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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
138 pages ; 19 cm
Description
In this short book, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? What do words like Islamism, jihadism, and fundamentalism mean in today's world? Remarkable for the breadth and depth of its analysis, this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical is all the more startling for its decorum. Harris...
5) Marty
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Marty is an undercover Martian and master of disguises who lives on Earth, but when one of his costumes gives him away an unexpected friend helps him find a place where he can be himself.
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"A guide to having productive conversations about race"--
"A self-described 'light-skinned Black Jew,' Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race?including having to defend or define her own?since childhood. In her career as a journalist for public media, she?s made it a priority to talk about race proactively. She?s discovered, however, that those exchanges have rarely been productive. While many people say they want to talk about race,...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Earth is full of suffering and war until one little girl seeks Old Turtle, who tells her about a "broken truth" and how mending it will help her community to understand the common bond of all humanity.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
192 pages cm
Description
"Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a precise and nuanced insider's look at shifts in American culture-most especially in the American academy-that so many people find alarming. Part memoir and part polemic, an anatomy of important and dangerous ideas, and a cri de coeur lamenting the erosion of standard liberal values, Boyers's collection...
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"From the incomparable Amos Oz comes a series of three essays: on the universal nature of fanaticism and its possible cures, on the Jewish roots of humanism and the need for a secular pride in Israel, and on the geopolitical standing of Israel in the wider Middle East and internationally. Dear Zealots is classic Amos Oz-fluid, rich, masterly, and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere."--Amazon.com.
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Series
Publisher
A Kids Book About
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 26 cm.
Description
"This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it's built into laws, schools, stories, and other inistitutions in a way that collectively makes life much harder for people of color." -- back cover
17) Lolo el topo
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Series
Publisher
Ediciones Urano S.A
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 17 cm.
Description
Lolo the mole is very clumsy, always tripping over things he does not see and falling into places where he does not belong, which annoys all the other animals.
18) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
20) Wishtree
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
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