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In The People’s Zion, Joel Cabrita tells the transatlantic story of Southern Africa’s largest popular religious movement, Zionism. It began in Zion City, a utopian community established in 1900 just north of Chicago. The Zionist church, which promoted faith healing, drew tens of thousands of marginalized Americans from…
The gripping true tale of a devastating plane crash, the investigation into its causes, and the race to prevent similar disasters in the future.
On the afternoon of April 4, 1977, Georgia housewife Sadie Burkhalter Hurst looked out her front door to see a frantic stranger running toward her, his clothes ablaze, and…
The concept of the Nordic model played an important role in the ideological and political rejuvenation of the Northern and Southern European political left from the 1970s to the 1990s.
In a witness seminar organized by the Centre for Nordic Studies at Helsinki University, the Institute for Contemporary History at…
Lonely Planet’s Southern Italy is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Hike to the top of Mount Etna, take an epic road trip along the Amalfi Coast and indulge in an authentic Neapolitan pizza; all…
Lonely Planet’s Southern Italy is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Explore ghostly Pompeii, island-hop Sicily’s Aeolian Islands, and devour pizza on an ancient Neapolitan street; all with…
What makes a garden regionally appropriate? Fifteen private gardens
designed by leading landscape architects answer that question for arid Southern California by directly addressing the climate, landscape, and
culture they inhabit. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious
or low budget, these resilient outdoor…
Join fine-art photographer David Skernick as he explores the rambling back roads of Southern California. This timeless tribute to the natural landscape captures the astonishing beauty of the Sierras and Death Valley, giant redwoods at Sequoia National Park, vast deserts, central valleys, and the Pacific coastline.…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Tour New Jersey’s southern shore. Comprised of fifteen beach communities including Atlantic City, Cape May, Wildwood, Ocean City, Stone Harbor, Avalon, Sea Isle, Margate, Ventor, and Brigantine. Gently sloping white sand beaches appear on 268 color postcards that display the famous boardwalk of Wildwood and the…
The roots of Bluegrass music developed for hundreds of years with dulcimers, fiddles, banjos, jew harps, and mouth bows from the Appalachian mountain region of America. Here is the illustrated story of each instrument and their use in the isolated hills to create a truly American style of music .
The decoy and waterfowling history of this important region along the south Atlantic coast is thoroughly presented in this comprehensive study. Decoys of the eastern shore of Virginia and North Carolina are among the most collectible in the decoy market today. Much of the history of east coast gunning clubs began in…
This is perhaps the country’s most authentic and colorful book on American baskets and the interesting people who made them. Although this in-depth people-oriented book is centered on basketry in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and the surrounding area, basketmaking in Europe, New England,…
The South is known for its preserved mansions but many more beautiful twenty-first century houses preserve that same sense of ambiance. In over 400 full-color images, twenty Southern design professionals with varying architectural styles exhibit their award-winning work, ranging from classical Georgian symmetry to…
History has shown an unsettled face in the Southern Crescent: a ghostly face. Take a eerie tour to learn about myths, legends, and ghost stories haunting this historic region! Read about Baker Bob, a ghost with a fetish for telephone misuse, or poltergeist George, who throws regular tantrums. Join a female apparition…
Join more than 30 fine-art photographers on a tour of Southern Oregon’s charming small towns, natural beauty, and thrilling outdoor activities. The Umpqua Valley’s waterfalls, the emerald-blue Illinois River, Jacksonville’s Britt Music Festival, and world-class vineyards in the Rogue and Applegate…
Eerie footsteps sound in thin air. Disembodied voices float down empty staircases. Apparitions peer from lace-covered windows. Welcome to the haunted Southern California coast. Meet inhabitants of the Olivas Adobe in Ventura County where icy hands pull at your clothes; glimpse ghostly lights at Smugglers Beach as they…
In more than 270 color images, hundreds of quilts, juxtaposed for the first time, celebrate and explore the South’s rich quilting history. Quilt expert Mary W. Kerr joins 13 other textile historians to show why southern
quilts have a distinctiveness setting them apart, including factors like their patterns, use…
Take a photographic journey through Southern California and step back in time to visit fast food prototypes, drive-ins, bowling alley snack bars, space age coffee shops, roadside cafes, and fine dining destinations. Enjoy photo excursions to historic landmarks like the Dal Rae and Dresden Restaurant, the last remaining…
The Kentucky rifle has become a famous part of the history of American development, and here is the story of its own development. The people of the isolated mountain valleys of Appalachia tell how they make and use the Kentucky and related firearms and the supplies that go with them, both in the past and today as…
