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An in-depth look at the iconic African American scholar's life in-and his contributions to-our nation's capital. The discipline of black history has its roots firmly planted at 1538 Ninth Street, Northwest, in Washington, DC. The Victorian row house in "Black Broadway" was once the modest office-home of Carter G. Woodson. The home was also the headquarters of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). Woodson dedicated...
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In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and his work on behalf of persecuted Christians in 1970s Soviet Russia. Told primarily through dialog, this thrilling account puts the reader in the middle of a critical time in history, when thousands of people who had been denied emigration drew international...
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The American Story of the Bookstores on Fourth Avenue from the 1890s to the 1960s.
New York City has eight million stories, and this one unfolds just south of Fourteenth Street in Manhattan, on the seven blocks of Fourth Avenue bracketed by Union Square and Astor Place. There, for nearly eight decades from the 1890s to the 1960s, thrived the New York Booksellers' Row, or Book Row.
This richly anecdotal memoir features historical photographs and...
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Extrait : "La première partie de ces mémoires, ou plutt de ces notes, a été consacrée aux portraits à la plume de la plupart de ceux qui, de près ou de loin, ont joué un rle au Figaro. Mon but est de compléter cette collection en faisant de nouveaux croquis de mes rédacteurs présents ou passés, en citant, comme échantillon de leur savoir-faire, leurs meilleurs articles, boutades ou nouvelles à la main."
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A British journalist offers an intimate view of Russia from the Cold War to the rise of Putin through his personal experiences as a correspondent.
In the course of the past 45 years, Angus Roxburgh has translated Tolstoy, met four successive Russian presidents and been jinxed by a Siberian shaman. He has come under fire in war zones and been arrested by Chechen thugs. During the Cold War he was wooed by the KGB, who then decided he would make...
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Laura Kasinof studied Arabic in college and moved to Yemen a few years later-after a friend at a late-night party in Washington, DC, recommended the country as a good place to work as a freelance journalist. When she first moved to the capital city of Sanaa in 2009, she was the only American reporter based in the country. She quickly fell in love with Yemen's people and culture, and even found herself the star of a local TV soap opera.
When antigovernment...
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Extrait: "Je viens de passer quinze jours au bord de la mer: je ne les regrette certainement pas; pendant ce temps-là on a beaucoup parlé de la fusion sous toutes les formes, peut-être même s'est-on un peu trop emballé ( style de sportman) sur cette question, dont je voudrais, on le sait depuis longtemps, voir la solution définitive."
728) Scandal: A Manual
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When the world first learned of Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee's impromptu wedding, when Sarah Jessica Parker had an explosive falling-out with her Sex and the City castmates, or when Ruth Madoff discovered the truth of Bernie's marital infidelity
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Professor and the Madman tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Simon Winchester's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester includes: • Historical context • Chapter-by-chapter summaries •...
730) Charlotta Bass
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Learn about the dedication, passion, and integrity of Charlotta Bass, who fought for justice and equality, becoming the first woman and African American to run for vice president of the United States.
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The must-read summary of Peter Thompson and Anthony Delano's book: "Maxwell: A Portrait of Power".
This complete summary of the ideas from Peter Thompson and Anthony Delano's book "Maxwell: A Portrait of Power" tells the story of Robert Maxwell, one of the most controversial publishing tycoons of our time. This biography includes entertaining anecdotes and the authors explore the many contradictions of his life. This summary provides an insight into...
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Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in North Carolina. From 1927 to 1971, he published and edited the Carolina Times, the preeminent black newspaper in the state. He used the power of the press to voice the anger of black Carolinians, and to turn that anger into action in a forty-year crusade for freedom. In this biography, Jerry Gershenhorn chronicles...
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"In this hilarious and intimate essay collection, Alyssa navigates life as a wild-hearted woman and her thrilling career as a sex, relationship, and celebrity writer in New York City. From running away from the 'perfect' future husband(s), to interviewing A-list stars while contemplating an abortion, to bypassing men entirely to have a baby with an anonymous sperm donor, to partnering up with a sexy enigma while extremely pregnant and eventually finding...
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Jacques Schiffrin changed the face of publishing in the twentieth century. As the founder of Les Éditions de la Pléiade in Paris and cofounder of Pantheon Books in New York, he helped define a lasting canon of Western literature while also promoting new authors who shaped transatlantic intellectual life. In this first biography of Schiffrin, Amos Reichman tells the poignant story of a remarkable publisher and his dramatic travails across two continents.
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Life on the Western waterfront has always fascinated Max Miller, a special reporter for the San Diego Sun. Embraced by all the waterfront folk, he has joined them on their cruises, has learned the mystery of their crafts, and knows them like brothers.
Max himself has become a part of the waterfront. Not a fishing boat ties up to the wharf without Max Miller getting the story. Not a submarine comes in nor an airplane soars out over the water without...
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Stranger times volume 3
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Love can be a truly terrible thing. Marriages are tricky at the best of times, especially when one of you is dead. Vincent Banecroft, the irascible editor of The Stranger Times, has never believed his wife died despite emphatic evidence to the contrary. Now, against all odds, it seems he may actually be proved right; but what lengths will he go to in an attempt to rescue her? With Banecroft distracted, the shock resignation of assistant editor, Hannah...
737) The Stranger Times
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Stranger times volume 1
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"There are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them. A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but more often the weird) of modern life, it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable . . . At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and -mouthed husk of a man...
738) Press
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"Press is a sharp, fast-paced series from the acclaimed writer Mike Bartlett that rips aside the front pages of rival newspapers to reveal the lives, loves, and lies of a dynamic group of journalists. Under relentless pressure from the 24-hour news cycle, these4 passionate professionals go to extraordinary lengths to uncover stories and get them into print. They hodl the powerful to account and turn ordinary people's lives into headlines, but can...
739) Honorary White
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Acclaimed author E. R. Braithwaite (To Sir, With Love) chronicles the brutality, oppression, and courage he witnessed as a black man granted "Honorary White" status during a six-week visit to apartheid South Africa As a black man living in a white-dominated world, author E. R. Braithwaite was painfully aware of the multitude of injustices suffered by people of color and he wrote powerfully and poignantly about racial discrimination in his acclaimed...
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Geronimo Stilton volume 16-19
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Geronimo Stilton lives in New Mouse City on Mouse Island with his friends and family. He works at The Rodent's Gazette, the most famouse newspaper in New Mouse city. In these comics, Geronimo Stilton travels back in time to save the future, by protecting the past from his arch nemeses, the Pirate Cats. These devious felines plan to change history to make them supreme rulers of Mouse Island! Geronimo and Friends chase the dastardly Pirate Cats back...
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