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Book Free for All

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  • Author : Kenneth Turan
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2010-11-02
  • ISBN : 0767931696
  • Pages : 642 pages

Download or read book Free for All written by Kenneth Turan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free for All is an irresistible behind-the-scenes look at one of America’s most beloved and important cultural institutions. Under the inspired leadership of founder Joseph Papp, the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival brought revolutionary performances to the public for decades. This compulsively readable history of those years—much of it told in Papp’s own words—is fascinating, ranging from a dramatic early showdown with Robert Moses over keeping Shakespeare in the Park free to the launching of such landmark productions as Hair and A Chorus Line. To bring the story to life, film critic Kenneth Turan interviewed some 160 luminaries—including George C. Scott, Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, David Rabe, Jerry Stiller, Tommy Lee Jones, and Wallace Shawn—and masterfully weaves their voices into a dizzyingly rich tale of creativity, conflict, and achievement.

Book Library Confidential

Download or read book Library Confidential written by Don Borchert and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public library - a haven of calm, source of information, home to the student, the geek and the aging librarian. Or so you might think. Don Borchert's ten years as assistant librarian have taught him that a library is more than just a place to borrow books, it's also a place where people hide from the law, fall in love, fight, deal drugs, introduce their children to reading, look up porn and pursue their dreams. Borchett's hilarious memoir delves behind the bookshelves as he discovers the weird, dangerous and downright dirty world of a public library and the fearless civil servants who patrol its aisles.

Book Free for All

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  • Author : Janet Poppendieck
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2010-01-04
  • ISBN : 0520944410
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Free for All written by Janet Poppendieck and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-01-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did our children end up eating nachos, pizza, and Tater Tots for lunch? Taking us on an eye-opening journey into the nation's school kitchens, this superbly researched book is the first to provide a comprehensive assessment of school food in the United States. Janet Poppendieck explores the deep politics of food provision from multiple perspectives--history, policy, nutrition, environmental sustainability, taste, and more. How did we get into the absurd situation in which nutritionally regulated meals compete with fast food items and snack foods loaded with sugar, salt, and fat? What is the nutritional profile of the federal meals? How well are they reaching students who need them? Opening a window onto our culture as a whole, Poppendieck reveals the forces--the financial troubles of schools, the commercialization of childhood, the reliance on market models--that are determining how lunch is served. She concludes with a sweeping vision for change: fresh, healthy food for all children as a regular part of their school day.

Book Free for All

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  • Author : Barry Cox
  • Publisher : Demos
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 1841801208
  • Pages : 91 pages

Download or read book Free for All written by Barry Cox and published by Demos. This book was released on 2004 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Free to All

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  • Author : Abigail A. Van Slyck
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1998-07-20
  • ISBN : 9780226850320
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Free to All written by Abigail A. Van Slyck and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-07-20 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Familiar landmarks in hundreds of American towns, Carnegie libraries have shaped the public library experience of generations of Americans and today seen far from controversial. In Free to All, however, Abigail Van Slyck shows that the classical facades and symmetrical plans of these buildings often mask the complex and contentious circumstances of their construction and use.

Book Not Free  Not for All

Download or read book Not Free Not for All written by Cheryl Knott and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Questions of Access -- 1. The Culture of Print in a Context of Racism -- 2. Carnegie Public Libraries for African Americans -- 3. Solidifying Segregation -- 4. Faltering Systems -- 5. Change and Continuity -- 6. Erecting Libraries, Constructing Race -- 7. Books for Black Readers -- 8. Reading the Race-Based Library -- 9. Opening Access -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover

Book Free for All Cooking

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  • Author : Jules E. Dowler Shepard
  • Publisher : Hachette+ORM
  • Release : 2010-10-26
  • ISBN : 0738214205
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Free for All Cooking written by Jules E. Dowler Shepard and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of people suffer from adverse reactions to food. Whether a food allergy, intolerance, or an autoimmune condition like celiac disease, the jury is in: More and more people are sensitive to something in their diets. Now, parents can rejoice—no longer do they need to prepare different meals for different family members based on individual food sensitivities. In Free For All Cooking, gluten-free cooking expert Jules E. Dowler Shepard offers 125 easy and uncompromisingly delicious recipes that are free of major allergen ingredients, including gluten, dairy, nuts, soy, eggs, and more. Full of kid-friendly meals and desserts plus money-saving strategies, Free For All Cooking is an ideal resource for every kitchen.

