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  I Heard What You Said - A Black...

  Jeffrey Boakye

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  An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of 2022'Essential reading' - The Guardian'Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour' - The i'Makes a powerful case' - Rt Hon Lady Hale‘Revealing and beautifully written’ - David Harewood________Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye’s is a journey of exploration – from the outside looking in.In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system. As a black, male teacher – an English teacher who has had to teach problematic texts – his very existence is a provocation to the status quo, giving him a unique perspective on the UK’s classrooms.Through a series of eye-opening encounters based on the often challenging and sometimes outrageous things people have said to him or about him, Boakye reflects on what he has found out about the habits, presumptions, silences and distortions that black students and teachers experience, and which underpin British education.Thought-provoking, witty and completely unafraid, I Heard What You Said is a timely exploration of how we can dismantle racism in the classroom and do better by all our students.________'Hugely important' - Baroness Lawrence'Deeply compelling, intellectually rigorous and essential' - Nels Abbey'Personal and political, profound and playful' - Darren Chetty'Written with passion, fury, knowledge and, in spite of the painful subject, wit' - Patrice Lawrence

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  Fixing the Fates - An Adoptee's...

  Diane Dewey

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  The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from Switzerland: her biological father, Otto, wanted to bring her into his life. With that, her world shifted on its axis. 
  In the months that ensued, everybody had a different story to tell about Diane’s origins, including Otto when they met in New York City. She struggled to understand what was at stake with the lies. Like a private eye, she sifted through competing versions of the truth only to find that, having traveled throughout Europe and back, identity is a state of mind. As more information surfaced, the myths gave way to a certain elusive peace; Diane discovered a tribe in her mother’s family, found a Swiss husband, gained a voice, and, for the first time, began to trust in the intuition that had nudged her all along. One-part forensic investigation, one-part self-discovery, Fixing the Fates  is a story about seeing behind artifice and living one’s truth.

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  The Poet Li Po - A Study Of One...

  Arthur Waley

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  A dive into one of China's great poets by the first great populariser of Chinese literature, Arthur Waley.Also known as Li Bai (Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái, 701–762), also pronounced as Li Bo, courtesy name Taibai (Chinese: 太白), was a Chinese poet, acclaimed from his own time to the present as one of the greatest and most important poets of the Tang dynasty and in Chinese history as a whole. He and his friend Du Fu (712–770) were two of the most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry under the Tang dynasty, which is often called the "Golden Age of Chinese Poetry". The expression "Three Wonders" denotes Li Bai's poetry, Pei Min's swordplay, and Zhang Xu's calligraphy. - From the wiki

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  Bedtime Stories For Kids - The...

  Corie Herolds

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  Do your kids like to hear stories before sleep? 
  Do you want your child to learn mindfulness while reading beautiful short stories? 
  Then you and your kids will love this audiobook! 
  In this book, you will find a collection of stories written to help children enter a place of dreams and eventually drift off into sleep. These stories are intended to stir their imagination in such a way that the transition from fantasy and adventure into dreamland will be a seamless one. Best of all, your children will be able to get a good night’s sleep and wake up feeling refreshed and happy. 
  The following chapters are designed to take you and your family on an exciting adventure through space and time, laden with humor and surprises, while also attempting to disseminate valuable lessons about important principles, such as family, home, wrongdoing, and numerous other themes.  
  While each story is unique, the underlying purpose of each remains the same, to confer to readers some degree of insight into moral behavior and proper conduct. Through the careful application of allegory, the stories contained herein are intended not only to engage and captivate but serve as thought-provoking tools by which your children might avail themselves of one of mankind's most powerful attributes, thoughtfulness and self-reflection.  
  Plus, the stories in this book seek to create traditions and memories which will create everlasting moments that your children will treasure for the rest of their lives.  
  These are the kinds of moments that your children will surely love to live with their children someday, too. So, let’s jump right in and take a trip into a magical world from which your children will drift off in their sleep. Don’t be surprised if they don’t want to wake up after having such beautiful dreams. 
  Download this audiobook now to start your great experience with your child!

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  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

  Franz Bement

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  If you’re someone suffering from excessive anxiety disorder, chronic depression, or fear so crippling it may well be a phobia, but you are not sure what to actually do concerning the treatment options, then Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Complete Guide to Retraining Your Brain to Overcome Anxiety and Depression is the audiobook you have been waiting for.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a type of psychotherapy that analyzes the response you feel to specific sets of stimuli and then asks why it is that you feel the way you do. As anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and phobias, when left untreated, can all lead to irrational responses to common scenarios as they can easily result in altered perceptions of reality and all-around distorted thinking. When used correctly, CBT offers patients an alternative that promotes realistic, healthy thought. Acquire knowledge of depression and anxiety as they pertain to the symptoms that occur and the causes of the disorders.Take some time to learn about the various subcategories of each disorder and the ways in which they may present at differing ages of onset. Find out when and why depression and anxiety disorders are likely to occur. Discover the specific ways in which cognitive behavioral therapy is designed to work as a treatment plan for both anxiety disorders and depressive disorders.You will learn:- About Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and the secret behind the use of CBT for successful treatment of anxiety and depressive disorder.- CBT techniques used by professionals to help people in dealing with a wide variety of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, suicidal, and negative thoughts.- Ways to successfully manage your symptoms- Common symptoms and side effects of anxiety and depressive disorders.- Different ways in which anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and negative thoughts can be overcome.- And many more...So, what are you waiting for? Cop yours today and start your healing journey!

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  It Can’t Rain All the Time - The...

  Alisha Mughal

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  A passionate analysis of the ill-fated 1994 film starring the late Brandon Lee and its long-lasting influence on action movies, cinematic grief, and emotional masculinity
  		 
  Released in 1994, The Crow first drew in audiences thanks to the well-publicized tragedy that loomed over the film: lead actor Brandon Lee had died on set due to a mishandled prop gun. But it soon became clear that The Crow was more than just an accumulation of its tragic parts. The celebrated critic Roger Ebert wrote that Lee’s performance was “more of a screen achievement than any of the films of his father, Bruce Lee.”
  		 
  In It Can’t Rain All the Time, Alisha Mughal argues that The Crow has transcended Brandon Lee’s death by exposing the most challenging human emotions in all their dark, dramatic, and visceral glory, so much so that it has spawned three sequels, a remake, and an intense fandom. Eric, our back-from-the-dead, grieving protagonist, shows us that there is no solution to depression or loss, there is only our own internal, messy work. By the end of the movie, we realize that Eric has presented us with a vast range of emotions and that masculinity doesn’t need to be hard and impenetrable.
  		 
  Through her memories of seeking solace in the film during her own grieving period, Alisha brilliantly shows that, for all its gothic sadness, The Crow is, surprisingly and touchingly, a movie about redemption and hope.
  		 
  About the Pop Classics Series
  		 
  Short books that pack a big punch, Pop Classics offer intelligent, fun, and accessible arguments about why a particular pop phenomenon matters.

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