The companion volume to the 50th-anniversary edition of Black Like Me, this book features John Howard Griffin’s later writings on racism and spirituality. Conveying a progressive evolution in thinking, it further explores Griffin’s ethical stand in the human rights struggle and nonviolent pursuit of equality—a view he shared with greats such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Thomas Merton. Enlightening and forthright, this record also focuses on Griffin’s spiritual grounding in the Catholic monastic tradition, discussing the illuminating meditations on suffering and the author’s own reflections on communication, justice, and dying.
Learn just how fascinating a TOGA party can be! Interwoven fiction and essays illustrate humanity's chance to Go Ahead into a future of peace and prosperity in an increasingly Type One high-energy and wealthy civilization. Nuclear destruction of a major US port hangs in the balance as Max Progress, extraordinary social innovator, joins open-minded twin sisters Athena and Aphrodite and Iraqi scientist Sumaya in a search for the best paths to personal happiness and a better world. Together they explore fresh perspectives on nuclear power, health care reform, education, a national guaranteed minimum income, and other crucial issues. How will their actions and perhaps yours affect the outcome of this ingeniously structured tale? Discover how Operation Type One Go Ahead can enliven, even transform, your experiences of storytelling and of our collective future!
This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.
In the Kingdom of Hyperboly, near the Port of Gontosy, when autumn had begun to change the leaves and shift the air, a young man approached the castle gates to meet Lord Triton Phoenix and hear his many tales. The wise Lord Phoenix conveyed many things to the young Jeremiah Joplin from Joppa, but the most captivating story of all, was that of the ancient legend of Iron John, and how a young man much like Jeremiah became a man. About the Author John Griffin is an active volunteer at St. Vincent DePauls, preparing and cleaning up meals for those in need. When he isn't helping his local community, he's enjoying nature all around him, writing letters to public officials on behalf of the environment, fishing, hiking, and basking in the poetic inspiration that nature gives.
THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH “One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed black man. What happened to John Howard Griffin—from the outside and within himself—as he made his way through the segregated Deep South is recorded in this searing work of nonfiction. His audacious, still chillingly relevant eyewitness history is a work about race and humanity every American must read. With an Epilogue by the author and an Afterword by Robert Bonazzi
Whether we should eat a diet similar to the hunting and gathering societies of our evolutionary past, which consisted of more meat, more nuts and berries, and less grain and refined sugar, is an open question. But its clear that Paleo, gluten-free, and vegan diets are influencing dining trends, and cooks and chefs need to provide eaters with options to capitalize on the trend. Chef Griffin explores whats behind these diet requests so you can understand what people will eat, what they wont eat, and why. He delivers guidance that will enable you to make customers feel welcome without buying expensive ingredients. If youre creating menus for a restaurant or other foodservice operation, its important to keep diet trends in mind. Failing to inform customers where your food comes from and how its made will prompt them to go elsewhere. Filled with dozens of Paleo, wheat-free, and vegan recipes that rely on standard ingredients, youll be equipped to please all of your guests, whether at a simple dinner party or in a highly trafficked restaurant, with Paleo and Gluten-Free Menus.
The Federal Reserve is the largest bank in the world, and some high government officials have devised a scheme to loot billions of dollars from the Federal Reserve! The Soviet Union is in dire straits financially, not having been able to meet their International Monetary payments and without adequate hard currency reserves to meet those payments. The Soviets reach out to the President of the United States to give them aid to get past what has been a dismal harvest and the inability to get their oil to market. President Killingsworth calls on Gene Bartow, the Secretary of the Treasury, to put together a plan to provide them the aid the Soviets need without having to go to Congress. Using contacts that he obtained while a Wall Street banker, Bartow has devised a scheme to steal billions of dollars from the Fed. In an international financial thriller, Jack McCord, a billionaire businessman, the central character of the book, is all that stands in the way of a group of international bankers using the Federal Reserve to finance their devious plans. In a short period of time, these international bankers have formed a cabal which includes well respected American politicians to accomplish their aims. If they are successful, it will roil the markets and cause untold damage to the world's economy. In his premiere novel, John Griffin introduces us to the world of high finance, where the stakes move into the billions of dollars with each and every roll of the dice. Also, we are introduced to Jack McCord, a billionaire businessman with a flair for solving some of the most difficult problems along with his privately held company and team at Cain Industries. There have been bank robbers around for hundreds of years, but never on this scale previously. And none have attempted to loot the largest bank in the world - the Fed. If McCord and his Cain Industries people are not successful, the world's economy will suffer an extraordinary setback.
