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Stitching Freedom: A True Story of Injustice, Defiance, and Hope in Angola Prison

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Report copyright infringementby Gary Tyler (Author), Ellen Bravo (With)In the tradition of books by Albert Woodfox and Angela Davis, this gripping memoir of a wrongful conviction and time spent on death row in Angola prison shows how incarcerated people care for each other and fight for justice In 1975, seventeen-year-old Gary Tyler was sent to Angola prison to die. A year earlier, he had been wrongfully charged with the killing of a white teenager and found guilty by an all-white jury, maki...

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Report copyright infringementby Will Sloan (Author)For generations, Ed Wood has been known as "the worst director of all time." This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent whose work challenges the boundary between "bad" and "good."When Edward D. Wood, Jr. died in 1978 at fifty-four, just days after being evicted from his home, he was largely forgotten. Two years later, he was named "Worst Director of All Time"--a title that ce...

The Nature of Pain: Roots, Recovery, and Redemption Amid the Opioid Crisis

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Report copyright infringementby Mandi Fugate Sheffel (Author) Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: October 07, 2025

Unveiling: My Life Journey from Veil to Vision

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Report copyright infringementby Sahar Saeed (Author)The Middle East is ablaze with change, and amidst the turmoil, a profound spiritual awakening is unfolding. In Unveiling, Sahar Saeed shares her extraordinary journey from a traditional Muslim upbringing in Saudi Arabia to knowing Yeshua intimately in the United States and starting a life-changing ministry. Sahar's story is a testament to the transformative power of faith in the face of costly pain, deep loss, sorrow, joy, laughter, and ulti...

In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico's Ancient Civilizations

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Report copyright infringementby Merilee Grindle (Author)A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year "Grindle's passionate book, including extensive research in Mexico, will ensure that [Zelia Nuttall] is never forgotten." --British Museum Magazine "[A] beautifully crafted biography." --Foreign Affairs "What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man's world, a great scholar, and ...

Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr.

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce H. Klauber (Author), Andrea Kauffman (Author)As an American singer, conductor, composer, and actor, Frank Sinatra, Jr. (1944-2016), had a long and successful music career and was recognized for his many contributions to American popular song. Yet, his own star has often been overshadowed by his world-famous father. The first book ever published about Frank Sinatra, Jr., Let Me Be Frank: The Extraordinary Life and Music of Frank Sinatra, Jr., details how t...

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Boom: A Child of the Beach in Toronto Remembers the 50's

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Black (Author)"Everyone has to grow up sometime and everyone has to grow up somewhere and I am delighted that I did it in the Fifties and in the Beach." Keith Black, who was born in 1947 provides a sparkling narrative about what it was like to be a child during the 50's in the Beach area of Toronto at a time when the streets teemed with children. As we watch the children play and roam far from home, we also meet some of the residents, shop in some of the ...

Community and the Human Spirit: Oral Histories from Montreal's Point St. Charles, Griffintown and Goose Village

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Report copyright infringementby David J. Flavell (Author)A solid contribution to social and urban studies, this fascinating collection of oral histories details the life and times in Canada's "cradle of industrialization." Contributors to this book were all born between the 1920s and 1950s and remember growing up around the east end of the Lachine Canal near the Montreal harbour. It was a time when ships from far away places still navigated the canal and this historic working-class area humme...

Have We Found Our Better Selves?: (What We Can Learn from Covid-19)

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Report copyright infringementby Meril R. Smith (Author)HAVE WE FOUND OUR BETTER SELVES? is a follow-up to a "survival" book that was written during the first three months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. With over a year and a half of living with the COVID-19 virus and with the probability of COVID-19 finally being under control, this book helps all of us step back and take a look at how we have thought and acted during the months and months of pandemic. Ask yourself, "Am I just trying to forget the...

