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Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
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- February 11, 2000
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- 9780192835628
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Washington (1856-1915) rose to become the most influential spokesman for African-Americans of his day. In this eloquently written book, he describes events in a remarkable life that began in bondage and culminated in worldwide recognition. Item Price
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Eden's Outcasts
by John Matteson
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- 2008-11
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- 9780393333596
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Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson—an eminent teacher and a friend of Emerson and Thoreau. He desired perfection, for the world and from his family. Louisa challenged him with her mercurial moods and yearnings for money and fame. The other prize she deeply coveted—her father's understanding—seemed hardest to win.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Burn the Place
by Iliana Regan
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- 9781572842670
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Burn the Place is a galvanizing culinary memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family farm to opening her Michelin-starred restaurant, Elizabeth. Her story is alive with startling imagery, raw like that first bite of wild onion, and told with uncommon emotional power. It's a sure bet to be one of the most important new memoirs of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Only Girl in the World
by Maude Julien
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- 2018
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- 9780316466639
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Maude Julien's parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor--raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to "eliminate weakness." Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother… Read more about this item Item Price
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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Godel
by Stephen Budiansky
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- 2021
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- 9781324005445
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Godel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true--yet never provable--continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Godel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
An intimate portrait of the scientific… Read more about this item Item Price
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Leonardo da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
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- 2017
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- 9781501139154
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Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson "deftly reveals an intimate Leonardo" (San Francisco Chronicle) in a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful observation, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Karl Marx
by Jonathan Sperber
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- 2013-03
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- Ex-library
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- 9780871404671
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For nearly a century, Karl Marx, the German philosopher and political firebrand turned London émigré journalist, has been imprisoned by "isms," misinterpreted through the writings of Engels and the totalitarian aspirations of Lenin and Stalin. Challenging this antiquated portrait, Jonathan Sperber demonstrates that Marx had more in common with Robespierre than with twentieth-century Communists. Using the complete Marx and Engels… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dreaming in French
by Alice Kaplan
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- 2012-04
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- 9780226424385
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A year in Paris . . . since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision—and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. Dreaming in French tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women. Item Price
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Nietzsche in Turin
by Lesley Chamberlain
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- December 1997
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- 9780312181451
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During 1888 in Turin, Italy, Nietzsche wrote three of his most important works--Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and The Antichrist. In this accessible, moving biography, Lesley Chamberlain examines with passion and insight the mind of a genius at its creative pinnacle. In her account, Freidrich Nietzsche emerges as a gentle, tortured man, dominated by his rigorous mind and his… Read more about this item Item Price
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Bones of the Master
by George Crane
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- May 29, 2001
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- 9780553379082
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In 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted, he is sustained by his mission: to carry on the teachings of his Buddhist meditation master, who… Read more about this item Item Price
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James Joyce
by Gordon Bowker
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- 2012-06
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- Previous owner bookplate
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- 9780374178727
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James Joyce is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, foundational in the history of literary modernism. Yet Joyces genius was not immediately recognized, nor was his success easily won. At twenty-two the author chose a life of exile; he battled poverty and financial dependency for much of his adult life; his out-of-wedlock relationship with Nora Barnacle was… Read more about this item Item Price
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Porcelain
by Moby
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- 2016-05
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- 9781594206429
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There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene. This was the New York of Palladium; of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo; of unchecked, drug-fueled hedonism in pumping clubs where dance music was still largely underground, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chopin's Funeral
by Benita Eisler
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- June 8, 2004
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- 9780375708688
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Frédéric Chopins reputation as one of the Great Romantics endures, but as Benita Eisler reveals in her elegant and elegiac biography, the man was more complicated than his iconic image.
A classicist, conservative, and dandy who relished his conquest of Parisian society, the Polish émigré was for a while blessed with genius, acclaim, and the love of Europes most infamous woman… Read more about this item Item Price
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All Blood Runs Red
by Phil Keith
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- 2019
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- 9781335005564
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Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility of his Georgia community. When his journey led him to Europe, he garnered worldwide fame as a boxer, and later as the first… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ada Blackjack
by Jennifer Niven
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- November 3, 2004
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- 9780786887460
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In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned.
When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret Arctic expedition, her goal was simple: earn money and find a husband. But her terrifying experiences--both in the wild and back in civilization--comprise one of the most amazing untold adventures… Read more about this item Item Price
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Empire of the Summer Moon
by S. C Gwynne
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- 2011-05
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- 9781416591061
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Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who… Read more about this item Item Price
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This House of Sky
by Ivan Doig
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- 1992
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- 9780156899826
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Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
by Timothy Egan
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- 2013-08-06
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- 9780544102767
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Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before… Read more about this item Item Price
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Monsieur D'Eon Is a Woman
by Gary Kates
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- 1995
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- 9780465047611
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Born in 1728, French aristocrat Charles d'Eon de Beaumont had served his country as a diplomat, soldier, and spy for fifteen years when rumors that he was a woman began to circulate in the courts of Europe. D'Eon denied nothing and was finally compelled by Louis XVI to give up male attire and live as a woman, something d'Eon did… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
by Selina Hastings
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- 2012-07
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- 9781611454352
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He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maughams own true story has never been fully told. At last, the truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access… Read more about this item Item Price
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