![]() ![]() And though he is a Yankee, he strives very hard to be impartial. His insight makes you believe he was there, that he lived through it, coming from his years of listening to the veterans in his hometown. Bruce Catton writes like no other about the American Civil War. This is the third book in the trilogy of the Army of the Potomac. First Edition thus (1990), Third Printing. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A handsome, nearly-new reading copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing a minor, unobtrusive cosmetic flaw. Free of any ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, plates, or labels. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. ![]() ![]() Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows a hint of tanning to the text pages, due to aging else flawless the binding is square and secure the text clean. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Devon was surely its most splendid example. The college campus, Milton thought, was man’s perfect place, a walled garden where beauty and youth came together in pursuit of the truth. He passed through a beautifully ornate stone archway. ![]() It was a little edgy sometimes, but that was okay. He discreetly checked his Twitter feed several times a day: was up to three thousand followers. He didn’t know who was behind the account, but this pleased him all the more. There was even a Twitter account called that tweeted witty observations about campus life. Social media, which often documented his comings and goings, said as much. He was their friend, one of them, accessible. Milton smiled again, not the least bit discouraging of the implied familiarity. “Milt!” a student cried from across College Street. In any event, the bustle of the school year was back. Sure, Devon had a $28 billion endowment, shy only of Harvard’s, but there were always new demands on the school treasury, and Milton, like a Renaissance king, had to receive the myriad constituencies who sought to make a claim. They didn’t, but the revenue was welcome, particularly during the fallow months. ![]() Parents assumed these programs increased their kids’ chances of admission. Things had been quiet over the summer, save for Model UN delegates and high school kids attending summer school programs. His daily stroll had become something of a personal tradition, and it was good to see life back in the campus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL19994058W Pages 180 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210916125630 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 374 Scandate 20210915142537 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781632150196 Tts_version 4. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:07:29 Associated-names Mckelvie, Jamie, artist Wilson, Matthew, 1981- colorist Cowles, Clayton, letterer Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40237801 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier 1: The Faust Act Kindle & comiXology by Kieron Gillen (Author), Jamie McKelvie (Artist), & 1 more Format: Kindle Edition 773 ratings 3.8 on Goodreads 57,482 ratings Book 1 of 9: The Wicked + The Divine See all formats and editions Kindle & Comixology 0.00 Kindle & Comixology 3. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But a fascinating history waits just beneath the surface in the heart of the city, like the labyrinth of natural limestone caves where Anheuser-Busch got its start. TolkienĪ reputation as the town of shoes, booze and blues persists in St. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games ![]()
![]() ![]() Dostoevsky looks at the polemics of the traditionalists and the 'maskilim' and perceives it as a parallel to Russian debates around the Westernization. Vice versa, he is rigorously critical to the secular ones. Thus, he is mostly sympathetic to 'serious Jews' – traditionalists. Dostoevsky bindingly connects Jews with Judaism, i.e. Based on private letters of Dostoevsky and his journalism, we derive two Jewish images – positive and negative – which are quite constant in the writer's texts. We find the writer's affinity to use words 'a Jew', 'a Hebrew' and even 'an Yid' with dubious or even without any links to real Jews. In the article, we trace how Dostoevsky uses words which traditionally refer to Jews and show their semantics as highly dispersed. After 1920s, Dosto-evsky's attitude toward Jews turns into a difficult topic of Dostoevsky Studies. Arkadii Kovner's and Sophia Lurie's letters to Dostoevsky are quite known as well as their direct indictment of the writer in Anti-Semitism. ![]() The fashion of how Dostoevsky portraits them was questionable even at the writer's lifespan. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky's oeuvre, there are some Jews. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as 'carriers' of some national idea. ![]() Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. In his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World.Equality’s Call: The Story of Voting Rights in America.Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World.This Little Trailblazer: A Girl Power Primer. ![]() No matter what your child’s age or gender, this book list of children’s books about female empowerment is just what you need to supplement their education on gender, self-esteem, and empowerment. What’s more, this list covers a range of reading levels, ages, and subject matter to help you show your kids why all genders deserve the same opportunities as cisgender men. The books on this list are beautifully illustrated, exceptionally written, and packed with fascinating information about history-makers, world-changers, and people who learned how to be true to themselves! Books for All Ages and Genders I love using books to teach my daughter about all kinds of things and I especially love encouraging the feminist ideals of equality, activism, and empowerment of all genders. 