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A YULETIDE BRIDE?
Author : Susan Crosby
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408978717
A YULETIDE BRIDE?
Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Heroes
ISBN :
Author : Kathryn Stockett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2011
Category : African American women
ISBN : 0425245136
Original publication and copyright date: 2009.
Author : Lydia Maria Child
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1866
Category : African Americans
ISBN :
Author : Bill W.
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0698176936
A 75th anniversary e-book version of the most important and practical self-help book ever written, Alcoholics Anonymous. Here is a special deluxe edition of a book that has changed millions of lives and launched the modern recovery movement: Alcoholics Anonymous. This edition not only reproduces the original 1939 text of Alcoholics Anonymous, but as a special bonus features the complete 1941 Saturday Evening Post article “Alcoholics Anonymous” by journalist Jack Alexander, which, at the time, did as much as the book itself to introduce millions of seekers to AA’s program. Alcoholics Anonymous has touched and transformed myriad lives, and finally appears in a volume that honors its posterity and impact.
Author : George W. Cable
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734019370
Reproduction of the original: Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable
Author : Alcoholics Anonymous
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 30,18 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 159285947X
The Book That Started It All Hardcover
Author : Liliuokalani (Queen of Hawaii)
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Hawaii
ISBN :
Author : James L. Machor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801899338
James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War. Machor takes four antebellum authors—Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Catharine Sedgwick, and Caroline Chesebro'—and analyzes how their works were published, received, and interpreted. Drawing on discussions found in book reviews and in private letters and diaries, Machor examines how middle-class readers of the time engaged with contemporary fiction and how fiction reading evolved as an interpretative practice in nineteenth-century America. Through careful analysis, Machor illuminates how the reading practices of nineteenth-century Americans shaped not only the experiences of these writers at the time but also the way the writers were received in the twentieth century. What Machor reveals is that these authors were received in ways strikingly different from how they are currently read, thereby shedding significant light on their present status in the literary canon in comparison to their critical and popular positions in their own time. Machor deftly combines response and reception criticism and theory with work in the history of reading to engage with groundbreaking scholarship in historical hermeneutics. In so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors’ conceptions of their own readership.
Author : Allan M. Brandt
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0786721901
The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. The development of new medical knowledge demonstrating the dire harms of smoking ultimately shaped the evolution of evidence-based medicine. In response, the tobacco industry engineered a campaign of scientific disinformation seeking to delay, disrupt, and suppress these studies. Using a massive archive of previously secret documents, historian Allan Brandt shows how the industry pioneered these campaigns, particularly using special interest lobbying and largesse to elude regulation. But even as the cultural dominance of the cigarette has waned and consumption has fallen dramatically in the U.S., Big Tobacco remains securely positioned to expand into new global markets. The implications for the future are vast: 100 million people died of smoking-related diseases in the 20th century; in the next 100 years, we expect 1 billion deaths worldwide.