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Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and
attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of
Western Society includes many tools to engage today's students and
save instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive
primary source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of
ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best
and latest scholarship throughout. With over 200 written and visual
primary sources included in the document features "Evaluating the
Evidence" and "Thinking like a Historian," students connect to the
past through an array of evidence. The book can be purchased with
the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an
e-book with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools.
LaunchPad comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically
graded learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared.
Volume 2 includes chapters 14-30
Aerosmith's lead guitarist Joe Perry opens up for the first time to
tell the riveting inside story of his lifeinside the band,
featuring everyone from Jimmy Page to Alice Cooper, Bette Midler to
Chuck Berry, John Belushi to Al Hirschfeld. Before the platinum
records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, Joe Perry was a boy growing up in small town
Massachusetts. But the guitar became his passion, an object of
lust, an outlet for his restlessness and his rebellious soul. That
passion quickly blossomed into an obsession, and he got a band
together. One night after a performance he met a brash young
musician named Steven Tyler; before long, Aerosmith was born. What
happened over the next forty-five years has become the stuff of
legend: the knock-down, drag-out, band splintering fights; the
drugs, the booze, the rehab; the packed arenas and timeless hits;
the reconciliations and the comebacks. Full of humour, insight and
brutal honesty about life in and out of one of the biggest bands in
modern history, Rocks is also the story of a dedicated family man
in a thirty-year marriage who has navigated the pressures of an
extreme lifestyle. In Perry's own words, it tells the whole story.
Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and
attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of
Western Society includes many tools to engage today's students and
save instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive
primary source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of
ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best
and latest scholarship throughout. With over 200 written and visual
primary sources included in the document features "Evaluating the
Evidence" and "Thinking like a Historian," students connect to the
past through an array of evidence. The book can be purchased with
the breakthrough online resource, LaunchPad, which combines an
e-book with a wealth of time-saving teaching and learning tools.
LaunchPad comes with LearningCurve, an adaptive and automatically
graded learning tool that ensures students come to class prepared.
Volume 1.2 includes chapters 11-30
Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and
attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of
Western Society includes many tools to engage students and save
instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive primary
source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary
people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and
latest scholarship throughout. Also available to purchase with
LaunchPad, an online course space which offers a wealth of digital
content including easily assignable options for instructors and
novel ways for students to master the content. LearningCurve,
integrated with Launchpad, is an adaptive online resource that
helps students retain the material and come to class prepared. Key
features: The signature focus on social and cultural history and a
readable, accessible narrative makes the past palpable for
students. A wealth of primary sources and special features
introduce students to historical interpretation. Rich pedagogical
support keeps students focused and builds historical thinking
skills. The most current scholarship shows students the dynamic and
ongoing work of history.
For poets, priests, and politicians--and especially ordinary
Germans--in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of
the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree
symbolized the unity of the nation at large. German Christmas was
supposedly organic, a product of the winter solstice rituals of
pagan ""Teutonic"" tribes, the celebration of the birth of Jesus,
and the age-old customs that defined German character. Yet, as Joe
Perry argues, Germans also used these annual celebrations to
contest the deepest values that held the German community together:
faith, family, and love, certainly, but also civic responsibility,
material prosperity, and national belonging. This richly
illustrated volume explores the invention, evolution, and
politicization of Germany's favorite national holiday. According to
Perry, Christmas played a crucial role in public politics, as
revealed in the militarization of ""War Christmas"" during World
War I and World War II, the Nazification of Christmas by the Third
Reich, and the political manipulation of Christmas during the Cold
War. Perry offers a close analysis of the impact of consumer
culture on popular celebration and the conflicts created as
religious, commercial, and political authorities sought to control
the holiday's meaning. By unpacking the intimate links between
domestic celebration, popular piety, consumer desires, and
political ideology, Perry concludes that family festivity was
central in the making and remaking of public national identities.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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