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Ethnography from the Mission Field: The Hoffmann Collection ...

Ethnography from the Mission Field: The Hoffmann Collection ...

Annekie Joubert

In Ethnography from the Mission Field: The Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge Joubert et al. offer a translated and annotated edition of the 24 ethnographic articles by Missionary Carl Hoffmann and his local interlocutors between the ...
Friedrich Hoffmann (1832-1904) and the 'Pharmaceutische ...

Friedrich Hoffmann (1832-1904) and the 'Pharmaceutische ...

Sabine Knoll Schütze

This biography is the first extensive and valuable tribute to the German pharmacist Friedrich (Frederick) Hoffmann who emigrated to the USA in 1861.
Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture

Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture

Frank Hoffmann

The book is filled with physical descriptions of each entry, including size, color, and material composition, and the age group most often associated with the item.
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Our scant biographical note on the author, Friedrich Hoffmann, occasioned a call from Sabine Knoll Schutze, who is studying Hoffmann as part of her Ph.D. dissertation research at the Institut fur Geschichte der Pharmazie in Marburg, Germany ...
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000

Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000

Frank Hoffmann

The field of Popular Music Studies is growing, but still lacks some basic reference materials.
Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925

Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925

Frank Hoffmann

It is the definitive work on the music that was popular during America's coming of age. No music historian should be without this volume.
Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science

Beyond the Finite: The Sublime in Art and Science

Roald Hoffmann

We also appreciate the expert help of Claudia Heide in obtaining good quality images and permissions for their use. Roald Hoffmann is grateful to Jennifer Cleland and Catherine Kempf for research and editorial assistance. Editors' Preface ...
Herbal Medicine and Botanical Medical Fads

Herbal Medicine and Botanical Medical Fads

Frank Hoffmann

This essential guide takes a practical look at the popular uses of herbs and spices, presented in an easy-to-use format. The book is a refreshing alternative to the how-to guides, cookbooks, and picture books usually found on the subject.
Football and American Identity

Football and American Identity

Frank Hoffmann

This unique book goes beyond the standard fare on football strategy and history, or the biographies of famous players and coaches, to analyze the reasons why the game is the essence of the American spirit.
Fashion & Merchandising Fads

Fashion & Merchandising Fads

Frank Hoffmann

As fads enter and encompass society for a period of time, this collection of fads, arranged alphabetically, is sure to captivate readers from beginning to end, or, in a world of fads, from the A-2 Flight Jacket to the Zipper.
Rock Music in American Popular Culture: Rock ¿n¿ Roll Resources

Rock Music in American Popular Culture: Rock ¿n¿ Roll Resources

Frank Hoffmann

This fascinating book is arranged alphabetically for quick and easy reference to specific topics, but the book is equally enjoyable to read straight through.
Sports-Talk Radio in America: Its Context and Culture

Sports-Talk Radio in America: Its Context and Culture

Frank Hoffmann

This unique book examines how this “niche of the niche” has formed a bond between its hosts and their rabid, passionate, and loyal audiences, spinning the dial from the largest, best-known stations in big-league markets to smaller ...
An Herbal Guide to Stress Relief: Gentle Remedies and ...

An Herbal Guide to Stress Relief: Gentle Remedies and ...

David Hoffmann, FNIMH, AHG

David Hoffmann, widely respected herbalist and author of Medical Herbalism, looks at stress and anxiety from a holistic perspective and shows how a wide variety of natural treatments can be used in alleviating the physical and mental ...
Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown ...

Minor League Baseball: Community Building Through Hometown ...

Frank Hoffmann

This book is essential reading for sociologists, sport sociologists/historians, academics and/or practitioners in the fields of community sociology and psychology, and of course, baseball fans.
Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ¿n¿ ...

Rock Music in American Popular Culture II: More Rock ¿n¿ ...

