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161) Dinner basket
Series
Publisher
Learning Resources
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"It's dinner time! Mouth-watering, healthy dinner foods are made of soft, durable plastic and sport a contemporary look!" -- Publisher's website
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
America has gone Hamilton crazy. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical has spawned sold-out performances, a triple platinum cast album, and a score so catchy that it is being used to teach U.S. history in classrooms across the country. But just how historically accurate is Hamilton? And how is the show itself making history? Historians on Hamilton brings together a collection of top scholars to explain the Hamilton phenomenon and explore what...
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
"How short can a story be and still truly be a story? This volume of seventy-two very short fictions, none much more than 750 words in length, demonstrates to our repeated satisfaction that less can be more, small can stand tall, and the diminutive can be dynamically and dramatically complete. Here for enjoyment and study are very short pieces by acknowledged modern masters -- including Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, Margaret Atwood, Julio Cortázar...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Into the maelstrom of unprecedented contemporary debates about immigrants in the United States, this perfectly timed book gives us a portrait of what the new immigrant experience in America is really like. Written as a "guide" for the newly arrived, and providing "practical information and advice," Roya Hakakian, an immigrant herself, reveals what those who settle here love about the country, what they miss about their homes, the cruelty of some...
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as black Americans? This significant new publication, accompanying an exhibition at Tate Modern, surveys this crucial period in...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this powerful new history, New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Keller's journey after the miracle at the water pump, vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed, lifelong fight for social justice across gender, class, race, and ability. Raised in Alabama, she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP. She used her...
Author
Publisher
Backbeat Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1964-1965, Larry Kane was the only American reporter, broadcast or newspaper, to travel with the Fab Four on every stop of their North American tour. In Ticket to Ride, Kane tells the story of what it was like to literally live with the four young men who would leave an indelible mark on contemporary music. Weaving in the voices of the Beatles themselves and covering the electrifying action of the road-the performances, the mischief, and all the...
Author
Publisher
The Books Stop Here
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
"Chicago Day celebrated the 22nd anniversary of the great Chicago fire - October 9, 1871 - and the city's subsequent rebirth. This thrilling account of the greatest day at the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, is based on elaborate contemporary newspaper accounts, souvenirs of the day, and 43 candid platinum unpublished photographs. Recognized nationwide, Chicago Day was the most memorable and newsworthy day at the fair, breaking all attendance...
169) Tremor: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling. A weekend spent antiquing is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis. We're invited to experience these events and others through...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Nobel laureate Wilczek presents ten insights that illuminate what the world is and how it works. Fundamentals is built around a simple but profound idea: the models of the world we construct as children are practical and adequate for everyday life, but they do not bring in the surprising and mind-expanding revelations of modern science. To do that, we must look at the world anew, combining clear thinking with an openness to wonder. This "born again"...
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