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Publication Date: 2022
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This memoir by Harry Crews captures the first six years of his life among impoverished tenant farmer families in rural southern Georgia. Crews shares details of farm life, his father's death, his friendship with the son of a Black hired hand; his bout with polio; his mother and stepfather's failing marriage; his near-fatal scalding at a hog-killing; and a five-month sojourn in Jacksonville, Florida.
Publication Date: 2024
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Since its inception, women have played a crucial role in psychology, securing research opportunities and academic positions long denied them in other scientific fields. Over the last 150 years, women have made groundbreaking discoveries that have significantly shaped our understanding of the brain and its influence on perception and behaviour. A History of Women in Psychology and Neuroscience chronicles the contributions of 267 women who advanced our knowledge of the human mind.
Publication Date: 2024
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The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide. With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization, and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his trademark sardonic wit and incisive analysis, as well as a deep emotional openness about his life as a father and a son.
Publication Date: 2020
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A book that brings teachers back to the basics, if you will, of the Writing Workshop model - the foundational principles that Don Graves and his team of researchers realized that children need in order to write and to get better at writing: Time, Choice, and Response. Each part of the book will explore one of these principles, including what it means, why it is essential, and how to achieve it in the simplest ways possible--
Publication Date: 2024
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In this science nonfiction picture book, one tree supports an ecosystem of life -- insects, mammals, and even humans--
Publication Date: 2021
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Low ticket sales, an aging audience, a shrinking donor base, rising costs - opera is in crisis. Moreover, there is a stifling lack of diversity among opera executives with over 90% of US opera's executives identifying as White. Opera in Australia, Canada, and the U. K. reveals similar problems. What if an inability to recruit and retain diverse executives is a key source of opera's challenges? If more diverse opera executives existed would the art form overcome its struggle to appeal to contemporary society?
Publication Date: 2024
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Aesthetics of Repair analyses how the belongings called art are mobilized by Indigenous artists and cultural activists in British Columbia, Canada. Drawing on contemporary imaginaries of repair, the book asks how diverse forms of collective reckoning with settler-colonial harm resonate with urgent conversations about aesthetics of care in art. The discussion moves across urban and remote spaces of display for Northwest Coast-style Indigenous art, including galleries and museums, pipeline protests, digital exhibitions, an Indigenous-run art school, and a totem pole repatriation site.
Publication Date: 2024
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Tracing the local and global impact of Black Diasporic designers, Africa's Fashion Diaspora is one of the first books to explore the diverse perspectives and significant roles that Black designers have contributed to the creation of international fashion culture. With a focus on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this book features some of the best examples of innovative fashion throughout the period and contextualizes how diasporic designers' work can speak to contemporary issues, including decolonization, sustainability, and social equity.
Publication Date: 2025
Publication Date: 2023
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This book translates artificial intelligence (AI) through a teacher lens, provides practical ideas educators can use in the classroom right away, and unlocks powerful ways to streamline teaching and save time. It also paints a picture of the future that students will face, and provides thought-provoking questions for them to ponder.
Publication Date: 2024
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Organized chronologically and covering every short film, television episode, and classic film that the Master of Suspense directed over the course of his illustrious, 60-year career, Alfred Hitchcock All the Films draws upon years of research to tell the behind the scenes stories of how each project was conceived, cast, and produced, down to the creation of the costumes, the search for perfect locations, and of course, the direction of some of cinema's most memorable scenes.
Publication Date: 2024
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In a blossoming garden located far outside all worlds, a group of aging Greek gods have gathered to discuss the nature of existence, the mystery of mind, and whether there is a transcendent God from whom all things come. Turning to Eros, Psyche asks, 'Do you see this flower, my love?' So begins David Bentley Hart's unprecedented exploration of the mystery of consciousness. Writing in the form of a Platonic dialogue, he systematically subjects the mechanical view of nature that has prevailed in Western culture for four centuries to dialectical interrogation.
Publication Date: 2024
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The conversation about the proper role of religion in American public life often revolves around what kind of polity the Founders of the United States envisioned. Advocates of a 'Christian America' claim that the Framers intended a nation whose political values and institutions were shaped by Christianity; secularists argue that they designed an enlightened republic where church and state were kept separate. Both sides appeal to the Founding to justify their beliefs about the kind of nation the United States was meant to be or should become. In this book, Jerome E.
Publication Date: 2024
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A lift-the-flap counting book that runs from ten to one, with a different endangered animal revealed on each page--
Publication Date: 2000
Publication Date: 2025
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Artificial Intelligence Applications in K-12 offers authentic instances of how AI systems can be integrated into K-12 education today. As AI technologies rapidly evolve and become more accessible to primary, middle, and high schools worldwide, there is a pressing need for new demonstrations that highlight the challenges, opportunities, and ethical considerations associated with these powerful tools. This book explores the various roles of AI within pedagogy and assessment, school administration, student data management, and beyond.
Publication Date: 2024
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Discover the unique childhood and life of the enigmatic and eccentric Edward Gorey whose artwork and books had a profound impact on creators such as Neil Gaiman, Lemony Snicket, and Tim Burton. Even as a young boy, readers learn that Edward constantly forged his own path, passions, and pursuits, never forsaking his individuality for fame.This brilliant picture book biography is paired with a whimsical art style that captures the unrelenting creativity Edward brought to his playfully macabre creations--
Publication Date: 2022
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Analyzes Spanish Catholic priests' official ecclesiastical texts and Indigenous authors' rendering of those texts from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century in order to trace European and Indigenous influences, both stylistic and substantive, on beliefs in New Spain about the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and the Final Judgment. Includes author's own translations of Spanish, Nahuatl, and Mayan texts--
Publication Date: 2024
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Becoming Neolithic examines the revolutionary transformation of human life that was taking place around 12,000 years ago in parts of southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherer communities were building the first permanent settlements, creating public monuments and symbolic imagery, and beginning to cultivate crops and manage animals. These communities changed the tempo of cultural, social, technological and economic inno-vation. Trevor Watkins sets the story of becoming Neolithic in the context of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory.
Publication Date: 2024
Publication Date: 2024
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The term 'public theology' was introduced by Martin E. Marty in a 1974 article. Since then, scholarly discussions on public theology have become more popular in academic circles. This book, however, is about the invitation for moving beyond the academy. It provides two reasons for doing so. First, an overtly academic public theology is in crisis today. Although public theology may be flourishing in the academy, its relevance for real life is limited.
Publication Date: 2024
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The second edition of this pathbreaking, widely taught book offers 5 new chapters, on breastfeeding and Black infant health; Black birthing during Covid; Black doulas rethinking birthing practices; the recent buildup of a US national movement; and expanding the global movement for sexual and reproductive wellbeing. Other chapters are updated throughout. Birthing Justice puts black women's voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternal care system. It foregrounds Black women's agency in the birth justice movement.
Publication Date: 2022
Publication Date: 2024
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Bodies beyond Labels explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions. Viewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day concepts of queerness through homoeroticism, non-labelled bodies, gender fluidity, and performativity.
