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1) Culture Crossroads: Dealing with the Pressures and Demands on Pacific Islanders Living in Aotearoa
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Pasifika people are at a crossroads and need to decide whether to retain their traditional cultural values and practices, to adopt those of the majority of New Zealanders or to find a middle pathway to the future. They feel under pressure in their lives in Aotearoa.In response, many older Pasifika people and those raised in the Pacific Islands, choose to run their Aotearoa churches and take part in the life of their church in the same way they did...
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Malachy McCourt, bestselling author of A Monk Swimming, shares the extraordinary story of how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years.
Bawdy and funny, naked and moving, told in the same inimitable voice that left readers all over the world wondering what happened next in A Monk Swimming, Singing My Him Song is "told...
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"Indian Biography, Vol. 1: Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters" by B. B. Thatcher is the first volume in a two-part series that offers a comprehensive historical and biographical narrative of notable figures among the North American natives. This work highlights the lives of individuals renowned for their roles as...
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Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington, D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. For four years Leon Dash of the Washington Post followed the lives of Rosa Lee Cunningham, her children, and five of her grandchildren, in an effort to understand the persistence of poverty...
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How successfully families in the U.S. navigate various institutional contexts frequently relies on a parent's ability to be continuously available for and capable of supporting their children. But what happens when one or both parents are immigrants who have limited English proficiency? This is the case for two-thirds of immigrant families in the U.S., and more often than not the children in these families must support their parents by acting as "language...
7) They Hang Me in Tokyo: A Barbarian Artist's Life-Changing Journey to Master Nihonga, the Tradition
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Enter the hidden world of Nihonga art in this one-of-a-kind memoir blending West and East.Hidden deep in the heart of Tokyo, a small shop sells something hardly known to the outside world. A coveted permanent pigment infused with minerals and gemstones, this rare paint has been used for centuries by Nihonga masters and few others. Nihonga, a living tradition of Japanese painting known for its blend of naturalism and abstraction, fine, delicate lines,...
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An autobiography detailing my journey through life, from birth to retirement. Includes a series of anecdotes with family and friends, adventures and misadventures, and a look at what is really important as we travel this road we call life. Also includes facts and trivial information on various places
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Bronislaw Malinowski had a talent for bringing together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living with the cool abstractions of science. His pages have become an almost indispensable link between the knowing of exotic and remote people and theoretical knowledge about humankind.
This classic volumeoriginally published in 1922can be considered the founding document of economic anthropology, and remains the best one to read. It emphasizes...
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Bronislaw Malinowski had a talent for bringing together in single comprehension the warm reality of human living with the cool abstractions of science. His pages have become an almost indispensable link between the knowing of exotic and remote people and theoretical knowledge about humankind.
This classic volume originally published in 1922can be considered the founding document of economic anthropology and remains the best one to read. It emphasizes...
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Fruit d'années de recherches intensives, cette œuvre plonge dans les racines ancestrales du griotisme et du sabar. À travers des anecdotes, elle révèle des aspects méconnus de ces traditions, offrant un regard particulier sur leur richesse et leur complexité. L'exploration romancée de l'art oral donne vie à un monde jusqu'ici préservé, ajoutant une dimension envoûtante à notre compréhension de cette culture fascinante.
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In 2024, you are observing an unprecedented version of America, where the extent of a nation's decline due to four years of inadequate and corrupt governance is becoming evident. I present an unabashed neoconservative perspective on the current events unfolding in our country, including the deteriorating state of governance, pervasive government corruption and agency weaponization, foreign affairs failure, escalating immorality, racial segregation,...
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When Edgar A. Love, Oscar J. Cooper, Frank Coleman, and Ernest Everett Just founded the historically Black fraternity Omega Psi Phi on November 17, 1911, at Howard University, they could not have known how great of an impact their organization would have on American life. Over the 110 years that followed, its members led colleges and universities; served in prominent military roles; made innumerable contributions to education, civic society, science,...
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This is the authentic story of Vivien Thomas, a true unsung American hero. Vivien Thomas was born in one of the poorest communities in the South in 1910, but his father was an ambitious master carpenter. The family moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where Vivien graduated from an excellent segregated Southern high school that kick-started his ambition to work in medicine. Despite all the odds against this Southern Black man, including his never having...
15) Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women's Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-first Century
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An uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author
When Mary Ann Shadd Cary-the first Black woman publisher in North America-declared, "break every yoke ... let the oppressed go free" to congregants in Chatham, Canada, in 1858, she joined a tradition of African American women speaking for their own liberation. Drawing from a rich archive of political speeches, acclaimed...
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As competing American, European, and later Japanese imperial and colonial ambitions spread across the ocean in the nineteenth century, Honolulu emerged as a transnational hub for the exchange of ideas. Rumi Yasutake reveals the pivotal role of women's organizing in this era of rapid globalization, tracing how diverse movements intersected and converged in Hawai'i-with worldwide consequences.
The Feminist Pacific examines transnational networks in...
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