{"title":"Chispa Collection | Community Response to Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis collection gathers books that deepen the themes explored in \u003cem data-start=\"339\" data-end=\"369\"\u003eCommunity Response to Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e. These works help us think more clearly about power, care, imagination, and collective responsibility while living, parenting, and learning inside unstable conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-in-the-natural-world-hardcover","title":"The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin Wall Kimmerer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJohn Burgoyne\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBraiding Sweetgrass\u003c\/i\u003e, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Indigenous scientist and author of \u003ci\u003eBraiding Sweetgrass\u003c\/i\u003e Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to reimagine what we value most? Our economy is rooted in scarcity, competition, and the hoarding of resources, and we have surrendered our values to a system that actively harms what we love. Meanwhile, the serviceberry's relationship with the natural world is an embodiment of reciprocity, interconnectedness, and gratitude. The tree distributes its wealth--its abundance of sweet, juicy berries--to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival. As Kimmerer explains, \"Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Elizabeth Gilbert writes, Robin Wall Kimmerer is \"a great teacher, and her words are a hymn of love to the world.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Serviceberry\u003c\/i\u003e is an antidote to the broken relationships and misguided goals of our times, and a reminder that \"hoarding won't save us, all flourishing is mutual.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin Wall Kimmerer is donating her advance payments from this book as a reciprocal gift, back to the land, for land protection, restoration, and justice.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobin Wall Kimmerer\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eBraiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants\u003c\/i\u003e as well as \u003ci\u003eGathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses\u003c\/i\u003e. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Burgoyne is a member of the New York Society of Illustrators and an alumni of Massachusetts College of Art. John has won over 100 awards in the United States and Europe including Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Hatch Awards, Graphis, Print, One Show, New York Art Directors Club and Clio. 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As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In \u003ci\u003eBraiding Sweetgrass\u003c\/i\u003e, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on \"a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise\" (Elizabeth Gilbert).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings--asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass--offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Wall Kimmerer\u003c\/b\u003e is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling collection of essays Br\u003ci\u003eaiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants \u003c\/i\u003eas well as \u003ci\u003eGathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses\u003c\/i\u003e. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. 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Many women in America have experienced it. What's expected of women and what it's really like to be a woman in today's world are two very different things--and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them. How can you \"love your body\" when every magazine cover has ten diet tips for becoming \"your best self\"? How do you \"lean in\" at work when you're already operating at 110 percent and aren't recognized for it? How can you live happily and healthily in a sexist world that is constantly telling you you're too fat, too needy, too noisy, and too selfish? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Instead of asking us to ignore the very real obstacles and societal pressures that stand between women and well-being, they explain with compassion and optimism what we're up against--and show us how to fight back. In these pages you'll learn \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - what you can do to complete the biological stress cycle--and return your body to a state of relaxation\u003cbr\u003e - how to manage the \"monitor\" in your brain that regulates the emotion of frustration\u003cbr\u003e - how the Bikini Industrial Complex makes it difficult for women to love their bodies--and how to defend yourself against it\u003cbr\u003e - why rest, human connection, and befriending your inner critic are keys to recovering and preventing burnout \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With the help of eye-opening science, prescriptive advice, and helpful worksheets and exercises, all women will find something transformative in these pages--and will be empowered to create positive change. Emily and Amelia aren't here to preach the broad platitudes of expensive self-care or insist that we strive for the impossible goal of \"having it all.\" Instead, they tell us that we are enough, just as we are--and that wellness, true wellness, is within our reach. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eBOOKRIOT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eBurnout\u003c\/i\u003e is the gold standard of self-help books, delivering cutting-edge science with energy, empathy, and wit. The authors know exactly what's going on inside your frazzled brain and body, and exactly what you can do to fix it. . . . Truly life-changing.\"\u003cb\u003e--Sarah Knight, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCalm the F*ck Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Nagoski \u003c\/b\u003eis the award-winning author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eCome as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has a MS in counseling and a PhD in health behavior, both from Indiana University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eAmelia Nagoski \u003c\/b\u003eholds a conductor with a DMA in conducting from the University of Connecticut. An assistant professor and coordinator of music at Western New England University, she regularly presents educational sessions discussing the application of communications science and psychological research for audiences of other professional musicians, including \"Beyond Burnout Prevention: Embodied Wellness for Conductors.\"\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351594713302,"sku":"9781984818324","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7782\/6518\/files\/RWk3YzQxcENxTjVvZWwzbVZrRjJtdz09.webp?v=1759896168"},{"product_id":"on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-paperback","title":"On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e- A\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"bracing\" (\u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eguide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism, from \"a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has written the rare kind of book that can be read in one sitting but will keep you coming back to help regain your bearings.