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2022.
"A delightful intellectual feast from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time One of the world's most prom
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9780593192153
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There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness : and other thoughts on physics, philosophy and the world
Ci sono luoghi al mondo dove più che le regole è importante la gentilezza. English
Aristotle the scientist -- Lolita and the blue icarus -- Newton the alchemist -- Copernicus and Bologna -- My 1977, and that of my friends -- Literature and science: a continuing dialogue -- Dante, Einstein and the three-sphere -- Between certainty and uncertainty: a precious intermediate space -- Bruno de Finetti: uncertainty is not the enemy -- Does science need philosophy? -- The mind of an octopus -- Ideas don't fall from the sky -- The many errors of Einstein -- Some think, O King Hiero, that the grains of sand cannot be counted -- Why does inequality exist? -- Dramatic echoes of ancient wars -- Four questions for politics -- National identity is toxic -- Charles Darwin -- Marie Curie -- The master -- Which science is closer to faith? -- Leopardi and astronomy -- De rerum natura -- Do flying donkeys exist? David Lewis says yes -- We are natural creatures in a natural world -- Emptiness is empty: Nāgārjuna -- Mein Kampf -- Black holes I: the fatal attraction of stars -- Black holes II: the heat of nothingness -- Black holes III: they mystery of the center -- Kip and gravitational waves -- Thank you, Stephen -- Roger Penrose -- Dear baby Jesus -- Certainty and global warming -- Churchill and science -- The infinite divisibility of space -- Ramon Llull: ars magna -- Are we free? -- A stupefying story -- Why I am an atheist -- Hadza -- A day in Africa -- The festive season is over -- This short life feels beautiful to us, now more than ever.
Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author.
Segre, Erica, translator.
Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator.
Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell.
2022
2020
There are places in the world where rules are less important than kindness : and other thoughts on physics, philosophy and the world
[2016]
"What do rock stars, Nobel laureates, bestselling novelists, astronauts, and attorneys have in common? A teacher changed their lives. Like them,
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9781608684182
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Thank you, teacher : grateful students tell the stories of the teachers who changed their lives
Dear Teacher / Dear Monsieur Germain / Almost like singing / I was your first-grade teacher / She made me feel as if the world was mine to conquer / She loved the boys and girls of Haldeman / An arena for me to shine / I didn't know her first name / The time I needed / Love of reading / Ode to teachers / Mrs. Lane's Olympics / Mis Germaine Earth Gregory Maguire -- Unforgettable / I met her only once / What I remember / John Dark / Teachers / Suzanne will be a writer / It only took me a moment or two to recognize him / She would invite me up to her desk / He could understand / As tall as I would ever need to be / She had expectations / All the lights inside my head came on / An encouraging figure / I have no idea what they saw / He was so passionate about reading / Renowned for her high standards / He thought I was smart / We knew what love was / Full of thinking and caring / I will be forever in her debt / Never without his hat / Shapes and furiously polished by my teachers / The writer inside me / He made class fun / Changing the face of rock and roll / Thank God for English teachers / I am thankful for her efforts / You know, I have no idea / Keep going / In a different way / Please use only sentences you've never heard before / Forty years later / Respect / A "Class Act" / My journey with books / "That" teacher / Not in the right neighborhood / Ignited a fire in me / Unlimited opportunities / And so she read / She was right / Thanks, Mom / The final piece of the puzzle / A man of passion / You'll never amount to a hill of beans / Unquestioned authority / To be inspired, to inspire / The death-defying Mr. G / All things pass / He made me feel valued / A world of possibility / He taught me more important life skills / Don't know anyone like him / Ça va / I was mesmerized / He saved my life / A grandson / Made a lasting impression / He had done his homework about our pasts / Walter taught liberation / I remember the kindness / My friend and teacher / His dazzling language / On a tangent / The man was right on the money / No more gold stars / Home of the soul / Stepping on the edge of my doubting / A beloved teacher calls my writing "fecking crap" / A mentor and a friend / I had the good fortune to work with him
Holbert, Holly, editor.
Holbert, Bruce, editor.
