The human psyche can typically only take so much negativity: getting wrongly excluded from education, having your friends betray and abandon you, and failing at your career. This is something Jason finds out the hard way. Luckily, there are ways around going insane, or worse. One of them being having the best partner in the world.

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner: "Rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man" ( The Christian Science Monitor).Brilliant but troubled historian John Washington has left Philadelphia, where he is employed by a major university, to return to his hometown just north of the Mason–Dixon Line. He is there to care for Old Jack, one of the men who helped raise him when h...

Winner of the 2021 Crystal Bookmark by The Las Vegas Book Festival & Readers Favorite Five Stars Awards.Bob, the oddly large-headed boy, has trouble in everyday life just like you and me. The adventures of Big Head Bob is a fun rhyming experience. By way of meditation and clear thinking, he learns to use his weaknesses as strengths. Bob transforms into a stronger, happier friend. Bob loves you and WE LOVE BOB!The big head signifies more than just big head. It's a metaphor f...

This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions £20,000 Essay Prize. From the coolly analytical to the impassioned winning entry 'A Eulogy for Nigger', these essays showcase the dazzling literary range of the form.

The brilliant, heartfelt debut from one of America’s foremost novelists of Black lives.South Street, Philadelphia. The 1970s: A once-vibrant Black neighborhood, now threatened by gentrification…but still a community. At Lightnin’ Ed’s Bar & Grill, working men and winos watch as the Phillies lose again. A few blocks east, at The Word of Life, preachers prance to fill the plate but one still soothes the soul. Further east, at the Elysium Hotel, a pimp and numbers run...

Christianity has become one of the most powerful markers of identity in the mountainous borderlands of China and Southeast Asia, also known as Zomia. This region is home to tens of millions of people—including the Ahmao, the Kachin, the Lisu, and many other highlanders—all living at a far remove from the population centers of the lowlands. This volume explores how their creative engagement with Christianity has transformed their communities and reshaped their relationships with nation-stat...

Christianity has become one of the most powerful markers of identity in the mountainous borderlands of China and Southeast Asia, also known as Zomia. This region is home to tens of millions of people—including the Ahmao, the Kachin, the Lisu, and many other highlanders—all living at a far remove from the population centers of the lowlands. This volume explores how their creative engagement with Christianity has transformed their communities and reshaped their relationships with nation-stat...

This book, a new and revised edition of “Mechatronic Futures”, sets out to identify and discuss the key issues likely to impact on the design and implementation of future mechatronic systems. In doing so, it offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges, risks and options that define the future of mechatronics and provides insights into how these issues are currently being assessed and managed.The book aims to support mechatronics practitioners in identifying key areas in desig...

This is the follow up book to the Readers Choice five stars and 2021 Crystal Bookmark award winner for Literary Achievement: The Adventures of Big Head Bob - Transform Your Weakness into Strength. BHB2 as it's called in the series is "A deep dive into friendship."Lisa's neck is long and Bob's head is big. This unlikely duo are paired for a unique scuba diving trip, much to their dismay. Once underwater, they face adversity and help one another. Bob and Lisa witness the Goby Fish an...

Optical Fiber Technology and Applications: Recent Advances, comprised of 10 chapters written by leading experts in the field,documents the cutting-edge work of new material composition and waveguide design-based specialty optical fibers and their photonic devices. Highlighting the most recent progress and trends in optical fiber technology, this book covers important topics such as specialty optical fibers, optical amplifiers, radiation dosimetry, borosilicate glass, radiation eff...

This book showcases how EcoMechatronics can increase sustainability within engineering and manufacturing. It brings together material from experts in core mechatronics technologies, discussing the challenges related to moving towards more environmentally friendly methods, and presenting numerous case studies and examples of EcoMechatronics oriented applications.The book begins with an introduction to EcoMechatronics in the context of sustainability, before covering core conceptual,...

This book presents the latest research on mechatronic systems engineering. By bringing together the most important papers from the 2018 Mechatronics Forum Conference ‘Reinventing Mechatronics,’ it outlines key trends in research and applications that will define mechatronics for the next 50 years.Mechatronics was established as an engineering discipline over 50 years ago, as the integration of electronics and information technology with mechanical design. Given major technological ...