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True Vine
The true story of an African-American man who found, through faith and the self-assurance it provided, the strength to break free of the cycle of poverty and despair that had once characterized his life. (Memoir)
Son of the Times
A collection of the works of award-winning journalist and weekly columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, John W. Fountain. He writes with intelligence, compassion and eloquence about stuff that nobody in Chicago writes about but should. He writes about his personal struggles with faith and organized religion. This, of course, is a matter of central importance in the lives of so many Chicagoans, but who else in a newspaper -- in Chicago or any city -- addresses the matter without apology or ironic distancing, if at all? The author writes about the world he grew up in -- stark poverty on Chicago's West Side -- and about how he rose above, always honoring those who gave him a boost and showed him ...
No Place for Me
Stemming from the author's essay that appeared first in the Washington Post, this book is part-memoir, part-critique, part-analysis, and one man's complete and earnest reflections on a life in organized religion, its successes, its failures and ultimately what he sees as the greatest hope for its redemption. Writing to the 21st century American church at large, the grandson of a preacher and himself a licensed minister, he deals poignantly with gaping holes left in the community, particularly urban African-American communities, by Christian churches from which the author contends "the church" has become increasingly disconnected, even as the phenomenon of mega-churches has taken root across this nation. Personal, provocative and poignant.
Dear Dad
Dear Dad chronicles the impact of fathers or fatherlessness at a time when a national initiative and even President Barack Obama have sounded the clarion call for responsible fatherhood amid a continuing crisis of paternal absenteeism. This at a time when U.S. Census figures show that 4 out of 10 American children are being born to single mothers with the number of unwed births among African Americans rising to 7 out of 10."In some ways, this is a how-to manual: How to overcome; how to succeed; how to live on; how to be a better father; how to forgive our fathers; and, even, how to love, remember, and honor our fathers," Fountain said. "Dear Dad is for everyone who has a father, for everyone...
The Water Of Life
In this revolutionary treatise, J W Armstrong puts the compelling case that all diseases (except those caused by traumatism or structural disorders) can be cured by one simple means: urine therapy. The therapy is an entirely natural treatment, a drugless system of healing that treats the body as a whole. Moreover, the only ingredient needed is a substance manufactured in the body itself, rich in mineral salts, hormones and other vital substances, namely human urine. It may seem strange to take back into the body something that the body is apparently discarding. Yet the theory is similar to the natural practice of organic composting. Fallen leaves, when dug back into the soil, provide valuable mineral salts to nourish new plant life. The same principle holds true for the human body.
Soul Cries
There is an American tragedy. A tale of two cities. One ugly. One pretty. It is the story of life and also loss on the other side of the tracks. An American story. One being written daily by news media but mainly only cursorily, in stories on the toll of homicides, poverty and social decay. It is a different, more complex story, however, for the inhabitants of cities who live beyond the invisible walls of the American Mainstream. In neighborhoods where life is fragile and murder an intractable squatter. A place where life can be hard and plain. Where bullets too often rain. But where life, love and hope form a wellspring.Amid perennial violence, it is a story that resounds with the dissonant...
50 Cent a Word
Reporting While Black might also be an apt title for this work by John W. Fountain, award-winning journalist and former New York Times national correspondent who spent nearly 40 years writing for American newspapers, and whose tests, trials and travails along his journey reflect a disturbing truth of what it means to be a Black journalist in white America. Fifty-five years after the Kerner Report issued a scathing review of the state of American journalism over its lack of parity and its jaded stereotypical portrayal of Negro life-despite some historic signs of change-Fountain now paints a grim portrait of the state of journalism for Blacks today. From newsroom hostility to racism and dispar...
Current Studies in Archaeoastronomy
The Oxford Conferences are a series of triennial meetings that have focused on the role that astronomical phenomena have played in human societies, ranging from the applied (such as the basis for calendrics and orientations) to the ceremonial (the significance given the "ritual landscape" of the sky). These conferences serve as a meeting place for those working in anthropology, archaeology, history and prehistory, archaeoastronomy, and other studies of human cultures, who share a common interest in the importance of astronomical phenomena (or "skywatching") to traditional societies of the past and present. Mankind's fascination with the sky has been a strong and often dominant element in hum...
Make a Fountain
MAKE A FOUNTAIN is a catalog accompanying Ying Liu's 2017 play HANG OUT. The site-specific events took place at the All Purpose Field in New York's Sara D. Roosevelt Park, and explored the impact of new visual technologies on everyday modes of public spectatorship. HANG OUT hybridized performance art and theater while utilizing virtual reality technology, and was borne out of a fascination with the site's built-in distractions and audience. The work sought to relate to its viewership in an unassuming way, remaining playful while experimenting with conditions of inquisitiveness and diffused attention. MAKE A FOUNTAIN is designed to anthologize and make sense of the three-episode work, which considered the boundaries, politics, and social dimensions of curiosity through a series of interactive performances and encounters. The book includes numerous first-hand accounts as well as extensive photo documentation of HANG OUT and its two prototypes.
