In the mid-1960s, Black Power advocates pushed the Civil Rights Movement beyond integration and civil rights and toward achieving complete control over their lives. This book highlights the movement's roots and legacy with emphasis on sports, academia, religion, art, culture, music, politics, economics, and movement strategy.
In this new adventure, Scout Moore--"the ranger of her own backyard"--travels with her brother, parents, and Grammy to Acadia National Park in Maine. When they arrive at the Hulls Cove Visitor Center, Grammy gives Scout Moore an envelope, inside of which is a scavenger hunt full of things they should see. Off they go to find Jordan Pond House, ......
A concrete jungle surrounded by abundant nature, Los Angeles is surprisingly more than just celebrities, beaches, and theme parks. From bison in the wild, to the actual end of Route 66, an old Cold War army base, a monument to a Japanese man recognized as Righteous Among the Nations, the original Batcave, a unique statue of a shirtless Abraham ......
A guide to 160 unusual and unfamiliar places in Singapore
Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Singapore guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring 160 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Singapore guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.
Crime and security expert Vanda Felbab-Brown conducted more than eight years of fieldwork across Mexico analysing policy interventions in key crime and violence hotspots, as well as in control cases. The result is Narco Noir: Mexico's Cartels, Cops, and Corruption, an extensive and unique set of organised crime case studies.
The Nuclear Deal and the Quest for a New Moderation
The Islamic Republic has been struggling to reform itself for 25 years and each time the experiment has gone awry. Iran's revolutionary theocracy has evolved, but the most problematic aspects of its ideology and institutions have managed to endure since 1979. Can the Iran Nuclear Deal, an agreement crafted through intense dialogue with an old ......
A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller! In The Unicorn Project, we follow Maxine, a senior lead developer and architect, as she is exiled to the Phoenix Project, to the horror of her friends and colleagues, as punishment for contributing to a payroll outage. She tries to survive in what feels like a heartless and uncaring bureaucracy and to work ......
Once every generation comes a story of the world on the brink that has such scope, such imagination, such humanity that readers can only gasp at the vision. Only Some Can Hear My Voice is this generation's. Set just a few years in the future, it imagines a world where tensions have risen to the point where any number of events could lead to ......
