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The World of Niagara Wine is a transdisciplinary exploration of the Niagara wine industry. In the first section, contributors explore the history and regulation of wine production as well as its contemporary economic significance. The second section focuses on the entrepreneurship behind and the promotion and marketing of Niagara wines. The third introduces readers to the science of grape growing, wine tasting, and wine production, and the final section...
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Encontrar los episodios positivos en las relaciones peruano-chilenas entre los siglos XIX y XX, y reunir para contarlos a más de una veintena de académicos de ambos países fue la meta que se trazaron los historiadores Daniel Parodi (Perú) y Sergio González (Chile) cuando se conocieron en Santiago en 2011 en un diálogo binacional entre políticos y académicos.
Las historias que nos unen. 21 relatos para la integración entre Perú y Chile reúne...
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What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within contexts of global circulation, this collection argues for the value of attending to narratorial, lyric, and theatrical conventions in dialogue with questions of epistemological and social justice. Using the twinned framing devices of crosstalk and...
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This book is a part of a set of ten books of the Greatest Classic Series containing thrilling and fascinating stories with an amazing suspense and mystery surrounding each one of them that will arouse your curiosity and compel you to go through all the stories written by world acclaimed authors, like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Ernest William Hornung, etc. Actually, the entire classic series has been aimed to enrich the young minds with the...
25) Good Luck
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See a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck.-Proverb. We all need a little bit of luck now and then, be it for that graduation, new job, an important exam, or even your wedding day! Full of advice, charms, and traditions, this book is the perfect gift for that special someone who needs lady lucky on their side.
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Sixteen essays, written by specialists from many fields, grapple with the problem of a popular culture that is not very popular - but is seen by most as vital to the body politic, whether endangered by globalization or capable of politically progressive messages for its audiences. Slippery Pastimes covers a variety of topics: Canadian popular music from rock 'n' roll to country, hip-hop to pop Celtic; television; advertising; tourism; sport and even...
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Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since 1941 for consideration for the prestigious Peabody Awards. The essays in this volume explore the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, turning their attention to the wealth of programs considered for Peabody...
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BTS: K-Pop's International Superstars is the must-have celebration of RM, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin, V, Jin, and Jungkook, who have won over fans across the globe with hits like "DNA" and "MIC Drop." With dozens of stunning full-color photographs, this volume offers an extensive look at the guys behind the incredible voices, verses, and dance moves-from their early days as bandmates, to worldwide tours, to their relationship with their passionate and quickly-growing...
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Redrawing the Historical Past examines how multiethnic graphic novels portray and revise U.S. history. This is the first collection to focus exclusively on the interplay of history and memory in multiethnic graphic novels. Such interplay enables a new understanding of the past. The twelve essays explore Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro, Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints, GB Tran's Vietnamerica, Scott McCloud's The New Adventures of Abraham...
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This informative guide helps readers combine their love of movies with their desire to grow closer to God. Foremost experts on faith and film, all connected with the Reel Spirituality Institute at Fuller Seminary, explore forty leading movies from the last four decades to encourage movie lovers and small groups to reflect critically and theologically on their film choices. God in the Movies introduces and analyzes the spiritual content of top films...
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Explore the growing universe of Poké mon! The fantastic world of Poké mon® is constantly changing and expanding, and with so many ways to play, Poké mon® is now more popular than ever before! Pojo's Unofficial Ultimate Poké mon Trainer's Handbook is your essential guide for becoming a gym champion and masterful Poké mon trainer while exploring the vast and fantastic world of this timeless...
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Since the turn of the twentieth century the dramatic rise of mass media has profoundly transformed music practices in the Arab world. Music has adapted to successive forms of media dissemination from phonograph cylinders to MP3seach subjected to the political and economic forces of its particular era and region. Carried by mass media, the broader culture of Arab music has been thoroughly transformed as well. Simultaneously, mass mediated music has...
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What does Canadian popular culture say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity? This third volume of How Canadians Communicate describes the negotiation of popular culture across terrains where national identity is built by producers and audiences, government and industry, history and geography, ethnicities and citizenships. Canada does indeed have a popular culture distinct from other nations. How Canadians Communicate...
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Starring Tom Cruise examines how Tom Cruise's star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectations. Cruise reads as an action hero and romantic lead yet finds himself in homoerotic and homosocial relationships that unsettle and undermine these heterosexual scripts. In this volume, editor Sean Redmond shows how important star studies is not just to understanding the ideological,...
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Just a few short ticks to the third millennium and the hoi polloi have settled into their homely predestined epiphanies. A cold, dead, fish-eyed kind of love, wailing the demise of pre-humanoid embryo, exhorting the restriction and extinction of life—our lives as well as their own. It is, after all, the Convenient solution. The mapped-out end-of-the-world Xtian drill.
Apocalypse ups the ante. Easier to lose one’s trail in the hubbub. An opportunity...
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Pop culture does more than entertain us. At its best, it is a mirror- maybe sometimes a distorted funhouse mirror- reflecting back to us beauty, absurdity, and profound truth of what it means to be human. These musicians, actors, writers, and producers often sit in the prophet's chair and offer us modern parables with deeper meanings waiting for those with ears to hear. When we watch and listen through a spiritual lens, their stories challenge our...
38) Las Vegas
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Sin and redemption. The ridiculous and the sublime. The carnivalesque excess of the Strip and the barrenness of the desert surrounding the city. Visited by millions of fortune seekers—and starry-eyed lovers—each year, Las Vegas is a city with as many apparent contradictions as Elvis impersonators and this complexity is reflected in the diversity of films that have been shot on location there.
A copiously illustrated retrospective of Vegas's appearances...
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Amusing and bizarre snippets of British theatrical history between the years 1880 and 1890. Actors have their feet poisoned by coloured tights and are fined for vandalizing Warwick Castle; actresses have violent rows in an oyster shop and accidentally glue their lips together; Wiliam McGonagall is the victim of a cruel practical joke... and much, much more.
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Over the past decade, the popularity of cocktails has returned with gusto. Amateur and professional mixologists alike have set about recovering not just the craft of the cocktail, but also its history, philosophy, and culture. The Shaken and the Stirred features essays written by distillers, bartenders and amateur mixologists, as well as scholars, all examining the so-called 'Cocktail Revival' and cocktail culture. Why has the cocktail returned with...
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