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The Milky Galaxy

What Happens to Earth Without a Successful Revolution Against Capitalism?

By: Barbara G Louise

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The Milky Galaxy

What Happens to Earth Without a Successful Revolution Against Capitalism?

By: Barbara G Louise

The Milky (nurturing) Galaxy is a combination of two related novellas set in the same small, unregarded corner of the multiverse. In the first novella, in the 24th century, the Earth is ruined. Bio-diversity is gone. What is left is foul air, poisoned soil, filthy water, and a greatly reduced population of Humans struggling to survive in the dystopian environment. The wondrous beauty of a living globe more than four billion years old perfectly suited to support millions of diverse species is no more. Only the Rich live comfortably in geodesic domes five miles high which selfishly preserve some of the former glorious wonder, the clean air, water, and healthy food of the now collapsing Earthly biosphere. In the fragmented slums between the Domes, descendents of the former Working Class — whose livelihoods were usurped by robots mid-21st century — cling to a precarious secret existence in old buildings sealed against the raw, polluted, unfiltered air and water of ruined Earth. Living in peace with the ultra-privileged Dome dwellers, except as slaves whose lives would be worth nothing, is clearly impossible. Large, green, ameboid Aliens come to Earth and take away members of the former Working Class to settle them on healthy planets elsewhere in the Galaxy. The Aliens accidently leave an Alien child behind. Zee (the ameboid Aliens have only one gender) struggles to survive outside the Domes and find a way to Reproduce, to save hir memories for the future of hir species. In the second novella, a wastrel young man belonging to a Rich Dome family is sent against his will by his authoritarian father out into space to find a suitable, un-ruined planet where the Rich Families of Earth can transfer their “civilization:” their food animals, their enslaved women, and their capitalist economy. Past the worm-hole in the alpha Centauri star-system, the young man finds a thriving Anarkhist society of Human beings — living with green, ameboid aliens and others — inhabiting a star system with three suns. To his surprise, he falls in love with a free-Human female; and yet he still intends to conquer the planet and bring to it the “blessings” of Capitalism, because it will make him a Rich Earthman. Disaster ensues.

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1663231796

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The Secret Experiment

Sequel to the Butterfly Caper

By: Barbara G Louise

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The Secret Experiment

Sequel to the Butterfly Caper

By: Barbara G Louise

How could they win the Earth? They were Anarkhists. Black and white, Gay and straight, diverse in many ways, Poor and semi-affluent-‘Middle-Class,’ spending their young lives protesting government atrocities. They believed their society needed a Revolution, but how long would it be before the Poor and the Oppressed rose up to take their planet and their civilization back from the monsters who held them all in thrall? And how violent would that Revolution need to be? How could they practice living together in equality before the Revolution? One woman thought she had the answer: a way to make a peaceful Revolution so that no one — no Black people, no Poor people, no dedicated Activists, no LGBTQ, and no one Oppressed by a vicious economic system — needed to be killed by the violent push-back of the greedy-Rich. She told her idea to her fiancé, a young activist with some family money who could donate the 100 acres of land needed. Building their own mortgage-free, solar-powered housing, they became an Egalitarian-Commune, pretending to be starry-eyed dropouts from 21st-century Conservative-leaning cultures in Canada, the USA and Mexico. In their own Charter School, outside government control, they intended to educate all the Commune’s children in the civilized ideals of the Sharing and Diversity of Voluntary-Socialism. They believed in the Equality of all people, Christian or not, of whatever Ability to Make Money, or whatever their Colour, Gender, or sexual orientation. But they discovered they were under surveillance. . . . * * * “We’ve caught a spy.” He gestured toward the mashed insect-sized drone on the glass plate under the dissecting-microscope. “Ah, yes, a modern miracle of miniaturization. Who mashed it?” “I did,” David said. “Why?” “I thought it was an insect biting me.” “I wish you hadn’t been so good at destroying it,” Allison mumbled, peering intently into the microscopic world. “That thing is an Enemy,” he said. “Sorry I couldn’t have been more gentle.” She again peered through the microscope at the wreck of the Enemy drone. “Clever,” she said. “They can attach themselves anywhere. That plastic camouflage-carapace gives it a mutable pattern to match whatever the background might be. These damned things were designed to be unnoticed as they spy on us. Even in people’s bedrooms, I’ll bet, via infrared. . . .” “We don’t know how many of those damned things are all around us, or how long we’ve been spied on,” David snarled.

