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Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
Two Haiku and a Microphone
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...
by Rigoberto González, Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats....
Literatura francesa del siglo XX
Sartre, Camus, Saint-Exupéry, Anouilh, Beckett.
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 1, 2016
¿Cómo lograr que la lectura de un gran libro se convierta en una sugerente y fecunda lección de ética? El autor proporciona claves para adquirir esa capacidad de análisis literario, al hilo de Sartre, Camus, Saint-Exupéry, Anouilh y Beckett, cinco grandes escritores con distinta orientación...
by Alfonso López Quintás
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Consciente de la enorme capacidad formativa de la música, Beethoven intentó abrir un camino hacia la felicidad. Su Novena Sinfonía es una festiva proclamación de la unión fraterna y el respeto al Creador. Escuchada así, no solo emociona su alegría: sobrecoge también el mensaje de esperanza...
A Jaggedy New World
A Novel History of the Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
During the brutal Spanish colonization of the New World, the voice of the Aztec officer known as Xolotl, oft called Prodigal Monster, throws new light on the last days of the conquest of Mexico. He is about to open an enigmatic little can-of-worms.
While ostensibly implying that a bit of treacheryperhaps...
Stories of Home
Place, Identity, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as...
El Mundo Zurdo 4
Selected Works from the 2013 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.
The California Diggers
A History of some Primitive Californians
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
The California “Diggers” A History of some Primitive Californians.
"In the Santa Clara Valley, near the southern end of San Francisco Bay, some five miles south of Stanford University, there stands a fine old deserted abode, formerly a well-known station on the road from the Santa...
by Latrevis L. Stokes, M.S, M.B.A
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
These are a collection of poems, and musings from the unique perspective of a Black man born and raised in the south. As an Active duty Army Soldier I have decided to take time out to write down a collection of my thoughts for all to appreciate. Thanks to all who support creative self expression.
Rescue
The War Unicorn Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
How can a 15-year-old magician expect to rescue his family and king when no one else is willing to? Aldric and the war unicorn Neighbor must find and rejoin the remnant of the Farhner army, but to reach them, they need to travel through enemy territory with their only companions a band of thieves....
by Erin Lee, Olivia Marie, Sara Schoen
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Inside
A Crazy Ink anthology
The rules were simple:
We were to accept His testimony.
We were to want no worldly goods.
We were to give up our ties to the outside world.
We were to finish strong.
We were to know this wasn't our world.
That would...
The Survival Guide for Kids in Special Education (And Their Parents)
Understanding What Special Ed Is & How It Can Help You
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Tools, strategies, and advice help kids in special ed build on their strengths and be their best in and out of school.
When kids learn they might receive special education, they often have questions and worries. This book gives kids lots of tools and strategies they can use to deal with their...
by S.L. Dearing
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2014
Shannon and her dog, Max, have been hiding in her shelter for three weeks. The phones are dead and the radio has been nothing but static for several weeks now. What will happen when Shannon leaves the safety of her shelter in search of food? Has the Apocalypse happened? We all have a Shelf Life.
This...
Under Ground
Thriller
Language: German
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Wie tief sitzt deine Angst?
Ein tödliches Grippevirus grassiert in den USA. Während Chaos um sich greift, flieht eine Gruppe ganz unterschiedlicher Menschen in einen unterirdischen Luxusbunker – das Sanctum –, ihre eigene, sich selbst versorgende Welt. Doch schon bald befeuern Abschottung...