This adventure-filled, screen-free, interactive talking book teaches preschoolers and toddlers zoo words in German! Kids can press, listen, and learn along; the touch of a little finger on regular paper magically allows them to hear clear native speaker pronunciation, real animal sounds, and toe-tapping tunes produced by a 4-time Grammy Award winner.

Brand new non-fiction title from popular Sphere author.

Power, Poverty and Positionality in Contemporary China explores the multiple declinations of poverty and power by introducing two new key concepts: 'space of mind' and 'pensabilities'. Taking authoritarian China as focus, the author provides an insight into how power fills peoples' space of mind with elements external to individual and collective life and hinders the natural and healthy development of a person's and collectivity's pensabilities. Drawing from Amartya Sen's idea of capabilities, the author conceives a new perspective to look at poverty and power dynamics in the contemporary world, by putting forward a fresh concept which will change our understanding of power both within the academic circles and among the general public. Grounded into empirical research, this work is based on an in-depth analysis of the current conditions of Uyghur people in China, and of how the COVID-19 crisis has been managed by Chinese authorities. The squeezing of the living space for Uyghurs, who are deprived of basic rights as mobility, language rights, an autonomous socio-economic development, freedom of religious practice and spiritual improvements, is one of the most fitting examples in the book's context. The management of physical and mental space during the current COVID-19 crisis is another fitting example aimed at providing substance to the author's thesis.

This previously unpublished diary details the event experienced by Johnnie Johnson in 1942.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IRENOSEN OKOJIE'Gloria Naylor is gifted with timeless wisdom, bottomless empathy, and limitless language. Her novels will shine a light for readers and writers for generations to come' Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage, winner of the Women's Prize for FictionIn post-World War II Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, there's a little place that draws people from all over-not for the food, and definitely not for the coffee. An in-between place that's only there when you need it, Bailey's Cafe is a crossroads where patrons stay for a while before making a choice: Move on or check out?Patrons include Sadie, the ladylike alcoholic with a mania for cleanliness; Sweet Esther, who caters to unspeakable appetites in a nearby 'boarding house', taking payment only in white roses; and Mariam, the Ethiopian child who may be the bearer of a miracle. Naylor's breath-taking novel is an enthralling fusion of lives whose courage, mystery and humour suggest nothing less than a blues tapestry of America.'Gloria Naylor was one of the greatest novelists who ever lived. Every single one of her works was masterful, crafted with the kind of rare artistic brilliance that places her in extremely limited company . . . She holds a hallowed place in the canon, and also in hearts, minds, bodies, and spirits' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets

At 57 years old, broke and friendless, Quentin starts a journey to change his life.

A collection of very short - often funny, often moving - stories and vignettes gathered during the writing of The Sweet Bloods of Eeyou Istchee that were not included in the main volume appear here in Northern East Cree, Southern East Cree, French, and English.

Intimate, in-depth portraits, interviews, and essays of America's black leaders-from the founding of the nation and Frederick Douglass to the 2008 presidential race and Barack Obama.

This book talks to kids, and teaches our youngest learners Mandarin! With the help of revolutionary paper technology, kids simply touch the paper in an eco-friendly, safety-tested board book, and TA-DA! it magically comes to life with 12 different camping-themed vocabulary words in English, native speaker pronunciation, and all-original music produced by 4-time Grammy Award winner Jesse Lewis, and featuring banjo legend Béla Fleck. Grab your flashlight and join two friends to see if their backyard campground transforms into an enchanted forest.

The History and Theory of Cut-out Animation surveys the history, theory and philosophy of the cut-out animation technique in early and contemporary media. Cut-out animation is a two-dimensional form of stop-motion animation that involves the manipulation of characters that have been constructed from 'cut-out' pieces of paper. It is an animation technique that has its own unique aesthetic and encompasses a remarkable history, having played a very important role from the very beginnings of cinematic animation. It has been translated into a number of digital animated series, most notably the South Park series. This book investigates the history, theory and philosophy of this unique form of animation. Although scholarly in its approach, it is presented in a very accessible form to appeal to everyone who has an interest in animation practice, history and theory.

This new, limited edition box set contains all 18 books in Tom Wright's best-selling New Testament for Everyone series of bible commentaries.

A new entry in the acclaimed Big Words series of picture book biographies, this time about Coretta Scott King.

Ontology is the Greek/classical term for the theory of what exists. Jean-Luc Nancy, however, reinvents ontology as a theory of political contestation, and thereby proposes a model of philosophy as collective practice. The key advance made by Nancy is to link a theory of innovation and meaning to a theory of a contestation of worlds, which for him forms the basic structure of the practices of politics and political analysis. This book locates the cumulative emergence of the innovative theorising in Nancy's writings by setting out a series of differences between their reception in mainland Europe and in the transatlantic context. It focuses on what is innovative in Nancy's writing itself: retreating the political; being singular plural; as well as the ideas of inoperativity, comparution, partage and excription. It goes on to set up the question of context of reception, with a focus on its differential location in terms of disciplinary boundaries and in the contrast between European high theory and transatlantic revivalist religiosity, which give divergent interpretations of the notions of politics and political theory. Finally Joanna Hodge rethinks time and history, examining Nancy's disruptive relation to the thinking of time: the time of inheritance, the time of current contestation and the time of anticipated futures.

Back to Black seeks to show us the long, powerful and painful history of Black radical politics. Born out of resistance to slavery and colonialism, its rich past encompasses figures such as Marcus Garvey, Angela Davis, the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter activists of today. At its core, the book argues that racism is inexorably embedded in the fabric of society, and that it can never be overcome unless by enacting change outside of this suffocating system. Yet Kehinde Andrews shows how Black radicalism has been diluted and moderated over time; wilfully misrepresented and caricatured by others; divested of its legacy, potency, and force.Immensely readable and shocking, Andrews traces the true roots of this tradition in this new edition, and connects the dots to today's struggles by showing what a renewed politics of Black radicalism might look like in the 21st century.