Frank Hoffmann

By Richard Aquila. New York; Schirmer Books, 1989. Illustrated. 370 pp. As rock ' n' roll moves into the 1990s, its history is being revised. Perhaps this was inevitable. All revolutions, especially successful ones, are eventually co-opted, tamed, ...
The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

David Schulenberg

1976. Lobet Gott, unsern Herrn Zebaoth [F. 78b]. Edited by Günter Graulich. Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler. Hoffmann-Erbrecht. 1960. Solo-Konzert G-dur [F. 40]. Edited by Lothar Hoffmann- Erbrecht. Lippstadt: Kistner & Siegel. Horn. 1980.
Unexpected Angel & Undercover Elf

Unexpected Angel & Undercover Elf

Kate Hoffmann

Two genuine Christmas miracles. Who said Christmas was just for kids? Unexpected Angel by Kate Hoffmann Alex Marrin knows his seven-year-old son, Eric, wants a perfect Christmas— the way it used to be before the divorce.
Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture

Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture

Donald Hoffmann

... Lynda Waggoner, Virginia Ernst Kazor, Jeffrey M. Chusid, August Oliver Brown, Howard W. Ellington, James Dennis, Mildred Rosenbaum, Maya Moran, Minerva Montooth, Richard Carney, Suzette Lucas, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, Oscar Munoz ...
Herbs and Nutrients for Neurologic Disorders: Treatment ...

Herbs and Nutrients for Neurologic Disorders: Treatment ...

Sidney J. Kurn, M.D.

Medical Herbalism The Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine by David Hoffmann, FNIMH, AHG Herbs for Healthy Aging Natural Prescriptions for Vibrant Health by David Hoffmann, FNIMH, AHG The Herbal Handbook A User's Guide to  ...
The Frank Book:

The Frank Book:

Jim Woodring

The Frank Book also features an introduction by one of Frank’s biggest fans (himself a Frank, or almost): Francis Ford Coppola.
Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock 'n' ...

Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock 'n' ...

Frank Hoffmann

Edited by Richard Aquila. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1996. 313 pp. Illustrated. Ball State University historian Richard Aquila has assembled a fascinating, informative profile of the American West. Although his approach is neither ...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - A Propaedeutic

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - A Propaedeutic

Thomas Sören Hoffmann

In Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel – A Propaedeutic, Thomas Sören Hoffmann invites the philosophically interested reader to converse with, to work with, and to think with the “master philosopher of German Idealism,” the last great ...
Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game ...

Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game ...

Frank Hoffmann

King James: LeBron James, Hype, Hope, and the Future of the NBA Bob Batchelor Chapter 17. Conclusion: Basketball Is America Bob Batchelor Appendix: Selected Timeline Bibliography Index 143 165 177 189 231 243 259 281 295 307 ...
Totally Frank: The Autobiography of Frank Lampard

Totally Frank: The Autobiography of Frank Lampard

Frank Lampard

Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard charts his life story from childhood to young West Ham apprentice to multi-millionaire world footballing celebrity and lynchpin of the national team.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House

Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House

Donald Hoffmann

Courtesy: Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, the Dana-Thomas House 4 7. R. D. Lawrence house. Courtesy: Lincoln Library 7 8. Central Block. Photo: author 7 9. Lawrence Building. Photo: author 8 10. Susie Lawrence Dana. Courtesy: ...
Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Frank Beamer

After 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on ...
Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Let Me Be Frank: My Life at Virginia Tech

Frank Beamer

After 26 seasons as head football coach at Virginia Tech University, Frank Beamer is not only the longest tenured but also the winningest active coach of any major college program, and Let Me Be Frank contains his personal reflections on ...
Buxton, Hollis, and Limington

Buxton, Hollis, and Limington

Frank H. Sleeper

Frank H. Sleeper. IMAGES of America Buxton, Hollis, AND LlMINGTON Frank H. Sleeper ARCADIA Copyright © 1997 by Frank H. Sleeper ISBN 0-7385-3886-8 Published.
Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Ewan Maccoll

Frank Purslow, The Constant Lovers (London, 1972). Frank Purslow, Marrowbones (London, 1965). Frank Purslow, The Wanton Seed (London, 1968). Frank Purslow, The Foggy Dew (London, 1974). Allan Ramsay, The Tea-Table Miscellany ...

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