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Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years
by Bill Bigelow Bob PetersonThis is a revised and expanded edition of a popular 1991 booklet that changed the way "the discovery of America" is taught in classroom and community settings. The new edition has over 100 pp. of new material, including a role-play trial of Columbus, materials on Thanksgiving Day, resources, historical documents, poetry, and more. It will help readers replace murky legends with a better sense of who we are and why we are here -- and celebrates over 500 years of the courageous struggles and lasting wisdom of native peoples.
Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-lynching Campaign Of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 (The Bedford Series In History And Culture)
by Jacqueline RoysterGain insight into the life of Ida B. Wells as Southern Horrors and Other Writings illustrates how events like yellow fever epidemic transformed her into a internationally famous journalist, public speaker, and activist at the turn of the twentieth century.
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
by Debby IrvingWhite privilege. What is it, what does it mean? For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color left her wondering what she was missing. Then, in 2009, one "aha!" moment launched an adventure of discovery and insight that drastically shifted her worldview and upended her life plan. In Waking Up White, Irving tells her often cringe-worthy story with such openness that readers will turn every page rooting for her--and ultimately--for all of us.
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story
by Marc NoblemanIn this important and moving true story of reconciliation after war, beautifully illustrated in watercolor, a Japanese pilot bombs the continental U.S. during WWII—the only enemy ever to do so—and comes back 20 years later to apologize. The devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drew the United States into World War II in 1941. But few are aware that several months later, the Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped bombs in the woods outside a small town in coastal Oregon. This is the story of those bombings, and what came after, when Fujita returned to Oregon twenty years later, this time to apologize.
Cornflakes, Pigs and a Vulture called Squashy
by Francis BaileyWelcome to the very unusual farming world of the Baileys and their contract with the mighty Kellogg's company which led to the family fortune. The story dates from the 1940s onward, and the young boys of the family get up to all sorts of scrapes and meet plenty of great characters from an Iranian Secret Policeman to local bobbies. The local bobbies are a particular source of amusement when they clash with runaway pigs and sheep and even get deluged with a load of Kellogg's grains. The strangeness continues with exotic animals, ghosts in England and Wales, and even a stream that runs uphill and is very attractive to poachers. They are a family that clearly enjoyed life, and their stories will make you smile a lot.
Las medallas de sus derrotas (Colección Endebate #Volumen)
by Christopher HitchensEl papel de Winston Churchill en la Segunda Guerra Mundial le garantizó un lugar destacado entre los grandes líderes del siglo XX. Hitchens, el gran disidente de todo, demuestra en este ensayo cuánto hay de real en su historia, y cuánto de construcción interesada de un mito. Ya mucho antes de morir, Winston Churchill se había convertido en un personaje de la Historia. En este iluminador ensayo Hitchens lanza su incisiva mirada sobre la construcción de ese mito y lo que explica sobre la necesidad humana de creer en causas elevadas y héroes que las defiendan.
On Pluto: Inside The Mind Of Alzheimer's
by Lisa Genova Greg O'BrienThis is a book about living with Alzheimer’s, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor—a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the US—and the only one of these diseases on the rise. More than 5 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia; about 35 million people worldwide. Greg O’Brien, an award-winning investigative reporter, has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's and is one of those faceless numbers. Acting on long-term memory and skill coupled with well-developed journalistic grit, O’Brien decided to tackle the disease and his imminent decline by writing frankly about the journey. O’Brien is a master storyteller. His story is naked, wrenching, and soul searching for a generation and their loved ones about to cross the threshold of this death in slow motion. On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s is a trail-blazing roadmap for a generation—both a “how to” for fighting a disease, and a “how not” to give up!
