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Title: American Chica
Author: Marie Arana

Published: 2001
Language: English
ISBN: 9780385319638
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Multi-Cultural, Sociology, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Multi-Cultural, Sociology, Nonfiction

In her father's Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother's American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken's neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply separate cultures for years. But only when she immigrated with her family to the United States did she come to understand that she was a hybrid American whose cultural identity was split in half. Coming to terms with this split is at the heart of this graceful, beautifully realized portrait of a child who "was a north-south collision, a New World fusion. An American Chica."
Here are two vastly different landscapes: Peru-earthquake-prone, charged with ghosts of history and mythology-and the sprawling prairie lands of Wyoming. In these rich terrains resides a colorful cast of family members who bring Arana's historia to life...her proud grandfather who one day simply stopped coming down the stairs; her dazzling grandmother, "clicking through the house as if she were making her way onstage." But most important are Arana's parents: he a brilliant engineer, she a gifted musician. For more than half a century these two passionate, strong-willed people struggled to overcome the bicultural tensions in their marriage and, finally, to prevail.

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Title: African Laughter
Author: Doris Lessing

Published: 1992
Language: English
ISBN: 9780060924331
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 464
Extension: EPUB
Size: 624 KB
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction

A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is "brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of a young country." - New York Times Book Review
A rich and penetrating portrait of Lessing's homeland, African Laughter recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989, and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for 25 years for her opposition to the minority white government. Lessing uses memory and reminiscence with recent experience to depict a country in the process of change.


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Title: All the Devils Are Here
Author: McLean, Bethany; Nocera, Joe

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781591843634
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Pages: 416
Extension: EPUB
Size: 524 KB
Subjects: Business, Nonfiction
Categories: Business, Nonfiction

Hailed as "the best business book of 2010" ( Huffington Post ), this New York Times bestseller about the 2008 financial crisis brings the devastation of the Great Recession to life.

As soon as the financial crisis erupted, the finger-pointing began. Should the blame fall on Wall Street, Main Street, or Pennsylvania Avenue? On greedy traders, misguided regulators, sleazy subprime companies, cowardly legislators, or clueless home buyers?

According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, many devils helped bring hell to the economy. All the Devils Are Here goes back several decades to weave the hidden history of the financial crisis in a way no previous book has done. It explores the motivations of everyone from famous CEOs, cabinet secretaries, and politicians to anonymous lenders, borrowers, analysts, and Wall Street traders. It delves into the powerful American mythology of homeownership. And it proves that the crisis ultimately wasn't about finance at all; it was about human nature.

Just as McLean's The Smartest Guys in the Room was hailed as the best Enron book on a crowded shelf, so will All the Devils Are Here be remembered for finally making sense of the financial meltdown and its consequences.

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Title: Never a City So Real
Author: Alex Kotlowitz

Published: 2004
Language: English
ISBN: 9781400046218
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Pages: 157
Extension: EPUB
Size: 231 KB
Subjects: Nonfiction
Categories: Travel, Nonfiction

The acclaimed author of There Are No Children Here takes us into the heart of Chicago by introducing us to some of the city's most interesting, if not always celebrated, people.

Chicago is one of America's most iconic, historic, and fascinating cities, as well as a major travel destination. For Alex Kotlowitz, an accidental Chicagoan, it is the perfect perch from which to peer into America's heart. It's a place, as one historian has said, of "messy vitalities," a stew of contradictions: coarse yet gentle, idealistic yet restrained, grappling with its promise, alternately sure and unsure of itself.

Chicago, like America, is a kind of refuge for outsiders. It's probably why Alex Kotlowitz found comfort there. He's drawn to people on the outside who are trying to clean up--or at least make sense of--the mess on the inside. Perspective doesn't come easy if you're standing in the center. As with There Are No Children Here, Never a City So Real is not so much a tour of a place as a chronicle of its soul, its lifeblood. It is a tour of the people of Chicago, who have been the author's guides into this city's--and in a broader sense, this country's--heart.

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Title: The Federalist papers
Author: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Lawrence Goldman

Published: 2017
ISBN: 9781524716981
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: History, United States, Political Science, General, History: American, USA, Government, Current Events, History & Theory - General, History & Theory, Politics, United States - Revolutionary War, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Constitutional history, Political Ideologies - Democracy, Law: General & Reference, Constitution: government & the state, Constitutions, Legal History, American history: c 1500 to c 1800, Constitutional law - United States, Constitutional & administrative law, Law, Constitutional history - United States, Constitutional, Constitutional law, c 1800 to c 1900, History of the Americas, Government - U.S. Government, c 1700 to c 1800, U.S. Constitutional History, Political structure & processes, Sources, U.S. History - Revolution And Confederation (1775-1789), Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, History, Juvenile Nonfiction, Politics

Fans of the Broadway musical Hamilton and American history lovers will want to share this illustrated biography of Alexander Hamilton with their young readers.

