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In Theory, Darling: Searching for José Esteban Muñoz and the Queer Imagination

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Report copyright infringementby Marcos Gonsalez (Author)A love letter to queer of color theory and how it has helped the author to discover himself, reclaim identities, celebrate queer joy, and work towards liberation Marcos Gonsalez found his greatest source of joy when he encountered queer theory in college. As they put it, "queers and college go together like peanut butter and jelly," and for them, this was especially true. Seeing himself reflected in the work José Esteban Muñoz was life-c...

Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico

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Report copyright infringementby Noé Álvarez (Author)Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure: That he had abandoned his family, and had possibly done something awful that put a curse on his descendants. About his grandfather...

Love Made Me an Inventor: The Story of Maggy Barankitse - Humanitarian, Genocide Survivor, Citizen Without Borders

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Report copyright infringementby David Toole (Author), Emmanuel Katongole (Foreword by)On October 25, 1993, Maggy Barankitse buried seventy-two bodies in a mass grave on the grounds of the bishop's house in Burundi, a day after she was made to watch as they were murdered in a fit of ethnic violence. What happened next would save tens of thousands of children from death and despair during a protracted civil war.Love Made Me an Inventor is how Marguerite (Maggy) Barankitse describes how she has ...

Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas

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Report copyright infringementby Craig Thompson Friend (Author)By challenging the rules of enslavement and, later, pushing the boundaries of free citizenship in North Carolina, Lunsford Lane (1803-79) became a folk hero to many enslaved Southerners, as well as a generation of abolitionists. Author of a unique "slave narrative" and a speaking partner with some of the era's greatest orators, including William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Highland Garnett, William Wells Brown, and Frederick Douglass, La...

My Tibetan Heritage and Journey in Exile

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Report copyright infringementby Kalsang Gyatso Kunor (Author) Number of Pages: 334 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 21, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Goldberg (Author)Approaches stigmatized sex with candor and curiosity, interweaving experience and analysis to better appreciate the intricacies and intrigue of queer desires and pleasures.Queer theorists have long defended stigmatized sexual desires and behaviors by demonstrating how they are either fundamentally harmless or have some higher political, psychological, or social value. While such defenses may be useful in combatting homophobia, the mandate ...

American Change Agent: A Life & Legacy of Seeking Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

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Report copyright infringementby John Frederic Leeke (Author), Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke (Author) Number of Pages: 492 Dimensions: 0.99 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 19, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Backus (Author)In the early 80s, New York City's Gansevoort Meatpacking District, a small irregular patch of the West Village, was a wild confluence of meat market workers, gay men hitting The Mineshaft or The Anvil, trans prostitutes, homeless huddled around burn barrels, New Jersey mafiosos, veterans of three wars, heroes of the French Resistance, and Holocaust survivors. Michael Backus was newly arrived to the city when he began working at Adolf Kusy...

Slum Boy: One of the Most Moving Accounts of Non-Fiction Ever Written

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Report copyright infringementby Juano Diaz (Author)'ONE OF THE MOST MOVING ACCOUNTS OF NON-FICTION EVER WRITTEN' GUARDIAN 'If you like Shuggie Bain, then Slum Boy is for you' LEMN SISSAY 'Beautifully told. I hope it finds a million readers' ANDREW O'HAGAN John MacDonald is a four-year-old boy growing up in the slums of Glasgow. John's mother is an addict, who leaves him starving in their flat for days at a time. When a neighbour reports her, John is wrenched away from his family and plac...

The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family

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Report copyright infringementby Oscar Lewis (Author)A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty--a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published. It is the epic story of the Sánchez family, told entirely by its members--Jesus, the 50-year-old patriarch, and his four adult children--as their lives unfold in the Mexico City slum they call home. Weaving...

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Report copyright infringementby George Werner (Author)St. Bridget's School is the true story of a journey taken by an eleven-year-old Austrian immigrant to the United States and settling into an inner-city neighborhood, in nineteen fifties Rochester, NY. Carrying with him a deep loneliness, in a world turned upside down from all that he had known, he was faced with the overwhelming task of finding his way in a new, very foreign place. Good fortune had placed him in a neighborhood full of dive...

The Education of Girls: Coming of age in four years that changed America

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie Williams (Author) Number of Pages: 294 Dimensions: 0.66 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 21, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby D-L Nelson (Author)Often ignored, their significant achievements attributed to others, these 300 women fought against gender boundaries to fulfill the potential they knew they had. Many suffered indignities in their quests - such as the woman who won the right to teach, but only behind a curtain to not upset male students.Inventors, activists, scientists, doctors, lawyers, mountain climbers, athletes, historians, artists, writers, 'bad-ass women' and more... th...

Mary Poppins Doesn't Exist: What Twenty Two Au Pairs Taught Me About America's Care Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Seanna Thompson (Author) Number of Pages: 92 Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 12, 2025

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...

How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories - Paperback

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by Gabriel J. Loiacono (Author)What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained consistent in structure between the establishment of the British colonies in the 1600s and the New Deal of the 1930s. In this book, Gabriel J. Loiacono follows the lives of five people in Rhode Island betwee...

