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America's Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories

America's Favorite Holidays: Candid Histories

Bruce David Forbes

Deftly distilling information from a wide range of sources, Bruce David Forbes reveals often-surprising answers to questions about each holiday’s traditions. Was Christmas always as commercialized as it is today?
Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition

Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition

Bruce David Forbes

Bruce David Forbes, Jeffrey H. Mahan. University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and ...
Plotting Apocalypse: Reading, Agency, and Identity in the ...

Plotting Apocalypse: Reading, Agency, and Identity in the ...

Jennie Chapman

Bruce David Forbes, “How Popular Are the Left Behind Books . . . and Why? A Discussion of Popular Culture,” in Rapture, Revelation, and the Left Behind Series, ed. Bruce David Forbes and Jean Halgren Kilde (New York: Palgrave Macmillan ...
Plotting Apocalypse: Reading, Agency, and Identity in the ...

Plotting Apocalypse: Reading, Agency, and Identity in the ...

Jennie Chapman

Television Culture. London: Routledge, 1987. Forbes, Bruce David. “How Popular Are the Left Behind Books . . . and Why? A Discussion of Popular Culture .” In Rapture, Revelation, and the Left Behind Series, ed. Bruce David Forbes and Jean ...
Forbes Field

Forbes Field

David Finoli

Dreyfuss decided to call his palace--the first concrete and steel facility built in the National League--Forbes Field, after the British general John Forbes, a hero in the French and Indian War.
Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times: Exploring the Left ...

Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times: Exploring the Left ...

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Exploring the Left Behind Series B. Forbes, J. Kilde. RAPTURE, REVELATION, AND THE END TIMES © Bruce David Forbes and Jeanne Halgren Kilde, 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner ...
Genealogy of the Family of Forbes

Genealogy of the Family of Forbes

Mathew Lumsden

Forbes, with diverss daughters; the bairns of the sd. Andrew and Alex. of Auchintoull, bear witnes themselves. Thus having spoken of Duncan Forbes, second brother to gray Williet in the next place followes to be spoken of Patrick Forbes of ...
David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador ...

David Bruce and Diplomatic Practice: An American Ambassador ...

John W. Young

Also, Jonathan Colman, 'The London Ambassadorship of David K. E. Bruce during the Wilson-Johnson years, 1964–8', Diplomacy and Statecraft, Vol. 15 ( 2004), 327–52; John W. Young, 'David Bruce, 1961–9', in Alison R. Holmes and Simon ...
A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and ...

A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and ...

John Burke

General Lord Forbes, by whom he has a son, b. 8th August, 1829, and two daughters. E in rage. This is a branch of the noble house of Forbes, Lords Forbes , springing from The Honorable Patrick Forbes, of Corse, (armour-bearer, by charter, ...
Remains of ... Robert Forbes, a selection from his public ...

Remains of ... Robert Forbes, a selection from his public ...

Robert Forbes

Robert Forbes, Alexander Philip (minister at Portobello.) Alexander Spence. and in the desire which, both felt to promote the temporal and social, as well as the spiritual welfare of their flocks. Still in the life of Mr. Forbes there are many points of ...
In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce

In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce

G. A. Henty

At the end of the 13th century, oppressed Scots rebelled against England with leaders William Wallace and Robert Bruce. This tale takes readers into heroic company with the fictional Archie Forbes, who fights alongside the legends.
The End All Around Us: Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture

The End All Around Us: Apocalyptic Texts and Popular Culture

John Walliss

A Literary Discussion of Millenarian Fiction,” in Bruce David Forbes and Jean Halgren Kilde (eds), Rapture, Revelation and the Left Behind Series (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 167–95. 6. My summary of ...
Christmas: A Candid History

Christmas: A Candid History

Bruce David Forbes

"In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas-from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling ...
Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition

Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition

Bruce David Forbes

This edition also adds to the end of each chapter new the pedagogical tools of discussion questions and key term glossaries. "You have in your hands an indispensable guide to thinking with popular culture.
Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America

Writing the Rapture: Prophecy Fiction in Evangelical America

Crawford Gribben

“Like a Thief in the Night: Cotton Mather's Millennialism” (Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1987). ... A Discussion of Popular Culture,” in Bruce David Forbes and Jeanne Halgren Kilde, eds., Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times:  ...
The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History

The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History

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In Religion and Popular Culture in America, edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan, 139–153. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ——. Religion in the Media Age. London: Routledge, 2006. Hoover, Stewart M., and ...
Teamwork, Stick-to-Itiveness, Opportunity and You

Teamwork, Stick-to-Itiveness, Opportunity and You

B. C. Forbes

Three short essays from the founder of Forbes Magazine first published in 1922. Forbes's essays, filled with inspiration and enlightenment on these three subjects, are the foundations of success.
Forbes

Forbes

Bertie Charles Forbes

In February 1990 Forbes published an article by Vladimir Kvint predicting that the Soviet empire would fall apart and Russia would go it alone. Most of the experts scoffed: It couldn't happen. The accepted view was that the KGB, the Communist  ...
Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and ...

Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and ...

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In Religion and Popular Culture in America, 2nd ed., edited by Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan, 25249. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Public Enemy. “Fight the Power.'7 Fear of a Black Planet. Def Jam Recordings/ ...
Religion and Popular Culture in America

Religion and Popular Culture in America

Bruce David Forbes

Popular. Religion. in. Madonna. Videos. STUDYING MADONNA AFTER THE ACADEMIC MADONNA BOOM This essay argues that some of the most important and interesting texts in recent U.S. culture which have overlapping concerns with ...
Georgia Cowboy Poets

Georgia Cowboy Poets

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Georgia Cowboy Poets defined.61 Bruce David Forbes notes that “contrasts between popular culture, folk culture, and high culture are...simply a suggestive typology, and the pure types do not always precisely fit actual examples.”62 Each of ...
Keys to Success

Keys to Success

B. C. Forbes

B. C. Forbes. KEYS TO SUCCESS PERSONAL EFFICIENCY B. C. Forbes - 1917 – © 2005 by Dixie Press, Revisions and Additions. All rights.
Profiles in Cardiology

Profiles in Cardiology

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John Willis Hurst, Charles Richard Conti, Bruce Fye ... 58 W Bruce Fye 60 W Bruce Fye 62 John H. Stone 64 John D. Canlwell 68 W Bruce Fye 71 W Bruce Fye 74 W Bruce Fye 76 W. Bruce Fye 78 W Bruce Fye 79 W Bruce Fye 81 W Bruce Fye ...
Apocalyptic Fever: End-Time Prophecies in Modern America

Apocalyptic Fever: End-Time Prophecies in Modern America

Richard G. Kyle

Richard Kyle, Evangelicalism: An Americanized Christianity (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2006) 277–78; Bruce David Forbes and Jeanne Halgren Kilde, “ Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times,” in Rapture, Revelation, and the End ...
A new Persian grammar, by D. Forbes and S. Arnot

A new Persian grammar, by D. Forbes and S. Arnot

Duncan Forbes

Duncan Forbes, Sandford Arnot. IX. Transcript of Plate 2d. to front thit page, Being intended as a specimen of the works of Hafi£', proposed to be published in twenty parts, all in the same highly-finished style of engraving. The above Ode, with ...
The Institutes of the Law of Scotland. ... By William Forbes ...

The Institutes of the Law of Scotland. ... By William Forbes ...

William Forbes

William Forbes. ilj 'f I fill'"' lliaB>ilMull!U-L:4^1j.i^^"'^W.-TJ-'-.-!L--' . . □. - Jj!j^*> . ' .' slain or diiftaembred (,a)3 or that Goods are fteUen or robbed ( b )„ within their Jurisidicti'- on ; or that Rebels are jtbere (c); are obliged to raise t}be -Hue mi Cry,  ...
Automotive giants of America: Men who made our Motor Industry

Automotive giants of America: Men who made our Motor Industry

Bertie Charles Forbes

How the foremost leaders have brought the automotive industry to its unique eminence is told in short stories, all of which have appeared in Forbes Magazine, half of them written by B. C. Forbes and half by O. D. Foster.
Otters

Otters

David Stone

... Jeff Foott/Bruce Coleman, 6t P.A. Hinchliffe/Bruce Coleman, 6b Uni of Essex, 7 H. Jungius/WWF, 8 R Ostfeld, 9 H. lungius/WWF, 10 Leonard Lee Rue/Bruce Coleman, 11 Jeff Foott / Bruce Coleman, 12 Mark Boulton/ICCE, 13 F. Vollmar/ WWF ...

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