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An illustrated book of loaded language

Tác giả: Natalie Rothstein

Speaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoric―aided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here, passive voice can pardon wrongdoers, statistics may be a smokescreen, gaslighting entraps the downtrodden, and irrelevant ...

How to be old : lessons in living boldly from the accidental Icon

Tác giả: Lyn Slater

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon," brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog, Accidental Icon, at age ...

History of the rise, progress and termination of the American Revolution : interspersed with biographical, political, and moral observations

Tác giả: Mercy Otis Warren

This book provides brilliant insight into the history of the American Revolution from the perspective of a contemporary who was able to talk to the key figures involved. This book should be essential reading for anyone interested in the Revolutionary period and how the United States was founded.

The American crisis : what went wrong, how we recover

Tác giả: Jeffrey Goldberg

Featuring leading voices from The Atlantic, one of the country’s most widely read and influential magazines, The American Crisis is a broad and essential look at the condition of America today—and at the qualities of national character that may yet offer hope.

Hoover Tower at Stanford University

Tác giả: Elena S. Danielson

A Stanford University landmark since 1941, the 285-foot-tall, Art Deco-style Hoover Tower provides a contrasting focal point for the horizontal lines of the Quad's sandstone arcades. The Quad, begun in 1887 and designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style, was only partially completed for the first ...