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Book SynopsisImagine moving your family to the US - the day before 9/11. Former BBC journalist Dixey does just that. This is her humorous and biting memoir of a trip across the states.

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Book Synopsis'The heart-rending story of two beautiful and glamorous women, and the spirals of disaster into which one of their lives tumbled.' Robert Lacey, author of Grace and The Crown A powerful memoir of friendship and marriage, childhood and motherhood. Nyna Giles, twenty-nine, was in the queue at the supermarket when she looked down and saw the headline: 'Former Bridesmaid of Princess Grace Lives in Homeless Shelter'. Nyna was stunned; her family's private ordeal was front page news. The woman on that cover was her mother. The truth was, she barely knew who her mother had been before marriage. She knew Carolyn had been a model - arriving in New York in 1947, where she'd met the young Grace Kelly, and that the two had become fast friends. Nyna had seen the photos of her mother at Grace's wedding, wearing the bridesmaid gown that had hung in her closet for years. But how had the seemingly confident, glamorous woman in those pictures become the mother she knew growing up - the mother who told her she was too ill to go to school and kept her isolated at home? In her journey to uncover her mother's past Nyna relives a story as classic, familiar, dark and dangerous as any fairy tale.Trade Review`The book unfolds like a novel - a tragic and deeply moving saga.' Robert Lacey, author of Grace and The Crown | `Straight from the heart, and told with great bravery - a fascinating and powerful story of a daughter's love for a flawed parent and the struggle to understand a tumultuous childhood.' Wendy Lawless, author of Chanel Bonfire | `One of the best personal accounts of the horror of mental illness unchecked since Susan Sheehan's Is There No Place on Earth for Me.' Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, author of Shrinks | `Poignant and courageous.' Donald Spoto, author of High Society: The Life of Grace Kelly

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Book SynopsisHey guys, I'm Alfie and welcome to The Scrapbook of My Life! Inside this book you'll read all about the day I was born and what it was like growing up with my family in Brighton. Read stories from my childhood and teen years, right up until present day, and, of course, all about how my crazy YouTube journey began and my thoughts on what the future holds. I've had some amazing adventures and met some awesome people along the way, and like everything I do I wanted to share it all with you.Oh and how could I forget to tell you that you can also join in and create your own scrapbook next to mine? Just fill in the blank sections by writing down your memories, or any fun facts that you don't want to forget. You can also stick your favourite photos or souvenirs to the pages, so that in many years to come you can look back on your own life! The Scrapbook of My Life also includes a free app with exclusive digital content.

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Book SynopsisRichard Garner has spent 36 years reporting on education, working for the Times Educational Supplement, The Mirror, and The Independent. In The Thirty Years War, he retraces the steps of his career, examining the policies, personalities, success stories and outright failures of the UK education scene from the 1980s to the present day. Richard gives his verdict on the 16 Education Secretaries he has seen come and go, and offers an insider's view of the major issues and events of his time in office, ranging from the fight to abolish corporal punishment to the rise of the academy movement, and now the Government's move to open new grammar schools. It is a story of power, policies and personalities, and how the events of the past three decades have shaped the education sector in the UK today.

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Book SynopsisA revealing memoir about living with Asperger’s syndrome that is by turns laugh-out-loud funny and achingly sad. It is only when he is diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler’s life starts to make sense — his accidental rudeness, his strange obsessions (including road signs and Sherlock Holmes), his unusual way of dressing, and his trouble in company. In this moving memoir, Tom explores his eccentric behaviour from boyhood to manhood, examines the role of autism in his family, and investigates the scientific explanations for his condition. Eloquent, witty, and insightful, Keep Clear ultimately shows why the day Tom received his diagnosis turned out to be the happiest day of his life. Trade Review‘What makes this book extraordinary … is not the autism of its author but Cutler’s ability to articulate subtle shades of feeling in prose that feels both rigorously precise and uproariously funny. By its unexpectedly heart-wrenching conclusion, Keep Clear has delivered the readers into a world transformed by being glimpsed through the eyes of another – the reward of all superb writing.’ -- Steve Silberman * The Spectator *‘A British humour writer chronicles his experiences with Asperger’s syndrome, for which he didn’t receive a diagnosis until he was 55, and explores some of the science associated with the condition … [T]he meat of the book is Cutler’s detailed, highly entertaining examination of his life on the spectrum, and his unique brand of comedy is evident throughout … An intimate embrace of Asperger’s full of both melancholy and salty humour..’ * Kirkus Reviews *‘This is a delightful and intimate insight into Asperger's, it couldn't be more timely or more valuable.’ -- Nicholas Blincoe, author of Manchester Slingback‘Honest, witty and informative, this is an important and valuable book on many levels … If you have a friend or family member who is on the Autism Spectrum, this book will go a long way toward helping to understand the immense effort it requires to try to fit into a ‘neurotypical’ world.’ * The Sherlock Holmes Journal *‘Cutler’s memoir is a heartwarming account of his life through the lens of his obsessions and eccentricities.’ * Happy Mag *Praise for A Gentleman's Bedside Book: ‘The perfect stocking filler for the man who has everything.’ * The Oldie *