Take a fresh look at the magical and insightful compositions of artists living in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. Here, 100 living artists delineate their creative expression through their personal stories and inspirations, along with several examples of their…
Grab your camera and flashlight as you travel into one of the most haunted regions of New York State, the Southern Tier. Learn of a deformed figure that wanders Holland Road in Angola looking for peace; and walk the cursed land in Hinsdale, where evil energy has reached out to bring ruin to the lives of many. Find out…
Descend into three of the most haunted cities in Southern Arizona: Bisbee, Tombstone, and Tucson. Discover Bisbee’s Lady in White ghost who saved the lives of three children, Tombstone’s Swamper who hid his silver and is bound to keep others from finding it, and the ghost of a woman who smells like roses in…
This beautifully photographed book offers a fresh look at Southern California’s roadside eateries. Embark on a road trip to out-of-the-way Route 66 landmarks, futuristic Googie coffee shops, and exotic Polynesian paradises. Part-homage and part-guidebook, this photo essay captures the flavor and character of…
Southern California has it all! Its rich diversity in climate, terrain, people, opportunities, and ideas cannot be overstated. With an open mind, Southern California welcomes the new, the wacky, and the absurd just as much as the brilliant and traditional. In more than 220 spectacular images and captions bursting at…
Kategorier: Alternativa trossystem Ande, kropp och själ Filosofi och religion Hälsa, relationer och personlig utveckling Häxeri och trolldom Häxkonst och wicca Mystik, magi och det ockulta Ockulta studier Religion och tro
Italian Witchcraft (previously titled Ways of the Strega) by respected author Raven Grimassi is more than just a book about Witchcraft. It is a complete Book of Shadows. In it you will find the history of this ancient tradition, its legends and myths, as well as the rituals and rites that you can do today. You can be a…
The New York Times Best Seller #1 April LibraryReads PickApril Indie Next Pick Goodreads Big Book of Spring Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this ’90s-set horror novel about a women’s book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town, perfect for murderinos and fans of…
Kategorier: Högre utbildning och vidareutbildning Matematik och naturvetenskap Naturvetenskap Pedagogik Samhälle och samhällsvetenskap Vetenskapspolitik och forskningsfinansiering
The European Spallation Source (ESS) is by far the largest Big Science facility ever built in Sweden. First proposed in the early 1990s, it took until 2015 before construction could start, and when it did, it was at an unlikely place. Lund, Sweden, a small village in the outskirts of Europe, is neither a neutron…
Lonely Planet’s Southern Italy is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Island-hop around the Aeolian Islands, soak up the atmosphere of the Amalfi Coast and explore ghostly Pompeii – all with your trusted travel companion. Get…
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a good-bye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has…
"This book is not just my love letter to reindeer, nature, and Southern Sámi cuisine. It is also my way of rectifying the wrongs done to my paternal grandmother and everyone else who belonged to the generation of Sámi deprived of the opportunity to be proud of their knowledge of nature, their culture, their…
arry Gifford’s three Southern Gothic novels, Night People, Arise and Walk, and Baby Cat-Face, may be among the weirdest and best of Gifford’s novels for their sheer velocity–the copious, raw violence; the invented religions and gods that make people do things; and how the horrors somehow…
Fotografen Nils Carmel har under ca 2 år haft kameran med sig dygnet runt genom alla årstider
på Djurgården. Detta har resulterat i en fotobok, där naturen, djurlivet och de många sevärdheterna
som hör området till har förevigats. Många av bilderna är tagna under tider när Djurgården
inte är så välbesökt. Boken…
Youth in particular engaged massively, visibly, loudly and dramatically around demands to be involved and included in their countries’ development processes. This yearbook taps into the less visible and dramatic, but nevertheless highly dynamic and influential, process of media development and the enlargement of…
Southern Bastards, Kebabträume är ett försök att börja skriva om ett samhälle som slutat andas. Det är en essä som tar sin början i reflektioner över tre seriealbum om Alabama, för att sedan skifta fokus till det svenska klassamhället som vi lever i. Om vad det innebär att bli bortsorterad, att bara finnas till för…
Kategorier: Sport, idrott och friluftsliv
English edition! The pilot Landsort –Skanör covers the coastal area from Landsort and the whole southern coast down to Skåne, a total of 400 nautical miles. The pilot also includes the island of Öland, the Danish islands of Bornholm and Christiansø, the Swedish heartland water passage Göta kanal and the large…
In Africa, as imany parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse,…
The case study on Namibia argues for a need for parliamentary and administrative reform to improve the efficiency of lawmakers. The Botswana chapter explores the decision on the location of the countrys second university as an act without consultation of the local population. The Zimbabwe paper advocates an approach…