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Six to Carry the Casket and One to Say the Mass: Reflections on Life, Identity, and Moving Forward

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Hulseman (Author), Danielle Harvey (Editor)Six to carry the casket and one to say the mass: reflections on life, identity, and moving forward offers the unique opportunity for its readers to start a new dialogue, take an active hand in creating culture and reshaping the world, and think about making meaning from formative experiences and relationships. From family dynamics and professional challenges that bolstered and battered him to the TV shows, films, ...

My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Barrett Brown (Author)Barrett Brown went to prison for four years for leaking intelligence documents. He was released to Trump's America. This is his story.After a series of escapades both online and off that brought him in and out of 4chan forums, the halls of power, heroin addiction, and federal prison, Barrett Brown is a free man. He was arrested for his part in an attempt to catalog, interpret, and disseminate top-secret documents exposed in a security laps...

We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel

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Report copyright infringementby Herb Frazier (Author), Bernard Edward Jr. Powers (Author), Marjory Wentworth (Author)We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel A.M.E. church and the wider denominational movement.On June 17, 2015, at 9:05 p.m., a young man with a handgun opened fire on a prayer meeting at the Mother Em...

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Report copyright infringementby W. E. B. Du Bois (Author), Micheal Smith (Illustrator)This is an illustrated edition containing illustrations, a summary, an author biography, and a list of characters.The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois is a groundbreaking work that combines history, sociology, and personal reflection, offering profound insights into the African American experience in the post-Civil War United States. First published in 1903, this book is a powerful exploration of race, ...

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Report copyright infringementby Erik Nanstiel (Author), Whitley Strieber (Foreword by)Angst in the Shadows: A True Story of Alien Abductionsby Erik NanstielWhat if the nightmares were real?For decades, Erik Nanstiel lived with the creeping dread that something was happening to him-something hidden just beneath the surface of memory. Strange lights. Missing time. Haunting dreams that felt more like intrusions than imagination.Then came the moment when memory returned. And with it, a terrifying...

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Report copyright infringementby Syed Kamil (Author)This is a story about difference, commonality, and resilience. This is an insight into not taking things at face value but finding, feeling, and experiencing life in its actuality. In this process of self-discovery, I have removed the layers of biases to lighten my soul in order to find the purpose of my own life. Being brought up in the most conservative part of the East but also accepting the Western culture with an open mind, has been an e...

A Cry Of The Heart: Human Trafficking - One Survivor's True Story

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Report copyright infringementby Debra Rush (Author), Penelope Childers (Author)Forced into sex trafficking as a teenager, Debra Rush makes a daring escape, then struggles for years with post-traumatic stress. A reluctant mentor supports Debra through the healing of her past. A commitment to save her friends leads to unexpected alliances. In forgiving those who betrayed her, she opens her heart and finds real love. Her true story proves no one is beyond redemption. Journey with Debra from desp...

The Woman Who Loved Mankind: The Life of a Twentieth-Century Crow Elder

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Report copyright infringementby Lillian Bullshows Hogan (Author), Barbara Loeb (Editor), Mardell Hogan Plainfeather (Editor)The oldest living Crow at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Lillian Bullshows Hogan, grew up on the Crow reservation in rural Montana. In The Woman Who Loved Mankind she enthralls readers with stories from her long and remarkable life and the stories of her parents, part of the last generation of Crow born to nomadic ways.As a child Hogan had a miniature tepee, a fas...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Douglass (Author)Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him. What a simple statement yet is conveys so much of the laments of an ex slave and the cruelty of the slave system. Douglass was a famous orator who wrote his memoirs as a means of discussing abolition. The writings of Frederick Douglass are seen as being the most influential in the 19th century and helped strengthen the abolitionist movement. ...

The Decade of Letting Things Go: A Postmenopause Memoir

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Report copyright infringementby Cris Mazza (Author)The Decade of Letting Things Go is a book of linked essays containing still-relevant experiences that take place after the age of becoming socially and/or professionally invisible, as Cris Mazza searches for the elusive serenity of self-acceptance among a growing list of losses. Mazza's story contains many of life's expected losses: pets, parents, old mentors, and symbols of enduring natural places, as well as the loss of identities--child, s...

