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    Mother's Secret

    A Nutritionist's View of Family and Alzheimer's Disease

    by Marilyn Walls ...
    Narrated by Astrid Lanigan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 58 min

    Artfully blending the genres of memoir and scientific research, Mother's Secret: A Nutritionist's View of Family and Alzheimer's Disease offers the compelling story of one woman's southern roots. She is familiar, perhaps like your mother or grandmother, a woman who gained strength during the upheavals of the Great Depression and World War II. Her independence served her well until dementia ... Read more

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  • Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Ivan Dixon's 1973 film, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, captures the intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American Black underclass brought to the brink of revolution. This series of critical essays situates the film in its social, political, and cinematic ... Read more

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  • The Overseer Class

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    The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass (one of Kirkus Reviews best books of 2022*)* is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for high-visibility positions of power within existing institutions—but under the conditions of a kind of Faustian bargain.Our society places so much weight and attention on ... Read more

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  • The Black Panthers

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  • By the Light of Burning Dreams

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    Radical leaders of the 1960s and '70s come to vivid life in this volume of revealing profiles from two veteran journalists.The political landscape of the 1960s and 1970s was one of the most tumultuous in this country's history, shaped by the struggle for civil rights, women's liberation, Black power, and ending the Vietnam War. In many ways, this second American revolution sought to fulfill the ... Read more

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    How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people-many of them affluent and college educated-to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of ... Read more

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  • Summary and Analysis of Between the World and Me

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