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In this book the major objective is to explore how Elijah Muhammad framed the term literacy as contrasted with its generally known definitions and applications. The text frames a construct for understanding why Elijah Muhammad considered the science of literacy essential to the success of the Blackman and woman in America specifically, and people in general.

The Homecoming Seasons: An Irish Catholic Returns to a Changing Long Island is James P. MacGuire's poignant memoir of returning to his childhood hometown on the South Shore of Long Island to raise his own family, re-encountering its natural wetland beauty, his late parents' now older friends, and making new ones in a community undergoing transition. The quarter century that the book details is filled with life, death, triumph, and loss, and chronicles, above and below its surface, a fragile yet ultimately resilient world.

Carleton Beals was among AmericaΓÇÖs most distinctive foreign correspondents. His colorful, combatively critical reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America had a fearless energy and authority that won him millions of readers. He interviewed the Nicaraguan rebel leader Sandino in the camp from which he fought thousands of U.S marines in 1928, covered two revolutions in Cuba (1933 and 1959), and interpreted the Mexican Revolution for American readers. BealsΓÇÖs dispatches and features appeared regularly in the Nation, New Republic, Current History and the Progressive, and often in the New York Times. Time magazine called him ΓÇ£the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America.ΓÇ¥ Forty books, including chronicles, political analysis and novels, drawn mostly from his travels and wide-ranging contacts in what he called ΓÇ£America SouthΓÇ¥ made that characterization apt. But Beals was also an eyewitness reporter on MussoliniΓÇÖs rise in Italy. He wrote on U.S. topics too, such as LouisianaΓÇÖs Huey Long, and the environmental damage and rural migration in the 1930s caused by emerging agri-business in AmericaΓÇÖs South and West. Many of his books were best-sellers, their evidence-based assessments earning at least grudging respect even among those who took issue with his indictments of U.S. economic and government elites.At once biography and analytical history, The Rebel Scribe tells the story of a fiercely independent non-conformist. It probes BealsΓÇÖs interactions with political leaders, democrats, demagogues, populists and revolutionaries, and reveals how his ability to immerse himself in their societies gave his accounts a palpable authenticity and, time has shown, a prescience that is almost prophetic. Christopher NealΓÇÖs layered narrative traces how Beals identified patterns of political behavior and concepts that later became fully-fledged schools of thought, such as the idea of a Third World, dependency theory, U.S. neo-imperialism, and aspects of critical theory. His story sheds light on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy and intervention, from Mexico and Nicaragua in the 1920s, to Cuba and Vietnam in the 1960s. It reveals the fraught trail that facedΓÇöand still facesΓÇöcontrarian journalists who challenge conventional assumptions, while also showing how probing journalism drives change.

The book takes well-established, scientific evidence on consciousness to interrogate, and re envisions questions of personal reincarnation and thus of the mind/body problem. Methodologically, the basis of the book is rooted in the careful argumentation and logical appraisal of classical materialism and the history of the mind-body problem.

This interdisciplinary work is premised on a holistic account of the historical, philosophical, neuroscientific, and sociocultural aspects of memory that yields a novel theory: the primary human drive is not to "power" or "pleasure" but to significance and memorability. Above all, we want to be cosmically important and remembered.

In Our Cuban Colony, Dr. Jenks' details the relations between the United States and Cuba from before the Spanish-American War to the early 20th century.

The Armed Forces and American Social Change is a powerful depiction of Black Americans' struggle for equality told through the lens of uniformed military service. Troy Mosley uses superb story-telling, personal vignettes, and historical examples to show how millions of Americans have lifted themselves from stifling oppression through opportunities gleaned from military service.

In this book, Sonja Krause Goodwin describes her second year as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching chemistry at a branch of Haile Selassie I University in Ethiopia in 1965. She notes her interactions with her students, fellow College employees, other Peace Corps volunteers, and Ethiopians.

This book situates the teachings of Elijah Muhammad in academia, creating a field of study that particularly extrapolates the jewels of Muhammad's teachings. This preview of the teachings of Muhammad, and its multifaceted, interdisciplinary scope, has the potential to change the philosophical and practical methods of education.

This story of Athens' tragic defeat in its attempt to subdue Sicily during the war between Athens and Sparta, discusses the social and political context, the ideas about religion, women, foreigners, and slaves during the great intellectual blossoming of fifth century Athens, and the complex relationship between democracy and empire.

