -- Liturgists and the laity. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780448203321 |
Greeley Andrew M. <1928->
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Catholic Vietnam [[electronic resource] ] : a church from empire to nation / / Charles Keith |
Autore | Keith Charles <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 282/.597 |
Collana | From Indochina to Vietnam: Revolution and War in a Global Perspective |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian history
books about religion books for history lovers catholic church catholic history christianity colonial modern vietnam discussion books easy to read engaging europe and asia european history french colonial rule history of christianity home school history books leisure reads nonfiction page turner post colonial vietnam religion and politics religion in asia religious studies southeast asia vatican vietnam history vietnamese catholics vietnamese culture vietnamese politics |
ISBN |
1-283-59444-7
0-520-95382-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. A Church between the Nguyễn and the French -- 2. A Colonial Church Divided -- 3. The Birth of a National Church -- 4. Vietnamese Catholic Tradition on Trial -- 5. A National Church Experienced -- 6. The Culture and Politics of Vietnamese Catholic Nationalism -- 7. A National Church in Revolution and War -- Epilogue. A National Church Divided -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Altri titoli varianti | Church from empire to nation |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785788103321 |
Keith Charles <1977->
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