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Twenty-four essays from a wide range of publications. Many of the essays center around the theme of family and relationships…
with parents. Includes Gay Talese's journey with Muhammad Ali to Cuba, Cynthia Ozick's remembrances of her family's drugstore in the Bronx, and Lukie Chapman Reilly's fear of her alcoholic father. Some strong language and some violenceExamines the ubiquitous appeal of violent imagery and its depiction in popular entertainment. Traces the history of this phenomenon from…
bloody gladiatorial games of ancient Rome to graphic films, sports, and video games of the 1990s. Explores the effects of such brutality on societyAnother ten writers offer original autobiographical stories. The authors in this volume are: Norma Fox Mazer, Rita Williams-Garcia, Paul Fleischman,…
Jane Yolen, E.L. Konigsburg, Howard Norman, Michael J. Rosen, Kyoko Mori, Karen Hesse, and Joseph Bruchac. For grades 5-8Biographical sketches of twelve men and women who enjoy exploring the world around them in such scientific careers as a…
rain forest ecologist, an anthropologist, or an underwater photographer. For grades 4-7Ten "grown-up writers who were once children" present stories based on their own childhood experiences. Authors are: Mary Pope Osborne,…
Laurence Yep, James Howe, Katherine Paterson, Walter Dean Myers, Susan Cooper, Nicholasa Mohr, Reeve Lindbergh, Avi, and Francesca Lia Block. For grades 5-8Rising voices: writings of young Native Americans
By Arlene Hirschfelder, Beverly Singer. 1992
A collection of poems and essays written by young Native Americans between the late 1800s and 1990. Included is a…
nineteenth-century piece by a Chippewa girl who describes the heartbreak of returning home a stranger from seven years of boarding school and a poem declaring "Indians are native people...Yet, we are treated as though we just got here." For grades 5-8 and older readersReinventing education: entrepreneurship in America's public schools
By Louis V. Gerstner, Roger D. Semerad, Denis Philip Doyle. 1994
Reports the accomplishments of the RJR Nabisco Foundation's Next Century Schools program and outlines plans for the future. The authors…
assert that the principles of quality management that they believe contribute to success in the business world are applicable to the field of educationGoing where I'm coming from: memoirs of American youth
By Anne Mazer. 1995
Fourteen multicultural autobiographical tales of young people growing up in America. Some tales explain what it was like to immigrate…
to the United States, and others describe the experience of growing up within two cultures. In "Sound-Shadows of the New World," Ved Mehta, a blind student from India, arrives in America to attend a school for the blind. For junior and senior high readersEighty-five interviews, chronologically arranged, conducted with noteworthy individuals by prominent journalists and writers. Pieces include biographical information about interviewer and…
interviewee. Features such figures as Karl Marx, Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Mao Tse-tung, and Mae West. Some strong languageA collection of essays written since World War II by more than two dozen Polish writers. Topics range from aspects…
of literature and culture to science fiction and political oppression and exile. The editor, and one of the contributors, suggests that he "tried to avoid specifically Polish subjects in the narrow sense," but the theme of exile and the "wound of history" runs throughout these essays. Includes Milosz's 1980 Nobel Prize lectureThis anthology of 140 essays, written over four centuries by American and English practitioners of the art, covers topics large…
and small--truth, getting up on cold mornings, wasps, the departure of a guest, being the right size, symmetry and repetition, Gandhi, and movies on television. And each somehow fits Dr. Johnson's definition of an essay as a "loose sally of the mind."An anthology of lies dating back to Biblical times. From minor deceits to monumental falsehoods, Kerr selects examples and adds…
commentary from the same period. He discusses the deceitfulness of answering machines and covers necessary, political, and governmental lies. As an editor, he neither passes judgment nor defines a lie. His choices favor the most amusing, celebrated, and evil specimensPilote du bout du monde: souvenirs d'un pilote de brousse dans le Grand Nord
By Dominique Prinet. 2022
Au cours des années 1960 et 1970, le Grand Nord canadien était en pleine effervescence. Dominique Prinet, alors jeune pilote…
de brousse, y a effectué des vols incroyables, lui qui a transporté, par tous les temps, des pêcheurs, des chasseurs et des trappeurs, des chercheurs d'or ou de pétrole, ainsi que des blessés et des malades nécessitant une évacuation d'urgence. C'était bien avant le GPS, quand les cartes se révélaient imprécises, les modes de communication, rudimentaires, et que les voyages du genre duraient des semainesGoodbye christopher robin: A. a. milne and the making of winnie-the-pooh