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Book SynopsisThe funny, insightful and moving account of what happens to a close, loving middle-class family when the father is unexpectedly thrown in jail.After fourteen years of marriage, Mel Jacob's life looked as perfect as the roses perched above her white picket fence. The nice house in the suburbs, two great kids, a good husband. Until...Her life took an unexpected detour when her seemingly saintly husband was jailed for two years. In Sickness, in Health . . . and in Jail follows Mel's funny, moving and insightful journey as she navigates single parenthood, prison visitations and nosy neighbours.Mel's revealing account is the story of the family left behind. It chronicles the grief, the stigma and the conversational minefields of her husband's whereabouts, as well as the logistical problems of making a baby sibling for her two children, and why it's not appropriate to tell people that Daddy's in jail.In Sickness, in Health . . . and in Jail is a funny and touching account of grief and love and forgiveness.Trade ReviewA revealing story about raising a family with busybody neighbours and the stigma of having a husband in jail. * Yours *Jacob's sense of humour lightens an otherwise sad and unenviable situation and the characters come out as likeable folk doing the best they can during scary and uncertain years. * Weekly Times *Mel Jacob's book is about love, loss, grief, forgiveness - and truth. * Sydney Morning Herald *

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Book SynopsisSophie Morigeau (1836–1916) was a remarkable woman. Of mixed Indian-white heritage, she lived her life on her own terms. She traded in Canadian mining camps and ran pack trains across the Northern Rocky Mountains. For years she maintained a trading post on Tobacco Plains on the border between Canada and the United States. She broke through the accepted roles for women in the nineteenth century to become an Indian entrepreneur. Jean Barman’s biography of Morigeau details the available historical evidence of a woman who cut her own path, was an important trader for the Kootenai Indians, and was a member of both the Indian and white communities in nineteenth-century northwest Montana and southern British Columbia. Sophie Morigeau was a resourceful and courageous woman on the cultural frontier.

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Book SynopsisWarrior Athletes tells the story of ten prominent twentieth-century Salish and Kootenai Indian athletes from the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana: Charles Allard Jr. was a University of Montana football star and the 1901 captain of the Grizzly football team. Two Feathers, William Matt, and Henry Matt wrestled professionally in Montana and the Pacific Northwest from 1903 to 1905. Nick Lassa played on the Carlisle Indian School football team in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1914 to 1918. Between 1918 and 1921 he played football for the Haskell Indian Institute in Lawrence, Kansas, and was a member of the only all-Indian National Football League team from 1922 to 1923. Jimmy Dupuis fought regular boxing matches in western Montana from 1930 to 1940. Frenchy Roullier and Sam Clairmont were basketball stars at Ronan High School, Mount Saint Charles College, and western Montana independent basketball teams from 1925 to 1940. Archie McDonald played football for the Haskell Indian Institute in Kansas and the Montana State University Grizzlies at Missoula from 1930 to 1939. Marvin Camel was the only Native American two-time world boxing champion and boxed professionally from 1973 to 1990.

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Book SynopsisAgnes Vanderburg was a widely respected Salish elder on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. She was born at the dawn of the twentieth century when horses provided transport. Her elders taught her many of the traditional ways of the Salish people. With her knowledge of Salish culture and language, she was an invaluable source of knowledge for the younger generation of tribal members. As a young woman Vanderburg competed in horse races and traveled around the country sharing the Salish culture and language. Working with her husband Jerome, and later by herself, she created a cultural camp on the reservation to share her knowledge with young tribal members, students of tribal culture, and visitors from around the world. Vanderburg shared her life story and wisdom in interviews during her later years. “What I Know About the Old Ways” is a compilation of a few of these interviews which allows her to speak to tribal members and others in the twenty-first century. Her message of the importance of preserving Salish culture and language is especially important for tribal members and all Americans today.

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Book SynopsisSenator George P. McLean's crowning achievement was overseeing passage of one of the country's first and most important wildlife conservation laws, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. The MBTA, which is still in effect today, has saved billions of birds from senseless killing and likely prevented the extinction of entire bird species. A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate puts McLean's victory for birds in the context of his distinguished forty-five-year career marked by many acts of reform during a time of widespread corruption and political instability. Author Will McLean Greeley traces McLean's rise from obscurity as a Connecticut farm boy to national prominence, when he advised five US presidents and helped lead change and shape events as a US senator from 1911 to 1929. One reviewer writes: "And there's a bonus: This book is also a love song to a distant relative. We need more historians who truly care about the people they're writing about, and Greeley does just that."Table of ContentsPreface i Acknowledgmentsix Introduction: A Midlife Comeback (1905) xi Part One: Simsbury, Connecticut Chapter One: Old Days, Old Ways 1 Chapter Two: Climbing the Ladder 23 Chapter Three: A Little Help from His Friends 55 Chapter Four: Reform Governor 71 Chapter Five: A Time to Heal 85 Chapter Six: Seeking the US Senate 109 Part Two: Washington, DC Chapter Seven: Enter Listening 123 Chapter Eight: Saving the Birds 147 Chapter Nine: Working with Wilson 173 Chapter Ten: The Good Ship Normalcy 205 Chapter Eleven: Closing with Coolidge 229 Part Three: Going Home Chapter Twelve: Coming Full Circle 255 Epilogue 275 Bibliography 281 Index 295 Colophon 317

