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The Pain D'avignon Baking Book
Five-star bread and pastry recipes, and a tale of adventure, from an iconic East Coast bakery.
A good loaf of bread has the power to bring—and keep—people together, wherever they may be. In a journey that started in Belgrade amid the beginnings of war, and continued in America, four friends tested this philosophy to the extreme: They began a new life and opened a tiny bakery together on Cape Cod. Working hectic, twenty-four-hour days, while living all together in a loft above their business and making it all up as they went along, the founders of Pain D’Avignon quickly became one of the first highly acclaimed purveyors of artisanal bread in the Northeast.
For thirty years Pain D’Avignon has been pursuing excellence in the art of the bread making inspired by the old-world methods while partnering with New York’s top chefs to bring a five-star bread to our everyday life. As a baker who had an unorthodox bread education, Uliks Fehmiu has learned over time that practice and patience are the most important parts of the journey, and here he shares this important lesson with home bakers everywhere, while giving them an accessible, step-by-step primer on mastering the fundamentals. With 60 recipes, including their iconic Cape Cod–inspired Cranberry and Pecan Bread, Classic Sourdough, Thyme Baguette with a Touch of Lemon, and Plum Galette with Pistachio Paste, The Pain D’Avignon Baking Book is a tried-and-true collection of must-make breads and pastries, with extraordinary and immersive storytelling. It is a celebration of bread, of perseverance, and of baking with heart and purpose.
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A gyengék birodalmai
A felfedezések korát, Vasco da Gama és Kolumbusz Kristóf útjait Afrika, Amerika és Ázsia európai gyarmatosítása követte. A 15-18. század európai terjeszkedése átalakította a világot azzal, hogy megteremtette az első, valóban globális politikai és gazdasági rendszereket. A hagyományos magyarázat szerint az európaiak a katonai erőfölényüknek köszönhették a dominanciájukat. J. C. Sharman, a cambridge-i egyetem professzora ebben a könyvben megkérdőjelezi ezt az elméletet, alternatív magyarázattal szolgál, továbbá az eurocentrizmussal szakítva teljesen új nézőpontot kínál a nemzetközi politika, sőt a világtörténelem elmúlt fél évezredének vizsgálatához.
Sharman szerint egyrészt az európaiak a kora újkorban nem élveztek jelentős katonai fölényt, terjeszkedésük legalább annyira az alkalmazkodás és alárendelődés története, mint a dominanciáé. A spanyolok, portugálok, hollandok a tengereket uralták, a kereskedelmi útvonalakat akarták ellenőrizni, de Afrikában és Ázsiában általában tiszteletben tartották a helyi államok, közösségek szárazföldhöz fűződő érdekeit - utóbbiakat viszont a tenger nem érdekelte. Az újkor kezdetén - mondja továbbá Sharman - a legnagyobb hódítók és birodalomépítők valójában ázsiai hatalmak voltak, például az oszmánok a Közel-Keleten, vagy a Ming- és a Csing-dinasztia Kínában. Amerika meghódítását viszont a demográfiai katasztrófát okozó járvány tette lehetővé.
Ebből a nézőpontból a Nyugat dominanciája inkább a kivételt, Ázsia 21. századi felemelkedése pedig a normához való visszatérést jelenti.
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The International Brigades
'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane
The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism.
The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini.
Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of purpose and potential glory, these disparate groups of idealistic young men and women formed a volunteer army of a size and type unseen since the Crusades, known as the International Brigades. Were they heroes or fools? Saints or bloodthirsty adventurers? And what exactly did they achieve?
In this magisterial history, Giles Tremlett tells - for the first time - the story of the Spanish Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group. Drawing on the Brigades' archives in Moscow, as well as first-hand accounts, The International Brigades captures all the human drama of a historic mission to halt fascist expansion in Europe.
