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• The life of Adam Boreel
• The thought of Adam Boreel.

"In Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant's Attempt to Reform Christianity, Francesco Quatrini offers a reassessment of the life and thought of Adam Boreel, a leading member of the Dutch nonconformist Collegiant movement. Usually regarded as a less important member of this religious group, Boreel is described as a forerunner whose ideas influenced later Collegiants. Drawing on both archival and published sources, Francesco Quatrini provides the first modern biography of Boreel as well as a critical analysis of his writings. He corrects misconceptions about Boreel, who appears here as an intriguing figure who drew his views from several different sources. In this way, Francesco Quatrini revealed that Boreel was a major leader in the era's intellectual discourse"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue
• Mer et mère
• La liberté à l'école du documentaire
• Barcelone 1936
• Deuil et dépression, connaissance et reconnaissance, l'année 1937
• Les tentations d'outre-Atlantique
• Le retour de l'enfant prodig(u)e
• Naissance du Wozzeck britannique
• Adieu au cinéma, opéras de voyage
• Un petit Bayreuth maritime
• Le temps des déconvenues
• Un chef-d'oeuvre réparateur
• Désir d'Orient
• Revisiter Shakespeare
• Chaudes amitiés de la guerre froide
• Le tournant du demi-siècle
• Retour inégal à Henry James
• Miroir de Venise
• Derniers feux
• Epilogue.

"Originaire de la région du Suffolk, Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) est élève de Frank Bridge puis boursier au Royal College of Music de Londres. D'abord compositeur pour le cinéma, il rencontre le ténor Peter Pears (1910-1986, son futur compagnon et interprète) en 1937 avec qui il s'exilera trois ans aux USA pendant la guerre. Ses premiers opéras, Peter Grimes (1945) et Le viol de Lucrèce (1946), le poussent à créer sa compagnie, l'English Opera Group, privilégiant ensuite des formes réduites pour en faciliter les productions, comme Albert Herring (1947), Le tour d'écrou (1954) ou les Paraboles d'église (1964-68), tout en composant encore des pièces imposantes comme Billy Budd (1951), Le Songe d'une nuit d'été (1960) ou son testamentaire Mort à Venise (1973). Pacifiste et ami de Rostropovitch et Chostakovitch en pleine Guerre froide, il est anobli en 1976 par Elisabeth II. Parmi ses oeuvres orchestrales, le public affectionne toujours son Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra sur un thème de Purcell - qu'il a contribué à faire redécouvrir ainsi que son poignant War Requiem sur la Première Guerre mondiale. Ce nouveau volume de la collection horizons vous propose de partir à la rencontre d'une figure majeure de la musique anglaise du XXe siècle dans cette étude illustrée inédite et complétée de multiples annexes."--Page 4 of cover.

In this gripping and honest memoir, Mira Sucharov shows what a search for political and emotional home looks like. Sucharov suffered from childhood phobias triggered by her parents' divorce, and she sought emotional refuge in Jewish summer camp. But three years spent living in Israel in her twenties shook her to her core. Ultimately, encounters with colleagues, students, friends and lovers force her to confront what it means to be able to write, advocate and teach about Israel/Palestine in a way that balances affirmation with authenticity.

