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This story of four Seattle civil rights activists who led four different communities (Native American, Asian, Mexican and African American) to protest as one is unique in the history of US civil rights and will appeal to scholars and those interested in social justice. The Muckleshoot tribe will use the book in its reservation high schools to teach about Bernie Whitebear, a Muckleshoot member and one of the Gang of Four. The book will visually evoke the 60s with archival and personal photos from...
| Автор | Bob Santos |
Don’t Go Crazy Without Me tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the seductive sway of her outrageously eccentric father. He taught her how to have fun; he also taught her to fear food poisoning, other children’s infectious diseases, and the contaminating propensities of the world at large. Alienated from her emotionally distant mother, the girl bonded closely with her father and his worldview. When he plunged from neurotic to full-blown...
| Автор | Deborah A. Lott |
Growing up on the south side of Chicago in a poor, black, working-class neighborhood, Delon Hampton realized early on that any success he would achieve in life, he had to create on his own. Having earned a place at college, he decided to focus on civil engineering. After completing his graduate and PhD studies at Purdue University, Hampton entered a career that was not always welcoming to an African American—first as an academic and then, in 1973, as the founder of Delon Hampton & Associates...
| Автор | Delon Hampton |
In <b><i>One Water</b></i> the author takes us on a journey through the Alaskan wilderness to the streets of its second largest city in a quest to find meaning in this world. The book is not merely a narrative of his adventures but also describes many of the geological, biological, and climactic circumstances that have shaped this great land. Another strand woven through this collection is the coming of age story of a freewheeling young drifter slowly accepting his...
| Автор | Rob McCue |
Táto e-kniha je o vplyve západnej kultúry na egyptského autora. Veľmi ma zaujímala politika a spravodajstvo. Výsledkom bolo, že som mal pocit, že nás všetci ľudia zo západu nenávidia. Aj keď viem, že zovšeobecňovanie je základnou, veľmi častou chybou, stal som sa obeťou tejto chyby: počúval som správy a zovšeobecňoval som svoje pocity: všetci ľudia zo západu nás nenávidia a chcú zničiť naše krajiny. V roku 2003 som sa stal užívateľom internetu. Dostal som sa do styku s mnohými ľuďmi zo západu. A...
| Автор | Wael El-Manzalawy |
这本书将使你认知到我们的一切行动将对我们和我们的子孙后代所造成的后果，甚至那些尚未出生的孩子。诅咒这个主题长期以来一直被忽视，我们发现有必要在这里揭露它。我们从研读圣经开始，确切地了解上帝对诅咒是怎么说的，它们是如何运作的，以及我们如何才能完全摆脱诅咒。世代相传的诅咒是如此重要，以至于上帝将它们列在十诫的表上。 这本书将使你认知到我们的一切行动将对我们和我们的子孙后代所造成的后果，甚至那些尚未出生的孩子。诅咒这个主题长期以来一直被忽视，我们发现有必要在这里揭露它。我们从研读圣经开始，确切地了解上帝对诅咒是怎么说的，它们是如何运作的，以及我们如何才能完全摆脱诅咒。世代相传的诅咒是如此重要，以至于上帝将它们列在十诫的表上。 许多人被敌人用看不见的、无法辨认的奴役工具所束缚。在这项研究中，我们将学习如何打破这些源自敌人的锁链。我们更深入地探索了偶像崇拜（包括万圣节），不道德，背叛，偷窃，谋杀等领域。 我相信，当你阅读这本书并探索其中的真理时，你会振奋地审视自己，并为过一种圣洁的生活而作出深思熟虑的努力，即使不是为了你自己，至少也是为了你的孩子和尚未出生的后代。...
| Автор | Gabriel Agbo |
Perseguida, proscrita y exiliada, la legendaria cantante folclórica argentina, Mercedes Sosa, hizo temblar a los dictadores sudamericanos en los ’70. Apodada “La voz de los que no tienen voz”, Sosa se convirtió en un ícono de la democracia y una muy amada madre de América Latina. Mercedes Sosa – La voz de la esperanza expone la notable vida y carrera de Sosa y ofrece un perfil psicológico que revela el secreto detrás de su enorme impacto. Con su poderosa voz y su irresistible presencia en el...
| Автор | Anette Christensen |
The Argentine folk singer and social activist, Mercedes Sosa, was a world-class performer, whose influence went far beyond the borders of music. Blacklisted as being one the most dangerous people to the regime in Argentina in the 1970s, she became the underground reference point for the poor and oppressed, and an icon of democracy who fought South America’s dictators with her voice. Nicknamed, “The Voice of the Voiceless,” Sosa emerged as a legend and a much-loved mother of Latin America. With...
| Автор | Anette Christensen |
In stark, haunting prose, first-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Disclosing his story through flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor pieces together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel.<br /><br />Abandoned as an infant at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Peter Razor is raised by abusive workers who thought of him as nothing more than...
| Автор | Peter Razor |
In June 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, a mob of over 10,000 convened upon the police station, inflamed by the rumor that black circus workers had raped a white teenage girl—charges that would later be proven false. Three men were dragged from their cells and lynched in front of the cheering crowd.<br /><br />More than eighty years later, Warren Read—a fourth-grade teacher, devoted partner, and father to three boys—plugged his mother's maiden name...
| Автор | Warren Read |
On December 30, 1960, Marisella Veiga with her mother and two brothers boarded a plane from Havana to Miami. Her father fled a few months later, joining his family with a total of fourteen U.S. cents in his pocket and an understanding that he would never see his homeland again. Seeking a less competitive job market and thanks largely to the sponsorship of a host family in St. Paul, the Veigas resettled in Minnesota, miles away from the Caribbean subtropics, where the climate was similar to home,...
