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The ghost lab : how bigfoot hunters, mediums, and alien enthusiasts are wrecking science / by Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew,author.(CARDINAL)839536;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-323) and index."In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to a copy center and framing shop, a ghost lab opened. The Kitt Research Initiative's mission was to use the scientific method to document the existence of spirits. Founder Andy Kitt was known as a straight-shooter; and was unafraid - perhaps eager - to offend other paranormal investigators by exposing the fraudulence of their less advanced techniques. But when KRI started to lose money, Kitt began to seek funding from the paranormal community, attracting flocks of psychics, alien abductees, witches, mediums, ghost hunters, UFOlogists, cryptozoologists and warlocks from all over New England, and the world. And there were plenty of them around. The Ghost Lab tells the astonishing story of the wild ecosystem of paranormal profiteers and consumers, through the astonishing story of what happened in this one small town. But it also maps the trends of declining scientific literacy, trust in institutions, and the diffusion of a culture that has created space for armies of pseudoscientists to step into the minds of an increasingly credulous public. With his distinct voice, eye for a story and ability to show how one community's experience reflects that of a society, Matt Hongoltz-Hetling crafts a powerful narrative about just how fragmented our understanding of what is real and what is not has become." --
Subjects: Biographies.; Kitt, A. J. (Andrew J.); Parapsychology; Ghosts; Cryptozoologists; Misinformation.; Parapsychologists.; Hoaxes.; Cryptozoology.; Science;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The geography of wine : how landscapes, cultures, terroir, and the weather make a good drop / by Sommers, Brian J.(CARDINAL)487755;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-279) and index.Geography and the study of wine -- Wine landscapes and wine regions -- Climatology of viticulture -- Microclimate and wine -- Grapes, soil, and terroir -- Biogeography and the grape -- Viticulture, agriculture, and natural hazards -- Wine and geographic information systems -- Winemaking and geography -- Wine diffusion, colonialism, and political geography -- Urbanization and the wine geography -- Economic geography and wine -- Communism, geography and wine -- Geography and wine's competitors: beer, cider, and distilled spirits -- -- Wine, culture, and the geography of temperance -- Regional identity, wine, and multinationals -- Champagne -- Localism and wine tourism -- Where wine takes me.
Subjects: Wine and wine making.; Viticulture.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Decoration day in the mountains : traditions of cemetery decoration in the southern Appalachians / by Jabbour, Alan.(CARDINAL)303154; Jabbour, Karen Singer.(CARDINAL)303153;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Two encounters with Decoration Day -- Decoration Day in western North Carolina -- Cemetery features in western North Carolina -- Historical and cultural origins of the region -- The North Shore: removal and revolution -- The origin, diffusion, and range of Decoration Day -- The North Shore and Decoration Day in sign, symbol, and art -- The unsung heroes of Decoration Day -- Concluding thoughts -- Appendix A. Project history -- Appendix B. Log of ethnographic events, North Shore Cemetery Decoration Project, 2004.
Subjects: Mourning customs; Cemeteries; Decoration and ornament;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 24
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Jeans : a cultural history of an American icon / by Sullivan, James,1965 November 7-(CARDINAL)476798;
Subjects: Jeans (Clothing);
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Paper before print : the history and impact of paper in the Islamic world / by Bloom, Jonathan(Jonathan M.)(CARDINAL)202972;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: I INTRODUCTION -- ONE -- 16 THE INVENTION OF PAPER -- Clay Tablets and Papyrus Rolls -- Wooden Tablets and Parchment Codices -- Bamboo Strips and Silk Cloth -- The Invention of Paper -- The Diffusion of Paper -- The Introduction of Paper in the Islamic Lands -- TWO -- 46 THE SPREAD OF PAPERMAKING -- ACROSS THE ISLAMIC LANDS -- Iraq -- Syria -- Iran and Central Asia -- Egypt -- The Maghrib (North Africa and Spain) -- THREE -- 90 PAPER AND BOOKS -- The Koran and Oral Culture -- Written Arabic -- An Explosion of Books -- Collections and Libraries -- A Culture of Writing -- FOUR -- I24 PAPER AND SYSTEMS OF NOTATION -- Mathematics -- Commerce -- Cartography -- Music, Genealogy, and Battle Plans -- FIVE -- 160 PAPER AND THE VISUAL ARTS -- Before the Thirteenth Century -- From the Thirteenth Century -- SIX -- 202 THE TRANSFER OF PAPER AND PAPERMAKING -- TO CHRISTIAN EUROPE -- Byzantium -- Spain -- Italy -- Europe North of the Alps -- SEVEN -- 214 PAPER AFTER PRINT -- 227 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY -- 249 WORKS CITED -- 263 INDEX.
