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English
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When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but if...
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and influential critics of her generation, a talent whose judgments on works of literature--whether celebratory or scarily harsh--have become notorious. But what is the significance of being a critic and consumer of media in today's fraught environment? How do we understand ourselves, and each other, as space...
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Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Cartoon-like illustrations shows the insider's guide to TV, music videos, radio, magazines, comic books, newspapers, video games, and the Internet, as well as how to analyze media.
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Publisher
Matt Holt Books, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence explains how technology and globalization have revolutionized the ways to both build and keep success-and tells readers that to accomplish your goals, you must not only gain power, but also apply it with proper wisdom"--
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Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Laszlo F. Foldenyi is a writer who is learned in reference, taste, and judgment, and entertaining in style. Taking a place in the long tradition of public intellectual and cultural criticism, his work resonates with that of Montaigne, Rilke, and Mann in its deep insight into aspects of culture that have been suppressed, yet still remain in the depth of our conscious. In this new collection of essays, Foldenyi considers the fallout from the end of...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One of the best-known motivational guides in history, Carnegie's advice has remained relevant for generations because he addressed timeless questions on communicating and navigating professional and social situations. Why revise a classic? This new edition eliminates references to people or events that readers today would not recognize, weeded out extraneous materials, and emphasizes human relations skills even more necessary in our era of political...
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Series
Routledge contemporary Southeast Asia volume 124
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Series
Poznan studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities volume Volume 114
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English