The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005
by Zachary LeaderWhen this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing some of his greatest fiction (Mr Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, all his best stories), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize. At eighty, he wrote his last story; at eighty-five, he wrote Ravelstein. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more dramatic than in volume 1. In the public sphere, he is embroiled in controversy over foreign affairs, race, religion, education, social policy, the state of culture, the fate of the novel. Bellow's relations with women were often fraught. In the 1960s he was compulsively promiscuous (even as he inveighed against sexual liberation). The women he pursued, the ones he married and those with whom he had affairs, were intelligent, attractive and strong-willed. At eighty-five he fathered his fourth child, a daughter, with his fifth wife. His three sons, whom he loved, could be as volatile as he was, and their relations with their father were often troubled.Although an early and engaged supporter of civil rights, in the second half of his life Bellow was angered by the excesses of Black Power. An opponent of cultural relativism, he exercised great influence in literary and intellectual circles, advising a host of institutes and foundations, helping those he approved of, hindering those of whom he disapproved. In making his case, he could be cutting and rude; he could also be charming, loyal, and funny. Bellow's heroic energy and will are clear to the very end of his life. His immense achievement and its cost, to himself and others, are also clear.
J. Irwin Miller: The Shaping of an American Town
by Nancy KriplenJ. Irwin Miller:The Shaping of An American Town tells the life story of this remarkable man who led Cummins Engine Company from its roots as a small, family business to an international Fortune 500 company and transformed Columbus, Indiana, into a gem of midcentury modern architecture. As president and then chairman of Cummins, Miller emphasized a corporation's responsibility to the community in which it was located and its other stakeholders. Miller's commitment to Columbus architecture inspired such legends as I. M. Pei, Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Kevin Roche, and others to contribute their designs to what has become one of the most artistically revolutionary towns in the country. Columbus's unique public art and architecture continue to inspire young architects and attract visitors from around the world. Miller has also played a significant role in the American civil rights movement, securing cosponsorship for the March on Washington and working with presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson to help pass the Civil Rights Act. Martin Luther King Jr., once called Miller "the most socially responsible businessman in the country."
Una furtiva lágrima
by Nélida PiñónVuelve la gran escritora brasileña de las últimas décadas y Premio Príncipe de Asturias. «Literatura pura, auténtica, íntegra, hecha a partir del amor a la palabra, a la vocación, al arte, a la belleza y a la creación.»Mario Vargas Llosa «Soy mujer, brasileña, escritora, cosmopolita, aldeana, un ser de todas partes, de todos los puertos.» Una furtiva lágrima es el diario luminoso, íntimo y singular de una de las escritoras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana. En este collage impresionista, formado por las reflexiones y los retazos más lúcidos de una inteligencia imparable, Nélida Piñon compone un autorretrato de su historia personal, de su familia y de sus raíces. Las meditaciones en torno a la literatura, el oficio de la escritura, la lengua portuguesa o la historia universal se mezclan de modo natural con un análisis de sí misma, de su condición de mujer, de su condición de escritora y de brasileña. Esta riqueza de enfoques y tentativas son, en el fondo, vías de acceso a una personalidad única y diversa; al fin y al cabo, la propia Nélida Piñon afirma sobre sí misma: «Soy múltiple». La crítica ha dicho...«Nélida Piñon eleva una frase a lo sublime. No se corrompe con sentimentalismos vacuos y disimula sus dolores -quién no lo hace- con la fortaleza de quien ha de tomar sus propias decisiones.»Alberto Barciela, El Progreso «Referencia absoluta de la literatura brasileña actual, escritora carismática y comprometida con la voz de Iberoamérica.»María Luisa Blanco, El País «Una de las protagonistas más relevantes y originales de la cultura brasileña, que nunca duda en participar en todas las formas de lucha.»Le Monde «La magia de Nélida Piñon consiste en unir imaginación y compasión, para dar a sus personajes y sus lectores - una piel con la misma temperatura que la de ellos -.»Carlos Fuentes «Literatura de primerísima calidad. La dimensión amazónica de la imaginación de Nélida Piñon eleva a la autora a la categoría de genio.»Publishers Weekly «Con la fuerza de su imaginación, tiene la capacidad de expresar literariamente los sueños de todo Brasil e incluso de toda la gran familia latinoamericana.»The New York Times Book Review «Nélida Piñon no solo es una de las más grandes escritoras en lengua portuguesa de su tiempo sino una de las más relevantes en el panorama internacional.»Mercedes Monmany, ABC «Tan actual y universal que no tiene nada que envidiar a la obra de autores como John Banville, Philip Roth y Paul Auster, que también fueron galardonados con el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.»Jonatan Silva, Paraná Online «Piñon es una escritora de pulmones poderosos e imaginación desbordante que ha creado una literatura apegada alas pasiones y todo menos aséptica.»La Vanguardia
