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| laura jansen souljah: The History of Mary Prince Mary Prince, 2012-04-26 Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England. |
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| laura jansen souljah: Idiot Nation Michael Moore, 2005 Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Books. Multi-million selling author; award-winning filmmaker, performer, activist and scourge of political hypocrites everywhere, Michael Moore is nothing less than a global phenomenon. Stupid White Men - the book they tried to ban in the US - was published by Penguin in the UK in 2002 and has since sold well over 1.5 million copies. These hilarious and scorching extracts show exactly why Moore is the man that everyone has an opinion on. |
| laura jansen souljah: Historical Cognitive Linguistics Margaret E. Winters, Heli Tissari, Kathryn Allan, 2010-12-23 The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances' of particular concepts and extensions of these prototypes, and secondly, those which relate to conceptual networks, for example via metaphor or metonymy. More specifically, the papers address syntactic and lexical change, as well as the evolution of language and changes in the expression - usually metaphoric - of emotions. In presenting a wide range of current work of this kind, the volume demonstrates the value of cross-fertilization between historical and cognitive linguistics, and is intended to open the way for further related research. The included papers are of particular relevance to those working in metaphor theory and syntactic / semantic change within Cognitive Linguistics, but will also be of interest to other historical linguists and those studying cognitive semantics and metaphor from a synchronic viewpoint. |
| laura jansen souljah: Billy Bishop Goes to War John Gray, Eric Peterson, 2012 New edition includes the bestselling original musical play plus the acclaimed, revised version that depicts celebrated WWI hero Billy Bishop. |
| laura jansen souljah: Black Spark, White Fire Richard Poe, 1999 Columbus Discovered America . . . But Who Discovered Europe? Were the ancient Egyptians black? Did Egyptian explorers land in Greece some 4,000 years ago? Did they plant colonies, establish royal houses, and bring civilization to Europe's savage tribes? Did the secret rites of their temple cults later resurface among the Knights Templar and the Freemasons? In Black Spark, White Fire, Richard Poe provides startling answers to these questions and more. Brilliant. . . . Poe has produced a classic volume . . . splendid in its conception and powerful in its execution--a major work.--Molefi Kete Asante, author of The Afrocentric Idea Superb. . . . I am convinced that within 20 years Richard Poe's views will be seen as closer to the historical truth than those of the present defenders of the status quo. The book is clear, well-written, and hard to put down. While we disagree on a number of issues, Black Spark, White Fire is the popular book that I am incapable of writing.--Martin Bernal, author of Black Athena It is refreshing to hear the Afrocentric theory of ancient Egypt argued so persuasively, from a viewpoint that is neither liberal nor conservative, black nor white.--Armstrong Williams, syndicated columnist and TV talk show host |
| laura jansen souljah: Basic Black With Pearls Helen Weinzweig, 2018-04-17 A brilliant, lost feminist classic that is equal parts domestic drama and international intrigue. Shirley and Coenraad’s affair has been going on for decades, but her longing for him is as desperate as ever. She is a Toronto housewife; he works for an international organization known only as the Agency. Their rendezvous take place in Tangier, in Hong Kong, in Rome and are arranged by an intricate code based on notes slipped into issues of National Geographic. He recognizes her by her costume: a respectable black dress and string of pearls; his appearance, however, is changeable. But something has happened, the code has been discovered, and Coenraad sends Shirley (who prefers to be known as “Lola Montez”) to Toronto, the last place she wants to go. There the trail leads her through the sites of her impoverished immigrant childhood and sends her, finally, to her own house, where she discards her pearls and trades in her basic black for a dress of vibrant multicolored silk. Helen Weinzweig published her first novel when she was fifty-eight. Basic Black with Pearls, her second, won the Toronto Book Award and has since come to be recognized as a feminist landmark. Here Weinzweig imbues the formal inventiveness of the nouveau roman with psychological poignancy and surprising humor to tell a story of simultaneous dissolution and discovery. |
