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Living for Change
An Autobiography
2016
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No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. James. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, ...
The Voyageur's Highway
Minnesota's Border Lake Land
2009
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The voyageur's highway was the route from Lake Superior along inland waterways to the Minnesota North Country. Countless people—explorers, fur traders, missionaries, map makers, lumberjacks, miners, naturalists—were drawn to the region's woods and lakeshores. Indians, French Canadians,Scandinavians, and Slavs all used the rich resources of the land to follow an old way of life or to find a new one. In a lively, clear style, Grace Lee Nute tells the fascinating story of their adventures and...
Conversations in Maine
A New Edition
2018
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Meditations on activism following the turbulent 1960s—back in printAfter the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, James and Grace Lee Boggs decided they should rethink what activism looks like. Pairing with trusted veteran activists Freddy and Lyman Paine, they ruminated on central questions emerging from their politics and activism, and they discussed the purpose and responsibilities human beings share for the future. The recorded dialogue among these four friends invites r...
2019
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This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnamese revolutions, in which the authors seek to extract the principle lessons from each of these struggles and the special course taken by each. In these and in a summary chapter on the dialectics of revolution the authors furnish a picture of the principal aspects of Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, and the other currents of Mar...
America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-Blind Politics
Education, Incarceration, Segregation, and the Future of the U.S. Multiracial Democracy
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- Grace Lee BoggsBenjamin DeMottErica FrankenbergAndrew Grant-ThomasLani GuinierMaria HinojosaGary HowardColbert I. KingMarc MauerTrinh Minh-HaMichael OmiJohn TelfordLisa ThurauJohanna WaldJames J. ZogbyNell Irvin PainterHenry Louis Gates Jr.Houston BakerBob HerbertArthur LevineManning MarableAlvin F. PoussaintCornel Westjohn a. powell
2011
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Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Curtis Ivery and Joshua Bassett explore the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a "post-racial" nation after the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.Ivery and Bassett combine their...
2023
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The Good Witch of Winchester is a historical fact meets fiction saga, where the present also meets the past as we know it today. And the young Rosalind Winchester meets and courts History itself. And has a profound effect on changing, molding and impacting the lives of prominent ancestral bloodlines, creating a inexplicable shift and a enigmatic dynamic that never would have mysteriously occurred without her curious presence in the world. This is a classic fairy tale love story. A very enc...
2010
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Let Janey show you how to:• enhance your health and well-being – from raw food to superfoods, and natural remedies to alternative therapies• discover natural skincare and beauty – make-up and goodies that are good for you, the environment, and your purse!• create your own haven – clutter clearing, feng shui, creating an ethical wardrobe and lots of great time-saving tips• reduce stress levels, and how to manifest your desires and get the balance right......
2020
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Jesus said, “… everyone who asks, receives…” Mathew 7-8 (NIV)“God answers prayer in the best way – not just sometimes, but every time. However, the evidence of the answer in the area we want it may not always immediately follow.”Oswald Chambers
Happy Healthy Sober
Ditch the booze and take control of your life
2021
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Happy Healthy Sober will inspire you to look at your relationship with alcohol and encourage you to ditch the booze to live your best life. Have you woken up at 3 a.m. berating yourself for drinking too much? Have you tried ditching the booze without success?In this book, Janey provides a personal, unique and most importantly fun guide to having a fabulous alcohol free life. She gives you the keys to making sobriety and a healthy lifestyle cool, memorable and tremendously appealing...
Unabridged
1 hour 31 min
2020
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On track one, BBC Radio Presenter, host of the Alcohol Free Life podcast and founder of the online community The Sober Club, Janey Lee Grace offers tips and guidance for breaking the habit based on her own journey with ditching the booze and finding absolute freedom and joy in sobriety.Janey offers inspiration and suggestions based on her online course Get the buzz without the booze, for making your commitment and successfully navigating cravings and social situations....
Pages from a Black Radical's Notebook
A James Boggs Reader
2011
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Collects nearly four decades' worth of writings by Detroit political and labor activist James Boggs.Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two books, co-authored two others, and penned dozens of essays, pamphle...
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- Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
2015
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Behavioral neuroscience encompasses the disciplines of neurobiology and psychology to study mechanisms of behavior. This volume provides a contemporary overview of the current state of how ethics informs behavioral neuroscience research. There is dual emphasis on ethical challenges in experimental animal approaches and in clinical and nonclinical research involving human participants.











