Book Description
A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.
Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2003-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 161578019X
A searing account of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does, written by a British psychiatrist.
Author : Tan Hoang Nguyen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822376601
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meanings that accrue to sexual positions. He shows how cultural fantasies around the position of the sexual "bottom" overdetermine and refract the meanings of race, gender, sexuality, and nationality in American culture in ways that both enable and constrain Asian masculinity. Challenging the association of bottoming with passivity and abjection, Nguyen suggests ways of thinking about the bottom position that afford agency and pleasure. A more capacious conception of bottomhood—as a sexual position, a social alliance, an affective bond, and an aesthetic form—has the potential to destabilize sexual, gender, and racial norms, suggesting an ethical mode of relation organized not around dominance and mastery but around the risk of vulnerability and shame. Thus reconceived, bottomhood as a critical category creates new possibilities for arousal, receptiveness, and recognition, and offers a new framework for analyzing sexual representations in cinema as well as understanding their relation to oppositional political projects.
Author : Chad Pregracke
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nonprofit organizations
ISBN : 9781426201004
Author : Loren Long
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698174550
Built for giggles and fun read-alouds, this classic children's song has been adapted by #1 New York Times bestselling illustrator of Love and Otis, Loren Long! "One to visit again and again..." --Publishers Weekly There's a log on the bottom of the lake There's a log on the bottom of the lake There's a log? There's a log! There's a log on the bottom of the lake. But it turns out there's a a whole lot more than just a log on the bottom of this lake! A cumulative text featuring repetition and tongue-twisters combine with gorgeous illustrations from New York Times bestselling illustrator Loren Long for a book kids will clamor for at storytime. Endpapers include sheet music and lyrics for kids and parents to have their own singalong!
Author : Myrna Boles
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781475939866
Myrna Boless parents name her after a movie star, but growing up, life is anything but glamorous. In fact, she was lucky to be born at all, given that her mother tried to abort her by drinking turpentine. Fortunately, it didnt work, and in 1932 she was born. As a child, her family moved to the Bottomthe poor section of Union City, Tennessee. They didnt get there by accident. Others had simply grown tired of trying to help the family out because they knew their money would just end up in the belly of Myrnas alcoholic father. Meanwhile, as time goes on, Myrnas mother struggles just to keep her sanity. In this memoir, Myrna looks back at her life growing up in the rural South during the Great Depression, poor and unwanted. She endures bullying, abuse, cancer, and divorce. But through it all, she does her best to survive and seeks to find a better life From the Bottom.
Author : Jessica Law
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 29,75 MB
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1782854835
Discover amazing and fascinating sea creatures in the hole in the bottom of the sea! Based on the traditional cumulative song, each verse introduces a new creature and its place in the food chain, with the shark chasing the eel, who chases the squid, who chases the snail. Enhanced CD includes videso animation and audio singalong.
Author : Frank Viva
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1935179195
A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
Author : Edward Ellsberg
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1960-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780396004691
In a collision with a steamship, "City of Rome, on the night of September 25, 1925, the U.S. Navy Submarine S-51 sank in 132 feet of water, taking 33 sailors to the ocean floor. This is the story of the men charged with doing the impossible--rising the thousand ton sub from the bottom of the sea. Added to this modern classic of true adventure are a foreword and afterword giving specifics of the accident and the aftermath, additional photographs, a publisher's preface, and appendices.
Author : Azfar Shafi
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Anti-racism
ISBN : 9780745344690
Author : Luke Rosiak
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0063056739
Everyone wants: High schoolers to graduate well-prepared for jobs. Improved STEM literacy. Greater achievement for inner-city children. Happiness for all children. So why are liberals spending billions of dollars working against those goals? In Race to the Bottom, Luke Rosiak uncovers the shocking reason why American education is failing: Powerful special interest groups are using our kids as guinea pigs in vast ideological experiments. These groups’ initiatives aren’t focused on making children smarter—but on implementing a radical agenda, no matter the effect on academic standards. Nonprofits pump billions into initiatives meant to redress racial inequities. Rather than fixing the problem, districts with a big gap between white and black test scores hire consultants who claim the tests are meaningless because they are “racist.” These consultants’ judgments allow school districts to ignore their own failures—ultimately hurting minority students and perpetuating racism. That is just one example. Drawing on his years in investigative journalism, Rosiak did a deep dive into school files, financial records, and parents’ stories. What he found is that nonprofit influence has crept into the educational bureaucracy all over America. Corrupt school boards and quack diversity consultants abound. Teachers drawing government pay claim it’s unsafe to return to in-person school, but “double dip” teaching in-person private classes. And amid all this focus on money and equity, academic standards are crumbling, which hurts American kids in ways we’ll be suffering for decades. Race to the Bottom is the first comprehensive exposé of the way radical ideology and self-serving administrators are destroying academic quality in America’s K-12 schools. Rigorous and deeply-researched, this is essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of our kids.