| Автор | Marisella Veiga |
John Gagliardi, who served as the head football coach at Saint John's University from 1953 to 2012, won more college football games than any coach from any school or any level of collegiate ball. His innovative and unconventional approach to coaching – including not allowing tackling during practices – not only helped the team win nearly 500 games and four national championships, but he served as an inspiring leader, mentor, and father figure to hundreds of student-athletes over his 60...
| Автор | Boz Bostrom |
In 1959, Kevin Fenton was born on a family farm overlooking Rollingstone, Minnesota—a tight-knit village founded by Luxembourgers and so Catholic that the parish school was the only school in town. The farm, and Kevin's memory, is filled with the closeness of his large family. Dennis, the oldest brother, drives everyone—rather dangerously—to school. His sisters dance to records in the afternoons. At bedtime, knock-knock jokes flow between the...
| Автор | Kevin Fenton |
One midnight when I was about sixteen and watching the late movie with Dad, I started to nod off. He rocked my shoulder. "Listenup," he said, pointing to the screen. I propped up to peer past the bowl of old maids to see Mr. O'Hara, redder than usual, lecturing Scarlett.<br /><br />". . . land is the only thing in the world worth workin' for, worth fightin' for, worth dying for, because land is the only thing that...
| Автор | Sarah Stonich |
For fans of the PBS Masterpiece Theater series, The Durrells in Corfu Fauna and Family is the third in Durrell’s Corfu trilogy that begins with My Family and Other Animals and continues with Birds, Beasts and Relatives . Of this book, Durrell writes in his foreword, “I hope that it might give the same pleasure to its readers as apparently its predecessors have done, as for me it portrays a very important part of my life . . . which is a truly happy and sunlit childhood.” The rest of the...
| Автор | Gerald Durrell |
Planet in a bottle. Eden revisited. Laboratory under glass. The largest self-sustaining closed ecological system ever made. Biosphere 2 is many things to many people. From its half-acre farm to its coral reef to its emerald rainforest—this unique research facility has proven itself a marvel of human engineering and a testament to the human imagination. For two full years from 1991 to 1993, four men and four women lived and worked inside the structure, recycling their air, water, food, and...
| Автор | Марк Нельсон |
Venture capitalists are the handmaidens of innovation. Operating in the background, they provide the fuel needed to get fledgling companies off the ground–and the advice and guidance that helps growing companies survive their adolescence.In Creative Capital, Spencer Ante tells the compelling story of the enigmatic and quirky man–Georges Doriot–who created the venture capital industry. The author traces the pivotal events in Doriot's life, including his experience as a decorated brigadier...
| Автор | Spencer E. Ante |
– Race Man offers the collected works of one of the most influential civil rights activists in US history, a unique, first-person perspective on the life and times of a historic—and beloved—civil rights leader. – Bond's works, many of them published here for the first time, can offer us the fresh guidance we need in our ongoing fight against the virulent strain of fascism currently plaguing us. In fact, there is no...
| Автор | Julian Bond |
A Novel of Redemption from Addiction and a Broken Family Carter Kirchner struggles to stay sane and sober as a counselor at Six West, an adolescent drug treatment center run by Sister Mary Xavier, a hard-drinking nun with an MBA. The young Kirchner is caught between Sister Mary’s plan to rescue the center by reforming a hard-case kid and the dysfunctional staff’s clumsy plan to intervene on their boss’s drinking. Meanwhile, Carter’s mother—who never forgave him for giving up a...
| Автор | John Rosengren |
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There she embraced feminism, met anti-apartheid and solidarity movement activists, and encountered a particularly American brand of racial injustice. Urdang also met African revolutionaries such as Amilcar...
| Автор | Stephanie Urdang |
M. J. Eberhart, aka the Nimblewill Nomad, was a 60-year-old retired doctor in January 1998 when he set off on a foot journey that carried him 4,400 miles (twice the length of the Appalachian Trail) from the Florida Keys to the far north of Quebec. Written in a vivid journal style, the author unabashedly recounts the good (friendships with other hikers he met), the bad (sore legs, cutting winds and rain), and the godawful (those dispiriting doubts) aspects of his days of walking along what has...
| Автор | M. J. Eberhart |
With his colleagues at the People's Law Office (PLO), Flint Taylor has argued landmark civil-rights cases that have exposed corruption and cover-ups within the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and throughout the city's corrupt political machine. The Torture Machine takes listeners from the 1969 murders of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Panther Mark Clark-and the historic thirteen-years of litigation that followed-through the dogged pursuit of commander Jon Burge, the...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This internationally bestselling biography of Ludwig van Beethoven, now translated into English for the first time, offers connoisseurs and newcomers alike an unparalleled story of the composer’s life and works. With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, renowned Beethoven conductor and scholar Jan Caeyers expertly weaves together a deeply human and complex image of Beethoven—his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires,...
| Автор | Jan Caeyers |
Since childhood, Mark Carr wanted to fly, and fly he did … firstly as a naval aviator, a jet instructor and later, pilot with Cathay Pacific Airways.<br /> <br />This ‘techno-biography’ is written for those who, like him, seemingly have hydraulic oil flowing through their veins. The book also gives readers of a non-flying background an insight into military and civil aviation.<br /> <br />Sit in the cockpit with Mark and gain a rare insight into how these amazing machines...
| Автор | Mark Carr |