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Guerrilla USA

Daniel Burton-Rose

"We are cozy cuddly/armed and dangerous/and we will/raze the fucking prisons/to the ground." In an attempt to deliver on this promise, the George Jackson Brigade launched a violent three-year campaign in the mid-1970s against corporate and state institutions in the Pacific Northwest. This campaign, conceived by a group of blacks and whites, both straight and gay, claimed fourteen bombings, as many bank robberies, and a jailbreak. Drawing on extensive interviews with surviving members of the George Jackson Brigade, <i>Guerrilla USA</i> provides an inside-out perspective on the social movements of the 1970s, revealing the whole era in a new and more complex light. It is also a compelling exploration of the true nature of crime and a provocative meditation on the tension between self-restraint and anger in the process of social change.

East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education

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Silence is a key pedagogical issue in language education. Seen by some as a space for thinking and reflection during the learning process, for others silence represents a threat, inhibiting target language interaction which is so vital during second language acquisition. This book eschews stereotypes and generalisations about why so many learners from East Asia seem either reluctant or unable to speak in English by providing a state-of-the art account of current research into the complex and ambiguous issue of silence in language education. The innovative research included in this volume focuses on silence both as a barrier to successful learning and as a resource that may in some cases facilitate language acquisition. The book offers a fresh perspective on ways to facilitate classroom interaction while also embracing silence and it touches on key pedagogical concepts such as teacher cognition, the role of task features, classroom interactional approaches, pedagogical intervention and socialisation, willingness to communicate, as well as psychological and sociocultural factors. Each of the book’s chapters include self-reflection and discussion tasks, as well as annotated bibliographies for further reading.

Every Minute Matters [Grades K-5]

Molly Ness

Make the most of every instructional minute with engaging literacy activities Teachers are faced with a real challenge: time. There is never enough time to do it all. While teachers don&rsquo;t have the power to create more minutes in the day, they do have the power to be effective with the time given. Ness introduces 40 innovative activities designed to replace seatwork. These literacy-rich alternatives for classroom transitions are presented alongside &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Research on instructional time &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Strategies for maximizing every minute of instruction &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Suggestions for improving efficiency to expand independent reading and writing &middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reflective practices to help teachers examine how they use the time they have

A Lover's Discourse

Xiaolu Guo

[i]“I don’t believe in love at first sight.” I was taken aback. I thought we were definitely in love at first sight. “What do you mean? Wasn’t it clear the moment you picked the elderflowers by the park and we looked at each other? Or was it in that book club?” You gave me a damp smile, as if my confusion proved that you were right.[/i] A Chinese woman moves from Beijing to London for a doctoral program—and to begin a new life—just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build a life together. A Lover's Discourse is an exploration of romantic love told through fragments of conversations between the two lovers. Playing with language and the cultural differences that her narrator encounters as she settles into life in post-Brexit vote Britain, the lovers must navigate their differences and their romance, whether on their unmoored houseboat or in a cramped and stifling apartment in east London. Suffused with a wonderful sense of humor, this intimate and tender novel asks what it means to make a home and a family in a new land.

Freeman's: Love

John Freeman

Freeman’s is the brainchild of literary critic and writer John Freeman, former editor of Granta . Collecting fiction, essays, and poetry from some of the best-known writers around the world and from new voices, Freeman’s is a cross between a journal and an anthology—essential for any reader of modern writing. Freeman’s: Love radically turns a lens on desire, intimacy, and devotion in all its forms at a time when the news is filled with hatred and violence.In this issue, John gathers work from some of the world’s most beloved storytellers, including Louise Erdrich, Richard Russo, Haruki Murakami, Tommy Orange, and Olga Tokarczuk, as well as international superstars including Semezdin Mehmedinović, Meiko Kawakami, and Gunnhild Oyehaug. Freeman’s has partnered with Literary Hub (over four million page views a month) to create a dedicated Freeman’s Channel that hosts content from each issue, new content from featured authors, and other original material.[/i] Freeman’s has been hailed by a wide variety of media outlets including San Francisco Chronicle , NPR , O Magazine , Chicago Literati , and many more.Several contributors from Freeman’s have gone to publish buzzworthy books including Sayaka Murata, author of Convenience Store Woman , Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive , and Ocean Vuong, author the forthcoming On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Freeman’s now has international partners in the UK (Grove Press UK), Australia (Text Publishing), Sweden (Polaris), Italy (Edizioni Black Coffee), Romania (Black Button), and China (Archipel). The around-the-world promotion of Freeman’s has taken John from Los Angeles and New Orleans to London, Berlin, Paris, and Sarajevo.

Lake District: High Level and Fell Walks

Vivienne Crow

This guidebook describes the best 30 high level fell walks in the Lake District. Every route is graded for difficulty and ranges between 4 – 14 miles (7 – 23km) and includes OS map extracts and variant routes.
The walks are divided into 6 sections: the Keswick area, Borrowdale and Buttermere, the Western Valleys, Coniston and Langdale, Ambleside, Grasmere and Windermere, or Ullswater. The walks combine Lakeland classics with lesser-known adventures. From classic horseshoes, such as the Newlands Round and the Fairfield Horseshoe, and traditional ascents of England's most iconic mountains, including its highest peaks Scafell Pike, Scafell, Helvellyn and Skiddaw, to routes onto some of the quieter summits including Gray Crag and Beda Fell, or quieter routes onto popular fells including Blencathra and Red Screes.
Covering both rocky terrain and grassy hills, most of the paths are relatively easy-to-follow in clear conditions, but may require good navigational skills when the clouds roll in. The guidebook also includes information to enhance your walking, from historical, geological and wildlife detail, to advice on travelling to and around the Lake District, and how to best prepare for an excellent day out on the fells.

Dying on the Vine

George D. Gale

Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine’s worst enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale describes the biological and economic disaster that unfolded when a tiny, root-sucking insect invaded the south of France in the 1860s, spread throughout Europe, and journeyed across oceans to Africa, South America, Australia, and California—laying waste to vineyards wherever it landed. He tells how scientists, viticulturalists, researchers, and others came together to save the world’s vineyards and, with years of observation and research, developed a strategy of resistance. Among other topics, the book discusses phylloxera as an important case study of how one invasive species can colonize new habitats and examines California’s past and present problems with it.

Irving Thalberg

Mark A. Vieira

Nested Games

George Tsebelis

Olive & Thyme

Melina Davies

Davies is a well-known and respected Los Angeles chef with high visibility in her two restaurants.The title comes from Davies' restaurant, Olive & Thyme, which is a L.A. café/wine bar beloved by everyone from movie stars and studio chiefs to set decorators and production assistantsRich photography by Ann Elliott CuttingCover design and photography draws in potential readers by featuring enticing and stunningly-plated dishesAuthor has connections to Nancy Silverton, Matt Molina, Jet Tila, Keanu Reeves, Joanna Swisher, Vinny Shook, Melissa McCarthy, Gino Angelini, Curtis Stone, Lauren Conrad, Connie Britton, Phil Rosenthal, Paul Feig, Reese, Goop, Jennifer Garner, Haylie & Hilary Duff and other influential voices who are willing to promote the book through writing blurbs and social media promotions