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Iapetian Society - The now disbanded Iapetian Society was a twentieth century dining and debating society situated in the locality of Bromley, Kent. The society was named after the mythical titan Iapetos.
American Antiquarian Society - The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and national research library of pre-twentieth century American History and culture. Its mission has been to collect, preserve and make available for study all printed records of what is now known as the United States of America, from first European ...
Age of Extremes - The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 is a book on modern history by Eric Hobsbawm, published in 1994. In the book, Hobsbawm comments on what he sees as the disastrous failures of state communism, capitalism, and nationalism in this period; he also offers an equally ...
Twentieth Century (film) - Twentieth Century was the title of several incarnations of a screwball comedy plot featuring an egomaniacal Broadway producer who makes a shopgirl into a star, then tries to win her back after she abandons him. Most of the action takes place aboard the ...
Society of Twentieth Century Wargamers - Non-profit society which aims to promote all aspects of wargaming 20th century periods. Membership and contact information, buying options for the society journal.
The History Guide: Lectures on Twentieth Century Europe - Series of full-text university lectures on the history of 20th century Europe, from Nietzsche's pronouncement of Godless man to the fall of Soviet Communism in 1989.
20th Century Philosophy - Parachute overview of essential thought in Twentieth Century.
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Century Culture Europe Politics Society Twentieth - Century Culture Europe Politics Society Twentieth The Western Heritage: Since 1300 (1300 to Present ... reflect the unprecedented impact of globalization on this century by featuring extensive coverage of popular culture, ...
Century Culture Europe Politics Society Twentieth - Century Culture Europe Politics Society Twentieth The Western Heritage: Since 1300 (1300 to Present ... reflect the unprecedented impact of globalization on this century by featuring extensive coverage of popular culture, ...
Society Subculture Lounge Culture - Society Subculture Lounge Culture An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto, In a second edition of ... has become essential reading for students of Japanese society, Yoshio Sugimoto uses both English society subculture ...
Century History Illustrated in Jew Twentieth - Century History Illustrated in Jew Twentieth From the Lower East Side to Hollywood A ... of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.The contribution by Jews to American ...
American Century in Music Twentieth - American Century in Music Twentieth If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder ... place? Migration as a theme looms large in twentieth-century African American life. Bernice Johnson Reagon ...
Latin American Culture and Society - Latin American Culture and Society The Second Century: U.S.--Latin American Relations Since 1889 by Mark T. Gilderhus, X The Second Century: U.S.-Latin American Relations since 1889 ...
Arts Century in Twentieth Visual - Arts Century in Twentieth Visual Visual Arts in the Twentieth Century by Edward Lucie-Smith, Visual Arts ...
Century History Illustrated in Jew Twentieth - Century History Illustrated in Jew Twentieth From the Lower East Side to Hollywood A ... of Jews on American popular culture through the twentieth century.The contribution by Jews to American ...
Grandes Compositores (Spanish) (Full Frame) : A series of documentaries showcasing the more prominent personalities from Mexico: songwriters, painters, actors, writers, wrestlers and pop culture icons. Jose Alfredo Jimenez (born January 9, 1926, in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, died November 23, 1973, in Mexico City) was a Mexican singer-songwriter in the ranchera style. His songs are considered part of Mexican musical heritage, at the level, for instance, of Woody Guthrie for American music, he composed more than 200 songs. In addition to his own hit recordings, many of his songs have been recorded successfully by singers around the Spanish-speaking world, most notably by Pedro Infante, Javier Solis, Jorge Negrete, Luis Miguel, Lola Beltran, Lucha Villa and Vicente Fernandez. He's regarded as one of the best Mexican songwriters of all time. With testimonials from his wife, brothers and sons this is the most complete documentary ever done about the greatest Mexican songwriter of all time. Salvador Flores Rivera (January 14, 1920 - August 5, 1987, Mexico City), known as "Chava" Flores, was a Mexican singer and composer. He was born in th...
The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz, ISBN 0375413316 : Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. "Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons-the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad's rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in "Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. "Sugar Street brings Mahfouz's vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one ...
