On The Rocks

Author : Lori Rotskoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807861421
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Love on the Rocks written by Lori Rotskoff and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism. After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, recreational drinking became increasingly accepted among white, suburban, middle-class men and women. But excessive or habitual drinking plagued many families. How did people view the "problem drinkers" in their midst? How did husbands and wives learn to cope within an "alcoholic marriage"? And how was drinking linked to broader social concerns during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War era? By the 1950s, Rotskoff explains, mental health experts, movie producers, and members of self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon helped bring about a shift in the public perception of alcoholism from "sin" to "sickness." Yet alcoholism was also viewed as a family problem that expressed gender-role failure for both women and men. On the silver screen (in movies such as The Lost Weekend and The Best Years of Our Lives) and on the printed page (in stories by such writers as John Cheever), in hospitals and at Twelve Step meetings, chronic drunkenness became one of the most pressing public health issues of the day. Shedding new light on the history of gender, marriage, and family life from the 1920s through the 1960s, this innovative book also opens new perspectives on the history of leisure and class affiliation, attitudes toward consumerism and addiction, and the development of a therapeutic culture.

Author : Kandi Steiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781960649010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book On the Rocks written by Kandi Steiner and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm the mayor's daughter. He's the town bad boy. I'm engaged to someone else... but my heart belongs to him.Noah Becker is nothing but trouble.That's what Mama told me when I was a kid, kicking his pew in church and giggling at the games we'd play. It's what the town said when his father died and the Becker brothers went wild. And it's on repeat in my mind the day I walk into the whiskey distillery where he works to buy a wedding gift for my fiancé.He's trouble.Dirty, sweaty, rude trouble.No matter how many times I repeat it, I can't escape Noah in our small Tennessee town. And the more I run into him, the more he infuriates me. Because he sees what no one else does. He sees me-the real me. The me I'm not sure I'm allowed to be.I'm Ruby Grace Barnett, the mayor's daughter. Soon to be a politician's wife, just like Mama and Daddy always wanted.Soon to fulfill my family's legacy, just like I always knew I would.Until the boy everyone warned me about makes me question everything, like whether the wedding I'm planning is one I even want.Everyone says Noah Becker is nothing but trouble.If only I had listened.Bestselling Author Kandi Steiner delivers a gripping small town country romance about a whiskey barrel raiser and the Mayor's daughter he can't resist. An Amazon Bestseller and Book 1 in the gripping Becker Brothers series.

Author : William Grimes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 086547656X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Straight Up Or On the Rocks written by William Grimes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-10-16 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After exploring the proto-cocktails of the early nineteenth century, Grimes tracks the rise of the saloon and the bartender, and the spread of the American cocktail to Europe the golden age of the cocktail, from 1880 to 1920, when classics such as the Bronx, Manhattan, martini, and daiquiri came into being the Jazz Age and the subterranean world of the speakeasy the post-Prohibition lull and the Cold War landscape of cocktails that followed the strange efflorescence of a Polynesian-influenced lounge culture and the recent resurgence that has produced a wave of exciting new drinks. (The martini, of course, gets a chapter of its own.) The book includes about one hundred recipes-half of them new for this edition-for both classics and innovations.

Author : Peter Rhodan
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book On The Rocks written by Peter Rhodan and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Arturo Sanders was having a bad day. First the routine destruction of some ancient automatic defence batteries became a disaster when his ship's screens failed and he had no choice to abandon ship. Then he had to rescue two left behind crew people which meant he missed the main shuttle evacuation leaving him and his two companions in a shuttle on their own at the rear.Then the shuttle was hit by enemy fire just as they traversed the jump point, of course! This sent the shuttle through something to somewhere but not the safe system the rest of the crew had jumped to!The damage to the shuttle meant they would need a dockyard or failing that they would have to land on a planet to affect repairs which seemed likely as the system had no electronic signature, so space docks looked unlikely.The third planet was in fact inhabited, but by primitives armed with swords and spears, probably an old Imperial colony that had been cut off and regressed tech-wise. They should be able to land and repair their shuttle somewhere out of the way except of course the engines decided to fail halfway down! This led to a close encounter with the side of a mountain, followed by a crash landing into a lake.And then his day got really bad!