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Book SynopsisXuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is divided into ten categories of subject matter. Under Daoist and Buddhist Subjects, Figural Subjects, Architecture, Barbarian Tribes, Dragons and Fish, Landscape, Domestic and Wild Animals, Flowers and Birds, Ink Bamboo, and Vegetables and Fruit are biographies of 231 painters, ranging from famous early masters, such as Wu Daozi (ca. 685-758) and Li Cheng (919-967), to otherwise unknown artists of the Song-dynasty court, including fourteen eunuch officials and sixteen male and female members of the royal family. Titles of their pictures held in the palace collection are listed for each artist. These 6,396 paintings testify to the visual culture experienced by viewers of the twelfth century. The author's Introduction analyzes the Catalogue as a source of evidence about the formation of the Song-dynasty palace collection and argues that the majority of its pictures were already in the collection before Huizong's reign, as a result of conquest, confiscation, tribute, gift culture, collecting by earlier emperors, and the production of academy artists and regular officials at the Song court. Under Huizong's reign, around a thousand other pictures were added to the Catalogue through acquisition and reattribution. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Book SynopsisNaomi Raquel Enright's Strength of Soul proposes tangible strategies and ideas on how to challenge systemic racism through naming and resisting the ideology of racial difference and of the white supremacy at its root. Enright explores racism and the language that upholds this ideology through personal narratives that include an examination of her family’s experience. Throughout this volume, Enright shares reflections of her identity growing up as a bilingual, multiethnic individual, and as the mother of a son presumed to be white. She also advances ideas about how to confront societal notions of an inherent difference between the lived experiences of white people and everyone else, notions which result in the widely held belief that there is an inevitable “us” and “them.” Enright suggests that embracing one’s total identity can allow people to challenge systemic racism as well as the language and ideology that created it and upholds it. In these poignant and deeply personal stories, Enright allows readers to imagine a society on a genuine path towards justice, healing, and true transformation. Strength of Soul is for anyone who is willing to rethink the status quo and is interested in creating systemic change regarding institutionalized and internalized racism.

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Book SynopsisSince slavery, Black women have struggled to liberate themselves from racism and sexism. Yet despite these hurdles and under the most difficult circumstances, they managed to achieve greatness. TRAILBLAZERS shines a light on these their accomplishments, which often led to widespread cultural change. TRAILBLAZERS is a six-volume series that examines the lives and careers of over four hundred brilliant women from the eighteenth century to the present who blazed uncharted paths in every conceivable way. Each TRAILBLAZERS volume is organized into several sections. Along with biographical information and powerful photographs, David provides a historical timeline for each section—written from the viewpoint of Black women—that maps out the significance of the featured women that follow. Volume 1 features an assortment of sixty-five activists, dancers, and athletes. We learn about the significance of activists like Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, Rosina Tucker, and Clara Day, who represent the hundreds of unnamed women who participated in the civil rights and labor movements. We re-discover dancers Jeni Legon and Margot Webb, who are honored alongside dance legends Josephine Baker, Katherine Dunham, Janet Collins, and a new generation of dancers including Misty Copeland, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, and choreographers like Camille A. Brown, and Cynthia Oliver. And then there are the Black women athletes who disrupted the world of sports, from the nearly forgotten tennis champion Ora Washington and Alice Coachman—the first to compete and win in the Olympics—to Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in Olympic history. Throughout the series, as David re-introduces many of these women into the public sphere, they are not always in predictable ways. For example, Debbie Allen makes a brief appearance in this volume, not for her acting or as a director, but rather as the dancer she initially trained to be, reminding us that Black women are multifaceted, multitalented, and complex. What binds these women together is that as they struggled on the front lines, they shook up the status quo of Black people in America. Throughout the volume, David also challenges the socially conditioned assumptions, stereotypes, and false binaries that denigrate Black women’s bodies particularly in dance and sports, including the barriers they face in how they wear their hair. In this regard, David addresses the totality of Black womanhood: physically, culturally, and politically. With painstaking research, David has created an affordable, visually rich, and accessible reference book. From the foremothers who blazed trails and broke barriers, to the women who follow in their footsteps, TRAILBLAZERS offers powerful and inspiring role models for women and girls from all cultural backgrounds and for the intellectually curious. TRAILBLAZERS is a clarion call for recognition of the transformative work Black women have done and continue to do. Written in accessible prose that contains personal reflections for a broad audience, TRAILBLAZERS also serves as a vital reference guide for use in schools and libraries. Trade Review"The first volume of an interdisciplinary, intersectional reference collection on influential Black women. . . . an inspiring, comprehensive work. With a multidisciplinary background in music, design, and poetry, David provides the model of activist scholarship that combines academic nuance and sophistication with an engaging writing style that is accessible to general readership, such as David’s essay that convincingly demonstrates how women served as the 'foot soldiers' of the civil rights movement. Backed by impressive endnotes and references, each chapter is encyclopedic in breadth while offering fresh analytical insights into Black women who are well covered in the existing literature, like Rosa Parks. . . . Accompanied by dozens of stark, powerful black-and-white photographs and portraits, this is a visually arresting volume whose words match the power of its images. An exciting resource in a promising, thorough multivolume celebration of Black women." * Kirkus *"Trailblazers offers a depth unequalled in the arena of black women achievers, making this first volume in a six-book series a top recommendation for judicious collections. . . . Trailblazers, Black Women Who Helped Make America Great, American Firsts/American Icons is highly recommended for collections strong in women's issues, minority history and social change, and biography alike. There's nothing in print that holds the same depth of historical and social analysis, the attention to researched, footnoted facts . . . or the same ability to inspire." -- D. Donovan * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsNA

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Book SynopsisThis bilingual collection of poems by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez reads as a poetic autobiography of a hopeless romantic. Borracho invites us to find the essence of a man’s character laid bare in the foibles of his desire and passionate pursuit of love. Spanning the poet’s fifty-year career, this volume of fifty love poems takes us on a journey through the poet’s winding paths of love and life. Beginning with poems dedicated to his mother and father, the cascading style of Meléndez’s verse strings together a series of vignettes within a flowing narrative of the poet’s life in love. They offer lyrical glimpses into the struggle to find love and into a life lived in deep connection, and they lead us to bittersweet moments in the company of an aging man. The poems spring from times of exhilarating joy, sinking darkness, and painful absence, taking us on a journey through love’s highs and lows.

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Book SynopsisResearch underlies nearly every aspect of our culture, with expansive investment poured into it and its significance acknowledged by governments, industries, and academic institutions around the world. Yet the idea, practice, and social life of research have not been a subject of study. Of the 164 million items in the catalog of the Library of Congress, only forty-three fall into the category of “Research—History.” To begin the task of understanding research as a concept and practice, Bard Graduate Center gathered a group of artists, scientists, and humanists—all recipients of MacArthur “genius” grants—for three evenings of discussion moderated by Peter N. Miller, who is also a MacArthur Fellow.What is Research? includes conversations with theater director Annie Dorsen, biomedical researcher Elodie Ghedin, sculptor Tom Joyce, physicist Hideo Mabuchi, poet Campbell McGrath, photographer and filmmaker An-My Lê, neuroscientist Sheila Nirenberg, geochemist Terry Plank, and historian Marina Rustow, all of whom grapple with questions about the nature of research from their varied perspectives.

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Book SynopsisStunning visuals and poetic text combine to tell the inspiring story of Lewis Hine (1874–1940), a teacher and photographer who employed his art as a tool for social reform. Working for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Hine traveled the United States, taking pictures of children as young as five toiling under dangerous conditions in cotton mills, seafood canneries, farms, and coal mines. He often wore disguises to sneak into factories, impersonating a machinery inspector or traveling salesman. He said, "If I could tell this story in words, I wouldn't need to lug a camera." His poignant pictures attracted national attention and were instrumental in the passage of child labor laws. The Traveling Camera contains extensive back matter including a time line, original photos, and a bibliography.Trade ReviewA beautiful and heartwarming book--I give it my highest recommendation.--Kate Sampsell-Willman, author of Lewis Hine as Social Critic This book is stunning, both in words and pictures, truly a snapshot of history.--Jane Yolen, author of Owl Moon, Devil's Arithmetic, and I Am the Storm Lyrical writing combines with charming illustrations to deepen the reader's engagement with Hine and the children he cared about. The Traveling Camera offers a way of looking at history as a confluence of art, activism, and social change.--Uma Krishnaswami, author of Book Uncle and Me and Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh

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Book SynopsisWhile the adage may go, “Behind every great man is a great woman,” the story of Maria Longworth Storer necessitates a new adage—at the front of every great city is a great woman. After being shunted into the biographies and history books of other people, Longworth Storer is now finally given center stage on the one hundred and seventieth anniversary of her birth.Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and Presidents is the most comprehensive biography of this one of a kind Cincinnatian. Known as the founder of the first female-run manufacturing company in the United States, Rookwood Pottery, Longworth Storer was passionate about women’s rights, her city, and issues of poverty and the arts. She owned Rookwood pottery for nine years, and then transferred ownership after earning recognition at the Exhibition of American Art Industry in Philadelphia and receiving a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. Aside from her success with Rookwood, Longworth Storer was central to making the Queen City the major cultural landmark it is today. Although the rest of her life was no less remarkable as the wife of notorious diplomat Bellamy Storer, later embroiled in the famous Roosevelt-Storer scandal, little has been written about her contributions and exploits in diplomatic relations and her powerful influence on turn-of-the-twentieth-century political leaders. Featuring new archival research, and never before seen photos of the Storer family, authors Constance J. Moore and Nancy M. Broermann have compiled a portrait of Maria Longworth Storer that is rich in detail, fitting to both the wide, often eclectic, breadth of Longworth Storer’s projects, and to the depth of her impact on leaders from Washington D.C. to Europe. Moving through major moments in both American and Cincinnati history, and intersecting with significant historical figures including Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, Moore and Broermann expose the broader historical narrative of Longworth Storer’s life without letting her unique spirit and individual accomplishments become overshadowed by them. Through thoughtful, balanced narrative, readers get to know a remarkable woman whose fascinating and dramatic life as a political figure, women’s rights advocate, and patron of the arts has had a long lasting legacy on the Queen City and the Shaping of our nation’s diplomatic policies.

