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Where They Stood: The Evolution of the Black Anglo Community in Montreal
Par Melis Aysegul Black Community Resource Centre. 2023
Day of the dead: A first look (Read about Holidays (Read for a Better World))
Par Katie Peters. 2023
Spoken word: A cultural history
Par Joshua Bennett. 2023
A "rich hybrid of memoir and history" ( The New Yorker ) of the literary art form that has transformed…
the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion "Bennett…transport[s] us back to the city blocks, bars, cafes and stages these artists traversed and inhabited…an instructive text for young poets, artists or creative entrepreneurs trying to find a way to carve out a space for themselves…Shines with a refreshing dynamism." — The New York Times In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American theater. That meeting is but one among many in the trajectory of Bennett's young life, as he rode the cresting wave of spoken word through the 2010s. In this book, he goes back to its roots, considering the Black Arts movement and the prominence of poetry and song in Black education; the origins of the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the Lower East Side living room of the visionary Miguel Algarín, who hosted verse gatherings with legendary figures like Ntozake Shange and Miguel Piñero; the rapid growth of the "slam" format that was pioneered at the Get Me High Lounge in Chicago; the perfect storm of spoken word's rise during the explosion of social media; and Bennett's own journey alongside his older sister, whose work to promote the form helped shape spaces online and elsewhere dedicated to literature and the pursuit of human freedom. A celebration of voices outside the dominant cultural narrative, who boldly embraced an array of styles and forms and redefined what—and whom—the mainstream would include, Bennett's book illuminates the profound influence spoken word has had everywhere melodious words are heard, from Broadway to academia, from the podiums of political protest to cafés, schools, and rooms full of strangers all across the worldPourquoi les méduses ne vieillissent pas: ... et autres secrets de longévité de la nature
Par Nicklas Brendborg. 2023
La nature regorge de superpouvoirs en matière de longévité. Saviez-vous qu'il existe un requin âgé de 390 ans, ce qui…
le rend plus vieux que les États-Unis ? Connaissiez-vous cette espèce de méduse capable, lorsqu'elle est menacée, de rajeunir, avant de recommencer à vieillir ? Mêlant exploration scientifique et histoires extraordinaires, Nicklas Brendborg nous emmène à la découverte de cycles de vie si longs qu'ils semblent dépasser la réalité. D'une expérimentation réussie de modification de l'ADN humain aux cellules millénaires des séquoias, en passant par de prometteuses perspectives face au cancer et à la maladie d'Alzheimer, cet ouvrage nous révèle les fascinants secrets de santé et de longévité de la nature dont nous pouvons tous nous inspirer. TABLE DES MATIÈRES Introduction La fontaine de Jouvence Première partie - Les merveilles de la nature Chapitre 1 – Longévité : le livre des records Chapitre 2 – Soleil, cocotiers et longue vie Chapitre 3 – La surestimation des gènes Chapitre 4 – Inconvénients de l'immortalité Deuxième partie - Les découvertes de la science Chapitre 5 – Ce qui ne nous tue pas nous rend plus forts... Chapitre 6 – De l'importance de la taille Chapitre 7 – Les secrets de l'île de Pâques Chapitre 8 – Un pour tous 1 Chapitre 9 – Mitochondries et énergie Chapitre 10 – Au pays de l'immortalité Chapitre 11 – Comment se débarrasser des cellules zombies Chapitre 12 – Remonter l'horloge biologique Chapitre 13 – Bon sang ne saurait mentir ! Chapitre 14 – La guerre des microbes Chapitre 15 – Caché au grand jour Chapitre 16 – Longévité et fil dentaire Chapitre 17 – Rajeunissement immunitaire Troisième partie - Les bons conseils Chapitre 18 – Des volontaires pour la disette ? Chapitre 19 – Faire du neuf avec du vieux Chapitre 20 – Nutrition « culte du cargo » Chapitre 21 – Nourrir... la réflexion Chapitre 22 – Des moines du Moyen Âge à la science moderne Chapitre 23 – Mesurer, c'est assurer Chapitre 24 – Victoire de l'esprit sur la matière Epilogue RemerciementsRacial emotion at work: Dismantling discrimination and building racial justice in the workplace
Par Tristin Green. 2023
This timely book unravels race and emotion in the workplace-exploring why racial emotion is often left out of equity conversations…
