A cultural history of sneakers, tracing the footprint of one of our most iconic fashions across sports, business, pop culture, and American identity When the athletic shoe graduated from the beaches and croquet courts of the wealthy elite to streetwear ubiquity, its journey through the heart of American life was just getting started. In this rollicking narrative, Nicholas K. Smith carries us through the long twentieth century as sneakers became the totem of subcultures from California skateboarders to New York rappers, the cause of gang violence and riots, the heart of a global economic controversy, the lynchpin in a quest to turn big sports into big business, and the muse of high fashion. Studded with larger-than-life mavericks and unexpected visionaries—from genius rubber inventor, Charles Goodyear, to road-warrior huckster Chuck Taylor, to the feuding brothers who founded Adidas and Puma, to the track coach who changed the sport by pouring rubber in his wife's waffle iron—Kicks introduces us to the sneaker's surprisingly influential, enduring, and evolving legacy.

Kicks: The Great American Story of Sneakers

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, Nicholas

Professionals & Academics

Crown

Arts & Literature

Based on the systematic analysis of large amounts of computer-readable text, this book shows how the English language has been changing in the recent past, often in unexpected and previously undocumented ways. The study is based on a group of matching corpora, known as the 'Brown family' of corpora, supplemented by a range of other corpus materials, both written and spoken, drawn mainly from the later twentieth century. Among the matters receiving particular attention are the influence of American English on British English, the role of the press, the 'colloquialization' of written English, and a wide range of grammatical topics, including the modal auxiliaries, progressive, subjunctive, passive, genitive and relative clauses. These subjects build an overall picture of how English grammar is changing, and the linguistic and social factors that are contributing to this process.

Change in Contemporary English: A Grammatical Study (Studies in English Language)

Reference

Leech, Geoffrey

Hundt, Marianne

Mair, Christian

Words, Language & Grammar

Cambridge University Press

Stories Of Great National Songs (1899)

History

Kessinger Publishing

Stories of Great National Songs

Arts & Photography

Music

Library Reprints

Socrates Lib/E (World of Philosophy)

Brickhouse, Professor of Philosophy Thomas C

Knowledge Products

The Philosophy Of Socrates (History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy)

This text provides an introduction to Socrates—both the charismatic, controversial historical figure and the essential Socratic philosophy. Written at a beginning level but incorporating recent scholarship, The Philosophy of Socrates offers numerous translations of pertinent passages. As they present these passages, Nicholas Smith and Thomas Brickhouse demonstrate why these passages are problematic, survey the interpretive and philosophical options, and conclude with brief defenses of their own proposed solutions. Throughout, the authors rely on standard translations to parallel accompanying assigned primary source readers. Each chapter concludes with an annotated bibliography of suggested readings.

Politics & Social Sciences

Brickhouse, Thomas C.

Philosophy

Westview Press

This text provides an introduction to Socrates—both the charismatic, controversial historical figure and the essential Socratic philosophy. Written at a beginning level but incorporating recent scholarship, The Philosophy of Socrates offers numerous translations of pertinent passages. As they present these passages, Nicholas Smith and Thomas Brickhouse demonstrate why these passages are problematic, survey the interpretive and philosophical options, and conclude with brief defenses of their own proposed solutions. Throughout, the authors rely on standard translations to parallel accompanying assigned primary source readers. Each chapter concludes with an annotated bibliography of suggested readings.

This volume combines the third and fourth volumes of the papers presented at the 1987 and 1988 meetings of the Society for Utopian Studies. They represent the forefront of utopian thought and experimentation. Contents: Feminisms and Utopia; Breaking Silence in Feminist Dystopias; The Function of Goldstein's Book: Time as Theme and Structure in Dystopian Satire; Sunrise Ranch as a Utopian Community; Shangri-La: Utopian Bridge between Cultures; Death and Community: Insights from the Utopian Vision of Marge Piercy; William Morris' Review of Bellamy's Looking Backward; Edward Bellamy and the New Deal: The Revival of Bellamyism in the 1930s; Utopianism and Defeatism in Friedrich Nietszche; The Shakespearean Tragedy of Brave New World; The Deceit of Dress: Utopian Visions and the Argument Against Clothing; The Three Men in Herland: Why They Enter the Text; Homelessness, Wastelands, and Barricades: Transforming Dystopian Spaces in Les Miserables. Co-published with Society for Utopian Studies.

Utopian Studies III & IV

Cummings, Michael

Leibacher-Ouvrard, Lise

Studies, Utopian

University Press of America

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Masters Of Old Age: The Value Of Longevity Illustrated By Practical Examples (1905)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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