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Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for GeorgiaGeorgia, the last of Britain's American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation society, following the Carolina model....
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Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for GeorgiaGeorgia, the last of Britain's American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation society, following the Carolina model....
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Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public AmusementsDavid Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born...
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Generative Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)"AI expert Jerry Kaplan explains how generative AI will revolutionize virtually every human activity. Highly recommended." - Francis Fukuyama, Political scientist and author of The End of History and the Last Man Advances in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) have created a new class of...
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Gay Aliens and Queer Folk: How Russell T Davies Changed TVDirectly explores the queer narratives present throughout Russell T Davies' extensive work in television and how he broke down barriers to show the truth and joy of queer identities. The television writing of Russell T Davies defies easy categorization, ranging from children's programs, Shakespeare,...
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From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: Privatizing Justice in the Neoliberal United StatesThe era of mass incarceration has been associated with the idea of "law and order," referring to the carceral regime in which politicians exploited public anxieties over crime and funneled resources into policing and prisons. As important as this system has been and remains...
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Food and Power in Hawai'i: Visions of Food DemocracyIn Food and Power in Hawai i, island scholars and writers from backgrounds in academia, farming, and community organizations discuss new ways of looking at food policy and practices in terms of social justice and sustainability. Each of the nine essays describes Hawai i's...
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First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up ComedianBefore Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned...
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Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere: Don't Be One of ThemA hard-hitting look at achieving financial freedom by avoiding excessive borrowing and spending If you don't actively resist America's culture of debt, you'll end up precisely where the government, banks, and big business want you to be: indentured servitude. The mistakes people make with...
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Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet CultureBy the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that "fat" is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do? Kids learn, as we've all learned, that thinness is a survival...
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Fat Girl Sings: Discovering, Embracing, and Leveraging Racial Identity on the Football Field, in Business, and in Life - Hawai'i EditiFeaturing compelling characters and integrating classic themes such as bullying, racial injustice, and coming of age, Fat Girl Sings is the profoundly moving true story of a chubby brown boy's traumatic loss of innocence and his mental and physical transformation into the warrior he...
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Fahim Speaks: Between Two Worlds: A Hollywood Actor's Journey as a U.S. Marine Translator through AfghanistanAnnotated Anniversary Edition of his Journey from Afghanistan to Hollywood and BackFahim Fazli is a man of two worlds: Afghanistan, the country of his birth, and America, the nation he adopted and learned to love. He's also a man who fled oppression and escaped...
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Escape from Siberia, Escape from Memory: An Odyssey Across Two Oceans & Nine Countries to Arrive HomePaul Wojdak's father, Pawel, was born in 1912 in Novosibirsk, Siberia. During the 1800s, many Polish people were banished to Siberia for rising against czarist Russia's repressive policies aimed to destroy Polish language and culture, and they eventually lived in Siberia for generations. By...
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Equal Partners: Improving Gender Equality at Home"An inspiring and inclusive guide for rethinking and reworking household gender roles."--Booklist (starred review) "This book is a beautiful, engaging way to look at the modern family and Mangino works to dismantle gendered assumptions and replace them with structured decision making examples and case...
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Empty Pedestals: Countering Confederate Narratives Through Public DesignEmpty Pedestals uses a design perspective to explore how monuments to the Confederacy speak to regionalism, racist political agendas, and residual collective pain. Many designers and artists working in the public realm have created innovative projects to replace Confederate memorials, contextualize those that still...
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Electing U.S. SenatorsSometimes called the Upper House, the U.S. Senate wields much power in the legislative process. Each of the 100 senators in Congress have a lot of say in making policy and passing laws. Readers of this beneficial book will find out how someone becomes...
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Electing U.S. House RepresentativesThough the House of Representatives is called the lower chamber of Congress, its members--numbering 435--wield powers that the Senate, the upper chamber, doesn't have. Readers of this important addition to any social studies collection will learn how representatives are elected, what their responsibilities are,...
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Electing the PresidentThe path to the U.S. presidency is a difficult one. The campaign is often years long, and getting enough support to succeed is difficult and expensive. And being the most popular candidate, or getting the most amount of votes, doesn't mean the candidate will...
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Electing GovernorsThe governor is the head of a state's government. They act somewhat like the U.S. president in that their job is to execute the laws of the state, making sure they're carried out. Elections for governors can run a bit differently from state to...
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Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to AllPowerful, captivating, and hopeful, Dreams from the Monster Factory goes beyond statistics and sensational portrayals of prison life and reveals the troubling realities of U.S. jails, and an astonishing alternative. . Sunny Schwartz founded the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project (RSVP), a restorative...
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