“…From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta̕s Best of Young British Novelists 2003 issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan̕s California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified dinery server on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other̕s echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small.In his captivating third novel, David Mitchell erases the boundaries of language, genre and time to offer a meditation on humanity̕s dangerous will to power, and where it may lead us…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: the transformation of Tolkien's Arwen from page to screen and the abandonment of the psyche archetype / Victoria Gaydosick -- The "sub-subcreation" of Galadriel, Arwen, and Éowyn : women of power in Tolkien's and Jackson's The lord of the rings / Maureen Thum -- Tales around the internet campfire : fan fiction in Tolkien's universe / Susan Booker -- Make mine "movieverse" : how the Tolkien fan fiction community learned to stop worrying and love Peter Jackson / Amy H. …”

“…In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society. …”
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“…The towns and the date of their settlement are: Nicodemus, Kansas (1879), established at the time of the Black exodus from the South; Mound Bayou, Mississippi (1897), perhaps the most prominent Black town because of its close ties to Booker T. Washington and Tuskegee Institute: Langston, Oklahoma (1891), visualized by one of its promoters as the nucleus for the creation of an allBlack state in the West; and Clearview (1903) and Boley (1904), in Oklahoma, twin communities in the Creek Nation which offer the opportunity observe certain aspects of IndianBlack relations in this area.The role of Blacks in town promotion and settlement has long been a neglected area in western and urban history, Crockett looks at patterns of settlement and leadership, government, politics, economics, and the problems of isolation versus interaction with the white communities. …”

“…This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson's novels, and makes a powerful case for the importance of his work in the landscape of contemporary fiction…”

“…La guerra de Troya fue siempre la guerra de las mujeres.» La ganadora del Man Booker Prize Pat Barker ahonda en la leyenda intemporal de la Ilíada y narra las últimas semanas de la guerra de Troya desde la perspectiva de las no combatientes; una novela poderosa y memorable sobre el más grande de los mitos griegos -- Editor…”

“…Du Bois's humanistic principles of pedagogy for newly emancipated slaves developed in opposition to Booker T. Washington's educational utilitarianism, for example. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The education of black Disciples of Christ and black Churches of Christ in Texas. The Booker T. Washington of Texas: J.N. Ervin and the Jarvis Christian Institute experience -- "A young Moses arose": Jack Evans and the legacy of Southwestern Christian College -- "Hard-fighting soldiers": African American Churches of Christ in Texas in the twenty-first century…”
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“…El guión corre a cargo de la novelista ganadora del Premio Booker Eleanor Catton, que en el año 2013 se convirtió en la más joven en recibir el prestigioso galardón (FILMAFFINITY)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nichols -- The presidency in the constitutional convention of 1787 / David Alvis -- From statesman to saint: Booker T. Washington on Abraham Lincoln / Diana J. …”

“…His ideas have inspired generations of activists and movements, including Booker T. Washington in the late nineteenth century, Marcus Garvey in the early 1920s, Malcolm X and Black Power in 1960s, and even today's Black Lives Matter. …”

“…Concretamente, por los ganadores del Premio Booker, cuyos autógrafos e inestimables consejos se ha propuesto conseguir a toda costa. …”

“…This is the first critical study in English to focus exclusively on the work of Marie NDiaye, born in central France in 1967, winner of the Prix Femina (2001), the Prix Goncourt (2009), shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2013), and widely considered to be one of the most important French authors of her generation. …”

“…El abogado Benjamin Booker ha cometido un error humillante... y se promete a sí mismo que no volverá a confiar en una mujer bonita. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating a change agent : the NAACP's early years during which the new group rejects Booker T. Washington's accommodationist views for W.E.B. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sanchez and Matthew Morse Booker Part V: Representing Extinct Mammals Chapter 15. …”