Hear Her Voice!: Twelve Jewish Women Who Changed The World

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Report copyright infringementby Miriam P. Feinberg (Author), Miriam Klein Shapiro (Author)Hear Her Voice! Twelve Jewish Women Who Changed The World is an extraordinary collection of biographies showcasing both biblical Jewish leaders and modern, well-known Jewish personalities.Each of the women described in this book is unique in the way she was influenced by her family, by her environment, and by the way she chose to react to those influences.Each of these women lived a life rich in Jewish v...

Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation - Hardcover

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by Kelly Filreis (Editor), Alexis Bard Johnson (Editor), Bethany Montagano (Foreword by)Considering the overlooked importance of science-fiction fandom and the occult to queer history in the USScience fiction and occult communities helped pave the way for the LGBTQ+ movement by providing a place for individuals to meet, imagine and create a life less restricted by societal norms. Focusing on Los Angeles from the late 1930s through the 1960s, this catalog follows the lives of artists, writers,...

Crossdresser // Accept Yourself Or Die: Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary To Trans Punk // Crossdresser: Growing Up Trans In The 1990s An

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Report copyright infringementby Imogen Reid (Author), Kat Rogue (Author)Two books published back-to-back in a single volume for a double gut-punch of heartfelt, angry, and funny reflections on transfemme coming of age.Imogen Reid's Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary to Trans Punk travels from small-town Northern Ontario, to the Missionary Training Centre in Provo, Utah, to basement shows in Ottawa. It's a story about staying stubbornly human in a world that wants to destroy you, a...

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Report copyright infringementby Brannon Costello (Author)From his roots in underground comics to his high-profile runs on mainstream characters, Rick Veitch (b. 1951) has carved out a career unlike anyone else's. Collecting thirteen interviews--including three published here for the first time--Conversations with Rick Veitch offers a wealth of insight not only into the development of Veitch's graphic innovations and metaphysical explorations, but also into the upheavals and transformations of...

James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge: A Life of Science During the Age of Improvement

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Report copyright infringementby Margaret M. Crump (Author)In James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge Margaret M. Crump offers the first in-depth biography of the early Victorian British scientist James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848). An intellectual giant in the developing human sciences, he was a pioneering psychiatric theorist in the formative years of the discipline and one of Europe's leading anthropologists. With evocative detail, Crump draws readers into the social and cultural milieu of ea...

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Stay Interesting: I Don't Always Tell Stories about My Life, But When I Do They're True and Amazing

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Goldsmith (Author)What makes a life truly interesting? Is it the people you meet? The risks you take? The adventures you remember? Jonathan Goldsmith has many answers to that question. For years he was a struggling actor in New York and Los Angeles, with experiences that included competing for roles with Dustin Hoffman, getting shot by John Wayne, drinking with Tennessee Williams, and sailing the high seas with Fernando Lamas, never mind romancing many...

The Tall Tales of Davy Crockett: The Second Nashville Series of Crockett Almanacs, 1839-1841

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Report copyright infringementby Michael A. Lofaro (Author) Published from 1835 to 1856, the Crockett almanacs were the primary force in the creation of a tall tale Davy Crockett as our country's first comic superman. In these rare almanacs, the historical Crockett became a fictional backwoods screamer who could "run faster, --jump higher, --squat lower, --dive deeper, --stay under longer, --and come out drier, than any many in the whole country." As the best known of the early ring-tailed ro...

The Magnificent Reverend Peter Thomas Stanford, Transatlantic Reformer and Race Man

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara McCaskill (Editor), Sidonia Serafini (Editor), Paul Walker (With)Born into slavery in Hampton County, Virginia, orphaned soon thereafter, and raised for almost two years among Native Americans, the charismatic Rev. Peter Thomas Stanford (c. 1860-May 20, 1909) rose from humble and challenging beginnings to emerge as an inventive and passionate activist and educator who championed social justice. During the post- Reconstruction era and early twentieth cen...

Cornplanter: Chief Warrior of the Allegany Senecas

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas S. Abler (Author)The era following the American War of Independence was one of enormous conflict for the Allegany Senecas. There was then no Seneca leader more influential than Chief Warrior Cornplanter. Yet there has been no definitive treatment of his life--until now. Complex and passionate, yet wise, Cornplanter led his people in war and along an often troubled path to peace. This incisive biography traces his rise to prominence as a Seneca military l...

Mamie Doud Eisenhower: The General's First Lady

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Report copyright infringementby Marilyn Irvin Holt (Author)It was fitting for a soldier's wife to make curtains out of military-surplus parachutes. That they would hang in the White House made little difference. Mamie Doud Eisenhower was a president's wife who seemed to most Americans like the friend next door. She gave us "Mamie pink" and "Mamie bangs" but has stood in the shadows of first ladies who followed. Yet she accomplished more than even her own contemporaries noticed, and her popula...

The Religion Of The Indians Of California (1907)

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Report copyright infringementby A. L. Kroeber (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of...

In the New World: Growing Up with America from the Sixties to the Eighties

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Report copyright infringementby Lawrence Wright (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes an intimate memoir of one man's coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades. - "A wonderfully readable, thoroughly absorbing memoir of a twenty-five-year span of wrenching change." --The Philadelphia InquirerWe first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World...

Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, From American Slavery ..

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Report copyright infringementby Moses Roper (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important en...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Louis Dugdale (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

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Report copyright infringementby Chauncey L. Canfield (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is imp...