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166324779X

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Inherit the Earth

By: Barbara G Louise

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Inherit the Earth

By: Barbara G Louise

In an obscure corner of the multiverse, on an alternate-Earth, in the mid-21st century, the right to vote of millions of Working Class Americans has recently been destroyed, freeing the Ruling Class — with the power their money gives them — to dictate the shape of national government. The Rich are afraid that without the vote the worst of the Rabble will revolt, destroying Elitist civilization. So the Rulers prepare to have protestors shot in the streets. Learning to share, Working Class people organize themselves to grow free-food for the Poor and the homeless; they create Tent Neighborhoods in public parks for those running from sea-coasts devastated by melting glaciers; and create the Anarkhist Army of the Appendix to aid ordinary people in the Revolution they know is coming, as the Rich use violence to keep their money and their social power. Soon after the COVID pandemic has worn itself out — with variants killing elderly people, small children, and those who refuse to believe in science — a special, secret committee in the US Senate — in order to get rid of worthless, excess, unemployed Workers — releases mutated, antiviral-resistant Smallpox on a nation which is completely unvaccinated for that devastating disease, since vaccinations ended in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the USA. Totally unsupported by a government dedicated only to protecting and enabling the Rich Elites, ordinary working-Americans — desperately seeking to control their own lives, their ailing planet, and their civilization — struggle onward toward a effective anti-Capitalist Revolution. “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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1663235015

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The Gay Gift

The Only Dream That Matters

By: Barbara G Louise

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The Gay Gift

The Only Dream That Matters

By: Barbara G Louise

Near the end of the 20th Century, in Northeastern Ohio, two baby girls — one Black, one white — were born on the same day, in the same hospital, to two different mothers, who decided to raise them as twins. They were named Kalila Muhammed and Shayna Cohen. The twin daughters united a happy, loving double-family, one Black-Muslim, one Jewish. When they became teenagers, Shayna discovered she was a Lesbian; Kalila was not. After their first year of college at Kent State University, Shayna suddenly found she was able to begin building a socially-Progressive, solar-powered, urban-village in Cleaveland Heights, Ohio; where she could make it possible for Poor or low-income people — Black, of varied ethnicities, and/or LGBTQ — with or without children, to buy their own homes, and not be trapped in having to rent all their lives. Shayna and the Village she built faced many difficulties over the years: fire, Global-Warming, COVID, huge snow storms, the loss of her first Lover, people who objected to the Village because she managed to make a small profit, traumatic arrest for fraud and larceny, public accusations that she was secretly a Socialist (because she obviously valued Poor people), or that she was a pedophile (because she was Gay). There was a woman who attacked her for cutting-down a large old tree rotting in the Village. Over their lifetimes, the twins came to learn exactly what the Gay Gift really was. . . .

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1663243298

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The Invasion of Peasant-Earth

A Speculation on Earth’s Future After a Nuclear War

By: Barbara G Louise

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The Invasion of Peasant-Earth

A Speculation on Earth’s Future After a Nuclear War

By: Barbara G Louise

In 3683AD, fifteen centuries after a Nuclear War, the people of planet Earth are much like human beings have always been. Except that they have a permanently peaceful, non-violent, racially diverse, world-wide society in which everyone (as well as their companion animals) has enough to eat, a roof over their heads, comfortable clothing, and interesting, useful work to do. All without a coercive government. When monsters from Outer Space invade, can the Earthers’ happy, fulfilling, semi-anarkhist culture survive the inherent Racism, Misogyny, and Love of Violence of the Invaders, who are all too human themselves? Will the Invaders be able to impose their militaristic government upon the free people of Earth? Or will nuclear-hell destroy humanity’s natal planet and all its citizens? Readers of Joan Slonczewski’s excellent novel, A Door Into Ocean, will enjoy this book.

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1663226091

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Learning to Share

HOW CAN WE LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT CAPITALISM?

By: Barbara G Louise

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Learning to Share

HOW CAN WE LEARN TO LIVE WITHOUT CAPITALISM?

