Urban Swagger


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This book should come with aloe vera gel and a handle, because you might get burned and you will need to hold on to something. Urban Swagger is not for the faint hearted, but is not devoid of hope. Peace, Hope and Love are still the message, however in Urban Swagger the message is grittier and wounded many times. These poems are what you may have thought / would have liked to say out loud, but may find it wiser to keep these thoughts to yourself. With time and distance, I think it is safe to share these raw emotions in a place where they may do more good than harm. Consider it food for thought. These potent poems range from irreverent to relevant, from profane to profound, from celestial to terrestrial. Urban Swagger loves life, if it didn't love it wouldn't care, if it didn't care it wouldn't bother. This is based in love, not disdain. It is meant to give a close up picture of life among people; Earth's own human beings, in this place and time.




Hope and Healing in Urban Education


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Hope and Healing in Urban Education proposes a new movement of healing justice to repair the damage done by the erosion of hope resulting from structural violence in urban communities. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from around the country, this book chronicles how teacher activists employ healing strategies in stressed schools and community organizations, and work to reverse negative impacts on academic achievement and civic engagement, supporting their students to become powerful civic actors. The book argues that healing a community is a form of political action, and emphasizes the need to place healing and hope at the center of our educational and political strategies. At once a bold, revealing, and nuanced look at troubled urban communities as well as the teacher activists and community members working to reverse the damage done by generations of oppression, Hope and Healing in Urban Education examines how social change can be enacted from within to restore a sense of hope to besieged communities and counteract the effects of poverty, violence, and hopelessness.




Pursuing Trayvon Martin


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On February 26, 2012, seventeen-year-old African American male Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a twenty-eight-year-old white Hispanic American male in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman killed Martin in a gated community. Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, featuring a new preface by editors George Yancy and Janine Jones written after the June 2013 trial, examines the societal conditions that fueled the shooting and its ramifications for race relations and violence in America. Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics attempts to capture what a critical cadre of scholars think about this potentially volatile situation in the moment. The text addresses issues across various thematic domains that are both broad and relevant. Pursuing Trayvon Martin is an important read for scholars in the fields of philosophy, criminal justice, history, critical race theory, political science, critical philosophies of race, gender studies, sociology, rhetorical studies, and for anyone hungry for critical ways of thinking about the Trayvon Martin case.




Contemporary Brand Management


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Written by experts on global marketing, Contemporary Brand Management focuses on the essentials of Brand Management in today’s global marketplace. The text succinctly covers a natural sequence of branding topics, from the building of a new brand, to brand extension and the creation of a global brand, to the management of a firm’s brand portfolio. The authors uniquely explore global branding as a natural expansion strategy across markets and offer numerous international brands as examples throughout. Designed for shorter strategic branding courses (half-term or 6 weeks in length), this text is the ideal companion for upper-level, graduate, or executive-level students seeking a practical knowledge of brand management concepts and applications.




What's in Your In-POD?


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This book offers an innovative approach to exploring the depths of human experience as well as the farthest points of human potential. Readers are encouraged to reflect on and nurture their dreams, goals and desires in the context of who they are and why they exist. The author also challenges the reader to act on spiritual and social responsibility to make an impact in their spheres of influence. She uses culturally relevant metaphors as well as timeless concepts to guide the reader in self-discovery that reveals the greatness within. What\'s In Your In-Pod? Is an insightful self-help book that allows one to become introspective yet dream the wildest dream. The importance of our dreams, goals and desires are eloquently etched into a well thought play on words that epitomizes the In-pod - the seed source for our destiny. Londa Yvette courageously pushes us to refurbish our destiny related ambitions. This is a must read for anyone who dares to find fulfillment of purpose and accomplishment of goals - - as the beat goes on. Adrienne Lacey-Bushell An enlightening, engaging and encouraging tool for anyone needing direction. Christina Madina Bravo to, \"What\'s in your In-pod.\" Finally, an inspiring read that goes far beyond the typical self-help book. Londa Yvette has written a relevant book that unties the ropes that have kept us bound. She marches us to the finish line with bold hope. What\'s in you In-pod is a must read for everyone. Earline Coleman




