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A historical investigation into the political and ideological foundations of the "miseducation of the Negro" in America. This timely and provocative volume explores the men and ideas that helped shape educational and societal apartheid from the Civil War into the new millennium.

It is 1921, and young Ben Sheridan's Irish-American father mysteriously dies in their small Rhode Island town. Determined to learn the truth about his family's cloudy past, he sets sail for Ireland, where he searches for the truth of his identity and the ties of his family's blood.

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Relates what happens to a hard-working, dependable bee named Rigel and the lazy bees who tease her.

Bored with living by the edge of the sea, Crusty the Crab decides to try living on land.

The primary purpose of this revision remains identical to that of the first edition--to show how key personality, cognitive/behavioral, and vocational tests/assessment procedures can be used by counselors in their work with clients. Too often, assessment books only provide the reader with information about tests and assessment procedures. They do not, however, take the next step--showing readers how these tests/assessment procedures can be use...

Entrusted by the other inhabitants of Brass Cobweb to find them a leader who is brave, wise, and true, Chipmunk travels among distant communities of animals and finds varying degrees of virtue in both them and himself.

A war novel of breathtaking power, this finalist for the Booker Prize presents "an astonishing triumph of the imagination" ("The New Yorker"). In the summer of 1944, fifteen-year-old Sebastian Westland joins the SS, knowing that he and his cohorts will probably be destroyed in the last stages of a war they neither welcome nor comprehend. At the Battle of the Bulge, this army of boys makes its last stand--and Sebastian is transfigured by his fear.

While the other mole inhabitants of Blueberry Dell feverishly prepare for the visit of the High Prince, compassionate Happy Mole takes the time to help a humble traveler and receives an unexpected reward.

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A homeless girl longs for someone she can trust. Grades 4-7.

The biography of an African American cornetist who traveled the country in minstrel shows and circus bands

A book about Kant's views on causality as understood in their proper historical context.

In this comprehensive, chronological look at the Great Depression, the author focuses on the struggles of ordinary people in grass-roots America, drawing on little-known oral histories, memoirs, local press, and scholarly monographs to capture the voices of men and women in a time of crisis. 5 photos.

Arguing that philosophical discussion of human freedom has been transformed by developments in modern science, especially evolutionary biology, the author outlines a naturalistic account of freedom and creativity by using examples from hypnosis, brainwashing, and creative leaps in thought.

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At the turn of World War II, a young American painter is employed to forge masterworks of the Paris museums and, with the aid of a wily art trader, to barter the fakes to Hitler's legion of art dealers.

Arguing against the perception that the capitalist marketplace permits no alternatives, the author shows that a kind of economic "common sense" conditions how people organize their everyday lives and understand their powers as social agents within markets that are far from monolithic and uniform.

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