| laura jansen souljah: The Land Breakers John Ehle, 2014-11-25 Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community. Mooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former indentured servants, long habituated to backbreaking work but not long married, are traveling west. They arrive in a no-account settlement in North Carolina and, on impulse, part with all their savings to acquire a patch of land high in the mountains. With a little livestock and a handful of crude tools, they enter the mountain world—one of transcendent beauty and cruel necessity—and begin to make a world of their own. Mooney and Imy are the first to confront an unsettled country that is sometimes paradise and sometimes hell. They will soon be followed by others. John Ehle is a master of the American language. He has an ear for dialogue and an eye for nature and a grasp of character that have established The Land Breakers as one of the great fictional reckonings with the making of America. |
| laura jansen souljah: Dentists Mary Meinking, 2020-08 Open wide! Dentists care for people's teeth. Give readers the inside scoop on what it's like to be a dentist. Readers will learn what dentists do, the tools they use, and how people get this exciting job. |
| laura jansen souljah: Melodious Accord Alice Parker, Linda Ekstrom, 1991 |
| laura jansen souljah: The Silver Ghost Chuck Kinder, 2016 Fiction. Jimbo Stark, teenage soldier of fortune, loves, fights, drinks, mopes, and steals his way through this brilliant novel of the late 1950s. His America glows with an almost romantic light—it is an electric, song-filled garden for teenage love, where everything is possible, even heroism. Imagining himself sometimes as James Dean's reincarnation, sometimes as a beatnik gangster poet straight out of Jack Kerouac, Jimbo lives a legend of his own construction. THE SILVER GHOST is a wonderful novel of coming of age in America—letter perfect in its evocation of an almost mythical time, and powerfully affecting in its portrait of its hero. In a dazzlingly shifting series of set-pieces, flashbacks, and reveries, Chuck Kinder cuts back and forth from caper to sentiment to myth, from self-pity to self-mockery. With deft comic sense, a complex and winning hero, and a supporting cast of vividly realized characters, Kinder writes about Jimbo Stark with the same mixture of fond memory and relief that it's over that we all have toward that time when we, too, were perfectly seventeen; he makes THE SILVER GHOST one of the very best—and most sensationally written—novels of adolescence. |
| laura jansen souljah: The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts Laura Tillman, 2016-04-05 “A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and Angela Camacho murdered their three young children. The apartment building in which the brutal crimes took place was already run down, and in their aftermath a consensus developed in the community that it should be destroyed. In 2008, journalist Laura Tillman covered the story for The Brownsville Herald. The questions it raised haunted her and set her on a six-year inquiry into the larger significance of such acts, ones so difficult to imagine or explain that their perpetrators are often dismissed as monsters alien to humanity. Tillman spoke with the lawyers who tried the case, the family’s neighbors and relatives and teachers, even one of the murderers: John Allen Rubio himself, whom she corresponded with for years and ultimately met in person. Her investigation is “a dogged attempt to understand what happened, a review of the psychological, sociological and spiritual explanations for the crime…a meditation on the death penalty and on the city of Brownsville” Star Tribune (Minneapolis). The result is a brilliant exploration of some of our age’s most important social issues and a beautiful, profound meditation on the truly human forces that drive them. “This thought-provoking…book exemplifies provocative long-form journalism that does not settle for easy answers” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). |
