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  Blacked Out - Dilemmas of Race...

  Signithia Fordham

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  This innovative portrait of student life in an urban high school focuses on the academic success of African-American students, exploring the symbolic role of academic achievement within the Black community and investigating the price students pay for attaining it. Signithia Fordham's richly detailed ethnography reveals a deeply rooted cultural system that favors egalitarianism and group cohesion over the individualistic, competitive demands of academic success and sheds new light on the sources of academic performance. She also details the ways in which the achievements of sucessful African-Americans are "blacked out" of the public imagination and negative images are reflected onto black adolescents. A self-proclaimed "native" anthropologist, she chronicles the struggle of African-American students to construct an identity suitable to themselves, their peers, and their families within an arena of colliding ideals. This long-overdue contribution is of crucial importance to educators, policymakers, and ethnographers.

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  The Air War Through German Eyes...

  Jonathan Trigg

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  Starting with leaflet drops in 1940, the aerial offensive against the Nazis’ homeland grew into a huge armada that pulverised much of Germany, seriously damaging her ability to make war and killing hundreds of thousands. By day, the Flying Fortresses of the Mighty Eighth US Airforce confronted the day fighters of Luftflotte Reich, and then it was the turn of Bomber Command’s Lancasters to fight off the deadly predators of the Nachtjagd (night hunters). The tactics and technology of Allied escort fighters evolved quickly though the war years, as they did for the defending German fighters. For the Allied airmen who fought this war the price was frighteningly high, for those who opposed them – in the air and on the ground – it was even higher. 
   
  As the bombing increased, Nazi high command was forced to devote more and more resources to try and defeat the Allied campaign, just when those same resources were desperately needed elsewhere, both on the Russian Front and, after D-Day on 6 June 1944, on the new Western Front. Written from the ‘other side’ and told as much as possible through the words of the veterans, this is an important book on one of the most controversial campaigns of the Second World War.

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  The Chile Project - The Story of...

  Sebastian Edwards

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  In The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the story of how the neoliberal economic model came to an end in 2021, when Gabriel Boric was elected president, vowing that "If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave." More than a story about one Latin American country, The Chile Project is a behind-the-scenes history of the spread and consequences of the free-market thinking that dominated economic policymaking around the world in the second half of the twentieth century—but is now on the retreat. 
   
   
   
  In 1955, the United States State Department launched the "Chile Project" to train Chilean economists at the University of Chicago. After General Augusto Pinochet overthrew socialist president Salvador Allende in 1973, Chile's "Chicago Boys" implemented the purest neoliberal model for the next seventeen years, undertaking a package of privatization and deregulation, creating a modern capitalist economy, and sparking talk of a "Chilean miracle." But under the veneer of success, a profound dissatisfaction with the inequalities caused by neoliberalism was growing. In 2019, protests erupted throughout the country, and in 2022 Boric began his presidency with a clear mandate: to end neoliberalismo. 
   
   
   
  The Chile Project provides an important new perspective on the history of neoliberalism and its global decline today.

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  Intermediate Spanish: The...

  Lingo Publishing

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  If you’ve always wanted to improve your Spanish, but cannot for some reason, keep reading… 
  Are you tired of boring and long textbooks without examples – or those full of monotonous theory? 
  Do you want a book to help you reach your full potential? 
  Are you looking to become an intermediate Spanish student? 
  If so, this book is for you. In The Fast-Track Guide to Mastering Spanish in 30 Days, you will find:11 original stories in SpanishDozens of practical exercises3 mega quizzes for you to test how you are doing+500 example sentences and useful everyday phrases with English translationGrammar is explained easilySimple formulas to construct sentencesAll the tricks to pronounce like a nativeThe definitive guide to numbersEverything you need to know about grammatical gendersPersonal and possessive pronouns and how to use themThe most useful adjectives and adverbs in SpanishWhat articles are – and how they workA full guide to conjugate verbs in the past, present, and future tensesAll about prepositions and conjunctionsEveryday idioms and expressionsThe formula for asking questions like a real nativeThe guide to mastering direct and indirect speeches in SpanishAnd much more! 
  Go from basic to intermediate in only 30 days with this powerful book. Whether traveling to a Spanish-speaking country or just looking to continue studying the language, you’ll soon be ready for fluent conversations! 
  Get this book now and go beyond hola amigos!

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  History of Marathas EP07 -...

  Vikrant Pande

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  Aurangzeb behaved like a man possessed. He was unable to believe what he had just seen and heard. Had Shivaji really vanished as described by Fulaad Khan? He wondered whether Shivaji could walk through walls and materialize elsewhere. He was not willing to take chances with his own life and ordered strict security around himself. A maulvi accompanied him all the time. Ram Singh's mansabdari was taken away.

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  The Murders of Moisés Ville -...

  Javier Sinay

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  Award-winning journalist Javier Sinay investigates a series of murders from the nineteenth century, unearthing the complex history and legacy of Moisés Ville, the “Jerusalem of South America,” and his personal connection to a defining period of Jewish history in Argentina.

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