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By Ernest Freeberg. 2001
Chronicles the life of Laura Bridgman, who, born into a New Hampshire farm family in 1829, became deaf and blind…
at the age of two. Freeberg recounts Laura's transformation into a woman who voraciously absorbed the world around her under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe of the Perkins Institution for the Blind. 2001.By Primo Levi. 1988
Primo Levi spent over a year in the Auschwitz concentration camp. This book is an attempt to make some sense…
of his experiences, and to try to understand how a nation could set up a system to butcher millions of people. Eventually he gave up the struggle to come to terms with it and committed suicide in 1987. 1988.By Eugene R Wittkopf, James M McCormick. 2004
This comprehensive survey of the interaction between domestic and international politics shows how public opinion, interest groups, the media, the…
intelligence establishment, and the different branches of American government influence U.S. foreign policy formulation, with a special emphasis on national security issues in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. 2004.By Deborah Kent. 1996
A chronicle of milestones in the ongoing fight for disability rights in the United States; includes the 1940 establishment of…
the National Federation of the Blind and the passing of both the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Grades 4-7. c1996.By Fouad Ajami. 1998
Examines the concepts of secular nationalism and modernity as conceived by Arab intellectuals of Beirut, Baghdad, Damascus, and Cairo. Provides…
insights into the Middle East from Arabic sources: fiction, poetry, memoirs, and political commentaries. c1998.By Bernard Crick, Niccolò Machiavelli, Leslie J Walker. 1970
In his carefully argued commentary on Livy’s history of Roman republicanism, Machiavelli proposes a system of government that would uphold…
civic freedom and security by instilling virtues of active citizenship in the populace. Originally written circa 1517. 1970.By Peggy Abkhazi, S. W Jackman. 1981
While in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, the British author kept a journal which records the routines…
of camp life and the variety of ways prisoners coped with their new existence. 1981.By Martin F Norden. 1994
Film has often shown people with physical disabilities as deserving isolation from the rest of society. Norden examines hundreds of…
Hollywood and international movies and uncovers the industry's practices for maintaining this status quo, while offering an array of physically disabled characters who embody or break out of stereotypes. He observes the arrival of a new set of stereotypes tied to the growth of science and technology in the 1970s and 1980s, and underscores later movies that display a newfound sensitivity. Some descriptions of sex, strong language. 1994.By Nitya Lacroix. 1999
This text provides information on: how to provide and achieve complete satisfaction; enjoying, exploring and refreshing a loving sexual relationship;…
creating the right environment, identifying needs, sharing fantasies. It is a guide book for today's sexual attitudes. Explicit descriptions of sex. 1999.By Michael R Beschloss. 2002
Historian relates the political dilemmas facing the Allies during World War II, including the future of conquered Germany. American Secretary…
of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr. urged harsh punitive measures in retaliation for Nazi crimes against European Jews, while others sought rehabilitation and the establishment of democracy to prevent further German aggression. Bestseller. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2007, c2002.By John Fraser. 1980
As a correspondent to the Toronto "Globe and Mail" in Peking, Fraser had the opportunity to meet a wide range…
of Chinese people and to learn of their culture and government. 1980.This history of Chinese immigration to Canada includes an examination of the impact of racism on the Chinese community and…
the occupational achievements of Chinese-Canadians in the 1960s and after. c1988.By Allan J Lichtman. 2017
By Phillip M Hoose. 2015
At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old…
Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonment helped spark a full-blown Danish resistance. Junior High readers and older. 2015.By Stephen Harding. 2016
In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The torpedo…
broke the destroyer's back, flooded her engine room, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to rescue most of Strong's surviving crewmen, scores were submerged in the ocean as the shattered warship sank beneath the waves - and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Tells the unique tale of Navy Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller's fight for survival against both a hostile environment and an implacable human enemy. 2016.By Doris Kearns Goodwin. 2013
Focusing on the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft, this book revisits the Progressive…
Era during which Roosevelt wielded the Bully Pulpit to challenge and triumph over abusive monopolies, political bosses, and corrupt money brokers only to see it compromised by Taft. 2013.By Alan M Dershowitz. 2005
By Pearl S Buck. 1992
First published as a magazine article in 1950, this book deals with Buck's feelings about her daughter Carol's mental retardation.…
Buck, noted for her humanitarian work with children, relates her struggle to understand and help her daughter. She was perhaps the first prominent person to openly acknowledge a retarded child, and as such broke a national taboo with her article's publication. 1992.By Czesław Miłosz. 1990
Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their…
hopes in the new order of the East, this work reveals in detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it. 1990. Uniform title: Zniewolony umysł.By Jean Pelletier, Claude Adams. 1981