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Title: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
Author: Howard Zinn
Published: 2015
Language: English
ISBN: 9780060838652
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages: 784
Extension: EPUB
Size: 677 KB
Subjects: General, History, United States, Political Ideologies, Political Science, History: American, United States - General, United States History (General), History - U.S., Social conditions, USA, History of the Americas, Social History, Regional History, Democracy, Modern period, c 1500 onwards
Categories: History, Politics, Sociology, Nonfiction
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"A wonderful, splendid book-a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." -Howard Fast
Historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in colleges-with its emphasis on great men in high places-to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, it is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of-and in the words of-America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles-the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality-were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.
Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. This edition also includes an introduction by Anthony Arnove, who wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Zinn and who coauthored, with Zinn, Voices of a People's History of the United States.
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Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned
Author: Michael J. Fox
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780733626418
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Pages: 112
Extension: EPUB
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Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Personal Memoirs, Actors
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction
Michael J. Fox abandoned high college to pursue an acting career, but went on to receive honorary degrees from several universities and garner the highest accolades for his acting, as well as for his writing. In his new book, he inspires and motivates graduates to recognize opportunities, maximize their abilities, and roll with the punches-all with his trademark optimism, warmth, and humor.
In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future, Michael draws on his own life experiences to make a case that real learning happens when "life goes skidding sideways." He writes of coming to Los Angeles from Canada at age eighteen and attempting to make his way as an actor. Fox offers up a comically skewed take on how, in his own way, he fulfilled the requirements of a college syllabus. He learned Economics as a starving artist; an unexpected turn as a neophyte activist collegeed him in Political Science; and his approach to Comparative Literature involved stacking books up against their movie versions.
Replete with personal stories and hilarious anecdotes, Michael J. Fox's new book is the perfect gift for graduates.
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Title: A Guest in my Own Country
Author: George Konrad
Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 9781590511398
Publisher: Other Press
Pages: 312
Extension: EPUB
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Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, History, Multi-Cultural, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Multi-Cultural, Nonfiction
Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Biography, Autobiography & Memoir
A powerful memoir of war, politics, literature, and family life by one of Europe's leading intellectuals.
When George Konrad was a child of eleven, he, his sister, and two cousins managed to flee to Budapest from the Hungarian countryside the day before deportations swept through his home town. Ultimately, they were the only Jewish children of the town to survive the Holocaust.
A Guest in My Own Country recalls the life of one of Eastern Europe's most accomplished modern writers, beginning with his survival during the final months of the war. Konrad captures the dangers, the hopes, the betrayals and courageous acts of the period through a series of carefully chosen episodes that occasionally border on the surreal (as when a dead German soldier begins to speak, attempting to justify his actions).
The end of the war launches the young man on a remarkable career in letters and politics. Offering lively descriptions of both his private and public life in Budapest, New York, and Berlin, Konrad reflects insightfully on his role in the Hungarian Uprising, the notion of "internal emigration" - the fate of many writers who, like Konrad, refused to leave the Eastern Bloc under socialism - and other complexities of European identity. To read A Guest in My Own Country is to experience the recent history of East-Central Europe from the inside.
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Title: A Criminal History of Mankind
Author: Colin Wilson
Published: 2015
Language: English
ISBN: 9780881846461
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Pages: 702
Extension: EPUB
Size: 655 KB
Subjects: General, Psychological aspects, History, Social Science, Crime, Sociology, Murder, Violence, Espionage, True Crime, Violence in Society, Murder - General, Criminology, Crime and criminals, Violent crimes
Categories: History, True Crime, Nonfiction
This "immensely stimulating story of true crime down the ages" tells the history of human violence, from Peking Man to the Mafia (The Times, London).
This landmark work offers a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence. Its sweep is broad, its research meticulous and detailed. Colin Wilson explores the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians and the mass slaughter by the armies led by Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Ivan the Terrible, and Vlad the Impaler. He delves into modern history, exploring the genocides practiced by Stalin and Hitler. He then takes a chilling look into the sex crimes and mass murders that have become symbols of the neuroses and intensity of modern life. With breathtaking audacity and stunning insight, Wilson puts criminality firmly in a wide, illuminating historical context.
