Whether in the private parlor, public hall, commercial ''dance palace,'' or sleazy dive, dance has long been opposed by those who viewed it as immoral--more precisely as being a danger to the purity of those who practiced it, particularly women. In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four ......
How Farmers, Local Governments, Teachers, and Entrepreneurs Are Rocking the Wine World
In this exuberant book, the authors share their adventures on the China wine trail to meet the farmers, entrepreneurs, and teachers who are changing the wine world. They explore wine tourism hotspots, talk to winemakers searching for good grapes, take us to lush mountains and an arid desert, all in the search for the future of Chinese wine.
Whenever she was in Paris, Natalie Clifford Barney hosted a weekly international salon, receiving such figures as James Joyce, Ezra Pond, Isadora Duncan and Truman Capote. This volume of reminiscences chronicles her friendships and associations and evokes the golden age of her salon.
Peter Berger is arguably one of the best known living sociologists. Since the 1960s he has been writing on many aspects of the contemporary social scene, and several of his published works are considered classics. This memoir explains not only how he became a social scientist but also the many adventures that his calling led to.
In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two-year epidemiology training program, Mary Guinan soon was selected to join India's Smallpox Eradication Program, which searched out ......
Occasionally heartbreaking, sometimes hilarious, Guinan's account of her pathbreaking career will inspire public health students and future medical detectives-and give all readers insight into that part of the government exclusively devoted to protecting their health.
Known as the "Father of the Outdoor Movement," William HH Murray's writings have been appreciated by generations of readers looking to nature as an escape from our daily lives as well as a portal to our past, perhaps none more so than his classic Adventures in the Wilderness: Or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks. Published in 1869 and widely hailed as ......
An internationally acknowledged authority in Steiner education, Brien Masters has worked for decades as teacher (both State and Waldorf), teacher trainer, consultant, writer and lecturer. In Adventures in Steiner Education he draws on his rich and varied experience to paint a vivid picture of Waldorf education in practice. Spicing the text with ......