17 Children’s Books About Female Empowerment ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, by the 1970s plans were undertaken to refurbish the building to resemble Green Gables as depicted in Montgomery's novels. The government initially operated the home as a historic house that depicted 19th century farming life on Prince Edward Island. Interest in the Green Gables property grew in the decades after Montgomery published her novels, resulting in Green Gables' purchase by the government of Canada in 1936. The building was initially erected during the 1830s, by the MacNeil family, relatives of Montgomery, who was born nearby the homestead. ![]() The National Historic Site itself is situated on Prince Edward Island National Park. Montgomery's Cavendish National Historic Site of Canada. Green Gables is recognized as a Federal Historic Building by the government of Canada and is situated on the L.M. Green Gables served as the setting for the Anne of Green Gables novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Green Gables Heritage Place is a 19th century farm and literary landmark in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It incorporates a multidisciplinary theoretical framework, embracing feminist and psychoanalytical discourse and semiotics. This thesis examines the female gaze in conjunction with fashion photography. This paradigm shows a couple of elements which should be pointed out: 1. This nostalgic evocation thus became a paradigm of fashion photography in the seventies. Together with Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin, she represented a part of the new wave in the photography of the seventies: feeling the anxiety-ridden atmosphere of turnover, characteristic of the time when we were abandoning the visions of Woodstock and John Lennon and peace-making emancipatory humanistic thinking at the global social level, as well as consolidation of power elites, which turned the ideas of the sixties into parlour exhibits of the established social milieu, they reacted in a specific manner (epatez les bourgeois – make the bourgeois marvel), using elements of mystery in their pictures, creating photographs which stressed their surrealistic, decadent aspect, evoking the spirit of the 20-ies and the 30-ies. Deborah Turbeville, the American photographer whose works appear in illustrated magazines like Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Esquire and Art Forum, certainly belongs to the group of authors who are considered unavoidable in any serious study of modern photography. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Daisy Goodwin breathes new life into Victoria's story, and does so with sensitivity, verve, and wit. Daisy Goodwin’s impeccably researched and vividly imagined new book brings readers Queen Victoria as they have never seen her before. 'Victoria is an absolutely captivating novel of youth, love, and the often painful transition from immaturity to adulthood. She is quite happy being queen with the help of her prime minister, Lord Melbourne, who may be old enough to be her father but is the first person to take her seriously. Everyone keeps telling her she’s destined to marry her first cousin, Prince Albert, but Victoria found him dull and priggish when they met three years ago. Next, people say she must choose a husband. “From now on I wish to be known only by my second name, Victoria.” “I do not like the name Alexandrina,” she proclaims. She has very definite ideas about the kind of queen she wants to be, and the first thing is to choose her name. The men who run the country have doubts about whether this sheltered young woman, who stands less than five feet tall, can rule the greatest nation in the world.ĭespite her age, however, the young queen is no puppet. Early one morning, less than a month after her eighteenth birthday, Alexandrina Victoria is roused from bed with the news that her uncle William IV has died and she is now Queen of England. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But then a wealthy Tampa socialite sees Ann’s talent and offers her an amazing opportunity-the chance to sew and design clothing for Florida’s society elite. After Ann elopes at twelve with an older man who soon proves himself to be an abusive alcoholic, her dreams of becoming a celebrated designer seem to be put on hold. Raised in Jim Crow Alabama, Ann learned the art of sewing from her mother and her grandmother, a former slave, who are the most talented seamstresses in the state. ![]() It may take all day and all night for the next week to accomplish the task, but they will do it. She and her seamstresses will find the way to re-create the dresses. A Black designer who has fought every step of the way, Ann knows this is only one struggle after a lifetime of them. Kennedy, a pipe bursts at Ann Lowe’s dress shop and ruins eleven dresses, including the expensive wedding dress, a dress that will be judged by thousands. Less than a week before the society wedding of the year where Jacqueline Bouvier will marry John F. The incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of all time for Jackie Kennedy. ![]() |