This Emmy Award-winning powerful adaptation of John Jakes' best-seller tells the story of the turbulent events and emotions that ignited the Civil War. In the tradition of Gone With The Wind, this glorious epic focuses on the lives of two families who are geographically and ideologically placed on opposite sides of the war - The North and The South. The saga follows the families through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields until the South surrenders and the families are reunited in friendship. In the final installment, the story of the two families continues through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian territories.

North and South (DVD)As the daughter of a middle-class parson, Margaret Hale has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in rural southern England. When her father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, Margaret is shocked by the dirt, the noise and the gruffness of the people, but she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner John Thornton.]]>

The outstanding textiles represented in this book were displayed at the Visvakarma series of exhibitions and have a wide-ranging vocabulary of design, technical skill and aesthetic brilliance. Written and edited by renowned names in textile design, this book is, indeed, a treasure for both the textile aficionado and designer.

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The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North.Shedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons explores Klansmen's appropriation of images and language from northern urban forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque, and business culture. While the Klan sought to retain the prewar racial order, the figure of the Ku-Klux became a joint creation of northern popular cultural entrepreneurs and southern whites seeking, perversely and violently, to modernize the South. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive acc... [Read More]

Includes one music CD featuring The Hit Crew. Songs include: Electric Slide, YMCA, Let's Twist Again, Jailhouse Rock, Gloria, We Are Family, Celebration, The Conga, Loco-motion, It's Raining Men, I Will Survive, In The Mood, Shout, Born To Be Alive, La Bamba, Hands Up, Chicken Dance, and Hockey Pockey.

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Whitaker (director, Indian Arts Research Center in Santa Fe) explores the history and evolution of Navajo and Pueblo fabric arts. She presents 250-plus color illustrations of examples from the Southwest Museum's collection, together with 57 details of the works and 49 historical photographs. She also includes accounts of the early collectors and some of the colorful people who were involved in the founding of the museum and the shaping of its collection. The accompanying CD-ROM contains charts of the fiber and construction analysis performed on each of the textiles, as well as a complete inventory of the museum's holdings. Oversize: 10.25x12.25