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The amazing world of Kreskin

By Kreskin. 1973

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Biography, Paranormal
Human-narrated audio
A famous American mentalist and television personality documents his beginnings as a teenage magician and hypnotist. He also attempts to debunk popular notions of ESP and occultism

The plot to seize the White House

By Jules Archer. 1973

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Politics and government, Biography, Social issues
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Story of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, an incorruptible patriot, practicing Quaker, and medal of honor recipient, who believed that arch-conservatives were conspiring against President Franklin Roosevelt in 1933

Capturing The Light: The Birth Of Photography, A True Story Of Genius And Rivalry

By Helen Rappaport, Roger Watson. 2013

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Fine arts biography, Biography, Science and medicine biography, Arts and entertainment
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An intimate look at the journeys of two men―a gentleman scientist and a visionary artist―as they struggled to capture the…

world around them, and in the process invented modern photography During the 1830s, in an atmosphere of intense scientific enquiry fostered by the industrial revolution, two quite different men―one in France, one in England―developed their own dramatically different photographic processes in total ignorance of each other's work. These two lone geniuses―Henry Fox Talbot in the seclusion of his English country estate at Lacock Abbey and Louis Daguerre in the heart of post-revolutionary Paris―through diligence, disappointment and sheer hard work overcame extraordinary odds to achieve the one thing man had for centuries been trying to do―to solve the ancient puzzle of how to capture the light and in so doing make nature 'paint its own portrait'. With the creation of their two radically different processes―the Daguerreotype and the Talbotype―these two giants of early photography changed the world and how we see it. Drawing on a wide range of original, contemporary sources and featuring plates in colour, sepia and black and white, many of them rare or previously unseen, Capturing the Light by Roger Watson and Helen Rappaport charts an extraordinary tale of genius, rivalry and human resourcefulness in the quest to produce the world's first photograph.

God's Secret Agent

By Diane Yoder. 2017

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Biography
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Nicu wanted to serve God in any capacity he could, but he had not anticipated an assignment full of danger…

and sleepless nights. Yet the opportunity sparked a sense of excitement and purpose. Nicu constantly had to place his life in God's hands. As he did, he witnessed miracle after miracle. A faith-strengthening story of how God's hand protected His secret agent time and again.

Soldiers of the Plains

By P. E. Byrne. 2023

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Law and crime biography, Biography, United States history, Indigenous peoples
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The Indian was the great soldier of the plains and, in many respects, the greatest fighter the world has ever…

known. But, unlike the white man, the Indian had no press agency through which to broadcast his story to the world.And so it comes about that for the most part such knowledge as we have respecting Indian war ventures, for example, comes not from the Indian but from sources having no interest in presenting the Indian point of view—from official government reports and from stories of men actively engaged with those opposed to the red man. The result: almost all reports of Indian warfare were unfavorable to the Indian,—his reasons for war misrepresented; his victories discounted; his acts of heroism, if mentioned at all, carefully flattened out to the level of the commonplace.In this account an attempt is made to say a word for the red man; to present his side fairly and with sympathetic understanding; to discuss frankly his experience in treaty negotiation; to draw attention to some of his remarkable military exploits; and to touch upon his high qualities as a factor in civilized life. To that extent it supplies a much needed contribution to the frontier history of our time, for we owe to the Indian a fair statement of his case and a just estimate of his qualities as a warrior and a man.The scope of the discussion is limited. It is concerned mainly with events leading up to and including the battle of the Little Big Horn, March 25-26, 1876. Incidentally something is contributed to a clearer understanding of General Custer’s part in that campaign.

Ponte a punto para el antirracismo: Consejos útiles para iniciar la alianza antirracista

By Desirée Bela-Lobedde. 2023

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Biography, General non-fiction
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No basta con no ser racista: hay que ser antirracista ¿Qué es la supremacía y el privilegio blanco? ¿Existe un…

racismo institucional? ¿Cómo nombramos y nos comunicamos con los demás? ¿Cuál es el problema de la apropiación cultural? ¿España es racista? ¿Yo soy racista? ¿Cómo se puede contribuir a cambiar el paradigma? Este libro es una guía fundamental hacia la educación antirracista. A través de apuntes teóricos e históricos, reflexiones, consejos y ejercicios para analizar nuestros comportamientos, la activista Desirée Bela-Lobedde -autora de Ser mujer negra en España y Minorías- recoge los principios básicos del antirracismo y nos invita a poner en marcha de manera práctica alternativas para contribuir activamente a un cambio real. «Para que el racismo desaparezca, y si queremos que desaparezca de verdad, hay que tener la educación necesaria que nos permita mirar con ojos críticos la raíz del sistema que genera esas desigualdades, y analizar cómo, con nuestras acciones, contribuimos a su perpetuación o a su desmantelamiento».

