The Colour Out of Space

Nailbiter Volume 4: Blood Lust

A Taoist Handbook

The Book of Balance and Harmony

Here is truth exceeding the power of fiction. --Norval Morris, professor, University of Chicago Law School"Ayers's book does for incarcerated kids . . . what Studs Terkel has done for the city's working folks, [and] what Alex Kotlowitz has done for the residents of its housing projects." --Anthony M. Platt, Los Angeles Times Book Review"Bill Ayers is a gifted writer and an acute observer of the inferno which we call the Juvenile Court. No part of the American justice system is less observed or more greatly in need of reform. A Kind and Just Parent is a moving and intensely sympathetic account of the lives of both the adults and children caught in the sometimes hopeless maelstrom of our juvenile justice system. At every level, it is a book full of grace." --Scott Turow, author of Presumed Innocent"William Ayers is as sensitive and gifted a chronicler as he is a teacher. His odyssey-for it is far more than just a tour-through the juvenile court is Dickensian in its tragic, maddening detail and dimension; and yet it is strangely hopeful."--Studs Terkel"At last a heroic and insightful account of what poor young people have had to endure in the Cook County Juvenile Court system. . . . Ayers, I salute you. Your words cut true. And no one can escape their clarion message."--Luis J. Rodriguez, author of Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A."A very important and disturbing book about the betrayal of Jane Addams's dream and the ways in which heroic individuals still struggle to defend the dignity of children in the face of crushing odds. It is Bill Ayers's immersion in the lives of those who go before the court that gives this book its strength and passion and intensity. Vivid narratives are set in context by an author who has studied history and understands the politics of juvenile injustice. I hope this book will reach the ears of Congress."--Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities"As juvenile crime increases, the brutal conditions that produce delinquents have risen even faster. Since 1960 the number of child abuse or neglect cases handled by juvenile courts has risen five times faster than delinquency cases, which have nearly quadrupled. With that in mind, one might ask why so many children become delinquents and how so many avoid becoming delinqents. . . . [Ayers] offers a view of delinquent youths you won't see much of on the evening news. It is not scary enough. It is only tragic." --Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune

The Children of Juvenile Court

A Kind and Just Parent

"Zur and colleagues' examination of this fascinating phenomenon, the emergence of one of the most fruitful technology clusters in the world, is done at a level of depth and sophistication that surpasses other books in the genre  I recommend this book for anyone interested in the emergence of new sectors, technology clusters, and regional identities."

A Genealogical Approach

The Evolution of a New Industry

STARK Abiturprüfung Berufliches Gymnasium 2025 - Deutsch - BaWü

This is an excellent book which will be of interest to both the ecclesiastical and the urban historian. It is enriched by four appendices: lists of parish clergy and the religious; deans of Holy Trinity Cathedral, 1542-1580; canons and prebendaries; and a chronology of the dissolution of religious houses. The thirty-page bibliography is most helpful.

Bristol and the Reformation C. 1530 - C. 1570

Community and Clergy

Sprint 1. Workbook + Audio CD

Simulation and Control

Modeling of Physical Systems

Reflections of a Christian Addiction Medicine Physician

Why I Help People Take Drugs

The Indo-Aryan Languages

Das Haar Der Schildkröte

Pfeile Im Nebel

Gateway to the world B1+. Student's Book + DSB + App

Spettri di pietra

Gender, Violence and Performance in Contemporary India

Staging Feminisms

Commentaire Analytique Du Code Civil. Livre III, Titre II. Donations Et Testaments

Selected Poems 1957-1994

A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom

Cursed

The Learning From Practice Manual

Devourer of Souls

Memories of Division in South Korean Aesthetics

Worm-Time

The Best of Frontier Tales, Volume 5

"A thoughtful, deeply moving book....Mr. Stampp wants to show specifically what slavery was like, why it existed, and what it did to the American people .... There is a massive impact to this book-made all the more effective by the fact that its author writes with a dispassionate and scholarly objectivity -- which helps to make it one of the most valuable and memorable books ever written in this field."-- Bruce Catton"In ten sparkling chapters the book details and illuminates every aspect of slavery....Slavery is viewed not as a method of regulating race relations, not as an arrangement that was in its essence paternalistic, but as a practical system of controlling and exploiting labor. How the slaves worked, how they resisted bondage, how they were disciplined, how they lived their lives in the quarters, and how they behaved toward each other and toward their masters are themes which receive full exploration.... The materials are handled with imagination and verve, the style is polished, the factual evidence is precise and accurate. Some scholars will disagree with the conclusions. No one can afford to disregard them."-- Frank W. Klingberg, American Historical Review"The Peculiar Institution is one of the most important and provocative works on Southern history to appear in our generation."-- David Donald, Commentary

Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South

Peculiar Institution

Marilyn Sewell has done us all a great service to gather together these voices, some new, some forgotten, all precious resources. The collection, together with Sewell's deeply insightful introduction, traces the spirit in all its dimensions and diversity, expanding our idea of the spiritual impulse. -Susan Griffin, author of Bending Home

More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality

Cries of the Spirit

An extraordinary book. Chilling, inspiring, and utterly convincing, it creates an ironclad case for the adoption solution. --Sylvia Ann Hewlett, coauthor of The War Against Parents"Bartholet sounds the alarm on the savage consequences the child welfare system has on so many children and challenges us to confront the reality that substance abuse . . . is the culprit in most cases of child abuse and neglect. Everyone who cares about our nation's most vulnerable children should read this book." --Joseph A. Califano, Jr., president, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University"Blood and race remain the over-riding factors in determining the future of suffering children. This should be required reading for those who look on adoption as the last resort." --Mary McGrory, Washington Post columnist"Bartholet is a passionate crusader on behalf of children, and brings to her subject vigorous, clear-headed prose and the moral authority of her professional dedication." --Ann-Janine Morey, Chicago Tribune"Bartholet issues a strong challenge to the child welfare system to facilitate adoption of children who have been abused and neglected&#8230;All people concerned about the healthy development of children should read Nobody's Children. I highly recommend it." --Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School"The way we treat abused and neglected children in this country remains a national scandal. Bartholet challenges the priority placed . . . on keeping battered or neglected children with their families or racial group, and makes a strong case for increased use of adoption." --Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (ret.), author of the Multiethnic Placement Act"A disturbing look at how the lives of 'America's modern-day orphans' are sacrificed for the often unrealistic goal of keeping troubled families together. . . . The author makes her case intelligently, fearlessly, and exhaustively." --Kirkus Reviews

Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative

Nobody's Children

&#8220;I loved it just as much as Schoolgirls.... It&#8217;s brilliant, fascinating, touching, wonderfully composed.&#8221;--Anne Lamott&#8220;This book could be a life (and relationship) saver.&#8221;--Mademoiselle&#8220;The dilemmas voiced in Flux should help to recast women&#8217;s life choices, moving them out of the domain of private ambivalence into the arena of public concern&#8221;--The Washington Post Book World

Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World

Flux

&ldquo;This is an extraordinary collection of writings, documenting one of the most important grassroots rebellions of our time. It conveys the mind and spirit of the Zapatista movement with eloquence and astonishing immediacy.&rdquo; &ndash;Howard Zinn&ldquo;This eccentric collection of writings, which includes everything from the Zapatista's declaration of war to magic-realist stories about a beetle named Durito, proves Marcos to be a passionate and surprisingly self-deprecating writer.&rdquo; &ndash;The New Yorker&ldquo;The Zapatistas are an extraordinary example of resistance by the supposedly powerless against the powerful and they have endured for 25 years&mdash;and brought us what this book offers, a poetic, sometimes lyrical, sometimes comic, often utterly fresh and insightful, political language, grounded in the natural world, in weather, seasons, plants, animals, growing, harvesting . . .&rdquo; &ndash;Rebecca Solnit&ldquo;&hellip; Language as strong as dignity and as subtle as love. To read this collection is to discover that rare animal: an original voice.&rdquo; &ndash;Publishers Weekly&ldquo;A literary masterpiece that provides an invaluable lens into the Zapatista cosmos and one of the most remarkable minds of our time.&rdquo; &ndash;San Francisco Bay Guardian&ldquo;Set against other radical manifestoes of the past &hellip; Our Word Is Our Weapon exudes a political timelessness &hellip; The tempered words of Subcomandante Marcos read like an instruction manual for future rebellions.&rdquo; &ndash;The Guardian (UK)&ldquo;Marcos is the voice for many voices. His words, fashioned from humor and poetry, reveal the deep roots and abundant branches of the Zapatista insurrection in Chiapas. It is an original language for an original movement that is transforming Mexico and is helping to change the world.&rdquo; &ndash;Eduardo Galeano&ldquo;Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.&#160;Our Word Is Our Weapon&#160;reflects the deep soul beauty and determined hearts of deliberately impoverished people as they stand up to the most insatiable giant the world has ever seen. Theirs is a stance of dignity, courage and self-respect. And that is what they inspire in us, even as they suffer.&rdquo; &ndash;Alice Walker

