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43) Pablo Picasso
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Examines the life and work of Picasso, discussing how and why his art looks the way it does and how it relates to the artist.
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From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her...
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her...
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Novelist and philosophy lecturer Paul Strathern delivers a complete and compact study of history's greatest philosophical and literary minds. In only 90 minutes, the life and complete works of St. Augustine are revealed, including his influence and impact on contemporary society.
50) Mother Jones
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This is a serviceable biography of noted labor leader Mary Harris, who was active from the 1880s until her death in 1930. Gay covers the basics of her life and includes a time line and lengthy bibliography. Judith Pinkerton Josephson's Mother Jones (Lerner, 1997) is similar in scope, but does a better job of providing background information and delineating Jones's character.
51) Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
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The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—"the longitude problem."
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration...
Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration...
54) Runaway slaves
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This book describes the experiences of runaway slaves, black and white men and women who participated in the Underground Railroad, and black and white abolitionists who worked to end slavery.
58) Henry VIII
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Explores the life of Henry VIII, and discusses his rule over England during the 1500s.
59) E. E. Cummings
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Noted nonfiction writer Reef provides a well-rounded portrait of e.e. cummings while examining the culture in which he lived as he developed his craft. Includes cummings' original sketches and paintings, quotes from friends and family, photographs, and the poetry of cummings and his peers. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.