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Year of Jewish Stories, A: 52 Tales for Children and Their Families Samantha Shubert and Grace Ragues Maisel, Illustrated by Tammy Keiser Drawing on Jewish tradition and enlivened by a modern sensibility, A Year of Jewish Stories helps families explore Jewish values and create positive Jewish memories through the magic of storytelling. In their introduction the authors write, "We are offering you an easy and open invitation into the richness of Jewish life - the aroma of freshly baked challah, the warmth of a teacher's hug, the sound of the Red Sea parting. We want this invitation to be as welcoming as Abraham's tent, which is said to have been open on three sides and situated at a crossroads so as to accept as many guests as possible." This book is for parents and children, grandparents and teachers, rabbis and cantors, educators and librarians alike. Come into the tent, sit down, and listen to a story..
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Entrepreneurs and impresarios, the Shubert Brothers (Sam, Lee, and J. J.) produced some 600 plays, revues, and musicals from A Chorus Line to Cats and championed stars from Sarah Bernhardt and Ethel Barrymore to Al Jolson, Carmen Miranda, Judi Dench, and Nicole Kidman. But their greatest legacy was the theaters that they owned. Focusing on the 17 Broadway houses currently owned by the Shubert Organization, this book presents a unique pageant of the past 100 years on the American stage.

The illustrations-including new photographs by architectural photographer Whitney Cox; three lavish 8-page gatefolds; and numerous production shots, programs, song sheets, and original costume and set designs from the fabulous Shubert Archive-are irresistible to any theater lover. To peruse these pages is to relive American theater history.
430 illustrations, 200 in full color, three 8-page gatefolds, 9 x 111/2".
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Perhaps you want to be among those who are RISING TO THE TOP. If so, do you have a plan? Do you know where you want to be by the end of next year, in five years, or in ten years? If you do, this book will help you get there. If you don't, this book will inspire you to begin thinking about designing that plan. RISING TO THE TOP means focus, for most it will mean hard work, for some it will mean persistence in the face of adversity, for all of us it means rising above mediocrity, doing what it takes to stand out in the crowd. This book is a compilation of experiences and ideas from authors on what rising to the top means to them. This book is a vehicle you can use to get you from where you are now to where you'd like to be. Between the covers of this book are tips, guidelines, and information you can use to get where you're going. This book will teach you things you many never have thought about regarding RISING TO TH E TOP..
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Recently, a number of cutting edge African American artists have investigated issues of race and American identity in their work, relying on the use of historical source material and the subversion of archaic media. This scrutiny of little known, yet uncannily familiar, racialized imagery by contemporary artists has created a renewed interest in the politics of nineteenth-century American art and the role of race in the visual discourse. Portraits of a People looks critically at images made of and by African Americans, extending back to the late 1700s when a portrait of African-born poet Phillis Wheatley was drawn by her friend, the slave Scipio Moorhead.

From the American Revolution through the Civil War and on into the Gilded Age, American artists created dynamic images of black sitters. In their effort to create enduring symbols of self-possessed identity, many of these portraits provide a window into cultural stereotypes and practices. For example, while some of these pictures were undoubtedly of distinct, named individuals, many are now known by titles that reference only generalized types, such as Joshua Johnston’s painting Portrait of a Man, c. 1805–10, or the silhouette inscribed "Mr. Shaw’s blackman," cut around 1802 by the manumitted slave Moses Williams. By the middle of the nineteenth century, photography began to offer black sitters an affordable and accessible way to fashion an individual identity and sometimes obtain financial support, as in the case of the numerous cartes-de-visites produced during the 1860s and ‘70s that bear the image of the feminist activist Sojourner Truth above the text, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance."

Portraits of a People features color reproductions of over 100 important portraits in various media, ranging from paintings, photographs, and silhouettes to book frontispieces and popular prints. Essays by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw consider silhouettes and African American identity in the early republic, photography and the black presence in the public sphere after the Civil War, and portrait painting and social fluidity among middle-class African American artists and sitters. This landmark publication will change the way that we view the images of blacks in the nineteenth century..
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The Spanish Civil War (July 1936-April 1939) killed several hundred thousand soldiers and civilians and created psychological scars that would take over half a century to heal. Here, two of the ablest young historians of modern Spain examine the ill-fated Second Republic (1931-1936) and its tragic aftermath in their full historical background. Alongside the military and political dimensions, the book breaks new ground in exploring such themes as the impact of the war on gender relations; the varieties of terrorism; and the role of propaganda.

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From 1905 to the crash of 1929, Sam Shubert (1874-1905) and his brothers Lee (1874-1953) and J. J. (1878-1963), despite poor beginnings and near-illiteracy, created a theater monopoly unrivaled in history. Their ruthless business tactics and showmanship m.
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This lively new textbook is a comprehensive treatment of Spanish history, capturing nearly two centuries of Spain in one volume. It provides a major reevaluation of modern Spain and draws from the work of leading historians in North America, Britain, and Spain. It also includes extensive material from archives that have only become available since the end of the Franco regime in the 1970s. The book is organized into chronological sections around the main periods of historical change in Spain and each section provides an in-depth exploration of the principle themes and developments for its period. Combining new approaches and research, it will be an invaluable for anyone studying modern Europe..
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