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  Sky Rider - Park Van Tassel and...

  Gary B. Fogel

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  With a reputation as the hot-air balloon capital of the world and the home of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta®, the southwestern desert city of Albuquerque frequently showcases the magic and adventure of ballooning. This legacy links back to the 1880s and a man by the name of Park Van Tassel. Through his pioneering flight, Van Tassel not only opened the skies to future generations across New Mexico, but he also opened minds to the possibility of manned flight throughout the American West. 
   
   
   
  A charismatic, P. T. Barnum–like showman, Van Tassel rose from obscurity to introduce the new science of ballooning and parachuting throughout the West. Van Tassel toured extensively—from California to Utah, Colorado, and Louisiana and later embarking on an international journey that took him to Hawaii, Australia, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and beyond. Sky Rider weaves together the many threads of Van Tassel's extraordinary life journey, situating him at last in his rightful place among the prominent aerial exhibitionists of his time.

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  Eating While Black - Food...

  Psyche A. Williams-Forson

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  Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and right to eat. Distorted views of how and what Black people eat are pervasive, bolstering the belief that they must be corrected and regulated. What is at stake is nothing less than whether Americans can learn to embrace nonracist understandings and practices in relation to food. 
   
   
   
  Sustainable culture—what keeps a community alive and thriving—is essential to Black peoples' fight for access and equity, and food is central to this fight. Starkly exposing the rampant shaming and policing around how Black people eat, Williams-Forson contemplates food's role in cultural transmission, belonging, homemaking, and survival. Black people's relationships to food have historically been connected to extreme forms of control and scarcity—as well as to stunning creativity and ingenuity. In advancing dialogue about eating and race, this book urges us to think and talk about food in new ways in order to improve American society on personal and structural levels.

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  The Nature of the Beast

  David J Anderson

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  Does your dog get sad when you leave for the day? Does your cat purr because she loves you? Do bears attack when they’re angry? You can’t very well ask them.  
   
  In fact, scientists haven’t been able to reach a consensus on whether animals even have emotions like humans do, let alone how to study them. Yet studies of animal emotion are critical for understanding human emotion and mental illness. 
   
  In The Nature of the Beast, pioneering neuroscientist David J. Anderson describes a new approach to solving this problem. He and his colleagues have figured out how to study the brain activity of animals as they navigate real-life scenarios, like  
  fleeing a predator or competing for a mate. His research has revolutionized what we know about animal fear and aggression. Here, he explains what studying emotions and related internal brain states in animals can teach us about human  
  behavior, offering new insights into why isolation makes us more aggressive, how sex and violence connect, and whether there’s a link between aggression and mental illness. 
   
  Full of fascinating stories, The Nature of the Beast reconceptualizes how the brain regulates emotions—and explains why we have them at all.

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  Aakhri Hadi e Kainat - Imam...

  Irshad Alasar Jafferi

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  "Aakhri Hadi e Kainat" by Irshad Alasar Jafferi is a captivating exploration of the life and imminent arrival of Imam Mehdi, a central figure in Islamic eschatology. Through meticulous research and profound insight, Jafferi presents a vivid portrayal of Imam Mehdi's birth, upbringing, and spiritual journey. Delving into historical events and prophetic traditions, the book offers readers a nuanced understanding of the environment in which Imam Mehdi emerged. 
  Beyond mere biographical documentation, "Aakhri Hadi e Kainat" delves into the theological and spiritual dimensions associated with Imam Mehdi's awaited manifestation. It explores his role as a guide, a reformer, and a harbinger of justice in the prophesied end times, providing profound insights into his teachings and the transformative power of his imminent return. 
  This book serves as a beacon of enlightenment for believers seeking a deeper understanding of Imam Mehdi's mission and its relevance in contemporary times. Jafferi's meticulous attention to detail and insightful interpretation of Islamic texts make "Aakhri Hadi e Kainat" an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and spiritual seekers alike. 
  In essence, "Aakhri Hadi e Kainat" offers a profound insight into the life, teachings, and imminent arrival of Imam Mehdi, making it a must-read for anyone interested in exploring the spiritual dimensions of Islamic eschatology and the enduring significance of Imam Mehdi in the Islamic tradition.

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  Black Chameleon - Memory...

  Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

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  This program is read by the author.In the literary tradition of Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House, Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, and Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped, this debut memoir confronts both the challenges and joys of growing up Black and making your own truth.Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah Mouton felt alienated from the stories she learned in class. She yearned for stories she felt connected to—true ones of course—but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and her place in it. What she encountered was almost always written by white writers who prospered in a time when human beings were treated as chattel, such as the Greek and Roman myths, which felt as dusty and foreign as ancient ruins. When she sought myths written by Black authors, they were rooted too far in the past, a continent away.Mouton writes, “The phrases of my mother and grandmother began to seem less colloquial and more tied to stories that had been lost along the way. . . . Mythmaking isn’t a lie. It is our moment to take the privilege of our own creativity to fill in the gaps that colonization has stolen from us. It is us choosing to write the tales that our children pull strength from. It is hijacking history for the ignorance in its closets. This, a truth that must start with the women.”Mouton’s memoir Black Chameleon is a song of praise and an elegy for Black womanhood. With a poet’s gift for lyricism and poignancy, Mouton reflects on her childhood as the daughter of a preacher and a harsh but loving mother, living in the world as a Black woman whose love is all too often coupled with danger, and finally learning to be a mother to another Black girl in America. Of the moment yet timeless, playful but incendiary, Mouton has staked out new territory in the memoir form.A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.

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  The 12th Planet - Book One of...

  Zecharia Sitchin

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  A startling look into the origins of humans!According to Sumerian scholar Zecharia Sitchin, a superior race of beings once inhabited our world. In The 12th Planet— the product of 30 years of intensive research— Sitchin persuasively argues that humanity sprang from extraterrestrial forebears. In this remarkable account, you'll hear the story of how these ancient visitors traveled to Earth from the stars and planted the genetic seed that would ultimately blossom into a remarkable species— the human being.

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