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What it Is, What it Was

Author : Gerald Martinez
Publisher : Miramax Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What it Is, What it Was written by Gerald Martinez and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 1998-10-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Shaft to Superfly, Foxy Brown to Cleopatra Jones, What It Is...What It Was! presents a vivid pictorial and oral history of the best movies to emerge from a singularly American film movement. The book explores this film explosion. Between 1970 and 1980 over 200 films with Black themes including family dramas, mysteries, horror films, comedies, and action films, were released by both major and independent studios. The book preserves cinema history with the first book to highlight the movie poster artwork while presenting the people who created this history on screen. With the increased use of photography, this period would be the last time that top artists would draw and paint the vibrant bold movie poster images that in themselves were classics. Groundbreaking producer-director-writer Melvin Van Peebles, actors Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and William Marshall, composer Isaac Hayes, along with many other artists, talk about this body of cinema that has withstood the test of time and influenced American culture. The films are described as powerful, funky, sexy, exuberant, violent, hip, and just plain fun. They also became a target of debate as some coined the sweeping term "blaxploitation." Samuel L. Jackson, John Singleton, Reginald Hudlin, Ice-T, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Quentin Tarantino, and others offer insightful commentary into the history and impact of the films in their work."--back cover.

I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

Author : Barbara Sher
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0440505003
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was written by Barbara Sher and published by Dell. This book was released on 1995-08-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-changing guide to finding your direction—and your passion—in a world of seemingly limitless options “For those who want to find their passion . . . a step-by-step guide for restructuring one’s life so that it has meaning, direction, and joy.”—Ellen Kreidman, author of Light His Fire and Light Her Fire If you suspect there could be more to life than what you’re getting, if you always knew you could do anything—if you only knew what it was—this extraordinary book is about to prove you right. No matter what your age, no matter how “unattainable” your dreams, you can create and live a life you love. I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was reveals how you can recapture “long lost” goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams forever. You will learn: • What to do if you never chose to be what you are. • How to get off the fast track—and on to the right track. • First aid techniques for paralyzing chronic negativity. • How to regroup when you've lost your big dream. • To stop waiting for luck—and start creating it. A life without direction is a life without passion. I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was guides you not to another unsatisfying job but to a richly rewarding career rooted in your heart’s desire.

What It Was

Author : George P. Pelecanos
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316209540
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book What It Was written by George P. Pelecanos and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local drug addict's been murdered, shot point-blank in his apartment. Soon both men are on the trail of a ruthless killer: Red Fury, so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives, but a name that fits his personality all too well. Red Fury doesn't have a retirement plan, as Vaughn points out - he doesn't care who he has to cross, or kill, to get what he wants. As the violence escalates and the stakes get higher, Strange and Vaughn know the only way to catch their man is to do it their own way. Rich with details of place and time - the cars, the music, the clothes - and fueled by non-stop action, this is Pelecanos writing in the hard-boiled noir style that won him his earliest fans and placed him firmly in the ranks of the top crime writers in America.

College

Author : Andrew Delbanco
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691246386
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book College written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strengths and failures of the American college, and why liberal education still matters As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience—an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers—is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In describing what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America’s colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations.

Il Gran Rifiuto, what it Was, who Made It, and how Fatal to Dante Allighieri

Author : Henry Clark Barlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Il Gran Rifiuto, what it Was, who Made It, and how Fatal to Dante Allighieri written by Henry Clark Barlow and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

Author : Barbara Sher
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 030776320X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was written by Barbara Sher and published by Dell. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A life-changing guide to finding your direction—and your passion—in a world of seemingly limitless options “For those who want to find their passion . . . a step-by-step guide for restructuring one’s life so that it has meaning, direction, and joy.”—Ellen Kreidman, author of Light His Fire and Light Her Fire If you suspect there could be more to life than what you’re getting, if you always knew you could do anything—if you only knew what it was—this extraordinary book is about to prove you right. No matter what your age, no matter how “unattainable” your dreams, you can create and live a life you love. I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was reveals how you can recapture “long lost” goals, overcome the blocks that inhibit your success, decide what you want to be, and live your dreams forever. You will learn: • What to do if you never chose to be what you are. • How to get off the fast track—and on to the right track. • First aid techniques for paralyzing chronic negativity. • How to regroup when you've lost your big dream. • To stop waiting for luck—and start creating it. A life without direction is a life without passion. I Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was guides you not to another unsatisfying job but to a richly rewarding career rooted in your heart’s desire.

