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Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, and the unrest brought the People's Liberation Army to the very doorstep of Hong Kong. Driven primarily by students and youth protesters with their 'Be Water!' philosophy, borrowed from hometown hero Bruce Lee, this leaderless, technology-driven protest movement defied a global superpower and changed Hong Kong, perhaps forever. But it also changed China, and challenged China's global standing. In City on Fire, Antony Dapiran provides the first detailed account of the protests, reveals the protesters' unique tactics, explains how the movement fits into the city's long history of dissent, and looks at what the protests will mean for the future of Hong Kong, China, and China's place in the world.

Surveys the histories of six countries that have survived social and political upheavals and discusses how and why they survived where other countries have not--from Japan and the forced opening of its borders by U.S. Commodore Perry's Fleet to the ways Australia and Germany transformed after World War II. Forecasts the futures of nations in current crises and remarks on the signs of whether or not they are going to learn lessons from the past and survive.

Explores the origins and evolution of human societies, and examines how farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization developed. Discusses myths surrounding prehistory and how they have influenced the modern world's ideas about history. Includes maps.

When eleven-year-old Langston's father moves them from their home in Alabama to Chicago's Bronzeville district, it feels like he's giving up everything he loves. It's 1946. Langston's mother has just died, and now they're leaving the rest of his family and friends. He misses everything -- Grandma's Sunday suppers, the red dirt roads, and the magnolia trees his mother loved. In the city, they live in a small apartment surrounded by noise and chaos. It doesn't feel like a new start, or a better life. At home he's lonely, his father always busy at work; at school he's bullied for being a country boy. But Langston's new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the Chicago Public Library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston -- a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.

Preface / Javon Johnson and Kevin Coval -- Intro / Javon Johnson -- Welcome to Chiraq -- On hearing King Louie / Andrew Barber -- When King Louie first heard the word Chiraq / Kevin Coval -- To live and die in "Chiraq" / Mariame Kaba -- Rome wasn't built in a day / Malcolm London -- Memories / Aneko Jackson -- Windowpain : Bryce Thomas / Nile Lansa -- My grandmother tells me and my cousins why she hates the word Chiraq . . . / Demetrius Amparan -- Do we even need to be understood to get free? / Page May -- 9 of disks / Fatimah Ashgar -- Frank Bradely : interview / by Aneko Jackson -- How America loves Chicago's ghosts more than the people still living in the city : an erasure poem / Jacqui Germain -- A tale of two & many cities -- I am Windy City / Patricia Frazier -- If you aren't from Chicago / Tim "Toaster" Henderson -- Concrete flowers / Aneko Jackson -- Chicago is the world's Harold's Chicken box / Kara Jackson -- When asked about Chicago : a confession / Alfonzo Kahlil -- History, as written by the victors / Krista Franklin -- Ye though I walk through Chi / Naudia j. Williams -- Ghazal for White Hen Pantry / Jamila Woods -- Holy hermosa / Sara Geiger -- Corn man on every corner / Sammy Ortega -- Into a white neighborhood / Melinda Hernandez -- Poem for Cal City : confession / Jose Olivarez -- In the Bridgeport row house / Natalie Richardson -- I'm from Chicago, but not really / Michael Cuaresma -- Daughter / Claire DeRosa -- Damon / Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep Louder Than a Bomb Team.

A collection of eighty essays which span the career of author Jacques Barzun.

Collects annotated primary documents that discuss aspects of daily living in the modern world, covering domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life, and including illustrations.

Collects annotated primary documents that discuss aspects of daily living in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, covering domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious life, and including illustrations.

Looks at the history of the Middle Ages from the perspective of children who lived in the era.

Discusses turning points for nations in crisis, focusing on how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't.