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  The American Museum of Natural...

  Colin Davey, Thomas A. Lesser

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  An extensive history of the American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetarium, featuring a cast of colorful characters. 
   
  The American Museum of Natural History is one of New York City’s most beloved institutions, and one of the largest, most celebrated museums in the world. Since 1869, generations of New Yorkers and tourists of all ages have been educated and entertained here. Located across from Central Park, the sprawling structure, spanning four city blocks, is a fascinating conglomeration of many buildings of diverse architectural styles built over a period of 150 years. The first book to tell the history of the museum from the point of view of these buildings, including the planned Gilder Center, The American Museum of Natural History and How It Got That Way contextualizes them within New York and American history and the history of science. 
   
  Part II, “The Heavens in the Attic,” is the first detailed history of the Hayden Planetarium, from the museum’s earliest astronomy exhibits, to Clyde Fisher and the original planetarium, to Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and it features a photographic tour through the original Hayden Planetarium. 
   
  Author Colin Davey spent much of his childhood literally and figuratively lost in the museum’s labyrinthine hallways. The museum grew in fits and starts according to the vicissitudes of backroom deals, personal agendas, two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Chronicling its evolution?from the selection of a desolate, rocky, hilly, swampy site, known as Manhattan Square to the present day?the book includes some of the most important and colorful characters in the city’s history, including the notoriously corrupt and powerful “Boss” Tweed, “Father of New York City” Andrew Haswell Green, and twentieth-century powerbroker and master builder Robert Moses; museum presidents Morris K. Jesup, Henry Fairfield Osborn, and Ellen Futter; and American presidents, polar and African explorers, dinosaur hunters, and German rocket scientists. 
   
  Features a new preface by the author and a new foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson. 
   
  “This is, in many ways, a particularly American story, and anyone interested in history or museums will find this a very satisfying read. Author Colin Davey had a life-long love affair with the museum, growing up in New York and spending many, many hours happily lost in the museum collections, and that shines through in his writing as does his fine, in-depth research. Plenty of excellent graphics and photographs support this fascinating history.” —Seattle Book Review

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  N B C University Theater - The...

  Stephen Crane

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  'NBC University Theater’ initially started in Chicago with a remit to bring adaptations of classic novels, usually Anglo-American, to a radio audience. 
  Additionally, if listeners signed up they received college credit to a radio-assisted correspondence course.  A study guide, The Handbook of the World's Great Novels, was available for 25 cents. 
  In its later years it also included short stories and plays and went on to win the distinguished Peabody award. 
  Unlike many other radio shows University Theatre did not pursue the glamourous stars for its productions but instead relied on excellent distillations of the novels and first class acting alongside high production values. 
  But now its time to enjoy these timeless novels. Let’s begin.

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  The Dreadful Day

  Abhijit Chakraborty

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  This is a pathetic saga about our protagonist, Reba, awaiting her unavoidable death. Despite her desperate longing for life, she finds herself compelled to face death, not due to her own choices but because of the heinous acts of others.

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  7 principles of starting a...

  JUSTICE MPOFU

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  7 PRINCIPLES OF STARTING A BUSINESS WITHOUT MONEY. 
  Being granted the opportunity to head an organisation or nation requires that you change the culture else you are doomed You are going nowhere! 
  If you don't satisfy the culture you will not get the market its a simple equation;satisfy the culture and get the market,failure to satisfy the culture results in loss. If you want to bring a new culture into the market,you need to work very hard to convince the market fully and win their confidence.l have realised that many countries have cultures that limit people from growing. 
  Always keep fit,the brain is kept in the body hence,the body must always exercise. Always be prayerful and have someone who guides you . Have those characteristics,attitudes and ways of survival which indicate that you desire to be a champion. Do not become an ordinary person,be a person who runs after crisis to prove to your investor's that you can hold that position. 
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
  Justice Mpofu is a Zimbabwean business magnate,investor,author,philanthropist and minister of the gospel. Since 2017 he has been engaged in extensive teaching, mentorship and counselling of young man and woman in business and spiritual life aspects his desire about this book its not only changing the culture for the state where you are currently but to install the culture that will help the unborn generation to live a life of financial freedom and prosperity.

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  Mary McCarthy's Theatre...

  Mary McCarthy

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  The American theatre comes alive in Mary McCarthy’s provocative anthology of essaysHer literary writings and dramatic criticism have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Mary McCarthy’s Theatre Chronicles gathers together a wide-ranging collection featuring a cast of playwrights, actors, and directors that reads like a “who’s who” of American theatre.  With chapters ranging from “The Unimportance of Being Oscar” to “Odets Deplored,” this lively and witty volume opens a revealing window onto every aspect of theatre. McCarthy brings singular productions of the world’s most famous plays to vivid dramatic life while dissecting literary giants like Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. She offers her controversial opinion on everything from the American school of realism as epitomized by Brando to what creates a great actress to how a badly written play can still make for good theatre.With passages on theatre figures from Shakespeare to Shaw to Ibsen and O’Neill, this is a must-have for theatre lovers and armchair critics everywhere.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author’s estate.

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  The Art of Pastel - Discover...

  Walter Foster Creative Team

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  “Three accomplished artists each present an original take on the medium . . . This is a comprehensive guide for beginners.” —Library Journal 
   
  The velvety strokes of pastel have enchanted fine artists for more than a century. From airy strokes to bold marks and soft hues to vibrant shades, the versatility of pastel makes it suitable for a wide range of subjects and moods. Now anyone can experience this multi-dimensional medium with The Art of Pastel. Inside this comprehensive guide, three artists provide instruction for using soft, hard, and oil pastel—each sharing his or her unique approach. From portraits and landscapes to rich floral scenes, this book contains a wealth of inspiring images that artists can re-create step by step.

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