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• Amazingly great storytelling
• ARCHITECTURE is a major cross-genre opus, combining story and art. Like Nick Bantock’s Griffin & Sabine series. One of my favorite artists is Basquiat, who also put words and abstract art together, with color and line drawings. But this work turns the art into a moody story that you can wander through over and over and see new things. I have been a fan of Juliacks since her comic The Tale of Old Lady Merrill (2006?). I will show this to young people as an example of extreme creativity. She deserves to become rich and famous.

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Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation’s enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass’s masterful recounting of his remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social system that would reduce people to property and keep an entire race in chains.

This classic is revisited with a new introduction and annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight situates the book within the politics of the 1850s and illuminates how My Bondage represents Douglass as a mature, confident, powerful writer who crafted some of the most unforgettable metaphors of slavery and freedom—indeed of basic human universal aspirations for freedom—anywhere in the English language.
 

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"Well written book and comparing it with others that I've read on the same subjects, slavery in any form is an abomination to the human race. To use the Bible to justify it and use it as a tool to maintain it is a sin. Douglas had the fortitude to meet and achieve his mission. This book along with the other historical books will remain in my library for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren to read and study."

Product details Paperback 432 pages Publisher Yale University Press; Reprint edition (January 28, 2014) Language English ISBN-10 030019059X

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• All too many Americans, alas, have only a limited knowledge of our history. While our fellows may recognize a few names, how many can identify James Madison as the principal author of the Constitution—or the reasons which compelled him (and many others, including George Washington) to meet in Philadelphia to draft it, six years after the British surrender at Yorktown? (And how many can identify that battle as the last significant conflict of the Revolutionary War?)
  
  And just as we don’t know the high points of our history, many do not know the low points. How many today know about the life of Frederick Douglass, a man whom today we might today call the “conscience of the nation” at perhaps its most turbulent time? How many know that this leader was born in slavery, escaped to build a new life and become a spokesman for freedom, for justice, a man who met with President Lincoln in the middle of the Civil War?
  
  Just as George Washington was the “indispensable man,” this narrative is an indispensable autobiography, a life-story, which exposes the evil of slavery and what it did not just to those who suffered under the lash, but also to those who wielded the lash. Every American should read this book. Every American should study the life of Frederick Douglass, and learn how he came to love a country, which, in his early days, deprived him of so much, not just the freedom that our founding charters promise, but also the very human bonds which should nourish and sustain all human beings.
  
  As a boy he barely saw his own mother
  
  <<Her visits to me … were few in number, brief in duration, and mostly made in the night. The pain she took, and the toil she endured, to see me, tells me that a true mother’s heart was hers, and that slavery had difficulty in paralyzing it with unmotherly indifference.>>
  
  Neither had control over his own life. Their owner put him to work in one place, hiring his mother out to a neighbor who lived twelve miles from him. To see her son, “she always had to walk one way or the other.” Twelve miles just to hold her little boy—and then after she had worked all for someone else without receiving compensation for her labors.
  
  And if she showed up late to work the next day, she could not make the excuse that she went to see her child. The slave system did not acknowledge these most human of bonds, even for a boy still in single digits. “The heartless and ghastly form of slavery rises between mother and child, even at the bed of death.” She died before he was ten. He did not attend her funeral—or even know where she was buried.
  
  Slavery destroyed family relations
  
  <<There is not, beneath the sky, an enemy to filial affection so destructive as slavery. It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted the mother that bore me, into a myth; it shrouded my father in mystery, and left me without an intelligible beginning in the world.>>
  
  And as a young boy, Douglass witnessed the volatility of slaveholders, shooting a man who stood in stream for refusing an order or whipping a woman for the “crime” of
  
  <<impudence… the commonest and most indefinite in the whole catalogue of offenses usually laid to the charge of slaves…. This may mean almost anything , or nothing at all, just according to the caprice of the master or overseer, at the moment.>>
  
  And it wasn’t just the maternal bond that was severed. His “old master took it upon him to break up the growing intimacy between Esther and Edward,” two young slaves. The master told her to avoid the company of this man whose company she most sought. But, a “woman’s love is not to be annihilated by the peremptory command of any one.” Esther would meet with Edward, and when her meetings were discovered, her owner would flog her.
  
  Think about that for a moment, “her owner;” one man owned another human being. The law allowed him to prevent her from seeing the man she loved. She was merely a piece of property to him and marriage which might imposed an obligation, imposed none on her it had “no existence” for the slave, except in such hearts as are purer and higher than the standard morality around them.”
  
