![]() ![]() Wells edited with an introduction and notes by Mia Bay general editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr Creator ![]() ![]() Label The light of truth : writings of an anti-lynching crusader Title The light of truth Title remainder writings of an anti-lynching crusader Statement of responsibility Ida B. Articles on the Mississippi flood (1927).Louis massacre : the greatest outrage of the century (1917) Slayer, in grip of law, fights return to South (1910).The Northern Negro woman's social and moral condition (1910).How enfranchisement stops lynchings (1940).Mob rule in New Orleans : Robert Charles and his fight to the death (1900).Wells talks about her anti-lynching campaign (1894) The bitter cry of Black America : a new "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1894).Liverpool slave traditions and present practices (1894).Two Christmas days : a holiday story (1894).Selections from The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the world's Columbian Exposition (1893).The requirements of Southern journalism (1893).Southern horrors : Lynch Law in all its phases (1892).To call a thing by its true name : Wells's crusade against lynching The requisites of true leadership (1892). ![]() "Iola, the Princess of the Press" : Wells's Early Writings
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![]() ![]() "Gilbert Keith Chesterton is one of the most sparkling and effervescent figures in the great Catholic tradition. If one is ever tempted to see Catholic Christianity as something cramped, crabby, and puritanical, he should read even one paragraph of Chesterton." A physically large man with an even larger intellect and imagination, he embodied the wealth and capaciousness of Catholicism. You will not only enrich your life with these works, you'll be proud to display these gorgeous editions in your home or office. ![]() The books are each elegantly bound and include a ribbon bookmark and a foreword and charcoal sketch of the book's author by Bishop Barron! ![]() These titles have transformed cultures and have proven indispensable to those seeking to encounter God, as revealed in Jesus Christ through His Church. Chesterton - Word on Fire (Hardcover)ĭig into the rich tradition of Catholic literature with these significant and influential books recommended by Bishop Barron. You: Life, Love and the Theology of the Body Mary: A Biblical Walk with the Blessed Mother The Bible Timeline: The Story of SalvationĬhosen: Your Journey Towards Confirmationįollow Me: Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John Altaration: The Mystery of the Mass Revealed ![]() ![]() ![]() And this interaction found its fullest expression in Arpanet-that “intergalactic network” that became the network of networks, the Internet-funded by the Pentagon but then exploding beyond its military confinement. ![]() Skating his way through so much of this history was Licklider, a psychologist with a bent for mechanical engineering and mathematics, who saw the computer as humane and intimate, as a democratizing tool, but most of all a dreamer who understood that the beauty of the machine lay not in “automating those huge data-processing engines called bureaucracies.” Rather, its glory would be in human-computer symbiosis, wedding the computer’s algorithmic talents with the human’s intuitive ones. In what amounts to a history of the computer, Waldrop introduces readers to the men and women involved in the process (from Norbert Wiener and John von Neumann to Gary Kildall) and the process itself (decimal to binary and mechanical to electronic and operator to programmer). Licklider, the man who put “personal” in “personal computers,” in this lively, memorable, and wickedly detailed biography from Waldrop ( Creativity, not reviewed). ![]() ![]() ![]() Years later, they found each other again when he walked into the restaurant where she was working as a waitress. ![]() Tabitha first met Connor when she worked as a pool girl at his grandmother’s country club.Did you ever question whether Nina was telling the truth in her diary? If you believed her, how did that affect your reaction to the other characters as the book unfolded? Were you able to keep an open mind about the cause of Nina’s death, and who the guilty part(ies) might be? ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Critics lavished praise on the book, with one declaring it the long-awaited “great gay novel” for its unsparing approach to Jude, who falls in love with his male best friend. The novel, the second from author Hanya Yanagihara, begins as a light chronicle of male friendship among four college graduates in New York City before narrowing its focus to Jude, a corporate litigator whose decades-long struggle to repress a childhood of unrelenting torments - he was raised by pedophiles in a monastery, kidnapped and prostituted in motels, molested by counselors at an orphanage, kidnapped again, tortured, raped, starved, and run over with a car - ends in his suicide.Īn unlikely beach read with a gothic riptide, A Little Life became a massive best seller in 2015. By the time you finish reading A Little Life, you will have spent a whole book waiting for a man to kill himself. ![]() |