Author: Tom Ogren
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: experts, lawn, growing, perfect
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0446690937
ISBN-13: 9780446690935

Homeowners are invited to exchange green envy for a green thumb with the helpof this new horticultural handbook. 20 illustrations.

Author: Kathy J. Ogren
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: jazz, meaning, america, twenties, revolution
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1992-06-04
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0195074793
ISBN-13: 9780195074796

Born of African rhythms, the spiritual "call and response," and other American musical traditions, jazz was by the 1920s the dominant influence on this country’s popular music. Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston) and the "Lost Generation" (Malcolm Cowley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein), along with many other Americans celebrated it--both as an expression of black culture and as a symbol of rebellion against American society. But an equal number railed against it. Whites were shocked by its raw emotion and sexuality, and blacks