Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education
Author: Leslie Gale Parr
The decades between the Progressive Era of the 1920s and the civil rights struggles of the 1960s were a period of profound change in the lives of southern women. The life of Sarah Towles Reed (1882-1978) illuminates a ... |
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Author: Pat Conroy
Reissued in trade paper, this is the first-person account of the year spent by the author teaching black children on an impoverished island off the South Carolina coast. |
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Author: Massimo Mazzotti
She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, hi ... |
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Fabianism and the Color Line
Author: Adolph L. Reed
This groundbreaking study of W.E.B. DuBois simultaneously analyses the political thought of one of the leading black American intellectuals and activists of this century, provides a model for the study of the history of ... |
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Author: Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned b ... |
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Author: Henry David Thoreau
Walden; or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned b ... |
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Author: Henry David Thoreau
Walden, one of the best-known non-fiction Americna books, is written by author by Henry David Thoreau and originally published in 1854. Waldens details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond by Concord, Massachuse ... |
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Author: Henry David Thoreau
Walden is one of the best-known non-fiction books ever written by an American. It details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson. Walden was writ ... |
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Containing "Economy" and "Where I Lived and What I Lived for"
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Walden is an account of the two years and two months that David Henry Thoreau lived on the shores of Walden Pond, supporting himself by the labor of his own hands. In conducting this natural experiment in simple living, ... |
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Author: Frances K. Conley
In May 1991, Conley, the first female tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the country, made headlines when she resigned from Stanford to protest the school's unabashed gender discrimination. In this forthright memo ... |
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An Introduction to His Work and Thought
Author: Uwe Steiner
Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) continues to fascinate readers and influence academic writing, both stylistically and conceptually. Here U ... |
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An Aesthetic of Redemption
Author: Richard Wolin
Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and cultural and literary critic. Richard Wolin's book remains among the clearest and most insightful introducti ... |
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A Biography
Author: Momme Brodersen
Revised and updated for the English edition, this comprehensive biography provides an account of Walter Benjamin's career, and demonstrates the fallacy of the popular, romanticized notion of his life as the sorrowful pro ... |
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Author: Esther Leslie
Walter Benjamin, critic, essayist, translator, philosopher one of the twentieth century's most influential intellectuals continues to intrigue today. His work stimulates a profusion of responses in the form of new novels ... |
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Educator and Scholar
Author: Yongnian Zheng & Kok Khoo Phua
The name Wang Gungwu is iconic. He is one of the most eminent scholars and historians on Asia today and is renowned for his scholarship on the history of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and the history and civili ... |
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Educator and Scholar
Author: Yongnian Zheng & Kok Khoo Phua
The name Wang Gungwu is iconic. He is one of the most eminent scholars and historians on Asia today and is renowned for his scholarship on the history of the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia, and the history and civili ... |
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Notebooks from a Phoney War, 1939-40
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
During the phoney war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Jean-Paul Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. He used his considerab ... |
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Author: Philip Rushlow
Here is a book written without the slightest nod to political correctness. It assumes that the reader and writer are equals in every way: intelligence, experience and the ability to exert common sense. The author is not ... |
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Author: Simone de Beauvoir
Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir's "Wartime Diary" gives English readers unabridged access to one of the scandalous texts that threaten to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir's life and ... |
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