Duck And Cover

Author : Kathie Farnell
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611177618
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duck and Cover written by Kathie Farnell and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wry memoir of innocence, perplexity, and growing up as a white girl in a (very slowly) changing South. Based on her perspective as a smart-mouthed, unreasonably optimistic white girl growing up in Cloverdale, a genteel and neatly landscaped neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Kathie Farnell recounts those decades when Montgomery’s social order was slowly—very slowly—changing. Normandale Shopping Center had a display of the latest fallout shelters, and integration was on the horizon—though many still thought the water in the white and colored drinking fountains came from separate tanks. Farnell’s household, more like the Addams family than the Cleavers of Leave it to Beaver, included socially ambitious parents, two younger brothers, a live-in grandmother, and Libby, the family maid. Her father was a one-armed rageaholic given to strange business deals, such as the one resulting in the family unintentionally owning a bakery. Mama, the quintessential attorney, could strike a jury but was hopeless at making Jello. Granny, a curmudgeon who kept a chamber pot under her bed, was always at odds with Libby, who had been in a bad mood since the bus boycott began. Farnell deftly recounts tales of aluminum Christmas trees, the Hula-Hoop craze, road trips in the family’s un-air-conditioned black Bel Air, show-and-tell involving a human skeleton, belatedly learning to swear, and even the pet chicken she didn’t know she had. Her well-crafted prose reveals quirky and compelling characters in stories that don’t ignore the dark side of the segregated South, as told from the wide-eyed perspective of a girl who is sometimes oblivious to and often mystified by its byzantine rules. Little did she know that the Age of Aquarius was just around the corner.

Author : Jackie Urbanovic
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062067168
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duck and Cover written by Jackie Urbanovic and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harold, a large green alligator with a big mouth and an even bigger appetite, shows up at Irene's door seeking shelter, everyone hides. Except Max. Max persuades the other critters that this particular runaway needs their help. So while everyone keeps busy seeing that Harold remains well fed, Max cooks up a clever plan. But is a room filled with fake alligators enough to keep the zoo detective away?

Author : Melvin E. Matthews, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488506
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Duck and Cover written by Melvin E. Matthews, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s and early 1960s, school air-raid drills, bomb shelters, and unnerving civil defense films served as constant reminders of the looming threat of nuclear war. Throughout America, a widespread civil defense effort used town meetings, public school educational programs, and the mass media--television, radio, and especially, motion pictures--to mobilize every citizen for a protracted Cold War. This volume explores how American popular culture has portrayed civil defense from mid-twentieth century to the immediate post-September 11 era. With analysis of everything from early government propaganda films and 1950s science fiction films to Happy Days, the Reagan-era TV movie The Day After, and the small-screen nostalgia trend after 9/11, it shows how popular culture reflects American fears and the hope of preparedness.

Author : Benjamin Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780359989218
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors written by Benjamin Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-apocalyptic world isn't that bad. Sure, there are mutants. But, for the people of New Hope, daily life isn't so much a struggle of finding food or medicine as it is trying to find a new shortstop for their kickball team. This makes it difficult for a post-apocalyptic warrior to find work. Thankfully, an army full of killers is making its way to the peaceful town and plans to raze it to the ground. Only a fully trained post-apocalyptic nomadic warrior can stop them. Two have offered their services. One is invited to help. The other is sent to roam the wasteland. Did the townspeople make the right decision? Will they be saved? Did they find a shortstop? What's with all the bears? Find out in Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors, the first book in the Duck and Cover Adventures. It's the end of the world as you've never known it.

Author : hahatimeforponies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998526225
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fallout Equestria written by hahatimeforponies and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Wellerstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226833445
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restricted Data written by Alex Wellerstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific secrecy that the atomic bomb appeared to demand was new, unusual, and very nearly unprecedented. It was foreign to American science and American democracy—and potentially incompatible with both. From the beginning, this secrecy was controversial, and it was always contested. The atomic bomb was not merely the application of science to war, but the result of decades of investment in scientific education, infrastructure, and global collaboration. If secrecy became the norm, how would science survive? Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author’s efforts, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early twenty-first century. A compelling history of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bert the Turtle Says Duck and Cover written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protection in the Nuclear Age written by United States. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Institute of Architects
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National School Fallout Shelter Design Competition Awards written by American Institute of Architects and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mac Barnett
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 076367754X
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse written by Mac Barnett and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a nod and wink to readers, this untraditional fable is about a mouse and a duck who get swallowed by a wolf.