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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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Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker

Thomas Vinciguerra · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 452
Format: Print book

The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine.From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters,...
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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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The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene

Simcha Jacobovici · Pegasus; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In a startling follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Jesus Family Tomb, a historical detective story that unravels a newly translated document filled with startling revelations and fascinating detail about the life and times of Jesus. The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Gnostic writings...
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Holiday Symbols and Customs

Keith Jones · Omnigraphics Inc
Pages: 1437
Format: Hardcover

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