Gates Gates: 538 books
by Gates Gates
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
My name is James Gates. I grew up in the 1940s and 50s, in a diverse hostile social environment in a complex time. This environment was governed by insanity, bigotry, fear and inhumanity. But beyond all the madness, a sense of hopelessness induced a measure of tolerance that created a guarded feeling...
by Eleanor Gates
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Eleanor Gates was an American playwright who created seven plays that were staged on Broadway. Her best known work was the play The Poor Little Rich Girl, which was produced by her husband in 1913 and went on to be made as films for Mary Pickford in 1917 and for Shirley Temple in 1936. Gates separated...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest...
Showing Up for Life
Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
A heartfelt, deeply personal book, Showing Up for Life shines a bright light on the values and principles that Bill Gates Sr. has learned over a lifetime of “showing up”—lessons that he learned growing up during the Great Depression, and that he instilled in his children and continues to practice...
Hidden Cities
Travels to the Secret Corners of the World's Great Metropolises; A Memoir of Urb an Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
In this fascinating glimpse into the world of urban exploration, Moses Gates describes his trespasses in some of the most illustrious cities in the world from Paris to Cairo to Moscow.
Also, exclusive to this e-book, are firsthand accounts from the author's fellow travelers and family.
Gates...
Wealth and Our Commonwealth
Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The ‘Man Bites Dog’ story of over 1,000 high net-worth individuals who rose up to protest the repeal of the estate tax made headlines everywhere last year. Central to the organization of what Newsweek tagged the ‘billionaire backlash’ were two visionaries: Bill Gates, Sr., cochair of the Bill...
Faces of America
How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered their Pasts
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
As a nation of immigrants, the American experience is vibrantly defined by the diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage of its people. Perhaps because so many of their ancestors migrated to this country relatively recently, Americans are especially concerned with their family trees,...
The Moment of Lift
How Empowering Women Changes the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“In her book, Melinda tells the stories of the inspiring people she’s met through her work all over the world, digs into the data, and powerfully illustrates issues that need our attention—from child marriage to gender inequity in the workplace.” — President...
Loose Canons
Notes on the Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and...
Sono un ottimista globale
Conversazione con Massimo Franco
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Ottimista globale, utopista impaziente, riluttante imperatore contemporaneo – per censo e per influenza –, Bill Gates dedica ormai da anni le sue risorse, economiche e intellettuali, a cercare di risolvere i problemi del mondo. Il padre di Microsoft Corporation si racconta in questa conversazione...
Tradition and the Black Atlantic
Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studies and an examination of the discipline's roots and role in contemporary thought. In this conversational tour through the halls of theory, Gates leaps from Richard Wright to Spike...
by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Cornel West
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the "talented tenth," an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual...
by Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1988
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself. Examining the ancient...
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
**The New York Times bestseller.
A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the...