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18941) Under the Cotton Tree
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Colonialism: bad, bad, bad word. Nothing good to say about it. Really?
For a pugnacious Scottish policeman seconded to Sierra Leone Police Force as part of British aid, it is his misfortune to be present when the largest diamond robbery in history occurs on 3rd November 1969 and sparks begin to fly when he rubs up against the new reality post-independence.
At the same time, he takes over the case of the murder of a prostitute, refusing to allow her...
18942) How to Be A Social Justice Advocate: Create Positive Change in Your Home, Community, and World
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Take action to promote social justice with help from this practical guide
Social justice is about uplifting and empowering underserved and marginalized communities impacted by systems of oppression. While believing in equity and fairness is easy, taking action and doing your part requires work. This book is filled with practical, real-world advice that shows you how to serve and support your community through activism. You'll discover concrete steps...
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Dans ce livre, vous comprendez le concept de la loi et la culpabilité des trangresssions. Vous pourrez aussi découvrir le précieux message du chemin de la réconcilation avec Dieu.
Les lois ne sont pas faites par méchanceté de Dieu ni par méchanceté des autorités établies par la société. Elles sont faites pour préserver et protéger le droit de chaque individu ou groupe de personnes.
L'être humain n'a pas la capacité de garantir une...
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In describing her vision of a neighborhood café, Fran Weber imagines an inspired public space where people can both enjoy healthy food and fashion collaborative solutions to our shared challenges.
Her book provides practical guidance for constructing a commercial or communal space designed to develop new habits of thought and action that can increase our power as citizens.
As a cookbook, A Neighborhood Café provides information and recipes that...
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Este libro contiene una investigación inédita sobre un aspecto clave de la escena contemporánea: las amenazas comunicacionales en tiempos de Big Data, Fake News y monopolios voraces. Los desafíos inaplazables del siglo en curso están tratados aquí con base en un entrelazamiento virtuoso cuyo eje es un diálogo apasionante entre los derechos humanos y el derecho humano a la comunicación, tejido alrededor de la labor pionera de las Defensorías...
18946) Peregrinación de Luz del Día
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En Peregrinación de Luz del Día (1871), Juan Bautista Alberdi se pregunta sobre la dicotomía civilización-barbarie planteada por Domingo Faustino Sarmiento e ironiza, a través del viaje alegórico de su personaje hermafrodita Luz del Día.El relato constituye un esfuerzo intelectual para modernizar la Argentina y mejorar la condición de sus habitantes, que anhelan un ambiente libre de opresión.
18947) Planète grise: Roman
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Le réchauffement climatique va provoquer une catastrophe planétaire. Plutt que d'agir pour en limiter les effets, nos dirigeants n'ont de cesse de différer les indispensables mesures. C'est alors qu'un jeune étudiant en bioingénierie découvrira les projets de ces survivalistes de l'extrême, après les avoir rencontrés. Planète grise vous invite à la découverte, celle de votre histoire, racontée depuis le début de l'apocalypse jusqu'aux...
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A magisterial comparative study, Proud to Punish recenters our understanding of modern punishment through a sweeping analysis of the global phenomenon of "rough justice": the use of force to settle accounts and enforce legal and moral norms outside the formal framework of the law. While taking many forms, including vigilantism, lynch mobs, people's courts, and death squads, all seekers of rough justice thrive on the deliberate blurring of lines between...
18949) Corazon Aquino
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In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Corazon Aquino, the first female president of the Philippines.
Little Cory was a shy, studious child with a great sense of justice. As a young woman and wife, she and her family felt compelled to speak out against the unjust leader who was ruining their country. Showing bravery, reliability and honesty, she led the revolution...
18950) Little Girls Lost
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The fourth in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers.
Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues - and, as yet, no bodies.
Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing only to find the case getting tangled up in murky departmental...
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Este libro recopila varios capítulos, resultado de investigación de cuatro universidades que integran la Red de Resiliencia y Sostenibilidad, en ellos se reconocen diferentes formas de relacionamiento entre conceptos, formas de entender y prácticas de resiliencia, sostenibilidad e informalidad, evidencia de variadas posturas académicas e investigativas en territorios urbanos y rurales de Colombia. Los capítulos presentan metodologías teórico-prácticas...
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Offering a clear analysis of the danger of nuclear terrorism and how it can be prevented, The Partnership sheds light on one of the most divisive security issues facing Washington today. Award-winning New York Times journalist Philip Taubman illuminates our vulnerability in the face of this pressing terrorist threat-and the unlikely efforts of five key Cold War players to eliminate the nuclear arsenal they helped create. Bob Woodward calls The Partnership...
18953) The High Place
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In love with a radical leader, an expatriate must decide whether to put the world before his heart Thirty miles from the Mediterranean coast, in the lush Syrian heartland, there is a compound known as Kasr-el-Sittat-the Fortress of Holy Women. Built by a deranged cult leader to house his many wives, it was abandoned when the Second World War brought the cult to its knees. Now it has been purchased by a group of European exiles: displaced people whose...
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Afghanistan has been a strategic prize for foreign empires for more than 200 years. The British, Russians, and Americans have all fought across its beautiful and inhospitable terrain, in conflicts variously ruthless, misguided and bloody. This violent history is the subject of David Loyn's magisterial book. It is a history littered with misunderstandings and broken promises, in which the British, the Russians, and later the Americans, constantly underestimated...
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On April 24, 2005, Cardinal Joseph Alois Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI, the twenty-first-century successor of the Apostle Peter and the spiritual leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics. Who is this complex man whose office grants him sole charge of the world's largest religion? How will his tenure influence the future? The Essential Pope Benedict XVI answers these questions through carefully chosen selections from his homilies, interviews,...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" Noah Feldman is Professor of Law at New York University and, in 2003, was Senior Constitutional Adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He is the author of After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003).
What do we owe Iraq?
America is up to its neck in nation building--but the public debate, focused on getting the troops home,...
18957) Trumps @ Mayor
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Amelia Hartliss, Special Agent - Melia to her friends and 'Heartless' to her enemies - is always landing the worst of jobs. Right now, she's been given the task of baby-sitting a candidate in the local government elections. The problem is, that of all the people who have put their names forward, he really is the person most likely to get themselves in trouble. He's never stood before. He's loud, he's raucous. He proudly boasts, 'I know nothing about...
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When the first community land trusts (CLTs) began appearing in the United States during the 1970s, all were located in rural areas. By the 1980s and 1990s, this innovative form of tenure was spreading into cities, suburbs, and towns. Homeownership remained a priority for urban CLTs, but other applications got added to the mix: revitalizing distressed neighborhoods; preventing displacement in gentrifying neighborhoods; and developing multiple types...
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Following 9/11, 7/7 and the War on Terror, Islamophobia has become a ubiquitous expression of political racism; its presence is felt in immigration restrictions, critiques of multiculturalism and the co-option of feminism that casts Muslim women as abject figures.
Throughout the book, what emerges is that most of our knowledge of Muslim communities is apprehended through signifiers, as defined by 'liberal' politicians and media: there is the...
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In King Charles the Wise, Nicholas Hagger celebrates the UK's post-Brexit global destiny and foresees the birth of a united world. Following the tradition of Ben Jonson's 17th-century celebratory court masques in verse and his own, The Dream of Europa (which celebrated 70-years of peace in Europe), and incorporating the blend of mythology and history and five sections (prologue, antimasque, masque, revels and epilogue) found in all masques, he describes...