Mizrahi, Isaac

Summary: "Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, TV celebrity. Yet ever since he shot to fame in the late 1980s, the private Isaac Mizrahi has remained under wraps. Until now. In [this book], Isaac Mizrahi offers a poignant, candid, and touching look back on his life so far. Growing up gay in a sheltered Syrian Jewish Orthodox family, Isaac had unique talents that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2019

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Asimov, Isaac

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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2002

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Fitzgerald, Isaac

Summary: "Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives--or so he was told. In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022

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Wright, Isaac

Summary: "Marked for Life is the incredible memoir of a wrongfully imprisoned man's epic journey to free himself and others like him. Isaac Wright Jr. was wrongly accused of drug charges in New Jersey and sentenced to life in prison in 1991. He was arrested, tried, and convicted under a draconian "kingpin" statute even though he never dealt drugs a day in his life. Even though the prosecutor knew he was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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Islam, Farhana

Summary: "Meet a handful of the men and women that helped shape the early life of Prophet Muhammad. In these pages, you will find his mother, Amina bint Wahb; the women that loved and protected him like their very own, Halimah Sa'diyyah and Barakah (Umm Ayman); and his beloved grandfather Abd al-Muttalib, alongside his uncle Abu Talib. This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to Prophet...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Islamic Foundation 2022

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Bailey, Issac J.

Summary: "An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. In A Black Man in Trumpland, South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and respectability politics. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2020

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Mizruchi, Susan L.

Summary: Drawing from the actor's personal letters, audiotapes and annotations on screenplays and books, the author paints a unique picture of the legendary star's off-screen life including his embrace of foreign cultures and his collection of 4,000 books.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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McKinnon, Isaiah.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Pub. Co. 2003

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Bradwell, Isaac Gordon

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mercer University Press 1999

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Isaacs, Sally Senzell

Summary: Uses the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. a reference to examine the history of the United States from 1948 to 1976.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann Library 2000

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Dinesen, Isak

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1981

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Isay, Dave

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012

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Islam, Tanwi Nandini

Summary: "At once memoir and reckoning, In Sensorium interlaces memories of childhood in the South, Midwest, and New York with a universe of memories and scent--a sensorium--while offering a critical, alternate history of South Asia from a Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective. At the heart of this work is an interrogation of the ancient violence of caste, rape culture, patriarchy, war, and the inherited...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Dinesen, Isak

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1985

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Pascal, Janet B

Summary: Highlights the life and career of the genius physicist, discussing his childhood years, his time at Cambridge, and his landmark book, known as the "Principia."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

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Jawharīyah, Wāṣif

Summary: "The memoirs of Wasif Jawhariyyeh are a remarkable treasure trove of writings on the life, culture, music, and history of Jerusalem. Spanning over four decades, from 1904 to 1948, they cover a period of enormous and turbulent change in Jerusalem's history-Ottoman rule, the British mandate, and the run-up to the founding of the state of Israel-but change lived and recalled from the daily vantage...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Gollub, Matthew.

Summary: A biography and introduction to the work of the Japanese haiku poet whose love for nature finds expression in the more than thirty poems included in this book.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books 1998

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Summary: From more than ten thousand interviews, StoryCorps--the largest oral history project in the nation's history--presents a tapestry of American stories, told by the people who lived them to the people they love. StoryCorps began with the idea that everyone has an important story to tell. And since 2003, this remarkable project has been collecting the stories of everyday Americans from all ages,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007

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Gleick, James.

Summary: In this biography, Gleick moves between a comprehensive historical portrait and a dramatic focus on Newton's significant letters and unpublished notebooks to illuminate the real importance of his work in physics, in optics, and in calculus.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003

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Krull, Kathleen.

Summary: Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

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