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2641) Racism without racists: color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for-and ultimately justify-racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that colorblind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on our current racial climate, including the Black Lives...
2644) The only grant-writing book you'll ever need: top grant writers and grant givers share their secrets
Author
Publisher
Basic Books/Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
This book is designed to help nonprofit organizations craft proposals for grants from foundations, companies, and government agencies. The book includes a proposal checklist, a glossary of terms, sample grant forms, and a list of Web sites that provide information on grants offered by foundations, corporations, and the government.
2647) Tales from Shakespeare
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson Education
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
"This book includes stories based on seven of Shakespeare's greatest plays. We meet many of Shakespeare's most famous characters - magical Prospero; Puck, the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; Shylock, the greedy moneylender, and many more..."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rebellion
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Mega-City One, 2100. This post-apocalyptic city of the future is blighted by overcrowding, poverty and misery. With each of the 400 million citizens a potential criminal, order is maintained by future lawmen known as the Judges who have the power to act as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of them all is Judge Dredd-- he is the law! A deadly plague developed during the brutal 'Great Germ War' has reached the futuristic metropolis of Mega-City...
Author
Series
Hardware volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Inventor/engineer Curt Metcalf breaks free of his employer, businessman Edwin Alva, who refused to share the profits from Metcalf's many creations. Discovering that Alva is tied to organized crime, and learning that no law enforcement agency would touch him, Metcalf creats the high tech Hardware armor that enabled him to work against Alva.
2654) Daytripper
Author
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Presents key moments in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingos, a Brazilian writer and sometime journalist, and the son of a prominent author, as if each episode would turn out to be the day in which he was about to die.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet, the financial statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only accountants can understand. This new Ninth Edition of How to Read a Financial Report breaks through that language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. Lurking somewhere amidst all the figures in a financial report...
Author
Series
California series in public anthropology volume 36
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Anthropologist Jason De LeÃçn sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time--the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and death that take place daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross from Mexico into the United States. Drawing on the four major fields of anthropology, De LeÃçn uses an innovative combination of ethnography,...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes...
2659) X-Men: Mutant massacre
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"The Morlocks: a community of mutant outcasts living beneath the streets of Manhattan. The Marauders: professional mutant assassins, employed by a mysterious evil to wipe the Morlocks out. In between the two stand some of Marvel's most heroic: X-Men, X-Factor, the New Mutants, Power Pack, Daredevil and the mighty Thor! But taken by surprise by the Marauders' overwhelming onslaught, can these disparate heroes hope to save any of the Morlocks?"--P....
2660) The three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War"--