Muhammad This Is The One

Walter Dean Myers. The Glory Field. Scholastic Paperbacks, 1996
0590458981 From Publishers Weekly Spanning nearly 250 years of African American history, this emotionally charged saga of the Lewis family traces an ongoing battle for freedom and equality. Beginning with young Muhammad Bilal's journey from Africa in 1753 and ending with a 1990s family reunion set on the plantation where Muhammad was a slave, this series of resonant stories shows how each generation comes of age by taking a stand against oppression. All through the Civil War, Great Depression and civil rights movement, the family's strength and determination continue unabated. In his typically taut, economic prose, Myers (Somewhere in the Darkness) illuminates shadowy corners of history and reveals the high cost-and the excruciatingly slow process-of justice. The obstacles facing the Lewis family will be remembered as clearly as their triumphs, and readers will come away from this novel with both a broader perspective on social conflicts and a more profound understanding of the past. Ages 10-up. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From School Library Journal Grade 7 Up-This moving, effective novel is a sort of Roots for young adults. It chronicles the African American experience through the lives and times of one family, beginning in 1753 with the capture of Muhammed Bilal in Sierra Leone. He survives his journey to America on a slave ship to become the founder of a family, whose history The Glory Field is all about. Readers then meet one of his descendants, Lizzy, a young slave who works on a plantation in 1864 on Curry Island, South Carolina. From slavery, escape, and the Civil War, they follow the fortunes of the family to the year 1900. Then, teenaged Elijah migrates North. Chicago of the 1930s is described through the experiences of Luvenia, 16; Curry of 1964 is seen through the eyes of Tommy, also 16. The last part of the story is set in the present and focuses on Malcolm and Shep, teenaged cousins who have come to Curry from New York City for a family reunion. The decades pass swiftly and are connected by characters who appear in one segment of the saga and reappear later as survivors from the past or as memories. Each part of the story ends on a hopeful note, yet each is unfinished. Readers are left to wonder what happened to various people; sometimes an answer is provided, but more often not. The vast array of characters play out their lives challenged and beset by problems of racism, poverty, and identity. The anchors in their lives are family and their love for one another and their land. A beautifully written, powerful book. Carol Jones Collins, Montclair Kimberley Academy, NJ Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title..

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Klein, William (Artist/Filmmaker) & Clouzot, Claire (Contributor). WILLIAM KLEIN: FILMS Rare Signed Copy of The First American Edition With Copy of Criterion DVD Set. New York City, NY: PowerHouse Books, 1999.
Softcover. First Edition. First Printing. 158 pages. Fine. Collection of "behind-the-scenes" photographs and film stills from the artist/photogra pher/filmmaker's films. The single most important book on the cinematic work of William Klein. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Published as a softcover original only. The book is now rare. A brilliant production by William Klein: Oversize-volume format. A tall and slim book. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and film stills selected and sequenced by William Klein. Essay by Claire Clouzot. Printed on thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents the complete cinematic oeuvre of the visual artist who is much better-known as a ground-breaking photographer. By 1964, Willam Klein had completed his now-legendary series of books on cities ("New York", "Moscow", "Rome", and "Tokyo"), and felt he had said everything he wanted to say through photography. He turned his restless and inexhaustible creative energies to film-making, and spent an extended period that lasted for more than two decades (from 1965 to the 1980's), making quirkily brilliant and beautiful films that enjoy a global cult following. It takes a truly courageous and uncompromising artist to abandon one medium (after leaving his indelible mark on it) and move on to work on another. Just as he permanently and radically changed the way people take photographs, William Klein's films expanded and enriched the cinematic vocabulary with such pioneering films as "Broadway By Light", "Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?" , "Mr. Freedom", "Muhammad Ali The Greatest", "The Little Richard Story", and "The Messiah". His best-known film remains his quasi-documentary on Muhammad Ali, when the boxer was at the height of his powers and irritatingly self-confident and even downright arrogant ("I Am The Greatest!"). Still, one of the greatest film directors of all time praised Klein's "Broadway By Light", on Manhattan's magnificent neon-lit signs, as "the very first film that needed to be made in color" (Orson Welles). Since then, many well-known photographers have branched out into film-making. Some of the more recent photographic sensations like Larry Clark, Bruce Weber, David LaChapelle, and Anton Corbijn, to name just a few, have either turned to making films in addition to their photographic work or abandoned photography altogether. All of them credit William Klein's pioneering example as their primary inspiration. Always full of surprises, William Klein eventually returned to photography full-time, and is now firmly established as one of the greatest and most influential visual artists of our time. Supplemented with a meticulous and insightful essay by Claire Clouzot, this is the definitive book on William Klein's film work (an achievement that has been overshadowed by his magnificent photography) whose recognition is very long overdue. A "must-have" title for William Klein completists. <B><I> This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in metallic-silver marker on the title page by William Klein. It comes with a brand-new, shrinkwrapped copy of "The Delirious Fictions of William Klein" from Criterion, which presents for the very first time in DVD format three of William Klein's finest films. This title has been out-of-print for a very long time and is now highly collectible. This is the only signed copy of the First American Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. The publisher sold its last copies at500 apiece. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color plates. William Klein's "Life Is Good And Good For You In New York" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest artist/photographer/filmmakers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WILLIAM KLEIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1576870383. Signed by Author.

