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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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  Innovating in a Secret World -...

  Tina P. Srivastava

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  Our national security increasingly depends on access to the most sophisticated and advanced technology. Yet the next time we set out to capture a terrorist leader, we may fail. Why? The answer lies in a conflict between two worlds. One is the dynamic, global, commercial world with its thriving innovations. The other is the world of national security, in which innovation is a matter of life or death. The conflict is about secrecy. 
  Innovating in a Secret World is a detailed examination of the U.S. government and innovation landscapes and of the current trends in often secret national security–related research and development (R&D). Based on case studies, detailed research, and interviews with executives at Fortune 500s, startup entrepreneurs, and military directors and program managers, this accessible and timely book is a must-listen. Tina P. Srivastava evaluates whether the strategy of technology innovation in the world of national security leaves certain innovations behind or unintentionally precludes certain classes of innovators from participating. This examination unfolds in a complex, dynamic system that includes the legal framework in which technology innovation must exist.

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  Tears We Cannot Stop - A Sermon...

  Michael Eric Dyson

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  In the wake of yet another set of police killings of black men, Michael Eric Dyson wrote a tell-it-straight, no-holds-barred piece for the NYT on Sunday, July 7: "Death in Black and White" (it was updated within a day to acknowledge the killing of police officers in Dallas). The response has been overwhelming. Beyoncé and Isabel Wilkerson tweeted it; JJ Abrams, among many other prominent people, wrote him a long fan letter. The NYT closed the comments section after 2,500 responses, and Dyson has been on NPR, BBC, and CNN nonstop since then.Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, "Nothing." Dyson believes he was wrong. In Tears We Cannot Stop, he responds to that question. If we are to make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. As Dyson writes, "At birth you are given a pair of binoculars that see black life from a distance, never with the texture of intimacy. Those binoculars are privilege; they are status, regardless of your class. In fact the greatest privilege that exists is for white folk to get stopped by a cop and not end up dead... The problem is you do not want to know anything different from what you think you know... You think we have been handed everything because we fought your selfish insistence that the world, all of it — all its resources, all its riches, all its bounty, all its grace — should be yours first and foremost, and if there's anything left, why then we can have some, but only if we ask politely and behave gratefully."In the tradition of The Fire Next Time (Baldwin), short, emotional, literary, powerful, this is the audio-book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations need to hear.A Macmillan Audio production.

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  Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

  Karl Marx

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  The “Theses on Feuerbach” are eleven short philosophical notes written by Karl Marx in 1845. They outline a critique of the ideas of Marx’s fellow Young Hegelian philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. The theses form a basis for the activism emphasised by Marx’s work, and this short text is perhaps best know for its ending - a Eureka for revolutionary socialism. The theses were written in 1845, but not published until 1888 (five years after Marx’s death), with slight modifications by Friedrich Engels. The original text was published in 1924. This translation is based on the 1888 version. (Wikipedia/Carl Manchester)Translated into the public domain by Carl Manchester.

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  Suffragette Planners and...

  Kathryn Atherton

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  This true story about the British fight for women’s suffrage “looks at the tumultuous relationship between two couples who led the militant movement” (Publishers Weekly).   In early twentieth-century England, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence was treasurer of the Women’s Social and Political Union, founded by the famed militant Mrs. Pankhurst. Emmeline’s husband, Fred, was the only man to achieve leadership status in the organization. Without their wealth, determination, and skills we might never have heard of the suffragettes—yet the couple has been largely forgotten while Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughters are still renowned.   Emmeline was always at Mrs. Pankhurst’s side, while Fred was the ‘Godfather’ who stood bail for a thousand women. Both were imprisoned and force-fed. They provided the militant movement with its home and much of its vision, and it was their associates who initiated the hunger strike and who brought force-feeding to national attention. But in 1912, the couple was dramatically ousted from the organization by the Pankhursts in a move that has often been misrepresented. This book is the first in-depth portrait of the couple and their relationship with the Pankhursts—and of their inspirational fight not just for the vote for women but for freedom and equality across the world.

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  Learn Portuguese - Level 4:...

  Innovative Language Learning

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  Had some experience in Portuguese? Up the challenge with Beginner! Welcome to Beginner Portuguese. Master the basics of Portuguese conversation! Start speaking Portuguese in minutes, and learn key vocabulary, phrases, and grammar in just minutes more with Beginner Portuguese. Our native Portuguese hosts break down all the sentences, grammar and more in a simple, easily understandable way! Here are a few topics covered in this audiobook:• Talking About Your Nationality• Asking Simple Portuguese Questions• Expressing Likes and Dislikes• Plural Articles in Portuguese• Brazilian Cultural Tips and More!This isn't stale textbook material - it's fun, effective, and practical! You learn beginner Portuguese conversation that you can use immediately! What you get in Beginner Portuguese:• 130+ pages of Portuguese learning material• 25 Portuguese lessons: dialog transcripts with translation, vocabulary, sample sentences and a grammar section• 25 Audio Lesson Tracks (over 4 hours of Portuguese lessons)• 25 Audio Review Tracks (practice new words and phrases)• 25 Audio Dialog Tracks (read along while you listen Interactive.Effective. And FUN! Discover or rediscover how fun learning a language can be with the future of language learning. Buy this now and start speaking Portuguese instantly!Download the PDF and read along:https://bit.ly/2E9CbUc

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