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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles-from the black freedom movement to the...
Author
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Here is a soul-care manual for social justice-seeking believers who stand in constant vigilance against all forms of racial, class, and gender oppression. The fight for justice and equality is an exhausting daily grind--and the work is never over. That's why it is incumbent upon all who speak and advocate for the less fortunate to practice self-care. You can't fight when your tank is empty."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In The Yellow Pad, former United States Secretary of the Treasury and co-chairman of Goldman Sachs Robert Rubin sets out a number of methods and processes that have guided him through moments of crisis. He offers both qualitative and quantitative ways of sifting through difficult economic and social problems, the sum of which is an original intellectual framework that can be applied to both the most global universal problems and the daily dilemmas...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An investigative journalist exposes the many holes in today s bestselling behavioral science, and argues that the trendy, TED-Talk-friendly psychological interventions that are so in vogue at the moment will never be enough to truly address social injustice and inequality.
Author
Series
The Unwanteds volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Every generation inherits the problems created by the ones before them, but no generation will inherit as many problems--as many crises--as the current generation of young people. From the devastations of climate change to the horrors of gun violence, from rampant transphobia to the widening wealth gap, from the lack of health care to the lack of housing, the challenges facing the next generation can feel insurmountable. But change, even revolution,...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
16) Rumble fish
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1983, c1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America's "shame industrial complex" in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics-from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction. Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O'Neil argues in this...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Chang makes challenging economic ideas delicious by plating them alongside stories about food from around the world, using the diverse histories behind familiar food items to explore economic theory. For Chang, chocolate is a lifelong addiction, but more exciting are the insights it offers into postindustrial knowledge economies; and while okra makes Southern gumbo heart-meltingly smooth, it also speaks of...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Reflective
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Talking about Race argues Christians must understand why they avoid honest conversations about race if they want to enjoy authentic racial unity in their churches. Isaac Adams shows that if we can understand the reasons for our reluctance to speak about race we can grow together in love rather than apart in bitterness"--
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