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Studio Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Nine-year-old Maja has 16 classmates, all with different home backgrounds. Sofia's father has disappeared in the battles against Russia. When the war ends, he will hopefully be found. Aksana lives with her father because her mother is dead. Hristina lives with her grandmother because her parents are working abroad. Rais is a Crimean Tatar whose family had to leave his homeland due to the Russian occupation. Timko's parents are divorced, and he lives...
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English
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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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English
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In the spirit of I am Malala and Our House is On Fire by Greta Thunberg, this is the astonishing true story of the Malala Fund Education Champion Award-winner, founder of the NGO LEARN, and women's education activist whose advocacy for the disappearing girls of rural Afghanistan has led to her being ruthlessly targeted by the Taliban.
Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This lyrical picture book explores the birth of Black America, focusing on the little-known men and women who fought for justice and for an America where freedom truly rang for all. We're familiar with the founding fathers of white America, but who are the founding fathers (and mothers!) of Black America? In a poetic narrative of the origins of Black America, acclaimed Black author and publisher Wade Hudson teaches us about the little-known men and...
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English
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence
One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024
One of Good Morning America’s 15 New Books to Read for the New Year
“Legacy is both a compelling...
“This book is more than a memoir—it also serves as a call to action to create a more equitable healthcare system for patients of color, particularly Black women.” —Essence
One of NPR’s 11 Books to Look Forward to in 2024
One of Good Morning America’s 15 New Books to Read for the New Year
“Legacy is both a compelling...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life-the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000 years ago-is disappearing. In this new history of peasantry,...
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Deep South was originally published in 1941, documenting in startling detail the nuances, character, and lived realities of racism in a southern town. Allison Davis and his co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, all went undercover, not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to both Black and White worldviews, and it anatomized how those are constructed,...
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Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Luisa Josefina Hernández juega con los distintos papeles que se le han impuesto directa e indirectamente a la clase media y a la mujer, sumergiendo a sus personajes en un ambiente de machismos y cinismos que se han ido naturalizando a través del tiempo. Desde degradaciones sociales como patriarcados revestidos de matriarcados, jóvenes circundados por la violencia, y pensamientos descarados, la autora demuestra con una fina maestría el furor enclaustrado...
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Ohio University Press
Pub. Date
[2016?]
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English
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"Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history. It was the staging ground for the armies of the Mongol Empire, for the nineteenth-century struggle between the Russian and British empires, and for the NATO campaign in Afghanistan. Today, multinationals and nations compete for the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian Sea and for control of the pipelines. Yet 'Stanland' is still, to many, a terra incognita, a geographical blank. Beginning in...
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