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Take a journey around the world and meet the animals that inhabit it in An Aunt's Animal Alphabet! From the giant giraffe in the savanna to the friendly fish in the sea, the majestic eagle in the sky and the playful puppy in the park, this book introduces young readers to the wonders of the animal kingdom. Through stunning hand-drawn illustrations and catchy nursery rhymes, readers will explore different animals with each creatively drawn lett...

Take a journey around the world and meet the animals that inhabit it in An Aunt's Animal Alphabet! From the giant giraffe in the savanna to the friendly fish in the sea, the majestic eagle in the sky and the playful puppy in the park, this book introduces young readers to the wonders of the animal kingdom. Through stunning hand-drawn illustrations and catchy nursery rhymes, readers will explore different animals with each creatively drawn lett...

Two years after the biggest race riot in U.S. history, Detroit was fast becoming one of the blackest cities in America. A few miles west, Livonia was one year away from being crowned the whitest city in America. The Detroit Eight decided it was time to 'move behind enemy lines' and infiltrate the burbs. Behind picket fences, beneath a sheath of quiet civility, The Eights begin to uncover the sinister underbelly-violence, corruption, oppression...

When Maggie Tervo decided to launch her ancestral venture, she dropped any pretense of being the dutiful housewife. Unleashing new-found feminist sensibilities, Maggie estimated her existential search for meaning, power, activism-and her missing parents-was a four-hour drive to Canada and a few days digging through public records. Her estimate didn't contemplate murder, mayhem and high-wire acts. As a member of The Detroit Eight, one of the fe...

The award-winning author of The Otherness Factor takes us to Detroit two days after Detroit cops raid a blind pig (speakeasy) inciting the biggest race riot in American history. That morning Maggie Soulier wakes to a deejay's cry for 'anyone left in the city' to hustle pop to police sweltering at highway checkpoints leading into the firestorm. Maggie's not a hippie chick looking for a cause, she's the daughter of notorious French Canadian sece...

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This is a brilliant ethnography, animated by a highly refined analysis of the ways race and cultural identity are forged in the public sphere, and sustained by extensive research."--Carol Greenhouse, Princeton UniversityIn Lives in Translation,

Die bewegende Story über einen Jungen namens Albert und sein geliebtes Pferd Joey spielt in der Zeit des ersten Weltkrieges. Joey wird von Alberts Vater an die britische Kavallerie verkauft und zum Einsatz an die Front geschickt. Vor dem Hintergrund des großen Krieges beginnt Joeys außergewöhnliche Reise. Trotz der Hindernisse, die ihm bei jedem Abschnitt seiner Reise begegnen, berührt und verändert er jedes Leben, das ihm unterwegs begegnet. ...

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Die bewegende Story über einen Jungen namens Albert und sein geliebtes Pferd Joey spielt in der Zeit des ersten Weltkrieges. Joey wird von Alberts Vater an die britische Kavallerie verkauft und zum Einsatz an die Front geschickt. Vor dem Hintergrund des großen Krieges beginnt Joeys außergewöhnliche Reise. Trotz der Hindernisse, die ihm bei jedem Abschnitt seiner Reise begegnen, berührt und verändert er jedes Leben, das ihm unterwegs begegnet. ...

This book examines diverse ways in which young people from around the world envision and prepare for their future education, careers, and families. The book features cutting-edge anthropological essays including ethnographic accounts of schooling in India, South Africa, the US, Bhutan, Tanzania, and Nigeria. Each chapter focuses on today’s generation of students and on students' use of education to create new possibilities for themselves. This...

Dr. Hall seemed to have it all, but under the surface she was miserable, anxious, and hollow. She knew there had to be more meaning to life, and she set out to find it. Here, she offers wise advice for conquering stress and finding personal freedom.

ABOUT THE BOOKMarland's Mysterious Mazes is a wonderfully magnetic story which draws its readers inside its pages. Just imagine a strange little forest creature dwelling inside his own rustic cottage. All of this being at the end of a dark tunnel far beneath the old farmhouse. The story opens up a myriad of questions and fantasies for any reader. His very existence is being sustained by something outside the realm of his understanding. He cann...