Renia's Diary: A Holocaust Journal
by Renia Spiegel<p>The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English <p>Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. “I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would believe me, who would never reveal my secrets. A human being can never be such a friend and that’s why I have decided to look for a confidant in the form of a diary.” And so begins an extraordinary document of an adolescent girl’s hopes and dreams. By the fall of 1939, Renia and her younger sister Elizabeth (née Ariana) were staying with their grandparents in Przemysl, a city in the south, just as the German and Soviet armies invaded Poland. Cut off from their mother, who was in Warsaw, Renia and her family were plunged into war. <p>Like Anne Frank, Renia’s diary became a record of her daily life as the Nazis spread throughout Europe. Renia writes of her mundane school life, her daily drama with best friends, falling in love with her boyfriend Zygmund, as well as the agony of missing her mother, separated by bombs and invading armies. Renia had aspirations to be a writer, and the diary is filled with her poignant and thoughtful poetry. When she was forced into the city’s ghetto with the other Jews, Zygmund is able to smuggle her out to hide with his parents, taking Renia out of the ghetto, but not, ultimately to safety. The diary ends in July 1942, completed by Zygmund, after Renia is murdered by the Gestapo. <p>Renia's Diary has been translated from the original Polish, and includes a preface, afterword, and notes by her surviving sister, Elizabeth Bellak. An extraordinary historical document, Renia Spiegel survives through the beauty of her words and the efforts of those who loved her and preserved her legacy.</p>
Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes
by Gerard MaglioccaOffering intriguing parallels between Jackson and George W. Bush regarding the scope of executive power, Magliocca has produced a rich synthesis of history, political science, and law that revives our understanding of an entire era and its controversies, while providing a model of constitutional law applicable to any period.
Martha Berry: A Woman of Courageous Spirit and Bold Dreams
by Joyce BlackburnThe life of Martha Berry, who devoted herself to the establishment of schools for underprivileged children in the rural areas of the South.
Alexander Graham Bell, Teacher of the Deaf
by Juna LochAlexander Graham Bell, Teacher of the Deaf by Juna Loch
Gentleman Overboard
by Herbert Clyde LewisGentleman Overboard, first published in 1937, is a novella about a man (a Wall Street banker) who accidentally slips overboard while on a freighter-cruise ship bound from Honolulu to Panama City. The book moves back and forth between the thoughts of the man in the water as he comes to terms with his inevitable fate, and that of the ship's crew and fellow passengers, who search first the ship, then the sea. Gentleman Overboard was the first novel of author Herbert Clyde Lewis (1909-1950) who would go on to write three additional books. Lewis began his career as a journalist in China and New York City, followed by a time writing screenplays in Hollywood.
Citizen of Two Worlds
by Mohammad Ata-UllahCitizen of Two Worlds, first published in 1960, is the autobiography of Mohammad Ata-Ullah (1905-1977), Pakistani doctor, mountaineer, and philosopher. Born into a Muslim family, Ata-Ullah is an example of a worldy human being who treated Christians and Hindus with respect and as brothers. After studying medicine in Lahore and London and becoming a doctor, Ata-Ullah served as an officer in the British India Army and traveled widely, working in central India, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon and Muscat, and witness to the bloodshed between Muslims and Hindus in India. With the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Col Ataullah become the first Director of Health Services of Azad Kashmir, and went on to work in Japan and Korea with wounded United Nations troops. The book closes with a dramatic description of his participation in the 1953 American Expedition to K2, the world's second highest mountain, and as a member of the successful Italian ascent in 1954.
