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Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed-toward widely divergent ends-both within and outside African American culture. Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention...

Samuel Koteliansky (1880-1955) fled the pogroms of Russia in 1911 and established himself as a friend of many of Britain's literati and intellectuals, who were fascinated by his homeland's more civilized side: the Ballets Russes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and...

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his devoted fans, he is a cult hero, a modern-day Rimbaud. Musically, he has defined the past twenty years of indie rock with his sound, lyrics, lifestyle and...

A person of rare talent and broad appeal, Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936) holds the distinction of being the first South Asian immigrant to have a successful career in the United States as a man of letters. As the author of two dozen published volumes of...

If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious, competitive, and courageous, Belinda Mulrooney was destined...

Farmers and pragmatists, hardworking people who made their way west from Kentucky through Ohio and Indiana to settle at last in southern Illinois, Lee Martin's ancestors left no diaries or journals or letters; apart from the birth certificates and...

The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived. Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth...

Alexander Terrell's career placed him at the center of some of the most pivotal events in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, ranging from the Civil War to Emperor Maximilian's reign over Mexico and an Armenian genocide under the Ottoman...

During an era of separate spheres for men and women, Margaret Macdonald used her nurse's training to gain access to the military and a life of work, travel, and adventure. In 1906, she was one of the first two nurses to receive a permanent appointment to...

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A Hard Journey brings to life Don West: poet, ordained Congregationalist minister, labor organizer, educator, leftist activist, and one of the most important literary and political figures in the southern Appalachians during the middle years of the...

A biography of the father of thoracic surgery in North America and a detailed account of one of the most exciting periods in the history of medicine.A biography of the father of thoracic surgery in North America and a detailed account of one of the most...

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Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans will be delighted with the first ever official biography of Paulo, an in-depth look at...

St Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) is a key figure in Canadian and religious history. Patricia Simpson goes behind the myth and hagiography surrounding Marguerite Bourgeoys to reveal her true character. The text documents her life in France and in the...

The last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her workThe last work of a scholar whose life mirrored her workAbout the AuthorMarianne A. Paget (1940-1989) was a Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University.Reviews"The...

"This is the first real attempt to assay the cattle kings as a managerial and employing class...Anyone considering American entrepreneurship, social history, or the American West will have to consult it."--Joe B. Frantz, Mississippi Valley Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456773380Author Ming Tung HsiehFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 16mm

The Instant #1 Sunday Times BestsellerThe inspirational memoir from rugby league legend Rob Burrow on his extraordinary career and his battle with motor neurone disease.'A pocket rocket of a player and a giant of a character . . . He is one in a million...

George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818-69), a Canadian Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe...

When Alice was nine years old, she and her father - a beloved school librarian - made a promise to read aloud together for 100 consecutive nights. Upon reaching their goal, they celebrated over pancakes, but it was clear that neither wanted to let go of...

Known as 'the Architect' of George W Bush's presidency, Karl Rove's access to Bush and view of his presidency is unparalleled. In this memoir, Rove takes the reader into the heart of Bush's rise to the Texas governorship and behind closed doors in the...

Through archival and private sources, many previously untapped, Richard Lemm connects Acorn?s self-perpetuated image as a working-class rebel, and his peculiar brand of communism, to his employment history and experience of war. The poet's troubled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780886293376Author Lela WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Carleton University Press,CanadaPublisher Carleton University Press,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870710094Author Ana Maria SpagnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Oregon State UniversityPublisher Oregon State UniversityDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

"In the spring of 1995, the condition I seem to have been waiting for all my life finally struck me." So begins Jane Lazarre's account of her transforming battle with breast cancer. Following in the tradition of her critically acclaimed literary memoirs...

Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie has devoted his life to the study and teaching of the French language and literature. Author and translator of thirty books, Fowlie's contributions include translations of Rimbaud (the complete works),...

Hospital Time is a memoir about friendship, family, and caregiving in the age of AIDS. Amy Hoffman, a writer, lesbian activist, and former editor of Gay Community News, chronicles with fury and unflinching honesty her experience serving as primary...

Born on the eve of the Civil War, Charles W. Chesnutt grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a county seat of four or five thousand people, a once-bustling commercial center slipping into postwar decline. Poor, black, and determined to outstrip his...

There is a ranch that runs for several miles along the last free-flowing stretch of the Snake River. A beautiful but harsh environment, hellishly hot in the summer and cut off from the outside world for much of the winter, the area is also in the middle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822307044Author Thomas CarlyleFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Kiriyama Prize (Pacific Rim Nonfiction) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780820322704Author SariFormat PaperbackPage Count 257Imprint University of Georgia...

This book is the winner of the 2002 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. When work took Tracy Daugherty from his family's roots in Oklahoma to the unfamiliar landscape of Oregon, his move mirrored the western migrations of so many earlier Oklahomans...

Cherie Blair's much-anticipated autobiography takes the reader from a childhood in working-class Liverpool to the heart of the British legal system and then, as the wife of the Prime Minister, to 10 Downing Street. It has been an astonishing journey for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753197165Author Elizabeth BowtellFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint ISIS PublishingPublisher ISIS Publishing

Oddballs, tinks, heidbangers, saints, keelies, nutters, philosophers and freaks - these apparently marginal lives are not only interesting in their own right but often tell us more about the mores of a country or a time than the lives of its better known...

Countering the popular misconception that racial discrimination has largely not existed in Puerto Rico, Jay Kinsbruner's Not of Pure Blood shows that racial prejudice has long had an insidious effect on Puerto Rican society. Kinsbruner's study focuses on...

John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York, a city we only thought we knew. Against a backdrop of late-night radio airwaves featuring talk-show kings like Long John Nebel, the sixteen-year-old pairs up with his Uncle Fred, a Mob associate and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753165515Author Gordon ChaplinFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint ISIS PublishingPublisher ISIS Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780613001175Author John HockenberryFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Econo-Clad Books, Div. of American Cos., Inc.Publisher Econo-Clad Books, Div. of...