Author : Jim Brandon
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN :
Weird America
Jim Brandon
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Weird Like Us
Ann Powers
Author : Ann Powers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 25,67 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Bohemianism
ISBN : 0684838087
Describes the various subcultures trying to reshape America today, and includes interviews with modern bohemians, who share their views on life.
Florida
Charlie Carlson
Author : Charlie Carlson
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781402766848
A guide to visiting the odd and less known tourist attractions in the state of Florida.
Weird and Wonderful
Andrea Stulman Dennett
Author : Andrea Stulman Dennett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 36,28 MB
Release : 1997-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0814718868
A wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
Only in America
Heather Alexander
Author : Heather Alexander
Publisher : 50 States
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0711262845
In Only In America, discover unique, strange, funny, record-breaking and downright unbelievable facts about every state in the USA.
Invisible Republic #1
Gabriel Hardman
Author : Gabriel Hardman
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
Breaking Bad meets Blade Runner. Arthur McBride's planetary regime has fallen. His story is over. That is until reporter Croger Babb discovers the journal of Arthur's cousin, Maia. Inside is the violent, audacious hidden history of the legendary freedom fighter. Erased from the official record, Maia alone knows how dangerous her cousin really is... Creative team GABRIEL HARDMAN (KINSKI, "Intense" - A.V. Club) and CORINNA BECHKO (HEATHENTOWN, "Nuanced" _ Broken Frontier) brought you scifi adventure before (Planet of the Apes, Star Wars: Legacy, Hulk) but never this gritty or this epic.
Awkward Rituals
Dana W. Logan
Author : Dana W. Logan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2022-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0226818500
A fresh account of early American religious history that argues for a new understanding of ritual. In the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War, there was an awkward persistence of sovereign rituals, vestiges of a monarchical past that were not easy to shed. In Awkward Rituals, Dana Logan focuses our attention on these performances, revealing the ways in which governance in the early republic was characterized by white Protestants reenacting the hierarchical authority of a seemingly rejected king. With her unique focus on embodied action, rather than the more common focus on discourse or law, Logan makes an original contribution to debates about the relative completeness of America’s Revolution. Awkward Rituals theorizes an under-examined form of action: rituals that do not feel natural even if they sometimes feel good. This account challenges common notions of ritual as a force that binds society and synthesizes the self. Ranging from Freemason initiations to evangelical societies to missionaries posing as sailors, Logan shows how white Protestants promoted a class-based society while simultaneously trumpeting egalitarianism. She thus redescribes ritual as a box to check, a chore to complete, an embarrassing display of theatrical verve. In Awkward Rituals, Logan emphasizes how ritual distinctively captures what does not change through revolution.
Weird Massachusetts
Jeff Belanger
Author : Jeff Belanger
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781402754371
Massachusetts and weird: not too much of a stretch, some would say. But the authors dug a little deeper and found all kinds of local legends, bizarre beasts, surprising cemeteries, and uncovered the best kept secrets from all over the Bay State. If it's unusual or unexplainable or fantastic, and in the Bay State, you'll find it all here.
Eccentric America
Jan Friedman
Author : Jan Friedman
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN :
A guide to all things wacky, weird, curious, and bizarre in the U.S.A., featuring approximately 1,000 festivals, attractions, tours, shopping, restaurants, hotels, and eccentric environments. photos. 51 maps.
The WEIRDest People in the World
Joseph Henrich
Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0374710457
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.