Flight as a metaphor in Ross' "Blackbird Rising" Not a single episode in Buffalo's 186 years history has inspired more speculative prose in 1901 as the Pan American Exposition of presenting to the city six months unworldly Gambit on the world stage that was intended to Buffalo – then the nation's eighth largest city – As a rising industrial city of the 20th Century.
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Babyface/For The Cool In You $4.24 In a rhythm and blues era when not just rappers but most singers as well try to outdo each other with the biggest beats, the roughest vocals, and the rawest attitudes, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds swims against the tide on For the Cool in You, a collection of understated, satiny romantic soul. It’s a big gamble, for such an evocation of Smokey Robinson’s “Quiet Storm” in 1993 invites charges of wimpin… |
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Pentel Color Pen Set, Set of 36 Assorted Colors (S360-36) $17.93 Fiber-tipped color pens with water-based ink are ideal for graphs charts maps and presentations. Also includes book-style case. Marker Type: Art Assortment: N/A Color(s): Assorted Tip Type: Fine.Unit of Measure : Set… |
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Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will $9.72 In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor’s method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor’s argument. Fate, Time, and Language presents … |
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The World’s Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 $14.44 This exceptional chronicle takes readers on a visual tour of the glittering “white city” that emerged along the swampy south shore of Lake Michigan as a symbol of Chicago’s rebirth and pride twenty-two years after the Great Fire. The World’s Columbian Exposition, which commemorated the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ voyage to America, was held from April to October in 1893. The monumental event we… |
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The British Slave Trade and Public Memory $25.62 How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions in her study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. Skillfully i… |
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