Did you know that one of our Founding Fathers was not born in America? An orphan from the West Indies, Alexander Hamilton came to the colonies and played an important role in the Revolutionary War, rising to become General George Washington's right-hand man. But his accomplishments don't stop there! He helped obtain the ratification of the Constitution; he was America's first secretary of the treasury; and he established the first national bank and the U.S. Mint. A man of ambition, loyalty, and principle, he is now being celebrated as the prominent patriot he was.

Step 3 Readers feature engaging characters in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics-for children who are ready to read on their own.

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Title: All My Life: A Memoir
Author: Susan Lucci, Laura (CON) Morton

Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780062087706
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 373
Extension: EPUB
Size: 3 MB
Subjects: Autobiography
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction

The most famous face in daytime drama history, Susan Lucci has held audiences spellbound for years as Erica Kane on ABC-TV's All My Children-the sexy, sassy, beautiful "woman you love to hate." Now, in this long awaited autobiography, she holds readers captive as the feisty, funny, authentic "woman you love to love." In the tradition of Julie Andrews' Home, Jane Fonda's My Life So Far, Barbara Walters' Audition, and other enthralling autobiographies from female icons of our time, the award-winning soap opera star's memoir of a life in the spotlight is sure to inspire, uplift, charm and surprise readers as they finally get to know the Susan Lucci her friends, family and colleagues love and know.


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Title: All That Is Bitter and Sweet
Author: Ashley Judd

Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780345524829
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 432
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Autobiography
Categories: Biography & Autobiography, Performing Arts, Nonfiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From humanitarian and actress Ashley Judd comes "an important and moving memoir. . . . Every reader will be inspired" (Bill Clinton).

"Enlightening . . . full of real-life stories that reflect both the compassion of its author and the need for healing in the world."-Madeleine K. Albright

In 2002, award-winning film and stage actor Ashley Judd found her true calling: as a humanitarian and voice for those suffering in neglected parts of the world. After her first trip to the notorious brothels, slums, and hospices of southeast Asia, Ashley knew immediately that she wanted to advocate on behalf of the vulnerable. During her travels, Judd started to write diaries that detailed extraordinary stories of survival and resilience. But along the way, she realized that she was struggling with her own emotional pain, stemming from childhood abandonment and abuse. Seeking in-patient treatment in 2006 for the grief that had nearly killed her, Judd found not only her own recovery and an enriched faith but the spiritual tools that energized and advanced her feminist social justice work.

In this deeply moving and unforgettable memoir, Judd describes her odyssey, from lost child to fiercely dedicated advocate, from anger and isolation to forgiveness and activism. In telling it, she answers the ineffable question about the relationship between healing oneself and service to others.

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Title: Alex's Adventures in Numberland
Author: Bellos, Alex

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9781786493248 / 9781851687794
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages: 348
Extension: EPUB
Size: 4 MB
Subjects: Mathematics, Nonfiction, Science, Humor (Nonfiction)
Categories: Mathematics, Nonfiction, Science, Humor (Nonfiction)

A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson PrizeThe world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck.This anniversary edition is fully revised and updated.

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Title: Stasiland
Author: Anna Funder

Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780062077325
Publisher: HarperCollins US
Pages: 304
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB
Subjects: History, Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Politics, Nonfiction

"Stasiland demonstrates that great, originalreporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. Aclassic." -Claire Tomalin, Guardian "Books ofthe Year" AnnaFunder delivers a prize-winning and powerfully rendered account of theresistance against East Germany's communist dictatorship in these harrowing,personal tales of life behind the Iron Curtain-and, especially, of life underthe iron fist of the Stasi, East Germany's brutal state security force. In thetradition of Frederick Taylor's The Berlin Wall andPhilip Gourevitch's WeWish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Funder's Stasiland isa masterpiece of investigative reporting, written with novelistic vividness andthe compelling intensity of a universal, real-life story.


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Title: Ancient Chinese Warfare
Author: Ralph D. Sawyer

Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780465021451
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages: 576
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: History, Military, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Military, Nonfiction

The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang dynasty - indeed, war was the force that formed the first cohesive Chinese empire, setting China on a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity that continues to this day.
In Ancient Chinese Warfare, a preeminent expert on Chinese military history uses recently recovered documents and archaeological findings to construct a comprehensive guide to the developing technologies, strategies, and logistics of ancient Chinese militarism. The result is a definitive look at the tools and methods that won wars and shaped culture in ancient China.

