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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

By Lisa See

Vintage
Released: 1996-08-27
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Out of the stories heard in her childhood in Los Angeles's Chinatown and years of research, See has constructed this sweeping chronicle of her Chinese-American family, a work that takes in stories of racism and romance, entrepreneurial genius and domestic heartache, secret marriages and sibling rivalries, in a powerful history of two cultures meeting in a new world. 82 photos.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

By Jane Jacobs

Vintage
Released: 1992-12-01
Paperback (458 pages)

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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.

Quicksheet Citing Online Historical Resources

By Elizabeth Shown Mills

Genealogical Publishing Company
Pamphlet (4 pages)

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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir

By William Zinsser

Mariner Books
Paperback (240 pages)

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Every time Inventing the Truth appears in a new edition, editor William Zinsser can't help but add to it. The first edition (1987) evolved from a series of New York Public Library talks, for which the mandate was not to lecture about the genre of the memoir but to explain how a specific memoir came to be written. In the book's 1995 edition, Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, and Toni Morrison were joined by Jill Ker Conway, Eileen Simpson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and Ian Frazier. This time around, Zinsser has added a rich and charming reminiscence by Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes).

The authors do stick to their assignment: Russell Baker credits his huge family with helping him "learn a lot about humanity from close-up observation"; Jill Ker Conway talks about her desire to write a female memoir that was not a romantic happily-ever-after; and Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses "want[ing] to write a book that imitated the specialness of black culture when no white people are around." But there is also plenty of advice for writers here, and some general thoughts about the genre. Conway addresses the difficulty of "going back as a historian" and trying to understand "all the things you took as a given when you were a child." Gates warns us to "be prepared for the revelation of things you don't even dream are going to come up." And Annie Dillard contemplates the strangeness of spending "more time writing about [a scene or an event] than you did living it." --Jane Steinberg

Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)

By Plutarch

Modern Library
Released: 2001-04-10
Paperback (816 pages)

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Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralists of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume I contains profiles and comparisons of Romulus and Theseus, Numa and Lycurgus, Fabius and Pericles, and many more powerful figures of ancient Greece and Rome.

The present translation, originally published in 1683 in conjunction with a life of Plutarch by John Dryden, was revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough, whose notes and preface are also included in this edition.

To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come

By Bob Greene Doubleday Released: 1993-02-01 Hardcover (224 pages)	List Price: $18.95 Lowest New Price: $4.45 Lowest Used Price: $0.01 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:25 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: A warm, accessible, step-by-step guide to creating precious personal histories from the memories of older people, by the best-selling author of Hang Time and his sister, journalist D. G. Fulford.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy, 2nd Edition

By Christine Rose Alpha Paperback (384 pages)	List Price: $18.95 Lowest New Price: $10.68 Lowest Used Price: $9.84 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:25 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: This user-friendly volume offers readers an opportunity to understand the craft of genealogy, explore their roots, perform online research, and begin to discover their true identities. Includes new information on the release of the 1930 census, the pros and cons of online research, and creating family trees.

The Birth of Tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals

By Friedrich Nietzsche Anchor Released: 1956-05-07 Paperback (320 pages)	List Price: $11.00 Lowest New Price: $4.50 Lowest Used Price: $2.70 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:25 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, and other themes central to his thinking.

Design Your Own Coat of Arms: An Introduction to Heraldry

By Rosemary A. Chorzempa Dover Publications Paperback (48 pages)	List Price: $4.95 Lowest New Price: $2.16 Lowest Used Price: $2.06 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:25 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: Design your own personal coat of arms. Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions make it easy even for beginners to fashion emblems that reflect family origins, traits, and accomplishments. Decorate plates, mugs, and stationery or create wallhangings, sew-on patches, T-shirt decals, pin-on badges, and much more.

The Name Book: Over 10,000 Names, Their Meanings, Origins, and Spritual Significance

By Dorothy Astoria Bethany House Paperback (298 pages)	List Price: $12.99 Lowest New Price: $3.47 Lowest Used Price: $2.00 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 23:25 Pacific 28 Aug 2008 More Info) Click Here
Product Description: Comprehensive book of 12,000+ names, including their meanings, origins, and spiritual significance with supporting Scripture.