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Marriage Equality USA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
" The Peoples Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world. Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California In 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miraculous political victories in modern American history. Opponents attacked the issue of marriage equality as amoral and a direct threat to families. Allies...
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New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"A compelling story of the ethnic cleansing of Christian communities caught in the crossfire of the Middle East at war . . Urgent and passionate" ( Kirkus Reviews ). In 2013, alarmed by scant attention paid to the hardships endured by the 7.5 million Christians in the Middle East, journalist Klaus Wivel -- who practices no religion himself -- traveled to Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and the Palestinian territories on a quest to learn more about their fate....
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IRB
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Summary, Analysis & Review of Glenn Beck's Liars by Instaread Preview: In Liars: How Progressives Exploit Our Fear for Power and Control, Glenn Beck exposes the past and present onslaught led by the Left against the tenets of free society in the United States. For generations, progressives have been attempting to curb individual liberty in order to construct what they claim will be a more prosperous and peaceful society. Unfortunately, many of them...
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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this witty and mischievous book, philosopher Peter Cave dissects the most controversial disputes today and uses philosophical argument to reveal that many issues are less straightforward than we'd like to believe. Leaving no sacred cow standing, Cave uses ingenious stories and examples to challenge our most strongly held assumptions. Is democracy inherently a good thing? What is the basis of so-called human rights? Is discrimination always bad?...
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Danya biton volume 1
Publisher
Light Messages Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Fans of Jon Land's Caitlin Strong series and of James Rollin's Seichan will identify with and devour the Danya Biton series. Capitalizing on a peaceful protest for Native American rights, a small, extremist militia swiftly seizes Alcatraz Island and holds more than 200 people hostage. Their demand: return all lands taken from Indigenous Peoples through broken treaties, or an armada of drones will render the San Francisco Bay Area a glowing ruin,...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Leading experts on China offer their enlightening analysis on one of the most crucial and complex questions facing the future of international politics. Moving toward open markets and international trade has brought extraordinary economic success to China, yet its leadership still maintains an authoritarian grip over its massive population. From repressing political movements to controlling internet traffic, China's undemocratic policies present...
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Publisher
Abrams / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Meet the young activist who stood up for her rights-and changed millions of lives Before Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997) became the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, she was a girl fighting for her education in Pakistan. Growing up, Malala's father encouraged her to be politically active and speak out about her educational rights. When she did, she was shot by a member of the Taliban and the story received worldwide media coverage. Protests and petitions...
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Publisher
Spinifex Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this blisteringly persuasive and piercingly intelligent book, Sheila Jeffreys argues that women live under penile imperialism, a regime in which men are assumed to have a ‘, sex right' of access to the bodies of women and girls. She reasons that the ‘, sexual revolution' that began in the 1960s unleashed an explicit male sexual liberation and that even now, under current laws and cultural mores, women do not have the right to self-determination...
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
This is the story of how two unknown young men who loathed each other founded the Red Cross, an organisation that has done more for mankind than any other. Why did the crowned heads of sixteen states meet in Geneva in 1864, on the invitation of these virtual nobodies, to sign a world-changing convention? Drawing on confidential papers and private documents, and including a 'day in the life' piece on the Head of Operations, Near East, for the International...
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English
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Under Joe Solmonese's leadership, the Human Rights Campaign became the model other organizations look toward to create effective social and political change. Against daunting odds, HRC was instrumental in passing landmark national legislation such as the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act; repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell; and passing marriage equality acts in eight states. How did Solmonese and HRC do it? What Solmonese...
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English
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Thirty-two-year-old neo-Nazi Vincent Nolan becomes a media sensation after he proclaims himself a changed man and volunteers to work with World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by Holocaust survivor Meyer Maslow, with the help of fund-raiser and single mom Bonnie Kalen.
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Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating memoir, the anti-apartheid activist recounts his lifelong fight for emancipation and the years he endured in a South African prison. From June 1963 to October 1964, ten antiapartheid activists were tried at South Africa's Pretoria Supreme Court. Standing among the accused were Nelson Mandela, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu, was Denis Goldberg. Charged under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts for "campaigning to overthrow...
13) The Red Record
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An important historical work, "The Red Record" is also a horrifying account of African American lynchings after the Civil War. Black Americans lost their lives for such offenses as offending a white person in some way, proposing marriage to a white woman, providing information to someone who asked, introducing smallpox, "conjuring," and/or writing a letter to a white woman. In some cases, committing no offense at all (other than being Black) was also...
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Nomad Press / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
How could a country founded on the honorable ideals of freedom and equality have so willingly embraced the evils of enslavement and oppression? America's history of race relations is a difficult one, full of uncomfortable inconsistencies and unpleasant truths. Although the topic is sensitive, it is important to face this painful past unflinchingly -- knowing this history is key to understanding today's racial climate and working towards a more harmonious...
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Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Inside Apartheid, South African-born Janet Levine recounts the horrors and struggles she faced against the minority white government's brutal system of repression from a rare perspective-that of a white woman who worked within the system even as she fought to transform it. With candor and courage, Levine skillfully interweaves her personal story of a privileged white citizen's growing awareness of the evils of apartheid with a moving account...
16) On Liberty
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English
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John Stuart Mill's resolute dedication to the cause of freedom inspired this 1859 treatise. Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the publication of this enduring work which applies an ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state which to this day remains well known and studied. Mills (1806-1873), a British economist, philosopher, and ethical theorist whose argument...
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Series
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English
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Written in 1791 and 1792 this two-part declaration, Rights of Man, was in response to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Part One argued for political independence and social reform. This seminal work on freedom and equality, written by Thomas Paine, one of the most influential writers and reformers of his age, is considered to be a classic statement of faith in democracy and egalitarianism and is Paine's most widely read work....
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Publisher
Nomad Press / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What does it mean to be an immigrant today? Has the immigrant experience changed since the last century? Immigration Nation: The American Identity in the Twenty-First Century invites middle and high schoolers to explore the history of immigration in the United States, along with immigration law and statistics through the perspectives of immigrants, citizens, policy makers, and border agents. For more than a century, an immigrant from France has stood...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea.
Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains.
Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it...
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Publisher
G&D Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A remarkable account of early slavery and later freedom, The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written By Himself, is the 1789 autobiography of former slave Olaudah Equiano. This memoir is a slave narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey all-in-one. His life is a tale of terror as well as an exciting adventure.
This fascinating account describes Equiano's abduction from Africa at the age of ten and the years spent in labor...
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