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When Achilles Conroy and his brother Troy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their white mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achilles--always his brother's keeper--embarks on a harrowing journey in search of Troy, an experience that will change him forever. Heartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, Hold It 'Til It Hurts is a modern-day...
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"Runner-Up for the 2016 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies" Nadav Samin is visiting assistant professor of anthropology at Dartmouth College.
Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia? What compels the strivers and climbers of the new Saudi Arabia to want to prove their authentic descent from one or another prestigious Arabian tribe? Of Sand or Soil looks at how genealogy and tribal belonging...
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The fourth of these collections of anecdotes, rants, pious maunderings and general observations on life. Yes we have dogs, quads, sheep and cattle, but in this one we follow the 'lambing year.' It starts with ewes being put to the tup in late autumn and finishes in summer with the last of the laggards lambing.
But as well as this we have endless rain, as well as sleeping in a manger. Be brave and you'll meet young ladies in high heeled cowboy boots,...
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The title, Unhistoric Acts, is inspired by the work of unheralded women in the 18th-century novel Middlemarch by George Elliot. Unhistoric Acts
is a first hand account by long time advocate for the women's movement
Dianne Porter. Women's equality in Prince Edward Island took time and
tireless effort by numerous unsung heroes. Working together as a force
for change, Porter honours the 'unsung heroes' of the movement with
profiles of front-liners...
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Extrait : "L'âme du campagnard breton est un sanctuaire fermé que l'œil du profane pénètre difficilement. Il faut l'avoir fréquenté longtemps, pour pouvoir le deviner. Comme la nature grise qui l'enveloppe, elle est mélancolique et réservée. La langue, les habitudes de localisme, la méfiance de l'étranger sont pour elle des préservatifs qui la mettent à l'abri des doctrines nouvelles et subversives."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN...
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Extrait: "Il s'opère en France, depuis vingt ans, un travail de transformation sociale qui a modifié sensiblement les conditions dans lesquelles s'exerce l'action de l'autorité publique en matière de prostitution. Le sentiment religieux s'est affaibli, la tolérance pour la galanterie vénale et scandaleuse est entrée dans nos mœurs, les prostituées ont invoqué, ou plutt on a invoqué, pour elles, les immunités civiques, la tradition basée...
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Erika Meitner's fourth book takes cues from the Land Artists of the 1960s who created work based on landscapes of urban peripheries and structures in various states of disintegration. The collection also includes a section of documentary poems about Detroit that were commissioned for Virginia Quarterly Review. Because it is an uninhabited place, because it makes me hollow, I pried open the pages of Detroit: the houses blanked out, factories absorbed...
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Portraits des Hauts de France de la France d'en bas est un ouvrage composé de sept nouvelles. Ici, les récits sont tirés de la mixité d'interactions des habitants d'un foyer d’hébergement; un environnement social hétérogène, pour personnes en situation de forte précarité, dans lequel le présent se renouvelle à chaque instant.
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Looking to buy some medieval armour? In the mood for an orchestra of typewriters? Perhaps you'd like to sift through handcrafted cashmere scarves while chatting up Indiana Jones' lovely co-star? Know where to find America's oldest baseball diamond, New England's smallest town, or Grover Cleveland's impossibly-young (and spitting-image) grandson (think about it)?New England Notebook offers the answers to these questions and more in a blend of the region's...
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Paul Revere's midnight ride; the Battles at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill; and the people and places associated with the early days of the American Revolution hold a special place in America's collective memory. Often lost in this narrative is the pivotal role that South Carolina played in the Revolutionary conflict, especially when the war moved south after 1780. Drawing upon the entries in the award-winning South Carolina Encyclopedia, this...
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A winner of the Minnesota Book Award in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, Barton Sutter's latest collection details life on the Canadian border, presents portraits of northern plants and animals, rejoices in marriage, and traces the ancient ways of Siberian reindeer herders. The late Bill Holm called it "unlike anything Sutter (or anyone else) has done before." Sutter's poetry reminds us that other cultures have survived for millennia by living closer...
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The emergent Indignados movement in Spain is transforming Spanish politics and society, heralding an end to the Transition since Franco, and responding to multiple legitimation crises in Spain and in Europe. This movement is rooted in the Stop Evictions campaign led by Ada Colau in Barcelona following the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble in the wake of the 2008; as well as the 15-M Movement arising in May 2011 Puerta del Sol of Madrid, symbolizing...
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Dig into Montana's past with this guide to the state's best archaeological sites. A cache north of Livingston, the oldest known evidence of humans in Montana, was left by mammoth hunters more than 11,000 years ago. Their cultural descendents survived in Montana until modern times, hunting game and gathering roots and berries. Montana Before History, organized chronologically from the Paleoindian period to the Late Prehistoric period, details how Montana's...
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Extrait : "« N'oubliez pas, disait Richard Cobden à M. Goldwin Smith partant pour son voyage d'Amérique, n'oubliez pas deux choses aux Etats-Unis, à défaut d'autres curiosités : la cataracte du Niagara et Chicago. » M. Smith garda bonne mémoire de la recommandation : lorsqu'il visita Chicago et le Niagara, il reconnut de ses yeux que les deux merveilles par excellence de l'Amérique du Nord."
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A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from a New York Times bestselling author and experts on U.S. policy in the region
In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spotlight how holding fast to one-sided and unwaveringly pro-Israel policies reflects the truth-bending grip of authoritarianism...
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What does it mean to be a Nashvillian? A Black Nashvillian? A white Nashvillian? What does it mean to be an organizer, an ally, an elected official, an agent for change? Deep Dish Conversations began as a running online interview series in which host Jerome Moore sits down over pizza with Nashville leaders and community members to talk about the past, present, and future of the city and what it means to live here. The result is honest conversation...
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The General Election of 1997 did not turn out as Jean Chretien and the Liberal Party had planned. Chretien called an early election, believing that his party was in a position to retain the majority they had won in 1993. They got their majority, but just barely. When the campaign began, the focus for many Canadians was the economy and job creation. National unity, however, quickly became a key issue, and triggered the most heated debates of the campaign....
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Este libro narra la historia de la minería artesanal en una zona de selva húmeda en Colombia, y que sucedió cuando la minería mecanizada llegó a la región. Si bien el barequeo tradicional no hacía daño a los ríos ni a la selva, las nuevas máquinas crearon problemas graves, tanto ambientales como sociales. El Chocó es uno de los muchos lugares en todo el mundo donde la tecnología extractiva amenaza la sostenibilidad de culturas y la integridad...
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Ce livre décrit la manière dont les intellectuel·les catholiques belges ont participé aux grands bouleversements de la vie culturelle et scientifique de ces dernières décennies tels que le nouveau roman, la nouvelle vague, l'avènement des expertes en sciences humaines, le marxisme, l'écologie, le féminisme ou encore la psychanalyse.
Leur engagement s'est caractérisé par une solide capacité d'adaptation. De la sorte, ils et elles sont...
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