Thick

Author : Tressie McMillan Cottom
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620974377

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Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE, Entertainment Weekly, Well-Read Black Girl, and Chris Hayes, "incisive, witty, and provocative essays" (Publishers Weekly) by one of the "most bracing thinkers on race, gender, and capitalism of our time" (Rebecca Traister) “Thick is sure to become a classic.” —The New York Times Book Review In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom—award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed—is unapologetically "thick": deemed "thick where I should have been thin, more where I should have been less," McMillan Cottom refuses to shy away from blending the personal with the political, from bringing her full self and voice to the fore of her analytical work. Thick "transforms narrative moments into analyses of whiteness, black misogyny, and status-signaling as means of survival for black women" (Los Angeles Review of Books) with "writing that is as deft as it is amusing" (Darnell L. Moore). This "transgressive, provocative, and brilliant" (Roxane Gay) collection cements McMillan Cottom's position as a public thinker capable of shedding new light on what the "personal essay" can do. She turns her chosen form into a showcase for her critical dexterity, investigating everything from Saturday Night Live, LinkedIn, and BBQ Becky to sexual violence, infant mortality, and Trump rallies. Collected in an indispensable volume that speaks to the everywoman and the erudite alike, these unforgettable essays never fail to be "painfully honest and gloriously affirming" and hold "a mirror to your soul and to that of America" (Dorothy Roberts).

Author : Tressie McMillan Cottom
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781620971024

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Lower Ed by Tressie McMillan Cottom Pdf

More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations to the behemoths brandished on billboards, subway ads, and late-night commercials. These schools have been around just as long as their bucolic not-for-profit counterparts, yet shockingly little is known about why they have expanded so rapidly in recent years—during the so-called Wall Street era of for-profit colleges. In Lower Ed Tressie McMillan Cottom—a bold and rising public scholar, herself once a recruiter at two for-profit colleges—expertly parses the fraught dynamics of this big-money industry to show precisely how it is part and parcel of the growing inequality plaguing the country today. McMillan Cottom discloses the shrewd recruitment and marketing strategies that these schools deploy and explains how, despite the well-documented predatory practices of some and the campus closings of others, ending for-profit colleges won’t end the vulnerabilities that made them the fastest growing sector of higher education at the turn of the twenty-first century. And she doesn’t stop there. With sharp insight and deliberate acumen, McMillan Cottom delivers a comprehensive view of postsecondary for-profit education by illuminating the experiences of the everyday people behind the shareholder earnings, congressional battles, and student debt disasters. The relatable human stories in Lower Ed—from mothers struggling to pay for beauty school to working class guys seeking “good jobs” to accomplished professionals pursuing doctoral degrees—illustrate that the growth of for-profit colleges is inextricably linked to larger questions of race, gender, work, and the promise of opportunity in America. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews with students, employees, executives, and activists, Lower Ed tells the story of the benefits, pitfalls, and real costs of a for-profit education. It is a story about broken social contracts; about education transforming from a public interest to a private gain; and about all Americans and the challenges we face in our divided, unequal society.

Author : Darnell L Moore
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781568589497

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No Ashes in the Fire by Darnell L Moore Pdf

From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir. When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't the last time he would face death. Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer, a leading Black Lives Matter activist, and an advocate for justice and liberation. In No Ashes in the Fire, he shares the journey taken by that scared, bullied teenager who not only survived, but found his calling. Moore's transcendence over the myriad forces of repression that faced him is a testament to the grace and care of the people who loved him, and to his hometown, Camden, NJ, scarred and ignored but brimming with life. Moore reminds us that liberation is possible if we commit ourselves to fighting for it, and if we dream and create futures where those who survive on society's edges can thrive. No Ashes in the Fire is a story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with family, with place, and with what it means to be free.

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789351180203

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Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra Pdf

WINNER OF THE HUTCH CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD 2006 FOR BEST WORK IN ENGLISH FICTION Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh, and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. This is a sprawling, magnificent story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Chandra's years of first-hand research on the streets of Mumbai, Sacred Games reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.

Author : Sandra Brown
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538751916

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Thick as Thieves by Sandra Brown Pdf

In this tantalizing thriller from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a woman uncovers lifelong secrets as she searches for the truth behind her father's involvement in a heist gone wrong. Twenty years ago in the dead of night, four seemingly random individuals pulled the ultimate heist and almost walked away with half a million dollars. But by daybreak, their plan had been shot to hell. One of them was in the hospital. One was in jail. One was dead. And one got away with it. Arden Maxwell, the daughter of the man who disappeared all those years ago—presumably with the money, after murdering his accomplice—has never reconciled with her father's abandonment of her and her sister. After countless personal setbacks she decides to return to her family home near mysterious Caddo Lake, and finally get answers to the many questions that torment her. Little does she know, two of her father's co-conspirators—a war hero and a corrupt district attorney—are watching her every move. Ledge Burnet, a rebellious teen at the time of the heist, evaded his jail sentence by enlisting in the army. Now he's back in town to care for his ailing father—and to keep his eye on the county's corrupt district attorney, whom he suspects was the real murderer. Although the two are bound to silence because of the crime they committed together, each has spent years waiting and hoping that the other will make a fatal misstep. But the arrival of their elusive accomplice's daughter, Arden, who may know more about the missing money than she's telling, sets them both on red alert. She ignites Ledge's determination to expose the D.A.'s treachery . . . and sparks a desire he wishes to deny.

