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“stephen drury smith”

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  • After the Fall

    New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed

    Edited by Mary Marshall Clark, Peter Bearman, Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury Smith ...
    New Yorkers remember 9/11 in this landmark volume of oral history commemorating the tenth anniversary of the attacks—A "staggering book of living memory" ( Booklist, starred review).Within days of September 11, 2001, Columbia's Oral History Research Office deployed interviewers across the city to collect the accounts and observations of hundreds of people from a diverse mix of New York ... Read more

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  • Say It Plain

    A Century of Great African American Speeches

    by Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Howard Thurman, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, John Hope Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Joseph Lowery, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Johnetta B. Cole, Lani Guinier, Clarence Thomas, Randall Robinson, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King ...
    A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many never before available ... Read more

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    The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews

    Edited by Stephen Drury Smith, Catherine Ellis ...
    "This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along." —Ralph Ellison, speaking with Robert Penn WarrenA stunning collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by the Pulitzer Prize–winning authorIn 1964, in the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize–winning ... Read more

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  • Say It Loud!

    Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

    by Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury Smith ...
    Following Say It Plain, a collection of speeches that provides "a sweeping perspective on evolving issues of black identity in the struggle for equality" ( Booklist).In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", Say It Plain collected and transcribed speeches by some of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures. Many of the ... Read more

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    The Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interviews

    Edited by Stephen Drury Smith, Catherine Ellis ...
    Featured in the New Yorker's "Page-Turner"**One of Mashable's "17 books every activist should read in 2019""This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along." —Ralph Ellison, speaking with Robert Penn WarrenA stunning collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by the Pulitzer Prize ... Read more

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  • The First Lady of Radio

    Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts

    by Stephen Drury Smith, Blanche Wiesen Cook ...
    "This anthology of 38 addresses . . . offer[s] a means for visiting anew the lifework of an extraordinary American woman" ( HistoryNet).A tie-in to the American RadioWorks® documentary—with audio and video content.Eleanor Roosevelt's groundbreaking career as a professional radio broadcaster is almost entirely forgotten. As First Lady, she hosted a series of prime time programs that ... Read more

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  • The ABC of Relativity

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    The Nobel Prize winner offers "an ideal introduction to the theories of special and general relativity" in clear, comprehensible language ( Nature ).A renowned mathematician and philosopher , and as well as recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bertrand Russell was acclaimed for his ability to address complex subjects in accessible ways. In this classic reference book, Russell delve... ... Read more

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  • The Dark Light Years

    by Brian W. Aldiss ...
    A strange alien species forces us to question our definition of civilization in this biting satire from the Grand Master of Science Fiction.What would intelligent life‑forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod— intelligent, pacifist beings ... Read more

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  • There Are (No) Stupid Questions … in Science

    by Leah Elson MS, MPH ...
    Leah Elson draws upon her wildly popular web series, 60 Seconds of Science, in this highly entertaining and visually appealing giftable book of real-world scientific questions and answers.How does DNA work?Does chicken noodle soup actually help with being sick?When cats purr, what is actually making the noise?Does singing to plants really help them grow?Is it possible to clone a woolly mammoth?In ... Read more

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  • Gravity's Century

    From Einstein's Eclipse to Images of Black Holes

    by Ron Cowen ...
    "This gracefully written history of twentieth-century gravity research" brings to life the discoveries and developments that confirmed the theory of relativity ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Albert Einstein did nothing of note on May 29, 1919, yet that is when he became immortal. On that day, astronomer Arthur Eddington and his team observed a solar eclipse and found something extraordinary: ... Read more

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  • More Than the Sum of His Parts

    Collected Stories

    by Joe Haldeman ...
    The ultimate collection of classic science fiction stories and poems from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Forever War Series.An omnibus edition of his collections None So Blind and Dealing in Futures, this volume features the best of Joe Haldeman's short speculative fiction, including such gems as the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning "The Hemingway Hoax," in which a forged Hemingway ... Read more

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