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Rebel Bookseller
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Author : Andrew Laties
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-07-19
Rebel Bookseller written by Andrew Laties and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-19 with Business & Economics categories.
The revival of independent bookselling has already begun and is one of the amazing stories of our times. Bookseller Andy Laties wrote the first edition of Rebel Bookseller six years ago, hoping it would spark a movement. Now, with this second edition, Laties’s book can be a rallying cry for everyone who wants to better understand how the rise of the big bookstore chains led irrevocably to their decline, and how even in the face of electronic readers from three of America’s largest and most successful companies—Apple, Amazon, and Google—the movement to support locally owned independent stores, especially bookstores, is on the rise. From the mid-1980s to the present, Andy Laties has been an independent bookseller, starting out in Chicago, teaching along the way at the American Booksellers Association, and finally running the bookshop at the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. His innovations were adapted by Barnes & Noble, Zany Brainy, and scores of independent stores. In Rebel Bookseller, Laties tells how he got started, how he kept going, and why he believes independent bookselling has a great future. He alternates his narrative with short anecdotes, interludes between the chapters that give his credo as a bookseller. Along the way, he explains the growth of the chains, and throws in a treasure trove of tips for anyone who is considering opening up a bookstore. Rebel Bookseller is a must read for those in the book biz, a testament to the ingeniousness of one man man’s story of making a life out of his passionate commitment to books and bookselling.
Son Of Rebel Bookseller
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Author : Andrew Laties
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-17
Son Of Rebel Bookseller written by Andrew Laties and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
This celebration of Samuel Laties braids his visionary and humorous fiction, poetry, and essays together with Andrew Laties' reminiscences-along with the tale of Andy's struggle to invest Sam's death with meaning by rescuing a legendary bookstore. In counterpoint, son and father explore the transcendent power of imagination.
Rebel Without A Clue
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Author : Holly Uyemoto
language : en
Publisher:
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Rebel Without A Clue written by Holly Uyemoto and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Radical Bookstore
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Author : Kimberley Kinder
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2021-03-16
The Radical Bookstore written by Kimberley Kinder and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-16 with Business & Economics categories.
Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements How does social change happen? It requires an identified problem, an impassioned and committed group, a catalyst, and a plan. In this deeply researched consideration of seventy-seven stores and establishments, Kimberley Kinder argues that activists also need autonomous space for organizing, and that these spaces are made, not found. She explores the remarkably enduring presence of radical bookstores in America and how they provide infrastructure for organizing—gathering places, retail offerings that draw new people into what she calls “counterspaces.” Kinder focuses on brick-and-mortar venues where owners approach their businesses primarily as social movement tools. These may be bookstores, infoshops, libraries, knowledge cafes, community centers, publishing collectives, thrift stores, or art installations. They are run by activist-entrepreneurs who create centers for organizing and selling books to pay the rent. These spaces allow radical and contentious ideas to be explored and percolate through to actual social movements, and serve as crucibles for activists to challenge capitalism, imperialism, white privilege, patriarchy, and homophobia. They also exist within a central paradox: participating in the marketplace creates tensions, contradictions, and shortfalls. Activist retail does not end capitalism; collective ownership does not enable a retreat from civic requirements like zoning; and donations, no matter how generous, do not offset the enormous power of corporations and governments. In this timely and relevant book, Kinder presents a necessary, novel, and apt analysis of the role these retail spaces play in radical organizing, one that demonstrates how such durable hubs manage to persist, often for decades, between the spikes of public protest.
Henry Knox S Noble Train
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Author : William Hazelgrove
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-05-12
Henry Knox S Noble Train written by William Hazelgrove and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-12 with History categories.
The inspiring story of a little-known hero's pivotal role in the American Revolutionary WarDuring the brutal winter of 1775-1776, an untested Boston bookseller named Henry Knox commandeered an oxen train hauling sixty tons of cannons and other artillery from Fort Ticonderoga near the Canadian border. He and his men journeyed some three hundred miles south and east over frozen, often-treacherous terrain to supply George Washington for his attack of British troops occupying Boston. The result was the British surrender of Boston and the first major victory for the Colonial Army. This is one of the great stories of the American Revolution, still little known by comparison with the more famous battles of Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill. Told with a novelist's feel for narrative, character, and vivid description, The Noble Train brings to life the events and people at a time when the ragtag American rebels were in a desperate situation. Washington's army was withering away from desertion and expiring enlistments. Typhoid fever, typhus, and dysentery were taking a terrible toll. There was little hope of dislodging British General Howe and his 20,000 British troops in Boston—until Henry Knox arrived with his supply convoy of heavy armaments. Firing down on the city from the surrounding Dorchester Heights, these weapons created a decisive turning point. An act of near desperation fueled by courage, daring, and sheer tenacity led to a tremendous victory for the cause of independence.This exciting tale of daunting odds and undaunted determination highlights a pivotal episode that changed history.
The Feminist Bookstore Movement
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Author : Kristen Hogan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-08
The Feminist Bookstore Movement written by Kristen Hogan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Social Science categories.
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this story—mostly lesbians and including women of color—measured their success not by profit, but by developing theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability. At bookstores like BookWoman in Austin, the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, and Old Wives’ Tales in San Francisco, and in the essential Feminist Bookstore News, bookwomen changed people’s lives and the world. In retelling their stories, Hogan not only shares the movement's tools with contemporary queer antiracist feminist activists and theorists, she gives us a vocabulary, strategy, and legacy for thinking through today's feminisms.
Rebel Without A Clue
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Author : Holly Uyemoto
language : en
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Release Date : 1989
Rebel Without A Clue written by Holly Uyemoto and has been published by Crown Publishing Group (NY) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Fiction categories.
A 19-year-old narrates the novel concerning his best friend with AIDS in an affluent society of casual sex and drugs.
Living Ur Sonata
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Author : Andrew Laties
language : en
Publisher: Mythoprint Publishing
Release Date : 2023-07-01
Living Ur Sonata written by Andrew Laties and has been published by Mythoprint Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-01 with Art categories.
LIVING UR SONATA reveals the transcendent truth of Kurt Schwitters' 1920s epic of nonsense. The Nazis burned Ur Sonata and mocked Schwitters' visionary art as degenerate. Today widely performed, Ur Sonata inspires us to reject nationalism and overcome language barriers to embrace our common humanity. With urgency and humor, Andrew Laties brings tales of Kurt Schwitters' dramatic life into resonance with stories of Laties' own forty years performing, encouraging readers to seize the hour and sing along with Ur Sonata. Includes full text of Ur Sonata.
Rebel Women Between The Wars
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Author : Sarah Lonsdale
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-27
Rebel Women Between The Wars written by Sarah Lonsdale and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with History categories.
What did it mean to be a ‘rebel woman’ in the interwar years? Taking the form of a multiple biography, this book traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of ‘fearlessly determined’ women who stopped at nothing to make their mark in the traditionally masculine environments of mountaineering, politics, engineering and journalism. From the motorist Claudia Parsons to the ‘star’ reporter Margaret Lane, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley and the journalist Shiela Grant Duff, the women charted in this book challenged the status quo in all walks of life, alongside writing vivid, eye-witness accounts of their adventures. Recovering their voices across a range of texts including novels, poems, journalism and diaries, Rebel women between the wars reveals their inch by inch gains won through courageous and sometimes controversial and dangerous actions.
In Search Of Appalachia
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Author : Nancy Brown Diggs
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-12-10
In Search Of Appalachia written by Nancy Brown Diggs and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-10 with Social Science categories.
After writing extensively about different cultures, Nancy Brown Diggs chose to focus on one closer to her own, the Appalachian, and was surprised to learn that it is her own—and quite different from the image conveyed by the media. Rich in anecdotes and interviews that bring her research to life, this book offers a study of Appalachians today and explores what they are truly like, and why, concluding that is a culture to be celebrated, not denigrated.