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Author : Nickelodeon Publishing
Publisher : Nickelodeon
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2011-02-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1612631045
Supervillians Pablo and Tyrone plan to use their powers to take over the world! To do that, they have to capture the Key to the World in the Tower of Power. Will the superheroes-Uniqua and Austin-be able to stop them? Based on Nickelodeon's hit series, The Backyardigans!
Author : Catherine Lukas
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599611594
Pablo and Tyrone, playing as supervillains Yucky Man and Dr. Shrinky, race against superheroes Uniqua and Austin--also known as Weather Woman and Captain Hammer--for control over the Key of the Wold, located in the Tower of Power.
Author : Stefan M. Bradley
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1479806021
Winner, 2019 Anna Julia Cooper and C.L.R. James Award, given by the National Council for Black Studies Finalist, 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History, given by the African American Intellectual History Society Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society The inspiring story of the black students, faculty, and administrators who forever changed America’s leading educational institutions and paved the way for social justice and racial progress The eight elite institutions that comprise the Ivy League, sometimes known as the Ancient Eight—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell—are American stalwarts that have profoundly influenced history and culture by producing the nation’s and the world’s leaders. The few black students who attended Ivy League schools in the decades following WWII not only went on to greatly influence black America and the nation in general, but unquestionably awakened these most traditional and selective of American spaces. In the twentieth century, black youth were in the vanguard of the black freedom movement and educational reform. Upending the Ivory Tower illuminates how the Black Power movement, which was borne out of an effort to edify the most disfranchised of the black masses, also took root in the hallowed halls of America’s most esteemed institutions of higher education. Between the close of WWII and 1975, the civil rights and Black Power movements transformed the demographics and operation of the Ivy League on and off campus. As desegregators and racial pioneers, black students, staff, and faculty used their status in the black intelligentsia to enhance their predominantly white institutions while advancing black freedom. Although they were often marginalized because of their race and class, the newcomers altered educational policies and inserted blackness into the curricula and culture of the unabashedly exclusive and starkly white schools. This book attempts to complete the narrative of higher education history, while adding a much needed nuance to the history of the Black Power movement. It tells the stories of those students, professors, staff, and administrators who pushed for change at the risk of losing what privilege they had. Putting their status, and sometimes even their lives, in jeopardy, black activists negotiated, protested, and demonstrated to create opportunities for the generations that followed. The enrichments these change agents made endure in the diversity initiatives and activism surrounding issues of race that exist in the modern Ivy League. Upending the Ivory Tower not only informs the civil rights and Black Power movements of the postwar era but also provides critical context for the Black Lives Matter movement that is growing in the streets and on campuses throughout the country today. As higher education continues to be a catalyst for change, there is no one better to inform today’s activists than those who transformed our country’s past and paved the way for its future.
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9781415673362
"Supervillains Pablo and Tyrone plan to use their powers to take over the world! To do that, they have to capture the Key to the World in Tower of Power. Will the superheroes--Uniqua and Austin--be able to stop them?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Steven Attewell
Publisher :
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2018-05-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781980635932
A GAME OF THRONES How would you like to read A Game of Thrones with a PhD by your side?Steven Attewell, creator of Race for the Iron Throne (racefortheironthrone.wordpress.com), is one of the most insightful scholars in political theory and history, but instead of devoting his talents to academia, he's delving into George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire saga to give the most comprehensive deconstruction - and explanation - yet offered.Each one of Thrones's 73 chapters is broken down in meticulous detail in four key areas. The Political and Historical Analyses explore the political ramifications that each character's decisions entail while digging into the real-world historical incidents that inspired Martin's narrative twists and turns. What If? offers up a tantalizing look at how these political and historical elements could have played out in dozens of alternative scenarios, underscoring the majesty and complexity of Martin's storytelling. And Book vs. Show looks at the key differences - both good and bad - between the story as originally conceived on the printed page and as realized in HBO's Game of Thrones.At nearly 204,000 words, it's almost literally impossible to imagine a more exhaustive or authoritative reading companion for any novel ever before published.Note: there are spoilers for all five published novels in the Song of Ice and Fire series. About the author Steven Attewell is the author of Race for the Iron Throne, a blog that examines the history and politics of the Song of Ice and Fire series and HBO's Game of Thrones. He has a PhD in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he studied the history of public policy and was a political and union activist. In addition to Race for the Iron Throne, Steven is also a co-podcaster on Game of Thrones at the Lawyers, Guns, and Money podcast, writes about public policy at the Realignment Project, and is a co-author of the Tower of the Hand: A Hymn for Spring anthology book.
Author : Davarian L Baldwin
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568588917
Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Author : Daniel José Older
Publisher : Disney Lucasfilm Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781368060660
The Republic Fair is coming! While his fellow Valons prepare for the fair, Jedi Padawan Ram Jomaram is hiding out in his favourite place: a dingy garage filled with mechanical parts and tools. But when an alarm goes off on the nearby hilltop, he ventures out with his trusty droid V-18 to investigate. There he discovers a frightening sign that Valo, and the Republic Fair, are in danger. Sure enough, as Ram races to warn the Jedi, the dreaded Nihil unleash a surprise attack! It's up to Ram to face down the enemy and send a call for help. Luckily, he's about to get some assistance from unexpected new friends...
Author : Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1978806361
Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
Author : Ann Leckie
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316388718
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARD Gods meddle in the fates of men, men play with the fates of gods, and a pretender must be cast down from the throne in this masterful first fantasy novel from Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. "Absolutely wonderful. . .utterly brilliant." -- The New York Times Book Review For centuries, the kingdom of Iraden has been protected by the god known as the Raven. He watches over his territory from atop a tower in the powerful port of Vastai. His will is enacted through the Raven's Lease, a human ruler chosen by the god himself. His magic is sustained by the blood sacrifice that every Lease must offer. And under the Raven's watch, the city flourishes. But the Raven's tower holds a secret. Its foundations conceal a dark history that has been waiting to reveal itself. . .and to set in motion a chain of events that could destroy Iraden forever. "It's a delight to read something so different, so wonderful and strange." -- Patrick Rothfuss For more Ann Leckie, check out:Ancillary JusticeAncillary SwordAncillary Mercy Provenance
Author : Justin Spelvin
Publisher : Simon Spolight/Nickelodeon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 9781847380289
The Backyardigans take to the high seas as pirates searching for hidden treasure. But who will be lucky enough to find the treasure first and who will have to walk the plank?