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Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"David Sedaris meets Garrison Keillor in this hysterically funny and thoughtful collection of original essays by Tony Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg, who shares anecdotes and observations gathered from a lifetime of perfecting Rules for Others to Live By. Between worrying about his artist friends and reconciling his complicated feelings about New York City, Pulitzer finalist Richard Greenberg still finds time to be something of a hermit--and...
Author
Publisher
Better Link Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Illustrated Myths & Legends of China is a profusely illustrated collection of 32 carefully chosen tales of Chinese Myth and legend. With more than 100 illustrations drawn over two thousand years of all aspects of Chinese art, including painting, pottery and porcelain, jade, bronzes and tomb decoration, Illustrated Myths & Legends of China is not only a vividly written collection of tales of the universe's emergence from chaos and the creation of the...
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Series
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its eight colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box reentered Gwendy's life. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation the box represented. Now, malignant forces...
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Since before the Declaration of Independence, poets have shaped a collective imagination of nationhood at critical points in American history. In The Patriot Poets Stephen Adams considers major odes and "progress poems" that address America's destiny in the face of slavery, the Civil War, imperialist expansion, immigration, repeated financial boom and bust, gross social inequality, racial and gendered oppression, and the rise of the present-day corporate...
68569) Behind the enigma: the authorised history of GCHQ, Britain's secret cyber-intelligence agency
Author
Publisher
London
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
For a hundred years GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters has been at the forefront of British secret statecraft. Born out of the need to support military operations in the First World War, and fought over ever since, today it is the UK's biggest intelligence, security and cyber agency and a powerful tool of the British state. Famed primarily for its codebreaking achievements at Bletchley Park against Enigma ciphers in the Second World War,...
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Prior to the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team had won just four World Cup matches in 72 years. They'd been humbled with a last place finish at the 1998 World Cup, scoring just once across three games. Major League Soccer was still in its infancy, and generally struggling. But the 2002 squad managed to beat powerhouse Portugal to advance out of the group stages, toppled Mexico 2-0 in the round of 16, and stood up ably to Germany...
Author
Pub. Date
1941
Language
English
Description
Permanent cards contain family information, education, previous employment, dates of entering the service, branch of service, training, campaigns, rank, citations and date of discharge. A card was created for each man and woman who entered the service (Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines, etc.; both enlisted and volunteer people) in World War II; cards are in various degrees of completeness. Correspondence to veterans consists of letters (carbon-copies)...
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As twenty-first century Harlem gentrifies, the neighborhood's status as the center of African American life and culture has generated scholarly as well as public interest. However, the roots and implications of Harlem as a symbolic capital of black life have been more assumed than examined. This collection brings together prominent scholars in literary studies, film studies, and history to explore the cultural and social history of Harlem and to...
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America's tweens and teen girls. Though series books are often derided for lacking in imagination and literary potency, that the majority of American girls have been exposed to girls' series in some...
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the broader conflict. With some notable exceptions, studies have proceeded in rather conventional channels, focusing on U.S. policy objectives and high-profile leaders (Fidel Castro) and events (the Cuban Missile Crisis), drawing largely on U.S. government sources....
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Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"What was it like growing up white in Mississippi as the Civil Rights Movement exploded in the Fifties and Sixties? How did white children reconcile the decency and fairness taught by their parents with the indecency and unfairness of the "Mississippi Way of Life," the genteel euphemism applied to the pervasive Jim Crow regime? How did the Civil Rights Movement influence white kids coming of age in the most segregated place in America? Won Over, a...
68579) Write your own fairy tale: the new rules for dating, relationships, and finding love on your terms
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Smart and sassy relationship expert Siggy Flicker is your new fairy godmother. Having matched more than a thousand couples and embraced her own second chance at love, she knows finding a prince is no picnic. Now she's sharing the keys to building a fairy-tale romance, beginning with a honest assessment of what you really want to be happy. To help readers create the healthy, lasting relationships they deserve, Siggy is sharing her honest, empowering...
68580) The Roosevelt era
Author
Publisher
Boni and Gaer
Pub. Date
[1947]
Language
English
Description
"An effort to communicate, through the words of many writers, something of the ideas, the problems, and the actions of men and women in Franklin Roosevelt's America between 1932 and 1945."
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