Author: John Wood File Type: epub The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executives quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books Whats happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at the age of thirty-five, Wood quit a lucrative career to found the nonprofit Room to Read. Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as the Andrew Carnegie of the developing world, he strived to bring the lessons of the corporate world to the nonprofit sectorand succeeded spectacularly. In his acclaimed first book, Leaving Microsoft to Change the World, Wood explained his vision and the story of his start-up. Now, he tackles the organizations next steps and its latest challengesfrom managing expansion to raising money in a collapsing economy to publishing books for children who literally have no books in their native language. At its heart, Creating Room to Read shares moving stories of the people Room to Read works to help impoverished children whose schools and villages have been swept away by war or natural disaster and girls whose educations would otherwise be ignored. People at the highest levels of finance, government, and philanthropy will embrace the opportunity to learn Woods inspiring business model and blueprint for doing good. And general readers will love Creating Room to Read for its spellbinding story of one mans mission to put books within every childs reach.**

Author: Michael Bundock File Type: pdf This compelling book chronicles a young boys journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of Londons literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis Barber, born in Jamaica, was brought to London by his owner in 1750 and became a servant in the household of the renowned Dr. Samuel Johnson. Although Barber left London for a time and served in the British navy during the Seven Years War, he later returned to Johnsons employ. A fascinating reversal took place in the relationship between the two men as Johnsons health declined and the older man came to rely more and more upon his now educated and devoted companion. When Johnson diedhe leftthe bulk of his estate to Barber, a generous (and at the time scandalous) legacy, and a testament to the depth of their friendship. There were thousands of black Britons in the eighteenth century, but few accounts of their lives exist. In uncovering Francis Barbers story, this book not only provides insights into his life and Samuel Johnsons but alsoopens a window onto London when slaves had yet to win their freedom. **Review At last, the biography that Francis Barber deserves. A meticulous yet imaginative book which teases out the full humanity of Dr. Johnsons servantand of the affection and hostility he generated among contemporaries.James Walvin, author of The Zong A Massacre, the Law and the End of Slavery (James Walvin) Michael Bundock has written the first biography in over one hundred years of Francis Barber, Samuel Johnsons black servant and heir. Acknowledging the groundwork laid over a century ago, Bundock goes well beyond earlier commentators in exploring the evolving relationship between Johnson and Barber.Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland (Vincent Carretta) Like James Boswell before him, Michael Bundock is a lawyer, and in his biography of Samuel Johnsons servant that background serves him well. Reading the evidence, some newly discovered, he brings Francis Barber to life, deepens our understanding of Johnson, enriches our sense of quotidian eighteenth-century London, and provides an unusual contribution to black history in England.Robert Folkenflik, University of California, Irvine (Robert Folkenflik) The Fortunes of Francis Barber is the most complete and accurate account of the life of Francis Barber that has ever been produced or is ever likely to be produced. This book far outstrips all earlier accounts.Robert DeMaria, Jr., Vassar College (Robert DeMaria, Jr.) This is an indispensable volume, by far the most readable and comprehensive and authoritative account of Francis Barbers life thats ever been written or that ever could be written, at least with the source materials we currently have.Open Letters Monthly (Open Letters Monthly) Bundocks lively biography offers a fresh perspective on Johnson and locates Barber both in Johnsons household and in the context of an empire beginning to debate the political and moral legitimacy of slavery.Publishers Weekly (Publishers Weekly) [Bundock] is a lawyer by profession, and one of the great pleasures of reading his completely captivating book is to watch him gathering all the evidence and teasing out the truth one of the very few books about Johnson worthy to stand beside that classic.John Carey, the Sunday Times. (John Carey The Sunday Times 2015-04-19) Michael Bundocks accomplished biography tells the story of Dr. Samuel Johnsons black servant and friend, Francis Barber, giving a much needed biography to a man who has hitherto been relegated to footnote status Bundocks scrupulous research finally puts the record straight.Paula Bryne, author of Belle the True Story of Dido Belle, the Times. (Paula Bryne The Times 2015-05-09) Bundocks tale of [the Georgian period], written with a Johnsonian clarity and verve, absorbs from start to finish.Ian Thomson, New Statesman. (Ian Thomson New Statesman 2015-05-22) In The Fortunes of Francis Barber, there are indeed plenty of rivalries, along with burned diary entries, tossed-off insults, and spiky descriptions that would likely get a stamp of approval from Johnsons satiric contemporaries. Yet what distinguishes Michael Bundocks book is not its hijinks but its illuminating scholarship . . . Pick up The Fortunes of Francis Barber for its promise of lexicographical and 18th-century antics read it for the engrossing history it reveals.Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe New Mexican) Barbers story receives expert, sensitive treatment in Bundocks biography.Tony Barber, Financial Times. (Tony Barber Financial Times 2015-06-27) The Fortunes of Francis Barber is concise, clear-headed, sympathetic and scholarlyCharles Nicholl, London Review of Books. (Charles Nicholl London Review of Books 2015-07-16) Another outsider who has attracted a supremely skilled biography this year is Francis Barber, the Jamaican slave who became valet to Samuel Johnson. A model of how to use one apparently insignificant life to break open a historical moment that could otherwise be approached only through historical documents allows Bundock to explore what life felt like for a black man in Georgian EnglandKathryn Hughes, Guardian (Kathryn Hughes Guardian 2015-12-05) About the Author Michael Bundock is a director of Dr. Johnsons House Trust and former editor of The New Rambler, the annual journal of the Johnson Society of London. He is the author of numerous essays and articles on Samuel Johnson, Francis Barber, and eighteenth-century history and literature.

Author: Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar File Type: pdf In the indigenous Andean language of Aymara, pachakuti refers to the subversion and transformation of social relations. Between 2000 and 2005, Bolivia was radically transformed by a series of popular indigenous uprisings against the countrys neoliberal and antidemocratic policies. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti, Raquel Gutierrez Aguilar documents these mass collective actions, tracing the internal dynamics of such disruptions to consider how motivation and execution incite political change. In Rhythms of the Pachakuti we can sense the reverberations of an extraordinary historical process that took place in Bolivia at the start of the twenty-first century. The book is the product of Raquel Gutierrez Aguilars political engagement in that historical process. . . . Though of Mexican nationality, [she] was intimately involved in Bolivian politics for many years and acquired a quasi-legendary status there as an intense, brilliant activist and radical intellectual. . . . [Her account is] . . . itself a revolutionary document. . . . Rhythms of the Pachakuti deserves to stand as a key text in the international literature of radicalism and emancipatory politics in the new century.Sinclair Thomson, from the foreword **

Author: Edward W Said File Type: epub Following his profoundly influential study, Orientalism, Edward Said now examines western culture. From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to media coverage of the Gulf War, Culture and Imperialism is a broad, fierce and wonderfully readable account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.**Amazon.com ReviewEdward Said makes one of the strongest cases ever for the aphorism, the pen is mightier than the sword. This is a brilliant work of literary criticism that essentially becomes political science. Culture and Imperialism demonstrates that Western imperialisms most effective tools for dominating other cultures have been literary in nature as much as political and economic. He traces the themes of 19th- and 20th-century Western fiction and contemporary mass media as weapons of conquest and also brilliantly analyzes the rise of oppositional indigenous voices in the literatures of the colonies. Said would argue that its no mere coincidence that it was a Victorian Englishman, Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the phrase the pen is mightier . . . Very highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand how cultures are dominated by words, as well as how cultures can be liberated by resuscitating old voices or creating new voices for new times. From Publishers Weekly The author of Orientalism examines the interrelationship of Occidental literature and imperialism from the 17th century to the Gulf war. 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.