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Par Timothy D. Walker. 2021
Following the Drinking Gourd -- the Big Dipper -- is not the only way, or even the main way, that…
enslaved people escaped the South before the Civil War. This collection of historical essays examines the sea routes that also lead to freedom. Adult. UnratedPar David L Caffey, David L. Caffey. 2014
Anyone acquainted with 19th century New Mexico history has heard of the Santa Fe Ring--seekers of power and wealth in…
the post-Civil War period, famous for public corruption and for dispossessing land holders. Scholars have never really described this shadowy entity. Caffey looks beyond myth and symbol for the Ring's history. Who were its members? What did they do to gain their unsavory reputations? Were their actions illegal or unethical? What were the roles of leading figures Stephen B. Elkins and Thomas B. Catron? What was their influence on New Mexico's struggle for statehood? AdultPar Fania Davis, Fania E. Davis. 2019
Racial Justice and Restorative Justice Working Together to Transform the Black Experience in America This timely work will inform scholars…
and practitioners on the subjects of pervasive racial inequity and the healing offered by restorative justice practices. Adult. UnratedPar Tom Sleigh. 2018
These essays recount Tom Sleigh's experiences working as a journalist during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern…
region once called Mesopotamia, "the land between two rivers." Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate. But unlike their depiction in mass media, their stories are often laced with an undeluded hopefulness. The second part of this book explores how writing might be capable of honoring the texture of these individuals' experiences while remaining faithful to political emotions, rather than political convictions. The final essays meditate on youth, restlessness, illness, and Sleigh's motivations for writing his own experiences in order to move out into the world."--Back cover. Adult. UnratedPar Alvin Toffler. 1970
An explosive, frightening, and unusual book which will make it difficult for readers to think about the future in traditional…
terms. The author's thesis is that "too much change in too short a time" is responsible for the widespread stress and disorientation in the nation, and that unless the rate and direction of change are controlled, psychic and physical illness on a massive scale is inevitablePar Eric Mount. 1973
Par Paul Goodman. 1960
Par Barbara Ward. 1959
Par Peter J Wilson. 1974
An anthropologist offers a study of the relationship between the individual and society. The society in question is a small…
island in the Caribbean and the individual is Oscar Bryan, selected by the author because his life represents basic problems that existPar Marie Edwards. 1974
A psychologist offers suggestions as to how a single person may improve the quality of his or her life. Dispels…
myths and misinformation about singles and presents the thesis that in spite of society's pressure to marry, one can be happy and singlePar Joe Rigert. 1974
Par Eric Berne. 1972
Dr. Berne believes that in our early childhood, we write the kind of script that governs our future. Here he…
shows how these scripts get written, and how to identify themPar Michael McConnell. 2016
On September 3, 1971, Michael McConnell and Jack Baker exchanged vows in the first legal same-sex wedding in the United…
States. Their remarkable story is told here for the first time a unique account of the passion and energy of the gay liberation movement in the sixties and seventies. Adult. UnratedPar H. Wayne Morgan. 1969
Views the period between the end of reconstruction and the pinnacle of industrialization. This era of American politics was characterized…
by party infighting, the stabilization of the two party system, and the inauguration of Republican ideals for a new AmericaPar Carolyn Holbrook, David Mura. 2021
Par Denise K Lajimodiere, Denise Lajimodiere, Jamie Trosen. 2021
Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking…
of their experiences. Her research helped her to gain insight, a deeper understanding of her parents, and how and why she and her siblings were parented in the way they were. That insight led her to an emotional ceremony of forgiveness, described in the last chapter of Stringing Rosaries. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never shared before. She came to an understanding of new terms: historical and intergenerational trauma, soul wound. Stringing Rosaries presents a brief history of the boarding school programs for Indigenous Americans, followed by sixteen interviews with boarding school survivors, and ending with the author's own healing journey with her father. Adult. UnratedPar Charlan Nemeth, Charlan Jeanne Nemeth. 2018
An eminent psychologist explains why dissent should be cherished, not feared. We've decided by consensus that consensus is good. In…
In Defense of Troublemakers, psychologist Charlan Nemeth argues that this principle is completely wrong: left unchallenged, the majority opinion is often biased, unoriginal, or false. It leads planes and markets to crash, causes juries to convict innocent people, and can quite literally make people think blue is green. In the name of comity, we embrace stupidity. We can make better decisions by embracing dissent. Dissent forces us to question the status quo, consider more information, and engage in creative decision-making. From Twelve Angry Men to Edward Snowden, lone objectors who make people question their assumptions bring groups far closer to truth -- regardless of whether they are right or wrong. Essential reading for anyone who works in groups, In Defense of Troublemakers will radically change the way you think, listen, and make decisionsPar Samuel J. Barr. 1977
In the first of the two titles in this compilation a pro-choice obstetrician/gynecologist examines the human and factual dimensions of…
pregnancy, including abortion as one option. He describes the situations of many patients, discusses the medical, social, and legal aspects of abortion and emphasizes extending to women the dignity of the right to choose. In the second title of the compilation, a pro-life, anti-abortion, theology professor looks at the abortion problem. He discusses the psychological implications and the physical dangers of abortion and considers the future relationship between abortion and mercy killing. Brown also deals with the question of when life begins and the issue of a woman's right to do as she please with her own bodyPar Marie Mutsuki Mockett. 2020
An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains. For…
over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett's father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family's fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth's crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as "the divide," inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals "not white," but who people she encounters can't quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story. Adult. UnratedPar Howard Husock, Howard A. Husock. 2019
Billions of American tax dollars go into a vast array of programs targeting various social issues: the opioid epidemic, criminal…
violence, chronic unemployment, and so on. Yet the problems persist and even grow. Howard Husock argues that we have lost sight of a more powerful strategy? a preventive strategy, based on positive social norms. In the past, individuals and institutions of civil society actively promoted what may be called "bourgeois norms," to nurture healthy habits so that social problems wouldn't emerge in the first place. It was a formative effort. Today, a massive social service state instead takes a reformative approach to problems that have already become vexing. It offers counseling along with material support, but struggling communities have been more harmed than helped by government's embrace. And social service agencies have a vested interest in the continuance of problems. Government can provide a financial safety net for citizens, but it cannot effectively create or promote healthy norms. Nor should it try. That formative work is best done by civil society. This book focuses on six key figures in the history of social welfare to illuminate how a norm promoting culture was built, then lost, and how it can be revived. We read about Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society; Jane Addams, founder of Hull House; Mary Richmond, a social work pioneer; Grace Abbott of the federal Children's Bureau; Wilbur Cohen of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone?a model for bringing real benefit to a poor community through positive social norms. We need more like it. Adult. Unrated