What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it's always been—a love song.Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an infertile mother, a biracial woman in an unraveling America. As she grapples with a lifetime of ambivalence about motherhood, yet another act of police brutality makes headlines, and this time the victim is Noah, a boy in her photography class. Unmoored by the grief of a recent devas...

Financial news networks love to bombard retail investors with complex jargon, creating the illusion that understanding the economy requires a Wall Street degree. They discuss moving averages and obscure ratios, leaving the average person anxious and confused about when the next market crash will happen. This manufactured complexity hides a surprisingly simple truth. You do not need to watch the stock market every day to predict a recession. The smartest money in the world does not look at ...

For more than three decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has been one of the most talked-about, most controversial, and least understood figures in modern American law. Going Higher is the timely, deeply researched biography that finally gives readers the full, unflinching story — from a childhood of crushing poverty in segregated Pin Point, Georgia, to the Catholic seminary that broke and later restored his faith, to the brutal 1991 Senate confirmation hearings that made headlines around the ...

The definitive 9/11 anniversary book the world has been waiting for — a sweeping, unflinching account of the war that defined the 21st century.On the 25th anniversary of September 11, 25 Years at War delivers the most comprehensive history yet written of America's War on Terror — from the first ninety-six hours after the Twin Towers fell to the chaotic final withdrawal from Kabul, and the escalating standoff with Iran that continues to reshape the world today.Drawing on hun...

AN AMERICAN EPIDEMIC: The Invention of the Way of Killing The groundbreaking investigative book explaining why America leads the world in gun violence — and how we can still stop it.Why does the United States suffer gun violence deaths at a rate found only in the world's poorest, most unstable nations? An American Epidemic is the urgent, meticulously researched answer — a sweeping work of investigative journalism and narrative nonfiction that traces America's gun violence crisis ba...

Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts and the people and institutions who made, traded, collected, researched and exhibited them have generated complex networks of material and social agency.In th...

This Open University Reader examines the practices of learning and teaching which have been developed to support lifelong learning, and the understanding and assumptions which underpin them. The selection of texts trace the widening scope of academic understanding of learning and teaching, and considers the implications for those who develop programmes of learning. It examines in great depth those theories which have had the greatest impact in the field, theories of reflection and...

"T'was the Night Before Christmas" or as it was known in the beginning "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is a magical poem about Christmas and cheer, St. Nicholas and his reindeers, presents and joy, winter and snow, merriment and happiness, and Christmas as a feeling which comes from the heart.

Science Fiction Grand Masters 2 - The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have voted since 1975 to name the best science fiction writers and recognize them as, the best of the best, Grand Masters. This vintage sci-fi anthology contains 17 short stories by the greatest writers in the history of science fiction. All of these short stories are written by Science Fiction Grand Masters.The Black Ewe by Fritz LeiberThe Foxholes of Mars...

The field of New Testament studies often appears splintered into widely different specializations and narrowly defined research projects. Nevertheless, some of the most important insights have come about when curious men and women have defied disciplinary boundaries and drawn on other fields of knowledge in order to gain a more adequate view of history. The essays in Bridges in New Testament Interpretation offer surveys of the current scholarly discussion in areas of New Testament and Chri...

Vintage Sci-Fi 18 - 21 Classic Science Fiction Short Stories from Isaac Asimov, Jack London, H. G. Wells, H. P. Lovecraft, Harry Harrison and many moreGoliah by Jack LondonProject Hush by William TennHomesick by Lynn VenableThe Incredible Slingshot Bombs by Robert Moore WilliamsThe Elf-Trap by Francis StevensThe Eel by Miriam Allen DeFordKeep Your Shape by Robert SheckleyA Moth by H. G. WellsTrain...

The 1950s were a golden age of science fiction—a decade when writers imagined astonishing futures, questioned humanity’s place in the universe, and explored the consequences of technology with equal parts wonder and caution. 1950s Science Fiction 9 brings together twenty-five unforgettable stories from some of the greatest names ever to write the genre.Travel to distant worlds where first contact is anything but simple. Encounter mysterious alien visitors, abandone...