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Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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Ron Bishop
The Total Black Experience

The Total Black Experience is the first book to chronicle the history and social significance of Positively Black , one of the longest-running public affairs shows in the history of television. Spurred on…

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T E Franklinos, Rino Modonutti,
Sicco Polenton, Lives of the Famous Latin Authors

Offering an anthology of the first history of Latin literature, Sicco Polenton's Scriptorum illustrium Latinae linguae libri XVIII is a collection of biographies that spans the period from ancient Rome to…

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Aristote
The Art of Rhetoric

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.Dating from the 4th century BC, Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded as the sing…

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Joshua S Mostow
Hyakunin'shu

"Hyakunin'shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the "popular literary literacy" of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a popular annota…

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Blake Scott Ball
Charlie Brown's America

Despite--or because of--its huge popular culture status, Peanuts enabled cartoonist Charles Schulz to offer political commentary on the most controversial topics of postwar American culture through the vo…

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Katharine Lee Bates
America the Beautiful and Other Poems

The words to one of the United States' most beloved songs, "America, The Beautiful," were originally a poem written in 1893 by Wellesley College English professor Katherine Lee Bates, who found …

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Rob Christensen
Southern News, Southern Politics

Newspapers are a tough business, and no one knows that better than Rob Christensen, who was chief political reporter at North Carolina's capital newspaper, the News and Observer , for decades. Here he tel…

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Anthony Kenny
A New History of Western Philosophy

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from an…

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Gayle Feldman
Nothing Random

The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making"A stun…

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Anonymous Sounds

This cross-disciplinary collection provides the first comprehensive study of library music practices in the 1960s and 1970s.Library music was inexpensive, off-the-shelf music available to license for a sm…

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Lisa Pease
Lie Too Big to Fail

A thorough and groundbreaking addition to our understanding of the RFK assassination based on newly released police reports and government documents.In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (…

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Francine Prose
1974

"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose's fiction and criticism---uncompromising intelligence, a gratifying aversion to sentiment, the citrus bite of iro…

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Picturing Peace

"What is the relationship between peace and photography? How are artists and curators motivated to convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Does the digital afterlife of iconic images …

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Xiaochang Li
Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI.Since the advent of computers, society has fantasize…

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Deborah Warren
Street Smarts

Travel through the endless lore of roads, turnpikes, highways, and whatever byways humans have put on Earth in these short, funny, and interconnected essays.Deborah Warren is a sure and entertaining guide…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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Nigel Farndale
The Times Lives Behind the Music

A must-read collection for all music fans.Delve into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times.

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Paulina Banas
Visualizing Egypt

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to …

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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