Discover Twitter through the ages! Ever wonder what Genghis Khan, Aristotle, or George Washington might have tweeted? How about what might have happened if Henry VIII tried online dating via social media? Or what if the sinking of the Titanic was told in real time, tweet by tweet? Time to end the American Civil War? There's an app for that! Find out all this for yourself and more, each age tweeted with cheeky and comical wit in this humorous history book!
Hello curious reader. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to join UMF Agents Bunt, Beatrix, & Bunji as they take on Salmonella Lane and his new evil sidekick, who goes by the code name Easter Bunny. Can the UMF stop them in time to save the world--and the reputation of the real Easter Bunny The mission has never been so unhoppable... until the next one. This synopsis will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its effects. The sources range from parliamentary buildings and social movements, to images and speeches of presidents, from fascist cemeteries to the International Criminal Court. Both the timeframe and the geographical focus have been chosen to highlight the increasingly participatory character of nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics, which is inconceivable without the work of emotions.
Redundant airline pilot Johann Ryan is offered his dream job flying a light aircraft in the Caribbean. It seems too good to be true. It is. Too late, Johann discovers what his cargo is.In a violent storm off the coast of Antigua, Oliver Jacobs makes a distress call from his luxury yacht. The Coast Guard discovers the yacht packed full of cocaine. Oliver's villa has, like most homes in Antigua, a large water storage cistern. Except this one doesn't contain water.For Johann Ryan, there appears to be no escape from the far-reaching tentacles of his new employer, a notorious drug cartel. But he unwittingly holds the key to the secret of Oliver Jacobs's cistern, information urgently sought by both the cartel and international drug enforcement agencies. As both sides close in on the truth, Johann must decide whom he can trust as he is compelled to make one last perilous flight...
To the far north lay a land of fire and ice. It was a place of unparalleled beauty, but plagued by pestilence. When word came of a visitor bearing a gift, hope rose in the hearts of the king and his subjects, but alas, a grave peril festered in the very heart of the king's palace. As luck would have it, a peasant lad finds himself entwined in an adventure with a most unlikely companion, and together, they must venture to save not only the princess but the land.
It's not what you think -- and they're the ones nobody suspects. It all began when Angela Parker, the new girl in town, was assigned a crummy partner for the local history project. On a visit to the Castillo de San Marcos, she stumbles across a coded message; but time will only tell the full extent of its meaning. Together with her partner, Evan, Angela is swept up on a twisting and turning mystery of an adventure, full of strange and colorful characters, one as could only happen in America's oldest city: St. Augustine, Florida.
Clarence Meredith Hincks (1885-1964) is often regarded as the father of mental health in Canada. He was instrumental in establishing the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene in 1918, and became its director in 1924. He dedicated his career to investigating the cause and relief of psychological disorders, a search that continues today in the work of the Canadian Mental Health Association. This biography sets down the major episodes in his career, and relates them to his personal life and his struggles with recurrent attacks of depression. The maturation of Canada's perception of mental disease is largely due to pioneers like Hincks.
Hello curious reader. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read this book and laugh out loud at the antics of UMF Agents Bunt, Beatrix, and Bunji as they battle the chicken terrorist, Salmonella Lane, in order to save the world from decimation via a nightshade nuke. The mission has never been so unhoppable... until the next one. This synopsis will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
Hello curious reader. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to join your favorite UMF agents as they attempt to save the world from Double Yolk's nefarious plots once again. Can they save Bunnywood, the world, and the Cucumberpatch in time The mission has never been so unhoppable... until the next one. This synopsis will self-destruct in 5 seconds.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. “[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.”—Esquire NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES • FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States. The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning 1619 Project issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself. This book that speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nation’s founding and construction—and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary American life. Featuring contributions from: Leslie Alexander • Michelle Alexander • Carol Anderson • Joshua Bennett • Reginald Dwayne Betts • Jamelle Bouie • Anthea Butler • Matthew Desmond • Rita Dove • Camille T. Dungy • Cornelius Eady • Eve L. Ewing • Nikky Finney • Vievee Francis • Yaa Gyasi • Forrest Hamer • Terrance Hayes • Kimberly Annece Henderson • Jeneen Interlandi • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers • Barry Jenkins • Tyehimba Jess • Martha S. Jones • Robert Jones, Jr. • A. Van Jordan • Ibram X. Kendi • Eddie Kendricks • Yusef Komunyakaa • Kevin M. Kruse • Kiese Laymon • Trymaine Lee • Jasmine Mans • Terry McMillan • Tiya Miles • Wesley Morris • Khalil Gibran Muhammad • Lynn Nottage • ZZ Packer • Gregory Pardlo • Darryl Pinckney • Claudia Rankine • Jason Reynolds • Dorothy Roberts • Sonia Sanchez • Tim Seibles • Evie Shockley • Clint Smith • Danez Smith • Patricia Smith • Tracy K. Smith • Bryan Stevenson • Nafissa Thompson-Spires • Natasha Trethewey • Linda Villarosa • Jesmyn Ward
Hannah Josephine Benner Roach (1907-1976) was a distinguished genealogist & also an architect & historian. This volume of selected examples of her published articles represents something of the breadth of her interests & abilities, as well as her meticulous care as a researcher in genealogy. Contents: The Blackwell Rent Roll, 1689; Philadelphia Business Directory, 1690; Taxables in Chestnut, Middle & South Wards Philadelphia, 1754; Taxables in the City of Philadelphia, 1756; Philadelphia¿s Colonial Poor Laws, & Taxables in Chestnut, Walnut & Lower Delaware Wards, Philadelphia, 1767; & Genealogical Gleanings from Dr. Rush¿s Ledger A.
How did authors such as Jonson, Spenser, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Hannah Crawforth shows how early modern writers were acutely attuned to the religious and political implications of the etymology of English words. She argues that these lexically astute writers actively engaged with the lexicographers, Anglo-Saxonists and etymologists who were carrying out a national project to recover, or invent, the origins of English, at a time when the question of a national vernacular was inseparable from that of national identity. English words are deployed to particular effect – as a polemical weapon, allegorical device, coded form of communication, type of historical allusion or political tool. Drawing together early modern literature and linguistics, Crawforth argues that the history of English as it was studied in the period radically underpins the writing of its greatest poets.
Seventeen years ago, high-flying businessman Graymond Sharkey found himself in a maximum security prison. He was serving a life sentence for a brutal double murder committed at a deserted airfield in the English countryside. The evidence against him was overwhelming.But Graymond knows he is innocent. On his release from prison he is determined to find, and bring to justice, the real killer. In his search for the truth, Graymond realises that someone, somewhere, will go to any lengths to keep it hidden...
This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular U.S. film of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse, identifying and discussing dominant paradigms and tropes that emerge from the tendency of popular cinema to configure ideal masculinity in paternal terms. It analyses postfeminist fatherhood across a range of genres including historical epics, war films, westerns, bromantic comedies, male melodramas, action films, family comedies, and others. It also explores recurring themes and intersections such as the rejuvenation of aging masculinities through fatherhood, the paternalized recuperation of immature adult masculinities, the relationship between fatherhood in film and 9/11 culture, post-racial discourse in representations of fatherhood, and historically located formations of fatherhood. It is the first book length study to explore the relationship between fatherhood and postfeminism in popular cinema.
This will help us customize your experience to showcase the most relevant content to your age group
Please select from below
Login
Not registered?
Sign up
Already registered?
Success – Your message will goes here
We'd love to hear from you!
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.