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Appetite City

A Culinary History of New York

de William Grimes ...

New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the culinary scene, he charts the city's transformation into the world restaurant capital it is today. Appetite City ... Leer más

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New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen.In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the culinary scene, he charts the city's transformation into the world restaurant capital it is today. Appetite City
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My Fine Feathered Friend

de William Grimes ...

Boy Meets Bird.Boy Gets Bird.Boy Loses BirdAn Urban Folktale.One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long... ... Leer más

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Boy Meets Bird.Boy Gets Bird.Boy Loses BirdAn Urban Folktale.One day in the dead of winter, New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes looked out the window into his backyard in Queens and saw a chicken, jet black with a crimson comb. Wherever it had come from, it showed no sign of leaving, and it quickly made a place for itself among the society of resident stray cats. Before long...
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Life Of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave

de William Grimes ...

The phenomenon of slaves running away, seeking to gain freedom, is as old as the institution of slavery itself. In the United States, "fugitive slaves" (also known as runaway slaves) were slaves who left their master and traveled without authorization;generally they tried to reach states or territories where slavery was banned, including Canada, or, until 1821, Spanish Florida. Most slave law ... Leer más

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The phenomenon of slaves running away, seeking to gain freedom, is as old as the institution of slavery itself. In the United States, "fugitive slaves" (also known as runaway slaves) were slaves who left their master and traveled without authorization;generally they tried to reach states or territories where slavery was banned, including Canada, or, until 1821, Spanish Florida. Most slave law
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Charlie the Red-Tailed Hawk

de William Grimes ...

This is a story about the relationship between an old man and a red-tailed hawk that fell from its nest and how he saved the hawk from being eaten by a six-foot-long rattlesnake and how the hawk was able to return the favor by saving the old man's life.The old man, born in the 1900s and raised on a farm in Wakulla County, Florida, was not a big fan of the red-tailed hawks. The common name of a red ... Leer más

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This is a story about the relationship between an old man and a red-tailed hawk that fell from its nest and how he saved the hawk from being eaten by a six-foot-long rattlesnake and how the hawk was able to return the favor by saving the old man's life.The old man, born in the 1900s and raised on a farm in Wakulla County, Florida, was not a big fan of the red-tailed hawks. The common name of a red
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Born a Slave: Anthology

Collected Memoirs and Interviews

de Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Mary Prince, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Zamba Zembola, Solomon Bayley, William Grimes, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Moses Roper, Henry Watson, John Brown, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, John Gabriel Stedman, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Thomas S. Gaines, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Emma Ray, Lloyd Ray, Annie L. Burton, Nina Hill Robinson, Nicholas Said, George Henry, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, Venture Smith ...

This collection includes over 100 slave narratives and more than a thousands transcripts of recorded interviews made with former salves in the first half of 20th century: Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave The History of Mary Prince The Blind African Slave (Boyrereau Brinch) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano The Life and ... Leer más

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This collection includes over 100 slave narratives and more than a thousands transcripts of recorded interviews made with former salves in the first half of 20th century: Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave The History of Mary Prince The Blind African Slave (Boyrereau Brinch) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano The Life and
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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

Edición de William L. Andrews, Regina E. Mason ...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, his Life has an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes's autobiography ... Leer más

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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, his Life has an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes's autobiography
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Born in Chains - Collected Slave Narratives

The Anthology of Memoirs, Recorded Interviews and Biographies

de Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Zamba Zembola, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Solomon Bayley, Moses Roper, Henry Watson, John Brown, William Craft, Ellen Craft, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, Henry Box Brown, Phillis Wheatley, William Walker, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Annie L. Burton, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, William Still, Joseph Vance Lewis, Rev. Greensbury Washington Offley, John Thompson, Venture Smith, Isaac D. Williams, Octavia Albert ...