Book Free for All

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  • Author : Peter Wayner
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-08-23
  • ISBN : 9781537230252
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Free for All written by Peter Wayner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this story of how a loose-knit group of programmers, dreamers, philosophers, geniuses and fools discovered the fact that that they could write better software in less time by just giving it all away. Follow the ecstasy, the triumphs, the battles, the failures, the treachery, the cooperation, the wrong turns, the teamwork, the struggles, and the backbiting on the road to triumph and total global domination. Show Excerpt Blue Screen of Death" that appears on Windows users' monitors when something goes irretrievably wrong is the butt of many jokes. Linux users also bragged about the quality of their desktop interface. Most of the uninitiated thought of Linux as a hacker's system built for nerds. Yet recently two very good operating shells called GNOME and KDE had taken hold. Both offered the user an environment that looked just like Windows but was better. Linux hackers started bragging that they were able to equip their girlfriends, mothers, and friends with Linux boxes without grief. Some people with little computer experience were adopting Linux with little trouble. Building websites and supercomputers is not an easy task, and it is often done in back rooms out of the sight of most people. When people began realizing that the free software hippies had slowly managed to take over a large chunk of the web server and supercomputing world, they realized that perhaps Microsoft's claim was viable. Web servers and su

Book We Are All Perfectly Fine

Download or read book We Are All Perfectly Fine written by Dr. Jillian Horton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we need help, we count on doctors to put us back together. But what happens when doctors fall apart? Funny, fresh, and deeply affecting, We Are All Perfectly Fine is the story of a married mother of three on the brink of personal and professional collapse who attends rehab with a twist: a meditation retreat for burned-out doctors. Jillian Horton, a general internist, has no idea what to expect during her five-day retreat at Chapin Mill, a Zen centre in upstate New York. She just knows she desperately needs a break. At first she is deeply uncomfortable with the spartan accommodations, silent meals and scheduled bonding sessions. But as the group struggles through awkward first encounters and guided meditations, something remarkable happens: world-class surgeons, psychiatrists, pediatricians and general practitioners open up and share stories about their secret guilt and grief, as well as their deep-seated fear of falling short of the expectations that define them. Jillian realizes that her struggle with burnout is not so much personal as it is the result of a larger system failure, and that compartmentalizing your most difficult emotions—a coping strategy that is drilled into doctors—is not useful unless you face these emotions too. Jillian Horton throws open a window onto the flawed system that shapes medical professionals, revealing the rarely acknowledged stresses that lead doctors to depression and suicide, and emphasizing the crucial role of compassion not only in treating others, but also in taking care of ourselves.

Book Free All Along

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  • Author : Stephen Drury Smith
  • Publisher : New Press, The
  • Release : 2019-01-15
  • ISBN : 1595589821
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Free All Along written by Stephen Drury Smith and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in the New Yorker's "Page-Turner" One of Mashable's "17 books every activist should read in 2019" "This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along." —Ralph Ellison, speaking with Robert Penn Warren A stunning collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author In 1964, in the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and poet Robert Penn Warren set out with a tape recorder to interview leaders of the black freedom struggle. He spoke at length with luminaries such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Ralph Ellison, and Roy Wilkins, eliciting reflections and frank assessments of race in America and the possibilities for meaningful change. In Harlem, a fifteen-minute appointment with Malcolm X unwound into several hours of vivid conversation. A year later, Penn Warren would publish Who Speaks for the Negro?, a probing narrative account of these conversations that blended his own reflections with brief excerpts and quotations from his interviews. Astonishingly, the full extent of the interviews remained in the background and were never published. The audiotapes stayed largely unknown until recent years. Free All Along brings to life the vital historic voices of America's civil rights generation, including writers, political activists, religious leaders, and intellectuals. A major contribution to our understanding of the struggle for justice and equality, these remarkable long-form interviews are presented here as original documents that have pressing relevance today.

Book Free from All Error

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  • Author : William George Most
  • Publisher : Marytown Press
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780913382516
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Free from All Error written by William George Most and published by Marytown Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Free for All

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  • Author : Joseph P. Newhouse
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780674318465
  • Pages : 516 pages

Download or read book Free for All written by Joseph P. Newhouse and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most important health insurance study ever conducted researchers at the RAND Corporation devised all experiment to address two key questions in health care financing: how much more medical care will people use if it is provided free of charge, and what are the consequences for their health? For three- or five-year periods the experiment measured both use and health outcomes in populations carefully selected to be representative of both urban and rural regions throughout the United States. Participants were enrolled in a range of insurance plans requiring different levels of copayment for medical care, from zero to 95 percent. The researchers found that in plans that reimbursed a higher proportion of the bill, patients used substantially more services - indeed, those who paid nothing used 40 percent more services than those required to pay a high deductible - but the effect on the health of the average person was negligible. In addition, participants who were assigned at random to a well-established health maintenance organization used hospitals substantially less than those in the fee-for-service system, again with no measurable effect on the health of the average person. This book collects in one place for the first time results previously dispersed through many journals over many years. Drawing comprehensive, coherent conclusions from an immense amount of data, it is destined to be a classic work serving as an invaluable reference for all those concerned with health care policy - health service researchers, policymakers in both the public and the private sectors, and students.

Book Free Money for All

Download or read book Free Money for All written by Mark Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free Money for All makes the case for a basic income guarantee of $10,000 per adult US citizen. The book shows that a basic income guarantee will increase gross national happiness and gross national freedom, while helping to mitigate some of the worst consequences of rising technological unemployment.

