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  The Preventorium - A Memoir

  Susan Annah Currie, Cynthia A....

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  Opened on February 17, 1929, the Mississippi State Preventorium operated continuously until 1976. The Mississippi Preventorium, like similar hospitals throughout the country, was an institution for sickly, anemic, and underweight children. It was established on the grounds of the Mississippi State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in the early years of the twentieth century when tuberculosis was a dreaded disease worldwide. The TB Sanitorium hospital housed those with tuberculosis, offering refuge for patients of all ages afflicted with the pernicious and contagious disease. Although located on the same medical campus, the preventorium was a separate medical institution for children; no children with TB were admitted in the sixty-year run of the hospital. The name preventorium meant a place of preventing disease as there was a fear of sickly children contracting TB. The Mississippi Preventorium was one of the last, if not the very last, of these special hospitals for children.
  
  Now closed, the preventorium housed over three thousand children, including author Susan Annah Currie. In this intimate memoir, Currie details her fifteen-month stay at the preventorium. From her arrival in May 1959 at six years old, Currie vividly explores the unique and isolating world that she and children across the country experienced. Her exacting routine, dictated by the nurses and doctors who now acted as her parents, erased the distinction between patients and created both a sense of community among the children and a deep sense of loneliness. From walking silently single file through the cold, narrow halls of the hospital to nurses recording every detail of their bathroom habits to extremely limited visitation from family, Currie's time at the preventorium changed her and those around her, leaving an indelible mark even after their return home.
  
  While many of the records from the preventorium have been lost, Currie's memoir opens to readers a lost history largely forgotten. Told in evocative prose, The Preventorium explores Currie's personal trials, both in the hospital and in the echoes of her experiences into adulthood.

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  On Compromise

  Rachel Greenwald Smith

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  On Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal society’s tendency to view compromise as an unalloyed good—politically, ethically, and artistically. In a series of clear, convincing essays, Rachel Greenwald Smith discusses the dangers of thinking about compromise as an end, rather than as a means. To illustrate her points, she recounts her stint in a band as a bass player, fighting with her bandmates about “what the song wants,” and then moves outward to Bikini Kill and the Riot Grrrl movement, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Poetry magazine, the resurgence of fascism, and other wide-ranging topics.Smith’s arguments are complex and yet have a simplicity to them, as she writes in a concise, cogent style that is eminently readable. By weaving examples drawn from literature, music, and other art forms with political theory and first-person anecdotes, she shows the problems of compromise in action. And even as Smith demonstrates the many ways that late capitalism demands individual compromise, she also holds out hope for the possibility of lasting change through collective action. Closing with a piercing discussion of the uncompromising nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and how global protests against racism and police brutality after the murder of George Floyd point to a new future, On Compromise is a necessary and vital book for our time.

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  Mars We Coming - Becoming More...

  lucayyofficial

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  This isn’t a book about rockets. 
  It’s about humanity. 
  In Mars, We Coming, the journey to another planet becomes something more than just science fiction or tech speculation — it becomes a mirror. A deeply personal, thought-provoking, first-person exploration of what it really means to leave Earth… and still be us. 
  From the silence of that first step on Martian soil to the invisible battles of the human mind in isolation, this book explores the dreams, fears, and fragile truths behind humanity’s greatest leap. It doesn’t just ask if we can go to Mars — it asks who we become if we do. 
  Thoughtful. Emotional. Raw. 
  Perfect for dreamers, futurists, and anyone wondering what’s next for our species.

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  Chunin Menage - Yaoi Anime

  Rainbow Press

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  Nurato, Sucara, and Susaci have finally graduated the academy and are on their way to being true ninjas. Little did this tumultuous trio know that their new life would have them working together as a team… and living together. 
    
  Kikicha Sensei puts his students to the test to see if they can work together, a task which they fail at first. It takes breaking the tension between them to bring them together as one unit. And the tension breaking doesn’t stop on the training field. 
    
  Back at their shared apartment, it’s time to explore their new bond… filling all the holes the three never could have imagined would be filled. 
    
  The trio’s union is cemented even further as they go on their very first bodyguard mission… and recuperate with one another afterward.

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  Comedy on Stage and Screen - An...