  But, Douglass was able to find a life better than that endured by most of his fellows. He was sent to Baltimore where his new mistress, Sophia Auld treated him, like any other boy, even teaching him to read. But, her husband found out and forbade her from continuing. “If you learn him now to read,” Hugh Auld told his wife, “he’ll want to know how to write; and, this accomplished he’ll be running away with himself.”
  
  This “discourse,” Douglass writes, “was the first decidedly anti-slavery lecture to which it has been my lot to listen.” In many states in our country in the Nineteenth Century, “the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man” depended on keeping the black man—and woman—in ignorance.
  
  Auld’s lecture helped Douglass understand the very nature of slavery, and it made him see what it did to the slave owner. It could “change a saint into a sinner, and an angel into a demon.” Give one man such power over another and there is almost no limit what he will do.
  
  And he suffered—and observed—much cruelty. He was beaten, forced to work when he could barely stand on his feet, deprived of food, comfortable clothing, saw children separated from their parents, wives from their husbands, witnessed his grandmother when, no longer useful to her owners, exiled to a cottage in the woods.
  
  Through it all, he kept the hope that he would one day be free. He finally managed his escape, and with the help of the Underground Railroad, moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts where he found work and built a family until abolitionists heard him speak—and made him one of their spokesmen.
  
  He traveled to Europe, speaking out against slavery, and returned to his native land to continue his lectures and speak out for abolition. And through it all, he developed a philosophy of slavery and of freedom—and of what it means to be human.
  
  And that is why I highly recommend that you read this book. When you hear this man’s story, you better understand the system of slavery which oppressed millions Americans of African origin for well over two hundred years of our history. This narrative of a life (fortunately for Douglass only a portion of his life) allows us to see the truly inhuman nature of this institution. These are experiences, not statistics.
  
  We fell compassion because he is a man like we are. We wonder how anyone could have treated their fellows as his owners treated him—and the other human beings who were no more than property to them. And then we think how many other Frederick Douglasses there were, how many Esthers, how many Edwards, how many mothers forced to walk twelve miles just to see their little boys.
  
  They lacked the ability to tell their story. But, Douglass told us his. We should read it, not just to know what he suffered, but to know what other men and women suffered as well. And because of the role slavery played in our history, this book becomes indispensable to understanding the worst evil that history.
  
  And it gives us hope that since we overcame that evil, we can overcome others.
• MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM is a book that should be mandatory reading for every high school student. The lessons it has within its pages are filled with depth and honesty as it shows the reader a harrowing, brutal and heart breaking look at slavery.
  
  Frederick Douglass was a slave for the first two decades of his life, but through determination, luck and maybe a little divine intervention, was able to escape the horrors of slavery. He dedicated his life then to helping with the abolition movement as he spoke throughout Britain and the U.S. against the institution of slavery.
  
  One of the most powerful moments in the book is one of these previously mentioned speeches in Britain. Speaking to Parliament members, Douglass lays out his case about why slavery needs to be obliterated from the earth and the things he says, stories he tells are shocking. The saddest part is that everything he tells them is true.
  
  This is definitely one of the better autobiographies I've ever read. It's eye opening and shocking throughout, especially when considering that anyone could have ever thought slavery was a good and "holy" practice. I can't for the life of me understand how someone has not made a movie out of this book. Fredrick Douglass' life on the big screen is long over due. I easily give this one 5/5!
• After reading this book on my , I could not sleep. I felt uneasy as to know what my great, great, great, great grandmother, or grandfather lived through. The book was written by Fredrick Bailey, who changed his name to Fredrick Douglas. I saw everything through his eyes, felt everything he felt as if it was me, I could not put this book down. I felt anguish, disgust, hurt, and despair to know first hand what happen to a slave, then a free man, not a made up actor in a book. I also felt vindicated once he was free I felt free, I am glad that the pursuit of an education was his priority or else we could not have read this from his words to describe something that we can never imagine, see, or describe. The evil that existed, were inhumane, but the legacy Fredrick Douglas has left let us know that GOD, wisdom, and the pursuit of education can make us all free, I would give this book a thousand stars, for the clarity, and non-fiction in the book, and to give us insight to not what only took place in Maryland, but to also describe the deep Southern States. I celebrate Fredrick Douglas for his Knowlegde, because he knew one day we would read his story.
• Well written book and comparing it with others that I've read on the same subjects, slavery in any form is an abomination to the human race. To use the Bible to justify it and use it as a tool to maintain it is a sin. Douglas had the fortitude to meet and achieve his mission. This book along with the other historical books will remain in my library for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren to read and study.
• The passion of the author and his clear & sophisticated writing and logic make this autobiography timeless. We cannot understand contemporary race relations without understanding their history, and this book exposes the thinking of the slaveholder and the institutions that upheld slavery. An important read for everyone.