• 1 De Gaulle before Gaullism, 1890-1940 2 Allies and rivals: De Gaulle, the Free French, and their partners 3 Free France: foundations, 1940-1942 4 Towards a provisional government, 1942-1944 5 Liberation and recognition, June-October 1944 6 The Liberation Government, October 1944-January 1946 7 A Study in failure, 1946-1958 8 The return, 1958 9 Setting an example? De Gaulle, decolonisation, and the Third World 10 De Gaulle's Constitution and the politics of presidential primacy 11 Superpowers and bombs 12 De Gaulle's Europe 13 May
• 1968: economy, society, and the limits of presidential power 14 Departure, death, afterlives, 1968-2020.
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In this new biography, Andrew Knapp concisely dissects each of the major controversies surrounding General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French during the Second World War and President of France from 1959 to 1969. From the beginning of de Gaulle's military career in 1909 to an analysis of legacies and myths after his death in 1970, this study examines the path by which the French came to honour him as the greatest Frenchman of all time, and as the twentieth century's pre-eminent world statesman. In each chapter, Knapp analyses de Gaulle's participation in key events such as the development of France's resistance against Nazi Germany, the decolonisation of Algeria, the birth of the French Fifth Republic, and the gigantic upheaval of May 1968. Simultaneously, this study questions de Gaulle's actions and motives throughout his life. By exploring the justification of the contemporary 'de Gaulle myth', Knapp concludes by shedding new light on the influence of de Gaulle in the political culture of twenty-first-century France. Through careful analysis of primary sources as well as recent scholarship, this biography is an invaluable source for scholars and students of modern history, the history of France, political institutions, and international relations.
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• Foreword Gloria Park Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors
• PART 1: POETRY
• 1 Immigrant Background Students' Names and Identities in U.S. Schools: Voices from the Underground Lydiah Kananu Kiramba
• 2 This Is Our Summons Now R. Joseph Rodriguez
• 3 Gringo or Rican or Just Me Gabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velazquez
• 4 Spaces in Between Sharada Krishnamurthy
• 5 "!Vamos Mijo, I Know You Can Do This!" Manuel De Jesus Gomez Portillo
• 6 El Sacrificio de una Madre: A Mother's Sacrifice Ana Bautista
• 7 Domestic Tongues Mauricio Patron Rivera
• 8 Mariposa: A Two-Part Poem Zurisaray Espinosa
• 9 Beloved Jamie Harris
• PART 2: Personal Narratives
• 10 Subtle Bangla Traits Ben Haseen
• 11 You Had Better Turn off the Fan: Communicative Competence in Practice Jiyoon Lee
• 12 Como una Leona: Shielding My Son from Discrimination at School Aracelis Nieves
• 13 Every Word Is True: An Autoethnography to Unravel My Story Babak Khoshnevisan
• 14 Que Huong Ethan Tinh Trinh
• 15 I Lost My Language But Your Child Doesn't Have To May F. Chung
• 16 Pagbabalik: Does It Even Matter? Sandy Tadeo
• 17 My Life's Metamorphosis: Becoming Bilingual Luis Javier Penton Herrera
• 18 Giving back When Most in Need Geovanny Vicente Romero
• 19 Journeying through Transnational Spaces: A Reflexive Account of Praxis and Identity Construction Rajwan Alshareefy and Cristina Sanchez-Martin
• 20 Story Weaving: Tejidos de Conocimientos Que Nos Conectan al Territorio Judith Landeros
• 21 Entre la Tierra y los Suenos Pablo Montes
• 22 The Power of Digital Storytelling for English Language Education: A Reflective Essay Polina Vinogradova
• 23 Lost and Found: A Story of Reclaiming Identities Bashar Al Hariri and Fatmeh Alalawneh
• 24 The Weight of a Name: My Names and Stories across Lands and Time Tairan Qiu.
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This edited book is a beautiful and powerful collection of poems and personal and visual narratives of multilingual immigrants in the United States. The purpose of this book is to create a space where immigrant stories can be told from their personal perspectives. The contributors are immigrants from all walks of life who represent a diverse picture of languages, professions, and beliefs from the immigrant diasporas within the United States. Inspired by the use of autoethnography, authors examine their own lives through poems and personal and visual narratives to share with others who might have similar experiences. Contributors are: Gabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velazquez, Fatmeh Alalawneh, Bashar Al Hariri, Rajwan Alshareefy, Ana Bautista, May F. Chung, Zurisaray Espinosa, Manuel De Jesus Gomez Portillo, Jamie Harris, Ben Haseen, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Babak Khoshnevisan, Sharada Krishnamurthy, Judith Landeros, Jiyoon Lee, Pablo Montes, Aracelis Nieves, Gloria Park, Mauricio Patron Rivera, Luis Javier Penton Herrera, Tairan Qiu, R. Joseph Rodriguez, Cristina Sanchez-Martin, Sandy Tadeo, Ethan Tinh Trinh, Geovanny Vicente Romero, and Polina Vinogradova.
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• Scientia naturalis, Kabbalah and celestial spheres : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on astrology (1486-1493)
• The Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem : introductory remarks
• Reading texts : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and his sources
• Me quoque adolescentem olim fallebat : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Versus Prisca theologia
• 'Princeps aliorum' and His Followers : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the 'Astrological Tradition' in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
• Back to Aristotle? Natural philosophy in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
• Ideological appropriation of Giovanni Pico's Disputationes : Girolamo Savonarola and his Contro gli astrologi
• Praenotio, prisca haeresis and astrology : Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola between Savonarola and Giovanni Pico
• With 'Latins' against 'Latin vice' : Maximus the Greek on astrology
• Lucio Bellanti and the return to 'Christian astrology'
• Poet, astrologer, courtier : Giovanni Gioviano Pontano Versus Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
• Astrology in Francesco Zorzi's De harmonia mundi : a response to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam?