| laura jansen souljah: From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain Minister Faust, 2007 An outlandish, outrageous tour de force by the most innovative prose stylist in the field. -Robert J. Sawyer, author of Hominids They're Earth's mightiest superteam-and dysfunctional as hell. OMNIPOTENT MAN-a body with the density of steel, and a brain to match THE FLYING SQUIRREL-aging playboy industrialist by day, avenging krypto-fascist by night IRON LASS-mythology's greatest warrior-but the world might be safer if she had a husband X-MAN-formerly of the League of Angry Blackmen . . . but not formerly enough THE BROTHERFLY-radioactively fly POWER GRRRL-perpetually deciding between fighting crime or promoting her latest album, clothing line, or sex scandal Having finally defeated all archenemies, the members of the Fantastic Order of Justice are reduced to engaging in toxic office politics that could very well lead to a superpowered civil war. Only one woman can save them from themselves: Dr. Eva Brain-Silverman, aka Dr. Brain, the world's leading therapist for the extraordinarily abled. Faust has pretty much invented his own genre. He's totally original, full of surprises. -Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon Samuel Delany, Harlan Ellison, and Ishmael Reed all rolled into one. Faust's writing is biting, insightful, and hugely entertaining. -Ernest Dickerson, director |
| laura jansen souljah: The Psychology of Television John Condry, 2017-10-03 This volume addresses the content of television -- both programs and advertisements -- and the psychological effects of the content on the audience. The author not only reports new research, but explains its practical applications without jargon. Issues are discussed and described in terms of psychological mechanisms and causal routes of influence. While primarily referring to the American television industry and American governmental regulations, the psychological principles discussed are applicable to television viewers world wide. |
| laura jansen souljah: Chouette Claire Oshetsky, 2021-11-04 'A MARVEL' RUMAAN ALAM 'MAGNIFICENT' NEW YORK TIMES 'A TRIUMPH' i 'SUBLIME' GUARDIAN 'DAZZLING' OBSERVER When Chouette is born, Tiny's husband and family are devastated by her condition and strange appearance. Doctors tell them to expect the worst. Chouette won't learn to walk; she never speaks; she lashes out when frightened and causes chaos in public. Tiny's husband wants to make her better but Tiny thinks their child is perfect the way she is. In her fierce self-possession, her untameable will, Chouette teaches Tiny to break free of expectations - no matter what it takes. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD |
| laura jansen souljah: Vada Faith Barbara A. Whittington, 2012-06-01 When Vada Faith decides to become the first surrogate mother in Shady Creek, West Virginia, she believes it will make her special. Having been raised by her daddy, on the outskirts of town in a run down trailer, she has always wanted to be sombody. It doesn't help matters that her absent Mama has returned to town to redeem herself. Vada Faith wants to be MORE than the wife of local football hero, John Wasper Waddell, more than the mother of twins. More than the town's most sought after beautician, in the salon she owns with her judgmental twin sister, Joy Ruth. She is tired of living in the old Victorian her husband inherited from his Grandma Belle, even if Eleanor Roosevelt might have sat in one of the wicker chairs still on their front porch. She yearns for a home in the swanky new subdivision of Crystal Springs. Then, like an answer to a prayer, Roy and Dottie Kilgore swoop into town, looking for a surrogate mother, and bringing money to burn. But, in going after her own dream, will Vada Faith destroy the lives of those she loves? |
| laura jansen souljah: Ars Americana, Ars Politica Peter Swirski, 2010 A penetrating look at modern American politics and the partisan culture that feeds off its turmoil. |
| laura jansen souljah: The Female Advantage Sally Helgesen, 2011-03-09 Now in Currency paperback -- Sally Helgesen's classic study of female leaders and how their strategies represent a highly successful revision of male leadership styles. Sixty thousand copies in print! In her bestselling 1990 book, Sally Helgesen discovered that men and women approach work in fundamentally different ways. Many of these differences hold distinct advantages for women, who excel at running organizations that foster creativity, cooperation, and intuitive decision-making power, necessities for companies of the twenty-first century. Helgesen's findings reveal that organizations run by women do not take the form of the