Download or read book Boy the Window written by Donald Earl Collins and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a preteen Black male growing up in Mount Vernon, New York, there were a series of moments, incidents and wounds that caused me to retreat inward in despair and escape into a world of imagination. For five years I protected my family secrets from authority figures, affluent Whites and middle class Blacks while attending an unforgiving gifted-track magnet school program that itself was embroiled in suburban drama. It was my imagination that shielded me from the slights of others, that enabled my survival and academic success. It took everything I had to get myself into college and out to Pittsburgh, but more was in store before I could finally begin to break from my past. "Boy @ The Window" is a coming-of-age story about the universal search for understanding on how any one of us becomes the person they are despite-or because of-the odds. It's a memoir intertwined with my own search for redemption, trust, love, success-for a life worth living. "Boy @ The Window" is about one of the most important lessons of all: what it takes to overcome inhumanity in order to become whole and human again.
Download or read book Stamp of Approval written by Anne Marie Rodgers and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As summer arrives, Mary and her sisters, Elizabeth and Martha, investigate the mystery of a valuable stamp that vanishes. Meanwhile, they also prepare for a family reunion, and try to create a milkweed preserve for the monarch butterflies.
Download or read book Confessions of a Bookseller written by Shaun Bythell and published by Godine+ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny memoir of a year in the life of a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. Inside a Georgian townhouse on the Wigtown highroad, jammed with more than 100,000 books and a portly cat named Captain, Shaun Bythell manages the daily ups and downs of running Scotland’s largest used bookshop with a sharp eye and even sharper wit. His account of one year behind the counter is something no book lover should miss. Shaun drives to distant houses to buy private libraries, meditates on the nature of independent bookstores (“There really does seem to be a serendipity about bookshops, not just with finding books you never knew existed, or that you’ve been searching for, but with people too.”), and, of course, finds books for himself because he’s a reader, too. The next best thing to visiting your favorite bookstore (shop cat not included), Confessions of a Bookseller is a warm and welcome memoir of a life in books. It’s for any reader looking for the kind of friend you meet in a bookstore. Praise for Shaun Bythell and Confessions of a Bookseller “Something of Bythell’s curmudgeonly charm may be glimpsed in the slogan he scribbles on his shop’s blackboard: “Avoid social interaction: always carry a book.” —The Washington Post “Bythell’s wicked pen and keen eye for the absurd recall what comic Ricky Gervais might say if he ran a bookshop.” —The Wall Street Journal “Irascibly droll and sometimes elegiac, this is an engaging account of bookstore life from the vanishing front lines of the brick-and-mortar retail industry. Bighearted, sobering, and humane.” —Kirkus Reviews “Amusing and often cantankerous stories [that] bibliophiles will delight in, and occasionally wince at.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Mekeel s Stamp Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Stamp Finder Tells at a Glance the Country to Which Any Stamp Belongs and Where to Place It in Your Album The Collector s Dictionary written by Anon. and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stamp Finder' is a vintage handbook for stamp collectors, providing information on the country to which the stamp belongs and where to place it in your album. Also contained is a collectors' dictionary, explaining the words, phrases, and abbreviations used by stamp collectors. This volume will appeal to collectors of old stamps, and it will also be of utility to antiques dealers. Contents include: 'Stamp Treasures', 'The Stories of Some Stamps that Are Worth Fortunes', 'British Guiana 1856', 'Mauritius 1847', 'Spain 1851', 'British Guiana 1850', 'Baden 1851', 'Hawaii 1851', 'United States 1845-47', 'How to Use the Stamp Finder', 'Meaning of the Symbols', etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with the original text and images.
Download or read book Stamp of Approval written by Alyson Shaw and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STAMP OF APPROVAL When Paul returned her to her home later that evening they discovered the house had been broken into. The place had been ransacked, everything was in a shambles. Then to make matters worse Terri discovered the note on the kitchen table. The letters pasted on the scrap of paper had been cut from newspapers and magazines. It read: YOU HAVE SOMETHING I WANT AND I MEAN TO HAVE IT! ILL BE BACK. COUNT ON IT!
Download or read book The American Philatelist written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House Bills of House of Delegates of the State of West Virginia for the Regular and Extraordinary Sessions written by West Virginia. Legislature. House of Delegates and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Stamp written by Laura Goldblatt and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country’s history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp collecting a widespread hobby and made stamps into consumer goods in their own right. Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. They argue that postage stamps, which are both devices to pay for a government service and purchasable items themselves, embody a crucial tension: is democracy defined by political agency or the freedom to buy? The changing images and uses of stamps reveal how governmental authorities have attempted to navigate between public service and businesslike efficiency, belonging and exclusion, citizenship and consumerism. Stamps are vehicles for state messaging, and what they depict is tied up with broader questions of what it means to be American. Goldblatt and Handler combine historical, sociological, and iconographic analysis of a vast quantity of stamps with anthropological exploration of how postal customers and stamp collectors behave. At the crossroads of several disciplines, this book casts the symbolic and material meanings of stamps in a wholly new light.
Download or read book The Postage Stamp written by Frederick John Melville and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Don t be Fooled written by Jan Bransen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author argues that the rise of behavioural sciences has caused a sea change in the relationship between science and common sense. He shows how - as recently as the 1960s - common sense and science were allies in the battle against ignorance, but that since then populism and chauvinism have claimed common sense as their own. Bransen argues that common sense is a collection of interrelated skills that draw on both an automatic pilot and an investigative attitude where we ask ourselves the right questions. It is the very attitude of open-minded inquiry and questioning that Bransen believes we are at risk of losing in the face of an army of experts."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book United Stamp Company Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Stamp of Approval written by Keling Moseley Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philatelic Journal of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio written by Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stamp collector s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
