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  • Overton Park

    A People’s History

    de Brooks Lamb ...
    At the heart of Memphis lies Overton Park, a 342-acre public space that contains the world-class Memphis Zoo, an old-growth forest, the Memphis College of Art, an amphitheater, and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, among other beloved amenities. Founded in 1901, the park has been at the center of both celebration and controversy. Performers like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash have dazzled audiences ... Leer más

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  • Love for the Land

    Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place

    de Brooks Lamb ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies Series
    A moving exploration of presence and place told through the stories of small-scale farmers who, despite intense adversity, continue caring for their landLove for the Land explores the power and potential of people-place relationships. Through clear and compelling prose, it elevates the virtues of imagination, affection, and fidelity—concepts promoted by farmer-writer Wendell Berry—and shows how ... Leer más

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    Love for the Land

    Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place

    de Brooks Lamb ...
    Narrado por Walter Dixon ...
    Series series Yale Agrarian Studies

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    Love for the Land explores the power and potential of people-place relationships. Through clear and compelling prose, it elevates the virtues of imagination, affection, and fidelity—concepts promoted by farmer-writer Wendell Berry—and shows how they motivate small- and mid-scale farmers to care for the land, even in the face of adversity. Paying particular attention to farmland loss from suburban ... Leer más

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  • The Class

    A Memoir of a Place, a Time, and Us

    de Ken Dryden ...
    **INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Shortlisted for the 2024 Speaker’s Book AwardFrom bestselling author Ken Dryden, a riveting new book.**On Tuesday, September 6, 1960, the day after Labour Day, class 9G at Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in a suburb of Toronto assembled for the first time. Its thirty-five students, having written special exams, came to be known as the “Selected Class.”They would stay ... Leer más

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  • Robert Redford

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    **A revelatory biography of Robert Redford, written in close collaboration with the extraordinary actor and director himself, revealing the complex man beneath the Hollywood façade.“As incisive a biography of Redford as there is ever likely to be.” —The New York Times**Among the most widely admired Hollywood stars of his generation, Redford has appeared onstage and on-screen, in front of and ... Leer más

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  • Detroit City Is the Place to Be

    The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

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    Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to ... Leer más

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  • Ray & Joan

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  • New York, New York, New York

    Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

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  • The Hollywood Sign

    de Leo Braudy ...
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