![]() ![]() My original copy of The Other America with it's prolific empty highlighting and the vacuous notes of a college freshman of 50 years ago is long gone. Harrington sought to make poverty in the United States visible, and his observations have had a deep impact on our country, dramatically changing how we view the poor and the policies the country has followed to help them. The Other America won the Hillman Prize and an ALA Notable Books for Adults Award in 1962. ![]() ![]() Harrington was an American democratic socialist, writer, author of The Other America, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Harrington cast light on the lives of the poor, from farms to cities, and the social forces at work that reduced them to their plight. When first published in 1962, The Other America was greeted as an explosive work and became a motivating call for the war on poverty. This profoundly moving classic is still very relevant in modern America. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty from the 1970s and 80s as well as a new introduction by Harrington’s biographer, Maurice Isserman. ![]() In the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a groundbreaking sociological study. ![]()
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5/8/2023 0 Comments Unbroken paula morris![]() ![]() In 2013 she published her first children's book, HENE AND THE BURNING HARBOUR (Puffin New Zealand). ![]() RANGATIRA won best book of fiction at the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards and the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards. Paula is also the author of award-winning novels for adults, published by Penguin Books in her native New Zealand: QUEEN OF BEAUTY (2002) HIBISCUS COAST (2005) TRENDY BUT CASUAL (2007) and RANGATIRA (2011). She is the author of three novels for young adults, all published by Scholastic: RUINED, a mystery with a supernatural twist set in New Orleans DARK SOULS, a novel set in the ancient - and haunted - city of York, England and UNBROKEN, a sequel to RUINED. ![]() For ten years, she worked in London and New York, first as a publicist and marketing executive in the record business, and later as a branding consultant and advertising copywriter. Paula Morris is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments The city we became amazon![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joller’s LinkedIn profile says Snackable AI joined Amazon “to continue innovating and exploring new experiences on behalf of Amazon Music Podcasts’ customers.” Snackable AI raised $3.1 million in funding before being acquired by Amazon, according to Crunchbase.Īmazon added podcasts to its Music platform back in 2020 and has since been building out the offering and adding new features, such as synched transcripts. The company’s technology provides an “at a glance” view to make consuming content fast and efficient. Her profile notes that she leads “a team of engineers, applied scientists and computational linguists to build AI-powered products for Amazon Music Podcasts’ customers.”įounded in 2018, Snackable AI specialized in using AI to add structure and metadata to video and audio easily with AI-generated chapters, highlights and more. Snackable AI founder and CEO Mari Joller is now an AI and machine learning product leader at Amazon Music, according to her LinkedIn profile. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The tech giant told TechCrunch in an email on Friday that the Snackable AI team joined Amazon Music to work on existing podcast projects. Amazon quietly acquired New York–based audio content discovery engine Snackable AI last December to boost its podcast features, as first reported by New York Post. ![]() ![]() ![]() |a "A young woman becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined when she makes a video of a giant sculpture in New York that goes viral"- |c Provided by publisher. |a Thorndike, Maine : |b Center Point Large Print, |c 2019. |a An absolutely remarkable thing |h / |c Hank Green. ![]() 5/8/2023 0 Comments Ingrid lee joyful![]() Fetell Lee addresses are easy to dismiss: the differences in the shape of things, the color of things and the joy in abundance however, she skillfully addresses her own doubts and takes the reader on a journey of discovery. This is not a book that is going to change your life however, it may change how you approach certain aspects of your life and give you the skills to add joy into the most unlikely of places. The book leaves the reader with and actual understanding of why some things in the world are more joyful than others and how to differentiate between them. Part memoir, part travel guide, part scientific dissertation, and yes, part new age exploration of what brings joy into our lives and why Joyful is all this and more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fetell Lee skillfully navigates these potentially treacherous waters to give us a surprisingly joyful book. Because in less capable hands “Joyful: The surprising power of ordinary things to create extraordinary happiness,” could be a ridiculous book that could be dismissed as new age trash. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only one man can destroy the conspiracy: Webb, who must be persuaded to re-assume his Bourne identity, track down the impostor and through him lay a trap for the vile Shengthe ``persuasion'' to be by way of his abducted wife. agent now, under his real name David Webb, struggling with the aid of a psychiatrist and his loving wife Marie to recover from amnesia. His principal agent is an assassin-for-hire masquerading as the legendary "Jason Bourne,'' a one-time secret U.S. ![]() A Peking leader of seemingly irreproachable reputation, secretly a Kuomintang fanatic, has masterminded a plot to take over Hong Kong via political assassination, the result of which would be civil war in China and possibly global disaster. ![]() Ludlum has never come up with a more head-spinning, spine-jolting, intricately mystifying, Armageddonish, in short Ludlumesque, thriller than this. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is particularly good to see the republication of Mind-Energy, a treasure trove of Bergsonian insights long out of print.' - Professor Pete A.Y. A study of the philosophical implications of biological evolutionary theory, the impact of this book reached far beyond biology and seemed to many to herald a new age in philosophy and the sciences. ![]() The Centennial Series of his works undertaken by Palgrave Macmillan thus comes at an opportune time, making it possible for those interested in Bergson's ideas t have access to newly annotated versions of several of his chief writings, freshly introduced and discussed. Creative Evolution, originally published in 1911 by Henry Holt and Company, is the work which catapulted Bergson from obscurity into world-wide fame. 'Long absent from the center of discussion in Western philosophy, Bergson has recently made a reappearance. Keith Ansell Pearson and John Mullarkey have been at the forefront of the new conception of life, therefore no better editors for these volumes could be selected.' - Professor Leonard Lawlor, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA ![]() This is a timely decision since Bergson was the great thinker of life and it seems, nearly one hundred years later, that we find ourselves once again required to conceive life. 'Palgrave Macmillan is to be congratulated for reissuing these classic Bergson texts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with-and perished from-for more than five thousand years. ![]() Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” ( The New Yorker)-a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The issue of ‘step’ relationships don’t bother me since they aren’t actually related but I’ve personally never had much interest in reading books featuring multiple partner relationships. Now when it comes to taboo in romance, there are some things that I’m fine with and others that I’m just not comfortable reading. She picks up her life and moves to a remote location in Colorado with her step-uncle and step-cousins. In a very short summary, Credence is about a 17yo girl who suddenly becomes orphaned and since she is not yet an adult, he care is left to an estranged step-uncle. Then I read the synopsis and the excitement remained but it was also paired with some nerves. When I first heard that Penelope Douglas was releasing a new book, I became very excited! Since discovering her work last year, I’ve loved everything I’ve read. ![]() |