Inexcusable

Inexcusable
Author: Chris Lynch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2012-03-20
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 144244231X

High school senior and football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but when he attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things go terribly wrong.

Inexcusable

Inexcusable
Author: Chris Lynch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2008-06-20
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1439107025

"I am a good guy. Good guys don't do bad things. Good guys understand that no means no, and so I could not have done this because I understand." Keir Sarafian knows many things about himself. He is a talented football player, a loyal friend, a devoted son and brother. Most of all, he is a good guy. And yet the love of his life thinks otherwise. Gigi says Keir has done something awful. Something unforgivable. Keir doesn't understand. He loves Gigi. He would never do anything to hurt her. So Keir carefully recounts the events leading up to that one fateful night, in order to uncover the truth. Clearly, there has been a mistake. But what has happened is, indeed, something inexcusable.

Billion Dollar Lessons

Billion Dollar Lessons
Author: Paul B. Carroll
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2008-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1440630100

”This book is your chance to learn from others’ mistakes.”-- Entrepreneur In the 1960s, IBM CEO Tom Watson called an executive into his office after his venture lost $10 million. The man assumed he was being fired. Watson told him, “Fired? Hell, I spent $10 million educating you. I just want to be sure you learned the right lessons.” There are thousands of books about successful companies but virtually none about the lessons to be learned from those that crash and burn. Now Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui draw on research into more than 750 flameouts to reveal the seven biggest reasons for business failure.

An Inexcusable Absence

An Inexcusable Absence
Author: R. Perez Gatling, MEd
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1491839198

It is high time for more diversity in education, diversity that includes thorough, articulate, Black males. Contrary to popular belief, the need for a strong emergence of Black male teachers is not only for the benefit of Black boys and Black girls. Children and parents of all races and both genders need to be introduced to the antithesis of the stereotypical Black man and build strong, healthy relationships that will be the means for greater racial and ethnic harmony.

Inexcusable Absence

Inexcusable Absence
Author: Maureen A. Lewis
Publisher: CGD Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Girls' education, indisputably crucial to development, has received a lot of attention--but surprisingly little hardheaded analysis to inform practical policy solutions. In Inexcusable Absence, Maureen Lewis and Marlaine Lockheed propose new strategies for reaching the 70 percent of out-of-school girls who are "doubly disadvantaged" by their ethnicity, language, or other factors. The book will be an important tool for policymakers, informing interventions that can make a profound impact on the lives of the 60 million out-of-school girls.

Irreversible Damage

Irreversible Damage
Author: Abigail Shrier
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1684510465

NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES "Irreversible Damage . . . has caused a storm. Abigail Shrier, a Wall Street Journal writer, does something simple yet devastating: she rigorously lays out the facts." —Janice Turner, The Times of London Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.” Unsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. Abigail Shrier, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, has dug deep into the trans epidemic, talking to the girls, their agonized parents, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves. Coming out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status, Shrier finds, but once they take the first steps of transition, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. A generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path.

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand
Author: Luigi Pirandello
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2020-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In Luigi Pirandello's thought-provoking novel, One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, the protagonist, Vitangelo Moscarda, undergoes a profound identity crisis after a casual remark from his wife. This sets him on a journey of self-discovery, questioning the nature of reality, identity, and the multifaceted perceptions others have of him. Through a series of philosophical musings and encounters with various characters, Moscarda grapples with the fragmented nature of the self and the illusions that shape our understanding of the world.

The Unprotected

The Unprotected
Author: Victor Alexander Kromer IV
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2019-07-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781076709066

This is not your typical writer. This is not your typical story. It was not a typical life. So it is not a typical book. It certainly runs against the grain on every level. Enjoy. THE UNPROTECTED. Is an extremely compelling, brutally honest portrayal of the consequences a child must face by the cold and in-compassionate hands of abuse. As told through the blackened eyes and the horrific memories of the abused. And how those multiple abuses, mentally, emotionally, sexually and physically affected his life throughout the years, and led him down a deep dark path of rampant drug and alcohol abuse to escape the pain starting at a very young age. Also, how living through those abuses, and the poverty of having alcoholic and drug addicted parents. And a number of other adults through his early years, pushed him towards a life of lying, cheating and thievery to get what he thought he needed to have a better chance at a normal life. Victors memories start with the story of himself at four years old. Dealing with extreme mental and emotional torture by irrational parents who had him believe there was a Boogeyman living in the basement of his very first home that was going to take him downstairs for punishment whenever he misbehaved. Soon after that, he was sexually molested by two brothers that lived next door when he was seven years old. The middle of the story from nine to twelve is riddled with brutally descriptive physical abuses at the hands of his first stepfather. And he received absolutely no help at all from those that should have been there to protect him. Then, at twelve and a half years old, being run over by a car crushing both of his legs, with one of his earlier molesters behind the wheel of that car. You will be shocked by the brutally and insensitivity of the abusers, and be amazed by the strength and the desire to get through it by the abused. This is only the first volume of what will be three. But it is by far going to be the most important, as it will show how the child was molded into the man he would eventually become.

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas

Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
Author: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-11-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0807876860

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.