Windows to the Sun

Windows to the Sun

Author: Earl G. Ingersoll

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780838641972

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The Cambridge sources embody the most recent textual scholarship, and critical references include theoreticians like Gilles Deleuze, Theodor Adorno, and Judith Butler."


Beating Seattle's Grey

Beating Seattle's Grey

Author: Heather McAuliffe

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10-21

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781518693830

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Seattle's overcast skies and short winter days are typically blamed for people catching the "winter blues" (Seasonal Affective Disorder, SAD). This book explains how our indoor lifestyle is likely the culprit instead, and may in fact be contributing to depression year round. The book offers detailed suggestions on how to reduce depression from an indoor lifestyle by adding more light, negative ions and color. Beating Seattle's Grey offers hope that we can learn to love, not hate Seattle's weather.


Freedom Libraries

Freedom Libraries

Author: Mike Selby

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1538115549

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Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South. As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water fountain, there was another virtually unheard of struggle—this one for the right to read. Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African-Americans, no books for them read, and no furniture for them to use. It was these exact conditions that helped create Freedom Libraries. Over eighty of these parallel libraries appeared in the Deep South, staffed by civil rights voter registration workers. While the grassroots nature of the libraries meant they varied in size and quality, all of them created the first encounter many African-Americans had with a library. Terror, bombings, and eventually murder would be visited on the Freedom Libraries—with people giving up their lives so others could read a library book. This book delves into how these libraries were the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, and the remarkable courage of the people who used them. They would forever change libraries and librarianship, even as they helped the greater movement change the society these libraries belonged to. Photographs of the libraries bring this little-known part of American history to life.


Breaking Windows

Breaking Windows

Author: David Bank

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0743203151

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"Breaking Windows" is a gripping account of Bill Gates's plan to establish a monopoly and create a new kind of business organism. Bank shows how the company's executives faced a tough legal challenge, and how they are dealing with the limits of Microsoft's growth.


The Windows of Brimnes

The Windows of Brimnes

Author: Bill Holm

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

Published: 2010-08-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1571318283

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A Midwesterner contemplates the view of America from a remote Icelandic village: “A pleasure to read and ponder.” —Booklist (starred review) A Minnesotan of Icelandic ancestry, Bill Holm had traveled all over the world, gathering material for a number of rich and memorable books. Then he decided to journey to the land his family had long ago left behind for the United States, and moved into a town with one general store in a nation of a few hundred thousand people. This book recounts his time at Brimnes, his fisherman’s cottage on the shore of a creek in northern Iceland. There, he embarks on a very different life in a very different world, and from thousands of miles away, considers the fate of America—“my home, my citizenship, my burden”—in these provocative, compelling essays. “A master storyteller.” —Los Angeles Times “Bill Holm’s life in [this] place of spare beauty will make readers wish they had a Brimnes where they could restore their souls.” —Pioneer Press (St. Paul)


Bulletin

Bulletin

Author: United States. Office of Education

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 948

ISBN-13:

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