The Book Of Halloween (1919)
by Ruth Edna Kelley
from Kessinger Publishing, LLC
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
The Story of Valentine's Day
by Nancy Skarmeas
from Candy Cane Press
This title is suitable for toddlers and ages upwards. There are so many things in this world for which to be thankful - the sun and the moon, flowers and raindrops, family and friends. Children will delight in counting their own blessings as they follow the pages of this colourfully illustrated, easy-to-read book.
Christmas In Ritual And Tradition: Christian And Pagan (1912)
by Clement A. Miles
from Kessinger Publishing, LLC
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Start Your Own Event Planning Business 3/E: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Success
by Entrepreneur Press
from Entrepreneur Press
Celebrate All the Way to the Bank
Weddings, parades, fairs, graduations, conferences, political rallies, fashion shows—what do they have in common? Everyone would rather have someone else plan and conduct them! That someone else can be you if you’re a professional event planner who knows how to develop a theme, find a location, arrange entertainment, plan transportation and do the myriad things needed to pull an event off successfully.
Learn everything you need to know to get started in one of today’s hottest—and most lucrative—businesses:
- How to stay abreast of the newest entertainment, food and decoration options
- Hot new industry trends, from environmentally friendly parties to extravagant first birthday parties and more
- How to build a loyal customer base for large and small events
- Targeted strategies for planning commercial events, political events, civic events, social events and more
- The latest information on the use of technology in event planning
With gross profits averaging 30 to 40 percent, you can easily earn six figures a year planning and conducting events—and have a blast in the process. If you’re looking for a flexible schedule, a wide variety of responsibilities and new adventures every week, event planning is the business for you.
Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns
by Carolyn Otto
from National Geographic Children's Books
Children have never had so many reasons to learn how Chinese people everywhere ring in the new and ring out the old. As China takes its new place on the global stage, understanding Chinese culture and values becomes ever more essential to our next generation.
For two joyous weeks red is all around. The color represents luck and happiness. Children receive money wrapped in red paper, and friends and loved ones exchange poems written on red paper. The Chinese New Year is also an opportunity to remember ancestors, and to wish peace and happiness to friends and family. The holiday ends with the Festival of Lanterns, as many large communities stage the famous Dragon Dance. Fireworks, parades, lanterns, presents, and feasts: these are some of the joys experienced by all who observe Chinese New Year.
Celebrate Chinese New Year is the latest, timely addition to National Geographic’s popular Holidays Around the World series. With 25 colorful images and a simple, educational text, the book is a lively invitation to revel in this child-friendly, national and international holiday. Carolyn Otto brings the historical and cultural aspects of the Chinese New Year into focus, and young readers experience the full flavor of an event celebrated by over a billion people in China, and countless others worldwide.
Special Events: The Roots and Wings of Celebration (Wiley Event Management)
by Joe Goldblatt
from Wiley
From the foremost authority, the definitive guide to your career as an event leader!
Today's special events have their roots in the universal, ancient human need to celebrate with ceremony and ritual. Twenty-first-century event leaders acknowledge these roots while moving the event management profession toward the new possibilities presented by our globalizing world. Special Events: The Roots and Wings of Celebration, Fifth Edition provides experienced as well as aspiring event leaders with a comprehensive guide to understanding, planning, funding, promoting, and producing special events. Filled with helpful resources and illustrative examples, this Fifth Edition covers such areas as marketing, sponsorship, human resource management, financial administration, risk management, safety and security, global event leadership models, media use, legal and ethical considerations, technology, career development, and more.
New and revised materials in this edition include:
- New profiles of leaders in the global events industry from Africa to America and from Bulgaria to Birmingham-learn what makes the greats great and their events truly spectacular
- Five Best Practice examples of exemplary events and over a dozen detailed case studies of all types of events
- Broader coverage of production schedules and the soon-to-be new industry standard, the APEX event specification guide
- Revised discussion of law and ethics in special events
- Over 100 new Web resources throughout text
- Descriptions of the leading meetings and events industry professional certification programs and how to earn these designations
Chases Calendar of Events, 2012 Edition
by Editors of Chase's Calendar of Events
from McGraw-Hill
The world’s datebook for more than 50 years
Chase’s Calendar of Events 2012 is the authoritative guide to special occurrences, holidays, anniversaries, celebrity birthdates, religious observances, sporting events, and more from around the world. Librarians, marketers, journalists, and other professionals have come to rely on it to find out what’s going on that day, in a week, or even a year ahead.
The Onion Presents: Christmas Exposed (Onion Ad Nauseam)
by The Onion Staff
from Quirk Books
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without impulse-priced holiday gift books—and now The Onion has unleashed its award-winning team of investigative journalists upon the genre. Christmas Exposed features more than one hundred shocking tales of Secret Santas, shopping mall mayhem,
dysfunctional family dinners, and much, much more.
The Onion Presents:Love, Sex, and Other Natural Disasters: Relationship Reporting from America's Finest News Source
by The Staff of The Onion
from Quirk Books
Here are more than one hundred news stories of high-school sweethearts, college hook-ups, dating disasters, weddings, divorces, and restraining orders. From “18-Year-Old Miraculously Finds Soulmate in Hometown” to “Couple Forgets 70th Wedding Anniversary,” these reports capture the heartbreak and hilarity of the human experience.
A Time to Keep: The Tasha Tudor Book of Holidays
Describes traditional holiday celebrations throughout the year in a New England household.
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