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St. Martin's Press
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[2022]
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English
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"Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a "brilliant, well-documented" celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution. Centuries after the infamous witch hunts that swept through Europe and America, witches continue to hold a unique fascination for many: as fairy tale villains, practitioners of pagan religion, as well as feminist icons. Witches...
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The new translation of the classic work by the author of Wretched of the Earth: “A strange, haunting mélange of analysis [and] revolutionary manifesto” (Newsweek).
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. This new translation by Richard Philcox makes
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Publisher Annotation: Born a Girl tells the stories of five girls from five different countries (Nepal, Afghanistan, Mexico, France and Kenya) and explores what it means to be a girl in those parts of the world. The book covers issues such as women's rights, period poverty, female genital mutilation, femicide, body shaming and lack of access to education.
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In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes, Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America", an exhaustive analysis of the successes...
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Hakim's odyssey volume 2
Publisher
Graphic Mundi
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Captivating and deeply moving, this second book of the critically acclaimed Hakim's Odyssey follows the true story of a Syrian refugee as he tries to find his way in Turkey and then makes the perilous trek to what he hopes will be a more settled life in Europe.
10) The second sex
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Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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