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American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Savage (Author)Celebrated sex advice columnist and founder of the Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers "powerful messages for both the head and heart" (Entertainment Weekly) From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion on controversial topics--political or otherwise. In the height of his activism, he addresses issues ranging from parenting and...

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Report copyright infringementby Fiona Sterling (Author)"The Beyoncé Phenomenon: From Destiny's Child to Queen Bey" by Fiona Sterling takes readers on a transformative journey through the life and career of one of the most influential artists of our time. Beyoncé, an unparalleled icon in the American music industry, has risen from humble beginnings in Houston to become a global force in pop culture. This book delves into Beyoncé's artistic evolution, exploring how her personal growth and unyie...

G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Celeste Fremon (Author), Tom Brokaw (Introduction by)Father Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth. "A great many kids in my neighborhood don't plan their futures; they plan their funerals." G-Dog and the Homeboys presents the story of Boyle's unconventional ministry and its extraordinary successes. In this ex...

Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South

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Report copyright infringementby Leonard Rogoff (Author)It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do," wrote Gertrude Weil (1879-1971). In the first-ever biography of Weil, Leonard Rogoff tells the story of a modest southern Jewish woman who, while famously private, fought publicly and passionately for the progressive causes of her age. Born to a prominent family in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Weil never married and there remained ensconced--in many ways a proper south...

Beyond the Bear: How I Learned to Live and Love Again after Being Blinded by a Bear

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Report copyright infringementby Dan Bigley (Author), Debra McKinney (Author)A 25-year-old backcountry wanderer, Dan Bigley woke up one midsummer morning to a day full of promise. Before it was over, after a stellar day of salmon fishing along Alaska's Kenai and Russian rivers, a grizzly came tearing around a corner on the trail. Dan barely had time to register this before the bear had him on the ground with his head in its powerful mouth. All of his happiness was shattered by a mauling that l...

Take Care of Them Like My Own: Faith, Fortitude, and a Surgeon's Fight for Health Justice

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Report copyright infringementby Ala Stanford (Author)The founder of the Black Doctors Consortium highlights the devastating racial injustices in our healthcare system in this inspirational memoir and empowering call to action. Dr. Ala Stanford knew she wanted to be a doctor by the time she was eight years old. But role models were few and far between in her working-class North Philly neighborhood. Her teachers were dismissive, and the realities of racism, sexism, and poverty threatened to der...

Nojoque: A Question for a Continent, Issues 1-9

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Report copyright infringementby Hinton Rowan Helper (Author)Join Hinton Rowan Helper on a fascinating journey through the political, economic, and social landscape of 19th century America. Helper's groundbreaking work is a penetrating analysis of the forces that shaped American society in the years leading up to the Civil War. From slavery to industrialization, Helper's insights are as relevant today as they were more than a century ago. A must-read for anyone interested in American history o...

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Hose (Author), William McDougall (Author)The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text ...

The Making of a Negro: From The Door of No Return to Barak Obama and The White House

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Report copyright infringementby Hakim Anderson (Author)Despite the fact that the Black community and its organizations were not always united around strategy and tactics and drew members from different classes and backgrounds, the movement nevertheless cohered around the aim of eliminating the system of Jim Crow segregation and the reform of some of the worst aspects of racism in American institutions and life. Hakim Anderson states: "Black Americans do not have a clear and thorough understan...

African-American Classics Collection: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Twelve Years a Slave, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk

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Report copyright infringementby Frederick Douglass (Author), Solomon Northup (Author), Booker T. Washington (Author)FOUR SELECTED WORKS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE IN ONE CONVENIENT VOLUME!Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an memoir and treatise on abolition written by African-American orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same p...

Thank You MR Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British

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Report copyright infringementby Mihir Bose (Author)Mihir Bose, born in Kolkata shortly before Indian independence in 1947, still feels enormous gratitude towards Mr Crombie of the UK's Home Office, who confirmed his permanent resident's rights. After studying in Britain, Bose had dreamed of making a life and career there; now he could pursue it. Shiva Naipaul mocked him for reembracing the colonial lash, doubting Bose's prospects as a writer--but he was wrong. This absorbing account shows how...

