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The Unbroken Generation: Youth Voices of Belarus 2020

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Report copyright infringementby Elena Korosteleva (Editor), Victor Shadurski (Editor)This book is a collection of essays from student participants in Belarus' 2020 protests. Many of them ended up in jail, having experienced first-hand the maltreatment by Lukashenka's regime. All of them had to flee their homeland as a result. Yet, their young voices today - which in this book, we refer to as the UNBROKEN GENERATION - resonate stronger than ever before, giving us HOPE for the future, and BELIE...

Never Let Me Go: A Portrait of Sexual Predation

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Report copyright infringementby Chuck Rosenthal (Author)In 1964, Chuck Rosenthal was a thirteen year old boy whose dream was to make his grade school basketball team. Never Let Me Go tells the true story of how a college professor who coached grade school basketball as a hobby became the man who held that dream in his hands; became Rosenthal's coach and his mentor; how he made Rosenthal his student, his confidant, and eventually his sexual partner, and how that teenager, trapped in the cycle ...

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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...

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Report copyright infringementby Maryjane Spillane (Author)Maria is a nineteen-year-old virgin whose heart is racing with anticipation as she sits in a bar and attempts to look conspicuous. When a suave gentleman approaches and asks her to dance, Maria immediately becomes enamorated, especially when Nick gives her his phone number and asks her to call. Nick is a recent honorably discharged marine who has returned from Vietnam to his family and his old job in a brickyard. Maria, who is working...

Stories The Iroquois Tell Their Children (1917)

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Report copyright infringementby Mabel Powers (Author)""Stories The Iroquois Tell Their Children"" is a collection of tales and legends passed down through generations of the Iroquois people. The book was originally published in 1917 and was written by Mabel Powers, who spent many years living among the Iroquois and learning about their culture and traditions. The stories in this book are presented in a simple, engaging style that is suitable for children and adults alike. They cover a range o...

Tears of Repentance Or A Further Narrative of the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England

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Report copyright infringementby John Eliot (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 Pa...

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Report copyright infringementby Frank Russell (Author)The Pima Indians is a book written by Frank Russell that provides a comprehensive description of the Pima people, a Native American tribe that resides in the southwestern United States. The book delves into the history, culture, and daily life of the Pima Indians, exploring their traditions, beliefs, and customs. Russell draws on his extensive research and interactions with the Pima people to provide an in-depth understanding of their way ...

Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among The Red Men Of The Great West

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Report copyright infringementby Colonel R. I. Dodge (Author), General Sherman (Introduction by)""Our Wild Indians"" is a book written by Colonel R. I. Dodge, based on his thirty-three years of personal experience among the Native American tribes of the Great West. The book provides a comprehensive account of the author's encounters with the indigenous people of the region, including their customs, beliefs, and way of life. It covers a wide range of topics, including the history of the Indian ...

PAUL the PHARISEE: A Vision Beyond the Violence of Civilization

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Report copyright infringementby John Dominic Crossan (Author)John Dominic Crossan's new biography, Paul the Pharisee, subtitled A Vision Beyond the Violence of Civilization, has an image on its cover that is also the core of its content. Im-age and content are based on a mosaic from Sicily's Monreale Cathedral in which, as the Latin inscription explains, "Paul gives letters to his disciples Timothy and Silas to be carried through the whole world (per universum orbem)."This is that 1st-century...

Half American: The Heroic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad - Paperback

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by Matthew F. Delmont (Author)The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, by award-winning historian and civil rights expert Winner of the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 A 2022 Book of the Year from TIME, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and more More than one million Black soldiers served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units while wag...

Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life - Paperback

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by Lizzie Borden (Author)Illuminating accounts of how stripping and sex work informs writers' experiences of friendship, motherhood, teaching, working, creating art, and activism. No one knows more than strippers about being looked at: as objects of desire, objects of curiosity, as angels or Jezebels or hookers with hearts of gold. In this anthology, twenty-three dancers whose careers span decades, geographies, and identities demand to be seen. Through stories from first nights on the job to ...

Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth - Paperback

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by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) (Author), Darcia Narvaez (Author) Selected speeches from Indigenous leaders around the world--necessary wisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a path away from extinction toward a sustainable, interconnected future. Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indig...