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Corcoran (Author) Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN Publication Date: September 30, 2025 Award: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (2024)

Katherine Dunham: Recovering an Anthropological Legacy, Choreographing Ethnographic Futures

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Chin (Editor)This book explores Katherine Dunham's contribution to anthropology and the ongoing relevance of her ideas and methodologies, rejecting the idea that art and academics need to be cleanly separated from each other. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 14, 2014

Palliative Care: A Guide for Health Social Workers - Paperback

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by Bridget Sumser (Editor), Meagan Leimena (Editor), Terry Altilio (Editor)Accessible and instructive, ÂPalliative CareÂguides and inspires health social workers to incorporate palliative care principles into their current clinical practice. Through the lenses of environmental theory and intersectionality, rich case narratives highlight opportunities for social workers to enhance their work, advancing whole-person care in the face of serious illness. Chapters include questions to concretize i...

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by Geraldine Pinch (Author)Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris influenced contemporary cultures and became part of the Western cultural heritage. Egyptian Mythology: A Very Short Introduction explains the cultural and historical background to the fascinating and complex world of Egyptian myth, with each chapter dealing with a particular theme.To show the variety of source material for E...

Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine - Paperback

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by David Leeming (Author), Jake Page (Author)An old woman lives still among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where. She is sometimes seen standing along the highway near El Paso, hauling wood near Oaxaca, or even hitching a ride on a semi rig. She is the bone woman, the gatherer, La Loba. She collects bones, especially those of wolves. When she has collected enough bones to make a whole wolf, she sings over the skeleton, and it beg...

Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America - Paperback

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by Peter Andreas (Author)America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era. Contraband capitalism, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism. Providing a sweeping narrative history fro...

Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Power, Networks - Paperback

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by Andreas Wimmer (Author)Why does ethnicity matter in certain societies and contexts but not in others? Drawing on the boundary-making perspective first championed by anthropologist Fredrick Barth, Andreas Wimmer introduces a comparative analytic of ethnic group formation. He analyzes how and why ethnic boundaries are sometimes associated with inequality and exclusion, with political salience and public debate, with enduring loyalty and thick identities, while in other cases ethnicity and ra...

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Report copyright infringementby Theodor Herzl (Author)The Jewish State is a classic Jewish history text by Theodor Herzl. It is astonishing how little insight into the science of economics many of the men who move in the midst of active life possess. Hence it is that even Jews faithfully repeat the cry of the Anti-Semites: "We depend for sustenance on the nations who are our hosts, and if we had no hosts to support us we should die of starvation." Number of Pages: 120 ...

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Report copyright infringementby Robin J. Wilson (Author)In full, rich color, a beautiful collect of more than 350 stamps, each of which is illustrated with mathematical figures, people, and content. A perfect gift book for anyone interested in stamps, or the surprising use of mathematics in the real world. The author is widely known for his column on stamps in the magazine, The Mathematical Intelligencer Number of Pages: 126 Dimensions: 0.3 x 10 x 7 IN I...

Fanatic: Ten Things All Sports Fans Should Do Before They Die

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Report copyright infringementby Jim Gorant (Author)If you had to pick the top ten iconic sporting events, what would they be? Jim Gorant asked himself this question, and the answer resulted in a yearlong journey into the heart of sports. From the Kentucky Derby to the Super Bowl, from a day game at Wrigley Field to a fortnight at Wimbledon, from the NCAA Final Four to the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field, Gorant takes us along for the ride, evoking the best (and sometimes the worst) sports has ...

Gila Country Legend: The Life and Times of Quentin Hulse - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Nancy Coggeshall (Author)The compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life.Author BiographyNancy Coggeshall moved from Rhode Island to New Mexico, after living in London, England; Toronto, Ontario; and the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She quickly found herself at home among the ranching families and slower paced small-town life of the Land of Enchantment. She resides in Reserve...