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Book SynopsisThe Splendid Disarray of Beauty: The Boys, the Tiles, the Joy of Cathedral Oaks-A Study in Arts and Crafts Community retrieves from obscurity the story of the California artists Frank Ingerson (1879-1968) and George Dennison (1873-1966), known among their friends as "the Boys." In August 1910, they began fifty-five years of love and life together by launching a freestanding summer art school. The Cathedral Oaks school was bohemian in lifestyle but rigorously followed the teachings of the dean of American Arts and Crafts design, Arthur Wesley Dow.The Boys went on to lead glamorous lives as interior designers in Hollywood and Europe-hobnobbing with Academy Award winners and dining with the Peerage. Married in substance one hundred years before California law got up to their speed, they are two of the most fascinating and admirable people you may have never heard of-until now

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Book SynopsisFrank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology​Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans​Out of the Red is one man’s pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices combined to deliver an unfortunate fate. After a childhood of poverty, institutional discrimination, violence, and being thrown away by the public education system, Bolden's life took him through the treacherous landscape of street gangs at the age of fourteen. The Bloods offered a sense of family, protection, excitement, and power. Incarcerated during the Texas prison boom, the teenage former gangster was thrust into a fight for survival as he navigated the perils of adult prison. As mass incarceration and prison gangs swallowed up youth like him, survival meant finding hope in a hopeless situation and carving a path to his own rehabilitation. Despite all odds, he forged a new path through education, ultimately achieving the seemingly impossible for a formerly incarcerated ex-gangbanger. Trade Review“Bolden provides a sobering account of gang life through a personal narrative that captures the realities of violence, victimization, adolescent frustrations, and systemic dysfunction in social institutions. He displays an enormous amount of courage by writing clearly about both his participation in violence and his firsthand experiences being either a victim of or witness to brutal crimes. He provides a thorough account of gang life in San Antonio and beyond.” -- Timothy Lauger * author of Real Gangstas: Legitimacy, Reputation, and Violence in the Intergang Environment *"Compelling and powerful, Out of the Red joins a small but important body of autoethnographic works on crime, victimization, and injustice. Seamlessly blending his life story and lived experience with scholarship on gangs, delinquency, and justice, Bolden offers a moving and rigorous assessment of the causes and consequences of social and legal inequalities in America." -- Jody Miller * Distinguished Professor, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice *"Tommy Tucker, First News," WWL Radio interview with Christian Bolden https://www.radio.com/wwl/blogs/tommy-tucker-wwl-first-news/tommy-why-do-some-break-bad * "Tommy Tucker, First News," WWL Radio *"Mr. Holland’s masterpiece: Resurrecting a life" https://clarionherald.org/news/mr-hollands-masterpiece-resurrecting-a-life * Clarion Herald *"The Reading Life: Tom Cooper, Christian Bolden" https://www.wwno.org/post/reading-life-tom-cooper-christian-bolden * The Reading Life, WWNO *"From Gang Member to PhD: Defying the Odds," by Isidoro Rodriguez https://thecrimereport.org/2020/11/04/from-gang-member-to-phd-defying-the-odds/ * The Crime Report *Table of ContentsContents List of Images List of Tables List of Figures Prologue Introduction Part I - Gangs Poverty Adultism Neighborhoods Bangin’ in San Antone Escalation Purgatory Part II - Prison Texas Hold ‘em Fellowship Between the Lines Transitions Wally World Starting from the Bottom Letters Part III - Redemption Outcast Freedom Pinnacles Acknowledgements Appendix - San Antonio Gang Member Interviews Index