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Colt Aslan (Author)Step into the past with Rebecca Colt Aslan as she recounts her upbringing and experiences with sexual assault spanning over four decades.Everyone harbors pain, often buried beneath the surface as they navigate life's challenges. This book bravely illuminates one person's difficult past, offering hope that its revelation may provide solace and support to others facing similar struggles.Understanding the truth of sexual violation is dau...

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Send a Runner: A Navajo Honors the Long Walk - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Edison Eskeets (Author), Jim Kristofic (Author)2022 Southwest Books of the YearThe Navajo tribe, the Diné, are the largest tribe in the United States and live across the American Southwest. But over a century ago, they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk, a forced removal of most of the Diné people to a military-controlled reservation in New Mexico. The summer of 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the Navajos' return to their homelands. One Navajo family a...

The Abolitionist's Journal: Memories of an American Antislavery Family - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby James D. Richardson (Author)Over the course of more than twenty years, James D. Richardson and his wife, Lori, retraced the steps of his ancestor, George Richardson (1824-1911), across nine states, uncovering letters, diaries, and more memoirs hidden away. Their journey brought them to the brink of the racial divide in America, revealing how his great-great-grandfather Richardson played a role in the Underground Railroad, served as a chaplain to a Black Union r...

Oliver's Towns: More Columns of Oliver Towne

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Report copyright infringementby Gareth Hiebert (Author)This is a new collection of columns from legendary newspaperman Gareth Hiebert. For 32 years Hiebert has written a regular column for the St. Paul Dispatch, then for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Using the pen name of Oliver Towne, he covered St. Paul's past and present, celebrating people and neighborhoods. Some of his best-known columns about the community appeared in City on Seven Hills, now out of print. This new collection also include...

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Bowman-Kruhm (Author)This accessible and informative biography of an acclaimed anthropologist will appeal to anyone with an interest in anthropology. When Coming of Age in Samoa was published in 1928, the book quickly became a bestseller and brought its author to national prominence-a bright, young, and charismatic anthropologist named Margaret Mead. For the next five decades, Margaret Mead became the public face of anthropology in the United States, her s...

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI - Paperback

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by Yuval Noah Harari (Author)From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological collapse. Misinformation abounds. And we are rushing headlong into the age of AI--a new informatio...

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Report copyright infringementby Ted Nannicelli (Editor), Paul Taberham (Editor)Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive Media Theory takes up this question in the context of film and media studies. This collection of essays by internationally recognized researchers in film and media studies, psychology, and philosophy offers film and media scholars and advanc...

The Artist at Home: Studios, Practices and Identities

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Report copyright infringementby Imogen Racz (Editor), Jill Journeaux (Editor)Artists have worked from home for many reasons, including care duties, financial or political constraints, or availability and proximity to others. From the 'home studios' of Charles and Ray Eames, to the different photographic representations of Robert Rauschenberg's studio, this book explores the home as a distinct site of artistic practice, and the traditions and developments of the home studio as concept and spac...

Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Petitt (Editor), Anke Tonnaer (Editor), Véronique Servais (Editor)Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods explores the potential of multimodal art practices in doing qualitative research beyond the human. Through artful endeavours such as creative writing, photography, filmmaking, drawing and poetry, the volume aims to overcome the shortcomings of conventional, anthropocentric and logocentric methods in multispecies research. To move beyond the limit...

Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World Among Glassblowers

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Report copyright infringementby Erin E. O'Connor (Author)Glassblowing by hand might seem like a dying art, yet it is thriving: Studios and universities offer popular classes, and glass art is widely exhibited and sold. Amateur and professional glassblowers alike are captivated by the choreography of fire, smoke, and molten material. Why are people drawn to this ancient craft? What is distinctive about the social, physical, and intellectual experience of glassblowing? How does the body learn a...

Selected Writings, Volume 1: Toward a New African Art Discourse

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Report copyright infringementby Okwui Enwezor (Author), Terry Smith (Editor)Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale (1997), the paradigm-shifting Documenta11 (2002), Archive Fever (2008), and Postwar (2016). In addition to breaking ground as a curator, Enwezor was also a prolific critic...

