Baldwin From Another Planet

Author : H. B. Gilmour
Publisher : Simon Pulse
ISBN 13 : 9780671003258
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baldwin from Another Planet written by H. B. Gilmour and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1997 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cher has her own cable show. Her first guest--a new four-star hottie with a totally troubled soul and righteous Italian accent. What is his problem? Cher's on a mission to find out, so stay tuned!

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807006572
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of the Ticket written by James Baldwin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.” Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as: • Notes of a Native Son • Nobody Knows My Name • The Fire Next Time • No Name in the Street • The Devil Finds Work This collection provides the perfect entrée into Baldwin’s prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society.

Author : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0679645985
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014191596X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nobody Knows My Name written by James Baldwin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1991-08-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, Independent Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and emotional power: from polemical pieces on racial segregation and a journey to 'the Old Country' of the Southern states, to reflections on figures such as Ingmar Bergman and André Gide, and on the first great conference of African writers and artists in Paris. 'Brilliant...accomplished...strong...vivid...honest...masterly' The New York Times 'A bright and alive book, full of grief, love and anger' Chicago Tribune

Author : David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862390966
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earth Inside and Out written by David Roger Oldroyd and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clark R. Chapman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 148996553X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmic Catastrophes written by Clark R. Chapman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors discuss such topics as "impacts with asteroids, the greenhouse effect, nuclear winter, fringe catastrophism, supernovae and an assessment of risks." (New Scientist).

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 160980256X
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifesto for Another World written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Arias Sánchez, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, José Ramos-Horta, and Bobby Muller. Equally moving are the stories of more than thirty others, unknown and (as yet) unsung beyond their national boundaries: Kailash Satyarthi, who has spent a lifetime working to free tens of thousands of victims of child labor in his native India, and Juliana Dogbadzi, who was sold into sexual slavery by her parents at age twelve, escaped after seventeen degrading years, and now is devoted to the liberation of African girls bound in the same terror. From their ranging voices Dorfman culls the message: freedom from persecution, and freedom of opportunity, for all. Manifesto for Another World is both a political testament and a work of art.

Author : Tjeerd Hendrik Van Andel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521447553
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Views on an Old Planet written by Tjeerd Hendrik Van Andel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1994 revised edition of his award-winning book on the Earth's history, Professor van Andel updates and expands his earlier text, drawing on a wealth of new knowledge that has become available in the last decade. This book examines the major changes in the Earth's history - the evolution of the solid Earth, the changing oceans and atmospheres and the progression of life - to render a historical account of the Earth's evolution. Much knowledge was gained in the previous decade, and while little material has been deleted, this new edition has grown to cover the key topics, including a chapter on how we can improve our grasp on geological time. Mindful of the current interest in global change, new sections describe the green-house effect and address its possible future ramifications. In prose that is both concise and compelling, New Views on an Old Planet: A History of Global Change makes Earth history appealing to the general reader. It will serve as an excellent text for introductory courses in the earth and environmental sciences.

Author : Daniel Punzak
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524652369
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Spiritual Hypothesis written by Daniel Punzak and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Western religion explains that each human has a spiritual aspect called a soul. However, several passages in the Bible allude to humans having a soul and a spirit. Dan has explored this idea and found numerous modern psychological findings that support this notion. Shamanism and some Eastern religious concepts also support this idea. Diverse concepts such as creativity and mental illness can be explained by the idea that two spiritual forms are in each human.

Author : Mindy Schanback
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439895439
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princess from Another Planet written by Mindy Schanback and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Gracie Quicksilver escapes her impoverished and unconventional life by impersonating her rich cousin at an exclusive summer camp until a series of weird events convinces her that her mother's delusions about being the deposed queen of the distant planet Pannadeau just might be true.