In this book, Sonja Krause Goodwin describes her Peace Corps training for teaching in Nigeria in 1964, her service there as a university teacher in physics, and her vacation travels. She notes her interactions with students, fellow university employees, other Peace Corps volunteers, and Nigerians.

Peninnah's World is the biography-in-stories of the iconic Jewish storyteller and folklorist Peninnah Schram. In vivid scenes, it dramatizes Schram's trajectory from brilliant daughter of Orthodox immigrant parents in New London, Connecticut, to acclaimed performer, teacher, scholar and colleague of luminaries including Elie Wiesel, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Molly Picon.

Rediscovering Republicanism explores and explicates America's two key political ideologies-founding-era American Republicanism and American Progressivism-and argues that American Republicanism rests on a sounder view of human nature and politics and offers the best path forward for renewing and reforming America's federal government today.

The power of this text lies in its ability to recapture the essence of the message of Jesus. It ignites an emancipatory pedagogical authority that speaks life to the oppressed and empowerment to the marginalized. For the educator of the Black student, this book provides a truly emancipatory pedagogy rooted in love and substantiated in humanity.

In this book, an anthropologist sets his experiences as a teenager fighting in the Vietnam War within the larger sweep of American culture and society. When his daughter is born decades after he returned from war the violence of those experiences, long suppressed, emerges from the shadows.

Tracing the life and work of Rod Giblett, a leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist and pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and non-fiction, Black Swan Song weaves together memoir, essay, story, and criticism. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark and troubled times.

Terrorism Inside America's Borders examines the history, trends, and different features of terrorism, and how the media, law enforcement, and other social institutions have responded to the violence. A variety of theoretical, methodological and analytical strategies are used to explore these issues.

Hilton and colleagues provide a cogent analysis of the effects of the One Florida Initiative on enrollment patterns in the state's public law schools to help us understand how changes in public policy can impact diversity.

How and why did Americans conceive a republic built on individual liberty, in an era or oppressive monarchies? The author explores the origins of the rights and liberties which the Constitution protects. He tells the story of the revolutionary journey from British colonies to a nation with the world's first written Constitution.

This book evaluates the Gospel of John and attempts to comprehend it more fully through its themes and sub-themes. The goal is to give the reader a better grasp of the underlying message contained in John's Gospel as opposed to simply reading the Gospel from its beginning to end.

In this book, Winton Bastes discusses the relationships between freedom, progress, and human flourishing. Bates asserts that freedom enables individuals to flourish in different ways without colliding, fosters progress, allows for a growth of opportunities, and supports personal development by enabling individuals to exercise self-direction.

This book is about the importance of the occupation of Danzig that started World War II. It is a study of intense diplomatic negotiations in the pre-WW II years 1937-1939 between Germany and Poland relating to Germany's desire to gain access to the Free City of Danzig, by establishing a secure transport route through that part of Poland.

Wang emigrated from China to the United States in 1949. He quickly made a life for himself and became active in the development of Sino-American relations. Wang's memoirs provide unique Chinese insight in the development of Sino-American relations at a pivotal time in our shared history.

This book explains how Uyghur rights have been diminishing under the authoritarian rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which has recently escalated into the cultural genocide of Uyghurs.

This is a systematic and concise introduction to more than forty fallacies, from anthropomorphism and argumentum ad baculum, to reductionism and the slippery slope argument. With helpful definitions, relevant examples, and thought-provoking exercises, the author guides the reader through the realms of fallacious reasoning and deceptive rhetoric.

This book tells the story of Liu's life under Mao and her subsequent struggle to achieve a better life in America. It sheds light on the monumental changes Chinese society experienced in the last century.

Playing with Fire chronicles the ongoing struggle facing Louisiana families trying to live and work against the backdrop of corrupt politicians and corporate greed. However, the story presented here is relevant wherever low-income, disenfranchised people are not included in decisions about their health and environment.

In this captivating novel, a proper English lady and her young, dashing son get caught up in a spy network in World War I. It remains for her grandson to entangle the web of their activities on Putney Bridge.

An Educational Journey to Deanship: A Memoir provides stories of resiliency, success, and achievements and highlights the following educational experiences: elementary/middle school, high school, undergraduate/graduate school, professional work, academic dean, and post administration.