The Girl in the Picture

The Girl in the Picture
By:"Denise Chong"
Published on 2001-08-01 by Penguin

On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War. This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that girl after the camera shutter closed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of Kim Phuc-who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCO spokesperson-is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese point-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday life in the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on all its participants.

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A Young People's History of the United States

A Young People's History of the United States
By:"Howard Zinn"
Published on 2011-01-04 by Seven Stories Press

A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of A Young People’s History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

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Sermons to young women

Sermons to young women
By:"James FORDYCE"
Published on 1814 by

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Fashion, Italian Style

Fashion, Italian Style
By:"Valerie Steele"
Published on 2003 by Yale University Press

Discusses the rise of Italian fashion since 1945, the development of the Italian Look from the late 1970's to the present, and the great many designers who have contributed to Italy's fashion triumphs.

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Drake

Drake
By:"Belmont and Belcourt Biographies"
Published on 2012-04-01 by Price World Publishing

Aubrey Drake Graham, also known as Drake, is one of the most talked about hip hop artists today. But, in order to truly understand him, you must first understand where he came from. \

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Gardening for Ladies

Gardening for Ladies
By:"Mrs. Loudon (Jane)","Andrew Jackson Downing"
Published on 1843 by

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Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State

Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State
By:"Dōshin Satō"
Published on 2011 by Getty Publications

This is an insightful and intelligent re-thinking of Japanese art history & its Western influences. This broad-ranging and profoundly influential analysis describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century. In the 1870-80s, artists and government administrators in Japan encountered the Western 'system of the arts' for the first time. Under pressure to exhibit and sell its artistic products abroad, Japan's new Meiji government came face-to-face with the need to create European-style art schools and museums - and even to establish Japanese words for art, painting, artist, and sculpture. \

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