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Author : Providence Athenaeum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Natural History Collection of the Providence Athenaeum written by Providence Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Horatio Rogers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Private Libraries of Providence written by Horatio Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Two or three years ago I wrote for a local newspaper a series of sketches of some of the private libraries of Providence. These sketches, due in some degree, perhaps, to their having been copied into 'The American Bibliopolist', attracted so much attention here and elsewhere, that I have consented to collect them and to permit a limited edition to be published in book form."---Page iii
Author : Matt Burriesci
Publisher : Cleis Press
ISBN 13 : 1632280175
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Dead White Guys written by Matt Burriesci and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Burriesci set out to write a book for her 18th birthday. In short, honest, and simple letters, Burriesci teaches his daughter about 32 great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how their lessons have applied to his life. As someone who has spent a long and successful career advocating for great literature, Burriesci defends the titles in this series of tender and candid letters, rich in personal experience and full of humor. Dead White Guys is also a timely defense of the great books, arriving in the middle of a national debate about the fate of these books in high schools and universities around the country. Burriesci shows how the great books can enrich our lives as individuals, as citizens, and in our careers.
Author : Mabel Loomis Todd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Total Eclipses of the Sun written by Mabel Loomis Todd and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William C. Bryant
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (634 download)
Download or read book Picturesque America written by William C. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Races of the Earth, Or, New Chapters of Ethnological Inquiry written by Louis-Ferdinand-Alfred Maury and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Akhil Reed Amar
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096360
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Words That Made Us written by Akhil Reed Amar and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the American Constitution's formative decades from a preeminent legal scholar When the US Constitution won popular approval in 1788, it was the culmination of thirty years of passionate argument over the nature of government. But ratification hardly ended the conversation. For the next half century, ordinary Americans and statesmen alike continued to wrestle with weighty questions in the halls of government and in the pages of newspapers. Should the nation's borders be expanded? Should America allow slavery to spread westward? What rights should Indian nations hold? What was the proper role of the judicial branch? In The Words that Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered. His account of the document's origins and consolidation is a guide for anyone seeking to properly understand America's Constitution today.
Author : Albert Gorton Greene
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Old Grimes written by Albert Gorton Greene and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem about a good man who has died.
Author : Josiah Clark Nott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Indigenous Races of the Earth written by Josiah Clark Nott and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Helen Whitman
Publisher : Yogh & Thorn Press
ISBN 13 : 9780922558605
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Last Flowers written by Sarah Helen Whitman and published by Yogh & Thorn Press. This book was released on 2011-11-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive book on Edgar Allan Poe's doomed romance with Providence poet Sarah Helen Whitman, and the first time her poetry has been available in print since 1916. This book contains the poems both poets wrote to and about one another, and the best work they might have read to one another during their courtship. The essay traces Poe's 28 days in Providence in detail, as well as the genealogy and family history of Mrs. Whitman. Additionally, an appreciation of Sarah Helen Whitman's highly romantic poetry helps to place her in the pantheon of American women poets where she belongs. The 66-page essay is a day-by-account of Poe's courtship in Providence as well as the course of his writing and publishing career from 1845 to the end of 1848. The poetry selections include the complete, original version of "Ulalume;" both versions of Whitman's parody poem of "The Raven;" Whitman's Poe sonnet group, and the central section, "Noon," from her masterpiece, "Hours of Life." From this book emerges a clear picture of the intellectual attraction these two poets felt for one another, as well as a detailed account of Poe's attempted suicide. The stifled atmosphere of Providence society, and the role of artists in resisting it, are also illuminated with new revelations about Mrs. Whitman's family and artistic circle. The book also has interesting details about the role of the Providence Athenaeum library as a locale in the Poe-Whitman romance.
Author : Gavin D. R. Bridson
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Total Pages : 1112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of Natural History written by Gavin D. R. Bridson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Lancaster
Publisher : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN 13 : 9780972410915
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Inquire Within written by Jane Lancaster and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding and detailed history depicting the various ways in which this important historic and influential library helped to shape the American experience. The Providence Athenaeum, celebrating its 250th anniversary in 2003, continues to play a significant role in defining the cultural, intellectual and social life of Rhode Island and southern New England. Having withstood numerous wars, depressions and prosperity alike, this magnificent library is one of the oldest such institutions this side of the Atlantic. And as historic as it may be, it remains a growing, changing institution, attracting exceptional people and exceptional collections. Karen Philippi's photography and Malcolm Grear's visually stunning design compels the reader to rediscover the hidden treasures housed within the Athenaeum's walls. Beautifully illustrated in black and white and color. Published by The Providence Athenaeum and distributed by Oak Knoll Press.
Author : Thomas Clarkson
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particulary the African written by Thomas Clarkson and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Field Museum of Natural History
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Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Annual Report - Field Museum of Natural History written by Field Museum of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sasha Issenberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1984898515
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Engagement written by Sasha Issenberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium "Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.” —John Williams, The New York Times On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. It is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify excluding gay couples from marriage. In the White House, one president signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which elevated the matter to a national issue, and his successor tried to write it into the Constitution. Over twenty-five years, the debate played out across the country, from the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts to the epic face-off over California’s Proposition 8 and, finally, to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges. From churches to hedge funds, no corner of American life went untouched. This richly detailed narrative follows the coast-to-coast conflict through courtrooms and war rooms, bedrooms and boardrooms, to shed light on every aspect of a political and legal controversy that divided Americans like no other. Following a cast of characters that includes those who sought their own right to wed, those who fought to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and those who changed their minds about it, The Engagement is certain to become a seminal book on the modern culture wars.
Author : Providence Athenaeum
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Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Providence Athenaeum written by Providence Athenaeum and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauret Savoy
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619028255
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Trace written by Lauret Savoy and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.
