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"Charting the transformation of Vladimir Putin from a passionate fan of the West and a liberal reformer into a hurt and introverted outcast, All the Kremlin's Men is a historical detective story, full of intrigue and conspiracy. This is the story of the political battles that have taken place in the court of Vladimir Putin since his rise to power, and a chronicle of friendship and hatred between the Russian leader and his foreign partners and opponents..."--...
42) Allies
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 95 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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English
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Allies is a landmark documentary from 1983, made at the time of Bob Hawke’s unequivocal embrace of the American alliance. The film explores Australia-US relations during the Cold War: the setting up of ASIO to appease American agencies worried about Communist influence; the Petrov Affair and disunity in the Labor Party; and the determination of Sir Robert Menzies to follow the US into Vietnam. It’s the story also of the “covert wars” in South-East...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the children of soldiers--men and women who have been called away from their families to fight in a faraway war. In their own words, some of these children describe how their experience has marked and shaped their lives.
44) Eleven on top
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her mother can tell her friends about without making the sign of the cross. So Stephanie Plum quits. Resigns. No looking back. No changing her mind. She wants something safe and normal. As it turns out, jobs that...
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In 1984, Jack Loeffler produced a radio series entitled "Southwest Sound Collage." His primary listener was his great friend author Edward Abbey who said, "Loeffler, this radio series should be a book." Thus, "Headed Upstream" first appeared in 1989 shortly after Abbey's death. The challenging interviews that appear herein (Edward Abbey, Andrew Weil, John Nichols, Stewart Udall, and Gary Snyder, to name a few) reflect many points of view from anarchist...
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Amy Wright, conductor extraordinaire, has managed to piece apart, then fold together conversations from a bevy of thinkers like Dorothy Allison, Rae Armantrout, Gerald Stern, Lia Purpura, Raven Jackson, Wendy Walters, Kimiko Hahn, Philanese Slaughter, and others, blended into one harmonious whole.
Wright opens the book: "This essay anchors a central thread of dialogue over a dizzying divide. It weaves decades worth of questions and answers from a...
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Las entrevistas de Bibiana Belsasso en Muy personal con... son directas. La autora concede poco espacio de maniobra a sus interlocutores, va al grano, al corazón de las personas. Recoge inquietudes, enfoca la circunstancia, interroga. Analiza el pasado. Exige con elegancia una explicación del presente y mide a su interlocutor de nueva cuenta, a la hora de hacer un pronóstico respecto al futuro del arte, de las comunicaciones, de la política, de...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 online resource (ix, 255 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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English
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"In 1970 photography curator Peter C. Bunnell organized an exhibition called 'Photography into Sculpture' for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The project, which brought together twenty-three photographers and artists from the United States and Canada, was among the first exhibitions to recognize work that blurred the boundaries between photography and other mediums. At once an exhibition catalogue after the fact, an oral history, and a critical...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (4 video files, approximately 240 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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What goes on inside the minds of today’s most dynamic visual artists? How do they make the leap between insight and finished object? What inspires artists to break through the barriers of convention to arrive at new ways of seeing? These and other intriguing questions are explored in Season 3 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century," the only series on national public television to focus exclusively on contemporary art and the people who create it....
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University of California Press
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[2017]
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1 online resource
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"The film industry in Hollywood now employs a global mode of production run by massive media conglomerates that mobilize hundreds, sometimes thousands, of workers for each feature film or television series. Yet these workers and their labor remain largely invisible to the general audience. In fact, this has been a signal characteristic of Hollywood style for more than a hundred years: everything that matters happens onscreen, not off. Consequently,...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 49 min. 32 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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"[A] passionate and astonishing speech, which mixed moral vigour with forensic detail... This was a man delivering an attack on American foreign policy, and Britain's subscription to it, with a controlled anger and a deadly irony. And, paradoxically, it reminded us why Pinter is such a formidable dramatist. He used every weapon in his theatrical technique to reinforce his message. And, by the end, it was as if Pinter himself had been physically recharged...
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Since 2012, The Wayfarer Magazine has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspire our readers, enrich their lives, and highlight the power for agency and change-making that each individual holds.
By our definition, a wayfarer is one whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering. The Wayfarer's mission as a publication is to foster a community of contemplative voices...
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Conversaciones con José Vicente Anaya es un libro de entrevistas al escritor José Vicente Anaya Leal, poeta visionario que fue fundador del movimiento literario Infrarrealsita, junto a Roberto Bolaño y Mario Santiago Papasquiaro. En estas conversaciones, además de encontrarnos con el poeta hablamos también de su faceta como editor de la revista de poesía Alforja, nos encontramos con el periodista de rock, el ensayista, el traductor de la generación...
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Crucian Fusion is a collection of fact and fiction that speaks to the rich history as well as present day St Croix, the largest US Virgin Island.
It is a book to be dipped into - over coffee or maybe a rum, at the beach, as the sun rises or sets. Provoked by thoughts, good and bad, the essays tell of nearly nine years on island. Conversations people who have contributed to the fabric of Crucian society whether through the arts and culture, music,...
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En este libro se reúnen las mejores entrevistas, crónicas, investigaciones y periodismo escrito en general publicado durante el año 2020.
Premiados: Matías Sánchez, Daniel Hopenhayn, Antonia Fava, María Jesús Peralta, Claudio Pizarro, Sebastián Palma, Nicolás Sepúlveda.
58) a kaur's Story
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Arvinder's book is a compilation of stories, of and from Sikh immigrant women who have created a new life in the USA. They have undergone life‐altering events, learned a new way of life, compromised, and adjusted to make a home for themselves and their families. With a lifetime of experiences between them, these women bring to life challenges uniquely faced by women as they seek respect and equality from their peers and families. The stories are...
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In essays, interviews, and photos, Jack Fritscher's masterful writing sheds new Gay Pride light on authentic leatherfolk founders, icons, and superstars too often under-reported by gatekeepers of gay-history timelines: AIDS poet, Thom Gunn, race-sex-and-gender photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Society of Janus founder, Cynthia Slater, Mineshaft manager, Wally Wallace, godfather of gay writing, Samuel Steward, young Provincetown playwright, Tennessee...
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University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 online resource (xxi, 362 pages)
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English
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"Do the United States and France, both post-industrial democracies, differ in their views and laws concerning discrimination? Marie Mercat-Bruns, a Franco-American scholar, examines the differences in how the two countries approach discrimination. Bringing together prominent legal scholars--including Robert Post, Linda Krieger, Martha Minow, Reva Siegel, Susan Sturm, Richard Ford, and others--Mercat-Bruns demonstrates how the two nations have adopted...
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