A centennial history of Mr. Bell's invention, its impact on and importance in American life, and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the world's largest corporation

Telephone: The First Hundred Years

Business & Money

Brooks, John

Economics

Harper and Row

BUSINESS ADVENTURE

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture (Literature Now)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

The works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for "positive" or "negative" representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the "Black experience." However, many contemporary Black artists are creating works that cannot be slotted into such categories. Their art resists interpretation in terms of conventional racial discourse; instead, they embrace opacity, uncertainty, and illegibility. John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received ideas about race and difference. Considering photography by Roy DeCarava, installation art by Kara Walker, novels by Percival Everett and Paul Beatty, drama by Suzan-Lori Parks, and poetry by Robin Coste Lewis, Brooks pinpoints a shared aesthetic sensibility. In their works, the devices that typically make race feel familiar are instead used to estrange cultural assumptions about race. Brooks contends that when artists confound expectations about racial representation, the resulting disorientation reveals the incoherence of racial ideologies. By showing how contemporary literature and art ask audiences to question what they think they know about race, The Racial Unfamiliar offers a new way to understand African American cultural production.

Beautiful illustrations, many in color.

Glass Masterpieces of Crystal and Colo

Golden Books

Presents a humorous view of contemporary American life, manners, and values, sardonically exposing the social pretensions, strange customs, and status symbols of our modern society

Showing Off in America: From Conspicuous Consumption to Parody Display

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Book Sales

The real Money game! Wall Street in the Swinging Sixties... before the bubble burst! Wall Street in the fabulous era of speculation, synergism, creative accounting, the youth market and Chinese money... when conglomerates sprouted like crowds of daffodils and new investors swooned over mutual funds. Writing with wit and wisdom, John Brooks provides an endlessly absorbing portrayal of the money market swept along by a euphoria reminiscent of 1929.

The Go-Go Years: When Prices Went Topless

Investing

Ballantine Books

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The Autobiography of American Business: The Story Told By Those Who Made It

Doubleday and Company, Inc.

Once in Golconda "In this book, John Brooks-who was one of the most elegant of all business writers-perfectly catches the flavor of one of history's best-known financial dramas: the 1929 crash and its aftershocks. It's packed with parallels and parables for the modern reader." -From the Foreword by Richard Lambert Editor-in-Chief, The Financial Times Once in Golconda is a dramatic chronicle of the breathtaking rise, devastating fall, and painstaking rebirth of Wall Street in the years between the wars. Focusing on the lives and fortunes of some of the era's most memorable traders, bankers, boosters, and frauds, John Brooks brings to vivid life all the ruthlessness, greed, and reckless euphoria of the '20s bull market, the desperation of the days leading up to the crash of '29, and the bitterness of the years that followed. Praise for Once in Golconda "A fast-moving, sophisticated account.embracing the stock-market boom of the twenties, the crash of 1929, the Depression, and the coming of the New Deal. Its leitmotif is the truly tragic personal history of Richard Whitney, the aristocrat Morgan broker and head of the Stock Exchange, who ended up in Sing Sing." -Edmund Wilson, writing in the New Yorker "As Mr. Brooks tells this tale of dishonor, desperation, and the fall of the mighty, it takes on overtones of Greek tragedy, a king brought down by pride. Whitney's sordid history has been told before..But in Mr. Brooks's hands, the drama becomes freshly shocking." -Wall Street Journal "It's all there in Once in Golconda-the avarice of an era that favored the rich; and the later anguish of myriads of speculators doomed by a bloated market, easy credit, and their own cupidity and stupidity." -Saturday Review

Once in Golconda: A true drama of Wall Street, 1920-1938

W.W.Norton

Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)

This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era. With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many naval historians now believe that, consequently, British dreadnoughts were fitted with a system that, despite being partly plagiarised from Pollen's, was inferior: and that the Dreyer Tables were a contributory cause in the sinking of Indefatigable and Queen Mary at Jutland. This book provides new and revisionist accounts of the Dreyer/Pollen controversy, and of gunnery at Jutland. In fire control, as with other technologies, the Royal Navy had been open, though not uncritically, to innovations. The Dreyer Tables were better suited to action conditions (particularly those at Jutland). Beatty's losses were the result mainly of deficient tactics and training: and his battlecruisers would have been even more disadvantaged had they been equipped by Argo. It follows the development of the Pollen and Dreyer systems, refutes the charges of plagiarism and explains Argo's rejection. It outlines the German fire control system: and uses contemporary sources in a critical reassessment of Beatty's tactics throughout the Battle of Jutland.

Reference

Routledge

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Telephone: The First Hundred Years

BUSINESS ADVENTURE

The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture (Literature Now)

The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and Culture (Literature Now)

Glass Masterpieces of Crystal and Colo

Showing Off in America: From Conspicuous Consumption to Parody Display

The Go-Go Years: When Prices Went Topless

The Autobiography of American Business: The Story Told By Those Who Made It

Once in Golconda: A true drama of Wall Street, 1920-1938

Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History)