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The Year of Our Lord 1943 by Jacobs Alan;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Jacobs, Alan;

What lies at the heart of this “affinity”? “Both seek knowledge for the sake of power (in Bacon’s words, as ‘a spouse for fruit,’ not a ‘curtesan for pleasure’), both ...
( Category: Modern January 19,2020 )
A Pima Past by Anna Moore Shaw
epub |eng | 2015-05-02 | Author:Anna Moore Shaw

Childhood Sweethearts ALTHOUGH THE GIRLS AND BOYS were strictly separated at the Phoenix Indian School, we could not help but notice each other. This was especially true as we became ...
( Category: Native American Studies January 19,2020 )
Sterling Hayden's Wars by Lee Mandel
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Lee Mandel [Mandel, Lee]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Naming Names IN APRIL OF 1950, THE APPEALS OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN REACHED THE United States Supreme Court. The court refused to review the convictions and each member ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )
Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents by Lise Funderburg & Lise Funderburg
epub |eng | 2019-09-02 | Author:Lise Funderburg & Lise Funderburg

Now it is 2018; I am fifty-eight. I’m sitting at her kitchen table, the same white table in the same white kitchen in the same white split-level, imploring my mother ...
( Category: Essays January 19,2020 )
Islam and the Americas by Unknown
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Unknown

Gender Dynamics and Teachings at the Mosque On Fridays Maya Muslims get together to pray and listen to a sermon at the mosque. The mosque is a modest room made ...
( Category: Architecture January 19,2020 )
Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-11-06 | Author:Maxine Gordon [Gordon, Maxine]

Octobre 19–65 Hotel Royale Bruxelles Belge Alfred, I forgot to mention, in my last letter, about the recording to be made at the Berlin Jazz Festival, Oct 29–31. As you ...
( Category: Jazz January 19,2020 )
Peggy Seeger: A Life of Music, Love, and Politics by Jean R. Freedman
epub |eng | 2017-02-03 | Author:Jean R. Freedman [Freedman, Jean R.]

Peggy, Mike, Barbara, and Penny Seeger, Dallas Avenue, shortly after Penny's birth. Photograph courtesy of Sonya Cramer, Seeger Family Collection. Peggy, Barbara, and Pete during World War II. Photograph courtesy ...
( Category: Country & Folk January 19,2020 )
Steven Spielberg by Molly Haskell
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Molly Haskell [Haskell, Molly]

10 Empire of the Sun SHANGHAI, ON THE EVE of Pearl Harbor. The camera tracks along a muddy river where wreaths of flowers and wooden coffins are carried along by ...
( Category: Actors & Entertainers January 19,2020 )
The Rules of the Game Series, Volume 3 by Michel Leiris
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Michel Leiris [Leiris, Michel]

III I must have been fourteen or fifteen years old when I saw, at the Alhambra in Paris, the following act. Dressed in a dark suit of very correct cut, ...
( Category: Arts & Literature January 19,2020 )
Consciousness by Blackmore Susan;
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Blackmore, Susan; [Blackmore, Susan;]

16. Cross-wiring of the human brain. Split-brain patient P. S. was shown a snow scene to the left and a chicken claw to the right. So the speaking left hemisphere ...
( Category: Neurology January 19,2020 )
Black Lives Matter and Music by Unknown
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Unknown

Figure 3.3 A line of SLABs at the Houston SLAB Parade and Family Festival. October 20, 2013. Photo by author. The SLAB community also helped bring a sense of authenticity ...
( Category: Music January 19,2020 )
How the Classics Made Shakespeare by Bate Jonathan;
epub |eng | 2019-03-02 | Author:Bate, Jonathan;

11 AN INFIRMITY NAMED HEREOS WHERE DO WE GET OUR IDEA OF ROMANTIC LOVE? For the last hundred years, the answer has probably been: from Hollywood, from romantic fiction, and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical January 19,2020 )
The Exile's Song: Edmond Dédé and the Unfinished Revolutions of the Atlantic World by Sally McKee
epub |eng | 2017-01-03 | Author:Sally McKee [McKee, Sally]

( Category: Ethnic Studies January 19,2020 )
Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years by Nicholas Frankel
epub |eng | 2017-10-16 | Author:Nicholas Frankel

However, there are good reasons for questioning the veracity of Wilde’s account. Relations with Ross had been tense at best where Douglas was concerned. More to the point, having separated ...
( Category: Victorian January 19,2020 )
On Henry Miller: Or, How to Be an Anarchist by John Burnside
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-03-27 | Author:John Burnside [Burnside, John]

Like a Fluid (The Great Romantic) The great artist is he who conquers the romantic in himself. —Henry Miller, Black Spring He loved the trees he had played under as ...
( Category: United States January 19,2020 )

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