Ce profil sert de "fourre-tout" pour les auteurs dont les œuvres ne rentrent dans aucune catégorie spécifique ou lorsque plusieurs auteurs portent le même nom. Il sert de plaque tournante pour la collecte et l'organisation des contributions littéraires qui pourraient autrement être fragmentées.
Designed specifically for young people, this manual contains 101 progressive practical drills to help them develop their fitness. Fun, educational and challenging, all drills are illustrated and cover the essential skills, including agility, speed, peripheral vision, body awareness, strength and general fitness.
Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (1644-1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detailed case studies of Taiwan, Hebei, and Liaoning provinces exploit rich bodies of previously neglected ethnographic reports, economic surveys, and rare censuses of footbinding to challenge the significance of sedentary female labor and ethnic rivalries as factors leading to the hegemony of the footbinding fashion. The study concludes that, independently of identity politics and economic factors, variations in local status hierarchies and elite culture coupled with status competition and fear of ridicule for not binding girls' feet best explain how a culturally arbitrary fashion such as footbinding could attain hegemonic status.
An ideal resource for motivated runners, from beginner up to higher level, who want an additional boost to their performance. Expert, accessible strength and conditioning advice that will make you a stronger and faster runner.
How does a society recover from a devastating war? This title uncovers the hardships and stresses of the age, strains which manifested in the general strike of 1926. It offers insights into the difficult time period for Britain and the people tasked with its recovery.
Designed specifically for young people, this manual contains 101 progressive practical drills to help them develop their fitness. Fun, educational and challenging, all drills are illustrated and cover the essential skills, including agility, speed, peripheral vision, body awareness, strength and general fitness.
The first full length account of the 1979 'winter of discontent' -- .
The one-stop cookbook for all classic English pudding lovers.
In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial, constantly capturing, exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood. The Alleymen were workers as much as artists. This book, first published in 1982, explores how the change occurred, the ways in which songwriters organised themselves to get greater control over their products, the social circumstances that influenced their choice of subject-matter, the new forms, such as the integrated musical, developed for maximum appeal, the vast publicity structure built to market the merchandise, and, of course, the many stars who came to fame by taking a walk down the Alley.