"A work of massive energy, compulsively readable, splendidly informative . . . it establishes Wilson in a European tradition of thought that includes H. G. Wells, Sartre and Shaw." - Time Out London
"A tremendous resource for crime buffs as well as a challenging exposition for some of the more subtle criminological thinking of our time." - Kirkus Reviews
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Title: A Practical Guide to Racism
Author: C. H. Dalton
Published: 2007
Language: English
ISBN: 9781592403486
Publisher: Gotham
Pages: 224
Extension: EPUB
Size: 992 KB
Subjects: General, United States, Humor, American Satire And Humor, Form, Essays, Humour: Collections & General, Social Science, Literary studies: general, Sociology, English, USA, Humour, Ethnic Studies, Parodies, Form - Parodies, Parodies & spoofs, Racism, Discrimination & Race Relations, Discrimination & Racism, Race relations, Social discrimination, Racism & racial discrimination, United States - Race relations - Humor, Multicultural studies, journals, letters & other prose works, Race And Ethnic Relations
Categories: Essays, Sociology, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
"Read it with someone you hate."
-Jon Stewart
A hilarious look at the races of the world-capturing the proud history and bright future of racism in one handy, authoritative, and deeply offensive volume.
Whether you're laughing, cringing, or some combination of the two, A Practical Guide to Racism is sure to entertain. According to C. H. Dalton, a professor of racialist studies and an expert on inferior people of all ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual preferences, everyone should be hated. A Practical Guide to Racism takes a satirical look at long-standing stereotypes and draws them out to their mad and illogical conclusions. At its core, this deeply sarcastic body of evidence suggests that, by the standards of racism, every race is terrible in its own right.
A Practical Guide to Racism contains sparkling bits of wisdom on such subjects as:
· The good life enjoyed by blacks, who shuffle through life unhindered by the white man's burdens, to become accomplished athletes, rhyme smiths, and dominoes champions
· A close look at the bizarre, sweet-smelling race known as women, who are not very good at anything - especially ruling the free world
· The sad story of the industrious, intelligent Jews, whose entire reputation is sullied by their taste for the blood of Christian babies
· A crucial manual to Arabs, a people so sensitive they are liable to blow up at any time. Literally.
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Title: A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
Author: Ramacharaka Yogi Ramacharaka, William Walker Atkinson
Published: 2016
Language: English
ISBN: 9781599865799
Publisher: Filiquarian Pub Llc
Extension: EPUB
Size: 266 KB
Subjects: Philosophy, General, Reference, Health & Fitness, Yoga, Body; Mind & Spirit, New Thought
Categories: Health & Fitness, Nonfiction
In India, the Candidates for Initiation into the science of "Raja Yoga," when they apply to the Yogi Masters for instruction, are given a series of lessons designed to enlighten them regarding the nature of the Real Self, and to instruct them in the secret knowledge whereby they may develop the consciousness and realization of the real "I" within them. They are shown how they may cast aside the erroneous or imperfect knowledge regarding their real identity.
Until the Candidate masters this instruction, or at least until the truth becomes fixed in his consciousness, further instruction is denied him, for it is held that until he has awakened to a conscious realization of his Actual Identity, he is not able to understand the source of his power, and, moreover, is not able to feel within him the power of the Will, which power underlies the entire teachings of "Raja Yoga."
The Yogi Masters are hot satisfied if the Candidate forms merely a clear intellectual conception of this Actual Identity, but they insist that he must feel the truth of the same-must become aware of the Real Self-must enter into a consciousness in which the realization becomes a part of his everyday self-in which the realizing consciousness becomes the prevailing idea in his mind, around which his entire thoughts and actions revolve.
To some Candidates, this realization comes like a lightning flash the moment the attention is directed toward it, while in other cases the Candidates find it necessary to follow a rigorous course of training before they acquire the realization in consciousness.
The Yogi Masters teach that there are two degrees of this awakening consciousness of the Real Self. The first, which they call "the Consciousness of the 'I'," is the full consciousness of real existence that comes to the Candidate, and which causes him to know that he is a real entity having a life not depending upon the body-life that will go on in spite of the destruction of the body-real life, in fact. The second degree, which they call "the Consciousness of the 'I AM'," is the consciousness of one's identity with the Universal Life, and his relationship to, and "in-touchness" with all life, expressed and unexpressed. These two degrees of consciousness come in time to all who seek "The Path." To some it comes suddenly; to others it dawns gradually; to many it comes assisted by the exercises and practical work of "Raja Yoga."
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Title: A Grave Denied
Author: Dana Stabenow
Published: 2022
Language: English
ISBN: 9780312306816
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003.
