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What do readers say about The Fire Next Time?
eloquent, intelligent, insightful writing searing, brilliant prose u. s. race relations an extended essayA national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement-and still lights the way to understanding race in America today.
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I HAVE BEGUN this letter five times and torn it up five times. I keep seeing your face, which is also the face of your father and my brother. Like him, you are tough, dark, vulnerable, moody—with a ve...
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What do readers say about Into the Wild?
reporting the known facts exhilarating and disturbing documentary or journalist’s investigation a magazine articleKrakauer's page-turning bestseller explores a famed missing person mystery while unraveling the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cas... More details on Into the Wild
Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a gre...
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What do readers say about Communism?
straightforward, passably well written easy to read an extended essay the history of communismThis book reproduces the text of lectures concerning the rise and fall of communism delivered in Oslo in 1993 on the invitation of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Through these lectures, Richard Pipes seeks to explain in broad historical and philosoph... More details on Communism
Ever since 1709, when Peter the Great defeated the Swedes at Poltava and ended their hegemony in the Baltic region, Russia was considered and considered herself a Great Power; and as such, she claimed...
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What do readers say about The Song of the Dodo?
long and discursive an extended essay how species survive incredibly readable and interestingDavid Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message - a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our pl... More details on The Song of the Dodo
LET’S START indoors. Let’s start by imagining a fine Persian carpet and a hunting knife. The carpet is twelve feet by eighteen, say. That gives us 216 square feet of continuous woven material. Is the ...
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What do readers say about Three Guineas?
feminism and pacifism an extended essay really funny and dry the rights of women"Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes."
Setting out to answer the question "How are we to prevent war?" Virginia Woolf argues that the inequalities between women and men must first be addressed. Framing her arguments in the ... More details on Three Guineas
Three years is a long time to leave a letter unanswered, and your letter has been lying without an answer even longer than that. I had hoped that it would answer itself, or that other people would ans...
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What do readers say about White Fragility?
straight forward and conversational timely and informative fact-based solutions focused book short but very meatyThe New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Mi... More details on White Fragility
I am a white American raised in the United States. I have a white frame of reference and a white worldview, and I move through the world with a white experience. My experience is not a universal human...
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What do readers say about The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana?
an extended essay intriguing and challenging a treasure hunt a 60-year-old italian manIn this fascinating, abundant new novel from the incomparable Eco, Yambo, a rare-book dealer, has suffered a bizarre form of memory loss. He can remember every book he ever read but nothing about his own life.
In an effort to retrieve his past, he w... More details on The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
I felt as if I had awoke from a long sleep, and yet I was still suspended in a milky gray. Or else I was not awake, but dreaming. It was a strange dream, void of images, crowded with sounds. As if I c...
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What do readers say about Far from the Tree?
having so many examples very thought provoking book identity, challenge and disability identity and childhoodSolomon's startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition-that difference is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, or ... More details on Far from the Tree
I HAD DYSLEXIA AS A child; indeed, I have it now. I still cannot write by hand without focusing on each letter as I form it, and even then, some letters are out of order, or left out entirely. My moth...
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What do readers say about These Truths?
thoughtful and balanced easy and entertaining informative and sobering traditional chronological format"Nothing short of a masterpiece." -NPR Books
A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of ... More details on These Truths
All of this is unfortunate; none of it is unusual. Most of what once existed is gone. Flesh decays, wood rots, walls fall, books burn. Nature takes one toll, malice another. History is the study of wh...
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What do readers say about Witches, Midwives, and Nurses?
‘ cliff notes a large booklet gender and medical professions an essential readWomen have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medi... More details on Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
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