Abraham Lincoln -- Albert Camus -- Maya Angelou -- Andrew Gross -- Gene Simmons -- Chris Offutt -- Melora Hardin -- Cecil Murphey -- Daisy Martinez -- Sherri Shepherd -- Julie Peters -- Janet Evans -- Joan Baker -- Rudy Gaskins -- Kelli Russell -- Carol Muske-Dukes -- C.K. Williams -- Suzanne Harper -- Peter Selgin -- Meg Wolitzer -- Katherine Marsh -- Robert Reich -- Elizabeth McCracken -- Anne Perry -- Leslie Epstein -- Derek Alger -- CJ Lyons -- Thomas Kane -- Alan Dershowitz -- Alex Shoumatoff -- Mariana Klaveno -- George Saunders -- Dan Webster -- Marya Hornbacher -- David Bellos -- Tess Gerritsen -- Alison Haislip -- Stewart Lewis -- John Rosengren -- Tommy James -- Stuart Spencer -- Gillian Anderson -- Faye Kellerman -- John Whalen -- Dan Millman -- Beau Bridges -- Roy Firestone -- Eric Liebetrau -- Wayne Federman -- Helen Gurley Brown -- John Glenn -- Sherry Lansing -- Bill Moyers -- Alethea Black -- Dean Karnazes -- Lee Greenwood -- Darryl Wimberley -- Keith Jackson -- Robert Pinsky -- Indira Cesarine -- William Lashner -- Anthony Bozza -- Ellie Krieger -- Nicola Kraus -- Brian Crosby -- Joe Wilkins -- Rachel Toor -- Maria Mazziotti Gillan -- Hillary Susz -- Jess Walter -- Bruce Holbert -- Myles Kennedy -- Stephen Dunn -- Rosanne Cash -- Jim Piddock -- Ken Burns -- Peter Coyote -- Jerry Spinelli -- Doug Holder -- Kris Dinnison -- Shann Ray -- Annie Finch -- Sharma Shields -- Jim Belushi -- Gregory Spatz.
edited by Holly & Bruce Holbert.
2016
Thank you, teacher : grateful students tell the stories of the teachers who changed their lives
[2020]
First edition.
"A monumental, canon-defining anthology of four centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace an
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9781524747268
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The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present
Of Poetry and Style Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs On the Situation, Feelings, and Thought of an American Farmer Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America The Federalist No. 1 Thomas Jefferson, Religion On the Equality of the Sexes Farewell Address The Author's Account of Himself The Passenger Pigeon On the Condition of Women in the United States The Philosophy of Furniture Fire-Worship Experience from Woman in the Nineteenth Century To My Old Master, Thomas Auld Hawthorne and His Mosses Comparative Condition of the Colored People of the United States Where I Lived, and What I Lived For from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Second Inaugural Address Delightful Men Death of Abraham Lincoln The Art of Fiction On Advertising for Marriage Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements The Solitude of Self A Wind-Storm in the Forests The Mexican Lower Classes The Country Printer The Art of Seeing Things What Makes a Life Significant? Of Our Spiritual Strivings Democracy in Education The Basket Maker The Turning Point of My Life The Handicapped Batesville The Grocer's Cat The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy An Article Without an Idea Good Souls The Prohibition Era 148 Charles Street The City of My Dreams Intellectuals and Roughnecks The Hills of Zion The Dilemma of the Negro Author How It Feels to be Colored Me The Nature of the American Male: A Study of Pedestalism The World as I See It The Status of Art My Lost City Was My Life Worth Living? An Essay on Essays Meals for Me A New York Adolescence John Jay Chapman Fragments Avant-Garde and Kitsch What Are Master-pieces and Why Are There so Few of Them? Meals for Me John Jay Chapman From Seven Fragments Avant-Garde and Kitsch Ida M'Toy We Refugees America the Beautiful Death of a Pig Equal in Paris The Homosexual Villain The Marginal World The Stranger's Path The Lost Dimension in Religion Against Interpretation Notes of a Native Daughter Beyond Vietnam What America Would Be Like Without Blacks The Brown Wasps A Few Words About Breasts The Lives of a Cell On Foot in Virginia's Roanoke Valley Women and Honor : Some Notes on Lying The Great American Desert On Talking to Oneself The Twilight of Self-Reliance A Drugstore in Winter The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House This Writer's Sense of Place On Being a Cripple On Reading The Native American Voice in American Literature Puritans and Prigs In History The Princess and the Pea The View from Mrs. Thompson's Hispanic My 1980s My Yiddish Speaking in Tongues
Lopate, Phillip, 1943- editor, writer of introduction.
Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, Thomas Paine, Hector St. John De Crevecoeur, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Judith Sargent Murray, George Washington, Washington Irving, John James Audubon, Sarah Moore Grimke, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Henry David Thoreau, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Abraham Lincoln, Fanny Fern, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sui Sin Far, Jane Addams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Muir, Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, John Burroughs, William James, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Dewey, Mary Austin, Mark Twain, Randolph Bourne, John Jay Chapman, Agnes Repplier, George Santayana, R. C. Holliday, Dorothy Parker, Finley Peter Dunne, Willa Cather, Theodore Dreiser, Christopher Morley, H. L. Mencken, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, James Thurber, Albert Einstein, Kenneth Burke, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emma Goldman, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, M. F. K. Fisher, Lewis Mumford, Edmund Wilson, William Saroyan, Clement Greenberg, Gertrude Stein, M.F.K. Fisher, Edmund Wilson, William Saroyan, Clement Greenburg, Eudora Welty, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, E. B. White, James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, Rachel Carson, John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Paul Tillich, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Loren Eiseley, Nora Ephron, Lewis Thomas, Annie Dillard, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Hardwick, Billie Holiday Edward Abbey, William H. Gass, Wallace Stegner, Cynthia Ozick, Audre Lorde, Rolando Hinojosa, Nancy Mairs, Guy Davenport, N. Scott Momaday, Marilynne Robinson, Jamaica Kincaid, Vivian Gornick, David Foster Wallace, Richard Rodriguez, Wayne Koestenbaum, Leonard Michaels, Zadie Smith,
edited and with an introduction by Phillip Lopate.
2020
The glorious American essay : one hundred essays from colonial times to the present
2017.
First edition.
Essays, poetry, and art included in this anthology celebrate the one-hundredth birthday of the late poet and cultural icon Gwendolyn Brooks.
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9781940430867
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Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
Introduction: Of memory and revision / Foreword / Child-free / Barbed wire / I, too, am the mother / The unmother / Dialogue between two women at the clinic / Motherhood / First journey / Daystar / My mother's clothes / Washer woman / Tax deadline / Fixing face / [Untitled] / Milk bath / Horse and carriage on the plaza / A slip into history / My face / blk(s) / The night after you have been fired from your job / A burning lesson / She was my first / Poem for Gwendolyn Brooks on her centennial birthday
Sister Flossie's jam / Recipe / Radio / For the lover who eats my poems ... / To be in love / To be / Knife in the wall / Chalk / When your silence will not save you / Fine art school / Combatives / Stay / Abracadabra / Psalm 23 at 15 / Visitation one / Dog in a dead man's house / Babes / On Spring / Bitter winter / Suicide one / Lovely love / Sweet stalk / Genetic codes / The Samaritan woman / Look behind / Deuce and a quarter / Convenience / Anacostia suite / Sold to the man with the mouth / Kenny's friend / Run Johnny run / Foun(d) poem / Silly stories / Dying of laughter / Sleep smoking / Five belly buttons / Yaakov's jackets / The hammers / Mama Gwendolyn kiss (is) Uncle Ruckus on de forehead / Civility / Tribal differences / Players online dating service / Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. goes to heaven / Looking for Venture Smith / Sonnet for Gordon Parks / Oriki for John Oliver Killens
Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks / Quatrain for Emmett Till/Trayvon Martin/Michael Brown/LaQuan McDonald / Many sons, many mothers / A depraved indifference 2 human life / The short answer / A neighborhood boy / Rite of passag / We real / Roots / News item : police seek African-American man / History of static / East Texas blues / Robert's Hill : San Augustine, Texas / We real / WWW2015 / The tragedies / Skin / Keloid cells / Landscape with chalk-marked silhouette / Everyday horrors / When racism dies / Overheard at tea, near Kensington and DeVeers, London / A feast of whispers / In praise of wisdom / Halloween / Who needs the stars if the full moon loves you? / Prayer for Jordan / The corner / A deaf old lady / Street woman / Black woman in Russia / Artwork gallery ; Recollections / Urban couple / The tenant / Meanwhile, a Lawndale girl burns cornbread / R. Taylor's Project girl / Final frontier / Gwendolyn Brooks stands in the Mecca / The last supper / Second Ave. ceiling / Steel canary / Crime in Bluesville / Eating in the after life / Hotel Hades / Lincoln Cemetery / The blinking apple / & later / Geometry / Cedar / Fun in the backyard / Day 4, somewhere between Athens and Serifos, Greece / June 9, Serifos, Greece / Blackbirding / Seven years
Testifying / Language of the unheard / Jazz June / To the recorder of history / A note on Gwendolyn Brooks / Reading Gwendolyn Brooks / Letter to Gwendolyn Brooks / Nobody knows my name / A haiku for Gwendolyn Brooks / Journaling with Gwendolyn Brooks Kwansaba-style 2016 : a pastiche of poetic reports on her life & works / The weight of the word / Baggage / Smolder / Artist statements. Anecdote / Reflections : experiencing Gwendolyn Brooks / Reflection / Gwendolyn Brooks reminiscence / Being born into Brooks / Description of portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks / My Gwendolyn Brooks experience / Remembrance / Finding my own sunset and thoughts on reading Gwendolyn Brooks / My first contact with Gwendolyn Brook / A slice of prose for Gwendolyn Brooks, poet / To make a thing sing and mean : reflections on Gwendolyn Brooks / Wordweaver (for Gwendolyn Brooks) / A Bluesviile tribute for Gwendolyn Brooks / Brooks biography. We remember Sunday : portrait of the artist as an ancestor / Brooks bibliography. Gwendolyn Brooks : a selected bibliography 1979-2015
Lansana, Quraysh Ali editor.