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Book SynopsisLosing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell’s palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over one hundred people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience. Participants described microaggressions, internalizations, and minimalizations and their impact on identity. Heartbreakingly, synkinesis disrupts the ability to have shared moments. When one experiences spontaneous emotion, wrong nerves trigger misfeel and misperception by others. One is misread by others and receives confusing internal information. Communication of and to the self is irrevocably damaged. Wachs describes the experience as a social disability. People found a host of creative ways to reinvigorate their sense of self and self-expression. Like so many she interviewed, Wachs experiences a process of change and growth as she is challenged to think more deeply about ableism, identity, and who she wants to be.Trade Review“Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.”— Travers, author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution “Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.”— Kathleen Bogart, director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsContents 1 When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons 2 Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face 3 Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain 4 It's My Face—Why That Matters 5 Disrupted Selves 6 Someone I Would Rather Be 7 Walking Away: The Challenge of Change Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright’s classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of scholarly work. First published in 1941 by Teachers College Press, Thompson’s landmark study has been out of print for decades. Such rarity understates the book’s importance. Thompson’s major book and her life are significant for the histories of New Jersey, African Americans, local and national, women’s and education history. Drawing upon Wright's work, existing scholarship, and new archival research, this new landmark scholarly edition, which includes an all-new biography of this pioneering scholar, underscores the continued relevance of Marion Thompson Wright.Trade Review"The Marion Thompson Wright Companion has great potential to be the book of record on African American history in the state. The extensive research, numerous examples, and textual connections make this book a major contribution to New Jersey black history." -- Maxine Lurie * author of Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State *"The Marion Thompson Wright Companion has great potential to be the book of record on African American history in the state. The extensive research, numerous examples, and textual connections make this book a major contribution to New Jersey black history." -- Maxine Lurie * author of Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State *"Hodges has organized a wealth of important writings authored by Wright in this Reader that now might be used by scholars interested in continuing to discuss Wright’s life, and significance, not only in the history of African Americans in New Jersey but also in the history of the United States." -- Hettie Williams * NJS Journal *Table of ContentsContents Epigram Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction The Education of Negroes in New Jersey Articles: Text of “New Jersey Laws and the Negro” The Journal of Negro History, 28: 2 (April 1943), 156-199 Text of “Negro Suffrage in New Jersey, 1776-1875,” The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (April 1948), 168-223. Text of “Racial Integration in the Public Schools of New Jersey,” The Journal of Negro Education, 23: 3, Next Steps in Racial Desegregation in Education (Summer, 1954).2882-289.Reviews and Notes “Are Colonials People?” Color and Democracy by William E. Burghardt Du Bois, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 1946), pp. 63-65 “It Can Happen Anywhere” If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester B. Himes, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spring, 1946) pp. 213-214. “Notes from Recent Books,” The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn, 1944), pp. 532-535 “Notes from Recent Books,” The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring, 1949), pp. 155-159 Encyclopedia Entry “Lucy Diggs Slowe” in Edward T. James, et. Al. Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 3 vols. Cambridge: Belknap of Harvard University Press, 1971, 3: 299-300Marion Thompson Wright Chronological Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLosing her smile to synkinesis after unresolved Bell’s palsy changed how Faye Linda Wachs was seen by others and her internal experience of self. In Metamorphosis, interviewing over one hundred people with acquired facial difference challenged her presumptions about identity, disability, and lived experience. Participants described microaggressions, internalizations, and minimalizations and their impact on identity. Heartbreakingly, synkinesis disrupts the ability to have shared moments. When one experiences spontaneous emotion, wrong nerves trigger misfeel and misperception by others. One is misread by others and receives confusing internal information. Communication of and to the self is irrevocably damaged. Wachs describes the experience as a social disability. People found a host of creative ways to reinvigorate their sense of self and self-expression. Like so many she interviewed, Wachs experiences a process of change and growth as she is challenged to think more deeply about ableism, identity, and who she wants to be.Trade Review“Metamorphosis is an important contribution to sociology of the body, critical disability, and sociology of emotion scholarship, as well as being of interest and use to anyone interested in understanding more about the nuts and bolts of face-to-face communication; Wachs is a gifted writer.”— Travers, author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution “Metamorphosis is a groundbreaking, nuanced study of the experience of facial paralysis (FP) and synkinesis. This is the first academic book on synkinesis or facial paralysis, and Wachs is the perfect person to write it.”— Kathleen Bogart, director of the Disability and Social Interaction Lab at Oregon State UniversityTable of ContentsContents 1 When Life Gives You Lemons…. Interview Lots of Other People Also With Lemons 2 Theorizing Change: Culture, Identity, and the Face 3 Microaggressions, Internalizations, and Contested Ideological Terrain 4 It's My Face—Why That Matters 5 Disrupted Selves 6 Someone I Would Rather Be 7 Walking Away: The Challenge of Change Acknowledgments Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Marion Thompson Wright Reader, acclaimed historian Graham Russell Hodges provides a scholarly, accessible introduction to a modern edition of Marion Thompson Wright’s classic book, The Education of Negroes in New Jersey and to her full body of scholarly work. First published in 1941 by Teachers College Press, Thompson’s landmark study has been out of print for decades. Such rarity understates the book’s importance. Thompson’s major book and her life are significant for the histories of New Jersey, African Americans, local and national, women’s and education history. Drawing upon Wright's work, existing scholarship, and new archival research, this new landmark scholarly edition, which includes an all-new biography of this pioneering scholar, underscores the continued relevance of Marion Thompson Wright.Trade Review"The Marion Thompson Wright Companion has great potential to be the book of record on African American history in the state. The extensive research, numerous examples, and textual connections make this book a major contribution to New Jersey black history." -- Maxine Lurie * author of Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State *"The Marion Thompson Wright Companion has great potential to be the book of record on African American history in the state. The extensive research, numerous examples, and textual connections make this book a major contribution to New Jersey black history." -- Maxine Lurie * author of Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State *"Hodges has organized a wealth of important writings authored by Wright in this Reader that now might be used by scholars interested in continuing to discuss Wright’s life, and significance, not only in the history of African Americans in New Jersey but also in the history of the United States." -- Hettie Williams * NJS Journal *Table of ContentsContents Epigram Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction The Education of Negroes in New Jersey Articles: Text of “New Jersey Laws and the Negro” The Journal of Negro History, 28: 2 (April 1943), 156-199 Text of “Negro Suffrage in New Jersey, 1776-1875,” The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (April 1948), 168-223. Text of “Racial Integration in the Public Schools of New Jersey,” The Journal of Negro Education, 23: 3, Next Steps in Racial Desegregation in Education (Summer, 1954).2882-289.Reviews and Notes “Are Colonials People?” Color and Democracy by William E. Burghardt Du Bois, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 1946), pp. 63-65 “It Can Happen Anywhere” If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester B. Himes, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spring, 1946) pp. 213-214. “Notes from Recent Books,” The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn, 1944), pp. 532-535 “Notes from Recent Books,” The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring, 1949), pp. 155-159 Encyclopedia Entry “Lucy Diggs Slowe” in Edward T. James, et. Al. Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 3 vols. Cambridge: Belknap of Harvard University Press, 1971, 3: 299-300Marion Thompson Wright Chronological Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Protest to President describes an inspirational odyssey of a young, Black activist coming of age in Mississippi and Chicago in the tumultuous 1960s and '70s, culminating in a notable thirty-five-year presidency at Thomas Edison State University. From barbershop encounters with Malcolm X to death threats at Illinois State University and gunfire at Towson State, Pruitt provides a powerful narrative poised at the intersection of social justice, higher education and politics. He recounts leadership experiences at HBCUs and public universities across the country, as he advocated for autonomy at Morgan State and fought to preserve Tennessee State University. His steadfast activism, integrity and courage led to groundbreaking work in providing access to higher education for working adults and the military. From his days as a student protester in high school and college to his appearances on Capitol Hill, Pruitt has earned the reputation as a candid and influential leader in higher education. Trade Review"George Pruitt’s sense of decency, intelligence, and integrity shines through From Protest to President. He shaped and built one of the most interesting educational institutions in our country. Dr. Pruitt has written a truly American story." -- Thomas H. Kean * Former Governor, State of New Jersey *"From Protest to President reveals Dr. George Pruitt as a man of principle, passion, and stamina: one of the most important voices for social equity and quality in higher education. Wherever Pruitt happened to be, transformation occurred." -- R. Barbara Gitenstein * President Emerita, The College of New Jersey *"From Protest to President is a book about citizenship and the great possibilities that can be achieved in this amazing country, a journey Pruitt navigated with persistence and class. Dr. George Pruitt is a treasure, and From Protest to President a gem." -- Jonathan Scott Holloway * President of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey *Table of ContentsContents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisAn author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clare and becomes captivated by her life. We too are transported into the strange and beautiful world of medieval Italy, witnessing the daily rituals of convent life. At the center of that life is Saint Clare, a subversive and compelling figure full of contradictions: a physically disabled woman who travels widely in her imagination, someone unforgivingly harsh to herself yet infinitely generous to the women she supervises, a practitioner of self-abnegation who nevertheless knows her own worth. A visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy, Saint Clare here becomes an inspirational figure for a new generation of readers. Trade Review"This hybrid work–part epistolary novel, part essay, part biography–struck a deep chord in me. Maraini, among the most outspoken and important authors in Italy today, posits a series of connections and disconnections between author and reader, the Middle Ages and modernity, possession and renunciation. Jane Tylus's translation is resonant and immensely readable." -- Jhumpa Lahiri * author of Whereabouts *"The life of Italian saint Clare of Assisi gets a clever feminist reimagining in this biography-cum-epistolary novel by playwright Maraini (Voices)...Creatively structured and thoughtfully executed, this genre-smashing blend of history and fiction is delightfully original." * Publishers Weekly *"This book is not only about the life of Saint Clare, it is a women’s view of the world, an engaging dialogue between the writer and a mysterious reader, the past and the present, faith and reason, and between the ‘happy’ and ‘unhappy’ bodies. It is a very inspiring read." -- Amara Lakhous * author of Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio *"In her passionate book marked by dreams and ongoing questions, Dacia Maraini delivers a gorgeous portrait of Clare of Assisi, who succeeded in giving life to a revolutionary language and overturning the rules of her time in order to follow one rule, her own." -- Corriere Adriatico"This intimate and provocative book is the story of an encounter, between a great woman writer who has made words the very instrument with which she can tell a story about reality, and an intelligent, determined woman to whom the use of the word was denied." -- Enza Cavallaro * Il Quotidiano di Calabria *"As with Francis, for Clare the profound significance of poverty is that one has the freedom to invent one's own destiny. With this book, in part an exchange of letters with a mysterious interlocutor, in part a diary, Dacia Maraini has added a precious, missing link to her feminist writings, all the more convincing for its distance from any form of philosophical or political abstraction." -- Emanuele Trevi * Corriere della Sera *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface IntroductionIn Praise of Disobedience Notes on the Translation and References About the Author and Translator

