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The past is not past We may think something ancient history or something that doesnt affect our present day but we would be wrongThose Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow Jaha Nailah Avery is a…
Brought to you by Penguin A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight Rather we are now reaping the evil harvest of what previous generations sowed The power anger and fluency of Liang Qichaos writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature He saw his great almost unmanageable task as…
Named a Top 100 MustRead Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker Winner of the 2024 Writers Prize for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Inaugural Womens Prize for Nonfiction Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming combines firstrate art history…
Con Thien was a United States Marine Corps firebase that was the scene of fierce combat for months on end during 1967 Staving off attacks and ambushes while suffering from ineffectual leadership from Washington as well as media onslaughts courageous American Marines protected this crucial piece of land at all costs They would hold Con…
When it comes to how societies commemorate their own distant dreams and catastrophes we often think of books archives or memorials carved from stone But in Times Echo Jeremy Eichler makes a revelatory case for the power of music as cultures memory an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past
At the time of her first journey from Southampton to NY City RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and died in the North Atlantic Ocean on April fifteenth 1912 An overall of 2224 guests and team were reported to have been on board when the ship sank making it one of the absolute worst single ship…
Bloomsbury presents To Besiege a City by Prit Buttar read by Leighton Pugh An excellent account Richard Overy The Telegraph Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024 A groundbreaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using original Russian and German…
You may think you know the stories behind the worlds most wellknown groundbreaking achievements but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story This book celebrates the stories of women from ancient times until the 1990s whose contributions have been overwritten and accredited to men The pattern of female achievements being…
Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter Lewis M Simons recollects his fifty years as a foreign correspondent one whose powerful stories contributed to transforming Asia from Vietnam Warera basket case to a global boomtown that today rivals the United States
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Toni Morrison Nobel prize laureate and exceptional writer Life and works in a short biography Everything you need to know brief and concise Infotainment education and entertainment at its best
Toni Morrison Nobelpreistrgerin und Ausnahmeliteratin Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie Alles was man wissen muss kurz und knapp Infotainment Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten
Against the backdrop of the extraordinary history of Great Lakes shipping Too Much Sea for Their Decks chronicles shipwrecked schooners wooden freighters early steelhulled steamers whalebacks and bulk carriers all lost in the frigid waters of Lake Superior Included are compelling accounts of vessels destined for infamy such as that of the Stranger a slender…
2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 In 1979 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials The Selecter Madness The Beat and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born 2 Tone was black and white a multiracial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing…
In extensive interviews with scene pioneers and mainstays including Chris Carrabba Dashboard Confessional Geoff Rickly Thursday Frank Iero My Chemical Romance Gabe Saporta Midtown/Cobra Starship and Max Bemis Say Anything veteran music journalist Michael Tedder has crafted a onceinageneration exploration of emo and The Scene that is as forthright as it is tenderly nostalgic taking…
New Mexico juli 1945 het geheime Manhattanproject onder leiding van Robert Oppenheimer Daar vond de eerste succesvolle maar verwoestende test van een atoombom plaats Met meesterlijke schrijfvaardigheid neemt Martin Hinoul je mee naar de periode rondom deze wereldbepalende ontwikkeling maar verkent ook de gevolgen en veelbelovende mogelijkheden van onze acties Lees meer over de opkomst…
An engaging glimpse into a world both fascinating and fundamentally unknowable to those who arent born into it R E BURRILLO author of Behind the Bears Ears
Brought to you by Penguin Traditionalism is the shadowy philosophy that has influenced so much of the twentieth century and beyond from the far right to the environmental movement from Alexander Dugin to Prince Charles It is a new way of seeing the world one that rejects modernity and instead turns to sacred truth perennialism…
From an awardwinning former law enforcement park ranger and investigator this femaledriven true crime adventure follows the authors quest to find missing hikers along the Pacific Crest Trail by pairing up with an eclectic group of unlikely allies As a park ranger with the National Park Services law enforcement team Andrea Lankford led search and…
Legendary tennis player Billie Jean King details the remarkable history of womens tennis in this stunning edition of Trailblazers The Unmatched Story of Womens Tennis In celebration of the Womens Tennis Associations 50th anniversary this updated and expanded editionbased on the 1988 original We Have Come a Long Way The Story of Womens Tennisincludes more…