![]() ![]() Reading this volume under the exceptional global circumstances of our time, when the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the profound racial, patriarchal and class scars of colonialism and capitalist imperialism, requires the reader to engage in deep contemplation to reinvent Freire’s universal human ethics of passion, hope and love. In a brief Foreword to the volume, titled “On the Road to Social Justice: Reinventing Paulo Freire”, Ira Shor, a prominent exponent of critical pedagogy and former collaborator with Paulo Freire, precisely summarises the content by stating that “readers will encounter a panorama of reinvention, not standardization, which is what Paulo called for, a praxis Footnote 2 of adaptive local agency – action/reflection/action emerging for and from specific sites” (p. xi). They (re)read and (re)analyse Freire in diverse geographical sites and from distinct disciplinary approaches. ![]() This interdisciplinary anthology is thematically organised into five parts: I “The criticality of teacher preparation”, II “Pedagogy and practice”, III “The intersection of Paulo Freire and Myles Horton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Simone de Beauvoir”, IV “Policy, the environment, and liberation theology” and V “Reflections, experiences, and consideration.” Thirty-three established and emerging scholars have contributed to this volume. ![]()
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![]() Students have been doing the project for years, and her older brother tells her that his favorite part was studying and catching frogs.īut when Haven and her classmates get to the river, there’s no sign of frogs or other wildlife-but there is ample evidence of pollution. ![]() When Haven’s social studies teacher urges her to find a specific, manageable way to make a difference to the planet, Haven focuses on the annual science class project at the local Belmont River, where her class will take samples of the water to analyze. She can’t stop wondering why grownups aren’t even trying to solve the earth’s problem-and if there’s anything meaningful that she, as a seventh grader, can contribute. In fact, her anxiety about the state of the planet is starting to interfere with her schoolwork, her friendships, even her sleep. Twelve-year-old Haven Jacobs can’t stop thinking about the climate crisis. ![]() From critically acclaimed author Barbara Dee comes a middle grade novel about a young girl who channels her anxiety about the climate crisis into rallying her community to save a local river. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It's a trilogy set in his world of Elan and falls between Legends of the First Empire and the Riyria Chronciles from a timeline standpoint. His current project is a new series (The Rise and Fall). His first science fiction novel, Hollow World, was released by Tachyon Publications in April 2014. The Legends of the First Empire is a six-book epic fantasy series set in the same world as the Riyria books, but in the distant past, making it a standalone series. ![]() The Riyria Revelations is a six-book epic fantasy series while the Riyria Chronicles is an ongoing series that centers on the early adventures of the two main protagonists of the former series. The Riyria Revelations and The Riyria Chronicles were published by Orbit Books (fantasy imprint of Hachette Book Group) and The Legends of the First Empire released by Del Rey Books (owned by Random House). He started The Riyria Revelations to teach his daughter, who suffered from dyslexia, how to read. Sullivan started writing books at a young age, in order to entertain himself. His books have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Japanese, Georgian, Bulgarian, Russian, Portuguese, Italian and Turkish. In 2012 io9 named him one of the "Most Successful Self-Published Sci-Fi and Fantasy Authors". Sullivan (born September 17, 1961) is a New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post bestselling American writer of epic fantasy and science fiction, best known for his debut series The Riyria Revelations, which has been translated into fourteen languages. ![]() ![]() ![]() In WWII Chichester enlisted for the UK as a Navigation Expert, literally writing the manual for solo fighter aircraft "kneeboard navigation," enabling them to run missions across Europe and return successfully, counteracting the errors resulting from the difficulties of taking sun sights with a sextant alone from a moving airplane. On an attempt to circumnavigate the world solo by airplane some time later he hit an overhead cable and went down in Japan. On Lord Howe Island his plane was heavily damaged and he ended up having to rebuild it himself with the help of native islanders. ![]() He made the first solo flight East to West across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia, and was the first to land an aircraft at Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Sir Francis Chichester was a distinguished aviator before becoming a yachtsman. ![]() I love accounts of true sailing adventures, and when I recently rediscovered this book on my shelf I finally dove in. ![]() Surprisingly, I had never heard of Sir Francis Chichester or of his book Gypsy Moth Circles the World until I found and bought a copy at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney several years ago. ![]() ![]() Now, in the graphic novel series adaptation Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three, originally published by Marvel Comics