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The Story of Petroleum
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

The Story of Petroleum

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Unknown

www.BigColoringBooks.comThe Story of Petroleum tells the exciting adventures of Oil Dude and his helpers Lil' Bit, Piper and Derrick. Together they set out to discover fossil fuels. This storybook helps children to understand where oil, coal and gas come from. Children will learn how fossil fuels are found and why every person uses some product from a fossil fuel in their daily life. The book also details in a fun and exciting way why it's important to protect the environment and our drinking water. It describes how petroleum resources help keep our country healthy and how fossil fuels make our lives so much easier and better.Really Big Coloring Books are teaching/learning tools, tell a stor...

Now We Will Be Happy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140

Now We Will Be Happy

Now We Will Be Happy is a prize-winning collection of stories about Afro-Puerto Ricans, U.S.-mainland-born Puerto Ricans, and displaced native Puerto Ricans who are living between spaces while attempting to navigate the unique culture that defines Puerto Rican identity. Amina Gautier’s characters deal with the difficulties of bicultural identities in a world that wants them to choose only one. The characters in Now We Will Be Happy are as unpredictable as they are human. A teenage boy leaves home in search of the mother he hasn’t seen since childhood; a granddaughter is sent across the ocean to broker peace between her relatives; a widow seeks to die by hurricane; a married woman takes a bathtub voyage with her lover; a proprietress who is the glue that binds her neighborhood cannot hold on to her own son; a displaced wife develops a strange addiction to candles. Crossing boundaries of comfort, culture, language, race, and tradition in unexpected ways, these characters struggle valiantly and doggedly to reconcile their fantasies of happiness with the realities of their existence.

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a “heartfelt and refreshing” (New York Times) memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings, no matter how humble, and to fight for the places they love. This new edition updates and contextualizes the story for a new generation and a wider audience desperately searching for stories of empowerment and hope. Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound travelers by hulks of old cars. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems her home and her people, while also cataloging the source of her childhood hope: the Edenic longleaf pine forests, where orchids grow amid wiregrass at the feet of widely spaced, lofty trees. Today, the forests exist in fragments, cherished and threatened, and the South of her youth is gradually being overtaken by golf courses and suburban development. A contemporary classic, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is a clarion call to protect the cultures and ecologies of every childhood.

Going Coed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 358

Going Coed

More than a quarter-century ago, the last great wave of coeducation in the United States resulted in the admission of women to almost all of the remaining men's colleges and universities. In thirteen original essays, Going Coed investigates the reasons behind this important phenomenon, describes how institutions have dealt with the changes, and captures the experiences of women who attended these schools.

North Korea Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

North Korea Journal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-09-19
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  • Publisher: Random House

THE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT DOCUMENTARY A glimpse of life inside the world’s most secretive country, as told by Britain’s best-loved travel writer. In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a cut-off land without internet or phone signal, where the countryside has barely moved beyond a centuries-old peasant economy but where the cities have gleaming skyscrapers and luxurious underground train stations. His resulting documentary for Channel 5 was widely acclaimed. Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he saw – and his fl...

Nikolina Ivezić
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Nikolina Ivezić

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-08-29
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  • Publisher: Unknown

With her original, recognizable and engaged work, Nikolina Ivezić (Zagreb, 1970) has been one of the top Croatian artists for a number of years. The versatile artist who works with sculpture, illustration, scenography in theater and film, murals, street art, product and graphic design, video art and conceptual art, action and multimedia, is best known for her paintings-objects, where in a specific way, combining elements of painting, sculpture (relief), illustration and comics, she outlines controversial topics from our everyday life, criticizing consumerism, clichés, modern fetishes, and most of all sexist exploitation of the female body. Her approach is critical and ironic - with a dose ...

Peace Corps Fantasies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

Peace Corps Fantasies

To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John F. Kennedy’s presidency. But in her provocative new cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency’s representative development ventures also legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. In the 1960s, the practice of development work, embodied by iconic Peace Corps volunteers, allowed U.S. policy makers to manage global inequality while as...