High, Wide and Frightened
by Louise ThadenHigh, Wide and Frightened, first published in 1938, is pioneering aviator Louise Thaden's account of her adventures in the early days of flying. Thaden (1905-1979) earned her pilot's certificate in 1928 and would go on to win numerous long-distance air-races, and set numerous records for high-elevation and long-endurance flights. This edition includes the chapter entitled "Noble Experiment," (omitted from later reissues of the book), which describes Thaden's vision on the use of women in combat. In the final chapter of the book, Thaden describes her friendship with Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in 1937 over the Pacific Ocean.
My 21 Years in the White House
by Alonzo FieldsMy 21 Years in the White House, first published in 1960, is the fascinating account by Alonzo Fields of his service as head butler under 4 presidents: Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. Fields (1900-1994) began his employment at the White House in 1931, and kept a journal of his meetings with the presidents and their families; he would also meet important people like Winston Churchill, Princess Elizabeth of England, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, presidential cabinet members, senators, representatives, and Supreme Court Justices. He would also witness presidential decision-making at critical times in American history -- the attack on Pearl Harbor, the death of Franklin Roosevelt, the desegregation of the military, and the outbreak of hostilities in Korea. As Fields often told his staff, “...remember that we are helping to make history. We have a small part ... but they can't do much here without us. They've got to eat, you know.” Included are sample menus prepared for visiting heads-of-state and foreign dignitaries.
The King: A Biography of Clark Gable
by Charles SamuelsThe King was first published in 1961, shortly after the death of Hollywood legend Clark Gable in 1960. The book traces Gable's life from its humble, hard-scrabble beginnings in Ohio, to his hard-work and determined efforts to achieve success on Broadway, to his meteoric rise to stardom in Hollywood, his time spent in the Army Air Force in Europe, and his many loves, including Carole Lombard who was tragically killed in an airplane crash in 1942. The King paints an intimate, contemporary portrait of Clark Gable the man, both on and off camera, and ends with Gable's work on his last film, The Misfits, and his subsequent decline in health and his death on November 16, 1960, at age 59.
No digas que me conoces
by Sergi DoriaLa fascinante aventura de un hombre fuera de lo común que hizo de la estafa un arte y demostró que se podía burlar a los bancos más poderosos de la época. La revista Nuevo Mundo le llamó «El campeón de la estafa»; The New York Times, «El maestro de los falsificadores»; Le Figaro, «El rey de los ladrones»; ABC, «El nuevo Fantomas»; El Heraldo de Madrid, «Un estafador de altos vuelos»... La prensa de la época se hizo eco de sus hazañas: más de mil timos en distintos bancos del mundo y siete esposas burladas. Quienes le conocían o pasaron por la experiencia de ser estafados, aseguraban que se vestía con elegancia y cuando se disfrazaba lo hacía con categoría. Con tanta, que hasta se hizo pasar en varias ocasiones por Alfonso XIII. No digas que me conoces es una extraordinaria novela que nos da a conocer a un personaje enigmático que revolucionó la Barcelona de los años veinte del siglo pasado. La fascinante aventura de un hombre fuera de lo común que hizo de la estafa un arte y demostró que se podía burlar a los bancos más poderosos de la época. Reseña:«Un viaje fascinante a la turbia Barcelona de antes de la guerra forjado con el aplomo del historiador, el ojo clínico del periodista y la magia del novelista. Una novela para disfrutar, aprender y viajar en el tiempo de la mano de un gran narrador que sabe dónde pisa y nos guía a un momento clave de nuestra historia.»Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Alaska Bush Cop: The Beginning
by Andy AndersonI served as chief of police in the Alaska bush community of Seldovia for nearly 32 years. Alaska Bush Cop is the first of four books describing what actually took place during those years. When I took the chief's position, I had no training, and in this book, you'll find what I endured while learning how to be a police officer. I write about mistakes made and their repercussions. The events in Alaska Bush Cop did take place and are depicted the way they actually occurred. I think you will find it surprising when you read about many of the cases I write about. Many people feel a police officer in a small community has very little, or noting, to do. In reality, I kept busy in this one, and at times, two-man police department. I hope you find Alaska Bush Cop informative, enlightening, and entertaining.