This volume of essays not only charts the trajectory of a distinguished Floridian's remarkable career, it also chronicles much that has happened in North American archaeology over the past sixty years. . . . No practitioner of American archaeology has influenced the directions and content of research in Florida more than John Griffin. His work not only shaped archaeology in Florida, it also influenced the development of the field of historical archaeology in general." "John Griffin was one of archaeology's pioneers. This collection of papers spans his remarkable career, mirroring the development of archaeology in the eastern United States."--Jerald T. Milanich, Florida Museum of Natural History John Griffin was held in equally high esteem by archaeologists and historians. Before his death in 1993, he was urged to collect some of his original and path-breaking writings into a volume that would trace the story of his professional life. In doing that, he created a work that documents the critical early years of historical archaeology in the Southeast. This volume includes 16 selections from Griffin's extensive publication list, which began in the 1930s. Ten of the essays relate to Florida archaeology and history, while the others cover investigations in other parts of the Southeast and the Midwest. They include an article on bison in Illinois archaeology, Griffin's first attempt to apply principles of ecology to cultural chan≥ a report on the sleuthing that unraveled the story of Chief Osceola's grave and mortal remains; an article on Florida archaeology entered into the Congressional Record by Senator Claude Pepper; a chapter from Here They Once Stood, the pioneering work on Florida missions that he coauthored; and a study of Booker T. Washington's boyhood home, one of the first archaeological studies of an African-American historic site. Griffin was the first professional archaeologist employed in the state of Florida (1946). His frequently cited scholarship stands the test of time, and he was widely regarded as a friend, mentor, and source of wisdom among his colleagues. As one of them, Kathleen Deagan, remarks in the foreword, this book "offers the kinds of insights into both the past and the profession that can only come from depth of experience in partnership with a continually open and curious mind." Patricia C. Griffin, author of Mullet on the Beach: The Minorcans of Florida, 1768-1788 (UPF, 1991), received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1988 and today is an independent scholar. She was married to John Griffin for 48 years and in 1996 will accept a posthumous Award of Merit on his behalf from the Society for Historical Archaeology. She lives in St. Augustine, Florida, where she remains active in conservation and restoration projects.
A world trapped between the dimensions of science and magic. A world torn. A world filled with high adventure, where death lurks behind every corner. Do you dare enter? Do you dare not? The Realm of The Gateway is a fantasy/science fantasy role playing game set on the mythical world of Uylande. It is a world trapped inside a dimensional portal between the dimensions of science and magic. Half the world obeys the physical laws of magic, while half the world obeys the physical laws of science. Where the two meet is a land of chaos called the Death Zone. The Realm Of The Gateway, The Magic Realm. - Rules for realistic combat. The damage you do is based on how well you hit and where. - Rules for pain and shock damage. - Over 20 psionic powers and rules for their use. - A listing of creatures found anywhere in the world. - Rules for character creation. Includes 9 player races for The Magic Realm. - Rules for skill use including dozens of skills for The Magic Realm. - A revolutionary magic system. No power points. No spell memorization. Magic users can use their magic as often as they want. - Over 200 spells, plus free form magic. - Dozens of creatures found in The Magic Realm. - Background and setting for one of the lands in The Magic Realm. The Realm of the Gateway: The Magic Realm is the first in a series of books for The Realm of the Gateway. The Science Realm and The Death Zone will be coming soon! In addition we will be releasing guidebooks for each realm.
Are the views of Latinos and African Americans underrepresented in our federal government? For that matter, what does it mean to be represented equitably? Rather than taking for granted a single answer to these complex questions, John Griffin and Brian Newman use different measures of political equality to reveal which groups get what they want from government and what factors lead to their successes. One of the first books to compare the representation of both African Americans and Latinos to that of whites, Minority Report shows that congressional decisions and federal policy tend to mirror the preferences of whites as a group and as individuals better than the preferences of either minority group, even after accounting for income disparities. This is far from the whole story, though, and the authors’ multifaceted approach illustrates the surprising degree to which group population size, an issue’s level of importance, the race or ethnicity of an office holder, and electoral turnout can affect how well government action reflects the views of each person or group. Sure to be controversial, Minority Report ultimately goes beyond statistical analyses to address the root question of what equal representation really means.
A Letter to My Father is an extraordinary autobiography of a young black man growing up in a loving and supportive close-knit family, who finds himself struggling through what he sees as the minefields established by the racial and oppressive nature of White America. As the title denotes, A Letter To My Father is a revealing conversation of a son to his father. However, the father is deceased and the letter conveys to him what happened to their family after his death. The author shares his personal memories, as well as those conveyed to him by his mother, brother, and extended family. He writes his father about a loving and caring mother and her struggle to raise their two sons alone; and about a big brother who protects him and tries to become the father they both were without. The book in its unique format, tells of a young mans experiences while growing up in the streets of Philadelphia, PA, surrounded by racial images and trying to find his place in a struggle for political and economic equality against the odds of being black, poor and uneducated in the 1960's. When his search leads him to the black nationalist ideology of the Nation of Islam, he becomes involved in both community activism and crime. Soon this results in his being arrested, charged, and convicted for one of the most heinous crimes ever committed. The case became known as the Washington, D.C. Hanafi Muslim Murders, and although he would eventually be acquitted, he still found himself trapped in, and swallowed up by a repressive, and counterproductive prison system. As the result of governmental manipulations, he is convicted in the jail-house murder of a government informant, and left to deal with the harsh and brutal realities of prison life. While desperately trying to maintain a positive relationship with his wife and children, he educates himself, helps to establish literacy programs for other prisoners, becomes a teacher, and involves himself in the fight for prison reform. In writing A Letter To My Father, the author acknowledges personal responsibility for how his life turns out. He also reveals societys role in arresting the economic, social, and political development of black people in America. Through the eyes of a young black fatherless male, he expresses the frustrations he felt as a member of an outcast minority, who after realizing historys lie, sets out to deal with it in a world full of confused and misguided concepts. The book ends with the deaths of his beloved mother and brother. After being incarcerated for over 26 years, and always having their love and support, he has to deal with and accept the loss of both of them in a six-week span. While he reaffirms his fight for freedom, he realizes that not only has his mother and brother taught him how to stand firm and face the harsh realities of life, but also how to stand firm and face the inevitable reality of death.
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