![]() ![]() Booklist (starred review) Painted landscapes conjure the soft haze of forest waterfalls, mountain vistas, watery strokes of tree branches, small details of flowers, woodland creatures, and the warm expressions between parent and child. A memorable picture book on enjoying the natural world. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The handsome digital artwork clearly expresses the characters' emotions as well as the beauty and majesty of the natural world.A near-wordless book seems a particularly appropriate way of communicating the quiet yet powerful experience of walking through a wilderness area. ![]() Like the woods, this book is an immersive experience that invites repeated visits. Publishers Weekly (starred review) The relationship between the father and child makes this not just a picture book set in the outdoors, but a warm expression of how memories are created and bonds form. On the way home, their eyes meet in the rear-view mirror they know they've shared something special, a moment underscored by a final spread of the two cuddling on the sofa. The beauty of the natural world is viewed through the lens of the relationship between parent and child their closeness is what gives this outdoor experience meaning. ![]()
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The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which addresses a period of time or a specific subject in relation to the settlement, moving in a general chronological order through the history of the state. ![]() He employs a vast array of primary sources in order to depict the changing lives and the personal intentions of several key figures whose actions gave rise to American prosperity and westward expansion. ![]() The Pioneers by David McCullough traces the development of the first Ohio settlement beginning in the 1780s through to the mid-nineteenth century. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: McCullough, David. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Doesn't matter, it's offensive regardless.) 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At least his able-bodied friends, more accurately. ![]() ![]() Despite threats often carried out by racist pigs, by 1934 the Alabama Sharecroppers’ Union was composed entirely of Black laborers and had a membership of 6,000 people, the largest of any Black union in the South. Though initially skeptical of a communist party in the South, the CPUSA, along with other communists all over the United States, eventually had to eat their words. This alone proves the resilience of these revolutionary Southerners. ![]() ![]() But it is important to understand that it took the collective effort of the local and state white supremacist government to bring down the organized party of mainly Black laborers and workers, and that it took over two decades to do. The eventual dissolution of the ACP was brought on by the Red Scare, the Ku Klux Klan and reactionary politicians in Alabama. Kelley published the phenomenal book “Hammer and Hoe: The Alabama Communist Party 1928-1951,” documenting the 23-year history of the Alabama Communist Party, a chapter of the Communist Party USA.įormed and molded by Black sharecroppers and laborers such as Black revolutionary Hosea Hudson, the ACP went above and beyond fighting for the rights of laborers and workers, Black and white, to the rights to housing, food and equal pay. 14 in The Forge, a socialist newspaper for the South (). ![]() Women welders in Mobile, Ala., shipyards during the 1940s.Īn earlier version of this article originally appeared on Dec. ![]() ![]() ![]() They each had their own issues to deal with. ![]() It was refreshing to read a book where the “rock stars” weren’t all the “hot looking” people that I normally read about. I have to say again, that I thought that the author did a great job. I had read some reviews and some were saying it was because of the interview format of the book that they didn’t like it. I really liked it…a lot as a matter of fact. I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised. Having not read Scar Boys, which was the first book, I wasn’t too sure if I would be able to get everything out of Scar Girl as I should so I had this book for a bit before I was ready to read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this shocking, hard-hitting exposé in the tradition of Naomi Klein and Barbara Ehrenreich, the editorial director of reveals how inadequate, inappropriate, and even dangerous treatment threatens women’s lives and well-being.Įditor of the award-winning site, Maya Dusenbery brings together scientific and sociological research, interviews with experts within and outside the medical establishment, and personal stories from women across the country to provide the first comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today.ĭusenbery reveals how conditions that disproportionately affect women, such as autoimmune diseases, chronic pain conditions, and Alzheimer’s disease, are neglected and woefully under-researched. ![]() ![]()
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