Nowhere Girl: Life as a Member of Adhd's Lost Generation

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Report copyright infringementby Carla Ciccone (Author)Why is a generation of women only now discovering they have ADHD? (Spoiler: misogyny.) A writer examines the cost of living with undiagnosed ADHD in this reported memoir about the girls medical science ignored. When Carla Ciccone is diagnosed with ADHD at thirty-nine--an evaluation prompted by the demands of early motherhood--it flips the script on her life. After years of self-blame and self-sabotage, she discovers that her most reviled t...

The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment, and Protest

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Report copyright infringementby Satsuki Ina (Author)Now in paperback: A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injustice--and how their story echoes across generations."Beautifully woven together by Satsuki Ina's mother's diary and her father's haiku--through which they are both still speaking--[this] is memoir as healing, as self- and soul-determination, and as vigilance, the keeping vigil over past lives that are still becoming." --Brandon Shimoda, autho...

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Report copyright infringementby Margeaux Feldman (Author)Reject the stigmas of trauma and chronic illness by fostering queer forms of intimacy--and embracing the many ways humans can care for one another. The writer behind the popular @softcore_trauma Instagram offers a deeply personal memoir for folks seeking healing and better care. The forms of intimacy and care that we've been sold are woefully inadequate and problematic. In a world that treats those who are sick and traumatized as proble...

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Smarsh (Author)"A must-read for today's politics" (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America's class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume. In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times--class division, political fissures,...

There Was Once a Slave: The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass

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Report copyright infringementby Shirley Graham (Author)Born into chains. Driven by truth. Destined for freedom. Before he was a legend, he was a boy--enslaved, beaten, denied the right to read, and told he was nothing. But Frederick Douglass refused to be broken. Armed only with fierce intelligence, relentless courage, and the fire of justice burning in his heart, he taught himself to read and write in secret--igniting a revolution that would change not just his life, but the soul of a nation...

Every Body Beloved: A Jewish Embrace of Fatness

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Report copyright infringementby Minna Bromberg (Author)Back JacketPart memoir and part activist manifesto, this book offers Jewish text as an inspiration for all who care about body liberation. Minna Bromberg lays bare the harm of anti-fat bias by tracing her own journey from dieting at age seven to fat activism and the founding of her organization, Fat Torah. Her personal narrative highlights the restorative potential that Jewish tradition has for addressing fatphobia and inspires a culture ...

Just Telling the True Facts: Grace in the fire, Strength in the Struggle

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Report copyright infringementby William Claude Whitaker (Author)Unveiling the Unspoken: An African American's Journey through the Unforgiving Terrain of 1930s-40s Tennessee: Struggles, Strength, and the Quest for Equality.Step back in time and experience the raw and emotional journey of an African American growing up in the harsh landscape of Tennessee during the 1930s and '40s. This compelling narrative from JUST TELLING THE TRUE FACTS takes readers on an unforgettable exploration of adversi...

Lessons in Hope: A New Era for Maasai Women in Tanzania

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Report copyright infringementby Juliet Cutler (Author), Esuvat Lucumay (Contribution by), Mutta (Contribution by)For readers inspired by Margaret Busby's New Daughters of Africa, Juliet Cutler presents a stunning testament to a group of Maasai women who are claiming their voices and shaping a future of lasting change. In this inspiring collection of interviews and portraits, over twenty Maasai women share the ways education has transformed their lives by giving them the tools to overcome pove...

An Unlikely Social Justice Warrior: Making My Life Count as a Muslim Feminist

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Report copyright infringementby Ani Zonneveld (Author), R. Anna Hayward (Author)Ani Zonneveld shares her journey from Kuala Lumpur to rural Illinois, confronting invisible lines drawn by religion, gender, and race-all in pursuit of truth and justice. From the music industry to global human rights forums, Ani uses her voice-literally and figuratively-to advocate for freedom of expression, women's rights, and LGBTQIA+ inclusion within Islam. Whether navigating UN corridors or standing up to ext...

At the Threshold of the Image: From Narcissus to Virtual Reality

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Pinotti (Author)An exploration of the impact of immersive experiences on visual practices from cave painting to virtual reality In this groundbreaking book, philosopher Andrea Pinotti explores the impacts of a desire that has motivated human beings since prehistory: the desire to enter an image. He proposes that over the centuries, every culture has tried to realize this wish with whatever visual resources were available at the time, and today's virtual ...

