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She-Wolves

The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

by Paulina Bren ...

**The propulsive story of the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street."[Paulina Bren] captures the feeling of the culture." —Maggie Lange, Washington PostA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Next Big Idea Club Must Read • One of UnTapped New York's Best NYC Books of All Time • A Town & Country Must-Read for Fall 2024 • In development with Mark Gordon Pictures* ... Read more

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**The propulsive story of the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street."[Paulina Bren] captures the feeling of the culture." —Maggie Lange, Washington PostA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A Next Big Idea Club Must Read • One of UnTapped New York's Best NYC Books of All Time • A Town & Country Must-Read for Fall 2024 • In development with Mark Gordon Pictures*
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The Greengrocer and His TV

The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

by Paulina Bren ...

The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a ... Read more

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The 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia brought an end to the Prague Spring and its promise of "socialism with a human face." Before the invasion, Czech reformers had made unexpected use of television to advance political and social change. In its aftermath, Communist Party leaders employed the medium to achieve "normalization," pitching television stars against political dissidents in a
... Read more
The Barbizon

The Hotel That Set Women Free

by Paulina Bren ...

A “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion.Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for women, the Barbizon.Liberated after WWI from home and ... Read more

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A “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion.Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for women, the Barbizon.Liberated after WWI from home and
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She-Wolves

The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

by Paulina Bren ...

Narrated by Rebecca Lam ...

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10 hours 2 min

In development with Mark Gordon PicturesThe propulsive story of the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street.First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens—the "smart cookies" who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned diplomas, often settled for less. Eventually came the yuppies of ... Read more

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In development with Mark Gordon PicturesThe propulsive story of the women who sought, and gained, a piece of the action on Wall Street.First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens—the "smart cookies" who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned diplomas, often settled for less. Eventually came the yuppies of
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The Barbizon

The Hotel That Set Women Free

by Paulina Bren ...

Narrated by Andi Arndt ...

Unabridged

9 hours 21 min

A “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion.Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for women, the Barbizon.Liberated after WWI from home and ... Read more

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A “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion.Welcome to New York’s legendary hotel for women, the Barbizon.Liberated after WWI from home and
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Transnational Moments of Change

Europe 1945, 1968, 1989

by Padraic Kenney, Aldo Agosti, Anna Balzarro, Paulina Bren, Patrick Burke, Arthur Marwick, Patrick Pasture, Kristina Schulz, Jarle Simensen0, Miroslav Vanek1, Juan José Gutiérrez2 ...

Transnational Moments of Change offers a broad introduction to the methodology and practice of transnational history. To demonstrate the value of this approach, the work focuses on Europe since World War II, a period whose study particularly benefits from a transnational vantage point. Twelve distinguished contributors from around the globe offer a range of transnational approaches to three ... Read more

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Transnational Moments of Change offers a broad introduction to the methodology and practice of transnational history. To demonstrate the value of this approach, the work focuses on Europe since World War II, a period whose study particularly benefits from a transnational vantage point. Twelve distinguished contributors from around the globe offer a range of transnational approaches to three
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Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

Edited by Paulina Bren, Mary Neuburger ...

Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived in its widely varied contexts in the region. From design, to production, to retail sales and ... Read more

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Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived in its widely varied contexts in the region. From design, to production, to retail sales and
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America, Compromised

by Lawrence Lessig ...

Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

Unabridged

6 hours 56 min

"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are." So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong. It's getting worse.What Lessig shows, brilliantly ... Read more

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"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are." So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it—from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong. It's getting worse.What Lessig shows, brilliantly
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Chasing Me to My Grave

An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

by Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly ...

Narrated by Dion Graham, Karen Chilton ...

Unabridged

6 hours 47 min

Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy’s ... Read more

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Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager.He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, later survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent the next seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsy’s
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The Almighty Dollar

500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money

by Brendan Greeley ...

Narrated by Matt Godfrey ...

Unabridged

12 hours 42 min

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Brimming with startling details, this is also serious financial history with a conclusion ripe for our unsettled times: Rulers and borders come and go, but the dollar has ... Read more

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In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.“Brimming with startling details, this is also serious financial history with a conclusion ripe for our unsettled times: Rulers and borders come and go, but the dollar has
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American Scripture

Making the Declaration of Independence

by Pauline Maier ...

Narrated by Jonathan Yen ...

Unabridged

11 hours 37 min

Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament.In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776 ... Read more

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Maier describes the transformation of the Second Continental Congress into a national government, unlike anything that preceded or followed it, and with more authority than the colonists would ever have conceded to the British Parliament.In Maier's hands, the Declaration of Independence is brought close to us. She lets us hear the voice of the people as revealed in the other "declarations" of 1776
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American Grammar

Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation

by Jarvis R. Givens ...

Narrated by Bill Andrew Quinn ...

Unabridged

15 hours 37 min

A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few institutions are as pivotal in shaping our lives ... Read more

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A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces past harms.Education is the epicenter of every community in the United States. Indeed, few institutions are as pivotal in shaping our lives
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