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From the bestselling and Booker Prize–winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo's memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism
Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker Prize win was an historic and revolutionary occasion, with Evaristo being the first Black woman and first Black British person ever to win the prize in its fifty-year history. Girl,
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2020.
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English
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Corrupt politician Paul Cantrell was in complete control of McMinn County, Tennessee, his whims enforced by the violent Sheriff Pat Mansfield and his deputies. Each Election Day Cantrell and the sheriff seized the ballot boxes and brought them to the jail "to be counted" in secret. On August 1, 1946, veteran soldiers armed themselves and lay siege to the jail as the National Guard closed in. After six hours of gunfire and dynamite blasts, Boss Cantrell...
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Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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xiii, 258 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"The Invisible Arab is a brilliant analysis from Marwan Bishara, one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals, on how the Arabs broke their own psychological barrier of fear to kindle one of the first significant revolutionary transformations of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
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Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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First English language edition.
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151 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Buenos Aires. As political violence escalates around them, a young boy and his single mother live together in an apartment in Buenos Aires, which has recently been taken over by Argentina's military dictatorship. The boy returns home one day to find his mother missing-- she is now one of the "disappeared." Years later, now a young man, he is consumed by the burden of his loss, and attempting to reconstruct the memory of his mother. As he subtly gives...
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"Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading...
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1 Earth Productions
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that greenhouse gases are not affected by human behavior. From the Koch Brothers to ExxonMobil, to oil industry front groups, to prominent politicians...
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Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
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xvii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Explores the history of socialist feminism by examining the careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing lives filled with inner conflicts, contradictions, and sometimes outrageous privilege as they moved forward with their own political projects through perseverance and dedication to their cause.
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
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First edition.
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360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Examines the links between the 18th and 19th Amendments that led to their passages in the same year, sharing insights into the roles of women contributors, including Mabel Willebrandt and Pauline Sabin, in the campaigns to pass and repeal Prohibition.
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Haymarket Books
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2011.
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xxi, 193 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith's Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black Power movement. Here is the remarkable story of one of the men behind the salute, lifelong activist John Carlos"--
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Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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xvi, 269 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"An anthology for young women by young women, featuring stories from ten inspiring young staffers who joined the Obama administration in their 20s with the hope of making a difference"--
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English
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In 1985, Nelson Mandela, then in prison for 23 years, set about winning over the fiercest proponents of apartheid, from his jailers to the head of South Africa's military. First he earned his freedom and then he won the presidency in the nation's first free election in 1994. But he knew that South Africa was still dangerously divided. If he couldn't unite his country in a visceral, emotional way--and fast--it would collapse into chaos. He would need...
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Chandos Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 online resource
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English
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Collective Action 2.0: The Impact of Social Media on Collective Action provides a balanced look into how ICTs leverage and interact with collective action through avoiding technological determinism, utopianism, and fundamentalism, which impacts the current discourse. Recent events in different authoritarian regimes, such as Iran and Egypt, have drawn global attention to a developing phenomenon in collective action: people tend to organize through...
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English
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Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. A half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that image is wrong, as veteran journalist Evans maintains in this groundbreaking book, based on six years of intensive research. Drawing on primary sources--including U.S. government...
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CRC Press
Pub. Date
©2013
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1 online resource (xvii, 457 pages)
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English
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" ... step-by-step tools and techniques on the planning, execution and control of a project ... invaluable for the novice/student." Prof. William A Moylan, PhD, PMP, Eastern Michigan University, Farmington Hills, USA"; ... a very well written book. Simple, easy to follow, extremely practitioner and tool oriented and is very useful in real world from a novice user to most advanced user." Dr. Subramanyam Naidu Rayapati, IBM, Austin, Texas, USA.
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CRC Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1124 p.).
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English
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During the last 60 years the discipline of human factors (HF) has evolved alongside progress in engineering, technology, and business. Contemporary HF is clearly shifting towards addressing the human-centered design paradigm for much larger and complex societal systems, the effectiveness of which is affected by recent advances in engineering, science, and education. Human Factors of a Global Society: A System of Systems Perspective explores the future...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date
[2011]
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy offers insights into the boundaries of this field of study, assesses why it is important, who is affected, and with what political, economic, social and cultural consequences. Provides the most up to date and comprehensive collection of essays from top scholars in the fieldIncludes contributions from western and eastern Europe, North and Central America, Africa and AsiaOffers new conceptual frameworks...
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New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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Expanded edition.
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xxvi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"First published in 1978, Mary Oppen's seminal Meaning a Life has been largely unavailable for decades. Written in her sixties, her first and only prose book recounts, with honesty, depth, and conviction, her fiercely independent life-"a twentieth-century American romance," as Yang describes it in the new introduction, "of consciousness on the open road; a book of travel where the autobiographer is not the usual singular self at the center of the...
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Management Concepts
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Third edition.
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
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English
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This is the essential reference to help federal contractors negotiate and maintain profitable contracts-and remain in compliance throughout the life of the contract. Government contracting rules and regulations have changed significantly over the past six years. This new third edition addresses these changes and more: New thresholds for certification of cost and pricing data Revisions in cost accounting standards Implementation of commercial time-and-material...
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