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Civil Disobedience
Author: Henry Thoreau
ISBN-10: 1557094179
ISBN-13: 9781557094179
Published: 2000-09-01
Publisher: Applewood Books
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Book Description:
Originally published in 1849 as "Resistance to Civil Government," Thoreau's classic essay on resistance to the laws and acts of government that he considered unjust was largely ignored until the Twentieth Century when Mohandas Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr. and anti-Vietnam War activists applied Thoreau's principles.
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Up from Slavery - An Autobiography
Author: Booker T. Washington
ISBN-10: 1595475281
ISBN-13: 9781595475282
Published: 2009-03-06
Publisher: NuVision Publications
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Book Description:
This volume is the outgrowth of a series of articles, dealing with incidents in my life, which were published consecutively in the Outlook. While they were appearing in that magazine I was constantly surprised at the number of requests which came to me from all parts of the country, asking that the articles be permanently preserved in book form. I am most grateful to the Outlook for permission to gratify these requests...Booker T. Washington
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My Two Moms: Lessons of Love, Strength, and What Makes a Family
Author: Zach Wahls
ISBN-10: 1592407137
ISBN-13: 9781592407132
Published: 2012-04-26
Publisher: Gotham
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Book Description:
A resounding testament to individuality and the power of family in all forms from the young man who “lit up the Internet” (Ellen DeGeneres) On January 31, 2011, Zach Wahls addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in a public forum regarding full marriage equality. The nineteen-year-old son of a same-sex couple, Wahls proudly proclaimed, “The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.” Hours later, his speech was posted on YouTube, where it went viral, quickly receiving more than two million views. By the end of the week, everyone knew his name and wanted to hear more from the boy with two moms. Same-sex marriage will be a major—possibly the defining—issue in this year’s election cycle, and Wahls speaks to that, but also to a broader issue. Sure, he’s handsome and athletic, an environmental engineering student, and an Eagle Scout. Yet, growing up with two moms, he knows what it’s like to feel different and to fear being made fun of or worse. In the inspirational spirit of It Gets Better edited by Dan Savage and Terry Miller, My Two Moms also delivers a reassuring message to same-sex couples, their kids, and anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider: “You are not alone.”
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Zeitoun
Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN-10: 0141046813
ISBN-13: 9780141046815
Published: 2011-02-24
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Non Fiction
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In August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans had been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded streets by canoe. He protected neighbours' properties, fed trapped dogs and rescued survivors. But eventually he came to the attention of those 'guarding' this drowned city. Only then did Zeitoun's nightmare really begin. "Zeitoun" is the powerful, ultimately uplifting true story of one man's courage when confronted with an awesome force of nature followed by more troubling human oppression.
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide (First Vintage Books Edition)
Author: Nicholas D.; WuDunn, Sheryl Kristof
ISBN-10: 1844086828
ISBN-13: 9781844086825
Published: 2010
Publisher: Vintage Books
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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Author: Barbara Demick
ISBN-10: 184708141X
ISBN-13: 9781847081414
Published: 2010
Publisher: Granta
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On Liberty (HPC Classics Series)
Author: John Stuart Mill
ISBN-10: 0915144433
ISBN-13: 9780915144433
Published: 1978-04-01
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
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HPC Classics Series.
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The Emancipation Proclamation (Little Books of Wisdom)
Author: Abraham Lincoln
ISBN-10: 1557094705
ISBN-13: 9781557094704
Published: 1998-02-01
Publisher: Applewood Books
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Book Description:
A hardcover copy of the draft, preliminary, and final versions of Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863 Executive Order, the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the freedom of 3.1 million of the nation's slaves.
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Rules for Radicals
Author: Saul Alinsky
ISBN-10: 0679721134
ISBN-13: 9780679721130
Published: 1989-10-23
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Description:
First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
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Princess
Author: Jean P. Sasson
ISBN-10: 0385403453
ISBN-13: 9780385403450
Published: 1992
Publisher: Morrow
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