"In Debating the Stars, Ovanes Akopyan sheds new light on the astrological controversies that arose in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries after the publication of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496). This treatise has often been held responsible for a contemporary reassessment of the status of astrology, a discipline that attracted widespread fascination in the Renaissance. Akopyan's reconstruction of the development of Pico's views demonstrates that the Disputationes was a continuation of rather than a drastic rupture with the rest of his legacy. By investigating the philosophical and humanist foundations for Pico's attack on astrological predictions, Akopyan challenges the popular assumption that the treatise was written under Girolamo Savonarola's spell. He shows instead how it was appropriated ideologically by pro-Savonarolan circles after Pico's death. This book also offers a comprehensive study of the immediate reception of the Disputationes across Italy and Europe and reveals that the debates initiated by Pico's intervention pervaded all of the European intellectual oikumene"-- Provided by publisher

• 'Leisel, it's time for you to leave.' Departure
• Digression: 'Dear Liesel, there are still so many questions.' A Trip to Bombay
• 'This morning I got a letter from Jack.' A way out for Helmut
• 'Dear Liesel, Urug. is no longer an option." What happened to the parents?
• 'An alien of a most excellent type.' The war years in London
• 'Thinking of Germany.' From a broken picture book
• 'Your home.' Reconnecting
• Digression: 'Now in ruins.' The house in the Götzenturmstrasse
• 'How was the wine harvest?' Heilbronn from afar.

"Carefully piecing together the personal letters of Alice 'Liesel' Schwab, Escaping Nazi Germany tells the important story of one woman's emigration from Heilbron to England. From the decision to leave her family and emigrate alone, to gaining her independence as a shop worker and surviving the Blitz, to the reunion with the brother and parents and shared grief as they learn about the fate of family members who died in the Holocaust, her story sheds new light on the Jewish experience of persecution during the Holocaust and adds nuances to current debates on emigration, memory and writing, and identity"-- Provided by publisher.

"In Fannie Lou Hamer's Revolutionary Practical Theology Crozier acknowledges, analyses, and constructs the civil and human rights leader's Christian thought and practice. Commonly known for her political activism, Hamer is presented as a religious thought leader whose embodiment of ideas and ideals helped to disrupt and transform the Jim Crow of the South within and beyond electoral politics. Through primary source documents of Hamer's oral history interviews, autobiographical writings, speeches, and multimedia publications on or about her life and legacy, Crozier allows Hamer to have her say on racial and environmental justice concerns. Crozier introduces Hamer as a revolutionary practical theologian who resided on the margins of the church, academy, and society"-- Provided by publisher.