Chemistry as it is, compared with what it was: or, a systematic view of the present state of chemistry ... To which is added a supplement, etc

Author : George G. Carey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Chemistry as it is, compared with what it was: or, a systematic view of the present state of chemistry ... To which is added a supplement, etc written by George G. Carey and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Il Gran Rifiuto, what it Was, who Made It, and how Fatal to Dante Allighieri a Dissertation on Verses Fifty-eight to Sixty-three of the Third Canto of the Inferno by H. C. Barlow, M.D

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Author : Henry Clark Barlow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Il Gran Rifiuto, what it Was, who Made It, and how Fatal to Dante Allighieri a Dissertation on Verses Fifty-eight to Sixty-three of the Third Canto of the Inferno by H. C. Barlow, M.D written by Henry Clark Barlow and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What the Qur'an Meant

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101981040
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book What the Qur'an Meant written by Garry Wills and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks on a timely and necessary reconsideration of the Qur’an, leading us through perplexing passages with insight and erudition. What does the Qur’an actually say about veiling women? Does it justify religious war? There was a time when ordinary Americans did not have to know much about Islam. That is no longer the case. We blundered into the longest war in our history without knowing basic facts about the Islamic civilization with which we were dealing. We are constantly fed false information about Islam—claims that it is essentially a religion of violence, that its sacred book is a handbook for terrorists. There is no way to assess these claims unless we have at least some knowledge of the Qur’an. In this book Wills, as a non-Muslim with an open mind, reads the Qur’an with sympathy but with rigor, trying to discover why other non-Muslims—such as Pope Francis—find it an inspiring book, worthy to guide people down through the centuries. There are many traditions that add to and distort and blunt the actual words of the text. What Wills does resembles the work of art restorers who clean away accumulated layers of dust to find the original meaning. He compares the Qur’an with other sacred books, the Old Testament and the New Testament, to show many parallels between them. There are also parallel difficulties of interpretation, which call for patient exploration—and which offer some thrills of discovery. What the Qur’an Meant is the opening of a conversation on one of the world’s most practiced religions.

I Never Knew What Time It Was

Author : David Antin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Never Knew What Time It Was written by David Antin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What was That!

Author : Geda Bradley Mathews
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 9780307118400
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book What was That! written by Geda Bradley Mathews and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 1994-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three skittish brothers try to comfort each other when they hear night noises in their house.

Latitude

Author : Natasha Rao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986093845
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book Latitude written by Natasha Rao and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen as the winner of the 2021APR/Honickman First Book Prize by Guggenheim Fellow Ada Limón, Natasha Rao's debut collection Latitude abounds with sensory delights, rich in colors, flavors, and sounds. These poems explore the complexities of family, cultural identity, and coming of age. By turns vulnerable and bold, Latitudeindulges in desire: "In my next life let me be a tomato/lusting and unafraid," Rao writes, "...knowing I'll end up in an eager mouth."

I Thought It Was Just Me (but it Isn't)

Author : Brené Brown
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592403352
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book I Thought It Was Just Me (but it Isn't) written by Brené Brown and published by Avery. This book was released on 2008 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2007 with the title: I thought it was just me: women reclaiming power and courage in a culture of shame.

Working with Mr. Wright

Author : Curtis Besinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521587143
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Working with Mr. Wright written by Curtis Besinger and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with Mr Wright. is a personal recollection by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's former apprentices of his years at the Taliesin Fellowship. Curtis Besinger provides a lively account of daily life in this community of architects established by Wright in Wisconsin and Arizona. An apprenticeship with the Fellowship entailed architectural tasks, such as drafting, designing, and overseeing projects, including the actual building of Taliesin West; as well as humbler assignments - from milking the cows to harvesting wheat - related to maintaining the farm that surrounds the Fellowship in Wisconsin. The social life of the Fellowship, filled with music and film, and planned in detail by Wright himself, is also recounted with wit and humor. Through these engaging recollections, illustrated with photographs, plans, and drawings made during Besinger's years at the Fellowship, Wright's eccentric personality, his working practices, and his unique creative vision emerge, along with a host of personalities who contributed to the unique Taliesin experience.

