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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources

Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein ...

Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial ... Read more

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Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial
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Heavenly Hurts

Surviving AIDS-related Deaths and Losses

by Sandra Jacoby Klein ...

Series series Death, Value and Meaning Series
"Heavenly Hurts Surviving AIDS-Related Deaths and Losses" imparts vital information for anyone touched by deaths and losses of HIV/AIDS. In the AIDS pandemic, efforts are focused on persons living with AIDS (PLWA). Neglected are professional and non-professional caregivers, families, and friends. They are surviving deaths of loved ones from AIDS-related illness, or are dealing with multiple losses ... Read more

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"Heavenly Hurts Surviving AIDS-Related Deaths and Losses" imparts vital information for anyone touched by deaths and losses of HIV/AIDS. In the AIDS pandemic, efforts are focused on persons living with AIDS (PLWA). Neglected are professional and non-professional caregivers, families, and friends. They are surviving deaths of loved ones from AIDS-related illness, or are dealing with multiple losses
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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Essays on Sources and Methods

Edited by Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene, Martin A. Klein ...

What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume ... Read more

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What were the experiences of those in Africa who suffered from the practice of slavery, those who found themselves captured and sold from person to person, those who died on the trails, those who were forced to live in fear? And what of those Africans who profited from the slave trade and slavery? What were their perspectives? How do we access any of these experiences and views? This volume
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In Vitro Drug Release Testing of Special Dosage Forms

Edited by Nikoletta Fotaki, Sandra Klein ...

Series series Advances in Pharmaceutical Technology
Guides readers on the proper use of in vitro drug release methodologies in order to evaluate the performance of special dosage formsIn the last decade, the application of drug release testing has widened to a variety of novel/special dosage forms. In order to predict the in vivo behavior of such dosage forms, the design and development of the in vitro test methods need to take into account various ... Read more

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Guides readers on the proper use of in vitro drug release methodologies in order to evaluate the performance of special dosage formsIn the last decade, the application of drug release testing has widened to a variety of novel/special dosage forms. In order to predict the in vivo behavior of such dosage forms, the design and development of the in vitro test methods need to take into account various
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Mississippi River Tragedies

A Century of Unnatural Disaster

by Christine A Klein, Sandra B Zellmer ...

Series Book 19 - Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
"A stunning and important book. It tells a sweeping tale of folly, greed, ignorance, injustice, and unintended consequences. We all should heed its lessons." —David Baron, award-winning author of The Beast in the GardenAmerican engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of ... Read more

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"A stunning and important book. It tells a sweeping tale of folly, greed, ignorance, injustice, and unintended consequences. We all should heed its lessons." —David Baron, award-winning author of The Beast in the GardenAmerican engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of
... Read more
A Yellow Rose Project

Responses, Reflections, and Reactions to the Nineteenth Amendment

by Meg Griffiths, Frances Jakubek, Marina Font, Cindy Hwang, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Lisa McCarty, Sheri Lynn Behr, Tracy L Chandler, Carolyn McIntyre, Betty Press, Sara Bennett, Kris Sanford, Kristine Thompson, Priya Kambli, Ina Jang, Amy Thompson Avishai, Lily Brooks, Christa Bowden, Bootsy Holler, Kat Kiernan, Anne J Berry, Claudia Ruiz Gustafson, Katie Benjamin, Claire A Warden, Susan Kae Grant, Letitia Huckaby, Gail Samuelson, Rana Young, Sarah Hadley, Yael Eban, Brea Souders, Aline Smithson, Frances F Denny, Ileana Doble Hernandez, Manjari Sharma, Melanie Walker, Chehalis Deane Hegner, Ellen Carey, Rachel Phillips, Mary Beth Meehan, Julia Bennett, Astrid Reischwitz, Noelle McCleaf, Preston Gannaway, Sandra Klein, Toni Pepe, Greer Muldowney, Serrah Russell, Sarah Pollman, Maude Schuyler Clay, Sasha Tivetsky, Molly Lamb, Karen Zusman, K.K. DePaul, Laura E Migliorino, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Farah Janjua, Kyra Schmidt, Rachel Loischild, Megan Jacobs, Tsar Fedorsky, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Carla Jay Harris, Jeanine Michna-Bales, Kalee Appleton, Paula Riff, Rania Matar, Colleen Mullins, Kathya Maria Landeros, Hye-Ryoung Min, Alice Hargrave, Jennifer McClure, Alyssa Minahan, S. Billie Mandle, Odette England, Joni Sternbach, Thalassa Raasch, Deedra Baker, Jordanna Kalman, Cassandra Zampini, Ashley Kauschinger, Sara Macel, Elizabeth M Claffey, Marie Triller, Katelyn Kopenhaver, Yvette Meltzer, Larissa Ramey, Rebecca Drolen, Emily Peacock, Leigh Merrill, Tami Bahat, Greta Pratt, Ellen Feldman, Tamara Reynolds, Ashleigh Coleman, Patty Carroll, Edie Bresler, Marky Kauffmann, Nancy Baron, Ann Marye George, Tara Cronin, Carol Erb, Lindsey Beal, Sarah Hoskins, Emily Sheffer, Diane Meyer ...

Series series Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership, Texas Woman's University
August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee, awaiting the roll call of men who would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.Though this movement won rights for some women—an achievement to be acknowledged and ... Read more

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August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee, awaiting the roll call of men who would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.Though this movement won rights for some women—an achievement to be acknowledged and
... Read more

Notorious RBG

The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

by Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik ...

New York Times BestsellerFeatured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described “flaming feminist litigator” who made the world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately known as the Notor... ... Read more

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New York Times BestsellerFeatured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described “flaming feminist litigator” who made the world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately known as the Notor...
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Conversations with RBG

Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law

by Jeffrey Rosen ...

The New York Times BestsellerIn her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and ... Read more

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The New York Times BestsellerIn her own words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers an intimate look at her life and career, through an extraordinary series of conversations with the head of the National Constitution Center.This remarkable book presents a unique portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, drawing on more than twenty years of conversations with Jeffrey Rosen, starting in the 1990s and
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We the Women

The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America

by Norah O'Donnell, Kate Andersen Brower ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union“This terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden role that women have played at every stage of our country’s history.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinOver a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union“This terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden role that women have played at every stage of our country’s history.”—Doris Kearns GoodwinOver a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning
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The Deadline

Essays

by Jill Lepore ...

**"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too." —Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2023: New Yorker, TIMEA book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.**Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. ... Read more

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**"Jill Lepore is unquestionably one of America’s best historians; it’s fair to say she’s one of its best writers too." —Jonathan Russell Clark, Los Angeles TimesBest Books of 2023: New Yorker, TIMEA book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.**Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore.
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Black Futures

by Kimberly Drew, Jenna Wortham ...

“A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, ... Read more

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“A literary experience unlike any I’ve had in recent memory . . . a blueprint for this moment and the next, for where Black folks have been and where they might be going.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)What does it mean to be Black and alive right now?Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work—images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes,
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The Trayvon Generation

by Elizabeth Alexander ...

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race.*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times, Bustle, and more*In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and ... Read more

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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race.*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times, Bustle, and more*In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and
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