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Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

by Lauret Savoy ...

**Winner of the American Book AwardPEN Literary Award FinalistThese essays blending memoir, history, and landscape “will create seismic shifts in readers’ perspectives on race, gender, and nature” as they explore how America’s ideas of ‘race’ have marked its people and the land (BuzzFeed).**Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. ... Read more

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**Winner of the American Book AwardPEN Literary Award FinalistThese essays blending memoir, history, and landscape “will create seismic shifts in readers’ perspectives on race, gender, and nature” as they explore how America’s ideas of ‘race’ have marked its people and the land (BuzzFeed).**Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss.
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Colors of Nature

Culture, Identity, and the Natural World

Edited by Alison H. Deming, Lauret E. Savoy ...

"An anthology of nature writing by people of color, providing deeply personal connections to—or disconnects from—nature." —NPRFrom African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixed-blood," the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and ... Read more

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"An anthology of nature writing by people of color, providing deeply personal connections to—or disconnects from—nature." —NPRFrom African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixed-blood," the diversity of cultures in this world is matched only by the diversity of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and destruction, displacement and
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Trace

Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

by Lauret Savoy ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

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6 hours 6 min

Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists ... Read more

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Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists
... Read more

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Facing Georgetown's History

A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation

Edited by Adam Rothman, Elsa Barraza Mendoza ...

A microcosm of the history of American slavery in a collection of the most important primary and secondary readings on slavery at Georgetown University and among the Maryland JesuitsGeorgetown University’s early history, closely tied to that of the Society of Jesus in Maryland, is a microcosm of the history of American slavery: the entrenchment of chattel slavery in the tobacco economy of the ... Read more

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A microcosm of the history of American slavery in a collection of the most important primary and secondary readings on slavery at Georgetown University and among the Maryland JesuitsGeorgetown University’s early history, closely tied to that of the Society of Jesus in Maryland, is a microcosm of the history of American slavery: the entrenchment of chattel slavery in the tobacco economy of the
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A Voice for Earth

American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter

by Alison Deming, Jake Swamp, Janisse Ray, John Lane, Lauret Savoy, Leonardo Boff, Mary Tucker, Rick Bass, Robert Pyle, Steven C. Rockefeller, Stuart Ching, Scott Russell Sanders, Homero Aridjis ...

A Voice for Earth is a collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.Part 1 of the book, "Imagination into Principle," ... Read more

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A Voice for Earth is a collection of poems, essays, and stories that together give a voice to the ethical principles outlined in the Earth Charter. The Earth Charter was adopted in the year 2000 with the mission of addressing the economic, social, political, spiritual, and environmental problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.Part 1 of the book, "Imagination into Principle,"
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This Impermanent Earth

Environmental Writing from The Georgia Review

by Suzanne Paola, Jerome F. Bump, Susan Cerulean, Alison Deming, Elizabeth Dodd, Louise Erdrich, Robert Finch, David Gessner, Raquel Gutiérrez, Emily Hiestand, J. D. Ho, Barbara Hurd, Brenda Iijima, James Kilgo, Sydney Lea, Barry Lopez, Andrew Menard, Jason Molesky, Gary P. Nabhan, Nicholas Neely, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ann Pancake, Robin Patten, Craig Santos Perez, Catherine Reid, Julie A. Riddle, Scott Russell Sanders, Reg Saner, Lauret Savoy, Dawne Shand, Sean P. Smith, Tyrone Williams, Camille T. Dungy ...

Series series Georgia Review Books
With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century’s accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been culled from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.The essays ... Read more

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With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century’s accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been culled from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.The essays
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The World in Flames

A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

by Jerald Walker ...

Narrated by C.S. Treadway ...

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5 hours 39 min

A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions ... Read more

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A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions
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The Golden Thirteen

How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold

by Dan Goldberg ...

Narrated by Sam Manual ...

Unabridged

8 hours 50 min

The inspiring story of the 13 courageous Black men who integrated the U.S. Navy during World War II—leading desegregation efforts across America and anticipating the civil rights movement.Featuring previously unpublished material from the U.S. Navy, this little-known history of forgotten civil rights heroes uncovers the racism within the military and the fight to serve.Through oral histories and ... Read more

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The inspiring story of the 13 courageous Black men who integrated the U.S. Navy during World War II—leading desegregation efforts across America and anticipating the civil rights movement.Featuring previously unpublished material from the U.S. Navy, this little-known history of forgotten civil rights heroes uncovers the racism within the military and the fight to serve.Through oral histories and
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Once Upon an Algorithm

How Stories Explain Computing

by Martin Erwig ...

Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

Unabridged

10 hours 48 min

How Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, the movie Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, and other familiar stories illustrate the concepts of computing.Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes ... Read more

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How Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, the movie Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, and other familiar stories illustrate the concepts of computing.Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes
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A Peculiar Indifference

The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

by Elliott Currie ...

Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

Unabridged

6 hours 47 min

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a ... Read more

$30.99 CAD

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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a
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A Voyage Long and Strange

Rediscovering the New World

by Tony Horwitz ...

Narrated by John H. Mayer ...

Unabridged

17 hours 16 min

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists ... Read more

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On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists
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American Rebels

How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution

by Nina Sankovitch ...

Narrated by Suzie Althens ...

Unabridged

15 hours 54 min

Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Junior, Abigail Smith Adams, and Dorothy Quincy Hancock had forged intimate connections during their ... Read more

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Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.Before they were central figures in American history, John Hancock, John Adams, Josiah Quincy Junior, Abigail Smith Adams, and Dorothy Quincy Hancock had forged intimate connections during their
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