Creator: Esq. Ednoth Holmes
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1934
Review The Autobiography of Cornelius Blake 1773-1810 of Ditton See, Cambridgeshire (Sometimes Banker of The Netherlands and Naples) / Cassell and Company, Limited:
Publication date: 2005-10-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $57.99
Price: $57.99
Review Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / IndyPublish:A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South.
Publication date: 2008-04-02
Dewey code: 782.42162130092
List Price: $65.00
Price: $64.97
Review Sing It Pretty: A Memoir (Music in American Life) / University of Illinois Press:A leader in the development of state and federal programs supporting traditional arts and folk cultures, Bess Lomax Hawes grew up with her father John Lomax and brother Alan in the first family of American folk music. Her compelling account of the folk music boom of the mid-twentieth century and the development of “public-sector” folklore includes family friends Ruth Crawford Seeger and Carl Sandburg, fellow Almanac Singers Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and other musicians and artists. Her own creative endeavors as producer of American folk culture films, author of academic papers and books, and coauthor of the Kingston Trio’s hit “MTA Song” (adapted from a local political campaign jingle) unfold alongside her legacy of teaching guitar and American folk music to thousands of adults in Los Angeles. Whether teaching anthropology to college students, learning singing games from the Georgia Sea Island Singers, or directing the Folk and Traditional Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, Hawes remains dedicated to preserving and appreciating the traditional cultures of America.
Creator: Ian Hodder
Publication date: 2007-03-02
Dewey code: 363.289092
List Price: $65.00
Price: $63.23
Review Protecting Çatalhöyük: Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard / Left Coast Press:They are essential to every major archaeological excavation but rarely acknowledged by the visiting researchers once the artifacts have been shipped. As part of the innovative, multivocal output from the famous Turkish Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, we hear from one of the site guards, Sadrettin Dural, who tells the story of the excavation from the point of view of the “Other. ” He offers tales of the strange habits of archaeologists, describes the local in-fighting that scholars never see, and explains how scientists can be protected from the Yatirs, spirits of the dead who guard the mound. Ian Hodder, director of the Çatalhöyük project, provides explanatory notes for the reader and an interview with the author, exploring indigenous interpretations of ancient sites and the archaeologists who excavate them. For the archaeologist, this offers a revolutionary new viewpoint on their work. For the cultural anthropologist, Dural’s role as site guard is only a small part of his life as a Turkish villager. The author recounts the daily lived experience of one man in a contemporary Turkish village, including changing economic strategies for supporting his family, brushes with the law, trips to the beach and the city, and Turkish phone sex.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 974.754092
List Price: $20.99
Price: $58.76
Review How Dear to My Heart / Xlibris Corporation:
Publication date: 2001-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $17.95
Price: $58.12
Review They Call Me the Hug Machine: John's Story / Authorhouse:
Edition: Library
Publication date: 2009-03-01
Dewey code: 200
List Price: $92.97
Price: $58.57
Review Confessions of a Mullah Warrior / Brilliance Audio on CD Unabridged Lib Ed:Masood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion in 1979. Farivar, who was born into a long line of religious and political leaders who have shaped his nation’s history for centuries, fled to Pakistan with his family and came of age in refugee schools. At eighteen, he defied his parents and returned home to join the jihad, fighting beside not only the Afghan mujahideen but also Arab and Pakistani volunteers. When the Soviets withdrew, Farivar moved to America and attended the prestigious Lawrenceville School, Harvard, and ultimately became a journalist in New York. After seventeen years in America, he was propelled home to America, where he now serves his country by running a national radio program. In this dramatic and timely memoir, Farivar draws on his unique experience as a native Afghan, a former mujahideen fighter, and a longtime U. S. resident to provide unprecedented insight into the recent collision between Islam and the West. He paints a vibrant portrait of his family and his nation’s history, exposes the world of militant Islam by taking us deep inside the madrassas, vividly recounts his experiences on the battlefield at Tora Bora and elsewhere, and movingly conveys the culture shock of a Muslim living in contemporary America. “If you liked The Kite Runner, you must read this riveting, firsthand account by one of the real Afghan mujahideen. [+]From the hidden world of the madrassas to the frontline against the Russians, to Harvard and home again, this is an extraordinary tale of courage and transformation. ” — Leslie Cockburn, producer for 60 Minutes and author of Looking for Trouble.