By: Barbara G Louise

In an obscure corner of the infinite-multiverse, on an alternate-Earth, in the mid-21st century, the right to vote of millions of Working Class Americans had recently been totally destroyed, freeing the Ruling Class — with the power their money gave them — to dictate the shape of national government. The Rich were afraid that without the vote the worst of the Rabble would revolt, destroying Elitist civilization. So the Rulers prepared to have protestors shot in the streets; rebellious slaves do not deserve to live. Preparing for an inevitable Anti-Capitalist Revolution, learning to Share, Working Class people organize themselves to grow free-food for the Poor and the Homeless; they create Tent Neighborhoods in public parks for those running from sea-coasts devastated by melting glaciers due to Climate Change; and establish the Anarkhist Army of the Appendix to aid ordinary people in the coming Revolution, as the Rich use violence to keep their money and their social power. Soon after the COVID pandemic has worn itself out, a special, secret committee in the US Senate — in order to get rid of worthless, excess, unemployed Workers — released mutated, antiviral-resistant Smallpox on a nation which was completely unvaccinated for that devastating disease, since vaccinations for Smallpox ended in 1972 after the disease was eradicated in the USA. Totally unsupported by a government dedicated only to protecting and enabling the Rich Elites, ordinary working-Americans — desperately seeking to control their own lives, their ailing planet, and their civilization — struggle together onward toward a effective anti-Capitalist Revolution. How can people prepare for life without Capitalism; how do they struggle for a better future living in Voluntary Socialism? Can the Revolutionaries of North America survive the violent backlash from those Elites who most Profit from Capitalism?

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1663248370

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Samuel Barber

A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works

By: Barbara B. Heyman

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Samuel Barber

A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works

By: Barbara B. Heyman

An indispensable resource on Samuel Barber's complete oeuvre-more than 100 published and nearly twice as many unpublished compositions-with an abundance of information on song texts, first performances, genesis of composition, duration, revisions, editions, arrangements, selected discography of historical and contemporary recordings, and detailed description of the hundreds of holograph manuscripts, sketches, drafts, and significant publisher's proofs founded in libraries and private collections throughout the United States. Illuminating quotations drawn from Barber's letters and diaries will be of special interest not only to scholars but conductors, composers, performers, and the general music enthusiast.

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OUP USA

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0199744645

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Imperialism, Race and Resistance

Africa and Britain, 1919-1945

By: Barbara Bush

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Imperialism, Race and Resistance

Africa and Britain, 1919-1945

By: Barbara Bush

Imperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history. Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa, Imperialism, Race and Resistance charts the growth of anti-colonial resistance and opposition to racism in the prelude to the 'post-colonial' era. The complex nature of imperial power in explored, as well as its impact on the lives and struggles of black men and women in Africa and the African diaspora. Barbara Bush argues that tensions between white dreams of power and black dreams of freedom were seminal in transofrming Britain's relationship with Africa in an era bounded by global war and shaped by ideological conflict.

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Routledge

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1134722443

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The Making of the West, Combined Volume

Peoples and Cultures

By: Lynn Hunt,Thomas R. Martin,Barbara H. Rosenwein,Bonnie G. Smith

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The Making of the West, Combined Volume

Peoples and Cultures

By: Lynn Hunt,Thomas R. Martin,Barbara H. Rosenwein,Bonnie G. Smith

Students of Western civilization need more than facts. They need to understand the cross-cultural, global exchanges that shaped Western history; to be able to draw connections between the social, cultural, political, economic, and intellectual happenings in a given era; and to see the West not as a fixed region, but a living, evolving construct. These needs have long been central to The Making of the West. The book’s chronological narrative emphasizes the wide variety of peoples and cultures that created Western civilization and places them together in a common context, enabling students to witness the unfolding of Western history, understand change over time, and recognize fundamental relationships. Read the preface.

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Macmillan Higher Education

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1457605473

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Activate Your English Pre-intermediate Coursebook

A Short Course for Adults

By: Barbara Sinclair

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Activate Your English Pre-intermediate Coursebook

A Short Course for Adults

By: Barbara Sinclair

Activate Your English is a short course for adults.

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Book's by Barbara G Louise

The Milky Galaxy

The Milky Galaxy

The Secret Experiment

The Secret Experiment

Inherit the Earth

Inherit the Earth

The Gay Gift

The Gay Gift

The Invasion of Peasant-Earth

The Invasion of Peasant-Earth

Learning to Share

Learning to Share

Samuel Barber

Samuel Barber

Imperialism, Race and Resistance

Imperialism, Race and Resistance

The Making of the West, Combined Volume

The Making of the West, Combined Volume

Activate Your English Pre-intermediate Coursebook

Activate Your English Pre-intermediate Coursebook

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