![]() ![]() Yet Alabama has a fascinating history of tourism all its own. Tourism in the Southeast is often associated with Florida-a state that essentially defined the industry in America. Seller Inventory # 9781609494889īook Description Paperback. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. From restored and preserved historic destinations to campy tourist traps and outrageous roadside attractions, this is the complete story of tourism in Alabama. Since he was a boy, author Tim Hollis has traveled from the Shoals to the coast and amassed an unrivaled knowledge of Alabama tourism. Though it was a less efficient route for highway travelers, it marked the birth of Alabama's fledgling tourism industry, which grew exponentially with each passing decade. In 1916, John Hollis Bankhead went to great lengths to ensure that one of America's first transcontinental highways went directly through Alabama. It all began with an enterprising politician. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In different archaic and indigenous societies, he finds evidence contrary to the presumptions of modern Western societies about the history and nature of exchange which assert that it is a relatively newer concept and practice. It analyzes the economic practices of archaic societies and finds that they have a common as well as a main practice centered on reciprocal exchange. Mauss's essay focuses on the way that the exchange of objects between groups builds relationships between humans. The essay was later republished in French in 1950 and translated into English in 1954 by Ian Cunnison, in 1990 by W. Forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques ("An essay on the gift: the form and reason of exchange in archaic societies") and was originally published in L'Année Sociologique in 1925. ![]() Mauss's original piece was entitled Essai sur le don. ![]() The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies ( French: Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques) is a 1925 essay by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The original letters close after the notification of Frank Doel’s death, but my copy had another book in it: The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, which is Helene Hanff’s journal of her time in London just after the release of the first book. ![]() When she did go to London, the bookshop itself had gone. Frank Doel, the man whom she corresponded with, died suddenly of appendicitis before she ever went to London. But it did happen - and typically of reality, Helene didn’t get quite the happy ending one would want. It’s hard to believe that these letters were real, sometimes - it’s just so sweet, and so much like something you’d see in a movie. Starting in 1949, she wrote regularly to the shop asking them for books she wanted, and they wrote back… and slowly a correspondence developed, as they found her beautiful copies of the books she wanted and she ordered them boxes of food and sent friends round to do them favours. It’s actually a collection of real letters between Helene Hanff, a writer in the US, and a London bookseller. It took me a while to pick up my own copy, but now I have… and it’s really, really sweet, and funny as well. ![]() I actually stumbled across this book on someone’s wishlist for a book swap, and then immediately got sucked into reading the opening pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of 250 signed/numbered hardcover copies, octavo size, 209 pp., signed by Bukowski. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column Notes of a Dirty Old Man in the LA underground newspaper Open City. ![]() Bukowski's writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles and addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Factotum is a picaresque novel set in the 1940s, following Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's perpetually unemployed, alcoholic alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum). Bukowski's second novel, Factotum was adapted into a film of the same name in 2005, directed by Bent Hamer and starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei. ~SP24~ The first edition of one of the most popular works of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. ![]() Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in an only slightly smudged acetate dust jacket. The slightest of bumping to the lower edge of the front board. 1975 first trade printing, Black Sparrow Press (Santa Barbara, California), 6 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover in publisher's plain (unprinted) acetate dustwrapper, green paper-covered boards over black cloth spine, printed title label to spine, orange endpapers, title page printed in black, green and orange, 205 pp. ![]() ![]() We used fish sauce the way Transylvanian villagers wore cloves of garlic to ward off vampires, in our case to establish a perimeter with those Westerners who could never understand that what was truly fishy was the nauseating stench of cheese. Oh, fish sauce! How we missed it, dear Aunt, how nothing tasted right without it, how we longed for the grand cru of Phu Quoc Island and its vats brimming with the finest vintage of pressed anchovies! This pungent liquid condiment