Pages: 304
Extension: EPUB
Size: 246 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Crime & Thriller, Fiction - Mystery, Detective, Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, Women Sleuths, Mystery fiction, Crime & mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Women private investigators, Alaska, Kate (Fictitious character), Shugak, Women private investigators - Alaska, Women private investigators - Alaska - Fiction., Kate (Fictitious character) - Fiction., Kate (Fictitious chara, Alaska - Fiction., Shugak; Kate (Fictitious character)
Categories: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Book 13: A Kate Shugak Novel
Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care. But she, the Park's unofficial p.i., seems to have known less about him than anyone.
Alaska is a place where anybody can bury his history and start fresh, and for any reason, but this particular mystery comes to light when Len Dreyer turns up murdered. His body is discovered, frozen solid, in the path of a receding glacier with the hole from a shotgun blast in his chest. No one even knew he was missing, but it turns out he's been missing for months.
Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin asks Kate to help him dig into Dreyer's background, in the hope of finding some reason for his murder. She takes the case, mindful of the need for gainful employment as she copes with her responsibility for Johnny, a constant reminder of his father, her dead lover. Little does she imagine that by trying to provide for him she just might put him right in the path of danger.
A talented writer at the prime of her abilities, Stabenow delivers a masterful crime novel in A Grave Denied that turns out to be as much about living as it is about dying.
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Title: A Star Shall Fall
Author: Marie Brennan
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780765325365
Publisher: Macmillan
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Size: 462 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Magic, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Historical, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, Fiction - Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fairy tales, Folklore & Mythology, London (England), Fantasy - Historical, Fairies, Legends & Mythology, folk tales, London (England) - History - 18th century, Fairy Tales; Folk Tales; Legends & Mythology, Halley's comet
Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Historical Fiction
Marie Brennan takes us back to the Age of Enlightment in A Star Shall Fall .
The Royal Society of London plays home to the greatest minds of England. It has revolutionized philosophy and scientific knowledge. Its fellows map out the laws of the natural world, disproving ancient superstition and ushering in an age of enlightenment.
To the fae of the Onyx Court, living in a secret city below London, these scientific developments are less than welcome. It is now 1757 and magic is losing its place in the world. Science threatens to expose the fae's hidden city to hostile eyes.
In 1666, a Great Fire burned four-fifths of London to the ground. The calamity was caused by a great Dragon―an elemental beast of flame. Incapable of destroying something so powerful, the fae of London banished it to a comet moments before the comet's light disappeared from the sky. Now the calculations of Sir Edmond Halley have predicted its return in 1759.
So begins their race against time. Soon the Dragon's gaze will fall upon London and it will return to the city it ravaged once before. The fae will have to answer the question that defeated them a century before: How can they kill a being more powerful than all their magic combined? It will take both magic and science to save London―but reconciling the two carries its own danger..
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Title: A Sensitive Liberal's Guide to Life
Author: An Uptight Seattleite
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781592405299
Publisher: Penguin USA, Inc.
Pages: 224
Extension: EPUB
Size: 883 KB
Subjects: Essays, Politics, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
Categories: Essays, Politics, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)
In the tradition of The Official Preppy Handbook, The Uptight Seattleite is the Stephen Colbert of left-wing satire
The author of the wildly popular Seattle Weekly advice column teaches Americans everywhere how to embrace their inner leftist. Artfully balancing the cosmic with the cosmopolitan, the Uptight Seattleite (aka Adrian) delights his loyal readers each week with snide insight on everything from fashion ("Can I pull off a Rasta beret?") to ear-bud etiquette. In A Sensitive Liberal's Guide to Life, he brings his savvy smugness to his widest audience yet, on topics such as the hierarchy of transportation righteousness (what to do with the clunky old Subaru after purchasing a Prius) and ethical behavior at the grocery store, including how to handle the horror forgetting to bring your reusable burlap sack.
Other day-to-day advice covers what to read on the bus (Vonnegut versus The Kite Runner versus The Economist) and feasting at the buffet of diversity, with tips for shooting a condescending smile at those who don't know how to use chopsticks. The Uptight Seattleite also helps readers navigate the big issues, such as responsible parenting (which calls for a mini-landfill kit, perfect for the backyard and ready to be stuffed with environmentally unfriendly diapers). For every insecure liberal-and those who love to make fun of them-the Uptight Seattleite offers us laughs from the pinnacle of political correctness.
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Title: A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
Author: Reza Kahili
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781439189689 / 9781439189030
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Pages: 352
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
An exhilarating true story that reads like a spy thriller about a former CIA operative recruited out of Iran, while he served as a member of the secretive and highly feared Revolutionary Guards of Iran.
