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10 best books like Hollywood (Gore Vidal): The Children of Sánchez, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People, Please Don't Call Me Human, The Past and the Punishments, The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, In Search of the Big Bang, Drawing Ideas: A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design, The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius, LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour

The Children of Sánchez
AuthorOscar Lewis
ISBN0394702808
A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sánchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published.
 
It is the epic story of the Sánchez family, told...
The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
AuthorOscar Handlin
ISBN0316343137
The Uprooted is a rare book, combining powerful feeling and long-time study to give us the shape and the feel of the immigrant experience rather than just the facts. It elucidates the hopes and the yearnings of the immigrants that propelled them out of their native environments to chance the hazards...
Please Don't Call Me Human
AuthorWang Shuo
ISBN0887274129
Contemporary Chinese writer Wang Shuo, widely celebrated for revealing the "dark corners of new China" (Newsweek), applies his genius for cultural irreverence to one of the world's sacred rituals: the Olympic Games. In Please Don't Call Me Human, he imagines an Olympics where nations compete not...
The Past and the Punishments
AuthorYu Hua
ISBN0824818172
To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify.



It...
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
AuthorCecil Woodham-Smith
ISBN0140012788
Nothing in British campaign history has ever equalled the tragic farce that was the Charge of the Light Brigade. In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn...
The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922
AuthorDonald Quataert
ISBN0521547822
The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines...
In Search of the Big Bang
AuthorJohn Gribbin
ISBN0552131466
Originally written in 1986 and substantially updated in 1998, Gribben's telling of the tale is once again an excellent read. Trained as a physicist, he became a full-time science writer within a few years of receiving his PhD. Good for us he did. He takes difficult material and makes it understandable...
Drawing Ideas: A Hand-Drawn Approach for Better Design
AuthorMark Baskinger
A primer for design professionals across all disciplines that helps them create compelling and original concept designs by hand--as opposed to on the computer--in order to foster collaboration and win clients.  In today's design world, technology for expressing ideas is pervasive; CAD models...
The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
AuthorJennifer George
Not many of us make it into the dictionary as an adjective. But then again, Rube Goldberg was no ordinary noun. He was a cartoonist, humorist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor, and in a 72-year career he wrote and illustrated nearly 50,000 cartoons. Goldberg (1883–1970) was the most famous...
LZ-'75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin's 1975 American Tour
AuthorStephen Davis
ISBN1592405894
A revealing account of Led Zepplin's 1975 North American tour including all- new interviews with-and insider information about-the band, from the bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods.

As a young music journalist in 1975, Stephen Davis got the opportunity of a lifetime: an invitation...
LBJ: The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination
AuthorPhillip F. Nelson
ISBN1453503013
Lyndon B. Johnson's flawed personality and character traits were formed when he was a child, and - through his primary enablers, his mother and his wife - grew unchecked for the rest of his life as he suffered severe bouts of manic-depressive illness. The people-manipulation skills he learned at his...
Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain
AuthorMarty Appel
ISBN0385522312
Our captain and leader has not left us, today, tomorrow, this year, next ? Our endeavors will reflect our love and admiration for him.??Honorary plaque to Munson in Yankee StadiumThurman Munson is remembered by fans as the fiercely competitive, tough, and?most of all?inspiring Yankee captain and...
Stan Lee's How to Draw Comics: From the Legendary Co-Creator of Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Iron Man
AuthorStan Lee
ISBN0823000834
In Stan Lee's How to Draw Comics, Stan Lee reveals his secrets for:

* Costumes * Penciling, Inking & Coloring * Lettering & Word Balloons
* Digital Advances * Perspective & Foreshortening * What Makes Great Action * Page & Panel Layout * Covers * Creating a Portfolio * Getting...
Generation of Vipers
AuthorPhilip Wylie
ISBN1564781461
As a radicalized college student in the late 60's, a creative writing instructor pointed this book out to me. It had the intended effect 0n me: there is nothing new to rebel against... It was still the same culture then, (as it still is now in 2012) We are still a loose knit society, saying one thing... Doing...
Something Wicked This Way Comes: The Authorized Adaptation
AuthorRon Wimberly
ISBN0809080443
Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show howls into Green Town, Illinois, at three in the morning a week before Halloween. Under its carnival tents is a mirror maze that steals wishes; a carousel that promises eternal life, in exchange for your soul; the Dust Witch, who unerringly foresees your death;...
Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever
AuthorTim Wendel
ISBN0306820188
The extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season—when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams From the beginning, ’68 was a season rocked by national tragedy and sweeping change. Opening Day was postponed and later played in the shadow of Martin...
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle
AuthorClayborne Carson
ISBN0140154035
A record of the American civil rights movement. Included are speeches by Martin Luther King Jr, and his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail", an interview with Rosa Parks, selections from "Malcolm X Speaks"; Black Panther Bobby Seale's "Seize the Time", a piece by Herman Badillo on the infamous Attica...
Chain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie
AuthorGunnar Hansen
ISBN1452114498
When The Texas Chain Saw Massacre first hit movie screens in 1974 it was both reviled and championed. To critics, it was either "a degrading, senseless misuse of film and time" or "an intelligent, absorbing and deeply disturbing horror film." However it was an immediate hit with audiences. Banned and...
The Life of Isaac Newton
AuthorRichard S. Westfall
ISBN0521477379
One of the greatest scientists of all time, Isaac Newton left a body of work that marked the culmination of the Scientific Revolution, the intellectual transformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that ushered in the era of modern science. In The Life of Isaac Newton, Richard Westfall...
The Journals of Spalding Gray
AuthorSpalding Gray
ISBN0307273458
Riveting, funny, heartbreaking, at once raw and lyrical: these journals reveal the complexity of the actor/writer who invented the autobiographical monologue and perfected the form in such celebrated works as Swimming to Cambodia.

Here is the first intimate portrait we have of the man...
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths
AuthorGlenn Reynolds
ISBN1595550542
There are probably interesting things to say about how technology is empowering people to do things only previously available to the rich and mega-corporations. Unfortunately, this book is not really about those things. Reynolds takes what he sees day-to-day, which is the upper-middle class bloggers...
Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition
AuthorEleanor Flexner
ISBN0674106539
Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.

"The book you...
Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball and America in the Swinging '70s
AuthorDan Epstein
ISBN0312607547
The Bronx Is Burning meets Chuck Klosterman in this wild pop-culture history of baseball's most colorful and controversial decade

The Major Leagues witnessed more dramatic stories and changes in the '70s than in any other era. The American popular culture and counterculture collided...
La de Bringas
AuthorBenito Pérez Galdós
ISBN8437604257
La de Bringas está considerada, junto con La Regenta de Clarín, como una de las mejores novelas del siglo XIX español y es una especie de Madame Bovary. Cuenta la historia de una mujer de la burguesía española con buenas relaciones sociales -el marido forma parte de la burocracia de Palacio- pero...
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
AuthorBarbara Ehrenreich
ISBN0805057870
An ALA Notable Book
A New York Times Notable Book

In Blood Rites, Barbara Ehrenreich confronts the mystery of the human attraction to violence: What draws our species to war and even makes us see it as a kind of sacred undertaking? Blood Rites takes us on an original journey from the elaborate...
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