By Ann Thwaite. 2023
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A.A. Milne and the Making of Winnie-the-Pooh is drawn from Ann Thwaite's Whitbread Award-winning biography of A.…
A. Milne, one of England's most successful writers. After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, and Kelly Macdonald. It offers the listener a glimpse into the relationship between Milne and the real-life Christopher Robin, whose toys inspired the magical world of the Hundred Acre Wood. Goodbye Christopher Robin is a story of celebrity, a story of both the joys and pains of success, and, ultimately, the story of how one man created a series of enchanting tales that brought hope and comfort to an England ravaged by the First World WarPunished for dreaming: How school reform harms black children and how we heal
By Bettina L Love. 2023
This program features an introduction read by the author. "I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I…
never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education 'reform' in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved to dream." —Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author of How to be an Antiracist In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives In Punished for Dreaming Dr. Bettina Love argues forcefully that Reagan's presidency ushered in a War on Black Children, pathologizing and penalizing them in concert with the War on Drugs. New policies punished schools with policing, closure, and loss of funding in the name of reform, as white savior, egalitarian efforts increasingly allowed private interests to infiltrate the system. These changes implicated children of color, and Black children in particular, as low performing, making it all too easy to turn a blind eye to their disproportionate conviction and incarceration. Today, there is little national conversation about a structural overhaul of American schools; cosmetic changes, rooted in anti-Blackness, are now passed off as justice. It is time to put a price tag on the miseducation of Black children. In this prequel to The New Jim Crow , Dr. Love serves up a blistering account of four decades of educational reform through the lens of the people who lived it. Punished for Dreaming lays bare the devastating effect on 25 Black Americans caught in the intersection of economic gain and racist ideology. Then, with input from leading U.S. economists , Dr. Love offers a road map for repair, arguing for reparations with transformation for all children at its core. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's PressDiva 2.0: 12 life lessons from me for you
By Sheryl Lee Ralph. 2023
Emmy, Tony, and Spirit Award–winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph knows a thing or two about staying power in the capricious…
world of Hollywood. A seasoned professional who has taken the best lessons learned and used them to move her stellar career forward, she now shares them with you. If you are an aspiring DIVA in training, regardless of your career choice, much of what she says in DIVA 2.0 you'll find invaluable. These 12 lessons could help elevate your journey to greater heights. You'll get to go behind the scenes of stage, screen, and media to discover what a true DIVA must know, and the first step is, respecting themselves. In these personal tales and recollections, Sheryl reveals the ups and downs of stardom, the heartbreaks and triumphs, the strength she found in her family and the kind of love that gives wings. Whether starring on the big screen with Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Robert De Niro, Jon Voight, or Whoopi Goldberg or on the small screen in Moesha; Ray Donovan, Motherland: Fort Salem, or in Abbott Elementary, Sheryl Lee Ralph can be counted on to bring her DIVA, Divinely Inspired, Victoriously Awesome, self to every project. And those DIVA inspired qualities have earned her the respect of her peers and recognition from legions of fans. In DIVA 2.0 Sheryl Lee Ralph uses her life story to empower and encourage anyone seeking to find and live their best life with beauty, dignity and a grace that radiates from withinWin every argument: The art of debating, persuading, and public speaking
By Mehdi Hasan. 2023
This program is read by and contains archival audio of the author from MSNBC, BBC Question Time, Oxford Union, and…
