Langmead, Jon
Summary: "Ballyhoo! is a history of professional wrestling's formative period in the U.S., from roughly 1874 to 1941, and the contested interplay of wrestlers and promoters who built the "sport" as we know it. During this period, the major conventions that would define wrestling to the present day were perfected and codified, as wrestling morphed from a rough sport practiced on farms and at town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2023
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Summary: Illustrated throughout, Yanni offers a fresh and original look at the American medical establishment's century-long preoccupation with therapeutic architecture as a way to cure social ills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 725.52 YANFowler, Loretta
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.4 FOWGrinnell, George Bird
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.248 GRICrepeau, Richard C.
Summary: "The National Football League was founded in 1920 as the American Football Association. At first is struggled in the shadow of baseball as a vaguely disreputable professional sport, and had trouble competing for athletes and fans. Through a series of mergers, moves between cities, and the advent of television, the NFL gradually grew into one of the nation's most successful professional sports,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stackpole Books 2004
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Summary: "The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. In her provocative new history, Lisa Tetrault demonstrates that Stanton, Anthony, and their peers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1968
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.239 DERHavighurst, Walter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1966
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Bartal, Israel
Summary: "In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
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Summary: "The Outside Thing argues for the significance of literary and affective romance in shaping the work of three major modern lesbian writers: Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, and Djuna Barnes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 SAURedmond, Shirley-Raye
Summary: Discusses various Norse myths, with background information describing the history, geography, religious beliefs, and values of the culture that created the mythology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2012
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Summary: Looks at the art of Africa including pottery, baskets, and wood carving and explains what we can learn about the culture of Africa while examining these art forms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.6 BINBingham, Jane.
Summary: Examines the art and culture of the Indian subcontinent, discussing architecture, painting, textiles, music, writing, and other forms of artistic expression, and including photographs, a glossary, and resources for further research.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.54 BINSummary: The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2017
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Summary: This book explores the meaning, history, and purpose behind several Native American ceremonies and celebrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.004 MIKSummary: A young man's job, his relationship with his coworkers, and his desire to impress those around him mark his passage to adulthood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey Media 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.52 SANKhanduri, Kamini.
Contents: Painting -- Woodblock prints -- Sculpture -- Metalwork -- Pottery -- Lacquerware -- Architecture -- Gardens -- Calligraphy -- Theater -- Cross-currents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Raintree 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.52 KHASummary: A volume of top-selected works representing definitive modes of thought during the women's movement of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s includes pieces by such writers as Adrienne Rich, Muriel Rukeyeser, and Judy Grahn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009
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Summary: "A mysterious book and ancient magic bring together four young people in modern-day Toronto and the ancient kingdoms of Mytica"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 2006