![]() ![]() Catalogue of the National Exhibit on Race. The characters and their world come alive,Īnd the characters and its world still live on.Ĭonversation Starters is peppered with questions designed toĪnd invite us into the world that lives on. We Were Eight Years in Power: an american tragedy by Ta-Nehesi Coates (2018). Praised by The Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews among others, this book aims to shed light on the modern struggle for equality.ĮVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER ![]() ![]() Ta-Nehisi Coates delivers “We Were Eight Years in Power” with a striking and powerful tone, critically deconstructing the Obama era and its events, followed by the next election, through intimate perspective. The novel draws on the historical failure of Reconstruction-era black politicians to achieve democratic equality, examining and focusing on the modern movements that characterized a resurgence of movements for justice. In “We Were Eight Years in Power”, readers are introduced to the perspective of disenfranchised citizens and politicians whose fight for the unprecedented election of a black president was just the forefront of a much bigger and more serious movement. Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in. ![]() We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Conversation Starters Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis's faith profoundly affected his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. He was a fellow of Magdalen College, a prestigious College at Oxford. Lewis returned to Anglicanism at the age of 32, owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, and he became an "ordinary layman of the Church of England". Lewis (1898-1963) was a British literary scholar and novelist. According to Lewis's memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptised in the Church of Ireland, but fell away from his faith during adolescence. LEWISS SPACE TRILOGY, Cambridge philologist Elwin Ransom travels to Malacandra (Mars) in Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra (Venus) in Perelandra, and serves. They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. Both books end with the characters standing. ![]() He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. Out of the Silent Planet & Perelandra were good, but not great if you are looking for plot-driven science fiction. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925-1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954-1963). Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was a British writer and lay theologian. ![]() ![]() The sheer magnitude of what can rightly be called a holocaust of non-Western peoples has generally been obscured by a persistent metropolitan perspective, by the social distance from mass suffering of colonial administrative elites and by historians incurious about, or dismissive of, such “cycles of Cathay.” It is a signal service of this impressive, eloquent study that the dimension of this human suffering on a global scale has been both exposed and foregrounded in the operation of late-Victorian formal and informal imperialisms. ![]() Estimates of the number who perished range from thirty-one million to sixty-one million people. These phenomena occurred previously, notably in the late eighteenth century, but the late nineteenth century events were extraordinarily severe, and death by starvation and disease was on a staggering, unprecedented scale. ![]() These droughts were the result of what we can now recognize as a more or less regular succession of mega-climatic events known as El Niño. In Late Victorian Holocausts, Mike Davis charts the unprecedented human suffering caused by a series of extreme climactic conditions in the final quarter of the 19th century. Three great global droughts, in 1876-1879, 1889-1891, and 1896-1900, afflicted much of the most populous part of the tropical world in the late nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In his bloody rise from soldier to mob boss, he encounters ever more barbaric betrayals-in friendship, in his brutal business, in love-yet simultaneously comes to understand the meaning of loyalty, the virtue of relationships, and gains a perspective on the lonely, if powerful, life he has chosen. Born in the midst of tragedy and violence and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family-the criminals who preside over early 20th century New York. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra’s new novel like bullets from a machine gun. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this powerful life-changing book, HOMECOMING: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child, John Bradshaw shows us how we can learn to nurture that sometimes needy inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. ![]() If our vulnerable child was hurt, abandoned, shamed, or neglected, that child's pain, grief, and anger live on within us. We first see the world though the eyes of a little child, and that 'inner child' remains with us throughout our lives, no matter how outwardly 'grown-up' and powerful we become. 