5 Politics, Sociology eBooks

Without a Country: The Untold Story of America's Deported Veterans by J. Malcolm Garcia
Going to School in Black and White: A dual memoir of desegregation by Cindy Waszak Geary, LaHoma Smith Romocki
The British World and an Australian National Identity: Anglo-Australian Cricket, 1860–1901 By Jared van Duinen
Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics by Bill Bowers
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White by Brent Staples

Without a Country: The Untold Story of America's Deported Veterans by J. Malcolm Garcia

English | September 26th, 2017 | ISBN: 1510722432 | 165 Pages | EPUB | 7.80 MB
Many Americans believe service in the military to be a quintessential way to demonstrate patriotism. We expect those who serve to be treated with respect and dignity. However, as in so many aspects of our politics, the reality and our ideals diverge widely in our treatment of veterans. There is perhaps no starker example of this than the continued practice of deporting men and women who have served.

Going to School in Black and White: A dual memoir of desegregation by Cindy Waszak Geary, LaHoma Smith Romocki

English | September 26th, 2017 | ASIN: B075J59KLJ, ISBN: 1611532523 | 166 Pages | EPUB | 4.82 MB
"The challenges of identity, assimilation, achievement, and politics that were faced by Lahoma and Cindy are the same challenges our youth are facing today." –Jaki Shelton Green, poet and NC Literary Hall of Fame inductee
The school careers of two teenage girls who lived across town from each other—one black, one white—were altered by a court-ordered desegregation plan for Durham, NC in 1970.
LaHoma and Cindy both found themselves at the same high school from different sides of a court-ordered racial “balancing act.” This plan thrust each of them involuntarily out of their comfort zones and into new racial landscapes. Their experiences, recounted in alternating first person narratives, are the embodiment of desegregation policies, situated in a particular time and place.
Cindy and LaHoma’s intertwining coming of age stories are part of a bigger story about America, education and race—and about how the personal relates to the political.
This dual memoir covers the two women’s life trajectories from early school days to future careers working in global public health, challenging gender biases, racial inequities, and health disparities. LaHoma and Cindy tell their stories aware of the country's return to de facto school segregation, achieved through the long-term dismantling of policies that initially informed their school assignments.
As adults, they consider the influence of school desegregation on their current lives and the value of bringing all of us into conversation about what is lost or gained when children go to school in black and white.

The British World and an Australian National Identity: Anglo-Australian Cricket, 1860–1901 By Jared van Duinen

English | PDF | 2017 (2018 Edition) | 88 Pages | ISBN : 1137527773 | 1.11 MB
This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing relations within the ‘British World’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores what these interactions can tell us about broader Anglo-Australian relations during this period and, in particular, the evolution of an Australian national identity.
Sport was, and is, a key aspect of Australian culture. Jared van Duinen demonstrates how sport was used to rehearse an identity that would then emerge in broader cultural and political terms. Using cricket as a case study, this book contributes to the ongoing historiographical debate about the nature and evolution of an Australian national identity.

Great American Crime Stories: Lyons Press Classics by Bill Bowers

English | September 1st, 2017 | ISBN: 1493029371 | 321 Pages | PDF | 3.06 MB
A chilling, thrilling collection of true American crimes, long-forgotten and legendary!
The Bloody Benders Family . . . The Black Hand of New Orleans . . . The Crimes of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch . . . The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah . . . Rachel Wall, Female Pirate and The Last Woman to be Hanged in Massachusetts . . . Dr. Valorous Coolidge, who Performed the Autopsy on the Man He Murdered . . . and even a crime chronicled by President Abraham Lincoln. This criminal collection of Lyons Press American Classics delivers the murderous, thieving, and otherwise nefarious acts we love to read about—all from our deep history and in a book that makes a great gift as part of Lyons’s outstanding Americana library.

Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White by Brent Staples

English | September 27th, 2017 | ASIN: B075HZD3VT, ISBN: 0679421548, 0380724758 | 226 Pages | EPUB | 1.93 MB
Parallel Time is an evocative memoir that poses universal questions: Where does the family end and the self begin? What do we owe our families, and what do we owe our dreams for ourselves? What part of the past is a gift and what part a shackle? For Brent Staples there is the added dimension of race: moving from a black world into one largely defined by whites.