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His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground RailroadIn the words of an African American conductor on the Underground Railroad, His Promised Land is the unusual and stirring account of how the war against slavery was fought--and sometimes won. John P. Parker (1827--1900) told this dramatic story to a newspaperman after the...
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A Cool Million and the Dream Life of Balso Snell: Two NovelsNathanael West was only thirty-seven when he died in 1940, but his depictions of the sometimes comic, sometimes horrifying aspects of the American scene rival those of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. A Cool Million, written in 1934, is a satiric Horatio Alger story...
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Carrie Pilby: A Hilarious and Charming StoryAuthor: Caren LissnerPublisher: Harlequin TeenPublished: 06/29/2010Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.16w x 0.88dISBN: 9780373210107Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.5Point Value: 14Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 143256 / Carrie PilbyReview Citation(s): School Library Journal 11/01/2010 pg. 120About the AuthorLissner, Caren: - Caren Lissner...
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The Silences of Dispossession: Agrarian Change and Indigenous Politics in Argentina"A timely account of indigenous struggles ... Eloquent and engaging, Biocca confronts colliding responses to agrarian transformations in light of histories of dispossession and resistance"-- Paola Canova, author of Frontier Intimacies "An important contribution to development and peasant studies"-- Nancy Postero, Professor of Anthropology,...
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Of Law and the World: Critical Conversations on Power, History, and Political EconomyA searching dialogue between two leading legal scholars exploring the place of law in global affairs. The modern world is legalized: legal language, institutions, and professionals are everywhere. But what is law's power in global life? What does all this legality have to do...
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Periphery: How Your Nervous System Predicts and Protects Against DiseaseA leading neuroscientist argues that the peripheral nervous system, long understood to play a key role in regulating basic bodily functions, also signals the onset of illness. The central nervous system, consisting of the brain and the spinal cord, has long been considered the...
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Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish RadicalThe life and politics of an American Jewish activist who preached radical and violent means to Jewish survival Meir Kahane came of age amid the radical politics of the counterculture, becoming a militant voice of protest against Jewish liberalism. Kahane founded the Jewish Defense...
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Yiddish for PiratesShortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and nominated for the Governor-General's Award for Literature, a hilarious, swashbuckling yet powerful tale of pirates, buried treasure and a search for the Fountain of Youth, told in the ribald, philosophical voice of a 500-year-old Jewish parrot.Set in...
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Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook Pack: A Workshop EssentialWith the generosity, thoughtfulness, and practicality we have come to appreciate from this extraordinary classroom teacher, Linda gives us the structures and models we need to invite every student we teach to think and act as a reader, writer, and artist. -Nancie Atwell Many...
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A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 5 (Manga): Volume 5It's the end of summer, and Touma Kamijou has just realized he has a problem: He hasn't done any of his summer homework, and school starts tomorrow Meanwhile, Mikoto needs to ditch some unwanted company, and the best plan she can come up with...
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Hard GirlsTwo estranged twin sisters as they hunt down their elusive mother in this razor-sharp crime novel from "master of the dark arts" J. Robert Lennon. (Kelly Link) Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating...
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Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins!In this fun and honest romp about friendship, puberty, and growing up, a debut author gives modern-day readers their own version of Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, for fans of Pixar's Turning Red. Twelve-year-old Tahlia Wilkins is ready to kick off the...
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The Enemy WithinAuthor: Robert F. KennedyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPublished: 07/28/1982Pages: 338Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 8.83h x 5.90w x 1.15dISBN: 9780313235795About the AuthorKennedy /f Robert /i Francis
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Exile & Ecstasy: Growing Up with RAM Dass and Coming of Age in the Jewish Psychedelic UndergroundThrough the perspective of having grown up among "HinJews" in the Ram Dass community and cannabis legalization movement, journalist Madison Margolin takes the reader on a journey inside New York's Jewish counterculture and the Hasidic underground, reconciling her roots, tackling ancestral Jewish trauma, and...
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How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 Bce to NowA sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throughout human history.In How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now, Walter Stephens condenses the massive history of the written word into an accessible, engaging narrative. The history of writing...
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Normal Broken: The Grief Companion for When It's Time to Heal But You're Not Sure You Want toNone of us make it through life without experiencing loss that leaves us feeling broken. That's what makes grief so normal. In Normal Broken, Kelly Cervantes isn't trying to tell you what to do, how to feel, or the right way to heal. She's...
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The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941â "1947John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work...
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Logics of History: Social Theory and Social TransformationWhile social scientists and historians have been exchanging ideas for a long time, they have never developed a proper dialogue about social theory. William H. Sewell Jr. observes that on questions of theory the communication has been mostly one way: from social science to...
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Philosophy of Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings with CommentaryIdeal for undergraduate courses in philosophy of law, this comprehensive anthology examines such topics as the concept of law, the dispute between natural law theorists and legal positivists, the relations between law and morality, criminal responsibility and legal punishment, the rights of the individual...
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Raising and Educating a Deaf ChildDeaf children are not hearing children who can't hear, and having a deaf child is not analogous to having a hearing child who can't hear. Beyond any specific effects of hearing loss, deaf children are far more diverse than their hearing age-mates. A lack...
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