TRAILBLAZERS, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great: American Firsts/American Icons, Volume 1 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Gabrielle David (Author), Carolina Fung Feng (Editor), Chandra D. L. Waring (Introduction by)Author BiographyGabrielle David is a musician, photographer, digital designer, poet, and writer. She is the publisher of 2Leaf Press and Executive Director of the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. Number of Pages: 530 Dimensions: 1.7 x 9 x 6.1 IN Publication Date: October 01, 2021

Faeries: A History in Art, Verse, and Lore

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Report copyright infringementby Nikki Van De Car (Author)Discover the history and mythology of faeries--across time and cultures--as well as their significance in art, poetry, and more, in this lushly illustrated volume, featuring more than 100 reproductions of artistic masterpieces. "A field guide to the fantastic." -- Kirkus Faeries have captured the collective imagination throughout time and across cultures. Unexplained occurrences, natural phenomena, and so much more have been attribute...

Okinawa: The History of an Island People - Paperback

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by George Kerr (Author), Mitsugu Sakihara (Afterword by)"The first full-length monograph on the history of the Ryukyu Islands in any Western language...a standard work."--Pacific Affairs Okinawa: The History of an Island People is the definitive book available in English on the history of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Islands, and an influential scholarly work in the field of Japanese studies. The histories of Japan, Okinawa and the entire Pacific region are crucially intertwined; therefore the revi...

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Report copyright infringementby Miriam Chaiken (Author)A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists' residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York's cultural landscape for over fifty years In 1970, the former Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan was transformed into Westbeth, an ambitious experiment in urban renewal that became the world's largest and longest-running art-ists' residence. Home to generations of visual artists, musicians, writers, dancers, and...

Slavery and the Making of America - Paperback

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by James Oliver Horton (Author), Lois E. Horton (Author)The history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through stories of the slaves themselves. Readers will discover a wide ranging and sharply nuanced look at American slavery, from the first Africans brought to British colonies in the e...

No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States - Paperback

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by Nancy F. Cott (Editor)Enriched by the wealth of new research into women's history, No Small Courage offers a lively chronicle of American experience, charting women's lives and experiences with fascinating immediacy from the precolonial era to the present. Individual stories and primary sources-including letters, diaries, and news reports-animate this history of the domestic, professional, and political efforts of American women. John Demos begins the book with a discussion of Native Ameri...

Artmill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia

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Report copyright infringementby Barbara Benish (Author)The story starts in totalitarian darkness (Czechoslovakia before 1989) and gradually lays out a groundwork for how creativity within community can influence and change society. All of this is rooted in the connection to the natural world, be it local sustainable farming practices, rural innovations, or international policies with governmental bodies on the global level. The book is a success story for a female artist (the author) who foun...

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Kelly (Author)Mrenh Gongveal: Chasing the Elves of the Khmer is a photo essay that delves into a common, but lesser understood, belief of the Cambodians. While learning about the culture and customs of Cambodia, Keith Kelly's adopted home of 10 years, he was especially fascinated by their folklore. One particular type of shrine dedicated to the Mrenh Gongveal, Elves of the Khmer, caught his imagination. As a personal project he started documenting the mor...

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Report copyright infringementby U S Dept of Housing and Urban Develo (Created by), Inc Barrier Free Environments (Created by)First published in 1996, the Fair Housing Act Design Manual: A Manual to Assist Designers and Builders in Meeting the Accessibility Requirements of The Fair Housing Act provides clear and helpful guidance about ways to design and construct housing which complies with the Fair Housing Act. The manual explains the accessibility requirements of the Act, which must be incor...

Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts

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Report copyright infringementby Amelia Jones (Author)Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture, from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual, the painted image a "world picture" expressing a comprehensive and coherent point of view, to the rise of identity politics after WWII in the art world and beyond. The book is both a history of these ideas (for example, traci...

Classroom Assessment: A Practical Guide for Educators

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Report copyright infringementby Craig A. Mertler (Author)- Provides detailed information on - the functions of assessment; - how to construct, administer, and interpret the results of teacher-developed assessment techniques; and - how to interpret the results of externally developed instruments such as standardized tests. - Both traditional and newer, alternative assessment techniques are covered. - Advantages and disadvantages of each assessment technique are discussed. - A companion website...