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2) The restless
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English
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"This lyrical novel, structured like a Creole quadrille, is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. Dambury's English debut is a vibrant memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, coinciding with the government's declassification of documents pertaining to the incident"--
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile merchant from Nablus, a town in Ottoman Palestine. A dreamer, a romantic, an aesthete, in 1914 he leaves to...
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Distributed by Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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The tragic history of Tibet is revealed with new facts, internal conflicts, and contradictions. Viewers are rewarded with spectacular visuals and strong emotions. The combination of stunningly filmed footage from India, China and Tibet creates not only the definitive treatment of the Tibetan crisis, but a film with overwhelming emotional impact. Features Richard Gere, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the 14th Dalai Lama, and all the leading figures of the...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Ed Asner leads the charge for liberals to reclaim the Constitution from the right-wingers who use it as their justification for doing whatever terrible thing they want to do, which is usually to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. It's about time someone gave them hell and explained that progressives can read, too.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In his time as a journalist, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar has interviewed President Zelensky and had access to many of the major players--from politicians to oligarchs. As an expert on Putin's moods and behavior, he has spent years studying the Kremlin's plan regarding Ukraine, and here, in clear, chronological order he explains how we got here. In 1996 to 2004, Ukraine became an independent post-Soviet country where everyone...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In 1975, after 460 years of Portuguese rule, Fretilin, the revolutionary front for an independent East Timor, declared independence for the small nation. Ten days later Indonesia invaded. Fretilin, and the resistance army Falintil, fought the Indonesian military for the next 24 years. A third of the population - over 250,000 people - died as a result of the occupation. In 1999, Indonesia agreed to a United Nations supervised referendum and the people...
10) The winter thief
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Kamil Pasha novels volume 3
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha encounters his most ruthless adversary to date: Vahid, head of a special branch of the secret police, who has convinced the sultan that a socialist commune is leading a secessionist movement and should be destroyed--along with surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason.
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Roger Casement was an internationally renowned figure at the beginning of the 20th century, famous for exposing the widespread atrocities against the indigenous people in King Leopold's Congo and his subsequent exposure--for which he was knighted in 1911--of the brutal conditions of enslaved labor in Peru. An Irish nationalist of profound conviction, he attempted, at the outbreak of World War I, to obtain German support and weapons for an armed rebellion...
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Vydavnyt͡stvo "Ranok"
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Ukrainian
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Тематика книгиНаша столітня. Короткі нариси про довгу війну<_br>_Історія України, національно-визвольна боротьба, національна ідентиність<_br>_Про що нова книжка Володимира В'ятровича<_br>_Книга Володимира Вятровича, історика, коло наукових інтересів...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Connecting Gandhi's ideas and his life's work to contemporary issues this useful resource for parents and teachers makes Gandhi relevant for kids today. Packed with historic images, the book includes informative sidebars, a time line, a glossary, and a resource section, along with 21 activities that illuminate Gandhi's life, environment, and ideas. Kids can make a traditional Indian lamp called a diya, create a henna hand design, practice anti-consumerism...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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English
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"A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society. Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's marginalized voices. Now, in Independence Lost, she recounts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers : the history of the Revolutionary...
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English
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"In the 20th century, the U.S. government's effort to contain communism resulted in several disastrous conflicts: Vietnam, Cuba, Korea. Violence in Indonesia, and then interconnected slaughters across Latin America, arguably had a bigger hand in shaping today's world, but have been widely overlooked for one important reason: the secret CIA interventions were successful. In 1965, nearly one million unarmed civilians were killed in Indonesia with active...
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Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"On Hawaii Island, an anonymous 911 caller reports a body at Pohakuloa, the Army's live-fire training area. Hilo Chief Detective Koa Kane, a cop with his own secret criminal past, finds a mutilated corpses ; bearing all the hallmarks of ancient ritual sacrifice. He encounters a host of obstacles as he pursues the murderer ;an incompetent local medical examiner, hostility from both haoles (Westerners) and sovereignty advocates, and a myriad of lies....
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