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Book SynopsisAn author receives a mysterious e-mail begging her to tell the story of Clare of Assisi, the thirteenth-century Italian saint. At first annoyed by the request, the author begins to research Saint Clare and becomes captivated by her life. We too are transported into the strange and beautiful world of medieval Italy, witnessing the daily rituals of convent life. At the center of that life is Saint Clare, a subversive and compelling figure full of contradictions: a physically disabled woman who travels widely in her imagination, someone unforgivingly harsh to herself yet infinitely generous to the women she supervises, a practitioner of self-abnegation who nevertheless knows her own worth. A visionary who liberated herself from the chains of materialism and patriarchy, Saint Clare here becomes an inspirational figure for a new generation of readers. Trade Review"This hybrid work–part epistolary novel, part essay, part biography–struck a deep chord in me. Maraini, among the most outspoken and important authors in Italy today, posits a series of connections and disconnections between author and reader, the Middle Ages and modernity, possession and renunciation. Jane Tylus's translation is resonant and immensely readable." -- Jhumpa Lahiri * author of Whereabouts *"The life of Italian saint Clare of Assisi gets a clever feminist reimagining in this biography-cum-epistolary novel by playwright Maraini (Voices)...Creatively structured and thoughtfully executed, this genre-smashing blend of history and fiction is delightfully original." * Publishers Weekly *"This book is not only about the life of Saint Clare, it is a women’s view of the world, an engaging dialogue between the writer and a mysterious reader, the past and the present, faith and reason, and between the ‘happy’ and ‘unhappy’ bodies. It is a very inspiring read." -- Amara Lakhous * author of Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio *"In her passionate book marked by dreams and ongoing questions, Dacia Maraini delivers a gorgeous portrait of Clare of Assisi, who succeeded in giving life to a revolutionary language and overturning the rules of her time in order to follow one rule, her own." -- Corriere Adriatico"This intimate and provocative book is the story of an encounter, between a great woman writer who has made words the very instrument with which she can tell a story about reality, and an intelligent, determined woman to whom the use of the word was denied." -- Enza Cavallaro * Il Quotidiano di Calabria *"As with Francis, for Clare the profound significance of poverty is that one has the freedom to invent one's own destiny. With this book, in part an exchange of letters with a mysterious interlocutor, in part a diary, Dacia Maraini has added a precious, missing link to her feminist writings, all the more convincing for its distance from any form of philosophical or political abstraction." -- Emanuele Trevi * Corriere della Sera *Table of ContentsTranslator’s Preface IntroductionIn Praise of Disobedience Notes on the Translation and References About the Author and Translator