Selected Writings

Our Word is Our Weapon

&#8220;With what consummate skill Lee Martin conjures up a small town in the grip of tragedy and how deftly he explores the way in which a casual remark, a brief kiss, a white lie can have the most terrible consequences. The Bright Forever is a remarkable and almost unbearably suspenseful novel.&#8221; &#8212;Margot Livesey, author of Banishing Verona and Eva Moves the Furniture&#8220;Lee Martin&#8217;s The Bright Forever goes deep into the mystery of being alive on this earth. Written in the clearest prose, working back and forth over its complex story, and told in the dark, desperate, vivid voices of its various speakers, it holds you spellbound to the end, to its final, sad revelations.&#8221; &#8212;Kent Haruf, author of Eventide and Plainsong&#8220;Like Winesburg, Ohio, The Bright Forever captures, in alternating voices, the individual acts of desperation that lead to a community&#8217;s sorrow. And, like Sherwood Anderson, Lee Martin is not happy to let guilt reside singularly or simply. This is a morally complex quilt, a page-turner that also insists on the reader&#8217;s participation in moral contemplation.&#8221; &#8212;Antonya Nelson, author of Female Trouble and Talking in Bed&#8220;I read The Bright Forever in one sitting. I couldn&#8217;t put it down. Part Mystic River, part Winesburg, Ohio, this harrowing and beautiful book is one of the most powerful novels I&#8217;ve read in years and heralds the breakout of a remarkable talent.&#8221; &#8212;Bret Lott, author of A Song I Knew by Heart and Jewel  &#8220;The Bright Forever will get under your skin with its exquisite psychology and fine-tuned suspense. Lee Martin has created a world of aching beauty and terrible loss.&#8221; &#8212;Jean Thompson, author of City Boy and Wide Blue Yonder&#8220;The Bright Forever is ravishing. . . . Lee Martin&#8217;s characters, dear readers, are us&#8212;riven and bedeviled, our souls gone grainy and rank, our hearts busted and beating heavily for love. We have Martin to thank for having the moral courage&#8212;yes, an old-fashioned but rare virtue&#8212;to tell it to us plain.&#8221; &#8212;Lee K. Abbott, author of Living After Midnight

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La cr&iacute;tica ha dicho...  &laquo;El inter&eacute;s mundial en el lanzamiento que llev&oacute; a cabo Elon Musk de un de sus veh&iacute;culos Tesla al espacio, nos muestra como los viajes espaciales han vuelto a convertirse en un entretenimiento de masas y puede que a una aspiraci&oacute;n para las masas. Es un buen momento para un libro del f&iacute;sico te&oacute;rico Michio Kako sobre los posibles caminos de nuestro futuro como viajeros espaciales. [...] Con una facilidad y claridad admirables, el Dr. Kaku repasa la historia de la coheter&iacute;a, la formaci&oacute;n de los planetas y explica c&oacute;mo podr&iacute;amos colonizar no solo Marte sino que tambi&eacute;n algunas de las lunas de J&uacute;piter y Saturno. [...] Este libro tiene un entusiasmo infeccioso y candente.&raquo;.-Steven Poole,&#160;The Wall Street Journal

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"This simple and cheerful tale suggests, with not an ounce of preachiness, values of care and comfort and the support women have for each other across generations." &mdash;The Washington Post

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