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Why Movements Matter: The West German Peace Movement and U.S. Arms Control ... - Steve Breyman - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=CSIIBxSak_cC&pg=PA190
Why Movements Matter is a provocative account of how the Reagan administration relented to pressures created by international peace movements during one of the most dangerous episodes of the Cold War. Breyman provides the first systematic account of the…
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The Truth About Racism: Its Origins, Legacy, and How God Wants Us to Deal ... - Dr. Philip G. Asante - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=UEr4AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false
Dr. Asante uncovers the truth about racism in this revealing and compelling book. He explains where racist ideology has come from, and the reasons why some people are racist, by exploring the contributions from both Christianity and the theory of…
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=uWL4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT185
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had." A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at…
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I, Tom Horn - Will Henry - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=YFpgPTwDOcMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=i,+tom+horn&cd=1#v=snippet&q=hundred%20and%20fifty-three&f=f
In I, Tom Horn, originally published in 1975, Will Henry presents a fictional autobiography of Tom Horn that answers decisively the question?did Tom Horn kill fourteen-year-old Willie Kickell, or was he framed?Horn was a cavalry scout in Arizona Territory…
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Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism - Jacques Kornberg - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=31LMY9S8IBIC&lpg=PA50&ots=0-Hcq8Te16&dq=herzl%20albia&hl=de&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=herzl%20albia&f
"An original and brilliant thesis, exposing a long misunderstood figure. A great book." -- Bernard Avishai"Excellent... a highly revealing portrait that demolishes Herzl-the-icon." -- Michael Marrus"Other biographers... have illuminated aspects of…
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Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=5Bl6wm-cV_oC&pg=PA479&dq=performance+art+1990s#v=onepage
Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The…
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" A Story of Canadian Anti-Fascists in Spain: Ron Liversedge and the Publication of Mac-Pap" - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DofsWup5q8
David Yorke Public Lecture March 21, 2016 Co-presented by SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement ABSTRACT: A battalion of working class Canadians trave...
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Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist - Robert Levy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=5HQkDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA202&dq=Aurel+Vijoli.&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiK1PSQ-IvgAhWQUlAKHUL3BfIQ6AEIPzAD
"This is not a psychodrama. Rather, this is a sociopolitical tragedy, extremely valuable, deeply researched, and fascinating. There is very little that is as important as this book about any of the top communist leaders other than the most famous ones such…
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The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories - Sumathi Ramaswamy - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=elYyJuYuAhwC&pg=PA66&dq=haeckel+theosophy&hl=de&sa=X&ei=553rUsqmPIOKtAarz4HgBQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v
During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the…
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The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=yq1xDpicghkC&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q&f=false
A preeminent scientist—and the world's most prominent atheist—asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the…