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Taking advantage of the vast informational resources available to him, Dan Gonzalez developed a passing system that combined ideas from some of the most vaunted offenses in pro and college football. He later enhanced that system so that youth players could learn and execute the same concepts and techniques. Further, the same concepts have been used to aid high schools in not only developing school record holders, but perennial playoff contenders and state champions as well. Gonzalez now delves into the theory and teaching that goes beyond the playbook and into the coaching behind the “X’s and O’s.”

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"As a college OC and HC, I do not believe in all of his ideas and I do feel as if he over complicated certain things, but overall solid book. I definitely took some notes and worth the read"

Product details Paperback 188 pages Publisher Independently published (March 5, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 179187861X

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• Coach Dan Gonzalez's new book"Read and Shoot", hits the mark for any Coach, system and level of football! He concisely details the layers and necessary elements of developing a passing game that is easy to teach to other coaches and players, explains importance of "actionable" play call chain, adjust and adapt to any offense and level, and lastly, opens the mind of the reader to either rethink and improve upon what you already know and/or innovate to make your passing game fit your personnel strengths.
  
  The over 200 colored diagrams perfectly support and clarifies Coach Gonzalez approach and allows you to visualize the principles of what he is sharing.
  
  As a youth football coach for over 10 years with varying ages, I recommend this book as a useful tool for any coach and as a guide in your thought process as you develop, modify or expand upon your offensive system. It is a Coaches informal Continuing Education Manual, a must read!
• I own pretty much everything Dan has released just short of actually hiring him as a consultant . His knowledge of Offensive schemes and creating a simple user friendly SYSTEM that is applicable to any style of offense is what sets him apart.
  
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  There are full color diagrams and the book flows from chapter to chapter seamlessly . It is not required that you have his previous material but I do recommend those books in addition to this one. Anyone who is a serious football Coach or just wants a better understanding into the Chess match that is this extraordinary game should not think twice about adding this to their cart!
• I have read all of Coach Gonzalez's books and each time am more impressed with his system, knowledge and easy way to process information. ANYONE in your program will benefit from this read. Diagrams are clear and great examples of real world calls in a game not just the vanilla information most books give. Outstanding addition to any coaches library. Keep up the good work!
• All 3 of Dan Gonzalez' books on the Passing Game are "MUST HAVES" for Coaches at EVERY level!
• “Read and Shoot” is a great read with ideas and concepts that are applicable at all levels. Coach Gonzalez does a great job of breaking down both the passing game as a whole as well as situationally that can be used within a variety of systems. This is a must have for any coach wanting to improve their knowledge of the passing game.
• As a college OC and HC, I do not believe in all of his ideas and I do feel as if he over complicated certain things, but overall solid book. I definitely took some notes and worth the read

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• A lot to learn. Highly recommended.
• Don't like the aggressive, hard-sell tone of the authors 'voice'.
• I loved this book. I must confess, I think I have every book this author has written as they seem to speak to me personally. What I love about this one is that it is chock full of ideas and tips that are applicable for anyone who has to speak in front of others. Seasoned facilitator? Yup, this is for you. Have to present at business meetings or with those higher up in the food chain? Yup, this is for you. A newbie who hasn't done much facilitation but wants to get better? You guessed it, this is for you.
  
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• Every Chief Learning Officer, Talent Development Professional, and professional speaker MUST read this book. Knowing what NOT to say is as equally important as how to extract the most value from a room full of participants. And the best moments are those that come from participants, not the sage in the stage. I've longed for a book that breaks down the learning environment in a way that puts participants first. Cyndi Maxey hits the nail on the head with how to do exactly just that. This book will remain a reference in my library anytime I need to freshen up in the skills to facilitate change during a seminar, boardroom, or screen to screen.
• What I like best about Fearless Facilitation is how specific the advice is. The book goes beyond the why to the how. Specific questions to ask. Specific actions to take.
  This is a realistic, practical guide for those who want to get up to speed quickly.
• Fearless Facilitation is a great book which covers techniques that amateurs to seasoned professionals can benefit from using. Fearless Facilitation gives information on how to think about how others learn along with other concepts of how others do what they do. This book is for those who want to bring out their best facilitation and truly impact their audience.
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The Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This magisterial book combines childhood memory with unblinking journalism, a radar for the truth with a keen appreciation of the absurd.

