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Julia BlackburnPublication Details
Book, 1st American ed, Pantheon Books, 2005Description
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it. Billie Holiday?s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her addictions, her arrests, and the scandals that would repeatedly put her name in the tabloid headlines of the 1940s and 1950s. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Holiday, Billie, · 1915-1959 · Singers · United States · Biography · Blackburn, JuliaAvailability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | ML420.H58 B53 2005 | AVAILABLE |
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J.B. MillerPublication Details
Book, 1st ed, St. Martin’s Press, 2003Description
Dave Eggers gives us “A Backbreaking Work of Incredible Thinness,” Philip Roth gets into a fight with Nathan Zuckerman, E. Wodehouse admits that “She’s a Right Ho, Jeeves,” Mary McCarthy foils Lillian Hellman’s attempted assassination of Hitler, David Foster Wallace proves an “Infinite Pest,” notes are found for J.R.R. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Parodies · Miller, J. BAvailability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | PN6231.P3 M55 2003 | AVAILABLE |
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Anita Silvey, editorPublication Details
Book, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002Description
Upon publication, Anita Silvey’s comprehensive survey of contemporary children’s literature, Children’s Books and Their Creators, garnered unanimous praise from librarians, educators, and specialists interested in the world of writing for children. The Essential Guide to Children’s Books and Their Creators summarizes the canon of contemporary children’s literature, in a practical guide essential for anyone choosing a book for or working with children. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Children’s literature, American · Bio-bibliography · Dictionaries · Children’s literature · Silvey, AnitaAvailability
| REFERENCE (MAIN) | PN1009.A1 C54 2002 | AVAILABLE |
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Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steven Durlauf, editorsPublication Details
Book, Princeton University Press, 2000Description
This volume of original essays by luminaries in the economic, social, and biological sciences, however, confirms mounting evidence that the connection between intelligence and inequality is surprisingly weak and demonstrates that targeted educational and economic reforms can reduce the income gap and improve the country’s aggregate productivity and economic well-being. Hauser, Glenn Loury, Orley Ashenfelter, and others sift and analyze the latest arguments and quantitative findings on equality in order to explain how merit is and should be defined, how economic rewards are distributed, and how patterns of economic success persist across generations. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Income distribution · Equality · Elite (Social sciences) · Social mobility · Arrow, Kenneth Joseph, 1921- · Bowles, Samuel · Durlauf, Steven NAvailability
| (LOWER LEVEL) | HB523 .M468 2000 | AVAILABLE |
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Dina Temple-RastonPublication Details
Book, 1st ed, H. Holt, 2002Description
An extraordinary account of how a small Texas town struggled to come to grips with its racist past in the aftermath of the brutal murder of James Byrd, Jr. Drawing on extensive interviews with key players, journalist Dina Temple-Raston introduces a remarkable cast of characters, from the baby-faced killer, Bill King, to Joe Tonahill, Jasper’s white patriarch who can’t understand the furor over the killing. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Byrd, James, · d. 1998 · Murder · Texas · Jasper · Hate crimes · African American men · Crimes against · Jasper (Tex.) · Race relations · Temple-Raston, DinaAvailability
| (LOWER LEVEL) | HV6534.J36 T45 2002 | AVAILABLE |
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Gary GiddinsPublication Details
Book, Oxford University Press, 1998Description
Already a jazz classic, Gary Giddins’ Visions of Jazz: The First Century contains no less than 78 chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all major figures in jazz history. Giddins maintains, contrary to the opinion of most jazz enthusiasts, that Armstrongs voice was as much an integral part of creating jazz singing as his trumpet was to creating jazz. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Tags
Jazz musicians · Biography · Composers · Jazz · History and criticism · Giddins, GaryAvailability
| (UPPER LEVEL) | ML385 .G53 1998 | AVAILABLE |
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