traditional hierarchical pyranaid, but more closely resemble a web, where leaders reach out, not down, to form an interrelating matrix built around a central purpose. The strategy of the web concentrates power at the center by drawing others closer and by creating communities where information sharing is essential. She presents her findings through unique, closely detailed accounts of four successful women business leaders -- Frances Hesselbein of Girl Scouts USA, Barbara Grogan of Western Industrial Contractors, Nancy Badore of Ford Motor Company's Executive Development Center, and Dorothy Brunson of Brunson Communications. Helgesen observes their meetings, listens to their phone calls and conferences, and reads their correspondence. Her diary studies document how women leaders make decisions, schedule their days, gather and disperse information, motivate others, delegate tasks, structure their companies, hire, and fire. She chronicles how their experiences as women -- wives, mothers, friends, sisters, daughters -- contribute to their leadership style. |
| laura jansen souljah: The Courtship of Eva Eldridge Diane Simmons, 2016-08-15 Simmons presents readers with a true story of one woman’s struggle with a bigamist husband in the 1950s. Through the use of an archive of roughly eight hundred of Eva Eldridge’s letters and personal papers, the author tells the story of a woman bent on tracking down the serial bigamist who had married her only to disappear, as he had on a string of several women in the years following World War II. --Publisher |
| laura jansen souljah: Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem, 2014-01-16 Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award In 1955, Rose Zimmer got screwed. It wasn’t the first time, and it wasn’t the last. In fact, Rose – like all American Communists – got screwed by the entire twentieth century. She doesn’t take it lying down. For over forty years she pounds the streets of Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, terrorising the neighbourhood, and her family, with the implacability of her beliefs, the sheer force of her grudge. And the generations that follow Rose will not easily escape her influence, her ire, her radicalism. Foremost among these is Miriam, Rose's charismatic and passionate want-away hippie daughter, who heads for the Greenwich Village of the Sixties; her black stepson Cicero, an angry debunking machine; and her bewildered grandson Sergius, who finds himself an orphan in the capitalist now. A radical family epic, and an alternative view of the American twentieth century, Dissident Gardens is the story of a group of individuals who fought and lost, but might one day win. It is a blast of pure style and literary dazzle from one of the great and most innovative writers of the age. |
| laura jansen souljah: Biography Today, Annual Cumulation 1994 Laurie Lanzen Harris, 1994-12 Biographical profiles written especially for young readers ages 9 and above. |
| laura jansen souljah: The Ground Under My Feet Eva Kollisch, 2007 In autobiographical stories and essays, Eva Kollisch, rescued in childhood from the Nazis by a Kindertransport, deals with the themes of anti-semitism, uprooting, outsiderdom and search for community. |
| laura jansen souljah: Shaman's Crossing Robin Hobb, 2006 The First Book In A Brand New Trilogy From The Author Of The Farseer, Liveship Traders And Tawny Man Trilogies. Young Nevare Burvelle Is The Second Son Of A Second Son. Traditionally In Gernia, The Firstborn Son Is Heir To The Family Fortunes, The Second Son Bears A Sword And The Third Son Is Consecrated To The Priesthood. Nevare Will Follow His Father Newly Made A Lord By The King Into The Cavalry; To The Frontier And Thence To An Advantageous Marriage, To Carry On The Burvelle Name. It Is A Golden Future, And Nevare Looks Forward To It With Relish. For Twenty Years King Troven'S Cavalry Have Pushed The Frontiers Of Gernia Out Across The Grasslands, Subduing The Fierce Tribes Of The Plain On Its Way. Now They Have Driven The Frontier As Far As The Barrier Mountains, Home To The Enigmatic Speck People. The Specks A Dapple-Skinned, Forest-Dwelling Folk Retain The Last Vestiges Of Magic In A World Which Is Becoming Progressive And Technologised. The 'Civilised' Peoples Base Their Beliefs On A Rational Philosophy Founded On Scientific Principle And A Belief In The Good God, Who Displaced The Older Deities Of Their World. To Them, The Specks Are Primeval Savages, Little Better Than Beasts. Superstitions