Ivan Doig's prequel to his memoir "This house of sky" highlights his childhood before his mother's death and captures the texture of the American West, the fortunes of a family, and one woman's indomitable...
20th century
- Author:Doig, IvanSummary:
- Author:Shaffer, Mary AnnSummary:
- Author:Kittler, Friedrich A.Summary:
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
Continuing the story begun in Boy, this is the second part of Roald Dahl's autobiography, in which he creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any you will find in his fiction... In Africa, our hero, more or less single-handed,...
- Author:Frieden, Jeffry A.Summary:
International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before--such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people...
- Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:
Against a backdrop of late-night tattoo sessions and soldier-of-fortune trade shows, Dr. Thompson is at his apocalyptic best--covering emblematic events such as the 1987-88 presidential campaign, with Vice President George Bush, Sr.,...
- Author:Chauncey, GeorgeSummary:
- Author:Bausum, Ann.Summary:
Bausum compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. The book shows how a common interest in justice created the...
- Author:Due, TananariveSummary:
Two generations of Civil Rights activists tell their stories in alternating chapters, spanning the 60s and 70s. During the course of their seperate and remarkable journeys, the two women find themselves incarcerated and on the front...
- Author:Groot, TracySummary:
A retelling of the Old Testament tale of Rahab the harlot that takes place in Nazi-occupied France. After American fighter pilot Tom Jaeger is shot down and harbored by the French Resistance, he figures prominently in a plan to...
- Author:Barr, Marleen S.Summary:
The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent...
- Author:Vonnegut KurtSummary:
- Author:King, JamesSummary:
- Author:Gómez-Peña, GuillermoSummary:
Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy, he pushes the boundaries...
- Author:Gareau, LyneSummary:
"Déjà toute petite, Emily Carr désirait devenir artiste, afin de reproduire le mystère et la beauté des forêts anciennes de la Colombie-Britannique. Ce rêve l'a amenée à voyager, à vivre chez les autochtones et à...
- Author:Coetzee, J. M.Summary:
- Author:Swanson, GillianSummary:
Examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. This work explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and the...
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- Author:Macintyre, BenSummary:
On June 6, 1944, 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy and suffered an astonishingly low rate of casualties. D-Day was a stunning military accomplishment, but it was also a masterpiece of trickery. Operation Fortitude...
- Author:Havel, VáclavSummary: