A beautifully edition of Frederick Douglass’s groundbreaking autobiography, one of the most powerful and enduring works in American literature. Elegantly designed for collectors, students, and general readers alike, this edition presents Douglass’s life story with the dignity, care, and permanence it deserves.Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is the extraordinary firsthand account of Frederick Douglass’s journey from bondage to freedom. As one of the most influ...

This interdisciplinary collection draws on the insights of poets, academics, policy makers and practitioners to offer new ways of understanding and responding to the social, psychological and structural challenges facing Caribbean youth today.Using decolonial and social ecological frameworks, the chapters expose how power, knowledge and practice intersect in the lives of young people and propose transformative pathways for more holistic but contextually specific approaches to safeg...

within within is a collection of Daoist- and Buddhist-inspired poems. It deals with the slippery nature of the mind, identity, place.

Two Vatos Talk Pop Cultura brings a leading Latinx media studies scholar, Frederick Luis Aldama, together with an award-winning television writer and producer, Peter Murrieta, to examine how Latinx representation has evolved—and stagnated—across seven decades of American TV, film, and pop culture.

Celebrating the history-making Black American who smashed world records and became a global cycling sensation!Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor was one of the greatest American athletes of the early 20th century, setting records in regional bike races as a teen and winning his first world championship by the age of twenty. But Taylor was born in 1878 in Indianapolis and came of age during the height of the Jim Crow era, facing racism at every turn.Cartoonist F...

Every life sees the universe differently.Through eye and instinct. Through wing and root. Through memory, fear, love, hunger and senses we may never possess or fully understand.We move through the world believing we know what we are looking at.Perhaps we are only seeing the part of it we were made to see.Beyond the familiar waits a journey through perception, consequence, memory and ...

**A heart-wrenching yet vividly hopeful novel about a Black girl's struggle to find the quiet beauty in life and friendship amid the chaos of grief and mental illness by New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestselling author Frederick Joseph."Frederick is such a grounded and beautiful voice of not just this moment but all the moments. Everything's Not Lost cements him firmly as a much needed and stunning voice inside the world of YA literature." —Jacqueline Woods...

In a memorial presented in 1835 to the Lords of the Admiralty, theauthor of the journals which form this volume details his variousservices. He joined the Navy in October, 1793, his first ship beingH.M.S. Blonde. He was present at the siege of Martinique in 1794, andreturned to England the same year in H.M.S. Hannibal withdespatches and the colours of Martinique. For a few months the shipwas attached to the Channel Fleet, and then suddenly, in 1795...

Trump is pregnant.This is inconvenient for almost everyone.Trump is Pregnant is a motherhood-horror opera-libretto love-poem in which political grotesque, philosophical fable, musical comedy and metaphysical travelogue collide. A narrator, a troupe of frogs, assorted revenants, musicians, bureaucrats, mystics and other unreliable entities move through a world where pregnancy becomes cosmology, revenge becomes pilgrimage and certainty proves conside...

George Arthur Rose aspired to the priesthood, but after being much abused and taken advantage of for many years by his Catholic brothers, he finds himself disillusioned with humanity. But just as the secret conclave in Rome is deadlocked in the election of the next Pope, he finds himself rediscovered. A compromise in the election results in Rose being chosen for the office, and he styles himself as Hadrian the Seventh. With his new authority, he implements church reforms and a program to b...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written in 1845, seven years after Douglass escaped slavery, and is the first of three autobiographies. It covers his life as a slave, enduring the whips of the overseers and the hopelessness of his circumstances, until his escape to the north and arrival at New Bedford, Massachusetts. The brutalities he witnessed and his slowly growing desire for freedom are presented in the vivid language he was already known for in his antisla...

Deep within the ancient Darkwood stands a mysterious guardian bound to an ancient power. As shadows stir beneath the trees the forgotten power long hidden among the roots of the forest awakens. A tale of mystery, courage, and magic, Tirith en Taurdûr - The Keeper of Darkwood invites young readers into an enchanting world where ancient forests hold secrets - and every shadow may have a story to tell.