Publication date: 2007-06-12
List Price: $63.99
Price: $58.08
Review George Washington / IndyPublish:
Publication date: 2004-10-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $29.95
Price: $134.69
Review All Ahead Full: World War II Memoirs of an Lsm 215 Veteran / Turner Publishing Company (KY):
Creator: Mary A. Giunta
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-07-19
Dewey code: 973.781
List Price: $60.00
Price: $59.97
Review A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64 / University of Illinois Press:This collection of letters and documents offers a rare glimpse into a young officer's interesting but short life. Mary A. Giunta's "A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country" tells the story of the relationships between the headstrong John Rodgers Meigs and his family and friends; his heartwarming eagerness to please his demanding parents; his West Point experiences that include a meeting with Abraham Lincoln; and his life as a combatant in the Civil War. John Rodgers Meigs was the son of Union Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs, and his official correspondence reveals much about his duties as a military engineer and aide-de-camp to Union generals. The private correspondence between him and his father and mother is especially compelling. Approximately forty of the letters were written in an early version of Pitman shorthand and are here transcribed for the first time. Collectively, they provide an intimate picture of the young Meigs, uncover the concerns of a family with high expectations, and offer a unique look at a devastating war.
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 974.71004687295
Price: $69.75
Review Cuando era Puertorriquena/When I was puertorican / Recorded Books:
Creator: Christina Gomez
Publication date: 2007-05
Dewey code: 378.7423
List Price: $57.95
Price: $57.92
Review Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories / Cornell University Press:Amid the flurry of debates about immigration, poverty, and education in the United States, the stories in Mi Voz, Mi Vida allow us to reflect on how young people who might be most affected by the results of these debates actually navigate through American society. The fifteen Latino college students who tell their stories in this book come from a variety of socioeconomic, regional, and family backgrounds-they are young men and women of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Central American, and South American descent. Their insights are both balanced and frank, blending personal, anecdotal, political, and cultural viewpoints. Their engaging stories detail the students' personal struggles with issues such as identity and biculturalism, family dynamics, religion, poverty, stereotypes, and the value of education. Throughout, they provide insights into issues of racial identity in contemporary America among a minority population that is very much in the news. This book gives educators, students, and their families a clear view of the experience of Latino students adapting to a challenging educational environment and a cultural context-Dartmouth College-often very different from their childhood ones.
Creator: Regina Grol
Publication date: 2002-12-26
Dewey code: 940.5318092
List Price: $59.95
Price: $57.81
Review And Yet I Still Have Dreams : A Story of Certain Loneliness / Northwestern University Press:A brutally honest memoir of adolescence in the Warsaw ghetto and coming to terms with the memories years later
Authors
- Charmian Brinson
- Anna Muller-harlin
- Julia Winckler
Dewey code: 296
List Price: $69.95
Price: $58.47
Review His Majesty's Loyal Internee: Fred Uhlman in Captivity / Mitchell Vallentine & Company:
Edition: 0
Publication date: 2007-05-14
Price: $32.95
Review Nisei Mom and Issei Daddy: A Memoir of My Parents / iUniverse, Inc.:This is the memoir of a Japanese immigrant Issei (first generation) father and an American born Nisei (second generation) mother raising Sansei (third generation) American children. Married by arrangement in California during the Depression, the couple has four children. During World War II, the family is abruptly uprooted from their home by the US government and imprisoned in a concentration camp, in Manzanar, California, for three years. After release from camp, the family relocates to a small rural Maryland town, where "opportunity" awaits them to start life anew after Manzanar. Although no longer confined in a camp encircled by barbed wire fences and watchtowers manned by soldiers, the family faces months of struggles and hardships. After eleven months of tolerating discrimination and quasi-acceptance as the first Asian residents in Berlin, MD, the family moves to New Jersey where life improves, with regular employment for the parents and an accepting and supportive village for the family. Eventually returning to the West Coast, the parents face more adversities. However, they persevere in spirit and strength as they instill in their American-born children the importance of honesty, humility and respect while maintaining their Japanese culture and customs.
