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1) Mayor
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It is a real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. His immediate goals: repave the sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan the city's Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. Rich with detailed observation and a surprising amount of humor, the show offers a portrait of dignity amidst the madness and absurdity of endless occupation while...
2) Munyurangabo
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Kinyarwanda
Description
After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. Though they plan to visit Sangwa's home for just a few hours, the boys stay for several days. From two separate tribes, their friendship is tested when Sangwa's wary parents disapprove...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Miranda Corbie, a private investigator working in the heart of 1940s San Francisco, is bringing this chapter of her life to a close before embarking on a journey to England to find her mother, despite the escalating conflict across Europe. But before she can finally settle her plans to leave, Louise Crowley, a young woman who works upstairs for a publisher in Miranda's office building, walks into Miranda's office. Louise is newly arrived in San Francisco...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jonestown-even now, the name is chilling shorthand for the largest murder-suicide in American history. But what led to the horrifying events of November 1978, when nine hundred people-including nearly three hundred infants and children-died after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink? The Road to Jonestown is the definitive account of Jim Jones and the tragic events at Jonestown, based on newly released documents and new interviews with...
5) Roughing it
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: GENERAL. A series of sidesplitting adventures from the iconic American writer. Originally published over one hundred years ago, "Roughing It" tells the (almost) true story of Mark Twain's rollicking adventures across the United States. A hilarious account of how the author tried finding wealth in the rocks of Nevada, it was published before his most famous works and shows why he would grow to become one of the most beloved...
Author
Series
Star quartet volume 2
Language
English
Description
The story of Delaney Saxton, a man who struck it rich in the California gold rush of 1849 and stayed to build a great city, and Chauncey FitzHugh, an heiress from England who travels to San Francisco to avenge her father. She believes Delaney Saxton ruined him and plans to destroy Saxton in the same way he destroyed her father. But her prey isn't what she expected. He is charming, and too handsome for his own good.
7) Creative community organizing: a guide for rabble-rousers, activists, and quiet lovers of justice
Author
Series
Publisher
Berrett Koehler
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A practical guide to community organizing that gathers the accumulated lessons, strategies, and secrets a veteran activist's forty-four years of experience.
This latest work by legendary activist, musician, and author Si Kahn is a different kind of community organizing book. As with other books, including some by Kahn himself, it does describe many of the practical tactics organizers use. But it's also about community organizing as a way of thinking...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties where the homeless make their homes. The adage...
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bring planning and exploring San Francisco to life! With detailed breakdowns, expert advice, must-see sights, places to stay, hand-drawn illustrations and stunning photography, this updated, lightweight San Francisco travel guide ensures that your trip is unforgettable" --
Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Description
From Publishers Weekly: The rich and sometimes discordant strains of American self-scrutiny fill this wide-ranging anthology. Kennedy (The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) arranges the more than 200 selections according to themes like "The Flag," "Freedom of Speech," "Work, Opportunity and Invention" and "The Individual," and devotes equal space to the official, the devotional and the oppositional. The Declaration of Independence...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The year 2022 will mark the bicentennial of the birth of Olmsted; a national celebration is being planned by several organizations. This book celebrates 200 of the more than 6,000 landscapes that he and his successors created, many of which are extant, kept up, open to the public, and beloved as major cultural sites. Olmsted designed many of America's most beloved parks and landscapes during his remarkable 40-year career, including New York's Central...
14) Building the nation: Americans write about their architecture, their cities, and their landscape
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Moving away from the standard survey that takes readers from architect to architect and style to style, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape suggests a wholly new way of thinking about the history of America's built environment and how Americans have related to it. Through an enormous range of American voices, some famous and some obscure, and across more than two centuries of history, this...
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