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  • Scientific Process and Social Issues in Biology Education

    by Garland E. Allen, Jeffrey J.W. Baker ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book complements fact-drive textbooks in introductory biology courses, or courses in biology and society, by focusing on several important points: (1) Biology as a process of doing science, emphasizing how we know what we know. (2) It stresses the role of science as a social as well as intellectual process, one that is always embedded in its time and place in history.In dealing with the issue ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Science, History and Social Activism

    A Tribute to Everett Mendelsohn

    Edited by Roy M. MacLeod, Garland E. Allen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    "To earn a degree, every doctoral candidate should go out to Harvard Square, find an audience, and explain his [or her] dissertation". Everett Mendelsohn's worldly advice to successive generations of students, whether apocryphal or real, has for over forty years spoken both to the essence of his scholarship, and to the role of the scholar. Possibly no one has done more to establish the history of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Giving a Voice to the Ancestors

    by Emily Allen Garland ...
    The book is considered fiction, although it is based on the lives of the author's ancestors. Five year-old Emily (Bay-Chile), growing up in rural central Georgia in 1940, becomes curious about color differences within her family and questions her talkative great-aunt and grand-parents. Through numerous inquiries, she learns that her great-grandfather, Josh Ellis, fought with the Confederate Army ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Bittersweet Memories

    A Memoir

    by Emily Allen Garland ...
    Bittersweet Memories is an intriguing memoir that begins when the author is visited by an angel as an infant. At age sixteen, she leaves her hometown of Milledgeville, GA. to enroll in Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio. Being away from home for the first time at an early age, the young Emily is tempted into risk taking behavior that comes dangerously close to causing expulsion from the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Baby Heart

    by Emily Allen Garland ...
    Fifteen year- old Baby Heart is in love with Bobby Joe Miller and dead set on becoming a nurse. She is a happy carefree student until her mother is stricken with lung cancer. Baby heart gives up her life to save her mother. The family of sharecroppers cant pay for lifesaving surgery that her mother needs in 1946. Baby Heart pays for it the only way she knows how ----- through marriage to john El ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Nightmare House

    by Sarah Allen ...
    Narrated by Kelli Garland ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 31 min

    From Sarah Allen, the acclaimed author of What Stars Are Made Of and Breathing Underwater, comes a chilling middle-grade tale of fear, friendship, and finding courage even in the darkest of moments. In this monster story that’s also an allegory for relentless anxiety, see how far a penny’s worth of hope will take you when you enter The Nightmare House.I saw a person with blank, colorless eyes … ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

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    by Brinase Merritt ...
    A book that is non-fiction about a black family trials and tribulations and triumphs in the south and a black womans traditional calling of midwifery to help her community and women who otherwise would be unable to pay the fee of the white doctor in town to deliver their babies. A story of a family that overcame the odds and made a way out of no way while farming, picking cotton and being treated ... Read more

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  • Growing up White in Brassfield a Memoir

    by Sally Pearson Congleton ...
    Growing Up White in Brassfield 1946: Every room in the funeral home was full. I guess Daddy knew about everybody in the county and the town. The grown men carried on something awful, laughing and talking about tobacco stripping and hog prices. Didn't they know my Daddy was dead? I always appreciated the fact that there was one entire room full of colored people at daddy's funeral. The entire ... Read more

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  • The Known World

    by Edward P. Jones ...
    From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Sun Does Shine

    How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Selection)

    by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin ...
    Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times Bestseller**A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”—Archbishop Desmond Tutu**In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and ... Read more

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  • Water for Elephants

    A Novel

    by Sara Gruen ...
    An atmospheric tale of life and love in a Depression-era traveling circus.Jacob Janowski’s luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. A veterinary student just shy of a degree, he was put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It was the Great Depression and for Jacob ... Read more

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  • Slave Narratives: Indiana

    by Library of Congress ...
    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

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