Book Hands Free Mama

Download or read book Hands Free Mama written by Rachel Macy Stafford and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the power, joy, and love of living a present, authentic, and intentional life despite a world full of distractions. If technology is the new addiction, then multitasking is the new marching order. We check our email while cooking dinner, send a text while bathing the kids, and spend more time looking into electronic screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. With our never-ending to-do lists and jam-packed schedules, it's no wonder we're distracted. But this isn't the way it has to be. Special education teacher, New York Times bestselling author, and mother Rachel Macy Stafford says enough is enough. Tired of losing track of what matters most in life, Rachel began practicing simple strategies that enabled her to momentarily let go of largely meaningless distractions and engage in meaningful soul-to-soul connections. Finding balance doesn't mean giving up all technology forever. And it doesn't mean forgoing our jobs and responsibilities. What it does mean is seizing the little moments that life offers us to engage in real and meaningful interaction. In these pages, Rachel guides you through how to: Acknowledge the cost of your distraction Make purposeful connection with your family Give your kids the gift of your undivided attention Silence your inner critic Let go of the guilt from past mistakes And move forward with compassion and gratefulness So join Rachel and go hands-free. Discover what happens when you choose to open your heart--and your hands--to the possibilities of each God-given moment.

Book The Best of Free for All

Download or read book The Best of Free for All written by Brett Merhar and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay Zeeman is popular, good-looking, and rich. He gladly takes all life has to offer--and then some. Occasionally, though, even that's not enough, and the scheming rich kid sets off to liven things up, much to the dismay of his naIve pal, Jonny. Jonny is the nice guy who doesn't always finish last but somehow never manages to finish first either. For Jonny, a day at community college followed by a rousing game of foosball with his grandmother is all the adventure he needs. But as the best friend and fall guy of Clay Zeeman, Jonny leads anything but a dull life. Luckily, Jonny has Paula, who's always been like a protective big sister. Backing up this troublesome trio is Angus the ferret, addicted to caffeine due to his time in a caffeine research laboratory. Together, Clay and his pals get themselves into utterly ridiculous situations. For example, there's the ominous threat of Bill Gates detonating a bomb implanted into Jonny's skull and the possibility of Oprah Winfrey eliminating the Jerry Springer show. In memory of artist Brett Merhar, The Best of Free for All is a collection of his comic best, intended to make you laugh and fondly remember an imaginative man who died much too young.

Book Dare to Speak

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  • Author : Suzanne Nossel
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-07-28
  • ISBN : 0062966065
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Dare to Speak written by Suzanne Nossel and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A must read."—Margaret Atwood A vital, necessary playbook for navigating and defending free speech today by the CEO of PEN America, Dare To Speak provides a pathway for promoting free expression while also cultivating a more inclusive public culture. Online trolls and fascist chat groups. Controversies over campus lectures. Cancel culture versus censorship. The daily hazards and debates surrounding free speech dominate headlines and fuel social media storms. In an era where one tweet can launch—or end—your career, and where free speech is often invoked as a principle but rarely understood, learning to maneuver the fast-changing, treacherous landscape of public discourse has never been more urgent. In Dare To Speak, Suzanne Nossel, a leading voice in support of free expression, delivers a vital, necessary guide to maintaining democratic debate that is open, free-wheeling but at the same time respectful of the rich diversity of backgrounds and opinions in a changing country. Centered on practical principles, Nossel’s primer equips readers with the tools needed to speak one’s mind in today’s diverse, digitized, and highly-divided society without resorting to curbs on free expression. At a time when free speech is often pitted against other progressive axioms—namely diversity and equality—Dare To Speak presents a clear-eyed argument that the drive to create a more inclusive society need not, and must not, compromise robust protections for free speech. Nossel provides concrete guidance on how to reconcile these two sets of core values within universities, on social media, and in daily life. She advises readers how to: Use language conscientiously without self-censoring ideas; Defend the right to express unpopular views; And protest without silencing speech. Nossel warns against the increasingly fashionable embrace of expanded government and corporate controls over speech, warning that such strictures can reinforce the marginalization of lesser-heard voices. She argues that creating an open market of ideas demands aggressive steps to remedy exclusion and ensure equal participation. Replete with insightful arguments, colorful examples, and salient advice, Dare To Speak brings much-needed clarity and guidance to this pressing—and often misunderstood—debate.

Book Free as a Bird

Download or read book Free as a Bird written by Lina Maslo and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring true story of Malala Yousafzai, human rights activist and the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, from debut author/illustrator Lina Maslo. Celebrate the power of one young woman speaking up for change with Free as a Bird. This beautiful nonfiction picture book is perfect for sharing at home or in the classroom. When Malala Yousafzai was born, some people shook their heads because girls were considered bad luck. But her father looked into her eyes and knew she could do anything. In Pakistan, some believed girls should not be educated. But Malala and her father were not afraid. She secretly went to school and spoke up for education in her country. And even though an enemy tried to silence her powerful voice, she would not keep quiet. Malala traveled around the world to speak to girls and boys, to teachers, reporters, presidents, and queens—to anyone who would listen—and advocated for the right to education and equality of opportunity for every person. She would shout so that those without a voice could be heard. So everyone could be as free as a bird. Free as a Bird is the inspiring true story of a fearless girl and the father who taught her to soar. A unique way to celebrate the power of a young woman, and to honor a father who strives to let his daughter shine.