A TIME TO BETRAY
This exhilarating, award-winning memoir of a secret double life reveals the heart-wrenching story of a man who spied for the American government in the ranks of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, risking everything by betraying his homeland in order to save it.
Reza Kahlili grew up in Tehran surrounded by his close-knit family and friends. But the enlightened Iran of his youth vanished forever, as Reza discovered upon returning home from studying computer science in the United States, when the revolution of 1979 ushered in Ayatollah Khomeini's dark age of religious fundamentalism. Clinging to the hope of a Persian Renaissance, Reza joined the Ayatollah's elite Revolutionary Guards. As Khomeini's tyrannies unfolded, as fellow countrymen turned on each other, and after the deeply personal horrors he witnessed firsthand inside Evin Prison, a shattered and disillusioned Reza returned to America to dangerously become "Wally," a spy for the CIA.
In A Time to Betray, Reza not only relates his razor's-edge, undercover existence from moment to heart-pounding moment as he supplies vital information from the Iran-Iraq War, the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, the Iran-Contra affair, and more; he also documents a chain of incredible events that culminates in a nation's fight for freedom that continues to this very day, making this a timely and vital perspective on the future of Iran and the fate of the world.
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Title: A Journey: My Political Life
Author: Tony Blair
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780307269836
Publisher: ALFRED A KNOPF
Pages: 800
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: General, Europe, History, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Political, Politics and government, Great Britain, Prime ministers, 1953-, International Relations, Political Science, Political Process, Political History, Great Britain - History, Political Parties, Prime ministers - Great Britain, Labour Party (Great Britain), Blair, 1997-2007, Blair; Tony, Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997-2007, Great Britain - Foreign relations - 1997, Tony
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Politics, Nonfiction
Tony Blair is a politician who defines our times. His emergence as Labour Party leader in 1994 marked a seismic shift in British politics. Within a few short years, he had transformed his party and rallied the country behind him, becoming prime minister in 1997 with the biggest victory in Labour's history, and bringing to an end eighteen years of Conservative government. He took Labour to a historic three terms in office as Britain's dominant political figure of the last two decades.
A Journey is Tony Blair's firsthand account of his years in office and beyond. Here he describes for the first time his role in shaping our recent history, from the aftermath of Princess Diana's death to the war on terror. He reveals the leadership decisions that were necessary to reinvent his party, the relationships with colleagues including Gordon Brown, the grueling negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland, the implementation of the biggest reforms to public services in Britain since 1945, and his relationships with leaders on the world stage-Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton, Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush. He analyzes the belief in ethical intervention that led to his decisions to go to war in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and, most controversially of all, in Iraq.
A Journey is a book about the nature and uses of political power. In frank, unflinching, often wry detail, Tony Blair charts the ups and downs of his career to provide insight into the man as well as the politician and statesman. He explores the challenges of leadership, and the ramifications of standing up, clearly and forcefully, for what one believes in. He also looks ahead, to emerging power relationships and economies, addressing the vital issues and complexities of our global world.
Few British prime ministers have shaped the nation's course as profoundly as Tony Blair, and his achievements and his legacy will be debated for years to come. Here, uniquely, we have his own journey, in his own words.
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Title: A Bridge Too Far
Author: Cornelius Ryan
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780684803302
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 858
Extension: EPUB
Size: 466 KB
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Nonfiction
The classic account of one of the most dramatic battles of World War II.
A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius Ryan's masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many casualties as D-Day.
In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the American and British armies behind German lines to capture the crucial bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem. Focusing on a vast cast of characters-from Dutch civilians to British and American strategists to common soldiers and commanders-Ryan brings to life one of the most daring and ill-fated operations of the war. A Bridge Too Far superbly recreates the terror and suspense, the heroism and tragedy of this epic operation, which ended in bitter defeat for the Allies.
