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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xii, 932 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father...
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill.
Language
English
Description
Born in China in 551 B.C., Confucius becomes an itinerant philosopher teaching ideas on education and government that will eventually spread to the thinking of Western philosophers.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
108 pages ;
Language
English
Description
"Born in 551 BC, Confucius was a young man when he set his heart and mind on learning as much as he could. By his thirties, he'd become a brilliant teacher who shared his knowledge of several subjects, including arithmetic, history, and poetry, with his students. Confucius wanted to make sure that everyone in China had access to an education and devoted his whole life to learning and teaching so he could transform and improve society. His lessons--now...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of How to Live presents a spirited account of the Existentialist intellectual and philosophical movement of the 1930s while sharing insights into the contributions of key revolutionary thinkers and the movement's present-day legacy.
8) The words
Author
Publisher
George Braziller
Pub. Date
1964
Language
English
Description
Translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman. 1936 winner of Nobel Prize for Literature (declined).