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The following is a bibliography of Columbus, Ohio. It includes selected publications specifically about the city of Columbus , Franklin County , and the Columbus metropolitan area . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Book Loft of German Village is an independent bookstore in the German Village neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. Opened in 1977 and described by the Columbus Business First as "iconic" and a "tourist destination", [ 1 ] the store has also been called "a national treasure" by The New York Times . [ 2 ]
Richard and Judy Book Club display at W.H. Smith, Enfield. The following is a list of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club, featured on the television chat show. The show was cancelled in 2009, but since 2010 the lists have been continued by the Richard and Judy Book Club, a website run in conjunction with retailer W. H. Smith.
The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, "dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature". [1] The Foundation makes annual awards for books published in the US during the previous year that make contributions to American multicultural literature.
Businessman and former New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, an Ohio native who studied at Ohio State at one point and who coached in Columbus, was a big Ohio State football fan and donor to the university, having contributed for the construction of the band facility at the renovated Ohio Stadium, which bears his family's name. [27]
Woodcut from 1494 Basel edition of Columbus's letter. Notice the depiction of the oar-driven galley in the foreground – an early European interpretation of the Indian canoe, as per Columbus's description. [13] Columbus's physical descriptions are brief, noting only that the natives have straight hair and "nor are they black like those in Guinea".
The title is a reference to the location and type of natives portrayed in the book, following the naming convention set forth by previous books in the series. The book is set in the North American continent during the Iron Age (c. 100 CE) and follows the plight of a group of natives trying to save their clan from a great evil and avoid a rival ...
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is a 2005 non-fiction book by American author and science writer Charles C. Mann about the pre-Columbian Americas. It was the 2006 winner of the National Academies Communication Award for best creative work that helps the public's understanding of topics in science, engineering or medicine.