and why we must confront it. Racial Emotion at Work is an invitation to understand our own emotions and associated behaviors around race-and much more. With this surprising and timely book, Tristin K. Green takes us beyond diversity trainings and other individualized solutions to discrimination and inequality in employment, calling for sweeping changes in how the law and work organizations treat and shape racial emotions. Green provides listeners with the latest research on racial emotions in interracial interactions and ties this research to thinking about discrimination and disadvantage at work. We see how our racial emotions can result in discrimination, and how our institutions-the law and work organizations-value and skew our racial emotions in ways that place the brunt of negative consequences on people of color. It turns out we need to reset our institutional and not just our personal radars on racial emotion to advance racial justice. Racial Emotion at Work shows how we can rise to the taskFreedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, palestine, and the foundations of a movement
Par Angela Davis. 2016
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles…
against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles-from the black freedom movement to the South African antiapartheid movement. She highlights connections and analyzes today's struggles against state terror, from Ferguson to Palestine. Facing a world of outrageous injustice, Davis challenges us to imagine and build the movement for human liberation. And in doing so, she reminds us that "freedom is a constant struggle."Above ground
Par Clint Smith. 2023
A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author…
of How the Word Is Passed . Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the vast emotional terrain of fatherhood, and explores how becoming a parent has recalibrated his sense of the world. There are poems that interrogate the ways our lives are shaped by both personal lineages and historical institutions. There are poems that revel in the wonder of discovering the world anew through the eyes of your children, as they discover it for the first time. There are poems that meditate on what it means to raise a family in a world filled with constant social and political tumult. Above Ground wrestles with how we hold wonder and despair in the same hands, how we carry intimate moments of joy and a collective sense of mourning in the same body. Smith's lyrical, narrative poems bring the reader on a journey not only through the early years of his children's lives, but through the changing world in which they are growing up—through the changing world of which we are all a part. Above Ground is a breathtaking collection that follows Smith's first award-winning book of poetry, Counting DescentEnquête sur les savoirs indigènes (Folio. Actuel #Vol. 31395)
Par Sylvie Crossman. 2005
Les auteurs enquêtent dans l'Himalaya, sur les plateaux de l'Arizona et dans le désert australien autour de trois thèmes :…
la prophétie, la santé et l'art. Ils constatent que quand l'Occident s'interroge, les nations premières offrent des réponses et que les sagesses ancestrales sont aujourd'hui scientifiquement validées. Postface inédite consacrée aux nouveaux matérialistes.Irréductibles Québécois (Terres d'aujourd'hui)
Par Valérie Lion. 2005
Montre ce qui amène de nombreux Français à vivre ou séjourner dans la Belle Province. Oubliés dans les années 60…
par la France, isolés dans une Amérique anglophone, les Québécois ont fait une révolution tranquille qui leur permet d'avoir une identité forte face à la mondialisation et en même temps d'être ouverts au monde.Nous ne sommes pas des bonobos: créateurs et créatures (Sciences humaines)
Par Alain Bentolila. 2021
Un essai sur la conquête du langage et de l'écriture par l'espèce humaine et du point de vue de l'enfant.…
Présentée comme constitutive de l'humanité et de la construction de soi, la maîtrise de la parole et de la lecture est défendue contre les effets néfastes de l'illettrisme, de l'insécurité linguistique et de l'omniprésence des images.Je veux que les Inuit soient libres de nouveau: autobiographie (1914-1993) (Collection Jardin de givre)
Par Taamusi Allatangit. 0201
" Chasseur, pêcheur, trappeur et homme politique, Taamusi Qumaq (1914-1993) est considéré comme lun des grands penseurs des Inuit du…
Nunavik. Bien quunilingue en inuktitut, ce personnage exceptionnel , comme le présente ici Louis-Jacques Dorais, a consacré sa vie à consigner, à lécrit, la vie des siens ainsi que leur langue et il sest à ce titre attiré la reconnaissance de plusieurs institutions, dont celle de lAssemblée nationale du Québec. Né dans un camp de chasse aux environs dInukjuak sur la côte orientale de la baie dHudson, Taamusi Qumaq porte sur le monde qui lentoure un regard personnel et réfléchi, qui enregistre les grands changements du 20e siècle. Du tournage du film mondialement connu de Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North, aux échos de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, à la montée du souverainisme québécois fait exceptionnel parmi les Inuit, il fera de René Lévesque un modèle politique jusquaux signatures de premières ententes sur lautonomie progressive du Nunavik, Qumaq assiste et participe à la transformation du monde inuit. Son autobiographie, dont on retrouvera ici la traduction en français, constitue un document de grande importance, tant pour les Inuit qui trouveront en lui un modèle, que pour les lecteurs du monde entier qui accèdent par ses mots à un univers culturel fascinant. " -- 4e de couvD'Est en Ouest: légendes et contes canadiens
