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• The child who never cried
• I'll do it
• Sound, please
• I was grey
• At home
• Fake it
• Oh dear
• I am typed
• Good evening
• Birds and beasts
• Back to basics.

"Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films: Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. In [this book], Peter Ackroyd wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot,"--Amazon.com.
Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition-- Hitchcock's childhood was an isolated one. As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. Ackroyd reveals a jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. The result is a gripping biography of one of the most respected directors of the twentieth century.

• Warehouse white noise
• The "Palm Springs of Washington"
• Ganas in Carver Country
• Getting out
• Walla Walla walkabouts
• Cold feet
• The arrival
• Tree noodles
• "Indian time"
• La Cruz de Campos
• Glacier dip
• Washington gray
• Goldendale
• An X-Man
• Apache medicine
• Cougar country
• City-slicker natives
• Tlaloc in L.A.
• Southern fire
• Main in the maze
• Running the wrong way
• The devil's coffin
• El chapito
• Deer runners
• Chihuahua
• Touch of treasure
• The rebirth story
• Nayarit
• Mangoes
• Santo coyote
• Hardware store
• Weaving words
• The flying men of Teotihuacán
• Descending eagle
• Oaxaca
• Zapatistas : rebel country
• Acteal
• Guatemala
• Old orchard
• Today

"Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear--dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion--but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, Álvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents' migration, and--against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit--the dream of a liberated future."--Amazon.com

"A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault's own family. Years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid for that seemingly secure childhood. The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town's economic, moral, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe, earning the area the nickname "Cancer Valley." In Mill Town, Arsenault undertakes an excavation of a collective past, sifting through historical archives and scientific reports, talking to family and neighbors, and examining her own childhood to present a portrait of a community that illuminates not only the ruin of her hometown and the collapse of the working-class of America, but also the hazards of both living in and leaving home, and the silences we are all afraid to violate. In exquisite prose, Arsenault explores the corruption of bodies: the human body, bodies of water, and governmental bodies, and what it's like to come from a place you love but doesn't always love you back"-- Provided by publisher

• The idea : free as the air
• Get thee to a lawyer
• The eye of the tiger
• The general manager : an unsung hero
• Securing the rights
• In pursuit of the Holy Trinity
• Collaboration : a conspiracy among artists
• The authors' collaboration agreement
• Royalty pools
• Enter amortization : new twists in the royalty pool
• Workshops : their use and abuse
• The approved production contract
• Not-for-profit theaters vs. the commercial theater : an uneasy alliance born of necessity
• What's a commercial hit? (or, I don't know it when I see it!)
• Finding the money : a gathering of angels
• The director and choreographers
• The designers
• The producer's deal
• Auditions and casting
• The star
• A tale of two divas
• Getting a theater
• A theater mystery
• The British invasion
• Rehearsals and previews
• Advertising, marketing, and press
• Catharsis : opening night
• The opening night party
• The choices we make.

What does a producer actually do? How does one travel from that great idea for a show to a smash hit opening night on Broadway? John Breglio cannot guarantee you a hit, but he does take the reader on a fascinating journey behind the curtains where he himself once stood as a child, dreaming about the theatre. Part memoir, part handbook, Behind the Curtains is a road map to the hows and wherefores, the dos and don'ts of producing a Broadway play, written by a Broadway veteran with more than 40 years of experience. This comprehensive and highly informative book features practical analysis and concepts for the producer and is filled with entertaining anecdotes from Breglio's illustrious career as a leading theatrical lawyer and producer.

• Introduction : The Burton stakes
• Dybbuks and golems
• To sell another drink
• Premise envy
• Don't act it funny
• It all started in the alley
• The Citizen Kane of disaffected youth
• Icarus was falling
• We must work together
• No new worlds to conquer
• Can I get a wild take?
• Caviar for the general
• A means to egress
• Like church, but a fun church
• Making friends with death
• Coda : That guru thing.

"An up-close and personal portrait of legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian Mike Nichols, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts-from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels"-- Provided by publisher.

• Chazon Ish
• Chofetz Chaim
• Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
• Rabbi Yoself Schlomo Kahaneman--Ponovitz
• Rabbis Chaim and Yitzak Zev Soloveitchik--Brisk
• Addendum A. Daas Torah
• Addendum B. Beard court case
• Addendum C. Chasidim and Litvish about the beard and shaving
• Addendum D. Vaad HaYeshivos 1924-1939

A continuation of Rabbi Chaim Dalfin's study of Jewish personalities and movements, Chabad and Gedolim tells the story of Jewish Torah scholars Chazon Ish, Chofetz Chaim, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Yoself Schlomo Kahaneman of Ponovitz, Reb Chaim and Reb Yitzak Zev Soloveitchik of Brisk

• History and philosophy
• Mir Roshei Yeshiva and Mashgichim
• Chabad Roshei Yeshiva and Mashpi'im
• Vilna-Shanghai
• Do the communities get along today?-- Addendum A. Mussar in Mir
• Addendum B. History of Mir
• Addendum C. memories of Mir 1935-1938 / Rabbi Dr. Theodore Lewis

A continuation of Rabbi Chaim Dalfin's study of Jewish personalities and movements, Chabad and Mir explores the history of Mir Yeshiva

Anecdotes of Hasan Ferdous, journalist from Bangladesh, chiefly about his association with New York

This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a secret city during the Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge enriched the uranium that powered Little Boy, the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. The city was a major nuclear production site throughout the Cold War, adding something to each and every bomb in the United States arsenal. Even today, Oak Ridge contains the world's largest supply of fissionable uranium. The granddaughter of an atomic courier, Lindsey A. Freeman turns a critical yet nostalgic eye to the place where her family was sent as part of a covert government plan. Theirs was a city devoted to nuclear science within a larger America obsessed with its nuclear prowess. Through memories, mysterious photographs, and uncanny childhood toys, she shows how Reagan-era politics and nuclear culture irradiated the late twentieth century. Alternately tender and alarming, her book takes a Geiger counter to recent history, reading the half-life of the atomic past as it resonates in our tense nuclear present.
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• Artículos de divulgación
• Ensayos
• Autobiografía
• Creación: relato, cuento, poemas
• Historias perdidas en la arena

• Phillis Wheatley
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Rebecca Lee Crumpler
• Mary Bowser
• Mary Eliza Mahoney
• Charlotte E. Ray
• Ida B. Wells
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Alma Woodsey Thomas
• Alice Ball
• Bessie Coleman
• Augusta Savage
• Marian Anderson
• Josephine Baker
• Mahalia Jackson
• Rosa Parks
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Mamie Phipps Clark
• Katherine Johnson
• Shirley Chisholm
• Althea Gibson
• Maya Angelou
• Nichelle Nichols
• Nina Simone
• Audre Lorde
• Raven Wilkinson
• Wilma Rudolph
• Marcelite Harris
• Angela Davis
• Octavia E. Butler
• Julie Dash
• Ruby Bridges
• Oprah Winfrey
• Gwen Ifill
• Dr. Mae Jemison
• Florence Joyner
• Lorna Simpson
• Dominique Dawes
• More little leaders.

Based on her popular Instagram posts, debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison shares the stories of 40 bold African American women who shaped history.