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The best, bravest, and smartest Private Eye in the world relates his latest adventure.
Author : John Shearer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780385280617
The best, bravest, and smartest Private Eye in the world relates his latest adventure.
Author : John Shearer
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 1977
Category : African American children
ISBN : 9780440405696
Super sleuth Billy Jo Jive tries to piece together clues to identify the sneaker snatcher.
Author : John Shearer
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Super sleuth Billy Jo Jive tries to piece together clues to identify the sneaker snatcher.
Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2000-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780312203436
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Author : Edward Rodolphus Lambert
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 1977-08
Category :
ISBN :
Created by the publishers of EBONY. During its years of publishing it was the largest ever children-focused publication for African Americans.
Author : Michael Gross
Publisher : Crown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0767917448
From the author of House of Outrageous Fortune For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only imagine, until now. The last great building to go up along New York’s Gold Coast, construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 has been home to an ever-evolving cadre of our wealthiest and most powerful families, some of America’s (and the world’s) oldest money—the kind attached to names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Bouvier, Chrysler, Niarchos, Houghton, and Harkness—and some whose names evoke the excesses of today’s monied elite: Kravis, Koch, Bronfman, Perelman, Steinberg, and Schwarzman. All along, the building has housed titans of industry, political power brokers, international royalty, fabulous scam-artists, and even the lowest scoundrels. The book begins with the tumultuous story of the building’s construction. Conceived in the bubbling financial, artistic, and social cauldron of 1920’s Manhattan, 740 Park rose to its dizzying heights as the stock market plunged in 1929—the building was in dire financial straits before the first apartments were sold. The builders include the architectural genius Rosario Candela, the scheming businessman James T. Lee (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’s grandfather), and a raft of financiers, many of whom were little more than white-collar crooks and grand-scale hustlers. Once finished, 740 became a magnet for the richest, oldest families in the country: the Brewsters, descendents of the leader of the Plymouth Colony; the socially-registered Bordens, Hoppins, Scovilles, Thornes, and Schermerhorns; and top executives of the Chase Bank, American Express, and U.S. Rubber. Outside the walls of 740 Park, these were the people shaping America culturally and economically. Within those walls, they were indulging in all of the Seven Deadly Sins. As the social climate evolved throughout the last century, so did 740 Park: after World War II, the building’s rulers eased their more restrictive policies and began allowing Jews (though not to this day African Americans) to reside within their hallowed walls. Nowadays, it is full to bursting with new money, people whose fortunes, though freshly-made, are large enough to buy their way in. At its core this book is a social history of the American rich, and how the locus of power and influence has shifted haltingly from old bloodlines to new money. But it’s also much more than that: filled with meaty, startling, often tragic stories of the people who lived behind 740’s walls, the book gives us an unprecedented access to worlds of wealth, privilege, and extraordinary folly that are usually hidden behind a scrim of money and influence. This is, truly, how the other half—or at least the other one hundredth of one percent—lives.
Author : Murray Forman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Hip-hop
ISBN : 9780415969192
Spanning 25 years of serious writing on hip-hop by noted scholars and mainstream journalists, this comprehensive anthology includes observations and critiques on groundbreaking hip-hop recordings.
Author : Elaine Brown
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1101970103
"Profound, funny ... wild and moving ... heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood.... Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home a lesson about commerce, money, racism, communism, you name it ... A glowing achievement.” —Los Angeles Times Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974. From a small Oakland-based cell, the Panthers had grown to become a revolutionary national organization, mobilizing black communities and white supporters across the country—but relentlessly targeted by the police and the FBI, and increasingly riven by violence and strife within. How Brown came to a position of power over this paramilitary, male-dominated organization, and what she did with that power, is a riveting, unsparing account of self-discovery. Brown’s story begins with growing up in an impoverished neighborhood in Philadelphia and attending a predominantly white school, where she first sensed what it meant to be black, female, and poor in America. She describes her political awakening during the bohemian years of her adolescence, and her time as a foot soldier for the Panthers, who seemed to hold the promise of redemption. And she tells of her ascent into the upper echelons of Panther leadership: her tumultuous relationship with the charismatic Huey Newton, who would become her lover and her nemesis; her experience with the male power rituals that would sow the seeds of the party's demise; and the scars that she both suffered and inflicted in that era’s paradigm-shifting clashes of sex and power. Stunning, lyrical, and acute, this is the indelible testimony of a black woman’s battle to define herself.
Author : John Shearer
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440007913
Two young detectives retrieve a pair of missing walkie-talkies.