Summary Book Review The Wake of Crows by Thom van Dooren:
Download or read book The Wake of Crows written by Thom van Dooren and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs and farms. Across these diverse landscapes, many species of crow are doing well: their intelligent and adaptive ways of life have allowed them to thrive amid human-driven transformations. Indeed, crows are frequently disliked for their success, seen as pests, threats, and scavengers on the detritus of human life. But among the vast variety of crows, there are also critically endangered species that are barely hanging on to existence, some of them the subjects of passionate conservation efforts. The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world. He explores contemporary possibilities for shared life emerging in the context of ongoing processes of globalization, colonization, urbanization, and climate change. Moving among these diverse contexts, this book tells stories of extermination and extinction alongside fragile efforts to better understand and make room for other species. Grounded in the careful work of paying attention to particular crows and their people, The Wake of Crows is an effort to imagine and put into practice a multispecies ethics. In so doing, van Dooren explores some of the possibilities that still exist for living and dying well on this damaged planet.
Author :Gregor Gall Publisher :Manchester University Press Release Date :2017-03-11 ISBN 10 :9781526100306 Pages :264 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.0/5 (3 users download)
Summary Book Review Bob Crow: Socialist, leader, fighter by Gregor Gall:
Download or read book Bob Crow: Socialist, leader, fighter written by Gregor Gall and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-11 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bob Crow was the most high-profile and militant union leader of his generation. This biography focuses on his leadership of the RMT union, examining and exposing a number of popular myths created about him by political opponents. Using the schema of his personal characteristics (including his public persona), his politics and the power of his members, it explains how and why he was able to punch above his weight in industrial relations and on the political stage, helping the small RMT union become as influential as many of its much larger counterparts. As RMT leader, Crow oversaw a rise in membership and promoted a more assertive and successful bargaining approach. While he failed to unite all socialists into one new party, he established himself as the leading popular critic of neo-liberalism, 'New' Labour and the age of austerity.
Summary Book Review Herward the Wake by Charles Kingsley:
Download or read book Herward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Hereward the Wake by Charles Kingsley:
Download or read book Hereward the Wake written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Hereward the Wake, "last of the English." by Charles Kingsley:
Download or read book Hereward the Wake, "last of the English." written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Hereward the Wake, etc by Charles Kingsley:
Download or read book Hereward the Wake, etc written by Charles Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Summary Book Review Union Revitalisation in Advanced Economies by Gregor Gall:
Download or read book Union Revitalisation in Advanced Economies written by Gregor Gall and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a decade of "union organizing" in Britain, the time has come to make a thoroughgoing assessment of it. This book evaluates the efficacy of the union organizing in terms of union strategies, tactics, styles and resources, and assesses the impact of differing regulatory regimes on union organizing.
Summary Book Review In the Wake of the Graf Spee by Enrique Dick:
Download or read book In the Wake of the Graf Spee written by Enrique Dick and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an indispensable book for anyone wanting to know more about the before, during and after the Battle of the River Plate, the naval tactics that were employed, the games of diplomacy, the honour of the captains and crews, and the ground- breaking technology involved. The book takes a balanced view of pre-war and post-war events that shaped those years and of Argentina’s willingness to take the crew of the Graf Spee in and offer them refuge, which proved to be beneficial to both communities. For those with an interest in social history, the book tells the fascinating story of the changes that the arrival of 200 young German sailors in the foothills of the Sierras de Córdoba meant for what in 1940 had been a small village, Villa General Belgrano, where their traditions still endure. The technical details of the Graf Spee are set out in an Appendix at the back of the book where readers with an interest in such things will be able to find a comprehensive description of her own fascinating story and details of her armaments and capabilities in both words and numbers. The illustrations have been carefully selected in an attempt to reflect what that era was really like and the context in which she was built. Contents include: The Kriegsmarine; Life on board; The outbreak of war; Battle stations; Buenos Aires to Capilla Vieja; Illustrious name, Illustrious ship and both the early and final years.
Summary Book Review Jim Crow's Children by Peter Irons:
Download or read book Jim Crow's Children written by Peter Irons and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-01-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Irons, acclaimed historian and author of A People History of the Supreme Court, explores of one of the supreme court's most important decisions and its disappointing aftermath In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. So goes the conventional wisdom. Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and such judges as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, sketches of numerous black children throughout history whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow schools, and gripping courtroom drama scenes, Irons shows how the erosion of the Brown decision—especially by the Court’s rulings over the past three decades—has led to the “resegregation” of public education in America.
Author :Marlon James Publisher :Simon and Schuster Release Date :2015-09-10 ISBN 10 :9781780748504 Pages :240 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.4/5 (85 users download)
Summary Book Review John Crow's Devil by Marlon James:
Download or read book John Crow's Devil written by Marlon James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel of the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 Jamaica, 1957 On a day beginning with a bad omen – black vultures, known locally as John Crows, crash through the local church windows – a handsome and charismatic stranger drags the village preacher from his pulpit and takes over both church and congregation. Promising vengeance and damnation, he wastes no time delivering both, and in doing so starts a power struggle that sets the village of Gibbeah on a path to destruction. With language as taut as classic works by Cormac McCarthy, and a richness reminiscent of early Toni Morrison, John Crow’s Devil is a terrifying and moving novel about religious mania, redemption, sexual obsession and the eternal struggle between the righteous and the wicked.