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Title: D-Day
Author: Antony Beevor

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781101148723
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
Pages: 608
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Awards, History, Military History, World War II, European Theater - World War II - Normandy Invasion, Barnes&Noble.com Best Nonfiction of 2009, Time Magazine's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2009
Categories: Awards, History, Military History, World War II, European Theater - World War II - Normandy Invasion, Barnes&Noble.com Best Nonfiction of 2009, Time Magazine's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2009

The little-known drama of the last-minute decision to launch the invasion of Normandy-excerpted from the internationally bestselling D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

In D-Day: The Decision to Launch , excerpted from Antony Beevor's bestselling book D-Day: The Battle for Normandy , readers get the little-known story of how the difficult decision was made to launch the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944.

The stakes could not have been higher: if Operation Overlord were to fail, it would be a crushing blow to the Allies, a huge loss of both men and equipment. The decision of when to launch rested with supreme commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower, but it hinged on one factor: the weather. If there was too much cloud cover, the Allied bombers wouldn't be able to provide air support, and if the seas were too rough, the landing craft would be swamped. It fell to one man to predict the weather: Dr. James Stagg, the head of the meteorological team at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force.

This riveting selection from D-Day , praised by Time as "a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women," tells the fascinating inside story of one of the most important decisions of World War II.

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Title: Barrel Fever
Author: David Sedaris

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9780349119762
Publisher: Abacus
Extension: EPUB
Size: 190 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Humor, Modern fiction, Form, Essays, Humorous, Short Stories, Short Stories (single author), Biography: General
Categories: Essays, Nonfiction, Humor (Nonfiction)

In David Sedaris' world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran Lebowitz, and the National Enquirer, Sedaris' collection of essays is a rollicking tour through the national Zeitgeist: a do-it-yourself suburban dad saves money by performing home surgery; a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tries to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; a bitter Santa abuses the elves.
David Sedaris made his debut on NPR's Morning Edition with "SantaLand Diaries", recounting his strange-but-true experiences as an elf at Macy's, and soon became one of the show's most popular commentators. With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behavior. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life, and anything can happen.

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Title: Propaganda
Author: Edward Bernays

Published: 2017
Language: English
ISBN: 9781538440605
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Pages: 175
Extension: EPUB
Size: 201 KB
Subjects: Politics, Sociology, Nonfiction
Categories: Politics, Sociology, Nonfiction

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."-Edward Bernays

A seminal and controversial figure in the history of political thought and public relations, Edward Bernays pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating public opinion, which he famously dubbed the "engineering of consent." During World War I, he was an integral part of the US Committee on Public Information, or CPI, a powerful propaganda apparatus that was mobilized to package, advertise, and sell the war to the American people as one that would "Make the World Safe for Democracy." The CPI became the blueprint for the marketing strategies of future wars.
Bernays applied the techniques he had learned in the CPI and, incorporating some of the ideas of Walter Lipmann, became an outspoken proponent of propaganda as a tool for democratic and corporate manipulation of the population. His 1928 bombshell, Propaganda, lays out his eerily prescient vision for using propaganda to regiment the collective mind in a variety of areas, including government, politics, art, science, and education. To read this book today is to frightfully comprehend what our contemporary institutions of government and business have become in regard to the organized manipulation of the masses.


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Title: Beginnings, Middles and Ends
Author: Nancy Kress

Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9780898799057
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Pages: 176
Extension: EPUB
Size: 574 KB
Subjects: Writing, Language Arts, Nonfiction
Categories: Writing, Language Arts, Nonfiction

Get your stories off to a roaring start.
Keep them tight and crisp throughout.
Conclude them with a wallop.
Is the story or novel you've been carrying around in your head the same one you see on the page? Or does the dialogue suddenly sound flat and predictable? Do the events seem to ramble?
Translating a flash of inspiration into a compelling story requires careful crafting. The words you choose, how you describe characters, and the way you orchestrate conflict all make the difference—the difference between a story that is slow to begin, flounders midway, or trails off at the end—and one that holds the interest of readers and editors to the final page.
By demonstrating effective solutions for potential problems at each stage of your story, Nancy Kress will help you...
• hook the editor on the first three paragraphs
• make—and keep—your story's "implicit promise"
• build drama and credibility by controlling your prose
Dozens of exercises help you strengthen your short story or novel. Plus, you'll sharpen skills and gain new insight into...
• the price a writer pays for flashbacks
• six ways characters should "reveal" themselves
• techniques for writing—and rewriting
Let this working resource be your guide to successful stories—from beginning to end.

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Title: At Home
Author: Bill Bryson

Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780767919388
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages: 512
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB
Subjects: Architecture, History, Home Design & Décor, Nonfiction
Categories: Architecture, History, Home Design & Décor, Nonfiction

In these pages, the beloved Bill Bryson gives us a fascinating history of the modern home, taking us on a room-by-room tour through his own house and using each room to explore the vast history of the domestic artifacts we take for granted. As he takes us through the history of our modern comforts, Bryson demonstrates that whatever happens in the world eventually ends up in our home, in the paint, the pipes, the pillows, and every item of furniture. Bryson has one of the liveliest, most inquisitive minds on the planet, and his sheer prose fluency makes At Home one of the most entertaining books ever written about private life.