Selected Writings, Volume 2: Curating the Postcolonial Condition

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Report copyright infringementby Okwui Enwezor (Author), Terry Smith (Editor)Okwui Enwezor is widely regarded as a leader among the brilliant curators who emerged in the 1990s to set agendas for understanding the global expansiveness of contemporary art. Among his pathfinding exhibitions were the second Johannesburg Biennale (1997), the paradigm-shifting Documenta 11 (2002), Archive Fever (2008), and Postwar (2016). In addition to breaking ground as a curator, Enwezor was also a prolific criti...

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Report copyright infringementby Charuka Arora (Author), Rabia Khan (Associate Editor), Gull (Author)The Power of She [Regular Edition, Hard Cover Book]About the Book: The Power of She is the result of a global open call hosted by the Women in Arts Network, revolving around the theme of Womanhood. This book is a product of collaboration between the Arts to Hearts Project and the Women in Arts Network, united by a vision to celebrate the talents, voices, and stories of women from around the wor...

Beverly McIver: Stories of an African American Painter Raised in the South

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Report copyright infringementby Kim Boganey (Author), Beverly McIver (Author), Joy Sperling (Editor)What can the lived experience of acclaimed painter Beverly McIver teach us about life as an African American woman artist raised in the American South, and what insights can we glean about the wider art world?Expanding on their original conversation stemming from the artists' retrospective exhibition, Full Circle, painter Beverly McIver and curator Kim Boganey delve into Beverly's life journey ...

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Report copyright infringementby Community Alliance for Global Justice (Author)Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for a New Normal features art, stories, and recipes from over 30 contributors. Explore illustrations, personal narratives and poems from Indigenous Alaska, Punjab, Puerto Rico, and the Pacific Northwest. Enjoy comic strips, block prints, and instructions for creating a fortune teller. Savor recipes for tea, truffles, soups, salmon, lumpia and more. These illuminating pieces stitch togeth...

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Report copyright infringementby Anne Gerritsen (Editor), Heiko Feldner (Editor), Giorgio Riello (Editor)Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the repre...

Restless Infections: Public Art and a Transforming City

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Report copyright infringementby Jay Pather (Editor)Restless Infections is a collection of critical essays exploring artistic interventions in urban spaces, focusing on place-making and the politics of space in South Africa. The writers examine seminal artworks by South African artists, addressing diverse forms of expression such as site-specific performances, immersive installations, film, photography, and online performances. The book is divided into three sections: The Restless City, Public...

Chinese Dragons: A Mythical Creatures Art Book

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Report copyright infringementby Kay Rubacek (Author), L. Newton Hayes (Author)Discover the Secrets of the Chinese Dragon - and Take Home a Piece of Ancient History.Whether you're a curious child, a passionate historian, or a dragon lover of any age, this beautifully designed coffee table book invites you to explore the majestic world of Chinese dragons. With over 250 vivid, full-color images of authentic historical artwork, you'll uncover the dragon's mysterious origins, symbolic power, and e...

Politics, Humor and the Counterculture; Laughter in the Age of Decay

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Report copyright infringementby Vwadek P. Marciniak (Author)Politics, Humor, and the Counterculture discusses the post-war period (1945-1972) through the lenses of three artists: Ken Nordine, Lenny Bruce, and Firesign Theatre. Their humor cut through the hypocrisy of the Cold War and the prevailing culture and expanded our horizons. From the Beats to the peace and civil rights movements, these humorists illuminate America from their unique perspectives. Vwadek P. Marciniak highlights the poet...

Queering Post-Black Art: Artists Transforming African-American Identity After Civil Rights

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Report copyright infringementby Derek Conrad Murray (Author)What impact do sexual politics and queer identities have on the understanding of 'blackness' as a set of visual, cultural and intellectual concerns? In Queering Post-Black Art, Derek Conrad Murray argues that the rise of female, gay and lesbian artists as legitimate African-American creative voices is essential to the development of black art. He considers iconic works by artists including Glenn Ligon, Kehinde Wiley, Mickalene Thomas...