Author : Erin Duffy
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062205757
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book On the Rocks written by Erin Duffy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heartwarming novel about friendship, family, and finding love in the Facebook Age—not to mention the perils, pitfalls, and dubious pleasures of being a modern young single woman—from Erin Duffy, the author of Bond Girl. Six months ago, Abby's life fell apart for the entire world to see. Her longtime boyfriend-turned-fiancé, Ben, unceremoniously dumped her—on Facebook—while she was trying on dresses for the big day. When the usual remedies—multiple pints of Ben & Jerry's, sweatpants, and a comfy couch—fail to work their magic, her best friend, Grace, devises a plan to get Abby back on her game. She and Abby are going to escape Boston and its reminders of Ben and head to Newport for the summer. There, in a quaint rented cottage by the sea, the girls will enjoy cool breezes, cocktails, and crowds of gorgeous men. But no matter where they go, Abby and Grace discover that in this era of social media—when seemingly everyone is preserving every last detail of their lives online—there is no real escape. Dating has never been easy. But now that the rules are more blurred than ever, how will they find true love? And even if they do, can romance stand a chance when a girl's every word and move can go viral with a single click?

Author : Georgia Beers
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635559901
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book On the Rocks written by Georgia Beers and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No straight women. No parents of students. Nobody under thirty-five. Vanessa Martini makes no apologies for her dating checklist. She’s been up close to enough messy breakups to know what havoc they wreak in life. Just because people see her as fun and happy, and just because she loves her life in general, that doesn’t mean she can’t be careful. Or discerning. Or, okay, fine, super picky. Grace Chapman is tired of being judged by her boss, by the husband she’s divorcing, by her parents. All she cares about now is her seven-year-old son, Oliver. The divorce is making him act out in school, and she just needs to find a way to help him so they can start again. What she does not need is the silent judgment she gets from his teacher. His wildly attractive, super sexy, annoyingly gorgeous teacher. Grace ticks all Vanessa’s Do Not Date boxes. Vanessa is yet one more person who disapproves of Grace. Of course, they’re never going to fall in love.

Author : Jane Gardam
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349146381
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book God On The Rocks written by Jane Gardam and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A meticulously observed modern classic' Independent During one glorious summer between the wars, the realities of life and the sexual ritual dance of the adult world creep into the life of young Margaret Marsh. Her father, preaching the doctrine of the unsavoury Primal Saints; her mother, bitterly nostalgic for what might have been; Charles and Binkie, anchored in the past and a game of words; dying Mrs Frayling and Lydia the maid, given to the vulgar enjoyment of life; all contribute to Margaret's shattering moment of truth. And when the storm breaks, it is not only God who is on the rocks as the summer hurtles towards drama, tragedy, and a touch of farce. 'Tantalising, funny, sharp' Daily Telegraph 'So charming a novel that you don't want to give away a single one of the many twists of its plot' New York Times 'Jane Gardam has a spectacular gift' Times Literary Supplement 'Exact, piquant and comical' Observer

Author : Florence Connolly Shipek
Publisher : Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Pushed Into the Rocks written by Florence Connolly Shipek and published by Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an introduction to the history of land grants in California that began to occur in the late 1870's and continue up until modern times. The author, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, offers the results of thirty years of research and testimony as an expert witness for the Indians struggling to regain and maintain control of their land. In tracing the historical ownership and use patterns by Native Americans, the author illustrates how a case is made. Her largest concerns are to establish what the "tribal custom" is and to offer a practical guide to tribes and consultants involved in land-use planning or litigation.

Author : Peter Nichols
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1784293601
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Rocks written by Peter Nichols and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the island of Mallorca, The Rocks is a double love story told in reverse. Opening in 2005 with a dramatic event that seems to seal the mystery of two lives, the story moves backwards in time, unravelling over sixty years, amid the olive groves and bars, the boats and poolside parties, the lives and relationships of two intertwined families within an expat community of endearing and flawed characters. As one story is revealed, another, sweeter one, a love story of a couple from the younger generation, arises in the wake of their elders' failures. The Rocks is a darkly comic, bittersweet, finally heartbreaking novel, that slips back in time to reveal the shocking incident that marked and altered these lives for ever.

Author : Sabrina Ward Harrison
Publisher : New York : Villard Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Brave on the Rocks written by Sabrina Ward Harrison and published by New York : Villard Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 25-year-old acclaimed author and artist who produced the stunning visual memoir "Spilling Open" comes the all-new multimedia installment of her next intimate journey.