Few of us have time to read multiple business books each month. We might pick up a few books and make our way through them, but if your library is like mine, it’s stuffed with those you want to read but never found the time. I’m here to help correct that problem. These quotes from…
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Audrey Ronning Topping’s “China Mission: A Personal History from the Last Imperial Dynasty to the People’s Republic” has won the 2013 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies. Topping’s extraordinary account of her family’s lives and work in China over three generations offers a rare and remarkable look at a time and place that for…
There are 1,426 billionaires on Earth as of the publication of this book. Carlos Slim Helú, whose net worth is listed at $73 Billion in Forbes “The Richest People on The Planet 2013,” is listed at the #1 position, thus giving him the unique title of “The Richest Man in the World.” This book is an…
BATON ROUGE – During his brief yet remarkable career, abolitionist Charles Torrey – called the “father of the Underground Railroad” by his peers – assisted almost 400 slaves in gaining their freedom. A Yale graduate and an ordained minister, Torrey set up a well-organized route for escaped slaves traveling from Washington and Baltimore to Philadelphia…
BATON ROUGE – Focusing on Virginia and the Carolinas from 1750 to 1835, Katy Simpson Smith’s “We Have Raised All of You,” now available from LSU Press examines maternal practices to reveal the ways in which diverse groups of women struggled to create empowered identities in the early South. This study contributes to a wide…
BATON ROUGE – When the Rev. Halvor Ronning, his sister Thea, and fellow missionary Hannah Rorem set out in 1891 to found a Lutheran mission and school in the interior of China, they could not have foreseen the ways in which that decision would ripple across generations of the Ronning family. Halvor and Hannah…
BATON ROUGE – Many Americans view Andrew Jackson as a frontiersman who fought duels, killed Indians and stole another man’s wife. Historians have traditionally presented Jackson as a man who struggled to overcome obstacles and helped create a more democratic United States. In his compelling new biography of Jackson published by LSU Press, Mark R.…
BATON ROUGE – Local lore about supernatural sightings, as curated by Jeanne deLavigne in her classic book, “Ghost Stories of Old New Orleans,” finds the phantoms of bitter lovers, vengeful slaves, and menacing gypsies haunting nearly every corner of the city, from the streets of the French Quarter to Garden District mansions. Just in…
BATON ROUGE – The literary tradition of New Orleans spans centuries and touches every genre; its living heritage winds through storied neighborhoods and is celebrated at numerous festivals across the city. For booklovers, a visit to the Big Easy isn’t complete without whiling away the hours in an antiquarian bookstore in the French Quarter or…
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