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America 1933
The Great Depression, Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Shaping of the New Deal
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
The first account of the remarkable eighteen-month journey of Lorena Hickok, intimate friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, throughout the country during the worst of the Great Depression, bearing witness to the unprecedented ravaged.
During the harshest year of the Great Depression, Lorena Hickok,...
At Home in the World
Collected Writings from The Wall Street Journal
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2002
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl became the focus of international concern when he was kidnapped by Islamic extremists in Pakistan while investigating a story. News of his brutal murder in February 2002 was universally denounced, a tragic loss of a good man and a compassionate journalist...
Something in the Air
American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
In the tradition of Seabiscuit and The Summer of ’49, a gripping sports narrative that brilliantly tells the amazing individual stories of the unforgettable athletes who gathered in Mexico City in a year of dramatic upheaval.
The 1968 Mexico City Olympics reflected the spirit of their revolutionary...
The Pirate's Dilemma
How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
It started with punk. Hip-hop, rave, graffiti, and gaming took it to another level, and now modern technology has made the ideas and innovations of youth culture increasingly intimate and increasingly global at the same time.
In The Pirate's Dilemma, VICE magazine's Matt Mason -- poised to...
Stories Done
Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
The 1960s and 1970s represent a rare moment in our cultural history -- music was exploring unprecedented territories, literature was undergoing a radical reinvention, politics polarized the nation, and youth culture was at the zenith of its influence. There has never been, nor is there likely to be,...
Burnt Sugar Cana Quemada
Contemporary Cuban Poetry in English and Spanish
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
Here are the sights, sounds, and rhythms of Cuba, revealed in the evocative works of some of the finest Cuban and Cuban American poets of the twentieth century. In Burnt Sugar, bestselling translator Lori Marie Carlson and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos have created an intimate collection...
Piano Notes
The World of the Pianist
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals.
In Piano Notes, he...
by Emily Gould
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Essays by former editor of Gawker.com—and the new female voice of her generation. In And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the first decade of the twenty-first century, alongside bartenders, bounty hunters, bloggers, bohemians, socialites,...
by Mark Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Rock & roll has transformed American culture more profoundly than any other art form. During the 1960s, it defined a generation of young people as political and social idealists, helped end the Vietnam War, and ushered in the sexual revolution. In Dixie Lullaby, veteran music journalist Mark Kemp...
Forest Gate
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
A shattering, poetic and raw first novel set among young Somalian refugees in the slums of London -- beginning with a double suicide and ending with a rebirth.
In a community where poverty is kept close and passed from one generation to the next, two teenage boys, best friends, stand on top...
Comes the Peace
My Journey to Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
"I packed a blue Samsonite suitcase with my belongings -- a couple of pairs of jeans and shirts, UB40 tapes, the Swiss army knife I had stolen from my mother, my Tibetan prayer book, and a red plastic Camay soap dish I bought in Dharamsala that had become a good luck charm for me."
With these,...
A Crime So Monstrous
Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2008
To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told -- and heard.
As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch...
Who They Were
Inside the World Trade Center DNA Story: The Unprecedented Effort to Identify the Missing
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
In Who They Were, Dr. Robert C. Shaler, the man who directed the largest and most groundbreaking forensic DNA investigation in U.S. history, tells with poignant clarity and refreshing honesty the story behind the relentless effort to identify the 2,749 victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
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by En Vogue Free Man
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
Flute Girl Sex Music is a musical artist with albums and singles available everywhere music is sold online! This is a glamor and fashion photo book of Flute Girl Sex Music in exotic locations.