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1) Lysistrata
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Along with Sophocles and Euripides, Aristophanes is considered one of the three great Greek playwrights. Only eleven of his nearly forty plays survive in their entirety to this day. Of his extant works Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" is considered one of his finest and one of the truly great comedies from classical antiquity. Central to the work is the vow by the women of Greece to withhold sex from their husbands until they end the brutal war between...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 90 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of Michael Apted's "7 Up" series, the award-winning "My So-Called Enemy" has been praised as "moving, powerful, intelligent and brave‚" (The Nation) and "a mesmerizing, eye-opening film that shows the true power of friendship and empathy to conquer political boundaries." (Teen Voices). Spanning seven years, "My So-Called Enemy" follows six Palestinian and Israeli teenage girls committed to justice and mutual understanding after participating...
Author
Language
English
Description
David Hartsough knows how to get in the way. He has used his body to block Navy ships headed for Vietnam and trains loaded with munitions on their way to El Salvador and Nicaragua. He has crossed borders to meet "the enemy" in East Berlin, Castro's Cuba, and present-day Iran. He has marched with mothers confronting a violent regime in Guatemala and stood with refugees threatened by death squads in the Philippines.
Waging Peace is a testament to the...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
The little red fish is a great tale for older children and adults alike. For children, it's a gripping adventure. For adults, it's a moving allegory about a period of history most of them haven't given any thought, the Iranian Revolution. For five years, Manuchehr tried his best to protect the reef from the Herons and their interests. This is the story of the failed revolution and how the little red fish became our light in the cave. We begin before...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
The little red fish is a great tale for older children and adults alike. For children, it's a gripping adventure. For adults, it's a moving allegory about a period of history most of them haven't given any thought, the Iranian Revolution. For five years, Manuchehr tried his best to protect the reef from the Herons and their interests. This is the story of the failed revolution and how the little red fish became our light in the cave. We begin before...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
The little red fish is a great tale for older children and adults alike. For children, it's a gripping adventure. For adults, it's a moving allegory about a period of history most of them haven't given any thought, the Iranian Revolution. For five years, Manuchehr tried his best to protect the reef from the Herons and their interests. This is the story of the failed revolution and how the little red fish became our light in the cave. We begin before...
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
The little red fish is a great tale for older children and adults alike. For children, it's a gripping adventure. For adults, it's a moving allegory about a period of history most of them haven't given any thought, the Iranian Revolution. For five years, Manuchehr tried his best to protect the reef from the Herons and their interests. This is the story of the failed revolution and how the little red fish became our light in the cave. We begin before...
8) Casablanca
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Standard version screen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Sacred throne volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
206 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxi, 265 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Men, masculinity, and militarism are so often seen to be in such close (and mythically heroic) correspondence, the war veteran-as-peace-advocate is sometimes viewed as an oxymoron. This is precisely what interests sociologist Mike Messner. In Guys Like Me (a reference to the phrase his own WWI veteran grandfather used to describe ordinary working-class soldiers), Messner writes, war veterans are rendered simultaneously invisible (due in part to the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
63 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the political history of Ireland, including the effects of British rule, and the struggle to reconcile differing visions of the future of the six counties of Northern Ireland.
13) Red dawn
Language
English
Description
From the windows of a high school classroom, students see paratroopers land on the varsity football field. The invasion of the United States has begun. As their town in overrun by foreign nationals, eight teenagers escape to the mountains. Taking the name of their high school football team, the Wolverines, they wage an unremitting guerrilla action in defense of their parents, their friends and their country.
Publisher
JustVision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen format (16:9).
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
Created by a Palestinian, Israeli, North and South American team, this film tells the story of an Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their safety and public standing to press for an end to the conflict. They are at the vanguard of a movement to push Palestinian and Israeli societies to a tipping point, forging a new consensus for nonviolence and peace. Perhaps years...
16) Plenty
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.
17) The Camden 28
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Edition
Standard.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Camden, New Jersey, summer, 1971. Protests against the Vietnam war are spreading across America. A group of 28 non-violent activists plan to break into a local draft board office and destroy records in an attempt to strike a blow against the 'system.' But a mole has infiltrated their operation and within hours of beginning their mission they are rounded up and arrested by the FBI, under the personal authority of J. Edgar Hoover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Almadía
Pub. Date
[eptiembre de 2014]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Between August and September 2012, a hundred Mexicans, relatives of the victims of the war against drug trafficking, traveled more than eleven thousand kilometers through the territory of the United States. Its purpose was to shout its pain.
Author
Publisher
Treehouse Publishing Group, an imprint of Amphorae Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
50 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Painting for peace in Ferguson is the story of a community coming together, hundreds of artists and volunteers, black and white, young and old, to bring hope and healing to their community using the simplest of all tools- a paintbrush. Written in child-friendly verse, the actual artwork painted on hundreds of boarded up windows in Ferguson, South Grand and surrounding areas illustrates the story."--
Author
Publisher
Perseus Running [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 246 p., [4] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of a Liberian activist as she discusses how she united Christian and Muslim women to campaign for an end to war in her nation. In a time of death and terror, Leymah Gbowee brought Liberia's women together--and together they led a nation to peace. As a young woman, Gbowee was broken by the Liberian civil war, a brutal conflict that tore apart her life and claimed the lives of countless relatives and friends. As a young mother...
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