in single-issue form and creatively overseen by Stephen King himself, the full story of Roland’s troubled past and lifelong odyssey is revealed. In this desolate reality-a dangerous land filled with ancient technology and deadly magic, and yet one that mirrors our own in frightening ways-Roland is on a spellbinding and soul-shattering quest to locate and somehow save the mystical nexus of all worlds, all universes: the Dark Tower. ![]() Roland is the last of his kind, a “gunslinger” charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world-a world that “moved on,” as they say. ![]() With these unforgettable words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King’s iconic character Roland Deschain of Gilead. ![]() “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain-and the world of the Dark Tower.now presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, tranquility has returned to Biltmore. ![]() Serafina, the Guardian of Biltmore Estate, has won battle after battle against the dark forces encroaching on her home. Serafina and Braeden make an epic return in the hotly anticipated fourth installment of Robert Beatty's #1 New York Times best-selling Serafina series. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ![]() We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() Need a good read for a bad day? Here's a Booktube Video all about it!! The Written ReviewįRIENDSHIP OVER - if you don't love this book White Honor, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book award, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, and five New York Times bestsellers. Peter’s books have earned him numerous honors, including a Caldecott Honor (2013) for Creepy Carrots!, two E.B. ![]() ![]() Peter quickly signed up his second and third books, and his career as an author and illustrator of children’s books was under way. He was working on animated TV shows when he signed a book deal to write and illustrate his first picture book, Flight of the Dodo. While studying illustration at Art Center College of Design, Peter’s love of both words and pictures led him to take several courses on children’s books, and before long he knew he’d found his calling.Īfter graduating from Art Center Peter moved to New York City to be closer to the publishing industry. Then, as a teenager, he fell in love with writing, and told his tales with words. Growing up in New Jersey, he told stories by drawing whimsical characters and scenes from his imagination. ![]() ![]() Peter Brown is an American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's picture books. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A well-informed and highly critical study of higher education's "increasingly powerful hold" over U.S. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities. ![]() In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power-and who is made vulnerable. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students' needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. ![]() They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. Urban universities play an outsized role in America's cities. ![]() But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Across America, universities have become big businesses-and our cities their company towns. ![]() ![]() Even though her grandmother and cousins are showering her with so much love and support, it’s still a whole new world for Rukhsana because she is faced with blatant homophobia, religious traditions and arranged marriages. They are willing to do everything in their power to ensure that their daughter stays on the ‘right path’ so they whisk her off to stay with their extended family in Bangladesh. ![]() Rukhsana’s parents are terribly angry and upset. But Rukhsana’s future plans fall apart when her mom catches her and Ariana sharing an intimate moment. Rukhsana is thanking her lucky stars that she just has to get through a few more months of being closely monitored by her parents and then her life will really begin when she starts Caltech in the fall. And as a result of that, she has to keep her budding relationship with her girlfriend, Ariana, a secret from them as well. Rukhsana has to hide who she really is because there’s no way that she can come out to her conservative Muslim parents without facing harsh repercussions. But her life at home isn’t so predictable or orderly. The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan is an unforgettable and heart-wrenching diverse coming of age novel that stayed on my mind long after I had read it.Īt seventeen-years-old Rukhsana Ali has always been a whiz kid when it comes to learning the laws of physics and studying the vast and limitless universe around her. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ‘opaque screen’ that stands between a modern translator and their classical text could consist of the language barrier, the weight and influence of previous translations, or this factor, the degradation of time leading to a literally incomplete text. ![]() Translations of a text that has been present for millennia encounter the problem of missing portions and incomplete manuscripts: translators encounter a degradation of the actual physical text as well as a loss of meaning imbued only by specific historical context. ![]() ‘I started getting interested in the language, in trying to get through the opaque screen that a translation can’t help being to see what Seneca had actually said’ (CARYL CHURCHILL on her translation of Thyestes). ![]() |