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Author: Anthony G. Robins
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-08-17
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1801177309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKActing as a bridge between the academic and policymaking communities, Young, Gifted and Missing sets the stage for addressing critical issues around why African American men are absent in the STEM disciplines.
Author: Razel Solow
Publisher: Great Potential PressInc
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780910707107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is it like to be 13 and going to college? Is such radical acceleration helpful or harmful? This book describes 14 highly gifted, young women, now in their 30s, who left home to go to college at age 13 to 16, skipping all or most of high school. The authors describe what they were like as young college students, the leadership, idealism, and sense of purposefulness that they developed, and their lives 10 to 13 years later. This inspirational book will help educators and parents of gifted children understand that gifted kids need academic challenge, that there are colleges with specific programs for such students, that it doesn't harm them to leave home early, and that keeping them interested in learning is vitally important.
Author: Camille Z. Charles
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2022-08-23
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 069123745X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth look at the rising American generation entering the Black professional class Despite their diversity, Black Americans have long been studied as a uniformly disadvantaged group. Drawing from a representative sample of over a thousand Black students and in-depth interviews and focus groups with over one hundred more, Young, Gifted and Diverse highlights diversity among the new educated Black elite—those graduating from America’s selective colleges and universities in the early twenty-first century. Differences in childhood experiences shape this generation, including their racial and other social identities and attitudes, and beliefs about and interactions with one another. While those in the new Black elite come from myriad backgrounds and have varied views on American racism, as they progress through college and toward the Black professional class they develop a shared worldview and group consciousness. They graduate with optimism about their own futures, but remain guarded about racial equality more broadly. This internal diversity alongside political consensus among the elite complicates assumptions about both a monolithic Black experience and the future of Black political solidarity.
Author: Ibtisam Azem
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2019-07-12
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0815654839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who converses with his dead grandmother in the journal he left behind when he disappeared, and his Jewish neighbor, Ariel, a journalist struggling to understand the traumatic event. Through these perspectives, the novel stages a confrontation between two memories. Ariel is a liberal Zionist who is critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, but nevertheless believes in Israel’s project and its national myth. Alaa is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland. Ariel’s search for clues to the secret of the collective disappearance and his reaction to it intimately reveal the fissures at the heart of the Palestinian question. The Book of Disappearance grapples with both the memory of loss and the loss of memory for the Palestinians. Presenting a narrative that is often marginalized, Antoon’s translation of the critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel.
Author: L.M. Hatchell
Publisher: ALX Publishing
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 62
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSometimes a gift can be a curse … I should know. As one of thousands “lucky” enough to inherit the Gifted gene, I’ve spent most of my life trying to limit contact with the world around me. For someone with the empath gift, every interaction has the potential to drown you – to submerge you in emotions so strong that it feels like you might lose yourself in them forever. I’ve lost myself many times. But when my closest friend is viciously attacked, and a young boy with a unique gift is blamed, I have no choice but to embrace my ability; it’s the only thing that won’t lie to me. The only thing I can trust. The safe little bubble I’ve created for myself is about to burst. And when it does, it won’t just be my world that’s changed forever. If you're looking for a fun, fast paced dose of escapism, you'll love this short Urban Fantasy read.
Author: Darryl Husband
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2012-06-11
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1105855732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBroken generations are nothing new. Many of us are the healed product of broken parenting. Dysfunctional families are not a new phenomenon -- just a new word to describe an old issue. Perched on the periphery of our ideals as believers has always been the pain of brokenness, dysfunction and the God that calls chaos into order. Between these pages, you will hear the pains of broken people and the plans and possibilities of a better posterity. We can make a difference.
Author: Kwei Quartey
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1641290714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 2021 Edgar Nominee for Best Novel Accra private investigator Emma Djan's first missing persons case will lead her to the darkest depths of the email scams and fetish priests in Ghana, the world's Internet capital. When her dreams of rising through the Accra police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her career. Through a sympathetic former colleague, Emma gets an interview with a private detective agency that takes on cases of missing persons, theft, and infidelity. It’s not the future she imagined, but it’s her best option. Meanwhile, Gordon Tilson, a middle-aged widower in Washington, DC, has found solace in an online community after his wife’s passing. Through the support group, he’s even met a young Ghanaian widow he’s come to care about. When her sister gets into a car accident, he sends her thousands of dollars to cover the hospital bill—to the horror of his only son, Derek. Then Gordon decides to surprise his new love by paying her a visit—and disappears. Fearing for his father’s life, Derek follows him across the world to Ghana, Internet capital of the world, where he and Emma will find themselves deep in a world of sakawa scams, fetish priests, and those willing to kill to protect their secrets.
Author: John Idris Jones
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2018-04-18
Total Pages: 210
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Angelica Goodden
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-05-31
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1446448355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA word was coined to describe the condition of people stricken with a new kind of fever when the Swiss-born artist Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) came to London in 1766. 'The whole world', it was said, 'is Angelicamad.' One of the most successful women artists in history - a painter who possessed what her friend Goethe called an 'unbelievable' and 'massive' talent - Kauffman became the toast of Georgian England, captivating society with her portraits, mythological scenes and decorative compositions. She knew and painted poets, novelists and playwrights, collaborating with them and illustrating their work; her designs adorned the houses of the Grand Tourists she had met and painted in Italy; actors, statesmen, philosophers, kings and queen sat to her; and she was the force that launched a thousand engravings. Despite rumours of relationships with other artists (including Sir Joshua Reynolds), and an apparently bigamous and annulled first marriage to a pseudo Count, Kauffman was adopted by royalty in England and abroad as a model of social and artistic decorum. A profoundly learned artist, but one who is loved, above all, for her tender adaptations from classical antiquity and sentimental literature; a commercially successful celebrity yet also a founding member of The Royal Academy of arts; the virginal creator of sexually ambivalent beings who was one of the hardest-headed businesswomen of her age, Kauffman's life and work is full of apparent contradictions explored in this first biography in over 80 years.