The Invitation: A Memoir of Hope Amidst Lessons of Race and Place

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Report copyright infringementby Clifton L. Taulbert (Author)Born in 1945, Clifton L. Taulbert attended school in the Mississippi Delta during the era of legal segregation. Rising above the limitations imposed on him by a segregated South, Taulbert attended college, became a professional success, and wrote more than a dozen books that confront the racial climate of mid-century America, including the Pulitzer-nominated The Last Train North, as well as the award-winning Eight Habits of the Heart...

It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent $200 to Create the Longest-Running Live-Action Sitcom in History and Help Build a

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Report copyright infringementby Kimberly Potts (Author)In the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings to its evolution as a critically acclaimed cult classic comedy. Charlie, Dennis, Mac, Sweet Dee, and Frank are deplorable characters. They will never mature, become more self-aware, or less self-involved. That is what the creators of It's Always Sunny in...

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Report copyright infringementby Dora Rodriguez (Author), Abbey Carpenter (Author)Dora: A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain is a gripping memoir by Dora Rodriguez, one of only thirteen survivors of a harrowing 1980 crossing through the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona during El Salvador's civil war. At just nineteen, Dora risked everything to flee political violence, only to be met with new dangers along the migrant trail. Her story unfolds in vivid, heart-wrenching detail, from a ...

The Resilience Myth: New Thinking on Grit, Strength, and Growth After Trauma

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Report copyright infringementby Soraya Chemaly (Author)A "vital, life-saving must-read" (Nora McInerny, author of Bad Vibes Only) manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology, from the bestselling author of Rage Becomes Her. We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for strength, mental fortitude, and positivity. "With her signature clarity and penetrating mind" (Jean Guerrero, author of Hatemonger), Soraya Chemaly challeng...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles E. Apekaum (Author), Benjamin R. Kracht (Editor), Weston La Barre (With)Born during the final years of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, Charles E. Apekaum, grandson of Kiowa chief Stumbling Bear, served as the principal interpreter for the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field expedition in 1935. Educated, bilingual, and world traveled, Apekaum's services as a translator were sought by anyone who dealt with the Kiowa Indian Agency person...

The Literary and Human Legacy of Clara Sereni

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Report copyright infringementby Giulia Po DeLisle (Editor), Susan Briziarelli (Editor)Clara Sereni lived an extraordinary life in extraordinary times. Born in Rome in 1946, she grew up in a prominent family of Jewish intellectuals whose influential role in Italian politics and in the anti-fascist resistance could not but inform Sereni's own future social and political engagement. Coming of age during the turbulent Sixties, Sereni embraced the struggle for women's rights, social justice, and p...

Relentless Pursuit: Our Battle with Jeffrey Epstein

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Report copyright infringementby Bradley J. Edwards (Author), Brittany Henderson (With)"A thrilling page-turner about the pursuit of justice" (New York Post), this is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the corrupt system that supported them, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented their victims for more than a decade.In June 2008, Florida-based victims' rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years old and had just star...

Sheep in Wolves' Clothing: When the Actions of a Christian Turn Criminal

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Williams (Author), Thomas Pratt (Foreword by)Just as there are wolves in sheep's clothing, there are also sheep in wolves' clothing--believers who distance themselves from their faith and walk in the ways of the world. Williams explains how God can and will deliver His children from wandering lifestyles and restore them to the fold. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 01, 2010...

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Paparoa Holman (Author), Frederico Delgado Rosa (Author)New Zealander ethnographer, Elsdon Best is a key figure in the history of anthropology due to his involuntary triggering of a fundamental and long-lasting anthropological debate on the Māori concept of hau. This volume is dedicated to this important scholar, who at the same time was shadowed by metropolitan anthropology and became an excluded ancestor, along with his Māori interlocutors and ethnogr...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Douglass (Author)Frederick Douglass was born into slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Maryland. As a young boy he was sent to Baltimore, to be a house servant, where he learned to read and write, with the assistance of his master's wife. In 1838 he escaped from slavery and went to New York City, where he married Anna Murray, a free colored woman whom he had met in Baltimore. Soon thereafter he changed his name to Frederick Douglass. In ...