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Morris, Neil: THE ATLAS OF ISLAM, Hauppauge, NY Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated 2003
ISBN: 0-7641-5631-4 As New Condition

This large-format, beautifully color-illustrated compendium of information for young adult readers describes one of the world's most widespread religions. Each page presents five or six vivid illustrations with lengthy descriptive captions. Readers acquaint themselves with the Muslim people in different parts of the world, as well as with their art, architecture, history, and activities, both religious and secular. The book is divided into 27 sections, each focusing on a separate aspect of Muslim history and culture. Major topics include Arabia before Islam, the prophet Muhammad, Arab expansion, Islamic Spain, the Seljuk Turks, the Crusades, Islamic worship, Islamic festivals, art and architecture, the emergence of Muslim states, Islam today, and many others. Combining illustrations of unusual quality with concise information, this volume provides a fine introduction to the world of Islam for young adult readers. Hundreds of illustrations. Publishers Weekly Copiously illustrated with photos, original art, maps and reproductions, the large-format Atlas of Islam: People, Daily Life and Traditions by Neil Morris devotes each of its spreads to single subjects (e.g., "The Abbasids," "Sufism" and "Islamic Spain"). Each spread includes an explanatory paragraph and about 18 extensively captioned color images. Beneath the high-impact visuals, however, the text can be confusing ("Muslims believe that Muhammad (c. 570-632 ce) was the last and seal of the prophets of Allah") or disingenuous ("In recent years, some Islamist groups... have reacted to failure to achieve their ends by turning to violence. This has only served to heighten fear and distrust of Islam among non-Muslims"). Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. School Library Journal Gr 3-8-Although numerous small maps are included, this title is not an atlas in the traditional or historical sense. Rather, it is a survey of the people who made up the mainstream of Islamic life, with a nod toward the lands in which they have lived. More historically based than Philip Wilkinson's Islam (DK, 2002), this title uses two-page chapters to discuss groups such as the Abbasids, the Sufis, the Turks, and the Uzbeks, as well as broader topics such as the Ottoman and Mughal Empires, the Crusades, and the spread of Islam into Africa and Southeast Asia. Unlike books published just a few years ago, it also includes a discussion of Islamism (aka Islamic fundamentalism), including mention of Osama bin Laden. The book's bite-sized paragraphs can give even integrated text a jumpy, disconnected feel, and the tendency to chronicle rather than analyze the information presented may confuse young readers. The apparent dichotomy, for example, between Islam's traditions of tolerance, on the one hand, and references to forced conversion, repressive regimes, and terrorist attacks, on the other, will seem like contradictions to many children. Likewise, the plentiful reproductions of Islamic figurative art seem to conflict with prohibitions against such depictions. These are not factual errors but rather limitations of the format. In addition, a few of the picture captions refer to fewer persons than are actually depicted, with no explanation of the discrepancy. Even so, this volume contains a great deal of information, presented in an attractive way, and will be useful to libraries looking to broaden or update their materials on Islam.-Coop Renner, Blackshear Elementary School, Austin, TX Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information. Synopsis This large-format, beautifully color-illustrated compendium of information for young adult readers describes one of the world's most widespread religions. <p> Each page presents five or six vivid illustrations with lengthy descriptive captions. Readers acquaint themselves with the Muslim people in different parts of the world, as well as with their art, architecture, history, and activities, both religious and secular. The book is divided into 27 sections, each focusing on a separate aspect of Muslim history and culture. Major topics inc Hardcover 13 x 9.5 in