Author :Ayesha K. Hardison Publisher :University of Virginia Press Release Date :2014-05-13 ISBN 10 :9780813935942 Pages :296 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.3/5 (594 users download)
Summary Book Review Writing through Jane Crow by Ayesha K. Hardison:
Download or read book Writing through Jane Crow written by Ayesha K. Hardison and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Writing through Jane Crow, Ayesha Hardison examines African American literature and its representation of black women during the pivotal but frequently overlooked decades of the 1940s and 1950s. At the height of Jim Crow racial segregation—a time of transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movement and between World War II and the modern civil rights movement—black writers also addressed the effects of "Jane Crow," the interconnected racial, gender, and sexual oppression that black women experienced. Hardison maps the contours of this literary moment with the understudied works of well-known writers like Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, and Richard Wright as well as the writings of neglected figures like Curtis Lucas, Pauli Murray, and Era Bell Thompson. By shifting her focus from the canonical works of male writers who dominated the period, the author recovers the work of black women writers. Hardison shows how their texts anticipated the renaissance of black women’s writing in later decades and initiates new conversations on the representation of women in texts by black male writers. She draws on a rich collection of memoirs, music, etiquette guides, and comics to further reveal the texture and tensions of the era. A 2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Summary Book Review The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow by A.J. Mackinnon:
Download or read book The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow written by A.J. Mackinnon and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack de Crow. Equipped with his cheerful optimism and a pith helmet, this Australian Odysseus in a dinghy travels from the borders of North Wales to the Black Sea – 4900 kilometres over salt and fresh water, under sail, at the oars, or at the end of a tow-rope – through twelve countries, 282 locks and numerous trials and adventures, including an encounter with Balkan pirates. Along the way he experiences the kindness of strangers, gets very lost, and perfects the art of slow travel.
Summary Book Review New Quotatoes: Joycean Exogenesis in the Digital Age by :
Download or read book New Quotatoes: Joycean Exogenesis in the Digital Age written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Quotatoes offers fourteen original essays on the genetic dossiers of Joyce’s fiction and the ties that bind the literary archive to the transatlantic print sphere of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Summary Book Review The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen:
Download or read book The Merciful Crow written by Margaret Owen and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tor.com Best of 2019 Pick A 2020 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Pick Debut author Margaret Owen crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, survival, and sacrifice—perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake—in The Merciful Crow. "Packed to the teeth with fresh worldbuilding and righteous fury...It's a ride that is wildly fun."—Emily A. Duncan, New York Times-bestselling author of Wicked Saints "Rich, harrowing, and unafraid to tackle discrimination—perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Tomi Adeyemi."—Kirkus, Starred Review One way or another, we always feed the crows. A future chieftain Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin, but when they’re called to collect royal dead, she’s hoping they’ll find the payout of a lifetime. A fugitive prince When Crown Prince Jasimir turns out to have faked his death, Fie’s ready to cut her losses—and perhaps his throat. But he offers a wager that she can’t refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he’ll protect the Crows when he reigns. A too-cunning bodyguard Hawk warrior Tavin has always put Jas’s life before his, magically assuming the prince’s appearance and shadowing his every step. But what happens when Tavin begins to want something to call his own?
Author :Michelle Alexander Publisher :The New Press Release Date :2012-01-16 ISBN 10 :9781595588197 Pages :336 pages File Format : PDF, EPUB, TEXT, KINDLE or MOBI Rating :4.8/5 (819 users download)
Summary Book Review The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander:
Download or read book The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once in a great while a book comes along that changes the way we see the world and helps to fuel a nationwide social movement. The New Jim Crow is such a book. Praised by Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier as "brave and bold," this book directly challenges the notion that the election of Barack Obama signals a new era of colorblindness. With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." By targeting black men through the War on Drugs and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control—relegating millions to a permanent second-class status—even as it formally adheres to the principle of colorblindness. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, president and CEO of the NAACP, this book is a "call to action." Called "stunning" by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Levering Lewis, "invaluable" by the Daily Kos, "explosive" by Kirkus, and "profoundly necessary" by the Miami Herald, this updated and revised paperback edition of The New Jim Crow, now with a foreword by Cornel West, is a must-read for all people of conscience.
Summary Book Review Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon:
Download or read book Anderson Crow, Detective written by George Barr McCutcheon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon
Summary Book Review The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity by James Charles Cobb:
Download or read book The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity written by James Charles Cobb and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The recent fiftieth anniversary of Brown prompted a surge of tributes: books, television and radio specials, conferences, and speeches. At the same time, says James C. Cobb, it revealed a growing trend of dismissiveness and negativity toward Brown and other accomplishments of the civil rights movement. Writing as both a lauded historian and a white southerner from the last generation to grow up under southern apartheid, Cobb responds to what he sees as distortions of Brown’s legacy and their implied disservice to those whom it inspired and empowered. Cobb begins by looking at how our historical understanding of segregation has evolved since the Brown decision. In particular, he targets the tenacious misconception that racial discrimination was at odds with economic modernization--and so would have faded out, on its own, under market pressures. He then looks at the argument that Brown energized white resistance more than it fomented civil rights progress. This position overstates the pace and extent of racial change in the South prior to Brown, Cobb says, while it understates Brown’s role in catalyzing and legitimizing subsequent black protest. Finally, Cobb suggests that the Brown decree and the civil rights movement accomplished not only more than certain critics have acknowledged but also more than the hard statistics of black progress can reveal. The destruction of Jim Crow, with its “denial of belonging,” allowed African Americans to embrace their identity as southerners in ways that freed them to explore links between their southernness and their blackness. This is an important and timely reminder of “what the Brown court and the activists who took the spirit of its ruling into the streets were up against, both historically and contemporaneously.”