A los que vienen: Democracia, desigualdad, justicia, educación, ecología, sexualidad, felicidad explicadas a los jóvenes
by Manuela CarmenaEl primer testimonio escrito de Manuela Carmena después de ser alcaldesa de Madrid. Sus palabras más personales e inspiradoras dirigidas a las generaciones venideras y a la sociedad en general. Un libro para ti, que eres joven. Para ti, porque puedes cambiar las cosas. Manuela Carmena, exalcaldesa de Madrid y jueza durante más de 30 años, es mujer, de izquierdas, progresista, feminista, ecologista, demócrata, patriota (si la patria lo es en positivo), agnóstica, madre y abuela, entre otras muchas cosas. Pero ante todo es una ciudadana, una persona como cualquier otra que ha demostrado que se puede hacer política de otra manera, que los pequeños gestos y hechos importan, que nuestros intereses, los de la gente, pueden ser llevados a las instituciones, defendidos y puestos en valor. Que, en definitiva, el pueblo puede y tiene que ser escuchado. En este libro Manuela quiere recoger los principales temas y preocupaciones que ya ha puesto de relevancia en su alcaldía y que ahora quiere compartir de otra manera, desde la vida civil, con las nuevas generaciones que vienen con fuerza y que quizás puedan necesitar algunas cariñosas y valiosas palabras de una de las más queridas figuras públicas que nos han gobernado en las últimas décadas. Gracias, Manuela.
Roberto Clemente: Orgullo de los Piratas de Pittsburgh
by Jonah Winter Raúl ColónNIMAC-sourced textbook
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands: Edited By W. J. S. ; With An Introductory Preface By W. H. Russell (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Mary SeacoleFamed for her work among the sick and wounded of the Crimean War, Mary Seacole possessed a unique perspective: that of a Victorian-era black woman at a battlefield's front line. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1805, she began her career as a healer by helping her mother nurse British officers at nearby military camps. In the 1850s, her compassion aroused by agonizing reports from Crimea, she headed for England to offer her services. Seacole was denied entry to Florence Nightingale's "angel band" of military nurses, possibly on account of her race. Undaunted, she traveled independently to Crimea to set up accommodations near Balaclava that provided treatment and domestic comforts to convalescing soldiers. Seacole's years of service left her bankrupt and impoverished, but her memoirs, published to popular and critical acclaim in 1857, express no regrets. Humorous and tragic by turns, this autobiography recaptures the voice of a fearless adventurer and humanitarian.
A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account Of The Passage Over A Georgia Plantation Of Shermans Army On The March To The Sea (1918) (The World At War)
by Dolly Lunt(Excerpt) "Though Southern rural life has necessarily changed since the Civil War, I doubt that there is in the entire South a place where it has changed less than on the Burge Plantation, near Covington, Georgia. And I do not know in the whole country a place that I should rather see again in springtime - the Georgia springtime, when the air is like a tonic vapor distilled from the earth, from pine trees, tulip trees, balm-of-Gilead trees (or "bam" trees, as the negroes call them), blossoming Judas trees, Georgia crab-apple, dogwood pink and white, peach blossom, wistaria, sweet-shrub, dog violets, pansy violets, Cherokee roses, wild honeysuckle, azalea, and the evanescent green of new treetops, all carried in solution in the sunlight. It is indicative of the fidelity of the plantation to its old traditions that though more than threescore springs have come and gone since Sherman and his army crossed the red cotton fields surrounding the plantation house, and though the Burge family name died out, many years ago, with Mrs. Thomas Burge, a portion of whose wartime journal makes up the body of this book, the place continues to be known by her name and her husband's, as it was when they resided there before the Civil War. Some of the negroes mentioned in the journal still live in cabins on the plantation, and almost all the younger generation are the children or grandchildren of Mrs. Burge's former slaves."