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Richmond's culinary history spans more than four hundred years and includes forgotten cooks and makers who paved the way for Richmond's vibrant modern food scene. The foodways of local Indian tribes were pivotal to the nation. Unconventional characters such as Mary Randolph, Jasper Crouch, Ellen Kidd, Virginia Randolph and John Dabney used food and drink to break barriers. Family businesses like C.F. Sauer and Sally Bell's Kitchen, recipient of a...
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Perhaps the single most important voice of cinema in the twentieth century, André Bazin profoundly influenced the development of the scholarship that we know now as film criticism. Bazin has acutely analyzed the cinematic values of our time, extending to his international audiences "the impact of art for the understanding and discrimination of his readers."
The depth and logic of his commentary has elevated film criticism to new heights. The reputation...
75443) New Orleans Jazz
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From the days when Buddy Bolden would blow his cornet to attract an audience from one New Orleans park to another, to the brass bands in clubs and on the streets today, jazz in New Orleans has been about simple things: getting people to snap their fingers, tap their toes, get up and clap their hands, and most importantly dance! From the 1890s to World War I, from uptown to Faubourg Treme and out to the lakefront, New Orleans embraced this uniquely...
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In 1940, American socialist-turned-conservatist politician Benjamin Gitlow first published this work of political autobiography, I Confess: The Truth About American Communism. The book proved to be controversial and widely noticed, pushing Gitlow into the public eye as a leading opponent of American Communism. To this day, it remains an important primary document for the study of American Communism in the 1920s and 1930s.
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"Winner of the 2018 PROSE Award for Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers" Alison Isenberg is professor of history at Princeton University, where she codirects the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities. She is the author of Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It.
A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco
Designing...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le scandale du Watergate en moins d'une heure !
Dans la nuit du 17 juin 1972, à Washington, cinq personnes s'introduisent dans l'immeuble du Watergate, siège du Parti démocrate. Ce qui n'aurait pu être qu'un simple cambriolage s'avère d'emblée plus complexe qu'il n'y paraît : les suspects sont loin d'avoir le profil de cambrioleurs, ressemblant davantage à des agents secrets. L'un d'eux, colonel...
75447) Spanish Missions of Texas
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After the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés in the sixteenth century, conquistadors and explorers poured into the territory of Nueva España. The Franciscans followed in their wake but carved a different path through a harsh and often violent landscape. That heritage can still be found across Texas, behind weathered stone ruins and in the pews of ornate, immaculately maintained naves. From early structures in El Paso to later woodland sanctuaries...
75448) Insurrection
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The first publication of Insurrection, a remarkable debut of a major new African-American theatre artist. The playwright won the distinguished Oppenheim Award from Newsday for best new playwright of 1997. Insurrection is a chilling exploration of the roots of the Nat Turner slave insurrection through the eyes of a contemporary black man who is transported back through time with his grandfather.
75449) James Baldwin: The FBI File
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The FBI's secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer.
Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art and black power. Baldwin's 1,884-page FBI file, covering the period from 1958 to 1974, was the largest compiled on any African American artist of the Civil Rights era. This collection of once-secret documents, never...
75450) No Wonder We Are Losing
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In this shocking book leading anti-communist Robert Morris reveals the revelations that he uncovered in his quest to rid American of socialism.
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El Campesino: Life and Death in the Soviet Union, first published in 1952, is the dramatic autobiographical account of Spanish revolutionary Valentín Gonzalez (1904-1983). The book (also titled Listen Comrades: Life and Death in the Soviet Union) details Gonzalez' experiences in the Spanish Civil War, his conversion to communism, and his flight to the Soviet Union following the Nationalist victory. In Russia, however, he is eventually arrested, tortured...
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A very interesting investigation authored by a 1950s-era journalist attempting to demonstrate the innocence of Alger Hiss - a former important US State Department official who was accused of communist subversion and espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. Author insists that the case against Hiss was never adequately proven and that insufficient documentation and testimony was brought forth during the Hiss hearings. Book raises important questions...
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•Features dozens of detailed interviews with directors, producers, F/X pros, and more
•Horror movies get better distribution deals-so they're great for independent filmmakers
•Entertaining and informative, packed with insightful and sometimes hilarious anecdotes.
Everyone who's ever longed to make their very own horror movie needs a copy of Splatter Flicks, a comprehensive guide that shows aspiring filmmakers exactly how today's most successful...
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In the early 1890s, farmers Albert Maulhardt and John Edward Borchard discovered Ventura County's favorable conditions for a highly profitable new cash crop: the sugar beet. Not long after inviting sugar mogul Henry T. Oxnard to the area, construction began on a $2 million sugar factory capable of processing two thousand tons of beets daily. The facility brought jobs, wealth and the Southern Pacific rail line. It became one of the country's largest...
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The life of Abraham Lincoln, America's greatest president, in a new, illustrated edition of the Newbery Honor classic.
Clara Ingram Judson's Newbery Honor Book is a richly drawn biography of Abraham Lincoln from his backwoods boyhood, to his days as a shopkeeper and lawyer, his entry into politics, and finally through his extraordinary presidency and tragic assassination. Judson presents Lincoln as he was--the plain-spoken and practical man, often...
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In the early 1900s, Frank Lloyd Wright transformed a small midwestern prairie community into one of the world's most important architectural destinations. Mason City, Iowa, became home to his City National Bank and Park Inn-the last surviving Wright hotel. In addition, his prototype Stockman House helped launch the Prairie School architectural style. Soon after, architect Walter Burley Griffin followed in Wright's footsteps, designing a cluster of...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre el mariscal Pétain, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Descubrir el misterio que rodea a Pétain, que gana la batalla de Verdún gracias a sus tácticas militares innovadoras, pero que firma un armisticio con Hitler que conduce al régimen de Vichy
• Conocer todos los acontecimientos mayores en Francia,...
75458) The Eyes of Reason: A Novel
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This is a novel by renowned German writer Stefan Heym, first published in 1951, in which fact and fiction relating to the Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia are skillfully blended in a gripping tale of one of the enigmas of our times. As the story-which centers around three brothers, Thomas, Joseph and Karel-unfolds, the reader becomes acutely aware of the forces that created the anomalies, of those elements brought into focus by the Nazi occupation,...
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For many African Americans, getting a public sector job has historically been one of the few paths to the financial stability of the middle class, and in New York City, few such jobs were as sought-after as positions in the fire department (FDNY). For over a century, generations of Black New Yorkers have fought to gain access to and equal opportunity within the FDNY. Tracing this struggle for jobs and justice from 1898 to the present, David Goldberg...
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Along Delaware's Old Post Road: From Claymont to Iron Hill snakes through the Colonial towns of Claymont, Wilmington, Newport, Stanton, Christiana, and the Pencader Hundred portion of northern Delaware. This 13-mile route has different names, from Philadelphia Pike to Maryland Avenue to Old Baltimore Pike, but it is along this road that the State of Delaware has its earliest roots. The photographs of the people and places are mostly misty memories...
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