Abound; It Is Said That They Harbour Strange Diseases And Worship Trees. Sexual Congress With Them Is Regarded As Both Filthy And Foolhardy: The Speck Plague Which Has Ravaged The Frontier Has Decimated Entire Regiments. All These Beliefs Will Touch Nevare'S Training At The Academy; But His Progress There Is Not As Simple As He Would Wish. He Will Experience Prejudice From The Old Aristocracy: As The Son Of A 'New Noble' He Is Segregated Into A Patrol Comprising Other New Nobles' Sons, All Of Whom Will Encounter Injustice, Discrimination And Foul Play In That Hostile And Deeply Competitive Environment. In Addition, His World View Will Be Challenged By His Unconventional Girl-Cousin Epiny; And By The Bizarre Dreams Which Visit Him At Night. And Then, On Dark Evening, The Circus Comes To Old Thares, Bringing With It The First Specks Nevare Has Ever Seen& |
| laura jansen souljah: Portraits in Steel , 1993 This powerful book documents--in images and words--the unsettling experience of a dozen men and women workers who lost their jobs in the steel mills of Buffalo, New York, and had to fashion new lives for themselves. A stunning collection of revealing narratives that bears witness to wrenching changes in the American economy. Photographs. |
| laura jansen souljah: Blood Sisters Marilyn Yalom, 1995 The voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history. Yalom focuses on the most unforgettable chronicles: the governess of the royal children; the servant attending Marie-Antoinette in her last days; Robespierre's sister, Charlotte; and others bound together by a common nightmare. |
| laura jansen souljah: Abandoned Angel Burt Kimmelman, 2016 Poetry. The pared-down and essentialized poems in ABANDONED ANGEL show Kimmelman's further explorations of the procedural dynamic in syllabic forms. By way of a precise and pared-down language these poems artfully render a physical world while simultaneously serving as objects to be engaged for the contemplation of such a world. The poet not only situates us in the spaces of particular 'Weather' but also opens us to the poignancy of the passage of time against the vibrations of various 'Cities.' And in the latter case what might at first seem to be simple narrative progressions can often startlingly make manifest deeply heartfelt human illuminations. Kimmelman is obviously a master of his chosen strategies in both cases.--Hugh Seidman That every shadow of wonder can stand forth in the most familiar words is the gift this poet offers his readers time and again.--Susan Howe A strict & powerful accounting, leaving me... filled with admiration & hooked on every word.--Jerome Rothenberg A rare evocation... the wonder of this world in itself.—Robert Creeley Form calls deeply to form, as though the works... lifted one to the very brim of language.--Michael Heller He finds what is luminously transcendent.--Harvey Shapiro Artful, fastidious, learned... I am delighted by so much feeling for style.--Alfred Kazin Few contemporary poets so gracefully demonstrate classic notions of what the practice of poetry must be.--Madeline Tiger, Jacket Kimmelman creates himself through effacement, humility, and the expression of the joy and terror of being alive... a testament to the idea that self is not created by personal expression alone.--Hasanthika Sirisena, American Book Review Kimmelman's poems attest to the simple majesties of being, the massive implications of the everyday.--Eric Hoffman, Rain Taxi Burt Kimmelman wears his education and his influences like a loose garment. In a noisy world, he remains a poet speaking softly and directly to his audience, inviting us to join him in his perambulations about the various cities and their weather.--M.G. Stephens, Rain Taxi |
| laura jansen souljah: Hunter's Horn Harriette Arnow, 1949 |
| laura jansen souljah: The Well Ain't Dry Yet Belinda Anderson, 2001 |
| laura jansen souljah: Environment, Health, and Safety Lari A. Bishop, 1997 |
| laura jansen souljah: Stealing Faith Leora Skolkin-Smith, 2022-08-10 Allegra Gordon knew there was much she could learn from Faith Hale. From the moment she met the esteemed writer and feminist icon, Allegra understood that Faith would be a force in her life, one that would wrench the best work from her and encourage her to lay her soul bare. The relationship would simultaneously be the most liberating and most shattering Allegra ever encountered. And it would change both women in profound ways. |
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