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Author
Publisher
Parkhurst Brothers, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Roberts was one of the Little Rock Nine, facing an armed soldier who denied him access to Little Rock Central High School. He became a psychologist and a university dean. This books collects key speeches and public addresses that reflect his core values and concerns for our society.
Series
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
c2019.
Language
Español
Description
This is the second book by the Sala negra de El Faro team, and can also be considered the second part of the Black Chronicles. The violence investigation department of the most prestigious Latin American digital newspaper was created in 2011 with one purpose : understand the violence in the North triangle of Central America, one of the areas with the most homicides on the planet. What is the Mara Salvatrucha 13? What are those who leave the region...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A joyful, inspiring informational picture book that introduces readers to eleven young people from around the world who didn't wait until they were grown to speak up about things that matter to them and change the world for the better.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The inspiring journey of a girl from Africa whose near-death experience sparked a dream that changed the world. When severe draught hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth, then eight, had no idea that this moment of utter devastation would come to define her life purpose. Unable to move from hunger, she encountered a United Nations aid worker who gave her a bowl of warm porridge and saved her life. This transformative moment inspired Elizabeth to...
189) When misfortune becomes injustice: evolving human rights struggles for health and social equality
Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a program for getting educational materials directly into the...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
New Yorker staff writer Alexis Okeowo weaves together four narratives of ordinary people doing the extraordinary, forming a powerful tapestry of modern Africa: a young couple, kidnap victims of Joseph Kony's LRA; a Mauritanian waging a lonely campaign against modern-day slavery; a women's basketball team flourishing amid war-torn Somalia; and a vigilante who takes up arms against the extremist group Boko Haram.
193) Memory piece
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. 'Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,' they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity. By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never...
195) An emancipation of the mind: radical philosophy, the war over slavery, and the refounding of America
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This is a story about a dangerous idea--one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement--the idea that all men are created equal. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A respected human-rights advocate shares the story of her unconventional alliance with a Ugandan general to stop a warlord whose resistance army had displaced millions, conscripted tens of thousands of child soldiers, and killed over one hundred thousand people.
"Human rights lawyer Shannon Sedgwick Davis runs the Bridgeway Foundation, whose stated mission is to end mass atrocities around the world. When she spoke to survivors of warlord Joseph Kony's...
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