Maker/Lenier teach fundamental and critical reading skills in the context of high-interest readings. For intermediate developmental reading courses, Book 2 enables readers to make the progression from fundamentals to critical reading, study reading, and more advanced use of the Active Critical Thinking (ACT) method. Ten textbook selections challenge students to read critically on a variety of issues.

 “Be there. Those seven letters encompass the tao of fatherhood.” —Etan ThomasIn Fatherhood, beloved NBA player, poet, youth advocate, and devoted dad Etan Thomas speaks from his heart on what matters most in his life: being there for his children. As a highly respected player in the NBA and a leading participant in President Obama’s Fatherhood Initiative, Etan has reached out to young men (often young fathers) in the juvenile detention system and in local communities. He knows firsthand the difference having a father in your life every day can make—and as a father of three, Etan walks the talk in his own life. Now he brings together a chorus of voices—highly revered professional athletes and coaches, actors and performing artists, politicians and leaders of faith—to weigh in on the importance of being a father in our nation today. Isaiah Washington, Howard Dean, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Taye Diggs, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tony Hawk, Al Sharpton, Chuck D and many more share what they’ve learned from being a father, having a father, or in some cases not having a father around. Through these inspiring personal experiences, Etan and the men he’s gathered together hope to share the message that by standing up and taking an active role as fathers, men not only find their own lives more joyful and fulfilling--they pass on to the next generation an unshakable legacy of love, wisdom, responsibility, and strength.

A collection of essays by a professor of Afro-American Studies and Religion at Harvard examines the role of the black intellectual, legal theory, the future of liberal thought, while offering advice to the modern generation of African Americans. Reprint. LJ.

Draws on the ideas of W.E.B. Du Bois to study the hopes and fears of the African American community at the dawn of the twenty-first century

Presents a critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in the post-9/11 age of terrorist rage and imperial overreach. West calls for a resurgence of the deep democratic tradition in the United States.