Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The 'best short story writer in English' (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose--wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned--Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression...
Author
Language
English
Description
For anyone who believes that liberal isn’t a dirty word but a term of honor, this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason, one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical liberalism that’s also a guide for rolling back twenty years of radical conservative domination of our politics and political culture.
To do so, Robert B....
To do so, Robert B....
Language
English
Description
The duration and scope of the 19th-century Latin American wars for independence dwarf all other conflicts in the New World up until that time. This program-enhanced by period paintings, engravings, maps, and documents from The John Carter Brown Library's Bromsen collection and other esteemed collections of Latin Americana-tells the remarkable life story of Simon Bolivar, founder of Bolivia and liberator of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation"--Front flap.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas, a scathing look at the standard-bearers of liberal politics -- a book that asks: what's the matter with Democrats?It is a widespread belief among liberals that if only Democrats can continue to dominate national elections, if only those awful Republicans are beaten into submission, the country will be on the right course. But this is to fundamentally misunderstand the modern Democratic...
Language
English
Description
Here is a portrait of Simon Bolivar-aristocratic revolutionary, victor in battle, and loser to those who considered the revolution their personal mandate-and of the landscapes and forces that shaped the Latin America of his day and ours. This superb documentary details how and why Spain lost her colonies, and the historic trends and national heroes responsible for the outcome.
Language
English
Description
This Second Report Marking The First Anniversary Of Iraq'S Invasion Of Kuwait, Traces Major Events During The Gulf War Between United States (Us) - Led Allied Forces And Iraqi Troops. Combat In The Gulf Began On The Night Of January 16/17, 1991, When The Multinational Force Launched An Extensive And Largely Unopposed Air Offensive Against Iraq And Against Iraqi Troops Occupying Kuwait. When The Allies Unleashed A Long Anticipated Ground War On February...
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Mopping-up operations in Florence, Italy, by South African and New Zealand troops. 2. U.S. troops enter Rennes, France; surrendered German troops and collaborators are marched to stockades. 3. Allied troops complete the rout of the German 7th Army in northern France; General Montgomery; Allied airplanes strafe and bomb German vehicles.
Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. German S.S. troops fight Czech civilians in Prague streets; Russian and Czech troops enter the city; a parade honors Eduard Benes. 2. UNRRA sends cattle to Europe. 3. James Byrnes is sworn in as Secretary of State; other leaders and personalities include President Truman, Edward Stettinius, Chief Justice Stone, and Cordell Hull. 4. General de Gaulle reviews a liberation parade in Paris....
13) Liberator
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, tales of
DRAGONS
from another world kidnapping and enslaving humans have been circulating in Jason Masters' world, while for a slave girl named Koren, the stories of a human world seem pure myth. Together, these two teens will need to bridge two planets in order to overthrow the draconic threat and bring the lost slaves home.
The Time Has Come
As the long-awaited invasion of human
...Language
English
Description
This World War II-era newsreel includes the following segments: 1. Artillery units blast Japanese troops from the hills of Luzon. 2. President Truman and Secretary of State Stettinius greet San Francisco Conference delegates at the White House. 3. Chinese workers move gasoline drums to the front lines. 4. U.S. troops liberate Russians from German prison camps; Generals Patton and Bradley meet in Munich; the segment also features Jan Christian Smuts,...
Language
English
Description
In 1936 Italy captured the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, and Emperor Haile Selassie was forced into exile. Led by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, Italy's occupation ended in 1941 when Great Britain supported the effort to reconquer the country, reinstating Selassie as the ruler and securing Ethiopia's cooperation with the Allied forces during World War II.
Author
Language
English
Description
SUMMARY & ANALYSIS
LIARS, LEAKERS, AND LIBERALS
BASED ON THE BOOK BY JEANINE PIRRO
SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: BOOK SUMMARY STATION
CONTENT
Setting the Stage: The Age of Trump and the "Resistance"
The Media Under Fire: "Lying, Liberal Fake News and Fiction"
Hollywood's Liberal Hypocrisy
The Enemy Within: "Lying Liberal RINOs"
The Battle Over Borders: "Liberal Sanctuary Cities"
Unmasking the "Deep State": "Lying, Leaking, Liberal Leadership"
Corruption...