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3682) Un canto al silencio
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Un testamento al triunfo y a la esperanza, una historia susurrada en uno de los momentos mãs oscuros de todos los tiempos. En Polonia, mientras la Segunda Guerra Mundial avanza, una madre esconde junto con su joven hija, un prodigio musical cuyo sonido más leve podría costarles sus vidas. Mientras soldados nazis persiguen a los judíos de su pueblo, Róza y su hija de cinco años, Shira, huyen, buscando refugio en el granero del vecino. Escondidas...
3684) Birds and people
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Part natural history and part cultural study, this book describes and maps the entire spectrum of human engagements with birds, drawing in themes of history, literature, art, cuisine, language, lore, politics, and the environment. Vast in both scope and scale, it draws upon Mark Cocker's 40 years of observing and thinking about birds to celebrate this relationship. The book is as important for its visual riches as it is for its groundbreaking content,...
3685) Badass feminist politics: exploring radical edges of feminist theory, communication, and activism
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the late 2010s, the United States experienced a period of widespread silencing. Protests of unsafe drinking water have been met with tear gas; national park employees, environmentalists, and scientists have been ordered to stop communicating publicly. Advocates for gun control are silenced even as mass shootings continue. Expressed dissent to political power is labeled as "fake news." DREAMers, Muslims, Trans military members, women, black bodies,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Individuum
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Russian
Description
"One journalist's memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access they gave her to share the story of their lives. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have trekked to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where Harper...
Series
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The 4th Marine Brigade, with roughly 10,000 men, was the only large Marine unit to see major action in World War I. Dubbed "Devil Dogs" by the Germans, the 4th was part of the 2nd Division of the American Expeditionary Forces, nicknamed the "Race Horse Division" for its rapid and devastating pursuit of the enemy. The 4th Brigade fought at Verdun, Soissons, St. Mihiel, Blanc Mont, and the Meuse-Argonne, and its signature victory at Belleau Wood saved...
Author
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement....
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Through exclusive interviews with protagonists like Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, John Waters, and many more, alongside a treasure trove of never-before-seen photographs and reprinted zines, Queercore traces the history of a scene originally ''fabricated'' in the bedrooms and coffee shops of Toronto and San Francisco by a few young, queer punks to its emergence as a relevant and real revolution. Queercore gets a down-to-details firsthand account of the...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star Kermit Alexander tells the devastating true story of the horrific massacre of his family and his subsequent years of despair, followed by a spiritual renewal that showed him a way to rebuild his family and reclaim his life. On the morning of August 31, 1984, in the South Central section of Los Angeles, three armed men broke into a house, brutally murdering two women and two young boys. The victims were...
Series
Louann Atkins Temple women and culture volume 36
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The first comprehensive look at youth in a country attempting to rebuild itself after three decades of civil conflict, Children of Afghanistan relies on the research and fieldwork of twenty-one experts to cover an incredible range of topics. Focusing on the full scope of childhood, from birth through young adulthood, this edited volume examines a myriad of issues.... Children of Afghanistan is the first volume that not only attempts to analyze...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This Companion examines the history, culture and literature of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. With contributions from an international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned for this volume, it covers the long history of antisemitism starting with ancient Greece and Egypt, through the anti-Judaism of early Christianity, and the medieval era in both the Christian and Muslim worlds when Jews were defined as 'outsiders,...
Series
Library of America volume 233
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Published to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, this anthology charts America's long, heroic confrontation with its most poisonous evil."--Publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Bedford/St. Martin's
Language
English
Description
The Cherokee Removal of 1838-1839 unfolded against a complex backdrop of competing ideologies, self-interest, party politics, altruism, and ambition. Using documents that convey Cherokee voices, government policy, and white citizens' views, Theda Perdue continues to present a multifaceted account of this complicated moment in American history. The third edition features new documents, including two contemporary newspaper articles and an interview...
Author
Series
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"José¹ Ferrer (1912-1992) became the first Puerto Rican actor to win the Best Actor Academy Award for the 1950 film version of Cyrano de Bergerac. His iconic portrayal of the lovelorn poet/swordsman had already won him the Tony in 1947-and he would be identified with Cyrano for the rest of his life. Ferrer was a theatrical dynamo with limitless energy; in 1952 he directed Stalag 17, The Fourposter, and The Shrike (which he starred in) on Broadway,...
3697) Yi dong yun duo de ren
Author
Publisher
Zhong xin chu ban ji tuan gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
中文
Description
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
Author
Publisher
AST
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"Heather Macadam is a writer and journalist whose books on the history of the Holocaust have been recognized by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Complex, the Auschwitz Memorial Museum in Auschwitz, and other Holocaust remembrance centers. The book "There were 999 on the first train to Auschwitz" is an international bestseller translated into 16 languages. Macadam tells about the unsuspecting at the beginning of the passengers who were among the first...
Series
Critical perspectives volume 26
Publisher
Three Continents Press
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
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