Author: Kathy Verner MoultonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780983927907
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
My Town Yellow Springs Ohio
Author: Kathy Verner MoultonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780983927907
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Fight of the Century
Author: Viet Thanh NguyenPublisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501190415
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.
Pickin' Up the Pieces
Author: Richie FurayPublisher: WaterBrook
ISBN: 0307550796
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
When a young Richie Furay moved to New York hoping to make it big in folk music, God wasn’t one of his concerns. But destiny was. Later, when he started Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young and Stephen Stills, it seemed Furay’s destiny had finally arrived. Although the band recorded only three albums, it remains a touchstone of sixties rock music–with all five band members now enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Furay remained a musical pioneer, forming Poco and recording some of the first–and best–country rock music of the sixties and seventies. His work was a major influence on the Eagles and innumerable other bands. But he still had not found his destiny. It wasn’t until his marriage almost disintegrated that Furay confronted his need for God. After co-founding two legendary bands and recording with a rock super-group, Richie Furay finally found his destiny. The long journey took him from sold-out arena concerts to the pulpit of a Colorado church, from rock royalty to the Rock of Ages. Destiny is often found in the places where we’re not looking. As you follow the twists and turns in Richie Furay’s inspiring journey, you’ll gain fresh insight into your own.
Where the Heart Listens
Author: Eve SullivanPublisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 0970314310
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Parents Forum is based on thoughtful examination of eight original questions about family life issues. The workshops, designed by Eve Sullivan and Christine Bates to develop parenting and life skills, are suitable for various settings and for all ages from teens through seniors. The program models, honest, respectful and caring communication and fosters individual's emotional awareness. While nothing replaces the experience of a workshop, this handbook serves as a "workshop in your pocket" for anyone who wants to manage conflicts more successfully and communicate more effectively. This ebook has been given a QED Seal, which stands for Quality, Excellence, Design. It has gone through a rigorous 13-point inspection on multiple devices and formats and will look good however you read.
The Third History of Man
Author: John Bershof, MDPublisher: John Bershof, MD
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
In the spirit of medieval writer Chaucer, all human activity lies within the artist’s scope, the History of Man Series uses medicine as a jumping off point to explore precisely that, all history, all science, all human activity since the beginning of time. The jumping off style of writing takes the reader, the listener into worlds unknown, always returning to base, only to jump off again. History of Man are stories and tales of nearly everything. The Third History of Man leaves bacteria in the rear-view mirror and jumps to viruses and viral infections, the cold, the flu and COVID-19, not just another flu. We’ll cover epidemics, pandemics, and vaccines, the pox infections, and the Spock principle that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few … or the one. From COVID and the rise of Zoom, we’ll venture into the rise of Homo sapiensand the fall of Neanderthals, the high sea adventures of Darwin aboard and the high sea adventures of dementia. Our travels will take us along the Silk Road and Spice Trade, another visit with the Age of Discovery when masted ships and European explorers went looking for that elusive sea route to the Far East, and looking for gold, annihilating huge swaths of indigenous Americans at every port of disembarkation, not by the pointy end of a sword, but by tiny infectious microbes. We’ll examine colonialism at its finest, the sordid European history of imperialism and the land grab into Africa and the New World Americas.
Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator Or Graphic Designer
Author: Michael FleishmanPublisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1581151993
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Here are expert tips for getting started, selling your work, promoting yourself, and even what to do once you're working! Includes practical advice for creating a portfolio, making contacts, pricing work, marketing on the web, and more.
Two Hundred Years of Yellow Springs
Author: Yellow Springs News, IncPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780976915805
Category : Greene County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
"This collection carries the arts, photos and timelines contained in the News' 11-part series 'Yellow Springs: 1803 to 2003' exploring the history of Yellow Springs. The series was published in 2003 during Yellow Springs' bicentennial celebration of the arrival of the first settler, Lewis Davis, a Greene County surveyor, in what would eventually become the community of Yellow Springs and Miami Township"--P 1.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
A Nation of Farmers
Author: Sharon AstykPublisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 1550924265
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of cheap oil. Climate change is already reducing crop yields worldwide. The cost of flying in food from far away and shipping it across the country in refrigerated trucks is rapidly becoming unviable. Cars and cows increasingly devour grain harvests, sending prices skyrocketing. More Americans than ever before require food stamps and food pantries just to get by, and a worldwide food crisis is unfolding, overseas and in our kitchens. We can keep hunger from stalking our families, but doing so will require a fundamental shift in our approach to field and table. A Nation of Farmers examines the limits and dangers of the globalized food system and how returning to basics is our best hope. The book includes in-depth guidelines for: Creating resilient local food systems Growing, cooking and eating sustainably and naturally Becoming part of the solution to the food crisis. The book argues that we need to make self-provisioning, once the most ordinary of human activities, central to our lives. The results will be better food, better health, better security and freedom from corporations that don't have our interests at heart. Critical reading for anyone who eats and cares about high-quality food and food sources.
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