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Kathryn Shevelow
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For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement
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2008
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Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World
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2005
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Women & Print Culture: Constructing Femininity in the Early Periodical
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Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and W
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For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement
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2009
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Eat, Pray, Love
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| She writes very well, and there's something appealing about her search for meaning in her life--hence this book's great popularity--but the more I read, the more contrived and manufactured I found it, and that made me dislike it. | |
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| Brown has a very lively and smart prose style, and for all that we've heard the story of Diana's life over and over, she tells it in a fresh and fascinating way, and for people like me, who haven't read any of the other Diana books, this contains new...more | |
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For the Love of Animals radio interview
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June 26, 2008 11:06AM
location: WILL-AM/Public Radio, Urbana, IL, The United States description: This will be approximately a 45 minute interview concerning my new book, For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement. There will be opportunities for listeners to call in and ask me questions. |
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Introducing Bert Williams: Burnt Cork, Broadway, and the Story of America's First Black Star
by Camille Forbes
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| A fascinating story about a late 19th- / early 20th-century black performer--"America's first black star"--which is both well-researched and very well told. Camille Forbes opens up the glamorous but also precarious and fraught world of early vaudevil...more | |
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| I loved this biography--I don't often read Hollywood bios, but this one was fascinating for its account of the Hollywood world that Hepburn belonged to. But what I found most fascinating was the story of Kate's earlier history, with her feminist moth...more | |
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| This is a very important book for anyone concerned with the ethics of the food we eat, particularly meat. I admire Michael Pollan's work--I think he has performed an incredibly important public service in alerting many people to the serious issues co...more | |
