Author: Editors of Life
Publisher: Life
Keywords: life, lady, books, first, portrait, michelle, obama
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-10-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1603201033
ISBN-13: 9781603201032
Before the historic presidential election of 2008, LIFE Books published a best-selling volume entitled The American Journey of Barack Obama. In researching that book, the editors came to be deeply impressed not only by the exotic story of the candidate himself but also by the life and personality of the woman who would, if Obama were to prevail, enter the White House at his side. Michelle Robinson, the daughter of a Chicago municipal worker-and, in fact, a woman with slavery represented in her family tree-had risen to be educated in the Ivy League and was already embarked upon a successful leg
Author: Editors of Life Magazine
Publisher: Life
Keywords: life, books, remembering, jackie
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1603200789
ISBN-13: 9781603200783
America has no royal family, but in the earliest 1960s, the White House was graced with the presence of a couple so attractive, so vibrant and so glamorous that the eminent historian Theodore H. White, writing in LIFE, likened the situation to Camelot. And if Jack Kennedy was our King Arthur, then Jackie was our queen. On these pages, that era comes alive again, as do the earlier and later chapters of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’s remarkable, captivating story. LIFE long enjoyed a special relationship with this woman--she first appeared on the magazine’s cover in 1953 as th
Author: Editors of Life Magazine
Publisher: Life
Keywords: life, books, remembering, marilyn
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1603200797
ISBN-13: 9781603200790
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Author: James M. Bergquist
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: daily, life, series, states, history, united, greenwood, immigrant, america, press
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0313336989
ISBN-13: 9780313336980
Early nineteenth century America saw the first wave of post-Independence immigration. Germans, Irish, Englishmen, Scandinavians, and even Chinese on the west coast began to arrive in significant numbers, profoundly impacting national developments like westward expansion, urban growth, industrialization, city and national politics, and the Civil War. This volume explores the early immigrants’ experience, detailing where they came from, what their journey to America was like, where they entered their new nation, and where they eventually settled. Life in immigrant communities is examined,
Authors:Henri Lefebvre, Gregory Elliott, Michel Trebi
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: life, critique, everyday, vol, verso, daily, modernism, modernity, towards, metaphilosophy
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 2008-02-17
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1844671933
ISBN-13: 9781844671939
Explores the crisis of modernity and the decisive assertion of technological modernism. Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society. Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fiel
Author: Christopher Martin Cumo
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: life, science, technology, history, series, everyday, daily, greenwood, century, american, press
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-08-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0313338183
ISBN-13: 9780313338182
The twentieth century witnessed the greatest changes in technology and science that humans have ever witnessed. These occurred rapidly and affected such a broad range of people. Scientists, inventors, and engineers built upon the great inventions of the 19th century to expand the reach of modern technology - for a citizen in 1900, communication, transportation, and agricultural was still primarily local activities; by 2000, an American citizen was part of an interconnected global community. These developments in science and technology were also important in the social and cultural changes of t