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Death Of Wolverine Prelude - Three Months To Die
The beginning of the end for Wolverine! With his healing factor gone, Logan has something to prove. Before he can face Sabretooth again, he'll need to build himself back up, get better and stronger than ever - but it's not that easy anymore, and Wolverine will soon find himself turning to other means of revenge. What could make Logan turn his back on the Jean Grey School and his friends in the X-Men? Has he really joined a group of villains? Can Logan conquer his demons, or will his trip to the dark side become permanent? Pete Wisdom and MI13, Iron Fist and Shang-Chi all guest star as Wolverine prepares for his bloody final showdown with Sabretooth! Plus, with his days numbered, Logan shares a little father figure time with former sidekick Jubilee! COLLECTING: WOLVERINE (2014) 1-12, WOLVERINE ANNUAL (2014) 1
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Sell It Like Serhant
Ryan Serhant was a shy, jobless hand model when he entered the real estate business in September 2008. Just nine years later, he has emerged as one of the top salespeople in the world and a co-star on Bravo's hit series Million Dollar Listing New York, as well as the star of Sell It Like Serhant. He has become an authority on the art of selling. Whether you are selling a property or a hot tub, golf balls or life insurance, Serhant shares the secrets behind how to close more deals than anyone else, expand your business, and keep clients coming back to you for more.
Sell It Like Serhant is the blueprint for how to go from sales scrub to sales machine. Serhant provides useful lessons, lively stories, and examples that illustrate how anyone can employ his principles to increase profits and achieve success. Your measure of a good day will no longer depend on one deal or one client. A good salesperson never closes a deal and wonders, "What now?" The next deal is already happening. Serhant shares practical guidance on how to juggle multiple deals at once and close all of them EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
Sell It Like Serhant is a smart, at times hilarious, and always essential playbook to build confidence, generate results, and sell just about anything. You'll find tips on:
* The Seven Stages of Selling
* Getting FKD: How to Be a Time Manager, Not a Time Stealer
* Negotiating Like A BOSS
* "The One Who...": Everyone Needs a Hook
* Pulling the Indecisive Client Forward
* And Much More!
Whatever your business or expertise, Sell It Like Serhant will make anyone a master at sales.Ready, set, GO!
No Time Like the Future
The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future. His two previous bestselling memoirs, Lucky Man and Always Looking Up, dealt with how he came to terms with the illness, all the while exhibiting his iconic optimism.
In No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality, Michael shares personal stories and observations about illness and health, ageing, the strength of family and friends, and how our perceptions about time affect the way we approach mortality. Thoughtful and moving, but with Fox's trademark sense of humour, his book provides a vehicle for reflection about our lives, our loves, and our losses.
Running through the narrative is the drama of the medical madness Fox recently experienced, that included his daily negotiations with the Parkinson's disease he's had since 1991, and a spinal cord issue that necessitated immediate surgery. His challenge to learn how to walk again, only to suffer a devastating fall, nearly caused him to ditch his trademark optimism and "get out of the lemonade business altogether."
Does he make it all of the way back? Read the book.
Merian 87 Dubaj, Emiráty, Omán
Exotické nákupy, dobrodružství v písečné poušti, koupání v Perském zálivu nebo v Indickém oceánu. Dubaj, Spojené arabské emiráty a Omán sjednocují komfort s arabským duchem.Šťastný emirát Dubaj se může pochlubit sluncem po celý rok a odedávna i kriminalitou blížící se nule. Nově přibyly i překrásné a velmi luxusní hotely či bohaté nákupní komplexy, které jsou lepší než v New Yorku nebo Hongkongu. Dubaj dnes vlastní vše, co nároční zahraniční turisté žádají. Kromě jedinečných restaurací – co se nabídky i vybavení týče – jsou tu golfová hřiště světové úrovně, v nabídce je také exotický způsob trávení volného času: surfování na písečných dunách, létání na rogalu či s padákem nad pouští, jízda na velbloudech.Program rozvoje emirátu na finanční a obchodní centrum a turistickou destinaci číslo jedna byl řízen dubajským korunním princem, šajchem Mohammedem bin Rašídem al-Maktúmem. Třetí nejstarší ze čtyř bratrů je synem šajcha Rašída al-Maktúma, který společně se šajchem Zajedem, hlavou Abú Zabí, založil v roce 1971 