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Title: A Little Love Story
Author: Roland Merullo
Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781400032556
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 269 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Popular American Fiction, Massachusetts, Contemporary, Romance, Love stories, Fiction - General, Traffic accidents, Governors, Artists, Cystic fibrosis - Patients, Governors - Staff, Construction workers, Cystic fibrosis
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Romance
Jake Entwhistle is smart and handsome, but living with a shadow over his romantic history. Janet Rossi is a bright, witty aide to the governor of Massachusetts, but Janet suffers from an illness that makes her, as she puts it, "not exactly a good long-term investment." After meeting by accident late one night, they begin a love affair filled with humor, startling intimacy, and a deep, abiding connection.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Title: American Rose
Author: Karen Abbott
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780679604563
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 448
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Subjects: Biography, Music, Film & Performing Arts, Literary Biography, Celebrities, Performing Arts, Women's Biography, Entertainment Biography, Theater, Music - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Biography, American Literary Biography, Comedy, Theater - Biography, Celebrities - Biography, Comedy - History & Criticism, Entertainers & Musicians - Women's Biography, General & Miscellaneous Entertainment Biography, Musical Theater/Broadway, Theater Biography - Producers, Directors, and Other Theater Professionals, 20th Century American Authors - Literary Biography, Sex Workers - Biography, Authors, American->20th century->Biography, Stripteasers->United States->Biography
Categories: Biography, Music, Film & Performing Arts, Literary Biography, Celebrities, Performing Arts, Women's Biography, Entertainment Biography, Theater, Music - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Biography, American Literary Biography, Comedy, Theater - Biography, Celebrities - Biography, Comedy - History & Criticism, Entertainers & Musicians - Women's Biography, General & Miscellaneous Entertainment Biography, Musical Theater/Broadway, Theater Biography - Producers, Directors, and Other Theater Professionals, 20th Century American Authors - Literary Biography, Sex Workers - Biography, Authors, American->20th century->Biography, Stripteasers->United States->Biography
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America was flying high in the Roaring Twenties. Then, almost overnight, the Great Depression brought it crashing down. When the dust settled, people were primed for a star who could distract them from reality. Enter Gypsy Rose Lee, a strutting, bawdy, erudite stripper who possessed a gift for delivering exactly what America needed. With her superb narrative skills and eye for detail, Karen Abbott brings to life an era of ambition, glamour, struggle, and survival. Using exclusive interviews and never-before-published material, she vividly delves into Gypsy's world, including her intense triangle relationship with her sister, actress June Havoc, and their formidable mother, Rose, a petite but ferocious woman who literally killed to get her daughters on the stage. Weaving in the compelling saga of the Minskys-four scrappy brothers from New York City who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee's brand of burlesque and transform the entertainment landscape-Karen Abbott creates a rich account of a legend whose sensational tale of tragedy and triumph embodies the American Dream.
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Title: American Uprising
Author: Daniel Rasmussen
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780061995224
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 291
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Multi-Cultural, Sociology, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Multi-Cultural, Sociology, Nonfiction
"A chilling and suspenseful account [of] the culmination of a signal episode in the history of American race relations." -Adam Goodheart, The New York Times Book Review
In January 1811, five hundred slaves, dressed in military uniforms and armed with guns, cane knives, and axes, rose up from the plantations around New Orleans and set out to conquer the city. Ethnically diverse, politically astute, and highly organized, this self-made army challenged not only the economic system of plantation agriculture but also American expansion. Their march represented the largest act of armed resistance against slavery in the history of the United States.
American Uprising is the riveting, long-neglected story of the rebel army's dramatic march on the city, and its shocking conclusion. No North American slave uprising-not Gabriel Prosser's, not Denmark Vesey's, not Nat Turner's-has rivaled the scale of this rebellion either in terms of the number of the slaves involved or the number who were killed. More than one hundred slaves were slaughtered by federal troops and French planters, who then sought to write the event out of history and prevent the spread of the slaves' revolutionary philosophy.
Through groundbreaking research, Daniel Rasmussen offers a window into expansionist America, illuminating the early history of New Orleans and providing new insight into the path to the Civil War and the slave revolutionaries who fought and died for the hope of freedom.
"Crisp, confident . . . Rasmussen tells this story with verve." -John Stauffer, The Wall Street Journal
"Breathtaking. . . . [A] fascinating narrative of slavery and resistance [that] tells us something about history itself-about how fiction can become fact, and how 'history' is sometimes nothing more than erasure." -Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Title: The Americans
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Published: 1958
Language: English
ISBN: 9781402243530
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 448
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Nonfiction
The American dream was built along the banks of the James River in Virginia.
The settlers who established America's first permanent English colony at Jamestown were not seeking religious or personal freedom. They were comprised of gentlemen adventurers and common tradesmen who risked their lives and fortunes on the venture and stood to reap the rewards-the rewards of personal profit and the glory of mother England. If they could live long enough to see their dream come to life.
The Jamestown Experiment is the dramatic, engaging, and tumultuous story of one of the most audacious business efforts in Western history. It is the story of well-known figures like John Smith setting out to create a source of wealth not bestowed by heritage. As they struggled to make this dream come true, they would face relentless calamities, including mutinies, shipwrecks, native attacks, and even cannibalism. And at every step of the way, the decisions they made to keep this business alive would not only affect their effort, but would shape the future of the land on which they had settled in ways they never could have expected.