  Wieland Schwanebeck

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  This book introduces readers to the genre of comedy, both on the stage and on the screen. It chronicles the history of comedy, starting with Ancient Greece, before summarising key chapters in Anglophone literary history, such as Shakespearean comedy, Restoration comedy, and Theatre of the Absurd. The book features an overview of key comic techniques (including slapstick, puns, and wit), as well as concise summaries of major theoretical debates (including the superiority theory and the Freudian account of laughter). The book works with many examples from the history of Anglophone comedy, including Oscar Wilde, Monty Python, and classic sitcoms. It addresses current research into cringe humour and the controversial topic of diversity in the field of comedy, and it connects classical tropes of comedy (like the fool or the marriage plot) to present-day examples. The book thus serves as an up-to-date study guide for everyone interested in comedy and its various subgenres.

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  My Blue Book of Grammar for Class 7

  Meigha Rawat

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  A Grammar Series That Uses the Functional Approach 
  
  KEY FEATURES 
  - Functional approach to grammar teaching, using exemplars to illustrate the usage before defining the structure and rules 
  - Vocabulary taught through language-in-use to build the learners’ vocabulary through use rather than memorisation of rules 
  - Contemporary topics to inculcate 21-century skills amongst learners 
  - Use of literature to help learners understand how grammar is used in text 
  - A comprehension section comprising texts from different genres so that learners may relate grammar to different types of works produced in English 
  - Phonics in Grades 1 and 2 to teach the very basis of language 
  - Uniquely stylised illustrations 
  - Activities such as puzzles, crosswords, word grids and games to aid the facilitator in using the concept of ‘flipped classroom’ 
  - Periodic tests to help the learners self-assess the acquisition of concepts 
  - Digital component to cater to a technology-driven classroom 
  
  DESCRIPTION: 
  My Blue Book of Grammar is a course that has been conceptualized and designed keeping in mind the increasingly dynamic role of the English language in today’s world. Especially in our country, where English serves as the lingua franca, a grammar course has to offer not only an exposition of the pedagogy but also the exhibition of the utility of that pedagogy. The aim of a grammar series should be to encourage the development of competency amongst learners, even though their proficiency levels may vary. While the level of exposure to English of all learners may be different, a grammar series should aid in the development of a certain level of confidence amongst the learners, with the end result being that they are able to converse without hesitation in English. 
  
  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN 
  - Understand grammar concepts 
  - Learn how to use different vocabulary concepts taught through language-in-use 
  - Learn 21-century skills 
  - Develop deeper understanding of and appreciation for literature 
  - Have clearer pronunciation through a better understanding of phonics 
  
  WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR: 
  School students of Grades 7 
  
  TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  GRAMMAR 
  1. Compound–Complex Sentences 
  2. Ellipsis 
  3. Compound Subject 
  4. Reported Speech 
  5. Compound Predicate 
  6. Coordinating Adjectives 
  7. Sentences, Fragments and Run-ons 
  8. Comparative and Superlative Adverbs 
  9. Pronoun–Antecedent Agreement 
  10. Active and Passive Voice 
  11. Commas: With Introductory Phrases; When Addressing a Person; 
  in Dates; and in Addresses 
  12. Comma Splices 
  13. Singular and Plural Possessive Nouns 
  14. Linking Verbs 
  15. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs – Revision 
  Test Paper 1 
  VOCABULARY 
  16. Difference Between Who and Whom 
  17. Formal and Informal Language 
  18. Compound Subject with I and Me 
  19. Can and Could 
  20. Redundancy 
  21. Prefixes: inter–, trans–, super– 
  22. Suffixes: –ent, –ant, –ous 
  23. Latin and Greek Roots 
  24. Good vs Well 
  25. Using Clues from the Context to Find the Meaning of the Word 
  26. How versus What in Exclamations 
  27. Positive and Negative Connotations 
  28. Suggestions and Requests 
  Test Paper 2 
  WRITING 
  29. Writing a Notice 
  30. Narrative Poem 
  31. Dialogue Writing 
  32. Writing a Summary 
  33. Survey Findings 
  Test Paper 3 
  COMPREHENSION 
  34. I Have a Dream 
  35. Ain’t I a Woman? 
  36. We Are the World 
  37. Thang-Ta: The Martial Art Dance of Manipur 
  Orange Global Olympiad – English Sample Paper

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