Creator: Sarah Hodkinson
Publication date: 2005
Review A Not So Beautiful Mind: The Memoirs of a Schizophrenic / OPAC Press:A self-published manuscript containing the thoughts and reflections of a schizophrenic woman who happens to be a lesbian. Details the meds, the frustrations, and the paranoiad bouts of life with schizophrenia. 130 single-sided pages, spiral bound with cover art.
Creator: Ian Hodder
Publication date: 2007-03-02
Dewey code: 363.289092
List Price: $65.00
Price: $63.23
Review Protecting Çatalhöyük: Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard / Left Coast Press:They are essential to every major archaeological excavation but rarely acknowledged by the visiting researchers once the artifacts have been shipped. As part of the innovative, multivocal output from the famous Turkish Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, we hear from one of the site guards, Sadrettin Dural, who tells the story of the excavation from the point of view of the “Other. ” He offers tales of the strange habits of archaeologists, describes the local in-fighting that scholars never see, and explains how scientists can be protected from the Yatirs, spirits of the dead who guard the mound. Ian Hodder, director of the Çatalhöyük project, provides explanatory notes for the reader and an interview with the author, exploring indigenous interpretations of ancient sites and the archaeologists who excavate them. For the archaeologist, this offers a revolutionary new viewpoint on their work. For the cultural anthropologist, Dural’s role as site guard is only a small part of his life as a Turkish villager. The author recounts the daily lived experience of one man in a contemporary Turkish village, including changing economic strategies for supporting his family, brushes with the law, trips to the beach and the city, and Turkish phone sex.
Creator: Emma Swan Hall
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 916.20452
List Price: $80.00
Price: $58.08
Review Egypt 1950: My First Visit / Oxbow Books Limited:Bernard V Bothmer was a leading Egyptologist and art historian of the mid-twentieth century. Born in Berlin, he emigrated to America in 1941, and soon become an assistant curator of Ancient Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1950 Bothmer received a small grant to go to Egypt, to familiarize himself with the Cairo Museum and the archaeological sites, and to visit and study the places where the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian Expedition had done its fieldwork before the War. It was his first visit to Egypt. In this book, his diary of the trip, Bothmer details all the places he visited, from Aswan in the south to Saqqara in the north, and the people he met along the way. He describes the events and experiences of everyday life, from trains and donkeys to the Hotel Luxor, and alludes to the political and social circumstances surrounding the practice of archaeology in Egypt in the middle of the 20th century.
Publication date: 2006
Price: $58.64
Review Thanks, Jack : In Need of a Miracle:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2009-03
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $92.97
Price: $58.57
Review Stealing Buddha's Dinner: Library Edition / Brilliance Audio:
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The Autobiography of Cornelius Blake 1773-1810 of Ditton See, Cambridgeshire (Sometimes Banker of The Netherlands and Naples), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Sing It Pretty: A Memoir (Music in American Life), Protecting Çatalhöyük: Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard, How Dear to My Heart, They Call Me the Hug Machine: John's Story, Confessions of a Mullah Warrior, George Washington, All Ahead Full: World War II Memoirs of an Lsm 215 Veteran, A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64, Cuando era Puertorriquena/When I was puertorican, Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories, And Yet I Still Have Dreams : A Story of Certain Loneliness, His Majesty's Loyal Internee: Fred Uhlman in Captivity, Nisei Mom and Issei Daddy: A Memoir of My Parents, A Not So Beautiful Mind: The Memoirs of a Schizophrenic, Protecting Çatalhöyük: Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard, Egypt 1950: My First Visit, Thanks, Jack : In Need of a Miracle, Stealing Buddha's Dinner: Library EditionTop headlines: Will mad cow prevention mean pollution?: A federal regulation aimed at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could lead to cattle carcasses rotting on farms, spreading germs and polluting the water. ›22:20 21 Nov, Fri Where'd all the acorns go?: Last year, oaks in metropolitan Washington produced a bumper crop of acorns, and squirrels and other urban wildlife produced an abundance of young. 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