Spojené arabské emiráty. Dědeček šajcha Mohammeda zažil ještě dobu před „ropnou érou“, kdy v Dubaji stály jen domky z hlíny a vápence, získávaného ze zdejších korálových útesů.V šedesátých letech pak vytrysklo ze země černé zlato a od základů změnilo život místních 16půdy a mají tím pádem nárok na příjmy z ropných společností. Na svém bohatství nechaly velkoryse participovat i obyvatelstvo a vybudovaly pohádkovou zemi veřejné péče. Bezplatné byty a domy, bezúrokové úvěry, lékařská péče zdarma – obyvatelé mohou dodnes užívat života bez starostí.Kromě Dubaje a Abú Zabí sestávají Spojené arabské emiráty z pěti dalších emirátů: Šardžá, Rás al-Chajma, Umm al-Kuvajn, Fudžajra a Adžmán. Emiráty se rozkládají na poloostrově Musandam, vybíhajícím do Perského zálivu, a obklopuje je Saúdská Arábie a sultanát Omán. Celková plocha činí pouhých 86 000 kilometrů čtverečních, z nichž čtyři pětiny zaujímá Abú Zabí. Stejnojmenná hlavní města jednotlivých emirátů leží všechna bez výjimky na pobřeží a mezi sebou jsou propojena zelení osázenými dálnicemi. Také silnice do Fudžajry, ležící na východním pobřeží Ománského zálivu, která protíná pohoří Hadžar, je ve výborném stavu. Odtud je to jen pár kilometrů k ománské hranici.Omán se řadí k pokrokovým zemím Arabského poloostrova, ačkoliv vzhledem ke šplouchajícím umělým vodopádům, nadrozměrným kadidelnicím a obřím kávovým konvicím, které lemují ulice, připomíná spíše orientální pohádku. Děvčata navštěvují školu stejně jako chlapci, mladé ženy mohou studovat a později si najít i zaměstnání. Ať už jako učitelky, lékařky nebo trhovkyně – ženy v Ománu dobyly díky sultánu Kabúsovi pracovní trh. A do výboru Madžlis aš-šúrá, který funguje jako poradní sbor vlády při předkládání zákonů, patří v současnosti i příslušnice ženského pohlaví. Na venkově a zejména na jihu Ománu je nepřehlédnutelný vliv Afriky. Tam se ženy rády oblékají do světlých batikovaných šátků, líbí se jim zlaté náušnice a ozdoby do nosu a živí se jako obchodnice. Stručně řečeno: Omán je – přinejmenším mimo okolí hlavního města Maskatu – mnohem původnější něž Emiráty a zdaleka ne tak světácký. V sultánově říši se setkáte s nefalšovaným venkovským způsobem života uprostřed velkolepé krajiny.
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Architects of Terror
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution.
It is the previously untold story of how antisemitic beliefs were weaponised to justify and propagate the Franco overthrow of liberal Spain.
The Spanish military coup of 1936 was launched to overturn the social and economic reforms of the democratic Second Republic, and its educational and cultural challenges to the established order. The consequent civil war was fought in the interests of the landowners, industrialists, bankers, clerics and army officers whose privileges were threatened. However, a central justification for a war that took the lives of around 500,000 Spaniards was that it was being fought to combat an alleged scheme for world domination by a non-existent 'Jewish- Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy'. Despite the fact that Spain had only a tiny minority of Jews and Freemasons, Franco and his inner circle were ardent believers in this fabricated conspiracy and spread the notion that the survival of Catholic Spain, as well, of course, of the establishment ' s economic interests, required the total annihilation of Jews and Freemasons.
Architects of Terror is the story of how fake news, mendacity, corruption and nostalgia for lost empire generated violence and hatred. The book presents vivid portraits of the key ideologues who propagated the myth of the Jewish-Masonic-Bolshevik Conspiracy and of the military figures who implemented the atrocities that it justified. Among the convictions shared by these individuals was their belief in the idea that Freemasonry was responsible for Spain ' s loss of empire and in the factual veracity of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notorious fiction about the global domination of the Jews.
This is a history that reverberates in our own political moment
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Great Escapes Asia 25 ms
Much more than a travel or holiday guide, Great Escapes Asia is first and foremost a paradisiacal photo album. Featuring opulent photographs of places that seem too perfect to be real, some of which look like James Bond movie sets or National Geographic subjects, this book will quickly convince you that an Asian sojourn is crucial to your mental and physical wellbeing. The icing on the cake is that not only do these hotels really exist, but—thanks to the pricing and contact information provided—you can succumb to their mysterious charms and book yourself a room (or houseboat, hut, or tree house, whatever the case may be).
