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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: A Mighty Long Way
Author: Carlotta Walls LaNierPublisher: One World
ISBN: 0345511018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
“A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”—Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School “Provides important context for an important moment in America’s history.”—Associated Press When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. For Carlotta and the eight other children, simply getting through the door of this admired academic institution involved angry mobs, racist elected officials, and intervention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to escort the Nine into the building. But entry was simply the first of many trials. Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an engrossing memoir that is a testament not only to the power of a single person to make a difference but also to the sacrifices made by families and communities that found themselves a part of history.
The Nurture Assumption
Author: Judith Rich HarrisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684857073
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Harris takes on the "experts" and boldly questions conventional wisdom of parents' role in their children's lives, asserting that it's not the home environment that shapes children, but the environment they share with their peers.
How Sweet it was
Author: Arthur ShulmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780517081358
Category : Television broadcasting
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
One can obtain as many opinions about television as there are people with eyes. No two people see it in exactly the same way. You may not be aware of it, but up there, in that compartment of your brain where memories are stored, all sorts of strange images are stockpiled. The purpose of this book is to coax those memories out of their hiding places and bring them front and center, where you can savor them anew. Although this book is intended to be a comprehensive review of television during the past twenty years-the two decades that have passed since the medium became a commercial reality- it is not to be just a scholarly history. The programs and people represented here were chosen not because they were "good" or "popular" or "successful," but because each contributed, in some large or small way, to the progress of television.
The New Century Standard Letter-writer
Author: Alfred B. ChambersPublisher:
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Category : Letter writing
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Historic Laredo
Author: Maria Eugenia GuerraPublisher: HPN Books
ISBN: 1893619168
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
An illustrated history of Loredo, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
The American Occupation of the Philippines, 1898-1912
Author: James Henderson BlountPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
In Cold Blood
Author: Truman CapotePublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812994388
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
The Thesaurus of Slang
Author: Esther LewinPublisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816036615
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Author: Philip C. SteadPublisher:
ISBN: 1250171105
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
The 2011 Caldecott Medal winner is now available as a board book, perfect forthe youngest of readers. Full color.