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Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
-- The Warmth of Other Suns “This is a literary history of Black America, but it is also an argument that African American history is inextricable from the history of African American literature.” —The New York Times Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race It is a book grounded in the beautiful irony that a community formed...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez-known as Sito- was shot to death as he sat in his car in the Mission District of San Francisco. He was nineteen. His killer, Julius Williams, was seventeen. It was the second time the teens had encountered one another. The first, five years before, also ended in tragedy, when Julius watched as his brother was stabbed to death by an acquaintance of Sito's. The two murders merited a few local news stories,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
-- earned With irresistible charm and laugh-out-loud impertinence, -- Cheaper by the Dozen -And many more! With dozens of illustrations and historical photographs throughout, Unbecoming a Lady shines a light on unforgettable, impressive women who deserve to be remembered.
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