We Never Knew Just What It Was ... The Story of the Chad Mitchell Trio

Author : Mike Murphey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952112669
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book We Never Knew Just What It Was ... The Story of the Chad Mitchell Trio written by Mike Murphey and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the groups to emerge during the folk era of the 1960's, first the Chad Mitchell Trio and later The Mitchell Trio were unequivocally the best. Their complex harmonies, sense of comedic timing and stage presence were unique to the folk movement. They didn't enjoy the commercial success of other groups because their material made political and social statements that radio and television refused to play. They were wildly popular, though, on college campuses throughout the country during this turbulent time and fostered political and social awareness among thousands of young men and women as they faced the challenging era ahead. But as Mike, Chad and Joe Frazier raced along a frantic treadmill of rehearsals, recording sessions, nightclubs and concerts, Mike and Chad began to realize the demand for musical perfection was the only thing they had in common. Their personalities were and remain polar opposites. When Chad left in 1965, neither mourned the parting. John Denver replaced Chad. Two years later, Joe's demons caught up to him forcing Mike and John to fire Joe. When folk reunions became popular, fans and folk historians agreed that The Trio was the one group that would never take the stage again. Their schism was just too great. Mike and Chad and Joe hadn't spoken in twenty years. Then came a call. I will if he will. Their mentor and music director Milt Okun worried they were making a mistake. They couldn't possibly be as good as their fans remembered. They were. Mike and Chad kept their day jobs, and their distance. But once again, they shared the music.

Yard War

Author : Taylor Kitchings
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 0553507559
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Yard War written by Taylor Kitchings and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Taylor Kitching’s rousing debut puts you right on the fifty-yard line of a vital historical moment.” —Chris Grabenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Perfect for readers of Christopher Paul Curtis’s Bud, Not Buddy and Vince Vawter’s Paperboy, Yard War explores race relations during the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a boy who accidentally sets off a “yard war” when he invites his maid’s son to play football on his front lawn. Trip Westbrook has spent his first twelve years far from the struggle for civil rights going on in Mississippi. The one black person he knows well is Willie Jane, the family maid, who has been a second mother to him. When Trip invites her son, Dee, to play football in the yard, he discovers the ugly side of his smiling neighbors. Trip’s old pals stop coming by. He is bullied, his house is defaced, and his family is threatened. The Westbrooks will be forced to choose between doing the right thing or losing the only home Trip has ever known. Who knew that playing football in the yard could have such consequences? This engaging, honest, and hopeful novel is full of memorable characters, and brings the civil rights–era South alive for young readers. “Trip is a fine character. 1964 Mississippi leaps to life in this book.” —Gennifer Choldenko, Newbery Honor winning author of Al Capone Does My Shirts “A captivating story about standing up for your friends. I loved seeing Trip learn how hard it can be to do the right thing.” —Kristin Levine, author of The Lions of Little Rock and The Paper Cowboy “Trip’s journey is a sensitive account about how one person can slowly make a difference.” —Booklist “A challenging but worthwhile portrait of a very difficult period in American history.” —SLJ

Who Wants to Be a Princess?

Author : Bridget Heos
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 125015751X
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Who Wants to Be a Princess? written by Bridget Heos and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wish to be a princess? Have you ever wanted to wear a pretty pink gown, sing to your forest animal friends, and attend a fancy fairy-tale ball? Then meet Beatrice—she represents what being a princess in the Middle Ages was really like. Pink gown? More like itchy wool! Sing to animals? Think archery and horseback riding instead. Beatrice’s life is no fairy tale, but she will show you that fact can sometimes be more fascinating than fantasy. This humorous, brightly illustrated book offers an irresistible comparison of fairy tale vs. real life in medieval times.