Author: John Godber
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: shakers
Published: 1998-01
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822213168
ISBN-13: 9780822213161
Author: Edward D. Andrews
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: shakers, called, people
Number of Pages: 351
Published: 1963-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0486210812
ISBN-13: 9780486210810
Definitive study provides detailed coverage of origins, ideology, industry and art, mode of worship, internal organization of communities. Author’s reliance on original manuscript material, contemporary illustrations make this study especially useful to students of American social and religious movements. 33 illustrations.
Authors:Julie Nicoletta, Bret Morgan,
Publisher: Countryman Press
Keywords: shakers, architecture
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 088150310X
ISBN-13: 9780881503104
Author: John Ayto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: shaped, words, chronology, shakers, movers
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-12-04
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0198614527
ISBN-13: 9780198614524
Take a fascinating journey from cornflakes (1907) to spam (1994). This vivid picture of the last 105 years is based on John Ayto’s critically acclaimed Twentieth Century Words, and gives a selection of the key words added to the English language in the twentieth century.For each decade, an introductory essay identifies the main historical, cultural, and scientific currents, and shows how they contributed new vocabulary to the language. An A-Z listing of words which were first recorded in that decade follows, selected for their resonance to today’s world. Each word is fully describ
Author: Gerald Lee Gutek
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Keywords: moravians, others, shakers, guide, utopian, communities, visiting
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1570032106
ISBN-13: 9781570032103
This is a guidebook to 20 of America’s 19th-centiry utopian communities, from the buildings and furnishings of Hancock Shaker Village to the gardens at Old Salem which reflect the country’s long-standing fascination with idyllic societies isolated the rest of humanity.
Author: Gilbert King
Publisher: Courage Books
Keywords: cycles, celebrated, highwheelers, shakers, bicycle
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2002-06-23
List price: $19.98
ISBN-10: 0762412623
ISBN-13: 9780762412624
Author: Robley E. Whitson
Publisher: Paulist Press
Keywords: western, spirituality, classics, reflection, centuries, spiritual, shakers
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1983-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0809123738
ISBN-13: 9780809123735
The Shaker tradition, from its origin in late eighteenth-century England to its flowering in nineteenth-century America, long has been of interest to students of sociology and American religious history. Yet, few attempts have been made to relate Shaker theology and spirituality to the mainstream of Western mystical experience. In presenting this collection of Shaker texts, Robley E. Whitson contends that Shakerism has been generally misunderstood and, consequently, undervalued as a source of useful insights into the divine-human relationship. Here are collected the teachings of Ann Lee, Jo
