Documents concernant le film "le Navire aveugle", d'après le roman de Jean Barreyre", 1927

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Languages : fr
Pages : 18

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Documents concernant le film "le Navire aveugle", d'après le roman de Jean Barreyre", 1927

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Languages : fr
Pages : 18

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Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915

Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915 PDF Author: Loren Schweninger
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252066344
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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Property ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark study documents this significant, but often overlooked, aspect of the black experience from the late eighteenth century to World War I.

Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays

Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays PDF Author: Paul Fussell
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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"This is not a book to promote tranquility, and readers in quest of peace of mind should look elsewhere," writes Paul Fussell in the foreword to this original, sharp, tart, and thoroughly engaging work. The celebrated author focuses his lethal wit on habitual euphemizers, artistically pretentious third-rate novelists, sexual puritans, and the "Disneyfiers of life". He moves from the inflammatory title piece on the morality of dropping the bomb on Hiroshima to a hilarious disquisition on the "naturist movement", to essays on the meaning of the Indy 500 race, on George Orwell, and on the shift in men's chivalric impulses toward their mothers. Fussell's "frighteningly acute eye for the manners, mores, and cultural tastes of Americans" (The New York Times Book Review) is abundantly evident in this entertaining dissection of the enemies of truth, beauty, and justice

Bossa Nova

Bossa Nova PDF Author: Ruy Castro
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613745745
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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Bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world. Songs such as “The Girl from Ipanema” (the fifth most frequently played song in the world), “The Waters of March,” and “Desafinado” are known around the world. Bossa Nova—a number-one bestseller when originally published in Brazil as Chega de Saudade—is a definitive history of this seductive music. Based on extensive interviews with Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jo+o Gilberto, and all the major musicians and their friends, Bossa Nova explains how a handful of Rio de Janeiro teenagers changed the face of popular culture around the world. Now, in this outstanding translation, the full flavor of Ruy Castro’s wisecracking, chatty Portuguese comes through in a feast of detail. Along the way he introduces a cast of unforgettable characters who turned Gilberto’s singular vision into the sound of a generation.