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Ralph Emerson Twitchell: New Mexico's Forgotten Giant

Ralph Emerson Twitchell: New Mexico's Forgotten Giant

Daniel Jason Twitchell

The sources consulted for this project include the books and personal correspondence of Twitchell himself, historical monographs covering a variety of New Mexico subjects, the relevant general histories, a number of newspapers and websites, ...
Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury

Living It Up: Our Love Affair with Luxury

James B. Twitchell

In the pages of Living It Up, Twitchell commits the academic heresy of paying respect to popular luxury consumption as a force that has united the country and the globe in a way that no war, movement, or ideology ever has.
Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism

Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism

James B. Twitchell

Twitchell counters the notion of the "used and abused consumer" with a witty and unflinching look at commercial culture, starting from the simple observation that "we are powerfully attracted to the world of goods (after all, we don't call ...
The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. I (Hardcover)

The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. I (Hardcover)

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

Put succinctly by former State Historian Robert J. Torrez, Twitchell's work (of which this is one of the first two volumes Sunstone Press is reprinting in its Southwest Heritage Series) has "become the standard by which all subsequent books ...
The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. II (Hardcover)

The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. II (Hardcover)

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

Put succinctly by former State Historian Robert J. Torrez, Twitchell's work (of which this is one of the first two volumes Sunstone Press is reprinting in its Southwest Heritage Series) has "become the standard by which all subsequent books ...
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

A detailed report on land litigation involving the Pueblo Indians, written as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America

Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America

James B. Twitchell

Examines the changes in publishing, movie making, and television programming since the 1960s that have affected Americans' tastes.
20 Ads that Shook the World: The Century''s Most ...

20 Ads that Shook the World: The Century''s Most ...

James B. Twitchell

These are not necessarily the ads and the ad campaigns that have been most effective in selling their products, but rather those that have entered the popular lexicon and had a profound effect on us all, often without our knowing it.
Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror

Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror

James B. Twitchell

Analyzes horror fiction and movies from a psychoanalytical point of view and discusses the reasons for the popularity of horror stories
Forbidden Partners: The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture

Forbidden Partners: The Incest Taboo in Modern Culture

James B. Twitchell

Suggests cultural reasons for incest being a taboo, looks at the theme of incest in literature, movies, and advertising, and discusses the extent of the problem today.
Old Santa Fe: Facsimile of Number 281 of the Original 1925 ...

Old Santa Fe: Facsimile of Number 281 of the Original 1925 ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

This remarkable book unfolds a detailed and thoughtful history beginning in 1598 and continuing through 1924.
The Spanish Archives of New Mexico

The Spanish Archives of New Mexico

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

But there is another silence in this particular collection and series that is telling. Few pre-Revolt (1680) documents are contained in this collection.
The Cultic Mind: Critical Responses to Believing Defenses

The Cultic Mind: Critical Responses to Believing Defenses

David Christopher Lane

This little book focuses on two famous spiritual leaders: Adi Da and Paul Twitchell and how devotees of each try to defend their actions.
An anthropology of everyday life: an autobiography

An anthropology of everyday life: an autobiography

Edward Twitchell Hall

Now, in a remarkably candid and personal book, he tells the story of the first fifty years of his fascinating life.
Beyond Culture

Beyond Culture

Edward Twitchell Hall

Calls for and speculates on an extensive transcendence of individual cultures, of material and verbal extensions of the ego, and of the alienating denial of individual talents and powers
Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City), ...

Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City), ...

Heather Allison Long

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The Hidden Dimension

The Hidden Dimension

Edward Twitchell Hall

Introducing the science of "proxemics," Hall demonstrates how man's use of space can affect personal business relations, cross-cultural exchanges, architecture, city planning, and urban renewal.
Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, ...

Bartlett Plays: 1: My Child, Contractions, Artefacts, Cock, ...

Mike Bartlett

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The Military Occupation of the Territory of New Mexico from ...

The Military Occupation of the Territory of New Mexico from ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

The author, in his introduction to the 1909 edition and referring to the war with Mexico in the New Mexico Territory, says he hopes the volume, with its many illustrations, would instill "lessons of patriotism, honor, valor and love of ...
Hidden differences: doing business with the Japanese

Hidden differences: doing business with the Japanese

Edward Twitchell Hall

An analysis and explanation of the unstated rules of Japanese-American business relations. By drawing Western readers into the world in which they must function, the Halls simplify the process of adapting Western ways to a new environment.
Three Discourses Upon the Religious History of Bowdoin ...

Three Discourses Upon the Religious History of Bowdoin ...

Egbert Coffin Smyth

... Stubbs, Mr., ll.b. Harv. 1863 Josephus- White Symonds Guilielmus-Widgery Thomas Jacob-Hale Thompson, Mr. Adelbertus-Burge Twitchell, Mr. Franciscus- Willard Webster 54 ... Hunt, M.D. Univ. Penn. 1868 Thomas- Worcester Hyde, Mr.
Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the ...

Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Senate of the ...

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Absent—Alexander. Blackburn. Blunt, Breaux, Brewster, Burch, Cage, Dumont, Herwig, Kelso, Landry, Robertson, Stamps, Sypher, Wharton—l5. The question recurring on Senator Twitchell's motion, Senator Allain called for the yeas and nays ...
A James Family History: Descendants of James James, Society ...

A James Family History: Descendants of James James, Society ...

Betty James Smith

"Descendants of James James, originally of Pembrokeshire, Wales, who emigrated and settled near Society Hill, SC"--Publisher's Web site.
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Nicholas James Carr Rowan

James is generally a happy kid .... Though sometimes he really does yearn for a friend to share his time with. It is during a great flood which challenges them all that James and those around him decide to make some changes.
The Boston Directory

The Boston Directory

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The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, (Softcover): ...

The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, (Softcover): ...

Ralph Emerson Twitchell

F. Sanchez Juan Antonio F, Salvidar Mariano F. Sospedra Pascual F. Sanchez Juan F. 8. ... 218 181 F. Pino Ignacio 219 183 F. P. Francisco Antonio 220 183 F. Perez Miraval Joseph 221 184 F. Pereyro Josi 222 185 F. de la Pefia J. Francisco  ...
The Man Who Lived Among the Cannibals: Poems in the Voice of ...

The Man Who Lived Among the Cannibals: Poems in the Voice of ...

Laurie Robertson-Lorant

Poems in the Voice of Herman Melville Laurie Robertson-Lorant. Cover Art: Herman Melville, 1846. Painting by Asa W. Twitchell.- Courtesy of the Berkshire Athenaeum. American whaling ships at Kealakekua Bay, Hawaii, early 1840s.

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