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Also see our Anti-Racism Resources guide for the best TV and films, podcasts, books and articles that help us to further understand anti-racism. We’ve asked some of our diversity consultants to review their most essential and insightful reads about race, gender and unconscious bias.Ĭheck back as we continue to update this with more of the best books on diversity and inclusion, and make sure to see our favourite books on mental health and wellbeing. So what better time to start a list of the best books on diversity and inclusion, a resource that we plan to update regularly. With Black Lives Matter raising the profile of racism and discrimination, we have all been reminded to continually self-learn and reflect on inequality. Books that have deepened our knowledge and understanding of racism, unconscious bias, gender inequality, and allyship and belonging.Īs our daily lives have slowed down, many of us have picked up the next book on our reading list. The diversity specialists at EW Group offer their reviews of the best books on diversity and inclusion.
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Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. H P Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales Paperback Summary An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. The call of Cthulhu and other weird tales by Lovecraft, H. Including the definitive corrected texts, this colection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a hugely influential - and visionary - American writer. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Paperback) Published 2011 by Penguin Classics. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe.This selection of stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as 'The Outsider' and 'Rats in the Walls', through the grotesquely comic 'Herbert West - Reanimator' and 'The Hound', to the extra-terrestrial terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu', which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction. Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P.
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We meet Sita’s family living in a small rural town before she becomes a soldier to escape her grandmother’s attempt to sell her as a prostitute at a local temple. Lakshmibai ruled the kingdom of Jhansi until the British East India Company annexed its territories in 1857 after a brutal and bloody war. Our group found so much to discuss, I thought you might enjoy it, too. This is the story of Rani Lakshmibai, the Queen of Jhansi, told through the eyes of Sita, one of the queen’s Durgavasi–elite female bodyguards. Lisa from my in-real-life Book Club chose Rebel Queen in November. They are more like broken windows, with the owner trying to explain away all of the damage.” (Sita in Rebel Queen) “After all, memoirs are not open doors into another person’s house.
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Saving juliet by suzanne selfors5/22/2023 The Wallingford was a famous name in the theater business because of the Wallingford Theater. This is the title Mimi was use of people knowing her by. “Look its Mimi Wallingford, great-granddaughter of Adelaide Wallingford”. Yet what if there was a way to change the ending? What if Juliet and Romeo can survive and run off together? What if this was all up to a sour seventeen year old who feels trapped just like Juliet? Could she do it? How is that love? Around this main love there are smaller love stories, and more death. Juliet wakes up to see that her love have killed himself, so she commits suicide out of her grief. Juliet wants to be with Romeo so she pretends to kill herself, Romeo sees Juliet acts dead and kills himself out of grief. It not much or a love story, more of a love tragedy, for (shocker) everyone dies. Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo? Ah Romeo and Juliet one of those classic love stories written by William Shakespeare.
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Echo falls mystery5/22/2023 Urn:oclc:775373222 Republisher_date 20120224182856 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120224035732 Scanner . Abrahams has started a series for younger readers called the Echo Falls Mysteries. OL102866W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.22 Pages 362 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0061891177 Urn:lcp:behindcurtaine00abra:epub:e80484b8-bbd3-46ef-a69e-cb9ce467c206 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier behindcurtaine00abra Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9g45s00d Isbn 9780060737047ĩ780060737054 Lccn 2005017774 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL23275054M Openlibrary_edition Thus she imprudently takes a walk from the orthodontist’s office straight to the field. Ingrid is afraid of getting late for her soccer practice. Urn:lcp:behindcurtaine00abra:lcpdf:da974b33-73aa-4217-9658-1257ac413d1c Echo Falls Best Books Down the Rabbit Hole In Down the Rabbit Hole, author Peter Abrahams introduces the readers to Ingrid, a thirteen-year-old girl. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:12:22 Boxid IA172801 Boxid_2 CH114801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
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The poem by clement clarke5/22/2023 So up to the housetop the coursers they flew When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!”Īs leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donner and Blitzen! “ Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen! More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,Īnd he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name: With a little old driver so lively and quick, When what to my wondering eyes did appear,īut a miniature sleigh and eight tiny rein-deer, Gave a lustre of midday to objects below, The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash. I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads Īnd mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, The children were nestled all snug in their beds The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
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With her stories, Libertad enthralls a group of female prisoners every bit as eccentric as the tales she tells. Joaquín and his daughter make the cab of an 18-wheeler their home, sharing everything-adventures, books, truck-stop chow, and memories of the girl's mother-until one day the girl grows into a woman, and a chance encounter with one man causes her to rebel against another. There he falls in love with a wild woman with whom he shares his truck and his life-that is until Joaquín González unexpectedly finds himself alone on the road with a baby girl and González & Daughter Trucking Co. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad González finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison's meager supply. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding."-John Sayles, Screenwriter and Director "1,001 nights in a Mexicali women's prison. Weather comes "a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run" (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision).