On Thin Ice: An LAPD Veteran's Journey to Reimagine Policing

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Report copyright infringementby Jeff Wenninger (Author)"POLICING IS ON THIN ICE. It's up to us to reimagine what happens next." -Jeff WenningerOn Thin Ice delivers an unflinching look inside the American law enforcement from a voice who's lived it. With over 30 years in the LAPD and direct oversight of more than 700 use-of-force cases, nationally recognized expert Jeff Wenninger exposes the toxic culture, outdated training, and leadership failures that continue to shape modern policing.Drawin...

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Report copyright infringementby Lana Stasek (Author), Vladyslava Borodavka (Translator), Vladyslava Borodavka (Editor)Lana Stasek doesn't write to please. She writes like she's peeling skin off old wounds - her own and everyone else's. This isn't a polite scrapbook of dates and places. It's a memory under a spotlight, family laid bare, the invisible debts no one ever asked for but everyone drags around. If you're here for comfort, wrong book. What you'll find is recognition - the kind that st...

Never Daunted: A Life and Legacy of Embracing Change

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Report copyright infringementby Randall L. Tobias (Author)Former business executive and government official Randall Tobias wrote this volume with a select group in mind-future generations of his own family. It preserves tales from Tobias's life, along with those of family, dating all the way back to their home country of Wales. Never Daunted speaks of matters both great and small, both public and deeply personal. From an eyewitness account of the last days of the world's largest corporation t...

Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France - Hardcover

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by Helena Taylor (Author)Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over the definition of literature and literary knowledge during a time of significant cultural change. As the female intellectual became a figure of debate, France was also undergoing a shift away from the dominance of classical cultural models, the transition towards a standardized modern language, the development of...

The Colossus of Rhodes: Archaeology of a Lost Wonder - Hardcover

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by Nathan Badoud (Author)The Colossus of Rhodes is both the most famous and the least well-known monument of Ancient Greece. Numbered among the Seven Wonders of the World, this bronze statue of the god Helios, thirty-four metres in height, was created by the sculptor Chares of Lindos between the years 295 and 283 BC, only to be destroyed by an earthquake in 227 BC. The legends that have spread after its collapse seem so strange and contradictory that, from an archaeological point of view, it ...

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Report copyright infringementby Karunkar T. Nair (Author)Time Is Running Out: Tales of a Malayali from Mombasa by Karunkar T NairA remarkable true story of migration, resilience and family bonds that spans continents and generations.Born in pre-independence India, Karunkar T Nair's life would take him on an extraordinary journey from his ancestral home in Kerala to the vibrant coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya, and eventually to the industrial towns of England. In this engaging memoir, Nair refl...

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Report copyright infringementby Kris Ralston (Author)Take a peek inside the mind of a schizophrenic. You may get scared. You might get angry, excited, or even shed some tears. But one thing is certain, the rollercoaster of emotions felt when reading Sending in the Clowns, by Kris Ralston, is nothing compared to what this author has experienced in her real life. Ralstons battle with paranoid schizophrenia enables her to write about the disease from firsthand experience. Sending in the Clowns d...

Fascinating Biographies of Black Feminist Heroes: An Overview of Black Feminism and Its Inspiring Thought

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Report copyright infringementby Simone Truth (Author)INSPIRING STORIES OF BLACK FEMINIST ICONSReady to explore Black feminism and its trailblazing heroes? Want to uncover the stories of women who fought for justice and equality?Fascinating Biographies of Black Feminist Heroes takes you on a powerful journey through the lives of eleven Black feminist icons who shaped history. From civil rights to modern movements, this book highlights their struggles, triumphs, and the thought that drives Blac...

From Homeless and Hungry to Wholeness and Helping

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Report copyright infringementby Jeannette (Wayman) Meitz (Author), Yvette Carter (Author)Domestic violence, rape, prison, homelessness, food insecurity, and cancer have given Yvette Carter the compassion and ability to minister to others. Read her heart-rending story of living in the streets, dealing drugs, and leaving her two young children with her mother when she was sent to prison for six years, followed by losing everything, being homeless, hungry and without hope. That despair drove her...

The Autobiography Of A Winnebago Indian (1920)

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Radin (Author)The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian, written by Paul Radin and published in 1920, is a first-hand account of the life of a Native American man named Sam Blowsnake. Blowsnake was a member of the Winnebago tribe, also known as the Ho-Chunk, who lived in the Midwest region of the United States.The book is divided into two parts. The first part is a narrative of Blowsnake's life, starting with his childhood and continuing through his adulthoo...