Imperium begins with Ryszard Kapuscinski's account of the Soviet occupation of his town in eastern Poland in 1939. It culminates fifty years later, with a forty-thousand-mile journey that takes him from the haunted corridors of the Kremlin to the abandoned gulag of Kolyma, from a miners' strike in the arctic circle to a panic-stricken bus ride through the war-torn Caucasus.

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"I read his book on Herodotus (actually, his reading of Herodotus while on his many travels) and liked it a lot. So I bought this book and am not disappointed.

I've learned a lot about Russia and the former Soviet Union--for instance, how much of a Turkic empire the former central asian republics are. Most of those former "republics" are occupied by Turkic people who speak a common language and can readily understand one another.

We are all now aware of the Stalinist brutality that existed. But this book really brings it home and just how hard and grueling life has been in the imperium and how much it continues to be so, especially in the outlying areas.

The author notes that Russian demographers have estimated that between 1918 and 1953, between WWI and the Stalinist terror, between 55 and 110 million Russians died of unnatural causes. The full horror of the prison camps--in Siberia, for example, over one-third of those who entered died in prison--the forced starvation and murder of over 10 million Ukrainians, and the appalling harshness of life and environmental depradations that Bolshevism brought are revealed into full view in his writing.

The author, who writes this book in the early 1990's and died a few years later, is hardly optimistic in his assessment of what lies in store for Russia and the former republics.

The book is a real eye-opener about what is going on in Russia today."

Product details Paperback 352 pages Publisher Vintage; 1st Vintage International Ed edition (August 8, 1995) Language English ISBN-10 067974780X

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• A gathering of essays and impressions over the years (starting with a flashback to his early childhood in Polish speaking, Nazi-invaded Belorussia) and featuring Kapuscinski's two years of wanderings around the imploding republics in the early 90s. Perhaps the most fascinating insights are derived from his conversations about the peak Stalin years, and the innumerable blind gaffes (and knowingly perpetrated acts of icy bureaucratic inhumanity) which buffeted every region from the Baltic States to the Caucasus to Baikal to deep Siberia. At times it reads like a nightmare, at times like a surreal document from the 15th century, at times like letters home from the front. Indispensable to an understanding of modern Russia.
• Reading Ryszard Kapuscinski is like sitting at the knee of a master storyteller! The tales he tells are amazing, horrific, informative, fabulous--all the things a great storyteller weaves into a tale. The only thing is that Kapuscinski does not make up his stories. He boarded (he is deceased) trains and planes for far-flung places--all in the name of news gathering. However, what Kapuscinski delivers then is not just news, but his dry-eyed observations of humans in all their glory, all their disgusting or disquieting ways, their cruelties, their passions, even their incredible, often feeble attempts just to survive, and amazingly, in this context, their jubilations, their small victories, and their powerful will to live. Kapusciski is a master all right of human nature, of writing, of that rare ability to inform, entertain, and evaluate. He is a newsman extraordinaire.
  
  In "Imperium" Kapuscinski turns that extraordinary talent to---call it what you will---the U.S.S.R.---the Soviet Union---Russia and her satellites. He visits, in many cases, multiple times, every country that made/makes up the U.S.S.R. (He divides his book into three parts, each denoting his travels and findings. They are "First Encounters 1939-1967," detailing his own experiences as a Pole with Soviet power and rules. Then Part 2 concerns his observations from his extensive travels across the USSR from 1989-1991. Part 3 (1992-1993)is comprised of his astute commentaries, fascinating reading!) Back to the USSR I was simply amazed at the extent of differences of each country, of the almost phenomenal ability of the Soviet ruling elite to hold such a disparate world together. But at what unconscionable cost?
  
  That's the horror of the story--the horror of mass exterminations that went far, far beyond whatever goals Hitler and his Nazis conceived and carried out. Six millions? A mere pittance in comparison! Kapuscinski's figures in support of the vulgar, despicable number of deaths carried out by Stalin and later Soviet powers are more than shocking! Here's just one figure concerning one circumstance out of dozens "Stalin starved to death around ten million people" (285). His chapter about the Great Famine will make you absolutely weep that such a distorted and vile creature as Stalin was allowed to live. The reader truly learns the meaning of the words "totalitarian" and "tyrant."
  
