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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 66 min.)
Language
English
Description
In Life in Occupied Palestine, Anna Baltzer, a graduate of Columbia University and the Jewish-American granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, documents her experience as a volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service in the West Bank. Baltzer provides a straightforward account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while chronicling the almost unbearable living conditions of Palestinians under the Occupation. An accessible introduction to a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 86 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
Columbia is the trade union murder capital of the world. Since 2002, more than 470 workers’ leaders have been brutally killed, usually by paramilitaries hired by private companies intent on crushing the unions. Among these unscrupulous corporate brands is the poster boy for American business: Coca-Cola. These unpunished crimes spur U.S. activists David Kovalik, Terry Collingsworth and Ray Rogers into an ambitious crusade against the soft drink giant....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 82 min., 16 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A closer walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A closer walk was conceived with the late Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health Organization's response to global AIDS. For the film, more than 50 women, men, and young people...
Author
Series
Pinnacle Peak mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (265 pages) : map
Language
English
Description
"After her first attempt at breaking and entering, business attorney Hannah Dain heads for the cliffs of Pinnacle Peak, Arizona to rock climb and winds up in the middle of an anti-Indian protest turned violent."--Jacket.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 53 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Nearly 30 years ago, Pol Pot overtook Cambodia and more than one million people perished in the Khmer Rouge’s brutal “killing fields.” Many others were forced into unspeakable acts in order to survive; Arn Chorn Pond is one of these survivors. Now, after living in the United States for 20 years, Arn is a musician and activist, traveling the country and giving lectures on human rights. He is also on a mission to reconcile the demons of his past....
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The danger is palpable as maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues travel to Hainan Province in southern China to protest the case of six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. Marked as enemies of the state, the activists are under constant government surveillance and face interrogation, harassment, and imprisonment. Sparrow, who gained notoriety with her advocacy work for sex workers'...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Language
English
Formats
Description
They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends’ couches, in parks, or on the streets. Their official designation is “unaccompanied homeless youth”—they are not "runaways" breaking free from strict parenting; these are kids seeking safety. They have escaped abusive parents, have been abandoned, or have never had a home to begin with. When Vicki Sokolik’s...
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs., 9 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
12) The East
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Moss is an ambitious new recruit at an elite private intelligence firm. Her first undercover assignment is to infiltrate 'The East,' an elusive activist collective that terrorizes corporate leaders who commit crimes against humanity. The more involved she gets, the more Sarah's life is in danger.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A joyful, inspiring informational picture book that introduces readers to eleven young people from around the world who didn't wait until they were grown to speak up about things that matter to them and change the world for the better.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Each of the six stories in Your Duck is My Duck, Eisenberg's first collection since 2006, has the heft and complexity of a novel. With her own inexorable but utterly unpredictable logic and her almost uncanny ability to conjure the strange states of mind and emotion that constitute our daily consciousness, Eisenberg pulls us as if by gossamer threads through her characters--a tormented woman whose face determines her destiny; a group of film actors...
15) Children of men
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and refugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations. Torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, a London...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through photographs by Eddie Adams, and interviews by human rights activist, Kerry Kennedy, gripping stories are revealed of 51 men and women around the globe who put their lives on the line, surviving imprisonment, torture, and death threats, because of hope for and dedication to a future where equality is common and oppression rare.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"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.
18) Acts of faith
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
669 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A disparate group of men and women confronts their own individual moral crises, fears, and physical dangers as they work to alleviate the hardships and suffering caused by civil war and famine in contemporary Sudan.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 889 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations and photographs (black & white) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This book is a dual biography of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the powerful First Couple who attempted to use their presidency and their long post-presidency to bring peace, human rights, and justice to all peoples of the world. It describes in intimate detail their tumultuous involvement in national and international politics as well as their personal lives. From intensive research in presidential archives, declassified documents, personal papers and...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 221 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author of The Vagina Monologues describes being diagnosed and treated for uterine cancer and how her illness forced her to reconnect with her own body and gave her a better understanding of the resilience of humans.
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