Par Pierre Mathieu. 2008
"Connaissez-vous cette baignoire volante qui surplombe le ciel de Regina? Avez-vous entendu parler de l'effondrement du lac Niagara qui est…
à l'origine de la formation des célèbres chutes? Que savez-vous du Grand Manitou, de Glooscap et de Minegoo? D'Est en Ouest convie le lecteur à un véritable pèlerinage au coeur de 24 des plus fabuleuses légendes du folklore canadien. Pédagogue de renom, Pierre Mathieu transpose dans une langue simple et accessible l'univers enchanteur qui a fait la renommée de chaque province et territoire du Canada. En perpétuant par l'écriture les hauts faits de nos héros, l'auteur réussit à redonner au mot "légende" son sens étymologique premier : "les choses qui doivent être lues". -- 4e de couvAmerican dreams: the United States since 1945
Par H. W Brands. 2010
High minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain
Par Simon Heffer. 2022
"Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest, and uncertainty; there were attempts to assassinate the queen…
and her prime minister; and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialization but by new attitudes to politics, education, women, and the working class. That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people-politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers-who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society. High Minds explores this process of transformation as it traces the evolution of British democracy and shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the fate of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their lives and prospects. The narrative analyzes the birth of new attitudes in education, religion, and science. And High Minds shows how even such aesthetic issues as taste in architecture collided with broader debates about the direction that the country should take. In the process, Simon Heffer looks at the lives and deeds of major politicians; at the intellectual arguments that raged among writers and thinkers such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Butler; and at the "great projects" of the age, from the Great Exhibition to the Albert Memorial. Drawing heavily on previously unpublished documents, he offers a superbly nuanced portrait into life in an extraordinary era, populated by extraordinary people-and show how the Victorians' pursuit of perfection gave birth to the modern Britain we know today." -- Provided by publisherIf white kids die: memories of a civil rights movement volunteer
Par Dick J Reavis. 2001
Memoirs of a white middle-class college student from Texas who joined in the voter registration efforts in the South in…
the summer of 1964. An up-and-coming leader named Stokely Carmichael told a group of prospective volunteers in New York that the "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee" wanted to be sure that if blacks were killed for the civil rights cause, whites would die with them. The price Dick Reavis paid when he spent a summer on the wrong side of the tracks in Demopolis, Alabama, was his innocenceWhen the words suddenly stopped: finding my voice again after a massive stroke
Par Vivian L King. 2020
Thank you for shopping: the golden age of Minnesota department stores
Par Kristal Leebrick. 2018
In Thank You for Shopping, author Kristal Leebrick presents the history and stories behind Minnesota's great department stores, offering a…
lively trip back to the glory days. The book also includes a chapter dedicated to the signature dishes with recipes, menus, and photos of the stores' esteemed dining establishmentsA celebration of family: stories of parents with disabilities
Par Dave Matheis. 2021
Collected by the Louisville Center for Accessible Living, these 30 short narratives are personal accounts of the triumphs and challenges…
of parenthood by people who happen to have a disability, whether sensory, physical, or cognitive. Some chapters include comments from spouses or children. Introduction by Jason Jones. 2021 AdultA wide-ranging examination of why things become popular, why preferences change over time, and how identity plays out in contemporary…
society. In Status and Culture, W. David Marx weaves together the wisdom from history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, economics, philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, cultural theory, literary theory, art history, media studies, and neuroscience to demonstrate exactly how individual status seeking creates our cultural ecosystem. Marx examines three fundamental questions: Why do individuals cluster around arbitrary behaviors and take deep meaning from them? How do distinct styles, conventions, and sensibilities emerge? Why do we change behaviors over time and why do some behaviors stick around? The answers then provide new perspectives for understanding the seeming "weightlessness" of internet culture