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In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzón, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel,...
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Durante buena parte de los siglos XIX y XX, Caño de Loro (Bolívar), Contratación (Santander) y Agua de Dios (Cundinamarca) constituyeron lazaretos nacionales para la separación y el aislamiento de las personas afectadas por la lepra en Colombia. Sin embargo, estas instituciones fracasaron en su propósito profiláctico, ya que la segregación nunca fue absoluta, pues los enfermos llegaron a convivir en "completa promiscuidad" con sus familiares...
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The ethic of a people determines how they act in life situations, requiring right and wrong behavior. It can be seen in their daily activities, by the words they say-whether spoken or written, and by the things they do, both publicly and privately. The English are no exception to this means of understanding why a people act the way they do, whether at home or abroad, in their own company or in the company of strangers.
A now-retired Bishop of London...
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For over a century, Italy has had a love affair with the cigarette. Perhaps no consumer item better symbolizes the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions of contemporary Italian history. Starting around 1900, the new and popular cigarette spread down the social hierarchy and eventually, during the 1960s, across the gender divide. For much of the century, cigarette consumption was an index of economic well-being and of modernism. Only...
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Since the beginning in 1943, the mission of the Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has been to cultivate scholastic and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among college women, and to be of service to all mankind. Timeless Service in Gamma Sigma Omega Chapter chronicles the history of the women who sojourned in the life of one chapter of the first Black female Greek letter organization and the events that impacted...
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NINGÚN OTRO PERIODO DE la historia colombiana del siglo XX muestra el volumen de realizaciones, en todos los campos correspondientes a la acción del Estado, como la llamada República Liberal (1930-1946). Fueron suficientes dieciséis años para dejar una huella profunda en la vida política, social y cultural del país: una reforma constitucional que le permitió a la Carta de 1886 adaptarse a los tiempos modernos, una radical reforma educativa...
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Francisco Franco murió el 20 de noviembre de 1975 tras casi cuarenta años de dictadura. Esta obra colectiva ofrece una visión alejada de los tópicos al uso sobre el 20 de noviembre de 1975, el día que con la muerte del dictador Francisco Franco se abrió un horizonte de incertidumbre y de esperanza, aunque solo la perspectiva histórica haya permitido vislumbrar en su complejidad los cambios que se iban a producir. Los trabajos agrupados, trece...
28) Hair
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Most people don't give a second thought to the stuff on their head, but in Hair, Kurt Stenn - one of the world's foremost hair follicle experts - takes readers on a global journey through history, from fur merchant associations and sheep farms to medical clinics and patient support groups, to show the remarkable impact hair has had on human life.
From a completely bald beauty queen with alopecia to the famed hair-hang circus act, Stenn weaves the...
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The book is a history of African-American leadership in modern times, with special focus on two magnetic and essential figures in the struggle for racial equality: General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Following an introductory chapter on slavery and the Civil War, the book examines African-American leadership during the two world wars; and the history of civil rights legislation in the twentieth century. It tells how...
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A survey in 1776 recorded almost 2,000 parish workhouses operating in England, while the number in Wales was just nineteen. The New Poor Law of 1834 proved equally unattractive in much of Wales — some parts of the country resisted providing a workhouse until the 1870s, with Rhayader in Radnorshire being the last area in the whole of England and Wales to do so.
Our image of these institutions has often been coloured by the work of authors such as...
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For over three-hundred years, the Qafa family name has been synonymous with fighting for Albanian independence. Since the 1600's, Qafa men have lost their lives and taken lives fighting against the Ottoman Turks, the Yugoslavian Serbs, and the communists. Simon Qafa tells the story of Pjeter Cup Qafa, his father who was known as "the legend of the mountains" for his role as one of the most important freedom fighters of his day. Simon's life is chronicled...
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"Political power," says Howard Zinn, "is controlled by the corporate elite, and the arts are the locale for a kind of guerilla warfare in the sense that guerillas look for apertures and opportunities where they can have an effect." In Artists in Times of War, Zinn looks at the possibilities to create such apertures through art, film, activism, publishing and through our everyday lives. In this collection of four essays, the author of A People's History...
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Millions of us take package holidays for granted every year but did you ever wonder how it all began? Thanks to Vincent Cobb's 35 years’ experience working in the travel industry culminating in his position as Managing director of Thomson Holidays we can learn about all the tricks they had to get up to that formed the basis of the business at its outset. This fascinating book allows us to observe the industries steep learning curve from its infancy...
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While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish conspiracy wherever he turned and his views resonated with his followers who, like him, sought a scapegoat for all the ills eroding society.
Even after his imprisonment during the Second...
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Culture, Not Politics. We live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe, we should seek to enrich the language of civil discourse. And the best way to do that, Wolfe believes, is to draw nourishment from the deepest sources of...
36) Shades of Privilege: Two African American Families that Transformed the Carolinas, and the Nation
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In 1951, George Simkins, Jr., of Greensboro, and Anna Oleona Atkins of Winston-Salem were married. Their elegant wedding not only brought together the black elite of North Carolina's Piedmont Triad, but more significantly, it merged two families who, arguably, did more to advance civil rights in the Carolinas than any other.
George C. Simkins, Jr. hailed from an old line of South Carolina high achievers-the descendant of men who founded and settled...
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Mirtha Rivero analiza en este libro el segundo mandato de Carlos Andrés Pérez y los hechos y procesos que determinaron su renuncia, al tiempo que va develando episodios, pistas y motivaciones que ponen en entredicho verdades asumidas cómda o irreflexivamente como tales -consolidadas a lo largo del tiempo como verdades oficiales- y nos ofrece herramientas suficientes como para echar una segunda mirada, escuchar otras versiones, encajar piezas perdidas...
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Ms Eve Bates worked at the Bone's Jax Fishing Pier from 1972 to 1983 and encountered many colorful characters, some of whom were celebrities, in a variety of unusual happenings. There were robberies, a murderer, the capture of a world-record hammerhead shark, and constant contentions between the fishermen and the surfers. Also included are some of the tackle shop recipes for apple fritters, fishcakes, and quick fish soups.
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Some periods in history are best illuminated by the stories of the people who lived through them. This is one such story ? the bizarre but true account of Peter Hui, a man involved with scandal, corruption, drugs, pirates, triads and colonial high society; who collaborated with the Japanese, spied on the Communists and fought with American servicemen on R&R; who really did, for a short time, own all the opium in Hong Kong.
40) La gente del sancocho nacional: experiencias de la militancia barrial del M-19 en Bogotá, 1974-1990
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La historiografía sobre los movimientos armados en Colombia se ha enfocado, principalmente, en analizar las guerrillas de la segunda mitad del siglo XX desde una perspectiva macro y ofreciendo explicaciones estructurales. En este trabajo, la reducción en la escala de observación, las entrevistas, la historia oral y el análisis de trayectorias biográficas son herramientas que permiten dar cuenta de una organización guerrillera compleja, diversa,...
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