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Institutional Racism and Restorative Justice: Oppression and Privilege in America
Author: Diane Carpenter Emling
Diane Emling, of Northwestern Michigan College, details America’s complex history of racism, demonstrating how it becomes embedded in society through land ownership, housing, education, health care, employment, public services, and criminal justice. For each of these issues, she suggests actions to restore justice. Directed at college undergraduate students and written in a comprehensive and accessible style, this book offers a much needed perspective on institutional racism.
Northern Harvest: Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming
Author: Emita Brady Hill
Northern Harvest: Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming looks at the female culinary pioneers who have put northern Michigan on the map for food, drink, and farming. Emita Brady Hill interviews women who share their own stories of becoming the cooks, bakers, chefs, and farmers that they are today-each even sharing a delicious recipe or two. Northern Harvest is a celebration of northern Michigan’s rich culinary tradition and the women who made it so.
Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy, Efficiency and Sustainability
Author: Roger Hunt & Marianne Suhr
Whether your house is medieval and timber-framed or a Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian terrace, it can be made more energy efficient and sustainable, and this practical and comprehensive handbook will show you how. Revised and updated throughout, this is a must have for owners of old houses looking to make their homes more energy efficient and sustainable.
Leadership Is Language : The Hidden Power of What You Say- and What You Don’t
Author: L. David Marquet
From the acclaimed author of Turn the Ship Around!, former US Navy Captain David Marquet, comes a radical new playbook for empowering your team to make better decisions and take greater ownership. In Leadership is Language, you’ll learn how choosing your words can dramatically improve decision-making and execution on your team.
Scientists Under Surveillance : the FBI Files
Edited by JPat Brown, B.C.D. Lipton, Michael Morisy
Neil Armstrong — Isaac Asimov — Hans Bethe — John P. Craven — Albert Einstein — Paul Erdos — Richard Feynman — Mikhail Kalashnikov — Alfred Kinsey — Timothy Leary — William Masters — Arthur Rosenfeld — Vera Rubin — Carl Sagan — Nikola Tesla. This is the second volume of FBI files produced by the MuckRock team. This one looks at scientists who were targeted for what they know.
Piranesi
Author: Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.
The Four Winds
Author: Kristin Hannah
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras: the Great Depression. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
Full Throttle: Stories
Author: Joe Hill
In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including two stories co-written with Stephen King. Featuring two previously unpublished stories, and a brace of shocking chillers, Full Throttle is a darkly imagined odyssey through the complexities of the human psyche. Hypnotic and disquieting, it mines our tormented secrets, hidden vulnerabilities, and basest fears, and demonstrates this exceptional talent at his very best.
Title: The Lightest Object in the Universe
Author: Kimi Eisele
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe tells the story of what happens after the global economy collapses and the electrical grid goes down.
Summaries adapted from publishers.