Frank Carlson Library

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A controversial figure in the history of race relations around the world, Marcus Garvey amazed his enemies as much as he dazzled his admirers. This anthology contains some of the African-American rights advocate's most noted writings and speeches, including "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World" and "Africa for the Africans."

Tremendous Trifles is comprised of 39 chapters, each functioning as their own essay or story. With whimsical, light-hearted prose, vivid figurative language, and unparalleled insight, Chesterton covers a variety of philosophical principles of everyday life. Chesterton often used ordinary events and objects to explain deeper matters. Using relatable and accessible examples, Tremendous Trifles also test biases and preconceived ideas, specifically in...

Dreamers of the Ghetto (1892) is a collection of stories by Israel Zangwill. Raised in London by parents from Latvia and Poland, Zangwill understood the plight of the city's Jewish community firsthand. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, he dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels and stories...

Une édition de référence d'Eugénie Grandet de Honoré de Balzac, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques. « En toute situation, les femmes ont plus de causes de douleur que n'en a l'homme, et souffrent plus que lui. L'homme a sa force, et l'exercice de sa puissance : il agit, il va, il s'occupe, il pense, il embrasse l'avenir et y trouve des consolations. Ainsi faisait Charles. Mais la femme demeure, elle reste face...

Of the uncounted centuries of the history of the red man in America before the coming of the Europeans we know very little indeed. Very few of the tribes possessed even a primitive art of writing. It is true that the Aztecs of Mexico, and the ancient Toltecs who preceded them, understood how to write in pictures, and that, by this means, they preserved some record of their rulers and of the great events of their past. The same is true of the Mayas...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thesis that children are naturally good at birth violated the traditional Christian doctrine of origin sin. His argument that education should arise from children's natural instincts and impulses rather than trying to civilize and socialize them challenged traditional schooling. Rousseau's defenders see him as a pioneering thinker whose revolutionary...

Set in the imaginary Igbo village, Iwu, this play tries the lowest fathoms of lunacy, and from there surveys a sane world; mocks the sanity of common-minded folk and quakes the strongholds of Time-weathering Customs! A comedy to our best, Forewarning to every beast; But lest we give too much away, We hold our peace, as ancients say!

These original songs, short stories, and nursery rhymes are truly for the young at heart. This book is written from actual experiences and ideally born from within my heart. Oral short stories are methods universally used to speak about truths, family matters, and world happenings. Young and old alike enjoyed oral stories before television became so popular. Oral short stories when read to classroom students increase learning and imagination and widen...

The book is a collection of artistic stories and topical political articles and tracts. The author tries to demonstrate versatility of life in a special unity of man and nature. Here are reflected the authors views on intimacy of the bee and the wild flower, on pernicious influence of regional, local wars, as well as reflections about bright ideas of democracy, freedom, and human rights, dimming and paling against the background of ambitious politicians...