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Samsa kafka5/22/2023 By confining all the action to the apartment, the story highlights Gregor's isolation from human society. Sandwiched between his parents' room and Grete's, Gregor's room opens out onto the living room. Pity the poor convalescent who looks out his or her hospital window to see Gregor twitching.) It's ironic that the Samsas can be so centrally located without attracting more attention to the fact that there is an extraordinarily large bug living in their apartment. (The story doesn't mention whether anyone can look in. The apartment overlooks a busy city street, and a hospital is across the way within viewing distance from Gregor's window. We're going stir-crazy just thinking about this novella. With the exception of the very last paragraph (where the Samsas take a trip out to the country) all of the action takes place in the Samsas' apartment. The story doesn't give us a specific geographical location or historical date. (Thanks, Kafka! You always put things in perspective.) Certainly alienation becomes a central theme as Gregor becomes so increasingly alienated from his family that he loses his humanity. You'd be literally climbing up the walls. But at least you've never been stuck in an apartment for months on end imprisoned in the body of a giant bug. You may have experienced cabin fever of sorts during the last Snowpocalypse or hideous heatwave.
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History of the peloponnesian5/22/2023 The Funeral Oration was recorded by Thucydides in book two of his famous History of the Peloponnesian War. Several funeral orations from classical Athens are extant, which seem to corroborate Thucydides' assertion that this was a regular feature of Athenian funerary custom in wartime. The last part of the ceremony was a speech delivered by a prominent Athenian citizen chosen by the state. Finally they were buried at a public grave (at Kerameikos). Then a funeral procession was held, with ten cypress coffins carrying the remains, one for each of the Athenian tribes, and another left symbolically empty for the missing or those whose remains were unable to be recovered. The remains of the dead were left in a tent for three days so that offerings could be made. It was an established Athenian practice by the late 5th century BCE to hold a public funeral in honour of all those who had died in war. Main article: Funeral oration (ancient Greece)
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Pulp by Ed Brubaker5/22/2023 It’s like reading a good old pulp novel, but with Brubaker’s writing, Sean Phillips’s pencils, and Jacob Phillips’s colors, the result could almost qualify as a reinvention of the genre by the form-published by Image Comics.īut what is Reckless about? Well, it is about crimes-the sex, drugs, and murder kind-, but with a hero at the center of the story, or heroes even (if we count Anna, and we count her).Įthan Reckless is a former sixties radical/undercover FBI agent turned fixer-or troublemaker, it depends on the point of view. Each story is self-contained and collected in one 144-page hardcover graphic novel. It is a new crime series, for sure, but the creative team decided to try a different publication approach. Everything they try is basically a winner. With the award-winning Pulp, the duo confirmed that they don’t even need to connect their work to Criminal anymore-like with My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies-or to another series to find their audiences in a different format. If you talk about the genre, you irremediably think about Criminal, then comes other favorites like The Fade Out, Kill or be Killed, Fatale… At this point, when it comes to crime comics, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s comics have eclipsed David Lapham’s ( Stray Bullets). |