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  Wes Moore: The Other Wes moore

  PBS NewsHour

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  Judy Woodruff talks to Baltimore native Wes Moore about his new book, The Other Wes Moore which explores the stories of two inner-city young men who share the same name, but lead very different lives.

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  As the Romans Do - An American...

  Alan Epstein

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  A celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to live in Rome. In As the Romans Do, he celebrates the spirit of this stylish, dramatic, ancient city that formed the hub of a far-flung empire and introduced the Mediterranean culture to the rest of the world. He also reveals today's Roman men and women in all their appealing contradictions: their gregarious caffe culture; inborn artistic flair; passionate appreciation of good food; instinctive mistrust of technology; showy sex appeal; ingrained charm and expressiveness; surprisingly unusual attitudes toward marriage and religion; and much, much more.

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  Raymond Williams: From Wales to...

  Hywel Dix, Elizabeth Allen,...

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  Raymond Williams came from Wales, and was brought up in a working-class family. These facts of place and class are the start of a thread which runs throughout his life and work. In Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World his writing, whether theoretical, historical, critical or as fiction has been treated as a single whole, recognising that his ideas were interwoven as a literary and intellectual engagement with Wales and the world over several decades.
  This collection of essays, edited by Stephen Woodhams, serves to further engage and extend his ideas of class and society.

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  Tremendous Trifles

  G.K. Chesterton

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  “None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted fence. Let us be ocular athletes. Let us learn to write essays on a stray cat or a coloured cloud. I have attempted some such thing in what follows; but anyone else may do it better, if anyone else will only try. ” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

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  The Color of Love

  Gene Cheek

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  Nine years after Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and only a year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a judge in the Forsyth County Courthouse of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wrenched twelve-year-old Gene Cheek from the security of his mother's devotion. Here is a true story of love in a time afflicted by hatred, ignorance, and racism. At its core, this is a frank account of a love affair between a white woman and a In the early 1960s, the city of Winston-Salem struggled under the strict edicts of segregation, setting the tone of division that would plague Gene Cheek's life. Raised by his alcoholic father and his earnestly loving mother, Gene learned about the power of hatred and the strength of love. Yet when his mother falls in love with Cornelius Tucker, an African-American man, and becomes pregnant with his child, their union is seen as morally and lawfully unfit, forcing the family to choose between the infant and Gene. From a distance of more than forty years, Gene Cheek recounts a life of constant struggle with his biological father. Briefly that tension dissolved with the warm guidance of Cornelius Tucker – but that would soon end.The Color of Love is Gene Cheek's story told in his singularly honest voice. Its sincerity and truth resonate with a plea for tolerance, and the irrevocable nature of the decisions and emotions of modern life.A Gildan Audio production.

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  Theodore Roosevelt CEO - 7...

  Alan Axelrod

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  What today’s organizational leaders can learn from the commanding, colorful US President. 
   
  The twenty-sixth president of the United States was a gifted leader. Before he was elected to office, he led the famed Rough Riders during the Spanish-American war—and once in the White House, he succeeded in bringing together workers and business owners to settle their differences as well as greatly expanding the country’s priceless national parks. Many historians consider him one of the top five American presidents. 
   
  Written by historian and bestselling author Alan Axelrod, this book uses Teddy Roosevelt’s biography to extract 136 lessons on leadership, revealing how CEOs—or any organizational leader—can benefit from understanding his commanding style and the principles he followed.

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