E-artnow present the anthology of the most impactful slave narratives. The collection includes the memoirs, letters and biographies of former slaves, with the thousands of recorded interviews made in the South until 1970s: Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Life and Times of Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in ... Leer más

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E-artnow present the anthology of the most impactful slave narratives. The collection includes the memoirs, letters and biographies of former slaves, with the thousands of recorded interviews made in the South until 1970s: Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Life and Times of Frederick Douglass My Bondage and My Freedom Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in
... Leer más
Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave

Edición de William L. Andrews, Regina E. Mason ...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, his Life has an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes's autobiography ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, his Life has an immediacy, candor, and no-holds-barred realism unparalleled in the famous antebellum slave narratives of the period. This edition of Grimes's autobiography
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Autobiografias de escravizados

Frederick Douglass, William Grimes e abolicionismo nos Estados Unidos

de Rafael Cardoso ...

No século anterior à Guerra Civil (1861-1865) nos Estados Unidos, um grupo de afro-americanos escreveu autobiografias sobre o período em que foi escravizado. Parte dos autores alcançou a liberdade ao fugir do cativeiro no Sul e migrar para o Norte. A pesquisa do historiador Rafael Cardoso analisa este século de autobiografias, com destaque para dois autores: William Grimes (1784-1865) e Frederick ... Leer más

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No século anterior à Guerra Civil (1861-1865) nos Estados Unidos, um grupo de afro-americanos escreveu autobiografias sobre o período em que foi escravizado. Parte dos autores alcançou a liberdade ao fugir do cativeiro no Sul e migrar para o Norte. A pesquisa do historiador Rafael Cardoso analisa este século de autobiografias, com destaque para dois autores: William Grimes (1784-1865) e Frederick
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New York Times: The Times of the Eighties

The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

de The New York Times ...

From America's best source of in-depth daily reporting comes this sweeping retrospective of the news, culture, and personalities of the 1980s.There is no better record of history than the archives of The New York Times. Now, more than 200 articles from the great decade of the 1980s are culled from these archives and carefully curated, by editor and Times writer William Grimes, to create one ... Leer más

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From America's best source of in-depth daily reporting comes this sweeping retrospective of the news, culture, and personalities of the 1980s.There is no better record of history than the archives of The New York Times. Now, more than 200 articles from the great decade of the 1980s are culled from these archives and carefully curated, by editor and Times writer William Grimes, to create one
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Commanding Old Ironsides

The Life of Captain Silas Talbot

de William M. Fowler Jr. ...

Silas Talbot’s life illuminates his time—not with greater brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic—a citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it.Silas Talbot was a farmer’s son who went to sea, learned the building trades, saved and invested ... Leer más

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Silas Talbot’s life illuminates his time—not with greater brightness than the lives of his more famous contemporaries, but with perhaps broader range and greater insight into the experiences and circumstances of a plain citizen of the new republic—a citizen whose bravery and energy helped to create it.Silas Talbot was a farmer’s son who went to sea, learned the building trades, saved and invested
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Audiolibro

X MINUS ONE: SEASON TWO

de Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Poul Anderson, Ernest Kinoy, George Lefferts, Philip K. Kick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Sheckley, J.T. McIntosh, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, William Tenn, Thomas Godwin, James Blish, Robert Block, L. Sprague de Camp ...

Narrado por Alan Hewitt, Bob Hastings, Donald Buka, Hetty Galen, Jack Grimes, Jim Boles, Joe De Santis, Joyce Gordon, Larry Robinson, Luis Van Rooten, Mandel Kramer, Nat Polen, Norman Rose, Peter Capell, Peter Fernandez, Raymond Edward Johnson, Roger DeKoven, Ruby Dee, Sam Gray, Santos Ortega, Ted Osborne and William Keene ...

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19 hora 16 minutos

The best Science Fiction stories to come from such authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Poul Anderson. Originally a spinoff from the NBC radio show DIMENSION X, X MINUS ONE continued the tradition of outstanding writing, acting, and direction for three seasons from 1955 to 1958 on NBC radio. X MINUS ONE, VOLUME ONE contains all 42 half-hour episodes from the original radio broadcasts of the ... Leer más

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The best Science Fiction stories to come from such authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Poul Anderson. Originally a spinoff from the NBC radio show DIMENSION X, X MINUS ONE continued the tradition of outstanding writing, acting, and direction for three seasons from 1955 to 1958 on NBC radio. X MINUS ONE, VOLUME ONE contains all 42 half-hour episodes from the original radio broadcasts of the
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