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  Smothered and Covered - Waffle...

  Ty Matejowsky

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  Waffle House has long been touted as an icon of the American South. The restaurant's consistent foregrounding as a resonant symbol of regional character proves relevant for understanding much about the people, events, and foodways. Whether approached as a comedic punchline on the Internet, television, and other popular media or elevated as a genuine touchstone of messy American modernity, Waffle House, its employees, and everyday clientele do much to transcend one-dimensional characterizations, earning distinction in ways that regularly go unsung. 
   
   
   
  Smothered and Covered: Waffle House and the Southern Imaginary is the first book to socioculturally assess the chain within the field of contemporary food studies. In this groundbreaking work, Ty Matejowsky argues that Waffle House's often beleaguered public persona is informed by various complexities and contradictions. 
   
   
   
  Matejowsky discusses Waffle House's roots in established southern foodways and traces the chain's development. He also considers Waffle House's place in American and southern popular culture, highlighting its myriad depictions in music, television, film, fiction, stand-up comedy, and sports. Altogether, Matejowsky deftly and persuasively demonstrates how Waffle House serves as a microcosm of today's South with all the accolades and criticisms this distinction entails.

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  HBCU Made - A Celebration of the...

  Ayesha Rascoe

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  In this joyous essay collection edited by NPR's Ayesha Rascoe, celebrities and other alumni provide testimonials about their experience attending historically Black college universities–which shaped their lives and made them who they are today. With a diverse set of contributors, including Oprah Winfrey, Stacey Abrams, and Branford Marsalis, HBCU Made celebrates the experience of going to a historically Black college or university. In moving essays, a wide range of alums share their accounts of how they chose their HBCU, their first days on campus, the dynamic atmosphere, and how they were shaped by their rigorous training.  A collection that brims with insight and school spirit, HBCU Made is a perfect gift for each generation of prospective students and graduates to come.   

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  My Road from Damascus - A Memoir

  Jamal Saeed

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  “A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews
  		 
  An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, there is a poetic quality to the telling.” — Frances Itani, award-winning author of Deafening and Remembering the Bones
  		 
  Jamal Saeed arrived as a refugee in Canada in 2016. In his native Syria, as a young man, his writing pushed both social and political norms. For this reason, as well as his opposition to the regimes of the al-Assads, he was imprisoned on three occasions for a total of 12 years. In each instance, he was held without formal charge and without judicial process. 
  		 
  My Road from Damascus not only tells the story of Saeed’s severe years in Syria’s most notorious military prisons but also his life during the country’s dramatic changes. Saeed chronicles modern Syria from the 1950s right up to his escape to Canada in 2016, recounting its descent from a country of potential to a pawn of cynical and corrupt powers. He paints a picture of village life, his youthful love affairs, his rebellion as a young Marxist, and his evolution into a free thinker, living in hiding as a teenager for 30 months while being hunted by the secret police. He recalls his brutal prison years, his final release, and his family’s harrowing escape to Canada.
  		 
  While many prison memoirs focus on the cruelty of incarceration, My Road from Damascus offers a tapestry of Saeed’s whole life. It looks squarely at brutality but also at beauty and poetry, hope and love.

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  CIVIL Secrets: Unlocking the Art...

  Jareth Eldridge

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  CIVIL Secrets: Unlocking the Art of Reading People Effortlessly 
  ⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐   
  Are you eager to advance in your career and enhance your understanding of interpersonal dynamics by mastering the art of reading people effectively? 
  Searching for a thorough resource that offers everything you need to grasp the nuances of human emotions and improve your relationships?   
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  This guide is your ultimate resource for enhancing your comprehension, applying your insights, and engaging in practical exercises. With this, you're set for success.   
  Updated for contemporary practices in understanding human emotions.   
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  Our guide stands out with its exhaustive coverage, which is vital for your success. Concepts are not just touched upon; they are explored with meticulous detail.   
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  How to Get Over Your Ex - An...

  Cammy Dawson

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  Embrace this advice to start a new life. 
  When a breakup happens, we tend to think it is a negative thing. However, there are many untapped opportunities that come around when a breakup occurs. There are specific steps the author advises you to take to heal your grieving heart and make the most of those opportunities. Here are some of the things you will find in this book:The reason why you should allow yourself to feel real heartache and why it is actually a good thingReasoning behind the "avoid social media" ruleWhat not to do when you break up with your partnerHow to increase productivity, health, and creativity with the new time you haveBenefits and advantages you will have after a breakupIdeas to pamper yourself when you need a little light at the end of the tunnelHow meditation, finding your "Zen", and other spiritual factors can ease your mind and get you back on track 
  Curious yet? Then don't wait and start listening so you don't have to remain in the dark. Save yourself the misery of common mistakes and learn from what I have learned. I will see you in the first chapter!

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  The Basis of Everything

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  Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom.The unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever. 
    
  Centered on the inter-war years - within the ivy clad walls of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, amid the windswept valleys of north Wales, and in the industrial heartland of Birmingham - The Basis of Everything is the story of the coming of the atomic bomb, and how the unlikely union of two scientists - Ernest Rutherford, the son of a New Zealand farmer, and Mark Oliphant, a peace-loving vegetarian from a tiny Australian hills village - would change the world. 
  The story that bonds Ernest Rutherford and Mark Oliphant is as extraordinary as it is unlikely. They were kindred souls, schooled and steeped in the furthest frontiers of Britain's empire, whose restless intellect and tireless conviction fused in the crucible of discovery at Cambridge University's celebrated Cavendish Laboratory, at a time when nature's deepest secrets were being revealed. Their brilliance illuminated the sub-atomic recesses of the natural world and, as a direct result, set loose the power of nuclear fusion. 
  It was a heartfelt, enduring partnership, born at the University of Adelaide's modest physics department and then flourishing further in the confines of the Cavendish before ultimately driving the famed Manhattan Project, which produced the world's first nuclear weapons, unleashed to such devastating effect on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 
  Rutherford and Oliphant were men with a shared devotion to pure science, who, through circumstance and necessity, found themselves betrayed as instruments of wars they detested but were duty-bound to prosecute. Consequently, their influence was pivotal in the last great global conflict the world witnessed and in engendering the thermonuclear threat that has held the planet hostage ever since. Yet their pioneering work also lives on in a vast array of innovations seeded by nuclear physics, from radiocarbon dating and TV screens to life-saving diagnostic-imaging devices. 
  PRAISE FOR THE BASIS OF EVERYTHING 
  ""In The Basis of Everything, journalist Andrew Ramsey has succeeded in telling a story so detailed and compelling that even knowing where it leads does not distract from the journey."" The Sydney Morning Herald

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