other sources. Win Every Argument shows how anyone can communicate with confidence, rise above the tit-for-tats on social media, and triumph in a successful and productive debate in the real world. MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan isn't one to avoid arguments. He relishes them as the lifeblood of democracy and the only surefire way to establish the truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward mutual understanding. A good argument, made in good faith, has intrinsic value—and can also simply be fun . Arguments are everywhere—and especially given the fierce debates we're all embroiled in today, everyone wants to win. In this riveting guide to the art of argument and rhetoric, Hasan shows you how. As a journalist, anchor, and interviewer who has clashed with politicians, generals, spy chiefs, and celebrities from across the world, Hasan reveals his tricks of the trade for the first time. Whether you are making a presentation at work or debating current political issues with a friend, Mehdi Hasan will teach you how to sharpen your speaking skills to make the winning case. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & CompanyA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 "A meticulously researched and briskly written account that deftly weaves the influences of…
racial injustice, economic disparity, incendiary social media, and guns." —Associated Press From the award-winning journalist Bob Woodward calls "one of the truly great reporters working today," a searing account of two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests that explores the complex political and racial mistrust and division of today's America. "One of the most superb testaments about the confusion, despair, and—hopefully—humility that frames our century that one could ever hope to read." —Hilton Als On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd's death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old white bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protestor and young father. What followed were two investigations of Scurlock's death, one conducted by the white county attorney Don Kleine, who concluded that Gardner had legally acted in self-defense and released him without a trial, and a second grand jury inquiry conducted by Black special prosecutor Fred Franklin that indicted Gardner for manslaughter. Days after the indictment, Gardner killed himself with a single bullet to the head. The deaths of both Scurlock and Gardner gave rise to a toxic brew of misinformation, false claims, and competing political agendas. The two men, each with their own complicated backgrounds, were turned into caricatures. The twin tragedies amounted to an ugly and heartbreaking reflection of a painfully divided country. Here, Joe Sexton "elevates a made-for-social-media tragedy into a kaleidoscopic account of race, justice, and urban politics" ( The New York Times Book Review ) masterfully unpacking the whole twisted, nearly unbelievable chronicle and explaining which claims were true and which distorted or simply false. "A book of intense moral weight and integrity" ( The Washington Post ), The Lost Sons of Omaha involves some of the most pressing issues facing America today, including our country's broken criminal justice system, the failure to care for the men and women who fight our wars, the dangerous spread of misinformation, particularly on social media, and the urgent need to band together in the collective pursuit of truth, fairness, and healing"I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to…
the U.S." Thus begins Leth Oun's poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killing Fields-having spent a torturous three years, eight months, and ten days imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge-Oun thrived in America, learning English, becoming a citizen, and working as an officer in the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division. In A Refugee's American Dream, Oun shares hard memories of Cambodia, where his father was executed, and his family enslaved in labor camps. Following the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Oun survived a year of homelessness then nearly four years in refugee camps. Arriving in America, seventeen and penniless, Oun struggled, washing dishes at a Chinese restaurant for $3.15 an hour. Still, he persevered, graduating from Widener University and completing thousands of hours of training to pursue a career in the Secret Service. While on President Obama's protection team, he returns to Cambodia after thirty-two years, reunites with family, and bonds with Reik, the Secret Service dog he handles. Through his most difficult moments, Oun displays truly inspiring resilience that ultimately leads to great achievementsLe ripou des Hells
By Éric Thibault. 2023
"J'ai plusieurs enregistrements entre moi et un policier très haut placé. C'est le pire, pire, pire policier qui a travaillé…
contre nous autres, les Hells Angels." À l'automne 2013, le Hells Angels René Charlebois, évadé du pénitencier où il purgeait une peine pour meurtre, se cache dans un chalet. Durant sa cavale, il fera un testament vidéo dans lequel il dénonce un ex-enquêteur du SPVM qui lui a vendu des renseignements confidentiels. L'affaire Benoit Roberge demeure le pire scandale de corruption policière de l'histoire contemporaine au Québec. Ce livre aux révélations inédites raconte toute l'histoire entourant le pacte d'un flic du crime organisé avec un Hells Angels notoire