Community-Engaged Scholarship: Reflections from Netter Center Alumni

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Report copyright infringementby Rita Axelroth Hodges (Editor), Michael Zuckerman (Editor)A collection of stories by Penn alumni whose lives were transformed by engaging with the West Philadelphia community For over thirty years, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships has served as the University of Pennsylvania's primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, pla...

Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History

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Report copyright infringementby Sheri Caplan (Author)This fascinating work presents biographical essays about women from the colonial period to modern times, chronicling the previously untold story of the female financial experience in the United States. Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History provides a fascinating chronological account of the contributions of women on Wall Street through profiles of selected individuals that set their achievements in the conte...

Delia: Formerly The Bluebird Of Mulberry Bend (1893)

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Report copyright infringementby Emma Mott Whittemore (Author)""Delia: Formerly The Bluebird Of Mulberry Bend"" is a novel written by Emma Mott Whittemore and published in 1893. The book tells the story of Delia, a young girl who grows up in poverty on the streets of Mulberry Bend, a notorious neighborhood in New York City. Delia's life takes a dramatic turn when she is taken in by a wealthy family, who educate her and help her to become a successful businesswoman. However, Delia's past comes ...

Marija Gimbutas: Transnational Biography, Feminist Reception, and the Controversy of Goddess Archaeology

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Report copyright infringementby Rasa Navickaite (Author)This book is a biography and reception history of the Lithuanian-American archaeologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). It presents the first transnational account of Gimbutas' life based on historical research, and an original examination of the impact of her ideas in various feminist contexts, both academic and popular.Author BiographyRasa Navickaite is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, Aust...

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Report copyright infringementby Princess Der Ling (Author)Step back in time and experience the captivating world of the Qing Dynasty through the eyes of The Princess Der Ling in "Two Years in the Forbidden City." This remarkable account offers a rare glimpse into the enigmatic court of Empress Dowager Cixi and the intricate customs of the Forbidden City. Der Ling, a privileged insider, unveils the daily life, traditions, and personalities within the walls of the imperial palace. Explore the r...

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin M. Cahill (Author)Labyrinths explores the origins of thirteen books I have written in the past few decades, texts that have helped to define the emerging parameters of relief operations that inevitably follow armed conflicts or natural disasters. Widely used in international training programs, these books provide practical, specific approaches - and solutions - to complex problems in a multidisciplinary field. But how, and why, and even when certain edito...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Rojek (Author), Polity Press (Manufactured by)Frank Sinatra was only one of a handful of popular entertainers who dominated Western popular culture for six decades. From his early fame as 'the Voice' in the early 1940s, through to the high rolling, fast living 'Rat Pack' era, to the protracted Lear-like farewell tours of his twilight years, Sinatra was the epitome of cool. This compelling, consistently insightful book portrays Sinatra in his many contradi...

Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

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Report copyright infringementby Robin Givhan (Author)Virgil Abloh's iconic rise to the top of the fashion industry embodied a groundbreaking transformation of the relationship between who we are and what we wear. Abloh's appointment as head of menswear for Louis Vuitton in 2018 shocked the fashion inudstry, as he became the first Black designer to serve as artistic director in the brand's 164-year history. But as Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic Robin Givhan reveals, Abloh's story encomp...

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Report copyright infringementby Council Of Progressives (Author)This book offers a comprehensive analysis of President Ernest Bai Koroma's APC administration (2007-2018) and focuses on the policies and reforms that transformed Sierra Leone's economy, infrastructure, energy sector and social development. Through data-driven research, it explores how Koroma's leadership navigated challenges, fostered national progress and set a benchmark for democratic governance in Africa. Beyond a historical ...

Totally Ordinary: One Insignificant Story that Means Everything

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Report copyright infringementby Kendall Macaluso (Author) Number of Pages: 214 Dimensions: 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 24, 2025

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by Frank Waters (Author)The secrets of the Hopi "road of life" revealed for the first time in written form In this strange and wonderful book, thirty elders of the ancient Hopi tribe of Northern Arizona--a people who regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America--freely reveal the Hopi worldview for the first time in written form. The Hopi kept this view a secret for countless centuries, and anthropologists have long struggled to understand it. Now they record their myths and legends,...