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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books in Oakland, California, reconnects with his uncle and,...
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Exploring a vast range of original sources, this work spans more than seven centuries and ranges across North America, Europe, and Africa. Richter recovers the lives of a stunning array of peoples as they struggled with one another and with their own people for control of land and resources.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--
At the beginning, everyone's name and address was listed in the phone book, and everyone answered their landline because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their cell phone if they didn't know who was calling. Klosterman shows that in the 1990s there was a wholesale shift in how society...
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English
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Consumer advocate, activist, humanitarian, and former presidential candidate Nader is arguably the most provocative and important progressive voice in America today. He offers a new program to help rescue America with powerful, paradigm-shifting proposals that address some of the most pressing concerns in our country.
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English
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In 2010, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started a book that she thought would be about the twenty-first-century phenomenon of the American single woman. Over the course of her research, Traister made a startling discovery: historically, when women have had options beyond early heterosexual marriage, their resulting independence has provoked massive social change. Unmarried women were crucial to the abolition, suffrage, temperance, and labor...
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World made by hand volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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The residents of Union Grove, New York, struggle to get through early spring after a local tycoon halts the Hudson River trade route.
Author
Series
World made by hand volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"It is a stormy Christmas Eve when Robert Earle's son Daniel arrives back from his two years of sojourning throughout what is left of the United States. He collapses from exhaustion and illness, but as he recovers tells the story of the break-up of the nation into three uneasy independent regions and his journey into the dark heart of the New Foxfire Republic centered in Tennessee and led by the female evangelical despot Loving Morrow"--
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Publisher
Basic Books/Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The topics range from late-talking children to "tax cuts for the rich," baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.
15) Dreaming in French: the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision-and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women.
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English
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"From acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts--always adroit, often acerbic--on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Ursula K. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Now she's in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice -- sharp, witty, as compassionate as it...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A celebration of the intergenerational, interracial and undeniable influence of Memphis, TN on American culture and its music. Features Terrence Howard, William Bell, Snoop Dogg, Mavis Staples, Otis Clay, Yo Gotti, and many more award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians.
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Series
What you didn't know about history volume 4
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Library
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Many American celebrate the fourth Thursday in November by watching football and eating a big meal with their family. This is the national holiday of Thanksgiving, a tradition linked to the Pilgrims and their early days in the New World. But pictures showing the Pilgrims sitting down for a feast with their Native American friends are only partly right. Stories about this day often make it sound much nicer that it was. So, what was the first Thanksgiving...
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Publisher
SFWP
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Generation X was born between the legions of Baby Boomers and Millennials, and was all but written off as cynical, sarcastic slackers. Yet, Gen X's impact on culture and society is undeniable. In her revealing and provocative essay collection, KIDS IN AMERICA: ESSAYS ON GEN X, Liz Prato reveals a generation deeply affected by terrorism, racial inequality, rape culture, and mental illness in an era when none of these issues were openly discussed....
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Everyman's library volume 304
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, and Bill Clinton.
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