Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Added by: Maria | Karma: 3098.81 | Non-Fiction | 8 June 2008
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Barack Obama, a black man raised by his white mother and grandparents,
decided to journey to Kenya to learn more about his African father
after receiving news of his death. This memoir is not about his
father's life, but about Obama's, and he brings that home with an
intimate tone rather than that of his public speeches. (His 2004
Democratic Convention keynote address is included at the end.)
Throughout the book, the U.S. Senator looks at race from the point of
view of someone who has seen and been part of a variety of cultures,
and he explains how his perspective shaped his views. The book, written
in 1995, before his election to the Illinois Senate, gives listeners a
chance to learn more about a young senator who has recently made news
by speaking out on the Patriot Act and President Bush's next Supreme
Court nomination.
Never before has so much popular culture been produced about what it
means to be a girl in today's society. From the first appearance of
Nancy Drew in 1930, to Seventeen magazine in 1944 to the emergence of
Bratz dolls in 2001, girl culture has been increasingly linked to
popular culture and an escalating of commodities directed towards girls
of all ages. Editors Claudia A. Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
investigate the increasingly complex relationships, struggles,
obsessions, and idols of American tween and teen girls who are growing
up faster today than ever before. From pre-school to high school and
beyond, Girl Culture tackles numerous hot-button issues, including the
recent barrage of advertising geared toward very young girls
emphasizing sexuality and extreme thinness. Nothing is off-limits:
TTC - Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
What
pieces of a distant past drift before our mind's eye when ancient
Mesopotamia is mentioned?
Do we see the temples known as ziggurats, thrust toward the sky by
stepped platforms that would bring worshippers closer to the gods they
honored? Entire populations paralyzed by fear before a dreaded invader,
their dreams haunted by images of their own severed heads held aloft?
Priests making sacrifices to the gods who ruled over and protected
their city? Or the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon, their terraces as
shadowed by mystery as they are set alight by color?
Any of these, of course, may come to mind. Perhaps all of them. And
with the exception of Babylon's fabled gardens, whose existence has
never actually been confirmed, they are all true—each
a part of the legacy of a region from which our own culture has drawn
so many essential aspects, including writing, the first code of law,
the idea of cities, and even the first epic poem. All cultures lie in
the shadow of Mesopotamia.
A novel in which a passionate affair between a French aristocrat and Michael Courtney forces her to set out and seek a future for their unborn child in Africa, but first she must brave the terrors of war, shipwreck, fever and the vastness of Namibia before finding a home.
This is the first volume in the Courtney series, Second Sequence
John Grisham Collection - 19 Ebooks Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.
TTC - Between the Rivers: The History of Ancient Mesopotamia
