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Other People's Property
A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This...
I've Been Meaning to Tell You
A Letter To My Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat
For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy.
I can glimpse,...
Nothin' but Blue Skies
The Heyday, Hard Times, and Hopes of America's Industrial Heartland
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region became the "arsenal of democracy†?-the greatest manufacturing center in the world-in the years during and after World War II thanks to natural advantages and a welcoming culture. Decades of unprecedented prosperity followed, memorably punctuated by riots,...
by Rajiv Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Taking India by storm, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been one of the most talked about figures all around the world. His enigmatic persona and his forceful leadership have created a polarized world where some idolize him, while others question his motives and methods. In an attempt to break the...
Squirrel Pie (and other stories)
Adventures in Food Across the Globe
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
'Sacrilegious to say it but Elizabeth Luard even beats Elizabeth David. Exquisite writing and wonderful food, and funny too' Prue Leith
'Elisabeth Luard proves that no matter where you are, there is food to be gathered, or hunted, or found. Squirrel Pieis a beautifully written tribute to food...
by Roy Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In his time, Harry S. Truman was one of the most under-rated presidents of the twentieth century. Succeeding the charismatic Roosevelt, he was often seen as an uninspiring leader, a poor diplomat and a fumbling politician. He was the first man to authorise the use of nuclear weapons, and was in office...
Philanthrocapitalism
How Giving Can Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
For philanthropists of the past, charity was often a matter of simply giving money away. For the philanthrocapitalists-the new generation of billionaires who are reshaping the way they give-it's like business. Largely trained in the corporate world, these "social investors" are using big-business-style...
The Impulse Society
America in the Age of Instant Gratification
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
It's something most of us have sensed for years-the rise of a world defined only by “mine” and “now.” A world where business shamelessly seeks the fastest reward, regardless of the long-term social consequences; where political leaders reflexively choose short-term fixes over broad, sustainable...
The First Step
How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The inspiring read-to-me eBook about four-year-old Sarah Roberts, the first African American girl to try to integrate a white school, and how her experience in 1847 set greater change in motion.
Junior Library Guild Selection
2017 Orbis Pictus Honor Book
Chicago Public LibraryKids Best of the...
French Cinema
From Its Beginnings to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the silent era, Surrealist influences, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, the rebirth of the industry in the 1990s with the exception...
by Kenneth Allsop
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
It was the railway system which moulded the American hobo into the legendary figure he became, especially in the depression years, but surviving until today. His origins, however, go back to the early pioneer days. He is in fact a unique and indigenous American product, 'capriciously used and discarded...
Breaking the Chains of Gravity
The Story of Spaceflight before NASA
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
NASA's history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But America's space agency wasn't created in a vacuum. It was assembled from pre-existing parts, drawing together some of the best minds the non-Soviet world had to offer.
In...
Apostles of Revolution
Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From acclaimed historian John Ferling, the story of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe's involvement in the American and French Revolutions and their quest for sweeping change in both America and Europe.
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe hazarded all in quest of...
Of Arms and Artists
The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A vibrant and original perspective on the American Revolution through the stories of the five great artists whose paintings animated the new American republic.
The images accompanying the founding of the United States--of honored Founders, dramatic battle scenes, and seminal moments--gave visual...