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The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.
With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the...
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"An astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying...
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Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften volume n.F., Bd. 7/1
Untersuchungen zum deutschen Vertriebenen- und Flüchtlingsproblem volume 2. Abt.: Einzeldarstellungen
Untersuchungen zum deutschen Vertriebenen- und Flüchtlingsproblem volume 2. Abt.: Einzeldarstellungen
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2022.
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1 online resource.
7) White teeth
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From the Publisher: On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie-working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt-is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window,...
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Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften volume n.F., Bd. 7/4
Untersuchungen zum deutschen Vertriebenen- und Flüchtlingsproblem volume 2. Abt.: Einzeldarstellungen
Untersuchungen zum deutschen Vertriebenen- und Flüchtlingsproblem volume 2. Abt.: Einzeldarstellungen
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2022.
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1 online resource.
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"Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author John Green met Henry Reider, a young tuberculosis patient at Lakka Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. John became fast friends with Henry, a boy with spindly legs and a big, goofy smile. In the years since that first...
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Schriften des Vereins für Sozialpolitik Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften volume n.F., Bd. 7/3
Untersuchungen zum deutschen Vertriebenen- und Flüchtlingsproblem volume 2. Abt.: Einzeldarstellungen
Untersuchungen zum deutschen Vertriebenen- und Flüchtlingsproblem volume 2. Abt.: Einzeldarstellungen
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1954.
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1 online resource (156 pages)
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2023.
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"Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos--the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is...
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[2021]
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1 electronic resource (xvii, 294 pages ).
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This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia's (FSM) engagement with the outside world. Situated in the northwest Pacific, FSM's strategic location has led to four colonial rulers. Histories of FSM to date have been largely written by sympathetic outsiders. Indigenous perspectives of FSM history have been largely absent from the main corpus of historical literature. A new generation of Micronesian...
15) Snow
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Everyman's Library volume 338
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"Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicenter of the suicides, the eastern border city of Kars, is also home to the radiant and newly divorced Ipek, a friend of Ka's youth, whom he has never forgotten and whose spirited younger sister is a leader of the rebellious schoolgirls. As a fierce snowstorm...
17) Desde la niñez a la vejez: nuevos desafíos para la comprensión de la sociología de las edades
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[2019?]
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1 online resource (383 pages) : color illustrations
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Two kids with the same name were born blocks apart in the same decaying city within a few years of each other. One grew up to be a Rhodes Scholar, army officer, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, this is the story of two boys and the journey of a generation trying to find their...
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1995
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1 online resource (ix, 294 pages) : illustrations
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Mexican Americans make up the largest minority in Idaho, yet they seemingly live in a different world from the dominant Anglo population, and because of pervasive stereotypes and exclusive policies, their participation in the community's social, economic, and political life is continually impeded. This unique ethnographic study of a small Idaho community with a large Hispanic population examines many dimensions of the impact race relations have on...
