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Publication Date: 2025
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This book decenters mainstream and US-based accounts of the #MeToo movement by providing a transnational and comparative analysis of one of the most politically exigent global feminist movements of our time-- Provided by publisher.
Publication Date: 1950
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Peppe, a Sicilian boy, lives on the California coast where his father is a fisherman and the festival for their patron saint, Rosalia, is a joyous occasion.
Publication Date: 2023
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In this book, Adrian Chastain Weimer uncovers the story of how, more than a hundred years before the American Revolution, colonists pledged their lives and livelihoods to the defense of local political institutions against arbitrary rule. When royal commissioners came to enforce the demands of the newly restored King Charles II, many New Englanders chafed against what they saw as arbitrary rule. Under immense metropolitan pressure, they mobilized to defy the crown, forming a robust and longstanding constitutional culture--
Publication Date: 2020
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A History of Modern Africa explores two centuries of the continent's political, economic, and social history. This thorough yet accessible text helps readers to understand key concepts, recognize significant themes, and identify the processes that shaped the modern history of Africa. Emphasis is placed on the consequences of colonial rule, and the links between the precolonial and postcolonial eras.
Publication Date: 2024
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A self-described polemic opposing artifcial intelligence illustrated with screenshots from the television program I think you should leave.
Publication Date: 2025
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Based on a true story, twelve-year-old Roberto Alvarez becomes the lead plaintiff in a 1931 lawsuit challenging school segregation in Lemon Grove, California, and stands up for justice with the support of his Mexican American community.
Publication Date: 2026
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Piano accompaniment, or collaborative piano, is an invizibilized force driving classical music. This hybrid study, combining text and multimedia, explores its history, evolution, and transformation into a recognized academic discipline through archival research, expert interviews, and digital resources. This publication delves into the origins and institutionalization of collaborative piano, tracing its development from the early 20th century to the present day.
Publication Date: 2026
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This book examines diverse forms of advocacy for translanguaging as a legitimate educational practice. It advances a practical theory of the translanguaging of education that is informed by deliberative advocacy and based in evidence-- Provided by publisher.
Publication Date: 2020
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What did women deacons do in the early church? This study is a contribution to resolving this question through evaluating the tasks of female deacons in The Apostolic Constitutions. This fourth-century document is the largest among the so-called ancient church orders. The author divides the tasks of female deacons into three categories: liturgical, charitable and communicative.
Publication Date: 2025
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Hassan faces a hectic month of homework, soccer and gaming while fasting every day for the holy month of Ramadan, in a story about balancing family traditions and secular middle school life.
Publication Date: 2025
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After moving from Syria to Indiana, third-grade science enthusiast Amina tries to find the perfect formula to make friends at her new school.
Publication Date: 2025
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Even though English is an additional language for her, Amina is determined to win the school's spelling bee.
Publication Date: 1992
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A whale sails new seas and, after several unsuccessful attempts, makes a friend.
Publication Date: 2005
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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
Publication Date: 2021
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Synagogues, bains rituels, rues, cimetières, graffitis, parchemins., depuis le XIXe siècle, les archéologues exhument des traces matérielles du judaïsme en France, mais c'est le développement de l'archéologie préventive qui, dans les années 1990, a permis de mettre au jour une série de nouveaux sites.0Ces vestiges éclairent la présence juive durant l'Antiquité, complètent les rares informations sur le premier Moyen Âge, enrichissent la connaissance des innombrables juiveries médiévales que comptait le royaume avant les expulsions des XIIe, XIVe et XVIe siècl
Publication Date: 2025
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Evangelical or born-again Christians have come under intense criticism in recent years, largely given the high percentage of Evangelicals who voted for President Donald Trump. Many see support for Trump's policies and political agenda as inconsistent with Christianity. Yet, the heightened attention given to Evangelicals hasn't necessarily raised awareness of what they believe, or of how being born-again transforms them, or how it has shaped their worldviews.
Publication Date: 2002
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Describes the summer of Larry Loyie with his family before he is forcibly taken to a government-sponsored residential school.
Publication Date: 2024
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A fresh and inclusive portrayal of Thanksgiving that celebrates sharing, community, family, food, and respect for America's first inhabitants. Here is a lyrical, vibrant tribute to the diversity of America coming together as one rich tapestry of gratitude, elegantly penned by debut author Patrick Hulse and illustrated in joyful colors by Chickasaw artist Madelyn Goodnight. At our table there is room to share a seat... room for old traditions and new ones... room to remember where our food comes from... and room to give thanks.
Publication Date: 2025
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The inside story of how the nuclearists-an idiosyncratic and surprising coalition of activists and experts-have turned the contentious debate about nuclear energy on its head, changing the future of our energy landscape in the process-- Provided by publisher.
Publication Date: 2014
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Griswold examines twelve classics of children's literature and determines that each has a concealed wish to overthrow parents which makes these classics particularly American.
Publication Date: 2008
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This collection of essays examines popular forms of dance in the Balkan nations. The essays address the ways in which ethnic and national identity constitutes an important aspect of the performance of Balkan dance. Several essays examine the popularity that Balkan dances and music have found among American audiences--Provided by publisher.
Publication Date: 2025
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A fully updated and expanded edition of the essential primer on Bayesian modeling for ecologistsUniquely suited to deal with complexity in a statistically coherent way, Bayesian modeling has become an indispensable tool for ecological research. This book teaches the basic principles of mathematics and statistics needed to apply Bayesian models to the analysis of ecological data, using language non-statisticians can understand.
