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For New Testament biblical scholars, this book constitutes a vital summary of contemporary, theoretically-sound interpretations of the linguistic functions of the Post-Classical (Koine) Greek article in a way that will inform exegesis of the text, especially in the field of larger discourse units. There is also significant payoff for the as-yet significantly under-researched field of Koine linguistics. The essays included in this volume are written...
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Bryan Wagner is associate professor in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery.
A richly nuanced cultural history of an enigmatic and controversial folktale
Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South,...
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You Are Important, Valuable, Equal, Good Enough, Adequate... you are our BLACK BROTHER!
The nation continues to witness the discrimination, inequality, mistreatment, and marginalization of Black Men. What can we do to preserve ourselves? In this book, one will find the answer to the aforementioned question.
Meet 44 authentic Black Men who have shared words of perseverance, wisdom, hope, and achievement. The writings will cultivate a deeper sense of...
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Extrait :"Il n'y a point, disent les grammairiens, de véritables synonymes : c'est possible ; mais l'intelligence est despote, elle rapetisse les grandes choses, elle fait grandes les petites, elle nivelle les aspérités, elle crée en un mot ; et moi qui me sentais fort embarrassé dès les premières lignes de ce livre, moral comme les Lettres Persannes (pardon Montesquieu !), me voici maintenant plus assuré, grâce à cette pensée voyageuse...
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Following the success of the megabestselling Black Pearls, a collection of 365 African proverbs that illuminate the secret to peace and joy; and inspire the words of Cudjo Lewis in Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon.
In Africa, grandparents traditionally share their wisdom about life and culture with their grandchildren, using proverbs and stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. This beautiful keepsake volume includes 365...
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Eloquent, humble, and shrewd, Abraham Lincoln was one of America's greatest presidents, and The Essential Lincoln brings together his most defining speeches, public and private correspondence, and personal notations in one slim, handsome volume. Lincoln historian Orville Vernon Burton has culled the thousands of pages of the complete works of Lincoln for the most compelling and revealing pieces. Many are presented unabridged, including Lincoln's speech...
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In “Writing to the World”, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the "bridge genre," which enables such change by transferring existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composition and circulation. She draws on this concept to reveal how four crucial genres that emerged during this time-the newspaper, the periodical, the novel, and...
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The time has come for fat people to tell their own stories. The (Other) F Word combines the voices of Renée Watson, Julie Murphy, Jes Baker, Samantha Irby, Bruce Sturgell, and many others in a relatable, revelatory and inspiring exploration of body image and fat acceptance.
This dazzling collection of art, poetry, essays, and fashion tips is meant for people of all sizes who desire to be seen and heard in a culture consumed by a narrow definition...
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Derrière une fable allégorique en apparence simple (la révolte des animaux dans une ferme) se cache une véritable dénonciation du stalinisme et de ses dérives. Écrite pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'œuvre propose une satire à peine voilée des régimes totalitaires qui reste aujourd'hui encore d'actualité.
Après une brève introduction, Quentin de Ghellick retrace la vie de George Orwell, avant de se pencher sur l'intrigue de La...
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The first volume of the former Israeli prime minister's journals from the nation's early years.
My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett's candid comments on Israel's first-generation leaders and world statesmen of the day,...
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These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later...
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Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies is the first comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Featuring contributions from Alice Walker and the Combahee River Collective, this book is vital to today's conversation on race and gender in America. With an afterword from Salon columnist Brittney Cooper.
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Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth-told here for the very first time in illustrated form.
In the beginning there was nothing-a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first sparks of life into these islands. The ancient Kojiki myth traces the beginnings of the Japanese people, following the rise of the Japanese islands from their humble origins as a lump of clay to...
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In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief adjutant to the Tokugawa shogun. She kept him in good graces with the imperial court, enabled him to study poetry with aristocratic teachers and have his compositions read by the retired emperor, and gave...
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In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America’s remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often-ignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.
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A profoundly moving and historical record-letters sent by sixteen fathers imprisoned in the Gulag camps to their children during the 1930s—1950s.
Between the 1930s and 1950s, millions of people were sent to the Gulag in the Soviet Union. My Father's Letters tells the stories of sixteen men-mostly members of the intelligentsia, and loyal Soviet subjects-who were imprisoned in the Gulag camps, through the letters they sent back to their wives and...
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« La Russie moderne est une vaste télé-réalité, à commencer par le Kremlin lui-même. »
De la Sibérie, o les gangsters produisent leurs propres séries télé et tirent à balles réelles, à Moscou, o les orphelines ukrainiennes rêvent d'être enlevées par un Poutine charmant, la machine médiatique orchestrée par le Kremlin travaille la psyché russe avec les recettes d'Hollywood et de la BBC. Un reality show permanent qui berce les...
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The third volume of the former Israeli prime minister's journals from the nation's early years.
My Struggle for Peace is a remarkable political document offering insights into the complex workings of the young Israeli political system, set against the backdrop of the disintegration of the country's fragile armistice with the Arab states. Replete with Moshe Sharett's candid comments on Israel's first-generation leaders and world statesmen of the day,...
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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2017.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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xv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Presents a collection of humorous stories from over two dozen contemporary female writers, as well as autobiographical essays, comics, poems, and comic strips.
8540) African American Topeka
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African Americans arrived in Topeka right before and after the Civil War and again in large numbers during the Exodus Movement of 1879 and Great Migration of 1910. They came in protest of the treatment they received in the South. The history of dissent lived on in Topeka, as it became the home to court cases protesting discrimination of all kinds. African Americans came to the city determined that education would provide them a better life. Black...
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