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Coco Chanel by Linda Simon
Category: Biography | Series: Critical Lives
To call Coco Chanel a fashion designer hardly captures her social and cultural significance. An iconoclastic entrepreneur, she rebelled against and manipulated gender expectations of her time. This title examines the world Chanel both reflected and shaped, setting her life and work in a broad context of ...Show more
Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper by Linda Simon
Category: History
In the glorious, boozy party that followed World War I, a new being burst defiantly onto the world stage: the flapper. Young, impetuous, and flirtatious, she was an alluring, controversial figure, celebrated in movies, fiction, plays, and the pages of fashion magazines. But, as Linda Simon argues, the f ...Show more
The Greatest Shows on Earth - A History of the Circus by Linda Simon
Category: Non-Fiction
Beautifully illustrated and filled with rich historical detail and colorful anecdotes, this is a vibrant history for all those who have ever dreamed of running away to the circus, now in paperback. "Step right up!" and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earth--the Big Top, containing death-defying st ...Show more
Vitality and Change in Warlpiri Songs by Georgia Curran (Editor); Linda Barwick (Editor); Nicolas Peterson (Editor); Valerie Napaljarri Martin (Editor); Simon Japangardi Fisher (Editor)
Category: Australiana | Series: Indigenous Music, Language and Performing Arts Ser.
Warlpiri songs hold together the ceremonies that structure and bind social relationships, and encode detailed information about Warlpiri country, cosmology and kinship. Today, only a small group of the oldest generations has full knowledge of ceremonial songs and their associated meanings, and there is ...Show more
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