The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, ISBN 055321375X : Known primarily for her classic and haunting story "The Yellow Wallpaper," Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an enormously influential American feminist and sociologist. Her early-twentieth-century writings continue to inspire writers and activists today. This collection includes selections from both her fiction and nonfiction work. In addition to the title story, there are seven short stories collected here that combine humor, anger, and startling vision to suggest how women's "place" in society should be changed to benefit all. The nonfiction selections are from Gilman's "The Man-Made World: Our Androcentric Culture and her masterpiece, "Women And Economics, which was translated into seven languages and established her international reputation as a theorist. Also included in a delightful excerpt from Gilman's utopian novel, "Herland, an acidly funny tale about three American male explorers who stumble into an all-female society and begin their odyssey by insisting, "This is a civilized country . . . there must be men." Gilman's analyses of economic and women's issues are as incisive and relevan...
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, ISBN 0375724400 : From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day" comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans" offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one's past.
Icons Of Screwball Comedy, Volume 2 (2-Disc) (Full Frame) : Crazy situations, fast and sophisticated dialogue, and conflict arising from the roles of men and women in modern society? these are the essential elements of the Screwball Comedy. "The Awful Truth", "Twentieth Century", "Holiday", "His Girl Friday" and "The More the Merrier" are prime examples of what would become a hallmark for Columbia Screwball Comedies. With superb production values, top directors (Capra, Hawks, Cukor, Stevens) and major stars, these classic films are some of the best known screwballs. For the second volume of Columbia's Screw Ball Comedies from the '30s and '40s, we return to the vaults to rediscover more classics of the beloved genre featuring two of its most glamorous leading ladies. The Legendary Irene Dunne plays a small-town author whose racy bestsellers, written under a pseudonym, bring her notoriety when a New Yorker (Melvyn Douglas) discovers her secret, in "Theodora Goes Wild". In "Together Again", Dunne plays the mayor's widow who falls for a sculptor (Charles Boyer) as he works on a statue of her late husband. Beautiful Loretta Young plays a feminist writer ...
1984 by George Orwell, ISBN 0679417397 : (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "Nineteen Eighty-Four" revealed George Orwell as one of the twentieth century's greatest mythmakers. While the totalitarian system that provoked him into writing it has since passed into oblivion, his harrowing cautionary tale of a man trapped in a political nightmare has had the opposite fate: its relevance and power to disturb our complacency seem to grow decade by decade. In Winston Smith's desperate struggle to free himself from an all-encompassing, malevolent state, Orwell zeroed in on tendencies apparent in every modern society, and made vivid the universal predicament of the individual.
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, ISBN 0380633132 : Before Brave New World... Before 1984... There was We In the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship Integral, that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason. One number, D-503, chief architect of the Integral, decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of inner space...and that disease the ancients called the soul. A page-turning SF adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, WE is the classic dystopia...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, ISBN 0553212524 : An American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention -- a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors, who find themselves prisoners inside Nemo's death ship on an underwater odyssey around the world from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon to the icy dangers of the South Pole . . .as Captain Nemo, one of the greatest villians ever created, takes his revenge on all society. More than a marvelously thrilling drama, this classic novel, written in 1870, foretells with uncanny accuracy the inventions and advanced technology of the twentieth century and has become a literary stepping-stone for generations of science fiction writers.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Scarlet Claw (Special Edition) (Full Frame) : "The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes": Set in the Victorian Age and regarded by many as the finest of the fourteen films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series, "The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes" was originally released in 1939 by Twentieth Century-Fox. Professor Moriarty (George Zucco) has at long last been brought to trial for murder. But the "Napoleon of Crime" is acquitted after the court finds lack of sufficient evidence. Moments after the judge releases the defendant, Sherlock Holmes dashes into the courtroom with proof that will destroy Moriarty's alibi and send the professor to the gallows. Alas, he is too late and the criminal mastermind is set free. Moriarty wastes no time in plotting his next crime, but in order to be successful he must divert the attention of the Great Detective. Enter Miss Ann Brandon (Ida Lupino), who calls on Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) after she and her brother receive anonymous letters containing a drawing of a man with an albatross hung around his neck, and a date written above the picture. Their father received the same baffling ...
Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah, ISBN 0767903579 : Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer. A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China.
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