Mean Time
10 best books like Mean Time (Carol Ann Duffy): The Greengage Summer, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present, Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet, Enron, The Whitsun Weddings, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays, The Carrying: Poems, Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years, Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact On American Society
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover;...
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
| Author | Ronald Takaki |
| ISBN | 0316831115 |
"A Different Mirror" is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America. In a lively account filled with the stories and voices of people previously left out of the historical canon, Ronald...
| Author | Jacqueline A. Jones |
| ISBN | 0394744144 |
Professor Jacqueline Jones presents the extensively researched history of the dual working worlds of black American women–at home and in the workforce–from slavery to present. She highlights the ways in which the unique cultural history of slavery as well as being subject to both sexism and...
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
| Author | Xinran |
| ISBN | 0385515480 |
It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of...
One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became reviled figures from the financial scandal of the century, with...
| Author | Philip Larkin |
| ISBN | 0571097103 |
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes...
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
| Author | June Jordan |
| ISBN | 0465036937 |
"She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' " -Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle
Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. The essays in this collection, which include her last writings and span the length...
| Author | Ada Limon |
| ISBN | 1571315128 |
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.
Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the...
Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
| Author | Haynes Johnson |
| ISBN | 0393324346 |
National bestseller: In this brilliantly readable book, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist chronicles the Reagan decade, when America fell from dominant world power to struggling debtor nation and when optimism turned to foreboding. In human terms and living case histories, Haynes Johnson...
Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact On American Society
| Author | Michael Schudson |
| ISBN | 0465000800 |
Michael Schudson grew up in Milwaukee, Wisc. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard. He taught at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1980 and at the University of California, San Diego from 1980 to 2009. From 2005 on, he split his teaching between UCSD...
