Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878539292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878539292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Glitter
Author: Aprilynne Pike
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 1101933720
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"Outside the palace of Versailles, it's modern day. Inside, the people dress, eat, and act like it's the eighteenth century. The palace has every indulgence, but for one pretty young thing, it's about to become a very beautiful prison. When Danica witnesses an act of murder by the young king, her mother makes a cruel power play...blackmailing the king into making Dani his queen on her eighteenth birthday. That gives Dani six months to escape her terrifying destiny."--Page [4] of cover.
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 1101933720
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"Outside the palace of Versailles, it's modern day. Inside, the people dress, eat, and act like it's the eighteenth century. The palace has every indulgence, but for one pretty young thing, it's about to become a very beautiful prison. When Danica witnesses an act of murder by the young king, her mother makes a cruel power play...blackmailing the king into making Dani his queen on her eighteenth birthday. That gives Dani six months to escape her terrifying destiny."--Page [4] of cover.
Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite
Author: Thomas J. Schaeper
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857453696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertainer Kris Kristofferson; and the Supreme Court Justices Byron White and David Souter. Based on extensive research in published and unpublished documents and on hundreds of interviews, this book traces the history of the program and the stories of many individuals. In addition it addresses a host of questions such as: how important was the Oxford experience for the individual scholars? To what extent has the program created an old-boy (-girl since 1976) network that propels its members to success? How many Rhodes Scholars have cracked under the strain and failed to live up to expectations? How have the Americans coped with life in Oxford and what have they thought of Britain in general? Beyond the history of the program and the individuals involved, this book also offers a valuable examination of the American-British cultural encounter.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857453696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertainer Kris Kristofferson; and the Supreme Court Justices Byron White and David Souter. Based on extensive research in published and unpublished documents and on hundreds of interviews, this book traces the history of the program and the stories of many individuals. In addition it addresses a host of questions such as: how important was the Oxford experience for the individual scholars? To what extent has the program created an old-boy (-girl since 1976) network that propels its members to success? How many Rhodes Scholars have cracked under the strain and failed to live up to expectations? How have the Americans coped with life in Oxford and what have they thought of Britain in general? Beyond the history of the program and the individuals involved, this book also offers a valuable examination of the American-British cultural encounter.
Selections from American Literature
Author: Leonidas Warren Payne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Recruiter Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
An Empire of Print
Author: Steven Carl Smith
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This book traces the origins and early evolution of the city’s rise to literary preeminence. Through five case studies, Steven Carl Smith examines publishing in New York from the post–Revolutionary War period through the Jacksonian era. He discusses the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks, assesses the economic relationships and shared social and cultural practices that connected printers, booksellers, and their customers, and explores the uncharacteristically modern approaches taken by the city’s preindustrial printers and distributors. If the cultural matrix of printed texts served as the primary legitimating vehicle for political debate and literary expression, Smith argues, then deeper understanding of the economic interests and political affiliations of the people who produced these texts gives necessary insight into the emergence of a major American industry. Those involved in New York’s book trade imagined for themselves, like their counterparts in other major seaport cities, a robust business that could satisfy the new nation’s desire for print, and many fulfilled their ambition by cultivating networks that crossed regional boundaries, delivering books to the masses. A fresh interpretation of the market economy in early America, An Empire of Print reveals how New York started on the road to becoming the publishing powerhouse it is today.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079908
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This book traces the origins and early evolution of the city’s rise to literary preeminence. Through five case studies, Steven Carl Smith examines publishing in New York from the post–Revolutionary War period through the Jacksonian era. He discusses the gradual development of local, regional, and national distribution networks, assesses the economic relationships and shared social and cultural practices that connected printers, booksellers, and their customers, and explores the uncharacteristically modern approaches taken by the city’s preindustrial printers and distributors. If the cultural matrix of printed texts served as the primary legitimating vehicle for political debate and literary expression, Smith argues, then deeper understanding of the economic interests and political affiliations of the people who produced these texts gives necessary insight into the emergence of a major American industry. Those involved in New York’s book trade imagined for themselves, like their counterparts in other major seaport cities, a robust business that could satisfy the new nation’s desire for print, and many fulfilled their ambition by cultivating networks that crossed regional boundaries, delivering books to the masses. A fresh interpretation of the market economy in early America, An Empire of Print reveals how New York started on the road to becoming the publishing powerhouse it is today.
History in the Making
Author: Kyle Ward
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595582150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Evaluates the ways in which the belief systems of each generation as well as evolving practices in history writing have shaped the way people view the past, evaluating a range of perspectives about familiar historical events as they have been documented throughout the past two centuries. Reprint.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595582150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Evaluates the ways in which the belief systems of each generation as well as evolving practices in history writing have shaped the way people view the past, evaluating a range of perspectives about familiar historical events as they have been documented throughout the past two centuries. Reprint.
Civil Aeronautics Board Reports
Author: United States. Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans
Author: Evert Augustus Duyckinck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description