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Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society's narrow understanding of neurodiversity."--
For every visibly autistic person you meet, there are countless "masked" autistic people who pass as neurotypical. Price provides a deep dive into the spectrum of autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked autism. In doing...
3283) Olio
Author
Series
Wave Books volume 53
Publisher
Wave Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With ambitious manipulations of poetic forms, Tyehimba Jess presents the sweat and story behind America's blues, worksongs and church hymns. Part fact, part fiction, Jess's much anticipated second book weaves sonnet, song, and narrative to examine the lives of mostly unrecorded African American performers directly before and after the Civil War up to World War I. Olio is an effort to understand how they met, resisted, complicated, co-opted, and sometimes...
Publisher
Barton County Historical Society
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Outside the Hoisington, Kansas, city limits, South Hoisington (South Homestead Township) has been home to primarily African Americans and Hispanics during the 20th century. This work examines the people and institutions that shaped the South Hoisington community, blending historical research with first-person accounts that allow former residents to tell their own stories of the former community's people, business establishments, controversies, and...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa�nol
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Sigue los destinos de cinco familias interrelacionadas--una estadounidense, una alemana, una rusa, una inglesa, y una galesa--mientras pasan por los dramas de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revoluci�on Rusa, y la lucha por el sufragio...
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s,...
3289) Braiding sweetgrass
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, the author has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to the Americas, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In this book, she brings these two lenses of knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans...
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