Winner of the PEN/Faulkner: "Rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man" ( The Christian Science Monitor).Brilliant but troubled historian John Washington has left Philadelphia, where he is employed by a major university, to return to his hometown just north of the Mason–Dixon Line. He is there to care for Old Jack, one of the men who helped raise him when h...

Accessible, clear, and humorous, Deceived Wisdom answers questions people have pondered over for a lifetime, such as: Have you ever been informed that what you need to cool down is a nice cup of tea? And are you bored of being told that you have to let that red wine breathe first to improve its taste? Deceived Wisdom answers these questions and many more. Organized into easy-to-read, standalone sections, this book looks at the facts people think they know and examines why...

Winner of the 2021 Crystal Bookmark by The Las Vegas Book Festival & Readers Favorite Five Stars Awards.Bob, the oddly large-headed boy, has trouble in everyday life just like you and me. The adventures of Big Head Bob is a fun rhyming experience. By way of meditation and clear thinking, he learns to use his weaknesses as strengths. Bob transforms into a stronger, happier friend. Bob loves you and WE LOVE BOB!The big head signifies more than just big head. It's a metaphor f...

This is the follow up book to the Readers Choice five stars and 2021 Crystal Bookmark award winner for Literary Achievement: The Adventures of Big Head Bob - Transform Your Weakness into Strength. BHB2 as it's called in the series is "A deep dive into friendship."Lisa's neck is long and Bob's head is big. This unlikely duo are paired for a unique scuba diving trip, much to their dismay. Once underwater, they face adversity and help one another. Bob and Lisa witness the Goby Fish an...

Emergency care professionals are increasingly expected to work autonomously when caring for patients with minor musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. They have to be able to competently and safely take a patient’s history, examine, diagnose and provide management of these conditions. Managing Minor Musculoskeletal Injuries and Conditions pulls together all these aspects of care into one practical, easy-to-read text.Aimed principally at students undertaking minor injury ...

The Depression-era murder trial of George Crawford in Northern Virginia helped end the exclusion of African Americans from juries. Nearly forgotten today, the murders, ensuing manhunt, extradition battle and sensational trial enthralled the nation. Before it was over, the U.S. House of Representatives threatened to impeach a federal judge, the age-old states rights debate was renewed, and a rift nearly split the fledgling NAACP. In the end, the story's hero--Howard University Law School de...

This collection brings together the six international winners of the Notting Hill Editions £20,000 Essay Prize. From the coolly analytical to the impassioned winning entry 'A Eulogy for Nigger', these essays showcase the dazzling literary range of the form.

Issue 9 of Underland Arcana arrives with the first breath of spring. The first thaw, perhaps. Definitely in time for that first kiss—that first blush of awareness.This issue contains stories by Fayaway & Hermester Barrington, Daniel David Froid, David Bradley, Jason Washer, Roni Stinger, J. P. Oakes, A. P. Howell, Eric Witchey, Kiya Nicoll, and Erik Kollmer. Stories about what we hold on to after love leaves us, stories about who we wished we could be, stories about the terrible th...

Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious, disastrously reducing the variety of human knowledge and thought. This book shows why it matters, why and how it happens, and what communities and scholars can do about it. David and Maya Bradley provide a new framework for investigating and ...

The human psyche can typically only take so much negativity: getting wrongly excluded from education, having your friends betray and abandon you, and failing at your career. This is something Jason finds out the hard way. Luckily, there are ways around going insane, or worse. One of them being having the best partner in the world.

Optical Fiber Technology and Applications: Recent Advances, comprised of 10 chapters written by leading experts in the field,documents the cutting-edge work of new material composition and waveguide design-based specialty optical fibers and their photonic devices. Highlighting the most recent progress and trends in optical fiber technology, this book covers important topics such as specialty optical fibers, optical amplifiers, radiation dosimetry, borosilicate glass, radiation eff...

Romeo and Juliet is the play which, in English literature at least, effectively invented the modern love story. Its charm and its power derive from the romantic setting (Verona, an Italian Renaissance city), the youthful innocence and ardour of the lovers, and (perhaps crucially) the excitement and drama created by the opposition which they have to contend with, an opposition which does not simply stem from the older generation but which is starkly present in the feud between their two fam...