of the darkest sepia hue was much denigrated by foreigners for its supposedly horrendous reek, lending new meaning to the phrase 'there’s something fishy around here,' for we were the fishy ones. ![]() "We did our best to conjure up the culinary staples of our culture, but since we were dependent on Chinese markets our food had an unacceptably Chinese tinge, another blow in the gauntlet of our humiliation that left us with the sweet-and-sour taste of unreliable memories, just correct enough to evoke the past, just wrong enough to remind us that the past was forever gone, missing along with the proper variety, subtlety, and complexity of our universal solvent, fish sauce. ![]() ![]() No, the human body cannot be reduced to charred bones with gasoline and a couple minutes, not even if it belongs to your crazy mom. No, marginally post-pubescent children wouldn't be able to set their mom's dead body on fire with gasoline and then bury the bones on the beach without getting caught once during the entire multi-hour operation-and who does that, anyway? No, you don't go from come-down to withdrawal to i-will-fucking-kill-you within four hours of your last crazy-pill. No, antipsychotics don't actually get you high like that. No, the NCAA would never permit a psychotic player to don a school uniform on the condition he be stoned out of his mind on antipsychotics the entire time. No, teenagers are not typically ushered into nightclubs to knock back shots. ![]() ![]() ![]() These Culture Circles that began with Sugar Cane workers, catalyzed thousands more. In 1962, Paulo Freire created culture circles in Northeastern Brazil to support 300 suger-cane workers to teach each other how to read the word and their world in 45 days, which enabled them to register to vote. Not just the title of a book by Paulo Freire, a Pedagogy of the Oppressed is an approach to education and organizing to transform oppressive structures and create a more equitable, caring and beautiful world through action and reflection that is co-created with those who have been marginalized and dehumanized. ![]() ![]() Because so much of Practicing Freedom's work is inspired by it, I thought I repost the mini-chapter here: I'd love feedback! I originally wrote this for the forthcoming book, Beautiful Trouble. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the odd collection of European expatriates trapped there by the worsening political situation back on the Continent, Sira reinvents herself by turning to the one skill that can save her: her gift for creating beautiful clothes.īetween Love and Duty. However, she soon finds herself abandoned, penniless, and heartbroken in an exotic land. With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fiancé, impetuously following her handsome lover to Morocco. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew.īetween War and Peace. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War IIīetween Youth and Adulthood. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s like nothing Reed has ever dealt with before, and if he’s going to win back his princess, he’ll need to prove himself Royally worthy. She says they’ll only destroy each other. But when one foolish mistake drives her out of Reed’s arms and brings chaos to the Royal household, Reed’s entire world begins to fall apart around him.Įlla doesn’t want him anymore. What started off as burning resentment and the need to make his father’s new ward suffer turned into something else entirely-keep Ella close. The girls at his elite prep school line up to date him, the guys want to be him, but Reed never gave a damn about anyone but his family until Ella Harper walked into his life. Reed Royal has it all-looks, status, money. Published by EverAfter Romance on July 25th 2016įrom wharf fights and school brawls to crumbling lives inside glittery mansions, one guy tries to save himself. ![]() Broken Prince (The Royals, #2) by Erin Watt ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The 500-Million-Euro Ransom: Kidnapped and Tortured. The Reichenbach Falls - The Baker Street irregulars - The final problem - The lost diary - Mourning - Until now - The bloodsucker - The darkened room - Sensational developments - The applied science of deduction - Scotland Yard - A proposal - The white dress - Jennifer Peters in mourning - The allegations of love - The answering machine - A list of atrocities - Pleasure reading - The broken hair clip - The chase - Virgil and Dante on the shores of Acheron - The great hiatus - The suffragists - The bloodstains bear fruit - Surveillance - Ron Rosenberg theorizes - The strange tale of Emily Davison - Thinking - Arthur returns to Scotland Yard - British birds, Catullus, and the holy war - Introducing Mr. See all books authored by Graham Moore, including The Last Days of Night, and The Sherlockian, and more on. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer ![]() ![]() He is best known for The Sherlockian, the debut historical fiction novel he published in 2010 and The Imitation Game an Academy Award-winning television script that was based on a biography on Andrew Hodges. When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. Graham Moore is an American historical fiction author and screenwriter. ![]() |