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2) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
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Series
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English
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of desire and duty in Gilded Age New York
A respected lawyer and scion of one of Manhattan’s most important families, Newland Archer knows what people expect of him and is eager to comply. The first step on the path to happiness is to wed May Welland, a beautiful young woman of fine social standing. But the arrival of the worldly and exotic Countess Olenska, May’s cousin, changes everything....
A respected lawyer and scion of one of Manhattan’s most important families, Newland Archer knows what people expect of him and is eager to comply. The first step on the path to happiness is to wed May Welland, a beautiful young woman of fine social standing. But the arrival of the worldly and exotic Countess Olenska, May’s cousin, changes everything....
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Language
English
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity -- powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...
6) Sylvia & Aki
Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 20
Language
English
Description
Aboard an icebreaker in the Arctic Ocean a sonar operator hears an unusual noise coming from the ocean floor. She can't isolate it and chalks the event up to an anomaly in a newly installed system. Meanwhile, operatives with the Chinese Ministry of State Security are dealing with their own mystery - the disappearance of brilliant but eccentric scientist, Liu Wangshu. They're desperate to keep his crucial knowledge of aerospace and naval technology...
Author
Series
Lily B. series volume 1
Language
English
Description
"The eventually internationally recognized writer Lily Blennerhassett" spends her thirteenth summer missing her best friend and keeping a journal of her boring life at home and exciting newly-discovered relatives.
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Global diversity in the practice of public sector accounting continues to impede the reduction of bureaucracy and the creation of comparable standards in terms of accountability and transparency. The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board (IPSASB) continues to engage in the ongoing process of harmonizing public sector accounting with their International Public Sector Accounting Standards (IPSASs). IPSAS Explained: A Summary of International...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the system of segregation that existed in the United States until the mid-twentieth century and discusses the civil rights movement that changed this system.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xii, 339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The rules, policies, and institutions that have guided the world since World War II have largely run their course. The United States remains the world's strongest country, but American foreign policy has at times made matters worse, both by what the United States has done and by what it has failed to do. Haass explains that the election of Donald Trump and the unexpected vote for Brexit signals that many in modern democracies reject important aspects...
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Publisher
Pearson
Pub. Date
Ã2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume)
Language
English
Description
Auditing is a multi-dimensional subject. The scope of auditing is not only restricted to financial audit under the Companies Act, but has also been extended to cost accounting aspects, managerial policies, operational efficiencies and system applications and audit under Computer Information System environment. It also covers social implications of business organizations and environmental issues. Fundamentals of Auditing covers all these aspects and...
Publisher
Academic Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxii, 523 pages)
Language
English
Description
Political and social forces exert pressure on our globalized economy in many forms, from formal and informal policies to financial theories and technical models. Our efforts to shape and direct these forces to preserve financial stability reveal much about the ways we perceive the financial economy. The Handbook of Safeguarding Global Financial Stability examines our political economy, particularly the ways in which these forces inhabit our institutions,...
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"International GAAP 2020 is a comprehensive guide to interpreting and implementing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), setting IFRS in a relevant business context, and providing insights into how complex practical issues should be resolved in the real world of global financial reporting. This book is an essential tool for anyone applying, auditing, interpreting, regulating, studying, or teaching IFRS. Written by financial reporting...
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