Among the gems waiting for you in Great Escapes Asia:
In Kerala, India, choose between luxurious tree houses suspended 25 meters off the ground or futuristic-looking, Star Wars-style houseboats made of bamboo poles, palm leaves, and coconut fibers
Are you more the resplendent-resort or budget-bungalow type? Find the best of both in Bali
The best place for a delectable cup of joe: a luxury lodge and spa on a java plantation in (you guessed it) Java
In the Philippines, an organic resort composed of superimposed huts whose every room affords instant access to the beach via rope ladder
Tadao Ando’s sprawling minimalist concrete-and-steel hotel attached to the contemporary art museum in Naoshima, Japan—the perfect place to contemplate on the relationship between humans and nature
An exclusive hotel on a private island in Sri Lanka, once owned by Paul Bowles and frequented by Arthur C. Clarke and Peggy Guggenheim
Thatched-roof cottages in India whose gardens overflow with mangos, nutmeg, and cardamom
An Ayurvedic spa in the Himalayas where nothing matters but peace and relaxation
In Myanmar, an elegant river cruise boat and a hotel on a breathtaking archeological site
Chairman Mao’s former getaway in Beijing, where you can rent his lavish, traditionally-decorated suite complete with adjoining concubine rooms
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Nineteenth-Century Art - A Critical History
Written by a group of highly respected art historians, the fifth edition of this classic book now features full-colour artworks throughout, new chapter introductions, examinations of key ideas, and other helpful pedagogical support.
Emphasizing the vitality of 19th-century art, the authors demonstrate how paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings by David, Gericault, Turner, Homer, Cassatt, Rodin, Van Gogh and many others remain relevant today. Using evocative and lucid prose, the authors reveal how concerns about class and gender, race and ethnicity, modernity and tradition, and popular and elite culture - ideas that arose in the course of the 19th century - motivated artists and propelled the movements under review.
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Joshua Weissman: Texture Over Taste
Fresh off of his #1 New York Times bestseller, Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook, Joshua Weissman is back with a bold and exciting new cookbook that will take your cooking to an entirely different level!
Everyone knows flavor is important, right? But what's that secret sauce that turns eating into an unforgettable experience? It's the secret sauce that nobody seems to talk about enough—it's not flavor, it's texture! When flavor meets textures like creamy, chewy, or crunchy, the eating experience evolves into something entirely new and utterly fantastic. Flavor is one thing, but texture is what really makes the experience complete.
In Joshua Weissman: Texture Over Taste, Joshua Weissman introduces you to the elements of flavor, then uses stories and fun visualizations to dive deeper and teach you about the six fundamental textures that create some of the greatest food experiences you'll ever enjoy. Joshua then explores each texture through over 75 spectacular recipes. In the "Crunchy" chapter, you'll learn how to make recipes like the most amazing fried chicken you've ever tasted, french fries (of course), and arancini. "Chewy" is where you'll discover recipes like his personal never-been-shared recipe for New York bagels, jjolmyeon (spicy chewy noodles), and brown sugar boba tea. "Aerated" features a cheese foam, challah bourbon french toast casserole, and a lighter-than-air glazed donut. "Creamy" is where you'll indulge in one-pound-of-butter mashed potatoes, perfectly baked mac and cheese, and decadent tres leches. In "Fluid" you'll dive into juicy birria tacos, diner-style milkshakes, and matzo ball soup. Finally, "Fatty" features a 72-hour short rib with coffee caramel, hamachi crudo, and a Texas toast smashburger. Each chapter opens with an irreverent introduction to the featured texture that explains how it impacts flavor, written from the unique perspective that only Joshua can provide.
With Joshua Weissman, there is no compromising; he'll challenge you to think about cooking and food in an entirely different way. You'll experience cooking exactly as it's supposed to be—fun and maybe even a little dangerous!
This Is What It Sounds Like
A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music.
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favourite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits as one of the most successful female record producers of all time.
Now an award-winning professor of cognitive neuroscience, Susan Rogers leads readers to musical self-awareness. She explains that we each possess a unique 'listener profile' based on our brain's natural response to seven key dimensions of any song. Are you someone who prefers lyrics or melody? Do you like music 'above the neck' (intellectually stimulating), or 'below the neck' (instinctual and rhythmic)? Whether your taste is esoteric or mainstream, Rogers guides readers to recognize their musical personality, and offers language to describe one's own unique taste. Like most of us, Rogers is not a musician, but she shows that all of us can be musical - simply by being an active, passionate listener.
While exploring the science of music and the brain, Rogers also takes us behind the scenes of record-making, using her insider's ear to illuminate the music of Prince, Frank Sinatra, Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, and many others. She shares records that changed her life, contrasts them with those that appeal to her co-author and students, and encourages you to think about the records that define your own identity.