• Early movements
• Getting to know one's mother
• The cotton-picking days of summer
• Early education, witness to history
• When Juan met Terry
• The long road home
• Private practice, an introduction to the arts, and when the "big one" hit
• The judgeship journey
• Riding circuit
• Legacy
• Afterword: reflections on picking cotton

"Set mainly in Greece, Gifted Greek is a character study of its most influential and volatile prime minster, Andreas Papandreou"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction--
• 1. The exodus--
• 2. Wartime sojourning--
• 3. Cultural nostalgia--
• 4. The long road home--
• 5. Narrating the exodus-- Epilogue.
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Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs, he tells a very different story from the conventional Chinese civil war historiography that focuses on debating the reasons for Communist success and Nationalist failure. Yang lays bare the traumatic aftermath of the Chinese Communist Revolution for the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who were forcibly displaced from their homes across the sea. Underscoring the displaced population's trauma of living in exile and their poignant 'homecomings' four decades later, he presents a multi-event trajectory of repeated traumatization with recurring searches for home, belonging, and identity. This thought-provoking study challenges established notions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and reconciliation.
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• Foreword by Justin Champion: Arlington and his World
• 1. Introduction: Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington and his world: court, politics and diplomacy in the Restoration
• Robin Eagles with Coleman A. Dennehy
• 2. 'The inkhorn Lord'? Locating Arlington's connexions
• Robin Eagles
• 3. Pretending to be catholic? Sir Henry Bennet, the alliance with Spain, and the Stuart dalliance with Rome, 1656-62
• Alistair Malcolm
• 4. The earl of Arlington and Restoration Ireland
• Coleman A. Dennehy
• 5. Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in Arlington's world: Polemic, persuasion and the conversion of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York
• Jacqueline Rose
• 6. 'Faisons meieux': Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, and his political tactics
• Alan Marshall
• 7. Arlington and Access
• Brian Weiser
• 8. 'So that my estate may continue in the name and blood of the Bennets for ever': The Bennet brothers and the perpetuation of the Bennet family
• Charles Littleton
• 9. Naturally Born Courtiers: the FitzRoy dukes of Grafton, 1685-1757
• Reider Payne.
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This book offers the first major reassessment of the life and work of Sir Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, for over a century. Arlington was one of Charles II's chief ministers and the book charts his early years through to the careers of his descendants, examining his political development as a courtier, diplomat, linguist and politician. Authored by a series of experts in the field, the book not only shines a light on his career, but also on Charles II's reign as a whole, on the Cavalier court and on Restoration politics. Arlington was a significant player in international politics and this is reflected in the collection's treatment of his time abroad in the 1650s, his central role as an advisor and ambassador, and his influence in Ireland.
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• Volume 1 Eternal Ifs: Infant, Boy, and Man (1819-1840) 0
• Introduction
• 5347
• 1 Manhattan and Albany (1819-1832) 0
• Chap 1 Last Leaves, New Leaf 5085
• Chap 2 Commerce and Providence 3248
• Chap 3 Home and Street 6921
• Chap 4 Awakenings 6487
• Chap 5 The Secret of Our Paternity 7042
• Chap 6 Marriage of New England and New York 2647
• Chap 7 Recuperations 2588
• Chap 8 School Boy and Reader 4694
• Chap 9 The Birth of Ishmael 3166
• 2 Growing up Gansevoort (1832-1836) 0
• Chap 10 Patriarch and Hero 4153
• Chap 11 Gansevoort and the Indians
• 3373
• Chap 12 Broken Temple
• 4576
• Chap 13 Jackson and the Negro
• 2706
• Chap 14 Albany and Africa 4625
• Chap 15 Black Gansevoort 3092
• Chap 16 Mourning and Arousal 4922
• Chap 17 Summer of Plague 5104
• Chap 18 Spoils and Debt 1811
• Chap 19 Working Boy: Steam & Temptation 4525
• Chap 20 Moving Up 3433
• 3 Sibling Coterie (1836) 0
• Chap 21 Brother Gansevoort 6562
• Chap 22 Happiness and Power 4568
• Chap 23 Sister Helen 4116
• *Chap 24 Emancipated School Girl 7423
• Chap 25 Sister Augusta 6307
• Chap 26 Dark-eyed Darling 5368
• Chap 27 Composing Yourself 4830
• 4 Inland Identities:
• Farmer, Teacher, Debater, Lover, Writer (1836-1839) 0
• *Chap 28 "Deep Inland There I" 4327
• Chap 29 Uncle Thomas 5732
• Chap 30 Schoolmaster 6065
• Chap 31 Debater and Cosmopolite 8335
• Chap 32 Lansingburgh: River Banks & Bankruptcy 2911
• Chap 33 The Intimacy of Reading 6206
• Chap 34 Occasional Writting & Reading 5813
• *Chap 35 Love is then our Duty 6862
• Chap 36 Published Writer 4784
• 5 The Imperative of Travel (1839) 0
• Chap 37 On the Go Off 4607
• Chap 38 Circumambulating Manhattan 3617
• Chap 39 Heading Out to Sea 2892
• Chap 40 Brotherhood of Outcasts 4860
• Chap 41 Secret Sympathy 3448
• 6 First Voyage (1839) 0
• Chap 42 Along the Marge 1941
• Chap 43 His First Crew 3472
• Chap 44 Learning the Ropes 4414
• Chap 45 No School Like a Ship
• for Studying Human Nature 4512
• Chap 46 Irish Sea and Liverpool 5461
• 7 Liverpool and Back (1839-1840) 0
• Chap 47 The Liverpool of His Father 5458
• Chap 48 Roscoe and the Picture of Liverpool 6584