Jackson-Opoku, Sandra, editor.
Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Marita Golden -- Joan Wiese Johannes ; Jodi Joanclair ; Georgia A. Popoff ; Angela Jackson ; Jeanne Towns ; Emily Hooper Lansana ; Diane Glancy ; Rita Dove ; Chirskira Caillouet ; Kimberly A. Collins ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Zoe Lynn Nyman -- Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Crystal Simone Smith ; Aries Hines ; Avery R. Young ; Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Kimberly A. Collins ; Kalisha Buckhanon ; Jessica Care Moore.
Qiana Towns ; L.D. Barnes ; Malaika Favorite ; Jaki Shelton Green ; CM Burroughs ; Keith Wilson ; Mike Puican ; Keith Wilson ; Randall Horton ; Crystal Simone Smith ; David Bublitz ; Jericho Brown ; Randall Horton ; Wayne-Daniel Berard ; David Bublitz ; Adrienne Christian ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Keith Wilson ; Dasha Kelly ; David Bublitz ; Elise Paschen ; Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Jodi Joanclair ; John C. Mannone -- Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Calvin Forbes ; Monique Hayes ; Tony Medina ; Adrian Matejka ; Judy Dozier ; Calvin Forbes ; Avery R. Young ; Tony Lindsay ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; David Bublitz ; Rohan Preston ; Mel Goldberg ; Jericho Brown ; Avery R. Young ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Reggie Scott Young ; Calvin Forbes ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Jacqueline Johnson ; Carolyn Joyner ; Jacqueline Johnson.
Sam Hamill ; Regina Taylor ; Tara Betts ; Khari B. ; Roger Bonair-Agard ; Devorah Major ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Kevin Coval ; Nile Lansana ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Kevin Stein ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Roger Bonair-Agard ; Deshaunte Walker ; Kevin Stein ; John C. Mannone ; Jodi Joanclair ; Tony Medina ; Esteban Colon ; Kwabena Foli ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Jaki Shelton Green ; Sharan Strange ; Malaika Favorite ; Sheree Renée Thomas ; Jaki Shelton Green -- Keith Wilson ; Marilyn Nelson ; Devorah Major ; Shahari Moore ; Reggie Scott Young ; Opal Palmer Adisa ; Keith Wilson ; Patricia Smith ; Bettina Marie Walker ; Adrian Matejka ; Kevin Coval ; Tina Jenkins Bell ; Zoe Lynn Nyman ; Rohan Preston ; Reggie Scott Young ; Qiana Towns ; Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Cortney Lamar Charleston ; Rohan Preston ; Adrian Matejka ; Rita Dove ; Anastacia Renee Tolbert ; Lenard D. Moore ; Monica Hand ; Monica Hand ; John Wilkinson ; Quraysh Ali Lansana.
Rita Dove ; Opal Palmer Adisa ; Clifford Thompson ; Randall Horton ; Sharon Olds ; Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Sandra Cisneros ; Manuel Muñoz ; Damaris Hill ; Eugene B. Redmond ; Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Lansana/Brooks ; Lansana/Brooks -- Lana Hechtman Ayers ; Khari B. ; Tina Jenkins Bell ; Rose Blouin ; David Bublitz ; Adjoa Jackson Burrowes ; Chirskira Caillouet ; Adrienne Christian ; Kimberly Dixon-Mays ; Judy Dozier ; Natasha Ria El-Scari ; Calvin Forbes ; Diane Glancy ; Jaki Shelton Green ; Monica Hand ; Damaris Hill ; Akua Lezli Hope ; Sandra Jackson-Opoku ; Jodi Joanclair ; Joan Wiese Johannes ; Jacqueline Johnson ; Carolyn Joyner ; Emily Hooper Lansana ; Roy Lewis ; Tony Lindsay ; Mary Catherine Loving ; Devorah Major ; Adrian Matejka ; Gwendolyn A. Mitchell ; Lenard D. Moore ; Joyce Owens ; Elise Paschen ; Mike Puican ; Eugene B. Redmond ; Crystal Simone Smith ; Kevin Stein ; Regina Taylor ; Jeanne Towns ; Qiana Towns ; Keith Wilson ; Avery R. Young ; Reggie Scott Young -- Sandra Jackson-Opoku -- Kathleen E. Bethel.
edited by Quraysh Ali Lansana & Sandra Jackson-Opoku.
2017
Revise the Psalm : work celebrating the writing of Gwendolyn Brooks
[2016]
"Celebrating the life of this extraordinary woman, a selected anthology collects 50 years worth of the award-winning author's essays on food, tra
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9781619027855
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Eat, live, love, die : selected essays
Essays. Selections
Fussell, Betty Harper, author.
Waters, Alice, author of introduction.
Betty Fussell ; introduction by Alice Waters.
2016
Eat, live, love, die : selected essays
[2020]
"Featuring some of America's greatest writers and poets, this landmark anthology is a one-of-a-kind field guide to the American literary imaginat
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9781598536553
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American birds : a literary companion
Rubenfeld, Andrew, editor.
Williams, Terry Tempest, editor.
edited by Andrew Rubenfeld and Terry Tempest Williams.
2020
American birds : a literary companion
2020.
A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a
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9781419735325
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One last lunch : a final meal with those who meant so much to us
Heller, Erica, editor.
edited by Erica Heller.
2020
One last lunch : a final meal with those who meant so much to us
℗2016.
Unabridged.
An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories--observed in author Nei
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Harper Audio ; Distributed by Recorded Books,
9780062417190
CD
The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
Gaiman, Neil.
Harper Audio (Firm)
Recorded Books, Inc.
written and read by Neil Gaiman.
2016
The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
[2016]
First edition.
More than sixty pieces exploring a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytel
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9780062262264
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The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
Works. Selections
Gaiman, Neil author.
Neil Gaiman.
2016
The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
[2016]
First HarperLuxe edition.
"An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics--from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories--observed in #1 New Yo
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9780062466426
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The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
Works. Selections
Gaiman, Neil author.
Neil Gaiman.
2016
The view from the cheap seats : selected nonfiction
[2021]
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed by Minneapolis police officers, sparking months of unrest at home and around the
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9781681342085
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Sparked : George Floyd, racism, and the progressive illusion
Jacobs, Walter R., editor.
Taiwo, Wendy Thompson, editor, contributor.
August, Amy, editor.
Aguilar, Rodolfo, contributor.
Beane, Kate, contributor.
Brewer, Rose M., contributor.
Castellanos, María Bianet, contributor.
Choy, Catherine Ceniza, contributor.
Coleman, Taiyon J. , contributor.
Fajardo, Kale Bantigue, contributor.
Gibney, Shannon, contributor.
Hirsi, Ibrahim, contributor.
Jacobs, Walter R., contributor.
Lawrence, David Todd, contributor.
Lewis, Brittany, contributor.
Logan, Enid, contributor.
Lozenski, Brian D., contributor.
Mayes, Keith A., contributor.
Mitchell, Jasmine, contributor.
Myers Jr., Samuel L., contributor.
Obando, Mario Alberto, contributor.
Pha, Kong Pheng, contributor.
Phillips, Katrina, contributor.
Powell, Amber Joy, contributor.
Raimist, Rachel, contributor.
Rajasekar, Neeraj, contributor.
Sarmiento, Thomas X., contributor.
Shannon, Jerry, contributor.
Shannon, Sarah, contributor.
Sharkey, Erin, contributor.
Singleton, Jermaine, contributor.
Sole, Jason Marque, contributor.
Spears-Rico, Gabriela, contributor.
Wheelock, Darren, contributor.
Williams, Marcia, contributor.
Williams, Yohuru, contributor.
Williamson, Terrion L., contributor.
Wright, Mi'Chael N. , contributor.
edited by Walter R. Jacobs, Wendy Thompson Taiwo and Amy August.
2021
Sparked : George Floyd, racism, and the progressive illusion
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