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Hodder, Edwin: The Life And Work Of The Seventh Earl Of Shaftesbury, London Cassell & Company 1886 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: B001QMGI5C
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Three volumes, showing some wear and tear along with staining and fading to boards .Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, KG (28 April 1801 - 1 October 1885)) styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was an English politician and philanthropist, one of the best-known of the Victorian era and one of the main proponents of Christian Zionism. Born in London, he was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. He became a Tory MP (Member of Parliament) in 1826, and almost immediately became a leader of the movement for factory reform. He was largely responsible for the Factory Acts of 1847 and 1853, as well as the Coal Mines Act of 1842 and the Lunacy Act 1845. One of his chief interests was the welfare of children, and he was chairman of the Ragged Schools Union and a keen supporter of Florence Nightingale. Shaftesbury was a proponent of the Restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land. Muhammad Ali's conquest of Greater Syria (1831) changed the conditions under which European power politics operated in the Near East. As a consequence of that shift, Shaftesbury was able to help persuade Foreign Minister Palmerston to send a British consul to Jerusalem in 1838. A committed Christian and a loyal Englishman, Shaftesbury argued for a Jewish return because of what he saw as the political and economic advantages to England and because he believed that it was God's will. 1839 Shaftesbury published an article under the title "The State and the rebirth of the Jews". In it he urged the Jews to return to Palestine in order, according to him, to seize the lands of Galilee and Judea. Shaftesbury first put forward the slogan "Earth without people - people without land" and was agitation in this direction during the 57 years. His call is a positive response from various politicians, journalists and Christian religious leaders, both in Britain and America. The lead-up to the Crimean War (1854), like the military expansionism of Muhammad Ali two decades earlier, signaled an opening for realignments in the Near East. In July 1853, Shaftesbury wrote to Prime Minister Aberdeen that Greater Syria was "a country without a nation" in need of "a nation without a country... Is there such a thing? To besure there is, the ancient and rightful lords of the soil, the Jews!" In his diary that year he wrote "these vast and fertile regions will soon be without a ruler, without a known and acknowledged power to claim dominion. The territory must be assigned to some one or other... There is a country without a nation; and God now in his wisdom and mercy, directs us to a nation without a country." This is commonly cited as an early use of the phrase, "A land without a people for a people without a land" by which Shaftesbury was echoing another British proponent of the restoration of the Jews to Israel, Dr Keith (Alexander Keith, D.D.) The Shaftesbury Memorial in Piccadilly Circus, London, erected in 1893, was designed to commemorate his philanthropic works. The Memorial is crowned by Alfred Gilbert's aluminium statue of Anteros as a nude, butterfly-winged archer. This is officially titled The Angel of Christian Charity, but has become popularly, if mistakenly, known as Eros. The use of a nude figure on a public monument was controversial at the time, but the statue has become a London icon and appears on the masthead of the Evening Standard. First Edition No Jacket Hardcover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition

[SW: POLITICIANS JOHN WILKES SOCIAL HISTORY POLITICS RADICALISM SOCIOLOGY ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY WILLIAM, EARL OF SHELBURNE, MARQUESS LANSDOWNE FINANCE CIVIL SERVICE TAXATION ECONOMICS GOVERNMENT PARLIAMENT WILLIAM PETTY WHIGS HOUSE COMMONS Jewish Judaica Zionism Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury]

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