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Life and times of Shanta Toofani
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Shanta Toofani |
Narratives of the author, committed activist of Delhi, who has struggled for the rights of people and against class oppression. |
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A way through
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Nicholas Brown |
Rick Farley was an extraordinary man. As head of the Cattlemen's Union and National Farmers Federation, a key figure in the Landcare movement and a public campaigner for Indigenous rights and Reconci… |
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CITY MADNESS
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Kia Soong Kua |
Hand and hand we engage, walk, run, smile, laugh, and even be appalled, when some of these characters are unclothed true to life, as they search for their place in this maze … |
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Blue
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Danielle Steel |
When her husband and son are killed in a car accident days before Christmas, Ginny Carter tries to avoid her grief by becoming involved in human rights work in New York. |
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The KGB file of Andrei Sakharov
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Joshua Rubenstein |
"Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989), a brilliant physicist and the principal designer of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, later became a human rights activist and - as a result - a source of profound irritation to… |
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Keeping hope alive
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Hawa Abdi |
"The ... memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters, has kept tens of thousands of her fellow Somali citizens safe, healthy, and educated for more than twenty years"--Dust jacket flap. |
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Global energy governance in a multipolar world
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Kirsten Westphal,Dries Lesage |
Multipolar governance permits a number of important states to have significantly more economic and political clout than others, but among them there is hardly any hierarchy. The new energy challenge,… |
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Contemporary human rights activists
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Eileen Lucas |
Profiles ten significant figures in the world-wide struggle for human rights, including Mother Teresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Joan Baez, Jimmy Carter, and Fang Lizhi. |
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More harm than good
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Susan C. Boyd |
In an era when the "war on drugs" has resulted in increasingly militarized responses from police, harsh prison sentences and overcrowded prisons, a re-examination of drug policy is sorely needed. Are… |
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Jimmy Carter
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Tim O'Shei |
Explores the career and influences of the president who worked to preserve wildlife and national parks and to establish peace among conflicting nations. Includes Internet links to Web sites, source d… |
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Our rights
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Janet Wilson |
Ten biographies and accompanying portraits of children from around the world who have taken on the role of social activist. |
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The barefoot lawyer
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Guangcheng Chen |
An electrifying memoir by the blind Chinese activist who inspired millions with the story of his fight for justice and his belief in the cause of freedom. |
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Grandmother power
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Paola Gianturco |
"Profiles activist grandmothers in fifteen countries on five continents who tell their compelling stories in their own words."--Front jacket flap. |
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Real Life Heroes
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James, Jr Buckley |
64 pages : 24 cm |
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Don't call me lady
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Judy Pollard Smith |
This biography tells the true story of one of history's forgotten women, a Englishwoman named Alice Seeley Harris who has also been called the Mother of Human Rights. She has been hidden by her husba… |
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They dared to dream
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Robert Hirschfeld |
Meet three famous Americans who helped make the world a better place to live. Do you ever dream that the world could be a better place? Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez… |
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The Goode life
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Barb Goode |
"The inspiring story of one of Canada's most remarkable and humble citizens who, in her mission of supporting equality and giving voice to those who had no voice, travelled much of the globe and met … |
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An Ordinary Man
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Paul Rusesabagina |
'I still don't understand why those men in the militias didn't just put a bullet in my head and execute every last person in the rooms upstairs but they didn't. I survived to tell the story, along wi… |
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A Changed Man
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Francine Prose |
On an unseasonably warm spring afternoon, a young neo-Nazi named Vincent Nolan walks into the Manhattan office of World Brotherhood Watch, a human rights foundation headed by a charismatic Holocaust … |
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