Lively, inclusive and revelatory, This Is What It Sounds Like will refresh your playlists, deepen your connection to your favourite artists, and change the way you listen to music.
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Pumpkin
Return to the beloved world of Julie Murphy's #1 New York Times bestselling Dumplin'-now a popular Netflix feature film starring Jennifer Aniston-in this fabulously joyful, final companion novel about drag, prom, and embracing your inner Queen.
Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon so that he can live his Julie-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-Andrews truth.
So when Clementine deviates from their master plan right after Waylon gets dumped, he throws caution to the wind and creates an audition tape for his favorite TV drag show, Fiercest of Them All. What he doesn't count on is the tape getting accidentally shared with the entire school. . . . As a result, Waylon is nominated for prom queen as a joke. Clem's girlfriend, Hannah Perez, also receives a joke nomination for prom king.
Waylon and Hannah decide there's only one thing to do: run-and leave high school with a bang. A very glittery bang. Along the way, Waylon discovers that there is a lot more to running for prom court than campaign posters and plastic crowns, especially when he has to spend so much time with the very cute and infuriating prom king nominee Tucker Watson.
Waylon will need to learn that the best plan for tomorrow is living for today . . . especially with the help of some fellow queens. . . .
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The Once and Future Witches
In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.
But when the three Eastwood sisters join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote - and perhaps not even to live - the sisters must delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.
There's no such thing as witches. But there will be.
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Stillness is the Key : An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life
Throughout history, there has been one quality that great leaders, makers, artists and fighters have shared. The Zen Buddhists described it as inner peace, the Stoics called it ataraxia and Ryan Holiday calls it stillness: the ability to be steady, focused and calm in a constantly busy world.
Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, Holiday shows us how crucial stillness is, and how it can be cultivated in our own lives today. Just as Winston Churchill, Oprah Winfrey and baseball player Sadaharu Oh have done, we can all benefit from stillness to feed into our greater ambitions - whether building a business or simply finding happiness, peace and self-direction.
Stillness is the key to the self-mastery, discipline and focus necessary to succeed in this competitive, noisy world.
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos.
What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings-- beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in "artificial" intelligence. But rather than a friend or companion, AI increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined, an alien invention that threatens to decenter and supplant us.
At the same time, we're only just becoming aware of the other intelligences that have been with us all along, even if we've failed to recognize or acknowledge them. These others--the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us--are slowly revealing their complexity, agency, and knowledge, just as the technologies we've built to sustain ourselves are threatening to cause their extinction and ours. What can we learn from them, and how can we change ourselves, our technologies, our societies, and our politics to live better and more equitably with one another and the nonhuman world?
The artist and maverick thinker James Bridle draws on biology and physics, computation, literature, art, and philosophy to answer these unsettling questions. Startling and bold, Ways of Being explores the fascinating, strange, and multitudinous forms of knowing, doing, and being that make up the world, and that are essential for our survival.
Includes illustrations
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Beneath the Night
From Stone Age to space age, people have looked up at the stars and been inspired by their beauty, their patterns, and their majesty. Beneath the Night is a history of humanity, told through our relationship with the night sky. From prehistoric cave art and Ancient Egyptian zodiacs to the modern era of satellites and space exploration, Stuart Clark explores a fascination shared across the world and throughout millennia.
It is one that has shaped our scientific understanding; helped us navigate the terrestrial world; provided inspiration for our poets, artists and philosophers; and it has given us a place to project our hopes and fears. In the stars, we can see our past - and ultimately, our fate. This is the awe-inspiring story of the universe, and our place within it.
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Read This if You Want to be Great at Drawing People
Learn to draw figures and faces with this clear and easy to follow guide, the latest in the bestselling "Read This" series. Revealing the techniques and ideas behind inspirational works, the book will set you on the path to making your own great drawings. From traditional life drawing to unconventional character studies, works by masters such as Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, and Vincent van Gogh, as well as contemporary artists including Marlene Dumas, Zin Lim, and Catherine Kehoe, all serve to illustrate a range of approaches and encourage readers to try out new ideas.
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Black is the Body
"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book."
In twelve intensely personal, interconnected essays, Emily Bernard sets out to tell stories from her life that enable her to talk about truth, race, family and relationships, and much more.
She observes the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in America's New England today.
Ultimately, she shows us that it is in our shared experience of humanity that we find connection, happiness and hope.
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