State University of New York Press | January 10, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0791472833 | 224 pages | PDF | 1.4 MB Investigates the literary voices of six Black women entertainers and how they negotiated the tensions between the entertainment industries and the Black community.  Read More →

Oxford University Press, USA | January 2000 | ASIN: 0195116860 | 400 pages | PDF | 21.4 MB From Oxford University Press’s Library of Latin America comes a significant but dry work about the formation of Chile’s literary culture. Born in 1817, the year before Chile won its independence from Spain, Lastarria quickly rose through university ranks and became actively involved in the development of the country’s culture. In his introduction, Nunn points out that, unlike most... 

Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0674036247 | PDF | 624 pages | 2.1 MB On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire, and the impact of ideas. His Macaulay is a Janus-faced master of the universe: a prominent spokesman for abolishing slavery in the British Empire who cared little for the cause, a forceful... 

Publisher: Evinrude Motors | 1947 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0007J584W | English | PDF | 32 pages | 12.83 Mb “ Ole Evinrude was several things at once that carry weight with the American public. A self-made inventor, engineer, and businessman, he also lived the success story par excellence. Though of humble immigrant origin he founded in his adopted country, after years of hardship and disappointment, a new and important industry. Big and genial — a veritable mountain of a man — he graciously... 

B L C | 256 pages | English | 2007, 2 edition | ISBN: 0791093484 | PDF | 1,5 MB Henry David Thoreau’s accomplishments as a writer and a naturalist, along with his far-reaching political influence, are rarely disputed. His lasting influence can be established on the basis of “Civil Disobedience” alone. Learn more about Thoreau with this text, which includes an extensive biography of the author, literary criticism, a list of works by and about the author, and more.... 

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press | 2005-05-30 | ISBN: 0271026863 | PDF | 351 pages | 2.38 MB From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, John A. Hostetler was the world’s premier scholar of Amish life. Hailed by his peers for his illuminating and sensitive portrayals of this oft-misunderstood religious sect, Hostetler successfully spanned the divide between popular and academic culture, thereby shaping perceptions of the Amish throughout American society. He was also outspoken in his views... 

University Of Chicago Press | 2008-09-15 | ISBN: 0226761878 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But Tudor Autobiography investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint’s biography, courtly and popular verse, a traveler’s report, a history book, a husbandry book, and a supposedly fictional adventure novel to share the secrets of the heart and tell their life stories. In... 

Heyne Verlag | 736 pages | 2010-10 | ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3453163036 | ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783453163034 | Kurzbeschreibung Ein großes Leben – der Rolling Stone erzählt Bei den Rolling Stones erschuf Keith Richards die Songs, die die Welt veränderten. Sein Leben ist purer Rock’n’Roll. Jetzt endlich erzählt er selbst seine atemberaubende Geschichte inmitten eines »crossfire hurricane«. Und er tut dies mit einer entwaffnenden Ehrlichkeit, die bis heute sein Markenzeichen geblieben ist. Die Geschichte,... 

Publisher: Ottobre 12 | 2002 | ISBN-10: 8086528081 | ISBN-13: 978 8086528083 | Czech | PDF | 112 pages | 23.66 Mb A riveting, but also a charming picture of the times of the First World War. After brutally honest narrator, legionnaire Josef Dufek of Noise, recounts his experiences from eastern battlefield, where as modern Simplex Simplicissimus, ranged on both sides of the front and experiencing adventures and unbelievable, unbelievable. Legionnaire’s memories are released with minimal modifications to... 

Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited | English | PDF | 2009 | 324 pages | ISBN: 0571250076 | 2.63 MB Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. Based on an archive of family papers, this title celebrates Dirac’s massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work.Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest...