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  To All That Speak - The Ultimate...

  Brandon Wolfe

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  All words are made up. All words spoken between us are nothing more than made-up sounds from manipulated air. They're just lung puffs. 
  All of the letters that we text, email, and write are made-up symbols to coincide with our made-up noise. It's really just hand scribbles. 
  This would mean that everything from existence theories to religious ideologies to politics to our names and much more are all one hundred percent fabricated from thin air, literally. In fact, these words here and the pronunciation sounds you hear in your head as you read the symbols on this page are made up as well. Essentially, this book uses made-up words to further dissect and clarify other made-up words. However, by the end of this mental deconstruction and rebuild, you will walk away with this liberating awareness- 
  We just are. Existence just is.

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  The Color of Civics - Civic...

  Matthew D. Nelsen

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  Generations of Americans have regarded schools as essential for developing the knowledge and civic values necessary for sustaining democracy. Yet, as Matthew D. Nelsen argues in The Color of Civics, traditional approaches to civic education are not living up to their promise for many students, particularly students of color from disadvantaged communities. 
   
   
   
  Drawing on lessons from students and teachers in Chicago, The Color of Civics reimagines the democratic purpose of civic education. Nelsen's findings challenge some of the most widely cited civic education research, arguing that the content of traditional civic education courses privileges the political experiences of white political actors, and in turn, contributes to divergent political behaviors and participatory outcomes across racial and ethnic groups. He presents a new approach to civic education that aims to foster political empowerment by centering historically-grounded conversations about current events as well as critical categories of knowledge—those that highlight the agency of marginalized groups. This approach increases rates of political participation among young people of color and heightens political empathy among white youth. Nelsen also explores how the attitudes and lived experiences of teachers drive the implementation of more empowering civic learning environments.

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  More Than Our Pain - Affect and...

  Beth Hinderliter, Steve Peraza

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  Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership, state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind laws that trap black Americans in a racial caste system, Black Lives Matter activists and the artists inspired by them have devised new forms of political and cultural resistance. More Than Our Pain explores how affect and emotion can drive collective political and cultural action in the face of a new nadir in race relations in the United States. This foregrounding of affect and emotion marks a clear break from civil rights–era activists, who were often trained to counter false narratives about protesters as thugs and criminals by presenting themselves as impeccably groomed and disciplined young black Americans. In contrast, the Black Lives Matter movement in the early twenty-first-century makes no qualms about rejecting the politics of respectability. Affect and emotion has moved from the margin to the center of this new human rights movement, and by examining righteous rage, black joy, as well as grief and fatigue, among other emotions, the contributors celebrate the vitality of black life while documenting those who have harmed it. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Jim Crow's Pink Slip - The...

  Leslie T. Fenwick

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  In 1954, the Supreme Court's Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented in congressional testimony and transcripts, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qualified and credentialed Black teachers and principals. In the Deep South and northern border states over the decades following Brown, Black schools were illegally closed and Black educators were displaced en masse. As educational policy and leadership expert Leslie T. Fenwick deftly demonstrates, the effects of these changes stand contrary to the democratic ideals of an integrated society and equal educational opportunity for all students. 
   
   
   
  Jim Crow's Pink Slip provides a trenchant account of how tremendous the loss to the US educational system was and continues to be. The book draws the line from the past injustices to problems that the educational system grapples with today: not simply the underrepresentation of Black teachers and principals, but also salary reductions, teacher shortages, and systemic inequality. 
   
   
   
  By engaging with the complicated legacy of the Brown decision, Fenwick illuminates a crucial chapter in education history. She also offers policy prescriptions aimed at correcting the course of US education, supporting educators, and improving workforce quality and diversity.

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  Stories are Weapons -...

  Annalee Newitz

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  In Stories Are Weapons, Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. Newitz delves into America's deep-rooted history with psychological operations, beginning with Benjamin Franklin's Revolutionary War–era fake newspaper and nineteenth-century wars on Indigenous nations, and reaching its apotheosis with the Cold War and twenty-first-century influence campaigns online. America's secret weapon has long been coercive storytelling. And there's a reason for that: operatives who shaped modern psychological warfare drew on their experiences as science fiction writers and in the advertising industry. 
   
   
   
  Now, through a weapons-transfer program long unacknowledged, psyops have found their way into the hands of culture warriors, transforming democratic debates into toxic wars over American identity. Newitz zeroes in on conflicts over race and intelligence, school board fights over LGBT students, and campaigns against feminist viewpoints, revealing how, in each case, specific groups of Americans are singled out and treated as enemies of the state. Crucially, Newitz delivers a powerful counternarrative, speaking with the researchers and activists who are outlining a pathway to achieving psychological disarmament and cultural peace.

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  Vikings and Anglo-Saxons for...

  Captivating History

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  Two manuscripts in one audiobook:The Viking Age for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the Vikings, Their Raids, and Everyday LifeAnglo-Saxons for Kids: A Captivating Guide to the People of Early Medieval England and Their Battles Against the Vikings 
  In the first part of this audiobook, you will discover about:Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first person to find America!Why Viking women never wore black.Why use a coffin when you can be buried in a boat?The Vikings’ favorite things to do for fun.A chariot pulled by cats?Watch out! Vikings had to protect themselves from witches, ghosts, zombies, and more!Is it a boat? Or is it a sea monster?How to churn butter like a Viking!A horse with eight legs?Why Vikings were such brave and fearless warriors.Sharing a room with barnyard animals might not be as bad as it sounds.Storytime! Read some of the stories the Vikings loved to tell.Viking runes and their meanings.The weird and wonderful (and sometimes terrifying) rituals the Vikings practiced.Why did the Vikings disappear? 
  In the second part of this audiobook, you will learn about:Was King Arthur real?What made Wessex so special?Which Germanic tribes came to Britain as the Anglo-Saxons?Who was St. Augustine?Where did the Normans come from?Who was the first King of England?Why did William the Conqueror come to England?What is the difference between modern and Old English?Who was the greatest king of Mercia?Were the Anglo-Saxons Christian?How is the shire system still important today? 
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