Critical Perspectives on Bell Hooks
Critical Perspectives on Bell Hooks

Author: Maria del Guadalupe Davidson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-03-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1135856893

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In Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, contributors in the field of education, philosophy, and social work offer critical reflections on bell hooks’ work where she has been most influential. This is a must-read for scholars, professors, and students interested in issues of race, class and gender.

The China Story
The China Story

Author: Freda Utley

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2017-06-28

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1787205118

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First published in 1951, this book details Utley’s view on America’s handling of the situation in China at the time led to Communist victories. It went on to become a national bestseller, and a milestone in exhibiting how Third World gains by the Communists were helped and facilitated in Washington. It inspired hope in many foreign lands that Communist takeovers were neither indigenous nor “inevitable,” as was often claimed in the 1940’s. “I have read your book and commend it to those who are interested in knowing the truth......”—General Douglas MacArthur “[Utley combines] the keenest and most comprehensive intellectual understanding with deep and sincere emotion.... [they] hold the reader’s attention as intensely as a great novel.”—Bertrand Russell, 1950 Nobel Prize winner Author Freda Utley (1898-1978) was one of the key witnesses against Lattimore in the Tydings Committee investigation (1950) of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s charges of communist influence in the U. S. State Department.

The Future of Another Timeline
The Future of Another Timeline

Author: Annalee Newitz

Publisher: Tor Books

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0765392127

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“A revolution is happening in speculative fiction, and Annalee Newitz is leading the vanguard."--Wil Wheaton From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love. 1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. 2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to visiting key moments in history and fighting for change. But rewriting the timeline isn’t as simple as editing one person or event. And just when Tess believes she's found a way to make an edit that actually sticks, she encounters a group of dangerous travelers bent on stopping her at any cost. Tess and Beth’s lives intertwine as war breaks out across the timeline--a war that threatens to destroy time travel and leave only a small group of elites with the power to shape the past, present, and future. Against the vast and intricate forces of history and humanity, is it possible for a single person’s actions to echo throughout the timeline? Praise for The Future of Another Timeline: "An intelligent, gut-wrenching glimpse of how tiny actions, both courageous and venal, can have large consequences. Smart and profound on every level.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) "You close the book reeling with questions about your own life and your part in changing the future."—Amy Acker, actress (Angel and Person of Interest) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Forever Lost
Forever Lost

Author: Nicole Sherwood

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2021-08-04

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1662417063

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Prince Catair, the youngest son of the king of the elves, finds himself sent on a mission to destroy an ancient evil necklace discovered to be in his possession. The mission goes wrong from the start. The group made up of Prince Catair’s best friend, William Starling; fiancée, Annalee; and new and old friends faced monsters, weather, and evil sorcerers. Tragedy strikes on Prince Catair’s soul when he and Annalee are washed overboard into an unforgiving sea. Separated from any help, Annalee falls victim to the evil ancient necklace. Now Prince Catair must race against time to save Annalee and all the kingdoms, when an ancient dragon warrior and his queen rain destruction throughout all the kingdoms, razing cities, towns, and villages to the ground with fire and rage. As Prince Catair fights his way against magic and time, another unseen enemy moves in the background to bring down and destroy all that Prince Catair holds dear and is trying so hard to save.

The Repeating Island
The Repeating Island

Author: Antonio Benitez-Rojo

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780822318651

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In this second edition of The Repeating Island, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism. This co-winner of the 1993 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize has been expanded to include three entirely new chapters that add a Lacanian perspective and a view of the carnivalesque to an already brilliant interpretive study of Caribbean culture. As he did in the first edition, Benítez-Rojo redefines the Caribbean by drawing on history, economics, sociology, cultural anthropology, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and nonlinear mathematics. His point of departure is chaos theory, which holds that order and disorder are not the antithesis of each other in nature but function as mutually generative phenomena. Benítez-Rojo argues that within the apparent disorder of the Caribbean—the area’s discontinuous landmasses, its different colonial histories, ethnic groups, languages, traditions, and politics—there emerges an “island” of paradoxes that repeats itself and gives shape to an unexpected and complex sociocultural archipelago. Benítez-Rojo illustrates this unique form of identity with powerful readings of texts by Las Casas, Guillén, Carpentier, García Márquez, Walcott, Harris, Buitrago, and Rodríguez Juliá.

Ethnography for Designers
Ethnography for Designers

Author: Galen Cranz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-26

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1317309529

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Ethnography for Designers teaches architects and designers how to listen actively to the knowledge people have about their own culture. This approach gives structure to values and qualities. It does this by noting the terms and underlying structure of thought people use to describe aspects of their culture. By responding to underlying cognitive patterns, the architect can both respond to the user and interpret creatively. Thus, ethno-semantic methods can help designers to enhance their professional responsibility to users and, at the same time, to feel fulfilled creatively. This book is a practical guide for those teaching social factors and social research methods to designers and for those using these methods in practice.

With Silent Tread
With Silent Tread

Author: Frieda Cassin

Publisher: Caribbean Classics

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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This is an understated evocation of a claustrophobic island community struggling with the bitter legacies of slavery.