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Title: Battle Cry of Freedom
Author: James M. McPherson

Published: 1988
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages: 924
Extension: EPUB
Size: 6 MB
Subjects: History, Nonfiction
Categories: History, Nonfiction

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War.

James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory.

The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This "new birth of freedom," as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict.

This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing "second American Revolution" we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty.

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Title: Waterloo
Author: Andrew Roberts

Published: 2005
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Extension: EPUB
Size: 2 MB

June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon and his hastily formed legions clashed with the Anglo-Allied armies led by the Duke of Wellington - the only time the two greatest military strategists of their age faced each other in combat.
With precision and elegance, Andrew Roberts sets the political, strategic, and historical scene, providing a breathtaking account of each successive stage of the battle while also examining new evidence that reveals exactly how Napoleon was defeated. Illuminating, authoritative, and engrossing, Waterloo is a masterful work of history.

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Title: The March of Folly
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

Published: 1984
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 11 MB

Twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, author Barbara Tuchman now tackles the pervasive presence of folly in governments through the ages. Defining folly as the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interersts, despite the availability of feasible alternatives, Tuchman details four decisive turning points in history that illustrate the very heights of folly in government: the Trojan War, the breakup of the Holy See provoked by the Renaissance Popes, the loss of the American colonies by Britain's George III, and the United States' persistent folly in Vietnam. THE MARCH OF FOLLY brings the people, places, and events of history magnificently alive for today's reader.

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Title: Public Enemies
Author: Bernard-Henri Levy

Published: 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 9781400064342
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Pages: 320
Extension: EPUB
Size: 632 KB
Subjects: Politics, Nonfiction
Categories: Politics, Nonfiction

What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America remains the most influential book ever written about our country.
The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, wholly fresh look at a country we sometimes only think we know. From Rikers Island to Chicago mega-churches, from '. communities in Detroit to an Amish enclave in Iowa, Lévy investigates issues at the heart of our democracy: the special nature of American patriotism, the coexistence of freedom and religion (including the religion of baseball), the prison system, the "return of ideology" and the health of our political institutions, and much more. He revisits and updates Tocqueville's most important beliefs, such as the dangers posed by "the tyranny of the majority," explores what Europe and America have to learn from each other, and interprets what he sees with a novelist's eye and a philosopher's depth.
Through powerful interview-based portraits across the spectrum of the American people, from prison guards to clergymen, from Norman Mailer to Barack Obama, from Sharon Stone to Richard Holbrooke, Lévy fills his book with a tapestry of American voices-some wise, some shocking. Both the grandeur and the hellish dimensions of American life are unflinchingly explored. And big themes emerge throughout, from the crucial choices America
faces today to the underlying reality that, unlike the "Old World," America remains the fulfillment of the world's desire to worship, earn, and live as one wishes-a place, despite all, where inclusion remains not just an ideal but an actual practice.
At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed, keen to make sense of themselves, a brilliant and sympathetic foreign observer has arrived to help us begin a new conversation about the meaning of America.

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Title: Anonyponymous: The Forgotten People Behind Everyday Words
Author: John Marciano

Published: 2009
Language: English
ISBN: 9781596916531
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 160
Extension: EPUB
Size: 754 KB
Subjects: General, Reference, Language Arts & Disciplines, Terms and phrases, English language, Literary Criticism, Linguistics, Language, Language Arts, Linguistics - Etymology, Etymology, Literacy, Dictionaries, English Language History, Eponyms
Categories: Reference, English Language Reference, General Reference, English Etymology, Etymology

Eponymous, adj. Giving one's name to a person, place, or thing.
Anonymous, adj. Anonymous.
Anonyponymous, adj. Anonymous and eponymous.
The Earl of Sandwich, fond of salted beef and paired slices of toast, found a novel way to eat them all together. Etienne de Silhouette, a former French finance minister, was so notoriously cheap that his name became a byword for chintzy practices-such as substituting a darkened outline for a proper painted portrait. Both bequeathed their names to the language, but neither man is remembered.
In this clever and funny book, John Bemelmans Marciano illuminates the lives of these anonyponymous persons. A kind of encyclopedia of linguistic biographies, the book is arranged alphabetically, giving the stories of everyone from Abu "algorithm" Al-Khwarizmi to Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Along with them you'll find the likes of Harry Shrapnel, Joseph-Ignace Guillotine, and many other people whose vernacular legacies have long outlived their memory.
Accented by amusing line portraits and short etymological essays on subjects like "superhero eponyms," Anonyponymous is both a compendium of trivia and a window into the fascinating world of etymology. Carefully curated and unfailingly witty, this book is both a fantastic gift for language lovers and a true pleasure to read.

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