The Jamestown Experiment is the untold story of the unlikely and dramatic events that defined the "self-made man" and gave birth to the American dream.
Tony Williams taught history and literature for ten years, and has a master's in American history from Ohio State University. He wrote Hurricane of Independence and The Pox and the Covenant, and is currently a full-time author who lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife and children.
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Title: Am I Boring My Dog?: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew
Author: Edie Jarolim
Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781592578801
Publisher: Alpha Books
Pages: 256
Extension: EPUB
Size: 960 KB
Subjects: General, Dogs, Pets, Dogs - General, Breeds, Games for dogs
Categories: Pets, Nonfiction
A delightfully witty guide to keeping much-loved dogs not just fed and groomed, but entertained and pampered... Geared to the millions who feed their canine companions home-baked holistic treats, take them to dog spas, agility courses, trainers, and yoga classes, and, above all, worry about their relationships with them, this poignant, irreverent guide is doggone funny. Readers are those looking to be socially responsible, but also indulgent with their pets. This guide informs about the latest ideas in care and training, articulating the questions that many people have about all things canine-related but are afraid to ask, all with a reassuring, amusing tone.
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Title: A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
Author: Amanda Foreman
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780375504945
Publisher: Random House
Pages: 1008
Extension: EPUB
Size: 11 MB
Subjects: Europe, International Relations, Modern, General, United States, Great Britain, Public Opinion, Political Science, Civil War Period (1850-1877), 19th Century, History
Categories: History, Nonfiction
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10 BEST BOOKS • THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • 2011
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The New Yorker • Chicago Tribune • The Economist • Nancy Pearl, NPR • Bloomberg.com • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly
Acclaimed historian Amanda Foreman follows the phenomenal success of her New York Times bestseller Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire with her long-awaited second work of nonfiction: the fascinating story of the American Civil War and the major role played by Britain and its citizens in that epic struggle.
Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries led to defeats and victories both minute and history-making. In A World on Fire, Amanda Foreman examines the fraught relations from multiple angles while she introduces characters both humble and grand, bringing them to vivid life over the course of her sweeping and brilliant narrative.
Between 1861 and 1865, thousands of British citizens volunteered for service on both sides of the Civil War. From the first cannon blasts on Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, they served as officers and infantrymen, sailors and nurses, blockade runners and spies. Through personal letters, diaries, and journals, Foreman has woven together their experiences to form a panoramic yet intimate view of the war on the front lines, in the prison camps, and in the great cities of both the Union and the Confederacy. Through the eyes of these brave volunteers we see the details of the struggle for life and the great and powerful forces that threatened to demolish a nation.
In the drawing rooms of London and the offices of Washington, on muddy fields and aboard packed ships, Foreman reveals the decisions made, the beliefs held and contested, and the personal triumphs and sacrifices that ultimately led to the reunification of America. A World on Fire is a complex and groundbreaking work that will surely cement Amanda Foreman's position as one of the most influential historians of our time.
Includes a bonus PDF with a Dramatis Personae and a glossary
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Title: Alone Together
Author: Sherry Turkle
Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780465010219
Publisher: Basic Books
Extension: EPUB
Size: 503 KB
Subjects: Family & Relationships, Psychology, Technology, Nonfiction
Categories: Family & Relationships, Psychology, Technology, Nonfiction
A groundbreaking book by one of the most important thinkers of our time shows how technology is warping our social lives and our inner ones
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.
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Title: Always Looking Up (2010)
Author: Fox, Michael J
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781401303389
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Pages: 288
Extension: EPUB
Size: 310 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction
At the turn from our bedroom into the hallway, there is an old, full-length mirror in a wooden frame. I can't help but catch a glimpse of myself as I pass. Turning fully toward the glass, I consider what I see. This reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched, and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here."
There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson's disease. Michael's exit from a very demanding, very public arena offered him the time-and the inspiration-to open up new doors leading to unexpected places. One door even led him to the center of his own family, the greatest destination of all. The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City. I found myself struggling with a strange new dynamic: the shifting of public and private personas. I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Now was I just Mike with PD Parkinson's had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career. But where did all of this leave Me? I had to build a new life when I was already pretty happy with the old one.
Always Looking Up shares the critical themes of Michael's life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson's. With humor and wit Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.
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