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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Human Interest Library
Author: Samuel Fallows (Bp )Publisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781344044080
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
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The Accidental Tourist
Author: Anne TylerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307416836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author—an irresistible novel exploring the slippery alchemy of attracting opposites, and the struggle to rebuild one’s life after unspeakable tragedy Travel writer Macon Leary hates travel, adventure, surprises, and anything outside of his routine. Immobilized by grief, Macon is becoming increasingly prickly and alone, anchored by his solitude and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Then he meets Muriel, an eccentric dog trainer too optimistic to let Macon disappear into himself. Despite Macon’s best efforts to remain insulated, Muriel up-ends his solitary, systemized life, catapulting him into the center of a messy, beautiful love story he never imagined. A fresh and timeless tale of unexpected bliss, The Accidental Tourist showcases Tyler’s talents for making characters—and their relationships—feel both real and magical. “Incandescent, heartbreaking, exhilarating…One cannot reasonably expect fiction to be much better than this.” —The Washington Post
The Human Interest Library: Old world travelogues
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Human Interest Library: Leaders of all times
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Human Interest Library: Our country in romance
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The New Human Interest Library
Author: Silas Edgar FarquharPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Self-Exposure
Author: Charles L. Ponce de LeonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807862215
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the public's obsession with celebrity--and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news. Nevertheless, America's "culture of celebrity" remains misunderstood, particularly when critics discuss its historical roots. In this pathbreaking book, Charles Ponce de Leon provides a new interpretation of the emergence of celebrity. Focusing on the development of human-interest journalism about prominent public figures, he illuminates the ways in which new forms of press coverage gradually undermined the belief that famous people were "great," instead encouraging the public to regard them as complex, interesting, even flawed individuals and offering readers seemingly intimate glimpses of the "real" selves that were presumed to lie behind the calculated, self-promotional fronts that celebrities displayed in public. But human-interest journalism about celebrities did more than simply offer celebrities a new means of gaining publicity or provide readers with the "inside dope," says Ponce de Leon. In chapters devoted to celebrities from the realms of business, politics, entertainment, and sports, he shows how authors of celebrity journalism used their writings to weigh in on subjects as wide-ranging as social class, race relations, gender roles, democracy, political reform, self-expression, material success, competition, and the work ethic, offering the public a new lens through which to view these issues.
Human Interest Library: Wonder world
Author: Public Libraries
Author: Library Books
Author: Indiana. Department of Public InstructionPublisher:
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Category : School libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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