Blanco móvil: Crónica del nómada que lo apostó todo por un sueño

By Sergi Bellver. 2023

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Literature biography, Biography, Travel and geography
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El relato de un hombre nómada que vive de manera itinerante desde hace más de una década. Una historia acerca…

de perseguir tu pasión al margen de las convenciones. Sergi Bellver es escritor y no tiene casa, aunque tampoco vive en la calle. Hace ya más de una década -primero empujado por la necesidad, pero pronto convencido de su elección-, comenzó a habitar en viviendas prestadas. Desde pisos vacíos en barrios obreros a verdaderas mansiones, o de humildes cabañas a los lugares más insólitos, su singular viaje a lo largo de los años nos muestra otros caminos posibles y nos anima a no renunciar a nuestros sueños ante las dificultades. Y es que esta crónica apasionada y reflexiva de una asombrosa vida nómada es, sobre todo, una historia acerca de la libertad personal y creativa, una mirada crítica a los oficios de la cultura y un alegato a favor del arte como fuerza transformadora de la realidad. «Desde aquel primer sofá prestado, he dormido en sitios que van de lo precario a lo opulento y de lo onírico a lo insólito. (...) no siempre he sido más feliz, ni he estado más a gusto, ni he podido escribir mejor en los lugares a priori más atractivos de ese peculiar listado, sino en aquellos en los que sentí haber encontrado de veras un refugio». «[...] la belleza y la maravilla no nos necesitan para suceder cada día. Lo único que podemos hacer todos, artistas o no, es permanecer atentos y seguir dispuestos a percibirlas. La próxima vez que te conectes a la red, recuerda que tu descarga viaja a toda velocidad por enormes cables submarinos de fibra óptica, pero también que justo encima de ellos, en la profundidad del océano, los cachalotes siguen cazando calamares gigantes o migran todavía algunas ballenas que ya estaban vivas el año que Herman Melville publicó Moby Dick. Y cuando un petirrojo venga a darte los buenos días, las gaviotas armen su escándalo en la playa o, al caer el sol, los mirlos te alegren la tarde con su conversación, piensa que los dinosaurios no desaparecieron, sino que aprendieron a estar en el mundo de otra manera. Una bastante hermosa, además, tan diversa como las moradas de un nómada y tan ligera como su equipaje». Reseñas:«Blanco móvil es la bella, divertida, ácida y emocionante crónica de un nómada que escribe, ama y acampa en los libros. Leed y disfrutad».Carlos Bardem «Sergi Bellver afronta la vida como la escritura: como un acto de resistencia ante el curso de los tiempos. En este libro, vida y escritura son la misma cosa».Juan Soto Ivars

Black Matters: African American and African College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories

By Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny. 2023

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Biography, Psychology, General non-fiction
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Black Matters presents an anthology of stories of African American and African undergraduate and graduate students’ experiences at college, offering…

lifespan perspectives on their formative relationships and influences, life-changing events, and the role their heritage has played in shaping their personal identities, values, and choices. Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny bring together contributors who share personal memoirs reflecting on their experience of navigating life on campus as students of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The ten brave authors, six Black men and four Black women, present thoughtful, often emotional, accounts of moments that transformed their academic, professional, and racial identities. Supplemented by follow-up accounts of four of the graduates, the text underlines developmental perspectives whilst examining what has remained the same about their lives and values, and what has changed over time. The collection explores the notion of hard work and "grit" in overcoming discrimination, racism, and adversity, and how in reality college students who are not part of the racial/cultural majority must contend with the normative identity challenges of late adolescence while carrying the extra burden of "two-ness". Featuring an introduction by Chanté Mouton Kinyon, this anthology examines crucial topics including classroom experience; intellectual stimulation and learning environment; interactions with African American and African students; friendships that crossed the lines of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexual orientation, and how collegiate life affects issues related to personal and racial identities. The rich narratives in Black Matters provide vital insight into the relationship between collegiate experiences and racial identities. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of psychology, education, cultural anthropology, sociology and creative writing, as well as for those responsible for campus climate and student experience.

