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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xvi, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Description
An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma, artha, and kama. Translated, these might be called religion, politics, and pleasure, and each is held to be an essential requirement of a full life. Balance among the three is a goal not always met, however, and dharma has historically...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
258 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
December 1943. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family's summer cottage was filled with laughter. Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live. That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe...
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Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxi, 345 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of "climate apartheid," the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent "From Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza." Throughout Goodman and Moynihan show the power of ordinary people to change their media--and change the world"--
Author
Series
Tiger at midnight volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
449 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
Romantic intrigue and electric action fill the gripping sequel to The Tiger at Midnight. A stolen throne. A lost princess. A rescue mission to take back what's theirs. For Kunal and Esha, finally working together as rebels, the upcoming Sun Mela provides the perfect guise for infiltrating King Vardaan's vicious court. Kunal returns to his role as dedicated soldier, while Esha uses her new role as adviser to Prince Harun to seek allies for their rebel...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Description
This is a remarkable and unique book, an informal portrait of Justice Ginsburg, drawing on a series of her conversations with Rosen, starting in the 1990s and continuing through the Trump era. Rosen, a veteran legal journalist, scholar, and president of the National Constitution Center, shares with readers the justice's observations on a variety of topics, and her intellect, compassion, sense of humor, and humanity shine through.
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Publisher
MCD, Farar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
" A debut novel that captures the experience of the Egyptian revolution like no news report could. The City Always Wins is a remarkable novel from the psychological heart of a revolution. From the communal highs of pitched night battles against the police in Cairo to the solitary lows of defeated exile in New York, Omar Robert Hamilton's debut is a unique immersion in one of the key chapters of the twenty-first century. Arrestingly visual, intensely...
7) Nine
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives-and they can't wait to use them up. The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian's friends are obsessed with the idea of burning, but Julian is determined to stay on his first life for as long as he can. His mother burned too fast and inflicted...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism--from motherhood to Madonna, football to Friedan, stilettos to Steinem. When Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae, she established herself as a smart, fearless, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in...
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Series
Three dark crowns volume 3
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
447 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
When she finally gets the crown, Queen Elizabeth faces murmurs of dissent among her people and the threat of her sisters returning to Fennbirn to usurp her throne.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xiii, 206 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"A journey into the hidden psychological influences that derail our decision-making. Why is it so difficult to end a doomed relationship? Why do we listen to advice just because it came from someone 'important'? Why are we more likely to fall in love when there's danger involved? Here, organizational thinker Ori Brafman and his brother, psychologist Rom Brafman, answer these questions and more. Drawing on research from the fields of social psychology,...
12) 12 angry men
Series
Criterion collection volume 591
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A behind-closed-doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room. One of the most radical big-screen courtroom...
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Publisher
Chelsea Green Pub
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xiii, 176 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Author Wolf shows that there are ten classic steps would-be dictators always take when they wish to close down an open society, and shows how each of those ten steps is underway in the United States today. Our Constitution was built to protect civil liberties and develop a careful system of checks and balances which protect our freedom from tyranny. Wolf argues that the escalation of executive power has eroded these core values and systems, limiting...
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Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
18 CDs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm.)
Description
University of Tennessee professor Vejas Liulevicius delivers lectures for a course on the First World War, which was touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and quickly expanded far beyond the expectations of those involved. It became the first "total war", a conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to victory at any price. The cost...
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