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Tyler E. Boudreau is a twelve-year veteran of the Marine Corps infantry. He trained and committed himself physically and intellectually to the military life. Then his intense devotion began to disintegrate, bit by bit, during his final mission in Iraq. After returning home, he discovered a turmoil developing in his mind, estranging him from his loved ones and the bill of goods he eagerly purchased as a marine officer. Packing Inferno is the spectacularly...
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: America in the 1960s-a pivotal era of social change and generational divide. Here is Joan Didion on the "misplaced children" of Haight-Ashbury as well as John Wayne in Hollywood; folk singer Joan Baez and reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes; the extremes of both Death Valley and Las Vegas. Named to Time magazine's list of the one hundred best and most influential nonfiction books, this is "a rare display of some of the...
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Nuked recounts the long-term effects of radiological exposure in St. Louis, Missouri-the city that refined uranium for the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction and the first atomic bomb. As part of the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II, the refining created an enormous amount of radioactive waste that increased as more nuclear weapons were produced and stockpiled for the Cold War.
Unfortunately, government officials deposited the...
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Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern "Indian wars" are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and political arenas across North America, Natives enact and newcomers protest issues of traditionalism, sovereignty,...
21725) Alone in the Storm
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In 1944, twenty-year-old Leslie Vertes escapes from a forced labour detail in Budapest and miraculously survives by assuming a false identity. About to taste freedom as the end of the war nears, his liberation is short-lived when he is caught by the new Soviet regime and sent for two years of back-breaking labour and captivity. Years later, when he and his family flee to Canada, Leslie finally finds true freedom.
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Flat-World Fiction analyzes representations of digital technology and the social and ethical concerns it creates in mainstream literary American fiction and fiction written about the United States in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. In this period, authors such as Don DeLillo, Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, Joshua Ferris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Mohsin Hamid, Thomas Pynchon, Kristen Roupenian, Gary Shteyngart, and Zadie Smith found themselves...
21727) Stonehenge
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Every new and groundbreaking archaeological discovery refines our understanding of human history. This title examines the scientific study of Stonehenge. The book explores what scientists have learned about the site's creation and purpose, traces the history of its archaeological investigation, and discusses future study and conservation efforts. Well-placed sidebars, vivid photos, helpful maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of the...
21728) Fields and Streams: Stream Restoration, Neoliberalism, and the Future of Environmental Science
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Examining the science of stream restoration, Rebecca Lave argues that the neoliberal emphasis on the privatization and commercialization of knowledge has fundamentally changed the way that science is funded, organized, and viewed in the United States.
Stream restoration science and practice is in a startling state. The most widely respected expert in the field, Dave Rosgen, is a private consultant with relatively little formal scientific training....
21729) You Who Cross My Path
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This first US publication of Erez Bitton, one of Israel's most celebrated poets, recalls the fate of Moroccan Jewish culture with poems both evocative and pure. Considered the founding father of Mizrahi Israeli, a major tradition in the history of Hebrew poetry, Bitton's bilingual collection dramatically expands the scope of biographical experience and memory, ultimately resurrecting a vanishing world and culture. Preliminary Background Words My mother...
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Some people are comfortable being alone most of the time. Others wish they had more courage and confidence to make more friends. Maybe you're somewhere in between or just want to have better social skills out in the world. This book provides coping skills, advice, and real-life examples to navigate through both daily life and unusual social situations. It even helps you deal with the times you have to talk and be social even when you don't want to...
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Radical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger.
Kearney and Fitzpatrick show how radical hospitality happens by opening oneself in narrative exchange to someone or something other than ourselves-by crossing borders, whether literal or figurative. Against the fears, dogmas, and demands for certainty and security that push...
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This book offers a fresh perspective on the social life of multilingualism through the lens of the important notion of linguistic citizenship. All of the chapters are underpinned by a theoretical and methodological engagement with linguistic citizenship as a useful heuristic through which to understand sociolinguistic processes in late modernity, focusing in particular on linguistic agency and voices on the margins of our societies. The authors take...
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Conoce la historia de una de las mentes más enfermas y sanguinarias que ha existido en los EE.UU. que después de aburrirse de asesinar mujeres, decidió llevar a cabo una de las peores masacres en la historia reciente. Según un apunte de una libreta que le perteneció, lo hizo a nombre de todos los que le hicieron bullying cuando niño, como un sacrificio a la justicia. Para la mayoría este asesino sigue siendo desconocido, pero lo más interesante...
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"Wells...provided damning descriptions of the melee that claimed one too many black lives." -Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century (2014)
"To Wells...the events at East St. Louis combined some of the worst racist elements...in three days of rioting, 39 African Americans were killed." -Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform (2003)
"Her account of the riot which included interviews with riot victims documenting the violent...
21735) Mysteries of the Qabalah
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"Mysteries of the Qabalah" by Elias Gewurz delves deeply into the rich and intricate world of Kabbalistic wisdom. Building on his previous work, "Hidden Treasures of the Ancient Qabalah," this concise volume is written from a Theosophical perspective, offering readers a more substantial exploration of Kabbalistic concepts than its predecessor. Gewurz skillfully unravels the complex 'signatures' of each Hebrew letter and introduces readers to the mystic...
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This second of a two-volume anthology brings together a great collection of writings by authors who dive into the deepest realms of Indo-Malay combatives. They offer readers a rare viewing of martial traditions that is usually hidden behind social shrouds of secrecy and a clannish quest to preserve individual tradition.
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Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. By "translating" their ideas into everyday concepts like community empowerment and collective needs, these anarchists sparked the most dynamic American social movement in decades.
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The Democratic Party and the church-two institutions that rest on their spotty legacies on behalf of the disenfranchised-cannot save us. Arguing that Blacks have always been considered non-citizens in the United States, Samudzi and Anderson make the case for a new program of transformative politics for African Americans, one rooted in an anarchist framework. This is not a feel-good-and-make-peace book. With the passion of Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between...
21739) Indonesia
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Beautiful. Full of life. Wild. Welcome to Indonesia! In this bright, exciting book, young readers will travel to this amazing country without ever leaving their homes or classrooms. During their journey, they will learn all about Indonesia's land, history, cities, food, and more. They'll even learn how to speak a few words in Bahasa Indonesian! This 32-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction....
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Extrait: "C'était dans un chef-lieu de préfecture que vous ne connaîtrez pas davantage. Car l'aventure étant récente et véridique, je ne veux pas encourir quelque vengeance sournoise pas d'inopportune révélations. Maintenant que les dames ne donnent pas moins de cinq coups de revolver (ce qui ne saurait guère passer pour une riposte) aux gens indiscrets qui les ont offensés..."