Author : Simon Kirchin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191652509

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Thick Concepts by Simon Kirchin Pdf

What is the difference between judging someone to be good and judging them to be kind? Both judgements are typically positive, but the latter seems to offer more description of the person: we get a more specific sense of what they are like. Very general evaluative concepts (such as good, bad, right and wrong) are referred to as thin concepts, whilst more specific ones (including brave, rude, gracious, wicked, sympathetic, and mean) are termed thick concepts. In this volume, an international team of experts addresses the questions that this distinction opens up. How do the descriptive and evaluative functions or elements of thick concepts combine with each other? Are these functions or elements separable in the first place? Is there a sharp division between thin and thick concepts? Can we mark interesting further distinctions between how thick ethical concepts work and how other thick concepts work, such as those found in aesthetics and epistemology? How, if at all, are thick concepts related to reasons and action? These questions, and others, touch on some of the deepest philosophical issues about the evaluative and normative. They force us to think hard about the place of the evaluative in a (seemingly) nonevaluative world, and raise fascinating issues about how language works.

Author : Colin Neenan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0974648191

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Thick by Colin Neenan Pdf

With problems mounting at school and at home, Nick finds himself feeling more and more powerless until he finds a gun in his hand.

Author : T. D. Hackett,Donna L. Boreck,D. R. Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : UOM:39015078458331

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Multislice Mining for Thick Western Coal Seams by T. D. Hackett,Donna L. Boreck,D. R. Clarke Pdf

Author : Seth D. Kaplan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108471213

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Human Rights in Thick and Thin Societies by Seth D. Kaplan Pdf

Introduces the idea of a flexible approach to the human rights movement that returns to basics in an increasingly diverse and multipolar world.

Author : Liang-Yu Chen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NASA:31769000637697

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Thin and Thick Films Materials Based Interconnection Technology for 500 C Operation by Liang-Yu Chen Pdf

Author : E. P. Warner,F. H. Norton,F. W. Caldwell,United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Aerodynamics
ISBN : OSU:32435065258899

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The Aerodynamic Properties of Thick Aerofoils Suitable for Internal Bracing by E. P. Warner,F. H. Norton,F. W. Caldwell,United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Pdf

Author : L. Feldman,Chien-shiung Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Bismuth
ISBN : UOM:39015086477679

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Interpretation of Beta-spectra from Thick Sources by L. Feldman,Chien-shiung Wu Pdf

Author : Charles Camp Daniel (III),Douglas Gray Smith,Jo Leslie Eimers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aquifers
ISBN : UCR:31210012160485

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Hydrogeology and Simulation of Ground-water Flow in the Thick Regolith-fractured Crystalline Rock Aquifer System of Indian Creek Basin, North Carolina by Charles Camp Daniel (III),Douglas Gray Smith,Jo Leslie Eimers Pdf

Author : Jun Ouyang,Xiaoman Teng,Meiling Yuan,Kun Wang,Yuyao Zhao,Hongbo Cheng,Hanfei Zhu,Chao Liu,Yongguang Xiao,Minghua Tang,Wei Zhang,Wei Pan
Publisher : OAE Publishing Inc.
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Grain engineering of high energy density BaTiO3 thick films integrated on Si by Jun Ouyang,Xiaoman Teng,Meiling Yuan,Kun Wang,Yuyao Zhao,Hongbo Cheng,Hanfei Zhu,Chao Liu,Yongguang Xiao,Minghua Tang,Wei Zhang,Wei Pan Pdf

Ferroelectric (FE) ceramics with a large relative dielectric permittivity and a high dielectric strength have the potential to store or supply electricity of very high energy and power densities, which is desirable in many modern electronic and electrical systems. For a given FE material, such as the commonly-used BaTiO3, a close interplay between defect chemistry, misfit strain, and grain characteristics must be carefully manipulated for engineering its film capacitors. In this work, the effects of grain orientation and morphology on the energy storage properties of BaTiO3 thick films were systematically investigated. These films were all deposited on Si at 500 °C in an oxygen-rich atmosphere, and their thicknesses varied between ~500 nm and ~2.6 μm. While a columnar nanograined BaTiO3 film with a (001) texture showed a higher recyclable energy density Wrec (81.0 J/cm3vs. 57.1 J/[email protected] MV/cm, ~40% increase) than that of a randomly-oriented BaTiO3 film of about the same thickness (~500 nm), the latter showed an improved energy density at a reduced electric field with an increasing film thickness. Specifically, for the 1.3 μm and 2.6 μm thick polycrystalline films, their energy storage densities Wrec reached 46.6 J/cm3 and 48.8 J/cm3 at an applied electric field of 2.31 MV/cm (300 V on 1.3 μm film) and 1.77 MV/cm (460 V on 2.6 μm film), respectively. This ramp-up in energy density can be attributed to increased polarizability with a growing grain size in thicker polycrystalline films and is desirable in high pulse power applications.

Author : Bernard N. Daley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Aerofoils
ISBN : UOM:39015086464487

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Aerodynamic Characteristics of Several 6-percent-thick Airfoils at Angles of Attack from 0 to 20 Degrees at High Subsonic Speeds by Bernard N. Daley Pdf

Two-dimensional tests of eight 6-percent-thick symmetrical airfoils of the supersonic and subsonic types were conducted in the Langley rectangular high-speed tunnel. The aerodynamic characteristics of each of the airfoils have been determined from the measured pressure data. These results showed that the lift-curve slope of each of the airfoils decreased rapidly to a positive value approaching zero at angles of attack near 9 degrees and roughly maintained this value up to the highest angle of attack tested.