• Chap 49 What Melville Saw in Liverpool 4035
• Chap 50 The Moment of Liverpool 4460
• Chap 51 Home Again: Teacher Again 5005
• Chap 52 Rent 5153
• Chap 53 Maria's Boys 7029
• Volume 2 Melville at Sea (1840-1846)
• 8 Out West (1840) 0
• Chap 54 On the Road 3253
• Chap 55 On the Canal 3653
• Chap 56 Up in Michigan 2303
• Chap 57 Chicago and Galena 2670
• Chap 58 Versions of Prairie 2731
• Chap 59 The Falls of St. Anthony 1464
• Chap 60 Lonely Watcher 3168
• Chap 61 Rivers and Scars 6134
• 9 The Atlantic (1841) 0
• Chap 62 Four Weeks' Residence in Manhattan 4139
• Chap 63 Mean Streets 5723
• Chap 64 New Bedford 4669
• Chap 65 Ready for Sea 3842
• Chap 66 Ship and Space 6203
• Chap 67 First Lowering 6155
• Chap 68 Unimaginable Accidents 4642
• Chap 69 Tornadoed Atlantic of My Being 5235
• 10 The Pacific (1841-1842) 0
• Chap 70 My Dear Pacific 4568
• Chap 71 Work and Love 5237
• Chap 72 This Thing of the Essex 6500
• Chap 73 Forecastle Conversation 6267
• Chap 74 Lover of the Picturesque
• 3791
• Chap 75 Versions of Picturesque
• 2772
• 11 The Marquesas (1842) 0
• Chap 76 Nuku Hiva 5488
• Chap 77 Jumping Ship 6280
• Chap 78 Island Masculinities 5918
• Chap 79 Taipi and Typee
• 6187
• Chap 80 Escaping Paradise 6413
• 12 Tahiti, Eimeo, Hawai'i (1842-1843) 0
• Chap 81 Good and Faithful Seaman 4839
• Chap 82 Reluctant Mutineer 4490
• Chap 83 Resistance and Vulnerability 4323
• Chap 84 Comic Consciousness 5039
• Chap 85 Tahiti As Is 5916
• Chap 86 Cosmopolitan Polynesia 4629
• Chap 87 Not Until Honolulu Was I Aware 5633
• Chap 88 Colonial Consciousness 4412
• 13 In the Navy (1843-1844) 0
• Chap 89 Herman Melville O. S. 6074
• Chap 90 Ordinary Seamen 5030
• Chap 91 Miracle of Art 4840
• Chap 92 Tearless in Lima 3259
• Chap 93 Humiliation and Riot 5137
• Chap 94 Theater of War 4752
• 14 Sailor Come Home (1844-1845) 0
• Chap 95 Beloved Brother 8027
• Chap 96 Tableaux Vivants 7189
• Chap 97 First Unfoldings 5811
• 15 Writing Typee (1845-1846) 0
• Chap 98 Tinker, Alter, Erupt 4982
• Chap 99 The Language of My Companion 6225
• Chap 100 Translating Taipi 5358
• Chap 101 Melville in Eruption 5192
• Chap 102 Smuggling Verbalist 4450
• 16 Practiced Writer (1846) 0
• Chap 103 Brothers Together 7857
• Chap 104 Broken Sword 4900
• Total
• 253761
• vol. 1
• 256702
• vol. 2 253761.
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A comprehensive exploration of Melville's formative years, providing a new biographical foundation for today's generations of Melville readers Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2, follows Herman Melville's life from early childhood to his astonishing emergence as a bestselling novelist with the publication of Typee in 1846. These volumes comprise the first half of a comprehensive biography on Melville, grounded in archival research, new scholarship, and incisive critical readings. Author John Bryant, a distinguished Melville scholar, editor, critic, and educator, traces the events and experiences that shaped the many-stranded consciousness of one of literature's greatest writers. This in-depth and innovative biography covers Melville's family history and literary friendships, his father-longing, god-hunger, and search for the hidden nature of Being, the genesis of his liberal politics, his empathy for African Americans, Native Americans, Polynesians, South Americans, and immigrants. Original perspectives on Melville's earliest identities-orphaned son, sibling, farmer, teacher, debater, lover, actor, sailor-provide the context for Melville's evolution as a writer. The biography presents new information regarding Melville's reading, his early orations and acting experience, his life at sea and on the road, and the unsettling death of his older, rival brother from mercury poisoning. It provides insights on experiences such as Melville's trauma at the loss of his father, his learning to write amidst a coterie siblings, his struggles to find work during economic depression, his journey West, his life in whaling and in the navy, and his vagabondage in the South Pacific during the moment of American and European imperial incursions. A significant addition to Melville scholarship, this important biographical work: Explores the nature and development of Melville's creative consciousness, through the lens of his revisions in manuscript and print Assesses Melville's sexual growth and exploration of the spectrum of his masculinities Highlights Melville's relevance in contemporary democratic society Discusses Melville's blending of dark humor and tragedy in his unique version of the picturesque Examines the 'replaying' of Melville's life traumas throughout his entire works, from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man to his shorter works, including "Bartleby, " his epic Clarel, his poetry, and his last novella Billy Budd Covers such cultural and historical events as the American revolution of his grandparents, the whaling industry, New York slavery, street life and theater in Manhattan, the transatlantic slave trade, the Jacksonian economy, Indian removal, Pacific colonialism, and westward expansion Written in an engaging style for scholars and general readers alike, Herman Melville: A Half Known Life, Volumes 1 and 2 is an indispensable new source of information and insights for those interested in Melville, 19th-century and modern literature and culture, and readers of general American history and literary culture.
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• How to pretend to be something you're not
• How to experiment
• How to break someone's heart
• How to be okay with being alone forever
• How to fall in love
• How to be ace.

"Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality."--Provided by publisher.

• Prologue. When we came out of slavery
• You can move toward danger
• A matter of faith
• Is segregation Christian?
• And then they jumped on me
• You're never too young to fight
• We're willing to be beaten
• The disease of racism
• Epilogue. Remembrances.

"C. T. Vivian's life was never defined by the discrimination and hardship he faced, although there were many instances of both throughout his lifetime. The late civil rights leader instead focused on his faith in God and his steadfast belief in nonviolence, extending these principles nationwide as a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It's In the Action contains Vivian's recollections, ranging from finding religion at the young age of five to his imprisonment as part of the Freedom Rides. The late civil rights leader's heart wrenching and inspiring stories from a lifetime of nonviolent activism come just in time for a new generation of activists, similarly responding to systems of injustice, violence, and oppression. It's In the Action is a record of a life dedicated to selflessness and morality, qualities achieved by Vivian that we can all aspire to"-- Provided by publisher.

"Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses. In this work, scholars from the United States, Israel, and across Europe bring a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to their study of the Holocaust and its aftermath from the family perspective. Drawing on research from Belarus to Great Britain, and examining both Jewish and Romani families, they demonstrate the importance of recognizing how people continued to function within family units-broadly defined-throughout the war and afterward"-- Provided by publisher