  But there's also a creative passion. After the dissolution of the Soviet Empire, Kapuscinski tells the reader about a wondrous story in the making. In Belarussia, there are the ruins of a church, felled by German artillery fire during WWII, where someone discovered bits of colored fresco. Prof. Grekov made it his life's work--and his students--to put that shattered fresco back together. Imagine! (Is this tear from Mary at the loss of her son or from the Mary who discovered the resurrection? Is this bit of fire from the burning bush or the fire of hell?) And it is Grekov's imagination that Kapuscinski celebrates. This long quote will show that imagination, that spirit and tenacity of the people, and, most of all, Kapuscinski's magnificent ability to weave facts and observation into gossamer, but gossamer with tensile strength
  
  "And thus observing how from thousands of particles, bits, and crumbs, from dust, molecules, and pebbles, the professor and his students have been for years piecing together portraits of saints, sinners, and legends, I feel as though I were a witness, in this cold and dusty underground, to the birth of the sky and of the earth, of all the colors and shapes, angels and kings, light and darkness, good and evil" (302).
  
  So it is with the reader in discovering Kapuscinski's own talents. My personal pick of his most profound talent is that of observation of human nature, which then provides the reader with astute commentary. His explanation of the Russian mafias is illuminating. When Russian mafia figures began showing up in news and then films, I was perplexed. Mafias in Russia? How was this possible in a world of the KGB and totalitarian government? The answer? Bezprizorny! Homeless children! Beginning with the deaths caused by World War I, then October 1917, then civil war and mass starvation resulting from weather and by tyrant--a new class of social strata was born, or hatched, or exploded like Athena from Zeus's head A new class--the bezprizorny by the thousands. Their goals find food, find shelter. With no adults to guide them (if there were adults, living conditions still would not be conducive to developing healthy children either physically or emotionally) these pitiful children lived however they could, becoming more and more dangerous as their numbers doubled, tripled.
  
  Eventually, they formed their own mafias and lived by mafia rules stealing and squaring accounts. Today's Russian mafias are the grandchildren of this class. Each successive event in Russia--the second world war, postwar purges, accelerating corruption of government, disintegration of the USSR---all contributed to the huge numbers of homeless children who produced children and grandchildren, who make up today's powerful and horrifyingly violent mafias. In fact, there are three distinct mafias the Russian Mafia (from Russia proper--a whole other story in his book), the Caucasian Mafia (all other ex-Soviet countries), and the Asiatic Mafia (those from Islam regions, a huge population in the former USSR).
  
  I could tell story after story from Kapuscinski's book-- (For example, the story of Turkmenistan, the country of the desert, a place of riches and freedom, but not by America's standard of riches and freedom! This story alone--its explanation of the power of the desert--is worth the price of the book) --so packed it is with horror and passion, but each time I relate a story, I know it is taken out of context. Kapuscinski's account is causally and historically driven. There is an order, a precise arrangement in relating the stories about the USSR and its dissolved union. The only real way to learn this information, this series of inspired scrutinies of days past and days future is to read the book. Whatever I write will never do this book justice. You will also discover that one reading is not enough to absorb the expanse of space and time that that fills Kapuscinski's book.
  
  "Imperium" is not a book to miss, if you want to learn what the USSR really was. You must order it today! Two other books by this writer that I also highly recommend are "The Other" and "Travels with Herodotus."
  
  Thanks to GB who introduced me to Kapuscinski, currently my favorite writer.
  
  Note I see in previewing what I wrote before I hit the publish button that I was totally correct. I did not do this book justice. It is so much more-much, much more-- than the few words I wrote.
• I read his book on Herodotus (actually, his reading of Herodotus while on his many travels) and liked it a lot. So I bought this book and am not disappointed.
  
  I've learned a lot about Russia and the former Soviet Union--for instance, how much of a Turkic empire the former central asian republics are. Most of those former "republics" are occupied by Turkic people who speak a common language and can readily understand one another.
  
  We are all now aware of the Stalinist brutality that existed. But this book really brings it home and just how hard and grueling life has been in the imperium and how much it continues to be so, especially in the outlying areas.
  
  The author notes that Russian demographers have estimated that between 1918 and 1953, between WWI and the Stalinist terror, between 55 and 110 million Russians died of unnatural causes. The full horror of the prison camps--in Siberia, for example, over one-third of those who entered died in prison--the forced starvation and murder of over 10 million Ukrainians, and the appalling harshness of life and environmental depradations that Bolshevism brought are revealed into full view in his writing.
  
  The author, who writes this book in the early 1990's and died a few years later, is hardly optimistic in his assessment of what lies in store for Russia and the former republics.
  
  The book is a real eye-opener about what is going on in Russia today.

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