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Author
Publisher
Trafalgar Square Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"If there is one name in the American equestrian story that everyone knows, it is George Morris. A horse lover, rider, carouser, competitor, taskmaster, dreamer, teacher, and visionary, George Morris has been ever-present on the rarified stage of the international riding elite for most of the 70 years he's been in the saddle. He has represented our country as an athlete and a coach and, at one time or another, instructed many of our nation's best...
Publisher
The Sager Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Stories We Tell celebrates the work of twenty women who have made major contributions to the cannon of American magazine writing. While each has her own style, the women in these pages share the attributes of all good writers: meticulous research and reporting, attention to detail, a talent for choosing the perfect word. Above all, they are astute observers and sticklers for accuracy. Over the years, they have been both prolific and versatile,...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"With the rise of digital media and advertising, a constant barrage of information makes it nearly impossible to be seen and heard. In The Iconist, branding and design strategist Jamie Mustard shows you how individuals, organizations, and brands can break through the noise. The secret to standing out lies in creating content that the desired audience will "lock" onto and remember with little effort--simple, bold ideas that can be immediately understood....
Series
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This collection focuses on the variety of immigrant experiences that have been depicted in literary works and the techniques that immigrant writers have used in fiction and non-fiction. The essays in this volume draw upon a vast range of immigrant experiences, precisely because immigrant writing in the United States and beyond brings together people of various nationalities, cultures, languages, immigration statuses, and social and economic classes....
366) Selected poems
Author
Language
English
Description
Duncan, like Dante, was a poet of cosmic imagination, intensely aware of his and poetry's role in the ever-expanding logos of creation. His Selected Poems, first published in 1993, is a "useful and portable compilation," says critic Tom Clark, that "provides the most comprehensive available look at the career of the Bay Area's greatest lyric poet." Editor Robert J. Bertholf has enlarged the original collection to include eleven additional poems and...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Account of unmanned lunar and planetary exploration from the early 1970s to the early 1990s"--
"Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own....
Publisher
Dover
Pub. Date
1986, ©1964
Language
English
Description
"Music has always played an important part in American life--from the hymns sung in colonial days, to partisan songs that supported independence, and war songs that boosted morale. Immigration, westward movement and industrialization all helped contribute to America's musical archives. This outstanding collection of 100 all-time favorite songs offers an unbeatable combination: the music and lyrics of well-known tunes in easy-to-sing keys, together...
Author
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pub. Date
©1996.
Language
English
Description
This book is primarily a study of the psychological threat posed by attractive female characters to the male protagonists of American detective and crime films over a fifty-year period. In the films of the 1940s (The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, Murder, My Sweet, Out of the Past, and White Heat), an attractive female character is literally a murderess, who poses a threat of varying degrees of intensity to the life of the male protagonist.
Alfred...
371) Moscow, 1937
Author
Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
"Moscow, 1937: the Soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the 'Great Terror' during which 1.5 million human beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits the sites of...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mary Shelley: The story of Mary Shelley and the creation of her immortal monster, Frankenstein. Raised by a renowned philosopher father in eighteenth-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley. So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of...
376) Complete poems
Author
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Pub. Date
[1965, ©1963]
Language
English
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