1054 results for '"Shirley V. Hodgson'

"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial...

This young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.An NAACP Image Award finalistA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA NYPL Best Book...

A stunning anthology of fierce and dangerous women, featuring stories from Lauren Groff, Deesha Philyaw, K-Ming Chang, and thirteen other award-winning and bestselling authorsA middle-aged Black...

A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the implementation of integration decimated Black school...

"Ein facettenreiches und faszinierendes Portrait des einflussreichen Denkers im regen Austausch mit zahlreichen Geistesgrößen. Der Psychiater und Philosoph Karl Jaspers hinterließ eine große...

A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A powerful, incisive reckoning with the impacts of school desegregation that traces four generations of the author’s family to show how the...

Wartski is a family firm of art and antique dealers, specialising in fine jewellery, gold boxes, silver and works of art by Carl Faberge. The firm was founded in Bangor, North Wales in 1865 by Morris...

A landmark in women’s empowerment—as relevant as ever in the age of #MeToo—that honors female sexuality in all its complexityIt’s been more than twenty years since Eve Ensler’s international...

“[A] learned and thoughtful portrayal of the history of race relations in America...authoritative and highly readable...[An] impressive work.”—Randall Kennedy, The Nation“This comprehensive history.....

Since Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation battles of the 1960s and 1970s, the legal pursuit of educational opportunity in the United States has been framed largely around race. But for...

In the months following its initial release, Guantánamo: What the World Should Know has proved to be a disturbingly accurate account of the Bush administration's tangle with civil liberties and...

John Lawton's debut novel-first published by Viking in 1995, and now being reissued by Grove Press--is a stunning, war-time thriller that cements his place among the greatest crime writers of our era...

A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American photos and films of the 1940sWartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World...

EVERYDAY LIFE IN ANCIENT GREECE BY C. E. ROBINSON PREFACE THERE is a story told of a certain English poet, who, as an undergraduate at Oxford, was compelled to undergo an examination in Divinity. His...

"Jones, a trailblazing African American judge, delivers an urgently needed perspective on American history . . . [A] passionate and informative account" (Booklist, starred review). Answering the...

A "riveting" new telling of the Hundred Years war that "brilliantly revises centuries of history" (Bernard Cornwell, New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Kingdom), revealing how the lines...

A new view of the way modernist fiction writers tried to solve the problem of time.Do our fictions transform time? Do they cultivate the temporal environment? Such was the hope—or the fantasy—at work...

Building on the work of key twentieth-century US and Indian thinkers, a bold argument that oppressed groups can--and should--make use of state power to create truly democratic societies. Group-based...

Mark Graber looks at the history of abortion law in action to argue that the only defensible, constitutional approach to the issue is to afford all women equal choice--abortion should remain legal or...

A “terrific, if chilling, account” (The Guardian) of how the Supreme Court’s new conservative supermajority is overturning decades of law and leading the country in a dangerous political direction.In...