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Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, this revised and updated edition of A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head. Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into this thorough narrative that spans American history from Christopher Columbus's arrival to an afterword on the Clinton presidency. Addressing...
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Vance, a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, provides an account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm. J.D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like...
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Runaway slave Liz Spocott, wounded during capture by notorious slave trader Patty Cannon, meets an ancient nameless woman in Cannon's prison attic who teaches her "the Code," a cryptic means of communication by which runaways reach freedom, and when she escapes once again, Liz uses the code, as well as visions of the future, to help her on her way north.
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Based on years of Sue’s writings for Northern Woodlands magazine, this new, 2021 edition describes in more detail than ever the habits and habitats of more than 25 species. In more than 300 pages, its 96 articles delve deeply into wildlife behavior and communications. You'll also find easy tips, tricks and techniques to identify wildlife sign not just by tracks but also by the subtlest clues.
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When America entered World War II, we faced an enemy that had banned and burned over 100 million books. Outraged librarians sent donated books to our troops. The War Department joined the publishing industry in an extraordinary program: 120 million books printed in small, lightweight paperbacks. Beloved by the troops and still fondly remembered, theirs is an inspiring story.
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Americans love their lawns with a passion rarely seen in other countries; fifty-eight million Americans enthusiastically plant, weed, water, spray, and mow an estimated twenty million acres of lawn. But is our dedication to these lawns contributing to the serious environmental problems facing the planet? The authors in this book state that the lawn may be an ecological anachronism, and they argue that we must rethink the way we care for our lawns...
10) Paris Trout
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When a respected citizen of a small Georgia town murders a 14 year old black girl, the social fabric of the town unravels. Trout's attorney, Harry Seagraves has nightmares about the hypocrisies and shattered lives that result from the crime and the drama of the trial. As Trout's trial proceeds, he becomes more abusive and paranoid, finally exploding with more violence and rage. This book was made into a film, directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, and...
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"The shots came quickly, silently, and with deadly accuracy. Within seconds, three people were dead at Central Park's ice skating rink. The victims: a talented young skater, a doctor, and a teacher. As random as random can be. Eve Dallas has seen a lot of killers during her time with the NYPSD, but never one like this. After reviewing security videos, it becomes clear that the victims were killed by a sniper firing a tactical laser rifle, who could...
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Hard problems documents the formation of the 2006 U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) team, showing how high school students are selected, train, and then compete with students from 90 countries in the 2006 IMO. Produced in association with the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), with support from Ellington Management Group, LLC, The Penn Oberlander Family Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
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"[This book] brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while shackled in leg irons, in solitary...
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"Animating Black and Brown Liberation introduces a vital new tool for reading American literatures. Rooted in both ancient Egyptian ideas about life and cutting-edge theories of animacy, or levels of aliveness, this tool--ankhing--enables Datcher to examine the ways African American and Latinx literatures respond to and ultimately work to resist hegemonic forces of neoliberalism and state-sponsored oppression. Weaving together close readings and politically...
16) Calico captive
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Miriam Willard has just been to her first dance when she is captured by Indians. Her hardships and ordeals are taken from the diary kept by a real "captive" in 1754.
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J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, he would press his ear to a radio, straining to hear the keys to his own identity. His mother was his world, his anchor, but he needed something else, something he couldn't name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York saloon that was a sanctuary for all types of men--cops and...
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"The purpose of Smarter State is to provide both the theory and a practical blueprint for going beyond mere transparency and passive citizenship to a world in which citizenship is active and institutions are "open by default." Such openness and collaboration are essential if democratic societies are to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow"--Preface.
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