Michael D. Thompson
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Friends broaden our children's horizons, share their joys and secrets, and accompany them on their journeys into ever wider worlds. But friends can also gossip and betray, tease and exclude. Children can cause untold suffering, not only for their peers but for parents as well. In this wise and insightful book, psychologist Michael Thompson, PhD, and children's book author Catherine O'Neill Grace illuminate the crucial and often hidden role that friendship...
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In a revelation of the gay world of ancient Rome, a collision course is set with the present-day gay culture. A new historical tale of how the past impacts the present in the Italian town of Tivoli outside of Rome begins. It brings together all the elements of suspense and history once more.
At the end of the first century, the Roman emperor Hadrian sailed down the Nile river with his retinue on the royal barge, including his male paramour, Antinous....
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Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers-black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant-in Charleston, South Carolina, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson explains how a predominantly enslaved workforce laid the groundwork for the creation of a robust and effectual association of dockworkers, most of whom were black, shortly after emancipation. In revealing these...
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From the streets of Rome to the ancient history of Pompeii and Capri, a tale is woven in two different times. One story line follows two friends who assist a woman, Sophia, trying to make sense of her confounded life. She is possessed by a woman, Julia Felix, who lived at the time of Vesuvius's eruption. The other story line follows Julia Felix in AD 79 as she tries to make sense of the upheaval Vesuvius has wrought. Both stories collide as the spirit...