The Harm in Asking


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Welcome to the perverse and hilarious mind of Sara Barron. In The Harm in Asking, she boldly addresses the bizarre indignities of everyday life: from invisible pets to mobster roommates, from a hatred of mayonnaise to an unrequited love of k.d. lang, from the ruinous side effect of broccoli to the sheer delight of a male catalogue model. In a voice that is incisive and entirely her own, Barron proves herself the master of the awkward, and she achieves something wonderful and rare: a book that makes you laugh out loud. Simply put: if you read it, you will never be the same.* *That's not true. You'll probably stay the same. But you'll have laughed a lot. And you'll have learned a fun fact about Jessica Simpson's home spray. See? You didn't even know she had a home spray! The learning has already begun.




Moss and Fern


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Moss and Fern is about being in the woods and liking it there. When I find myself in a good spot in the woods, I often pause to take it all in and to just be in that place at that moment. I think you will enjoy doing likewise here. Wander around in these poems just as you would wander around in the woods. Ramble along, aimlessly or with direction. Find your own path. Read this book from front to back, back to front, out of order, or in any order. Even though these poems are assembled, you get to decide which direction to go and at which speed. You can live with each poem for a day, a month, a year, or a moment before moving on. New delights await you around each bend, beckoning you forward. Like any good tree, there is a fair amount of sap here. I hope it sticks to you in only the best ways.




Cedar and Cypress


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These collected poems and pictures - by, for, and about Hummingbird Hill - are a vacation. Cedar and Cypress was written on vacation and about vacation, so it is meant to give you a vacation experience, to help transport you to that vacation time, place, and frame of mind. Hopefully you have a place where you like to go and connect with yourself, even if it is within. Vacations in my special place have been condensed into one sensory experience here in Cedar and Cypress. My poems are about nature or human nature. There is nothing serious going on in here, and that is how the best progress is made. Laugh yourself silly from morning coffee through midday and through sunset to stargazing before bed. Giggle along with me as we scamper up and down the steps from the cabin to the creek. Enjoy!




Lou Reed


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The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions of genre while speaking to millions of fans and inspiring generations of musicians. But while his iconic status may be fixed, the man himself was anything but. Lou Reed's life was a transformer's odyssey. Eternally restless and endlessly hungry for new experiences, Reed reinvented his persona, his sound, even his sexuality time and again. A man of contradictions and extremes, he was fiercely independent yet afraid of being alone, artistically fearless yet deeply paranoid, eager for commercial success yet disdainful of his own triumphs. Channeling his jagged energy and literary sensibility into classic songs - like "Walk on the Wild Side" and "Sweet Jane" - and radically experimental albums alike, Reed remained desperately true to his artistic vision, wherever it led him. Now, just a few years after Reed's death, Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis, who knew Reed and interviewed him extensively, tells the provocative story of his complex and chameleonic life. With unparalleled access to dozens of Reed's friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis tracks Reed's five-decade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through Reed's most revealing testimony, his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean world, enter the studio as the Velvet Underground record their groundbreaking work, and revel in Reed's relationships with such legendary figures as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Laurie Anderson. Gritty, intimate, and unflinching, Lou Reed is an illuminating tribute to one of the most incendiary artists of our time.




Black Males and Racism


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Behind the twenty-first-century curtain of "colorblind" public sentiment lies an often-ignored reality shared by many African American males—racism continues to thrive and often drastically affects their lives. Fitzgerald draws on his extensive interviews of black males to reveal the experiences of racism that continue in public schools and in American higher education. Using empirical data and the methods of sociological research, Fitzgerald analyzes how the persistent effects of white supremacy in education have threatened the psychological and economic welfare of black males. The effects often last well into adulthood. Unraveling the subtle and overt mechanisms of institutional social control leads Fitzgerald to proposals to reduce structural racism and improve the lives of African American youth.




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