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Duchamp on Tape: The Janis Family Interviews

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Report copyright infringementby Marcel Duchamp (Artist), Ann Temkin (Editor), Carroll Janis (Introduction by)One of the towering figures of 20th-century art holds forth on his controversial life and career in a previously unpublished set of interviewsOver six sessions between September 1951 and November 1952, Marcel Duchamp sat down with collectors and gallerists Harriet and Sidney Janis for a wide-ranging conversation about his inspirations and working processes, and his many opinions on the...

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Report copyright infringementby Sun Tzu (Author)"There's not a dated maxim or vague prescription in it." -- Newsweek Regarded as the world's oldest military treatise, this compact volume has instructed officers and tacticians for more than 2,000 years. From its origins in China, The Art of War traveled the world to inform the strategies of Napoleon and World War II generals. More recently, it has taken on a new life as a guide to competing successfully in business, law, and sports.All of The ...

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Fonseca (Editor), Octavia Saenz (Editor), Sarah Schulman (Contribution by)A collection of reinvented queer pulp fiction by writers like Sarah Schulman and Lorraine Hansberry that's so edgy it draws blood. Lesbian pulp fiction thrived in the oppressive 1950s, telling subversive stories of lonely sapphic women who find connection, passion, and revenge. In The New Lesbian Pulp, editors Sarah Fonseca and Octavia Saenz revive the genre for today, layering nuan...

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Zora Neale Hurston (Author), Henry Louis Gates (Author), Genevieve West (Author)A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine's Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale H...

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Report copyright infringementby Nathan Vass (Author)Deciding to See: The View from Nathan's Bus is an eye-opening, inspiring, and hopeful linked-essay collection recounting the amazing everyday encounters of city bus driver, Nathan Vass whose life's motto is if you give kindness, you'll get kindness. Vass tests this theory on the roughest nighttime routes in Seattle. The results illuminate the challenges of poverty, homelessness, and crossing class boundaries. Vass intertwines personal storie...

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Report copyright infringementby Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Author)HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdomLucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-AD 65) is one of the most famous Roman philosophers. Instrumental in guiding the Roman Empire under emperor Nero, Seneca influenced him from a young age with his Stoic principles. Later in life, he wrote Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium...

The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem

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Report copyright infringementby Henry Ford (Author)Reprint of 1920 Edition This book is a reprint of the first and most important volume of The International Jew. The International Jew is a four volume set of booklets or pamphlets originally published and distributed in the early 1920s by Henry Ford in his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. The first volume of the series, The International Jew, The World's Foremost Problem is published herein. It is a compilation consisting of The Protocols...

A Room of One's Own: Introduction by Merve Emre

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Merve Emre (Introduction by)A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay, Woolf outlines what women need in order to fully make use of their innate abilities. Using provocative images and memorable thought experiments--including the fictional Judith Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother William but limited in...

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Report copyright infringementby Linda Rosenkrantz (Author), Francis Schichtel (Editor), Jordan Weitzman (Editor)"This slim volume is Peter's sexiest self-portrait. Read it and weep if you didn't know him. Or read it and weep if you did that we lost him." -Nan GoldinOn December 18, 1974, the author Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend Peter Hujar to write down everything he did on that day. Hujar met Rosenkrantz at her apartment on 94th Street the following day, where she asked him about it in d...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Lanegan (Author)One morning in March 2021 with the second wave of infections ripping through Ireland where he was newly resident, Mark Lanegan woke up breathless, fatigued beyond belief, his body burdened with a gigantic dose of Covid-19. Admitted to Kerry Hospital and initially given little hope of survival, Lanegan's illness has him slipping in and out of a coma, unable to walk or function for several months and fearing for his life. As his situation bec...

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Report copyright infringementby Susanna Freymark (Author)Eight fiction stories and one poem in a memorable collection.Life is messy and humans make it more so - these stories are deep, intimate and told in a clear, crisp style. Number of Pages: 100 Dimensions: 0.27 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN Publication Date: May 15, 2026

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Report copyright infringementby Clarice Lispector (Author), Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too.The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers (or even soccer stars) to address a...

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Report copyright infringementby Memwah (Author), Tammie Winward (Author)Looking for a gift for your Nana which she will never forget?Introducing "Nana's Life Story". Crafted by Memwah, Australia's leading Life Story Video Maker, this guided journal offers prompts and exercises to evoke the storytelling process and authentically capture the essence of your mother's life. It's the most thoughtful and important gift that you can give!This guided journal serves as an open invitation for your moth...

