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The critically lauded author of The Beast Side and The Cook Up returnswith an [b]*existential look at life in* low-income black communities,while also offering a new framework[/b] for how we can improve theconversations occuring about them.
While author D. Watkins is pleased about the number of books exploring issuesof race that are being published, there's one crucial aspect of contemporaryblack life that doesn't get enough attention: the hood. The Baltimore nativeknows firsthand what it means to live in poverty, where violence and drugs areinescapable. As he sees it, the perspective of people who live in poor blackcommunities is largely absent from the work of many of the top intellectualswho speak and write about race.
Now, D. Watkins is here to tell his truth . Built upon Watkins's ownexperiences, We Speak for Ourselves eases us into the bigger conversationabout race and the various issues affecting poor black neighborhoods inAmerica. Unapologetic and eye-opening, We Speak for Ourselves identifies andaddresses a range of issues affecting these low-income communities--such asthe trouble with misrepresentation and why we need more than one black voice--and sheds light on the harsh realities of daily life. Additionally, Watkinsexamines various crucial activist movements, including the Civil RightsMovement, and asks what it means to be a model activist in today's world.
Through the personal retelling of his journey, Watkins aims to illuminate thelessons he's learned navigating through two very distinct worlds--the hood andthe elite sanctums of the prominent black thinkers and public figures--inhopes of providing actionable solutions.
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Power struggles. Bitter rivalries. Rampant jealousy. Betrayals. Star-crossedlovers. When you think about it, it s pretty surprising William ShakespeareDIDN T write Mean Girls. But at last, readers will be treated to the epicdrama and epic hilarity of the classic teen comedy rendered with the wit,flair, and iambic pentameter of the Bard. The action unfolds as our heroineCady disguises herself to infilitrate the conniving Plastics, falls fortotally-off-limits Aaron, struggles with her allegiance to newfound friendsDamian and Janis, and stirs up age-old vendettas between the factions of thehigh school. Bestselling author Ian Doescher brings his signatureShakespearean wordsmithing to one of the most revered stories of our time.Fourteen years after its release (feel old yet?) Mean Girls has become acultural phenomenon and cult classic among generations of teen girls and otherfans, and is more than apt for an Elizabethan makeover.
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<B>From internationally bestselling author and celebrated scientist Tim Flannery, a history of Europe unlike any before: an ecological account of the land itself and the forces shaping life on it. </B>
In Europe: A Natural History, world-renowned scientist, explorer, and conservationist Tim Flannery applies the eloquent interdisciplinary approach he used in his ecological histories of Australia and North America to the story of Europe. He begins 100 million years ago, when the continents of Asia, North America, and Africa interacted to create an island archipelago that would later become the Europe we know today. It was on these ancient tropical lands that the first distinctly European organisms evolved. Flannery teaches us about Europe's midwife toad, which has endured since the continent's beginning, while elephants, crocodiles, and giant sharks have come and gone. He explores the monumental changes wrought by the devastating comet strike and shows how rapid...
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From popular TV personality Bob Beckel, a deeply moving, redemptive memoir about his life as a political operative and diplomat, his long struggle with alcohol and drugs, and his unlikely journey to finding faith.
Growing up poor in an abusive home, Bob Beckel learned to be a survivor: to avoid conflict, mask his feelings, and to lie-all skills that served him well in Washington, where he would become the youngest-ever Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and manage Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign.
But Beckel was living a double life. On January 20, 2001-George W. Bush' second Inauguration Day-he hit rock bottom, waking up in the psych ward. Written with captivating honesty, Beckel chronicles how his addictions nearly killed him until he found help in an unexpected ally, conservative Cal Thomas, who helped him find faith, get sober, and get his life back on track.
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A gripping narrative by an Iran-born Kurdish journalist who joined the ranks of the Kurdish army as a sniper in the fight against ISIS
In 2002, at the age of nineteen, Azad, a young Iranian-Kurdish man, was conscripted into Iran's army and forced to fight against his own people. Refusing to go to war against his fellow Kurds, Azad deserted and smuggled himself to the United Kingdom, where he was granted asylum, became a citizen, and learned English. But more than a decade later, having returned to the Middle East as a social worker in the wake of the Syrian civil war, Azad found that he would have to pick up a weapon once again. In September 2014, after twenty-four days of intensive training as a sniper, Azad became one of seventeen volunteer marksmen deployed by the Kurdish army when ISIS besieged the city of Kobani in Rojava, the newly autonomous region of the Kurds.
In Long Shot, Azad tells the inside story of how the Kurdish forces fought nine months of...
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The Mani, at the tip of Greece's--and Europe's--southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where the past is still very much a part of its people's daily lives.
Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has been described as "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene," bridges the genres of adventure story, travel writing, and memoir to reveal an ancient world living alongside the twentieth century. Here, in the book that confirmed his reputation as one of the English language's finest writers of prose, Patrick Leigh Fermor carries the reader with him on his journeys among the Greeks of the mountains, exploring their history and time-honored lore.
Mani is a companion volume to Patrick Leigh Fermor's celebrated Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece.
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The Cancer Survivors Club is a collection of truly inspirational, uplifting and assuring survival stories. These poignant personal accounts from normal people, demonstrate an extraordinary determination to survive against the odds. It proves with survival rates doubling, anything is possible.
Unfortunately cancer affects everyone; worldwide there are around 12.7 million new cases diagnosed each year. Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer. The Cancer Survivors Club is the only collection of first-hand accounts from those who have survived the most common cancers to the rarest. Also included in the book are a number of Chris Geiger's award-winning newspaper columns which include a humorous account of a prostate examination, getting sunburnt on a crowded beach and his Guinness World Record article.
The Cancer Survivors Club will provide those touched by cancer hope, strength and encouragement. Each story is written from the perspective of survivors...
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