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A look at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.

A look at the cultural and political force of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks.

Through oral and written narratives, this volume examines the interaction between women and the war in Spain, their motivation, the distinctive form of their involvment, and the effect of the war on their individual lives. These themes are related to wider issues.

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‘Judy married Oliver and discarded her name without a second thought. She promised to love and honour him, and he promised to do all kinds of things until death parted them. Some years passed.’ Judy Taylor married the first man who asked her. She lives in the neighbourhood where she spent her uneventful childhood. She is still surrounded by the same group of friends she first met in primary school. But today, everything Judy thought she knew i...

Paper is amazing! You can find it everywhere, it costs next to nothing, and can be used to create almost anything. This book is packed with 175 ideas, showing you in simple detail how to make fantastic paper creations and gifts, with 1200 step-by-step photographs.

Patience Darton's unpublished letters and papers from 1930s Spain and 1950s China are at the heart of this new biography by Angela Jackson, together with testimony from recorded interviews and a wealth of photographs that illustrate the life of this remarkable woman. 'For us it was Heaven' tells the story of a young, upper middle-class nurse in the 1930s who becomes dramatically caught up in Spain's civil war and the passionate political issue...

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Ever since her father was stabbed to death in a home invasion, Julia ?Jules? Farentino has been plagued by nightmares. Her half-sister, Shaylee, now seventeen, has had her own difficulties since the tragedy, earning a rap sheet for drug use, theft, and vandalism. Still, when Jules learns of her mother's decision to send Shay to an elite boarding school in Oregon, she's skeptical. Blue Rock Academy has a reputation for turning wayward kids arou...

What happens next after that powerful workshop on cultural sensitivity and awareness? What if you are culturally aware or you don't understand why topics on cultural competency won't go away. Actually you were raised anyway to treat everyone the same. Trust me this is the journal for you all. You are not required to read a book on culture or take a class learning about different cultures. Your benefit from this book will be what you experience...

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Angela Jackson brings her remarkable linguistic and poetic gifts to the articulation of African-American experience. The recurrent motif of the spider, which she presents as both creator and predator, demonstrates her deliberate reshaping of myth in the context of contemporary human experience. Informed by African-American speech and poetic traditions, yet uniquely her own, these poems display Jackson's stylistic grace, her exuberance and vita...

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Angela Jackson's latest collection of poetry borrows its title from a lyric in Barbara Lewis's 1963 hit single "Hello Stranger”, recorded at Chess Records in Chicago. Like the song, Jackson's poems are a melodic ode to the African American experience, informed by both individual lives and community history, from the arrival of the first African slave in Virginia in 1619 to post-Obama America.

1978. The year I turned ten and the year my mama killed herself. She was thirty-five, and dying is the last thing that should have been on her mind." After the death of her mother, Sylvia Butler's father, a man she knows only from an old photo, takes her from Louisville, Kentucky to Ozark, Alabama to live with his family. But his wife resents everything about this intruder, from her out-of-wedlock conception to her dark skin and nappy hair....

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175 items to make - bowls, cards, calendars, booklets, toys, origami and more - in 1200 photographs.