Subjects: Paper;
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Ulster and North America : transatlantic perspectives on the Scotch-Irish / by Blethen, Tyler.(CARDINAL)175369; Wood, Curtis,Jr.,1941-(CARDINAL)175370;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-276) and index.Ulster-American heritage symposium: a retrospect / T.G. Fraser -- Introduction / H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood, Jr. -- Prophecy and prophylaxis: a paradigm for the Scotch-Irish? / Edward J. Cowan -- Ulster Presbyterians: religion, culture, and politics, 1660-1850 / S.J. Connolly -- Demographic history of Ulster, 1750-1841 / William Macafee -- Household economy in early rural America and Ulster: the question of self-sufficiency / Vivienne Pollock -- Ulster emigration to North America, 1680-1720 / Graeme Kirkham -- Philadelphia here I come: a study of the letters of Ulster immigrants in Pennsylvania, 1750-1875 / Trevor Parkhill -- Scotch-Irish and immigrant culture on Amherst Island, Ontario / Catharine Anne Wilson -- Scotch-Irish landscapes in the Ozarks / Russel L. Gerlach -- Land, ethnicity, and community at the Opequon Settlement, Virginia, 1730-1800 / Warren R. Hofstra -- Scotch-Irish element in Appalachian English: how broad? how deep? / Michael B. Montgomery -- Scotch-Irish frontier society in Southwestern North Carolina, 1780-1840 / H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood, Jr."Ulster and North America addresses the complex issues of Scotch-Irish (or Ulster Scots) history and ethnic identity by viewing them from a transatlantic and comparative perspective. The eleven essays, originally presented at meetings of the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium by scholars from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, examine values, traditions, demographics, and language. They also investigate the process of migration, which transmitted that culture to North America, and the subsequent adaptation within American culture."--BOOK JACKET. "This diverse collection of essays emphasizes several themes. First is the dynamic nature of Ulster society in the 17th and 18th centuries and the rapid changes occurring there, especially affecting Presbyterianism and community cohesiveness, which shaped the motives for migration to the New World. Another theme is the experience of migration, asking who migrated, when they went, what their expectations were, and how closely colonial reality matched those expectations. A third theme is the development of economic strategies and community-building both in Ulster and in North America, making important contributions to the "new rural history" and explaining the success of the Scotch-Irish on the new American frontier. A final theme is ethnic identity and cultural diffusion, advancing the ongoing debate initiated by Forrest McDonald and Grady McWhiney and elaborated on by David Hackett Fischer."--BOOK JACKET. "The contributors to this volume present a unique combination of resources and methodologies including history, genealogical group and community studies, linguistics, demographics, and cultural geography. In emphasizing the diversity of the Scotch-Irish experience, they make clear how inappropriate previous single-model efforts have been in explaining the history of this elusive group. The new research presented here illustrates the value of transatlantic dialogue and of comparative studies firmly based on local and regional studies for the understanding of ethnicity and migration history."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Scots-Irish;
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Reviving the Renaissance : the use and abuse of the past in nineteenth-century Italian art and decoration / by Pavoni, Rosanna,1953-editor.(CARDINAL)784497; Belton, Adrian,translator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.By the time Italy had developed its obsession with neo-Renaissance in the 1870s, collectors and scholars in the rest of Europe had been excited by Renaissance taste and style for several decades. The Renaissance was then promptly reconceptualized, in a forced alignment with the accepted historical version of its birth and development, and its help enlisted in the search for an Italian national identity.Thus the italianita of the Renaissance was proclaimed. But what represented this neo-Renaissance in Italy, and what aided its diffusion? In an attempt to answer these questions this book explores the many areas marked by neo-Renaissance taste. Its diffusion and development is traced, from the institutions which instructed its chief exponents, to architecture and exhibitions and the publications which disseminated neo-Renaissance designs so effectively.
Subjects: Renaissance revival (Art); Art, Italian;
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All that is native & fine : the politics of culture in an American region / by Whisnant, David E.,1938-(CARDINAL)145640;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. 'Hit sounds reasonable'; Culture and social change at Hindman settlement school -- 2. All that is native and fine; The cultural work of Olive Dame Campbell, 1908-1948 -- 3. 'This folk work' and the 'holy folk'; The White Top Folk Festival, 1931-1939 -- Cannibals and Christians.In the American imagination, the word Appalachia designates more than a geographical region. It evokes fiddle tunes, patchwork quilts, split-rail fences, and all the other artifacts that decorate a cherished romantic region of the American mind. David Whisnant challenges this view of Appalachia (and consequently this broader imaginitive tendency) by exploring connections between a comforting cultural myth and the troublesome complexities of cultural history. Looking at the work of some ballad hunters and collectors, handicraft revivalists, folk festival promoters, and other cultural missionaries, Whisnant discovers a process of intentional and systematic cultural intervention that had (and still has) far-reaching consequences. Why, Whisnant asks, did so many Bluegrass ladies and upper-class graduates of Seven Sisters colleges rush to erect cultural breakwaters around mountaineers? Why would a sophisticated New England woman build a Danish folk school in western North Carolina? Why did a classical musician from Richmond who hated blacks love southern mountain music? How did the notions and actions of all these cultural missionaries affect the lives of the mountaineers? And what do these episodes of intervention teach us about culture and cultural change--in Appalachia and elsewhere? Whisnant pursues these and other questions in closely documented case studies of the Hindman Settlement School in eastern Kentucky, the cultural work of Olive Dame Campbell throughout the mountains, and the White Top Folk Festival on the Virginia-North Carolina border. Moreover, he relates them to broader social and economic developments of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the comingof the railroads and the opening of the mines, the Depression, the advent of TVA, and more diffuse processes such as urbanization, the decline of agriculture, the movement of radio and the commercial recording industry into the mountains, and the implicit restrictions Victorian America placed on the political perspectives and activities of socially conscious upper-class women. We must begin to understand the politics of culture, Whisnant writes, especially the role of formal institutions and foreceful individuals in defining and shaping perspectives, values, tastes and agendas for cultural change. All That Is Native and Fine opens the way not only to a reexamination of the history of a single region but also to a more sophisticated understanding of the dynamics of cultural continuity and change in other regions and in the nation as a whole.
Subjects: Social classes;
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Teaching what really happened : how to avoid the tyranny of textbooks and get students excited about doing history / by Loewen, James W.(CARDINAL)154287;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-236) and index.
Subjects: Textbooks.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Building cross-cultural competence : how to create wealth from conflicting values / by Hampden-Turner, Charles.; Trompenaars, Alfons.;
Filmography: pages 377-378.Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-375) and index.
Subjects: International business enterprises; Intercultural communication.; Communication in management;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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