'The healed inner child becomes a source of vitality and creativity, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living' John Bradshawĭo you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often 'lose it' in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but wonder if it's worth the struggle? Are you consumed at times by anxiety or depression? Coming home to your true self may help. ![]() ![]() Knowing that simple acts of kindness transform lives across the globe every day, he sought out these stories and shares some of the best ones here. ![]() Inspired by the many demonstrations of "humankindness" that supported their family through Mia's recovery, Brad began writing about the people who rescued his family from that dark time, often with the smallest of gestures. Amid the stress and despair of waiting for the treatment to work, Brad and Mia were met by an outpouring of kindness from friends, family and even complete strangers. After her diagnosis, Brad spent most of the next two and a half years either by her side as she received treatment or trying to shield their five-year-old son, Jack, from the worst of Mia's illness. Brad Aronson's life changed in an instant when his wife, Mia, was diagnosed with leukemia. Summary HumanKind is the heartwarming feel-good book that we all need right now. ![]() ![]() ![]() “After nine months on Gallipoli, the Allies’ greatest achievement was the way they left” Narrated by acclaimed historian Peter Hart, who spent 39 years as the oral historian at the Sound Archive of the Imperial War Museum in London interviewing thousands of veterans about their experiences, this incredible true story is told in the words of the soldiers who served at Gallipoli themselves. ![]() This is the story of the final days of this long and treacherous campaign. Less spoken about, is the 9-month campaign that followed, in which the Anzacs and their Allies on the Peninsula – which included British, French, Canadian and Indian troops – faced battles against not only the enemy forces of the Turks (later supported by the Germans) but also against the impassable and unprotective terrain and the elements. The Gallipoli landings on 25 April 1915 are perhaps the most legendary wartime event in Australia’s history. ![]() Pre-order now to receive the exclusive audio conversation with Peter Hart including recorded interviews with Gallipoli veterans – only available for orders made by 31 July 2020. ![]() Sydney, New South Wales ( ) - A new book, The Gallipoli Evacuation by Peter Hart – published by Mat McLachlan’s Living History – reveals the untold story of the Anzacs & Allies escape from the Gallipoli Peninsula. ![]() ![]() ![]() In my first-year seminar, we spent some time examining a page where Bechdel is in the car with her dad after she’s come out to him. ![]() But I think Fun Home is commonly beloved by college students generally, not just by Obies, because its examination of family, intimacy, and self-reflection feels so specific to the experience of being a student away from home. Other panels feature the mailroom or dorms. I remember yelping in the quiet section of Mudd Center upon flipping to a page where Bechdel sat reading in a womb chair - as I sat doing the very same. The book is riddled with Oberlin references. ![]() Not only that, but Fun Home was turned into a musical! I think Alison Bechdel is one of the most touted celebrity Obies because she did something that feels quintessentially Oberlin: She wrote a memoir that was not just a memoir but a graphic novel, and one about queerness at that. I read Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic twice, once in high school at my mom’s recommendation, and once after getting to Oberlin, when it was on the syllabus for my first-year seminar. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sarkari bungalows set in obscenely large and lush plots like Mumbai, it was once vibrantly cosmopolitan, with citizens from every community in India living and working side-by-side. ![]() Like Delhi, the city centre comprises a zone of Leila is set in the near-future (perhaps 2030), in an unnamed city that seems like a cross between Mumbai and Delhi. But Akbar’s novel is much more than timely: it succeeds both as social criticism and as a gripping narrative, smoothly and movingly told. Leila, Prayaag Akbar’s debut novel and the first book to be published by Simon & Schuster India, is a dystopian work that speaks directly to the ongoing changes in India’s politics and society. Speculative fiction in general is an underdeveloped area of Indian writing in English. ![]() It is no surprise that the rapid growth of militant Hindu nationalism is starting to provoke a similar interest in India. new novels by Omar El Akkad and Mohsin Hamid point to the dystopias that will result from a failure to address our current problems. It Can’t Happen Here has been rediscovered as a prescient warning of the possibility of fascism in the U.S. ![]() Nineteen Eighty-Four have returned to bestseller lists Sinclair Lewis’ ironically titled The rise of xenophobic and authoritarian nationalism in Europe and the United States has prompted a huge surge of interest in dystopian fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() To take on Richter, Evie must reunite with Death and mend their broken bond. Two Arcana emerge as game changers: one who could be her salvation, the other her worst nightmare. With Aric missing and no sign that Jack and Selena escaped Richter's reach, Evie turns more and more to the darkness lurking inside her. ![]() The epic clash between them devastates the Arcana world and nearly kills Evie, separating her from her allies. The Emperor unleashes hell and annihilates an army, jeopardizing the future of mankind-but Circe strikes back. ![]() Losses mount and deadly new threats converge in this next action-packed tale of the Arcana Chronicles by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole. ![]() |