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Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm.
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An award?winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till?a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett?s murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black intellectuals of our time.
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"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"An autobiography about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change"--
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
ix, 262 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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"Inspired by the twenty-three "tales," Matthew Dennison takes a selection of quotations from Potter's stories and uses them to explore her multifaceted life and character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable country woman. This dramatic narrative charts her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals and fairy tales into a bestselling author and canny businesswoman--so deeply unusual for the Victorian...
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Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice. "Granny was full-blooded Creek, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insisted she was thirteen-sixteenths. She showed her card to me. I'd sit at the kitchen table and stare at her when she was eating, wondering how you could be thirteen-sixteenths of anything and if so, what part of her constituted...
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"Acclaimed author Kent Nerburn creates an incisive character study of a Native American elder, against the unflinching backdrop of contemporary reservation life and the majestic spaces of the western Dakotas. Nerburn draws us deep into the world of this elder, identified only as Dan, as we journey to where the vast Dakota skies overtake us and the whisperings of the wind speak of ancestral voices. As this spellbinding story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently...
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"This enthralling story of the making of an American is also a timely meditation on religion and culture. Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. It is also the luminous story of many journeys: from Pakistan to the United States in an arranged marriage that becomes a love match lasting forty years; from secular Muslim in an Islamic society to devout Muslim in a society ignorant of Islam,...
Publisher
gestalten
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations (colour), map (colour) ; 30 cm
Description
Discover the exceptional artistry and rich traditions being kept alive by Japanese artisans in the twenty-first century.0In an era where global interest in handmade, small-batch products is heightening as a response to mass production, Handmade in Japan takes a look inside the workshops of the country?s artisans, revealing their endless pursuit of excellence, and what it means to dedicate one?s life to the stewardship of irreplaceable cultural heritage....
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