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Report copyright infringementby Collier Ada Langworthy (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is i...

The Worship of the Dead: Or, the Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry and Its Bearing Upon the Early History of Egypt and Babylonia

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Report copyright infringementby John Garnier (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...

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Report copyright infringementby Edwin Diller Starbuck (Author), Paternoster Square Charles Scribner's (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.S...

Words to Sing the World Alive: Celebrating First Nations Languages

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Report copyright infringementby Jasmin McGaughey (Editor)Words to Sing the World Alive celebrates First Nations languages from across the continent. Forty First Nation writers and thinkers, journalists and lawyers, artists and astronomers come together to reveal their favourite and significant words. Words that evoke the power of childhood and the wonder of Country; that explore the essence of mother, of fire, of time. Words that are imbued with family and belonging, and that surprise with th...

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Report copyright infringementby Dameon Gibbs (Author), Jason Illari (Author)Dive into the mind of an early 20th century school teacher as Elizabeth Humphreys explores the development of child education. Using the works of German scholar Friedrich Froebel as her cornerstone, Elizabeth Humphreys discusses and analyzes the various stages of children's mental and spiritual growth, from their toddler years into adulthood. Focusing on how their development not only effects their education but also ...

Paul Revere's Ride: The Thrilling Midnight Dash That Ignited Revolution & American Courage

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Report copyright infringementby Tim Zengerink (Translator)Have you ever wondered why one man's midnight ride still echoes through American history?In Paul Revere's Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalizes the night a lone patriot risked everything to alert a sleeping nation. On April 18, 1775, with British troops marching toward Lexington and Concord, Revere galloped into the night, bearing a warning that would ignite a revolution.This modernized version of Longfellow's powerful poem bre...

H. G. Wells on Science Education, 1886-1897

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Report copyright infringementby Lisa M. Lane (Author)For the decade before The Time Machine became a best-seller, H. G. Wells was a bright, lower-middle class youth trying to overcome familial pressure to become a shop clerk. His love for books and knowledge led to an ambition to become a science teacher, and a participant in the scientific debates of the late 19th century. In the wake of Darwinian theories, scientific study had changed, but science education had remained behind. Wells's writ...

A Defence of the Christian Religion, and of the Religious Instruction of the Young: Delivered in the Supreme Court of the United States, February 10,

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Webster (Author), United States Supreme Court (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, ...

Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, the Mountain Giants

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Report copyright infringementby Luigi Pirandello (Author), Anthony Mortimer (Author)SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he broke decisively with the conventions of realist theatre to foreground the tensions between art and reality. In his best known play, six characters, imagined but then abandoned by their author, intrude on the rehearsals ...

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Wilde (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important en...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Thomas Looney (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importa...

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Report copyright infringementby G. Bernard Shaw (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...

History Of Dudley Castle And Priory: Including A Genealogical Account Of The Families Of Suttuon And Ward

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Twamley (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...

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Report copyright infringementby Grant Showerman (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...

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Report copyright infringementby William Shakespeare (Author), Library 1stworld Library (Editor), 1stworld Library (Editor)KENT. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. GLOUCESTER. It did always seem so to us; but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the Dukes he values most, for equalities are so weigh'd that curiosity in neither can make choice of either's moiety. KENT. Is not this your son, my lord? GLOUCESTER. His breeding, sir, hath b...

Communion Tokens of the Established Church of Scotland: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries

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Report copyright infringementby Alexander J. S. Brook (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

Why Is Your Country At War And What Happens To You After The War, And Related Subjects

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Report copyright infringementby Charles August Lindbergh (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is...

How I Made $500,000 in Selling at Age 69

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Report copyright infringementby Gopi Nair (Author) Sales Integrity is my Strength Trust is my Purpose Hard work is my rule Service is my life's calling Ethics and Morals are my eyes Gratitude is my heartbeat Optimism is what I breathe My word is my bond Knowledge is my companion Experience is my teacher Number of Pages: 148 Dimensions: 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 16, 2024

European Dynamism: Why Europe Is Already Winning the AI Century

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Report copyright infringementby Henrick Johansson (Author)Henrick Johansson is sixty-five years old, lives in a forty-seven-square-metre apartment in Stockholm, and believes Europe has already won the AI century. He would like to explain why.In fourteen chapters and five appendices, Compliant Capital's founding partner makes the case that the contemporary technology economy has been measuring dynamism on the wrong axis. The Americans measure it in rate of replacement - which Fortune 500 compa...