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1421) The rock and the river
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In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
1422) The Nazi hunter: a novel
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Having spent ten years tracking down former Nazis, Marek Cain investigates the murder of a woman who claimed to have important documents for him, in a case that exposes fierce Washington politics and the genocidal practices at a Poland concentration camp.
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xxi, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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"Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history - a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Drawing from a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical research, Larson reveals Tubman as a complex woman - brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. The descendant of the vibrant, matrilineal...
1424) While the world watched: a Birmingham bombing survivor comes of age during the civil rights movement
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On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl's rest room she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history ... and the turning point in a young girl's life. While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping...
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In Soundings in Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his attempt to fashion a historiography that is at once critical and self-critical-a project he initiated in Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language (1983); and History and Criticism (1985), both available from Cornell University Press. This new collection of essays offers a provocative assessment of the nature of historical understanding and the role of critical theory...
1426) Dusk Or Dawn
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The Narratives series of works is a collection of short introspective essays written by an average guy in an effort to better understand himself, his life, and his relationship with the world around him while traveling the road of self-discovery. These works can best be described as the author's unique brand of journaling, encompassing both self-reflective entries, and an expression of thoughts and opinions surrounding social issues of the present...
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The must-read summary of Michael Savage's book: "The Political Zoo".
This complete summary of "The Political Zoo" by Michael Savage, a renowned author and activist, presents his analogy of a zoo to portray the variety of political views that are currently in play in Washington. In his book, the author claims that this zoo analogy is appropriate as, much like zoo animals, Washington politicians act as though they are wild for their visitors: but...
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Where does my body begin? Where does it end? What is inside my body? What is outside? What is primary? What is secondary? What is natural? What is artificial?
Science fiction has long imagined a future fusion of humanity with technology. Today, many of us-especially people with health issues such as autoimmune diseases-have functionally become hybrids connected to other machines and to other bodies. The combination of artificial intelligence with...
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Partez à la découverte de la sophistique avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
La sophistique est d'abord ce mouvement de pensée qui, à l'aube présocratique de la philosophie, séduisit et scandalisa la Grèce entière. Hegel qualifie les premiers sophistes, dans l'Athènes de Périclès, de « maîtres de la Grèce » : au lieu de méditer sur l'être comme les Éléates, ou sur la nature ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique...
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Extrait : "L'étude des propriétés de l'air a été jugée digne de la plus grande attention par les anciens philosophes et mécaniciens. Les premiers ont déduit ces propriétés du raisonnement, les seconds de leur action sur nos sens. Il nous a paru nécessaire de mettre en ordre ce que nous ont légué nos prédécesseurs, et d'y ajouter nos propres découvertes, de manière à aider les études de ceux qui voudront se livrer aux mathématiques."
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1431) Until it Feels Right
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Emily Costa has had obsessive-compulsive disorder since childhood. After decades of unsuccessful treatments, her condition worsens significantly during the pandemic, and she decides to try an intensive program of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Until It Feels Right is a series of framed and stylized diary entries written during the three weeks of this treatment. It's a closer look into the realities of OCD outside traditional media depiction,...
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The majority of people around the world are affected by some form of mental disorder which can affect their quality of life. In North America alone there are more than 1.2 million people who suffer from one type or another of mental disorder, according to the American Psychological Association. Among the most common types of mental disorders are anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, alcoholism and substance abuse. However, this does not necessarily...
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Gaining insight into one's behavior is an invaluable skill. By reflecting on how one reacts in situations, it is possible to identify patterns, triggers, and thought processes that lead to particular reactions. Developing an understanding of what motivates these responses and the unhelpful habits associated with them can allow individuals to take steps toward changing them. Doing this enables a person to become aware of potentially detrimental reactions...
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Unlock the Power of Negotiation and Transform Your Life! Are you tired of settling for less? Do you often find yourself wishing you had better negotiation skills to achieve your goals? Look no further! "The Art of Negotiation: How to Get What You Want in Any Situation" is your ultimate guide to becoming a master negotiator. In this captivating book, you'll embark on a transformative journey, learning the secrets to navigate complex conversations,...
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In Archaic Modernism, Daniel Humphrey offers the first book-length, English-language examination of three adaptations of Greek tragedy produced by the gay and Marxist Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini: Oedipus Rex (1967), Medea (1969), and Notes Towards an African Orestes (1970/1973). Considering Pasolini's own theories of a "Cinema of Poetry" alongside Jacques Derrida's concept of écriture, as well as more recent scholarship by queer theory...
1436) The Seducer's Diary
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The text is from Howard V. Hong's and Edna H. Hong's standard English translation of The Writings of Kierkegaard. The foreword by John Updike was specifically commissioned for this volume.
"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Søren Kierkegaard's...
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El capital de Marx es uno de los textos más importantes de la era moderna. Los tres volúmenes, publicados entre 1867 y 1883, cambiaron el destino de países, políticas y personas en todo el mundo, y aun hoy siguen teniendo resonancia. En este libro, David Harvey analiza y expone los argumentos clave de esta trilogía colosal. En un lenguaje claro y conciso, Harvey describe la arquitectura del capital de acuerdo con el análisis de Marx, colocando...
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Extrait : "La philosophie, oubliant ce qu'elle devait à la parole, l'a quelquefois accusée d'être un obstacle au mouvement de la pensée et aux progrès de la raison. Aucune erreur ne semble plus naturelle, quand on songe aux imperfections et aux vices des langues; et cependant, aucune erreur ne saurait être plus éloignée de la vérité; car l'esprit humain est tout entier dans l'analyse, il est tout entier dans l'artifice du langage..."
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Partez à la découverte de Simone Weil avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
On ne séparera pas chez Simone Weil l'action et la pensée, le témoignage vécu et la doctrine vivante. Sa passion de militante (de La Révolution prolétarienne à la « France libre » du général de Gaulle) naît des exigences de sa réflexion, et sa réflexion se fait péremptoire pour nous enjoindre ...
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu pour le numérique afin d'en...
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Fast-acting "emotional rescue" tools grounded in proven-effective DBT to help you find quick relief from intense thoughts and feelings, as well as core-emotion-regulation skills, to help you stay balanced.
Do you have difficulty managing your emotions? If you're like most people, the answer is most likely an emphatic, "Yes!" Dealing with emotions is challenging, and it's easy to misunderstand those feelings-especially in the heat of the moment when...
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