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Book SynopsisTired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly recounts her experiences—first across Africa and then as a migrant Black woman in Italy—Makaping describes acts of racist aggression that are wearying and degrading to encounter on a daily basis. She also offers her perspective on how various forms of inequality based on race, color, gender, and class feed off each other. Reversing the Gaze invites readers to confront the question of racism through the retelling of everyday occurrences that we might have experienced as victims, perpetrators, or witnesses. Trade Review"A bold statement about language, identity, and belonging. Makaping’s unparalleled dissection of white Italy is fearless, unnerving, and unfailingly accurate. Without doubt the foundational text of Black Italian studies." -- Derek Duncan * co-editor of Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook *“Combining memoir with the social sciences, Makaping tells us about the challenges of being a black woman in Italy, how double consciousness takes on new meanings, and why the color line remains an unresolved question in twenty-first-century Europe. A pioneering text, a fundamental read.” -- Alessandra Di Maio * author of Wor(l)ds in Progress: A Study of Contemporary Migrant Writings *Table of ContentsForeword: Producing Transnational Black Studies with an Intersectional Approach Caterina Romeo Translators’ Note Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto Editor’s Note Simone BrioniReversing the Gaze Introduction: My Nonaligned Feminism Geneviève Makaping 1. The Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Immigrant Woman 2. End of the Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Woman 3. My Not Very Personal Diary 4. To Belong, But to Which Tribe? 5. Call Me Negra 6. The Difficulty of Dialoguing within the Margin 7. The Anthropology of the Other 8. Harassment and More 9. Daily Experiences 10. The Many Shades of Black 11. Participant Observation of an Eccentric Subject Acknowledgments Glossary References About the Author, Editor, and Translators

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Book SynopsisTired of being scrutinized, criticized, and fetishized for her black skin, Cameroon-born scholar Geneviève Makaping turns the tables on Italy’s white majority, regarding them through the same unsparing gaze to which minorities have traditionally been subjected. As she candidly recounts her experiences—first across Africa and then as a migrant Black woman in Italy—Makaping describes acts of racist aggression that are wearying and degrading to encounter on a daily basis. She also offers her perspective on how various forms of inequality based on race, color, gender, and class feed off each other. Reversing the Gaze invites readers to confront the question of racism through the retelling of everyday occurrences that we might have experienced as victims, perpetrators, or witnesses. Trade Review“Combining memoir with the social sciences, Makaping tells us about the challenges of being a black woman in Italy, how double consciousness takes on new meanings, and why the color line remains an unresolved question in twenty-first-century Europe. A pioneering text, a fundamental read.”— Alessandra Di Maio, author of Wor(l)ds in Progress: A Study of Contemporary Migrant Writings "A bold statement about language, identity, and belonging. Makaping’s unparalleled dissection of white Italy is fearless, unnerving, and unfailingly accurate. Without doubt the foundational text of Black Italian studies."— Derek Duncan, co-editor of Transnational Modern Languages: A HandbookTable of ContentsForeword: Producing Transnational Black Studies with an Intersectional Approach Caterina Romeo Translators’ Note Giovanna Bellesia Contuzzi and Victoria Offredi Poletto Editor’s Note Simone Brioni Reversing the Gaze Introduction: My Nonaligned Feminism Geneviève Makaping 1. The Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Immigrant Woman 2. End of the Anthropological Journey of a Bamileke Woman 3. My Not Very Personal Diary 4. To Belong, But to Which Tribe? 5. Call Me Negra 6. The Difficulty of Dialoguing within the Margin 7. The Anthropology of the Other 8. Harassment and More 9. Daily Experiences 10. The Many Shades of Black 11. Participant Observation of an Eccentric Subject Acknowledgments Glossary References About the Author, Editor, and Translators

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