\"--Masha Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Tyranny\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e holds the Temerty Chair in Modern European History at the Munk School, University of Toronto, and is a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His books, which have been published in over forty languages, include \u003ci\u003eBloodlands, Black Earth, On Tyranny, The Road to Unfreedom, Our Malady, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e On Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. 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Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,\" writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question \"What is love?\" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the \"100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.\" All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER LOVE SONG TO THE NATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb,\" writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in \u003cem\u003eAll About Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Bell Hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question \"What is love?\" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. 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Let this book be the best Valentine's Day gift you've ever given yourself. --\u003cem\u003eVice\/Broadly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"adrienne maree brown dives deep, head first, into a fast swirling pool of pleasure-related topics. She swims her way from one end of the pool to the other with some help from her body-wise, experienced, friends. This book is all at once so cool, and so hot, with a rainbow of glorious compleXXXities. \u003cem\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/em\u003e is bound to make a huge splash \" --Annie Sprinkle, author of \u003cem\u003eExplorer's Guide to Planet Orgasm--For Every Body\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Engaging with politics and social justice issues, whether it's climate change, race, or gender, can feel like work (and it is). Adrienne maree brown makes the case that you can feel good while doing so ...  Pleasure Activism] will challenge you to rethink your approach to changing the world.\" --\u003cem\u003eMashable\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/em\u003e is an invitation to know ourselves and be in conversation with the desire of our lustful imaginations...  I]t makes our personal liberation irresistible. --Jasmine Burnett, activist and anti-oppression consultant\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eadrienne maree brown elucidates a philosophy of Pleasure Activism to transform individuals and so the world. Her explicit instructions encourage orgasms of the body, mind and spirit. First, in support of our own authentic lives, then so that we can live in loving community with others. It's like a wise and juicy black goddess reopened Eden and said, 'Okay, everybody, let's try this again.' --Veronica Vera, author \u0026amp; founder of Miss Vera's Finishing School For Boys Who Want to Be Girls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eadrienne maree brown is the author of \u003cem\u003eEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eOctavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Tubbs's book \u003cb\u003estands against the women's erasure, a monument to their historical importance.\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tubbs' connection to these women is palpable on the page -- as both a mother and a scholar of the impact Black motherhood has had on America. \u003cb\u003eThrough Tubbs' writing, Berdis, Alberta, and Louise's stories sing. Theirs is a history forgotten that begs to be told, and Tubbs tells it brilliantly.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Ibram X. Kendi, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Be an Antiracist\u003c\/i\u003e and National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eStamped from the Beginning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMuch has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary women who raised them. In her groundbreaking and essential debut \u003ci\u003eThe Three Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestsellers Editors' Choice\u003cbr\u003eAn Amazon Editor's Pick for February\u003cbr\u003eAmazon's Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2021\u003cbr\u003eOne of theSkimm's \"16 Essential Books to Read This Black History Month\"\u003cbr\u003eOne of Fortune Magazine's \"21 Books to Look Forward to in 2021!\"\u003cbr\u003eOne of Badass Women's Bookclub picks for \"Badass Books We Can't Wait to Read in 2021!\" \u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eWorking Mother Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's \"21 Best Books of 2021 for Working Moms\"\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Most Anticipated Reads for the Rest of Us 2021\"\u003cbr\u003eOne of Bustle's \"11 Nonfiction Books To Read For Black History Month -- All Written By Women\"\u003cbr\u003eOne of SheReads.com's \"Most anticipated nonfiction books of 2021\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBerdis Baldwin, Alberta King, and Louise Little were all born at the beginning of the 20th century and forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow as Black women. These three extraordinary women passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning--from Louise teaching her children about their activist roots, to Berdis encouraging James to express himself through writing, to Alberta basing all of her lessons in faith and social justice. These women used their strength and motherhood to push their children toward greatness, all with a conviction that every human being deserves dignity and respect despite the rampant discrimination they faced. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese three mothers taught resistance and a fundamental belief in the worth of Black people to their sons, even when these beliefs flew in the face of America's racist practices and led to ramifications for all three families' safety. The fight for equal justice and dignity came above all else for the three mothers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese women, their similarities and differences, as individuals and as mothers, represent a piece of history left untold and a celebration of Black motherhood long overdue.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eANNA MALAIKA TUBBS is a multidisciplinary expert on current and historical understandings of race, gender, and equity. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a BA in anthropology, Anna earned her MA in gender studies and her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Cambridge as a Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Scholar. She lives with her husband, Michael Tubbs, and their children Michael Malakai and Nehemiah Neven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 28, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47800685756630,"sku":"9781250756138","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7782\/6518\/files\/QmFEUElKSDMvSXhUcHJDYTM5R1pkQT09.webp?v=1769836142"}],"url":"https:\/\/jackalopecollective.com\/collections\/community-in-crisis.oembed","provider":"Jackalope Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}