Pioneer Women of the West

By Elizabeth Fries Ellet. 2023

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Law and crime biography, Biography, United States history, Indigenous peoples
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AN appropriate supplement to the memoirs of the “Women of the American Revolution,” is the story of the wives and…

mothers who ventured into the western wilds, and bore their part in the struggles and labors of the early pioneers. Indeed, so obvious a consequence of the Revolution was the diffusion of the spirit of emigration, that the one work naturally calls for the other, the domestic history of the period being incomplete without it. To supply this want, very little published material existed, and that little in the shape of brief anecdotes, scattered through historical collections made in several Western States, and scarcely known in other parts of the Union. But a vast store might be yielded from the records of private families, and the still vivid recollections of individuals who had passed through the experiences of frontier and forest life, and it was not yet too late to save from oblivion much that would be the more interesting and valuable, as the memory of those primitive times receded into the past.Application has been made, accordingly, to the proper sources throughout the Western States, and the result enables me to offer such a series of authentic sketches as will not only exhibit the character of many pioneer matrons—characters that would pass for strongly marked originals in any fiction—but will afford a picture of the times in the progressive settlement of the whole country, from Tennessee to Michigan. To render this picture as complete as possible, descriptions of the domestic life and manners of the pioneers, and illustrative anecdotes from reliable sources, have been interwoven with the memoirs, and notice has been taken of such political events as had an influence on the condition of the country.

Ray Charles (A Crowell biography)

By Sharon Bell Mathis. 1973

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Biography, Music
Human-narrated audio
Biography of the world-famous blind musician who has played to win against overwhelming odds. For grades 2-5

Hitler: the last ten days

By Gerhard Boldt. 1973

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Biography, History
Human-narrated audio
An aide-de-camp in Hitler's bunker at the fall of Berlin recounts the dictator's last days and tells of his own career in the German Army

Zelda: a biography

By Nancy Milford. 1970

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Biography, Literature biography, Women biography
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A portrait of the southern belle who married F. Scott Fitzgerald, and became not only the golden girl of his…

novels, but the real-life heroine of the couple's almost legendary escapades. 1970.

Clemente!

By Kal Wagenheim. 1973

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Biography, Sports and games
Human-narrated audio
Story of a great baseball player who died in a plane crash while on his way to help the victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua

Ralph Nader's crusade

By Richard Curtis. 1972

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Biography, Law and crime
Human-narrated audio
Explores the controversial consumer advocate's successes and explains the results of his investigations of government and big business. For junior and senior high readers

An assassin's diary

By Arthur H Bremer. 1973

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Biography, United States history
Human-narrated audio
Writings of the twenty-two-year-old unemployed busboy who tried to kill Alabama Governor George Wallace. This material was introduced during Bremer's trial as evidence to support a plea of insanity

Pat Loud: a woman's story

By Pat Loud. 1974

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Biography
Human-narrated audio

The wife in TV's "An American Family" tells of her marriage and the impact TV exposure has had on her…

life. She confronts and questions some of the rapidly changing values relating to marriage, family, children, and divorce

Livingstone

By Tim Jeal. 1973

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Biography, Travel and geography
Human-narrated audio
A biography that dispels the myths surrounding David Livingstone, the missionary, geographer, astronomer, and doctor hailed as the discoverer of the source of the Nile

The mad world of William M. Gaines

By Frank Jacobs. 1972

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Biography, General non-fiction
Human-narrated audio
Study of the eccentric millionaire publisher of "Mad" magazine, who was treated as an idiot by his father before he saved the failing comics business

My life on the Mississippi: or, Why I am not Mark Twain

By Richard Pike Bissell. 1973

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Biography, Travel and geography
Human-narrated audio
A light memoir of the author's adventures on various boats up and down the Mississippi, the Monongahela, and foggy Southern rivers

Eleanor and Franklin: the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers

By Joseph P Lash. 1971

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Biography, United States history
Human-narrated audio
A compassionate biography of Eleanor Roosevelt from her troubled early childhood to her complex relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt

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