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Big Black Penis
Misadventures in Race and Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Being black and male is serious business, but its absurd contradictions are often too funny for words. In this award-winning book, Shawn Taylor deftly leads us on a no-holds-barred tour of his masculine development, acknowledging some deep but often hilarious truths about black men. This raw and...
Verdi for Kids
His Life and Music with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Giuseppe Verdi dominated Italian opera for 50 years, and his operas are performed throughout the world today. Verdi for Kids offers young readers an accessible, behind-the-scenes peek into the exciting world of opera and traces Verdi’s path to fame, delving into the great composer’s childhood,...
by Aimé Césaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Césaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in which [he] played a prominent role. --Library Journal This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront...
Joni on Joni
Interviews and Encounters with Joni Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Few artists of the 20th century are as intriguing as Joni Mitchell. She was a solidly middle-class, buttoned-up bohemian; an anti-feminist who loved men but scorned free love; a female warrior taking on the male music establishment. She was both the party girl with torn stockings and the sensitive...
Real James Dean
Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In the decades following his death, many of those who knew James Dean best––actors, directors, friends, lovers (both men and women), photographers, and Hollywood columnists––shared stories of their first-person experiences with him in interviews and in the articles and autobiographies they...
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat
A Story of Bulimia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Describing her struggle as a black woman with an eating disorder that is consistently portrayed as a white woman's problem, this insightful and moving narrative traces the background and factors that caused her bulimia. Moving coast to coast, she tries to escape her self-hatred and obsession by never...
Seventeen Fathoms Deep
The Saga of the Submarine S-4 Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This is the first full-length history of the S-4 disaster, which was the first rescue attempt made of a modern submarine
The rescue divers could hear the crew tapping out a message in Morse code: “Is there any hope?” After being accidentally rammed by the Coast Guard destroyer USS Paulding...
Heading West
Life with the Pioneers, 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Tracing the vivid saga of Native American and pioneer men, women, and children, this guide covers the colonial beginnings of the westward expansion to the last of the homesteaders in the late 20th century. Dozens of firsthand accounts from journals and autobiographies of the era form a rich and detailed...
Frederick Douglass for Kids
His Life and Times, with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Few Americans have had as much impact on this nation as Frederick Douglass. Born on a plantation, he later escaped slavery and helped others to freedom via the Underground Railroad. In time he became a bestselling author, an outspoken newspaper editor, a brilliant orator, a tireless abolitionist,...
Looking Backward
True Stories from Chicago's Jewish Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2005
The history of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, complex and largely unknown story. Thanks to the unstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this history has been preserved. Now, for the first time, this material has been distilled into a single volume, chronicling events and people from the late...
Home Front Girl
A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Kept from the early 1930s through the mid-1940s by a young Chicagoan, this diary provides a fascinating, detailed record of the life of an astute and witty teenage girl during the Great Depression and the lead-up to World War II. The only daughter of a working-class Swedish immigrant and his wife,...
Out of My Head
On the Trail of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
Adventures in cutting-edge ideas about consciousness, from bestselling non-fiction writer Tim Parks.
Hardly a day goes by without some discussion about whether computers can be conscious, whether our universe is some kind of simulation, whether mind is a unique quality of human beings or spread...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
It’s fall. Throughout the country, students are heading into classrooms where they will read and discuss books. There are ongoing questions about what use this reading will be to them. Indeed, will it be any use at all?The essays in this month's Digital Edition are purposefully quite wide-ranging in...
The Shipwrecked Mind
On Political Reaction
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
We don’t understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today’s political dramas are unintelligible to us.
The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone...