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Daily Life of Victorian Women
Lydia Murdoch · Greenwood, Pages: 286 Format: Print book |
Contrary to popular misconception, many Victorian women performed manual labor for wages directly alongside men, had political voice before women's suffrage, and otherwise contributed significantly to society outside of the domestic sphere. Daily Life of Victorian Women documents the varied... |
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Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties
Kevin M. Schultz · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Format: Hardcover |
A lively chronicle of the 1960s through the surprisingly close and incredibly contentious friendship of its two most colorful characters.William F. Buckley, Jr., and Norman Mailer were the two towering intellectual figures of the 1960s, and they lived remarkably parallel lives. Both became... |
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Historical Dictionary of Librarianship
Mary Ellen Quinn · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Hardcover |
Although the history of librarianship as an organized profession dates only as far back as the mid-nineteenth century, the history of libraries is much older, and people have been engaged in pursuits that we recognize as librarianship for many thousands of years. This book traces librarianship... |
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David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art
Victoria C Gardner Coates · Encounter Books Pages: 310 Format: Book |
Throughout Western history, the societies that have made the greatest contributions to the spread of freedom have created iconic works of art to celebrate their achievements. Yet despite the enduring appeal of these works - from the Parthenon to Michelangelo's David to Picasso's... |
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Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection
Ethan Zuckerman · W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition |
A rousing call to action for those who would be citizens of the world—online and off. We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online... |
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