Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: sun, raisin
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-11-29
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0679755330
ISBN-13: 9780679755333

When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever."--The New York Times.

Author: Lorraine Hansberry
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Keywords: anniversary, thirtieth, sun, raisin
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 1988-06
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0573614636
ISBN-13: 9780573614637

Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicago’s South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis and matriarch Lena, called Mama. When her deceased husband’s insurance money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans, howe

Authors:Lorraine Hansberry, SparkNotes Editors,
Publisher: SparkNotes
Keywords: sun, raisin, notes, spark
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 1586634550
ISBN-13: 9781586634551

Get your "A" in gear!They’re today’s most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes’™ motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because:· They feature the most current ideas and themes, written by experts.· They’re easier to understand, because the same people who use them have also written

Author: Lorraine Daston and Michael StolleisLorraine Dast
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: modern, europe, nature, laws, law, natural
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2008-12-22
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754657612
ISBN-13: 9780754657613

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa. Historians of science, law, philosophy, and theology from Europe and North America here come together to address these central themes and to consider the question; was the emergence of natural law both in European jurisprudence and natural ph

Author: Lorraine A. Jay
Publisher: Soundprints
Keywords: turtle, oceanic, collection, smithsonian, story, journey, sea, loggerhead
Number of Pages: 31
Published: 1995-09
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 1568991908
ISBN-13: 9781568991900

A tiny loggerhead turtle hatches on the beach, rushes to the water, and makes her journey far out to sea, where she grows bigger and stronger in preparation for returning to the beach to lay her own eggs.

Author: Lorraine L. Ukens
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Keywords: training, pfeiffer, essential, resources, professionals, techniques, tools, improve, customer, service, ways, tips
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-02-16
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0787982008
ISBN-13: 9780787982003

101 Ways to Improve Customer Service provides a variety of training and development interventions that can be put to use right now with frontline service employees. Your customer service representatives directly influence the perception that customers have of your products and services and ultimately your company. It is vital that your employees develop service strategies to create a positive image, communicate effectively, and build customer rapport to support the underlying values and beliefs of your organization.

Author: Lorraine B. Diehl
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Keywords: city, york, new, tracks, subways
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2004-10-05
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 1400052270
ISBN-13: 9781400052271

Manhattan, 1870. As overcrowded horse carts and weary pedestrians push through the clogged city streets, a man named Beach secretly works by candlelight 2112 feet beneath Devlin’s clothing store on Broadway, carving out New York’s very first subway tunnel.In the years following the Civil War, New York City experienced unprecedented growth. Commerce boomed as immigrants and tourists poured onto the tiny island in huge numbers. But at a time when commuting distance was measured by the strength of one’s legs and the soles of one’s shoes, the city was unable to expand alongside its populat