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And so What If We Are Different?

By: Joy Omara

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And so What If We Are Different?

By: Joy Omara

Maryam and Tiffany are fictitious characters with youthful curiosity about the others religion of Christianity and Islam. The story is simply written, presenting a vivid but lighthearted discovery of similar doctrinal beliefs between the two religions. They explore some of the myths and misconceptions through illustrious examples and eventually agree having different beliefs doesnt mean they cant be friends. In todays world where religious tension caused by expanding communities with different cultures and misinformation of religious beliefs and practices, the book is needed to teach children and young adults their religion is not as dissimilar or based on terrorist propaganda seen on headline news. The aim of this story book is to promote racial and interreligious harmony and integration. Educating the young, it is hoped, will help develop a more peaceful environment worldwide.

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1514462915

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9781514462911

Jim Crow Campus

Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order

By: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott

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Higher Education and the Struggle for a New Southern Social Order

By: Joy Ann Williamson-Lott

This well-researched volume explores how the Black freedom struggle and the anti–Vietnam War movement dovetailed with faculty and student activism in the South to undermine the traditional role of higher education and bring about social change. It uses the battles between students, faculty, presidents, trustees, elected officials, and funding agencies to explain how Black and White southern campuses transformed themselves into reputable academic centers. No matter the type of institution, these battles represented cracks in the edifice of the Old South and precipitated wide-ranging changes in southern higher education and society as well. This thought-provoking history offers scholars and others interested in institutional autonomy and the value of civil society a deep understanding of the central role that institutions of higher education can play in social and political change and the vital importance of independent institutions during times of national crisis. “The riveting prose and well-researched narrative tell the stories of the past while also teaching lessons for today.” —Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania “A must-read for every serious student of higher education, academic freedom, free speech, civil rights, student protest, and southern history.” —Robert Cohen, New York University “Takes us back to a recent period in the American South in which the suppression of speech was commonplace in government and in the routines of everyday life.” —James D. Anderson, University of Illinois

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177

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Teachers College Press

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0807776971

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9780807776971

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

By: Joy Lisi Rankin

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A People’s History of Computing in the United States

By: Joy Lisi Rankin

Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consumer technology, challenges that triumphalism. The invention of the personal computer liberated users from corporate mainframes and brought computing into homes. But throughout the 1960s and 1970s a diverse group of teachers and students working together on academic computing systems conducted many of the activities we now recognize as personal and social computing. Their networks were centered in New Hampshire, Minnesota, and Illinois, but they connected far-flung users. Joy Rankin draws on detailed records to explore how users exchanged messages, programmed music and poems, fostered communities, and developed computer games like The Oregon Trail. These unsung pioneers helped shape our digital world, just as much as the inventors, garage hobbyists, and eccentric billionaires of Palo Alto. By imagining computing as an interactive commons, the early denizens of the digital realm seeded today’s debate about whether the internet should be a public utility and laid the groundwork for the concept of net neutrality. Rankin offers a radical precedent for a more democratic digital culture, and new models for the next generation of activists, educators, coders, and makers.

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Harvard University Press

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0674988515

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9780674988514

The Reverend Queen Maisie

By: Joy Drinkwater

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The Reverend Queen Maisie

By: Joy Drinkwater

Maisie was a home economics teacher from the southeastern United States. She was married to a textile executive, had three children, and led an average American life. As told in the original book, Maisie, she became the Queen of England through an extraordinary turn of events. The Reverend Queen Maisie continues their story as Maisie settles into her new position as Queen. Follow their sometimes comical story as Maisie is transformed from an outsider to the Reverend Queen and Defender of the Faith.

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iUniverse

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0595215467

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And so What If We Are Different?

And so What If We Are Different?

Jim Crow Campus

Jim Crow Campus

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

The Reverend Queen Maisie

The Reverend Queen Maisie

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