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21) The iron giant
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"A strange creature stalks the land, eating barbed wire and devouring tractors and plows. The farmers are mystified -- and afraid. And then they glimpse him in the night: the Iron Giant, taller than a house, with glowing headlight eyes and an insatiable taste for metal. The hungry giant must be stopped at any cost. Only a young boy named Hogarth is brave enough to befriend the Iron Giant and lead him to a safe home. And only Hogarth knows where to...
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vii, 112 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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The Dalai Lama "outlines both the inward and outward paths to peace, addressing a wide range of contemporary topics -- from war, climate change, and materialism to meditation, universal ethics, and even neuroscience."--Dust jacket.
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A soaring epic of honor, greed, betrayal and love from award-winning director Jean-Jacques Annaud. After years of bloody conflict, the leaders of two rival kingdoms reluctantly agree to end the fighting. But when oil is discovered between their territories, the war is re-ignited. Now it is up to their children-young lovers who have married in hopes of bringing the families together-to find a way to end the violence and bring peace to the land.
24) Three guineas
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Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity...
26) The bridegroom
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Lydia Fairmont will lose everything if she doesn't honor her betrothal to a heartless banker. Unless she marries someone else instead ... whether it's a love match or not. Determined to honor his own decade-old promise to help Lydia, undercover agent Gideon Yarbro carries her off to Stone Creek, Arizona, and makes her his reluctant wife. But trouble finds the "married" couple in the form of a a vengeful ex-fiance on their trail and a hired gun on...
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xiv, 304 pages ; 22 cm
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A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world-and that makes all the difference. "How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?" Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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An old owl tells the Christmas story to the community of birds as he has done so many times before, but when he tells of the special message from the Baby Jesus, a little bird questions why they no longer sing the message. "People no longer listen," is the sad realization. The birds decide to share the message once more, but this time to the children of the world. And what unfolds is surely a Christmas wonder.
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In this book we learn to go beyond merely managing the conflict in our lives to actually embracing the conflict, allowing it to teach us what we otherwise might not learn. This process leads to peacemaking...whether it be within ourselves, in our relationships, or as a result of outside circumstances. Simmons integrates spiritual principles, biblical quotes, and martial arts philosophy (he is a fourth-degree black belt in tae kwon do) as well as concepts...
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Relates the story of the peace symbol--designed in 1958 by Gerry Holtom, a London activist protesting nuclear weapons--and how it inspires people all over the world, from peace marches and liberation movements to the end of apartheid and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Includes a short history of the peace symbol and a partial timeline of peaceful protests since 1958.
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147 pages ; 22 cm
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"Thich Nhat Hanh has been writing and talking about mindfulness for nearly fifty years. In the bestselling classic, Peace Is Every Step, the Zen Master introduced us to the peace that is available to us in each moment. This past year Thay, as his students call him, sat down to pen this book because he believes that the busyness of our lives has gotten out of control and led to unnecessary unhappiness. In Peace Is Every Breath, he does not argue that...
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144 pages ; 19 cm
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"A two-week program to enhance clarity, strengthen your mind-body connection and banish busy thinking by a world-renowned meditation teacher. Are you ready for a clean, clear mind? Anxiety, overwhelm and rumination can be a tough cycle to break. The 14 Day Mind Cleanse is an achievable program of simple techniques to clear out your mental clutter while introducing calm and positivity, helping you become your clearest, most grounded self. Kick off...
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In this book, John Dear, an internationally known voice for peace and nonviolence, combines scriptural wisdom with practical advice from peacemakers like Gandhi, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, and many more, all set against vivid descriptions of peace efforts all over the world.
37) Brimstone
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Everett Hitch and Virgil Cole track down Virgil's sweetheart Allie and the three head north to start over in the town of Brimstone. Given their reputations as guns for hire, Everett and Virgil are able to secure positions as the town's deputies. But a sanctimonious leader of a local church stirs up trouble at the local saloons, and as the violence escalates into murder, the two struggle to keep the peace.
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Violence begets violence - so believes the majority of people around the world who have stood up in protest against war. Stop the Next War Now is a reflective look and call to action to end violence, by acclaimed peace activists, experts, and visionaries, including Eve Ensler, Barbara Lee, Arianna Huffington, Janeane Garafalo, Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Hong Kingston, and many more. The book shares expert insight on the issues and powers-that-be that encourage...
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Colombia se enfrenta a una serie de retos y desafíos de distintas naturalezas. Entre ellos, las cuestiones relativas a la seguridad en un escenario interno transformado.
Este libro presenta puntos de vista concernientes a las dinámicas sobre el terrorismo, los mercados de la violencia, las acciones de las Fuerzas Militares y operadores de seguridad, la mutación del crimen, las zonas periféricas del país y el control estatal en el caso del Pacífico,...
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