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224762) Beauty before comfort: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice...
224767) The life of Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Explore Rosa Park's incredible life as a civil rights activist in this early chapter biography. Carefully leveled text and historical photographs make this book an excellent choice to support College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Social Studies standards for elementary grades. Table of contents, glossary, index, further resources, and author bio are included."--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Chroma
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Stahl House was first envisioned by the owners Buck and Carlotta Stahl, designed by architect Pierre Koenig, and immortalized by photographer Julius Shulman. This 1960 glass-and-steel home in the Hollywood Hills has come to embody the idealism of a generation in search of the American dream. The two-bedroom, 2,300-square-foot house with glass walls that disappear into a 270-degree panorama of Los Angeles became Koenig's pie̓ce de re̓sistance....
224772) Udivitelʹnye sozdanii︠a︡
Author
Series
Publisher
Azbuka
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
"It was 1820. Conservative England. Small seaside town. It is here that a meeting of a native of these places, Mary Anning, a poor and uneducated girl, and Elizabeth Philpot, the daughter of a wealthy London lawyer, takes place. Mary and Elizabeth's friendship is held together by a shared love for the strange fossils they find in the coastal cliffs. However, their friendship is put to the test when both girls fall in love with the same person, also...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
One woman's brave actions set a milestone on the road toward ending slavery in the United States. Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren't the only ones who believed that everyone had a right to freedom. Mumbet, a Massachusetts slave, believed it too. She longed to be free, but how? Would anyone help her in her fight for freedom? Could she win against her owner, the richest man...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships. The author contends that these initial trans global voyages occurred by chance, beginning with...
Author
Publisher
Alabama Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and other foot soldiers risked their lives staging marches, sit-ins, Freedom Rides and bold attempts to vote during the Civil Rights Movement in order to change America. Countless women and men worked during the period to dismantle Jim Crow segregation laws that had kept Black people second-class citizens for centuries. Travel the United States Civil Rights Trail across the South and beyond to encounter riveting...
Pub. Date
[19--]
Language
English
Description
Materials on the Pageant of Lexington, celebrated in June 1915 and June 1925. J. Willard Hayden organized the first Pageant of Lexington in 1915 to commemorate a century of peace between the United States and England. Although associated with the commemoration of the Battle of Lexington, the Pageant of Lexington was a separate event.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University. The topic of debate that evening was the infamous phrase from Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Convention speech:"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." At a time when Malcolm was traveling widely and advocating on behalf of blacks in America and other nations, his thirty minute speech at the Oxford...
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