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Pocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists. In this installment, arts writer and co-editor of Black Futures Kimberly Drew shows us that art and protest are inextricably linked. Drawing on her personal experience through art toward activism, Drew challenges us to create space for the change that we want to see in the world. Because there really is so much more space than we think.

Patrick Cusimano is in a bad way. His father is in jail; he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store; and his brother's girlfriend, Caro, has taken their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can't quite shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn't understand, and doesn't fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing Patrick to his breaking point.

Matt Groening is a cartoonist, animator, and producer best known for creating The Simpsons, television's longest-running primetime animated series. Although it debuted as a series of cartoon shorts for another television show in 1987, The Simpsons launched on its own in 1989, making the dysfunctional family of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie famous almost overnight.

Geliebter Mörder? Abel Tannatek ist ein Außenseiter, ein Schulschwänzer und Drogendealer. Wider besseres Wissen verliebt Anna sich in ihn...

One wakeful night in the aftermath of his mother’s death, Jack enters a land devoid of color or scent. Here he meets the tragic laughing beast and Alice, a strange girl with a secret. Will Jack escape before the terrifying wolvers find him? Or is he destined to be trapped in the Greylands forever? Only the cats know.

Hayao Miyazaki is one of the world's most respected Japanese animation filmmakers. He is known for creating compelling characters, engaging stories, and breathtaking animation, all of which have earned him international acclaim while setting box-office records. Miyazaki, who began his career in 1963 as an in-betweener for Toei Doga studio, soon found his true calling as an anime and manga artist, working on classic Japanese features and television series and writing the best-selling manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Best known for creating Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney is one of the 20th century's most honored and important icons of animation. Nominated for 63 Academy Awards, he produced many cartoons and feature films considered classics today. Walt Disney: The Mouse That Roared delves into this man's colorful life, explaining the inspiration for his classic creations and revolutionary animation techniques.

Die europäische Geschichte sollte kennen, wer heute über Beitritte und das Für und Wider eines vereinten Europas diskutieren möchte...

La civilité nouvelle apparaît au XVème siècle, au début d'une période que les historiens ont appelée "Renaissance". Elle correspond à un idéal de culture et de sagesse désigné par le terme "humanisme". A une époque où la noblesse des cours se battait souvent à coups de poing et à coups de pieds, des philosophes ont cru bon d'instruire les jeunes princes des règles de civilité à l'honneur chez les citoyens grecs et romains de l'Antiquité.

Eigentlich soll Lea nur Klavier üben doch plötzlich steckt sie mitten in den Wirren des 5. Jahrhunderts kurz vor der Völkerwanderung! Aber Lea ist nicht nur mehr als 1500 Jahre in die Vergangenheit gestürzt, es ist ausgerechnet Attila, der gefürchtete Hunnenkönig, dem sie vor die Füße fällt! Im Handumdrehen ist Lea in einen Überfall auf die Vandalen verwickelt.

Herausgerissen aus seiner "heilen Welt" in Zehlendorf, landet der fünzehnjährige Michael Polischka mit seiner Mutter in einer heruntergekommenen Wohnung in Neukölln. Beim Versuch, sich im rauhen Kiez zu behaupten, gerät er in einen Strudel aus Schutzgelderpressung und Drogenhandel.
Das Ganze endet... KNALLHART.

The summer of 1986. Central Texas. William and his friends should be having a blast. Instead, they are hounded by the Thousand Oaks Gang and their merciless leader, Bloody Billy. William found Billy's backpack. And because of what it contains, Billy desperately wants it back, and he'll do anything to get it. William hatches a plan for his friends to sneak away and hide in an abandoned lake house, except they become stranded on the lake's desolate island without food or water. Will their time on the island devolve into chaos? Will the friends survive and be rescued?

Siri und Ole haben von komischen Kimonozwilldrillingen zwei Kästchen mit einem großen roten Druckknopf geschenkt bekommen...

"He, Ameise!" - Svenja ist zwölf und hasst solche Sprüche, denn sie ist die Kleinste in der Klasse. Sie interessiert sich für nichts anderes als die Skytoucher-Schuhe mit den tollen dicken Sohlen. Wenn sie nur nicht so elend teuer wären... Um an Geld zu kommen, tut Svenja einiges. Dabei macht sie die höchst verwirrende Entdeckung, dass manche Jungs ganz nett sind - oder?

Ten-time Oscar-nominated Walter Lantz was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors and producers of animation. Over six decades, his studio produced more than 800 cartoons, including over 600 theatrically released cartoons, more than any other Hollywood animation studio, and set high standards for the art of animation in its fledgling years. Lantz is renowned for producing cartoons starring the world-famous Woody Woodpecker.

Modern dance was a movement that began at the turn of the 20th century when American dancers Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, and Ruth St. Denis broke from formal dance traditions with their own personal vision of movement. Soon, their visions evolved through Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Charles Weidman, who would all go on to teach their methods and present modern dance as a serious art form.

Dwójka gimnazjalistów dziwnym zbiegiem okolicznosci trafia do swiata gier komputerowych. Przemierzaja te dziwna kraine, podzielona na rózne kategorie. Okazuje sie, ze w kazdej z nich panuja osobliwe prawa i idee. Kalina i Kaj, chcac sie wydostac z tej alternatywnej, zrozumialej tylko dla doroslych rzeczywistosci, musza stawic czola wszelkim przeciwnosciom. Spotkania z Ideami Zasciankowosci, Zaklamania, Nerwic, Biurokracji uswiadamiaja im, jak wiele traci pokolenie ich rodziców.

When Calypso returns from Los Angeles to her English boarding school for the summer term, she is determined to fit in with the popular crowd. Her plan is to pretend her mother's gay assistant back home is her boyfriend. And to her surprise, the trick works, at least at first. She makes a whole batch of new friends, and even finds herself winning the unwritten contest to woo the prince at the boys' school next door.

It all looks so easy. You just make viral YouTube videos or get on a reality talent show. Right? Wrong! Nancy Bos speaks real to teen girls about how to BE a singer. This book and journal lets teens explore all of the options including (and way beyond) being a pop star or professional singer. This is also a book for parents who want to understand the complex and vital relationship of music and singing and how it empowers our daughters. The Teen Girl's Singing Guide is personal, profound, and surprisingly practical!

Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen eines jungen Indianers, der sein Reservat verlässt...