Caleb Smith Bücher

Wie die Kanninchen von Peacebunny Island Herzen heilen Im Alter von acht Jahren entdeckt Caleb Smith seine Liebe zu Kaninchen und erkennt in ihnen Potenzial für mehr: Sie machen Freude und können trösten. Wenig später ruft er ein Programm ins Leben, um auch anderen durch seine Tiere Trost, Wärme und neue Hoffnung zu schenken. Caleb rettet ausgesetzte Kaninchen, beginnt eine Zucht seltener Rassen und verleiht seine hoppelnden Freunde an Familien als "Haustiere auf Probe". Schließlich gelingt es ihm, eine kleine Insel zu kaufen, auf der sich seine Kaninchen frei bewegen können und für den Einsatz als "Therapie- und Trosttiere" geschult werden: Peacebunny Island. Dieses Buch erzählt die außergewöhnliche und warmherzige Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der uns daran erinnert, dass Liebe, Hoffnung und Freundlichkeit stärker sind als die Dunkelheit in dieser Welt.

When did the age of distraction begin? While it may seem a modern issue linked to digital addictions, concerns about distraction have existed in American culture for over two hundred years. As the industrial market economy developed, observers noted workers wasting time and the public's attention being overstimulated by new media and consumer trends. In response, social reformers created innovative moral training systems, religious leaders organized widespread revivals, and spiritual seekers like Henry David Thoreau explored simplified living and transcendental mysticism. From the solitary confinement of early penitentiaries to Walden Pond, disciplines of attention emerged as spiritual exercises for a distracted age. Through twenty-eight short passages on reform, religion, and literature from the nineteenth-century attention revival, Caleb Smith analyzes the interplay of language and power. He argues that disciplines of attention often reinforce a morally conservative social order, yet exercising control over our attention can distance us from the consumer marketplace and the manipulations of the online attention economy. Smith discusses the history of coercion alongside the hopeful practices of attention, including the benefits of attentive reading and the darker aspects of enforced attention in prisons and reformatories, framing distraction as a moral, political, and economic issue with a rich history.

"The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict is a rare and original autobiography, a first-person account of a young black man's life as an indentured servant, a juvenile delinquent, and a prisoner in New York State in the mid-nineteenth century. Austin Reed was born a free man near Rochester, NY in the 1820s. As a young adult, he was sent to a juvenile reform school in Manhattan, where he learned to read and write. In the decades that followed, Reed would be repeatedly incarcerated for theft in a state prison in Auburn. It was there that he began to write this memoir, which explores America's first reformatory and first industrial prison from an inmate's point of view, and the great cruelties and kindnesses he experienced in those places, excavating patterns of racial segregation, exploitation, and bondage extending beyond the boundaries of the slaveholding South, into free New York. A work of uncommon, haunting beauty, this is a major historical document that transforms our understanding of nineteenth-century history and literature"--