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Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dubbed a voice of her generation, poet and writer Morgan Parker has spent much of her adulthood in therapy, trying to square the resonance of her writing with the alienation she feels in nearly every aspect of life, from her lifelong singleness to a battle with depression. She traces this loneliness to an inability to feel truly safe with others and a historic hyperawareness stemming from the effects of slavery.
In a collection of essays as intimate...
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First North American Edition.
Physical Desc
314 p.
Language
English
Description
In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of it, she offered a primer on the basics of identifying human remains, plenty of insights into the fascinating processes of death, and a sober, compassionate understanding of its inescapable presence in our existence, all leavened with her wicked sense of humor.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 286 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times series, About Us captures the voices of a community that has been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking The authors in About Us offer intimate stories of how they navigate a world not built for them.... the stories here reveal the range of responses, and the variety of consequences, to being labeled as "disabled" by the broader public."
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In The Furies, Elizabeth Flock examines how three real-life women have used violence to fight back, and how views of women who defend their lives are often distorted by their depictions in media and pop culture. These three immersive narratives follow Brittany Smith, a young woman from Stevenson, Alabama, who killed a man she said raped her but was denied the protection of the Stand-Your-Ground law; Angoori Dahariya, leader of a gang in Uttar Pradesh,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examining such disciplines as education, journalism, encyclopedia creation, museum curation, photography and broadcasting, an award-winning writer explores how humans have attained, stored, and disseminated knowledge.
Publisher
Baker Academic
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
812 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive handbook answers questions Christians might raise about religions not their own by presenting a Christian perspective on religion and its many manifestations around the world.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Combining topics such as crime, death, and life inside prison, an award-winning journalist, writing with humanity, empathy and insight, and gaining unprecedented access, traces the interwoven lives of condemned prisoners and the men and women who come to Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to visit them"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
469 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spanning native religions and their attempted extermination, African traditions that survived the Atlantic transit, and homegrown heresies that bloomed on the frontier, these powerful stories from the outskirts of the American narrative form a rich and compelling new view of the people who forged a nation in One Nation, Under Gods.
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales alongside apple pie at Christmas never seemed at odds with her American identity. Still, she yearned to see that identity reflected in the larger American narrative. Now, ...America invites thirty-one of her...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it. The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? Why does this land of plenty allow one in every eight of its children to go without basic necessities, permit scores of its citizens to live and...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten explores the events of a random day in U.S. history, offering a diorama of American life that illuminates all that has changed--and all that hasn't--in the past three decades. On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day--chosen completely at random--turned out to be Sunday, December 28,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tight knit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Conservative columnist David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose...
17) The Road Home
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
It occurred to Eliza Thomas when she hit her forties that home might be "someplace you made." A modest cabin in the woods of Vermont seemed like a good place to start. Thomas's funny, heartwarming experiences transform the weekend cabin into a real home, a place where Thomas paints the floor the same color as her grandmother's beach house porch; where hordes of ladybugs come to visit one Indian summer; and the place her adopted baby daughter excitedly...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An NPR education reporter shows how the last true social safety net-- the public school system--was decimated by the pandemic, and how years of short-sighted political decisions have failed to put our children first. School has long meant much more than an education in America. 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical places for children to be. They are the best chance many children have at...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The authors call for a twenty-first century localism, one attuned to the needs of all citizens, including those in rural America. New norms of growth, governance, and finance will emerge fostering a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable and inclusive society.
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 235 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim. The one problem was the title: couldn't some prophetic fact-checker have seen that the worst years of our lives-far worse-were still to come? Here they are, the 2000s, and in This Land Is Their Land, Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career.
Taking the measure of what...