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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company Gale
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway--who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture--interweaves a close study of biographical events with excerpts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This monograph considers both the future of Iraq and the differences and similarities between events in Iraq and the Arab Spring states. The author analyzes the nature of Iraqi de-Ba'athification and carefully evaluates the rationales and results of actions taken by both Americans and Iraqis involved in the process. While there are many differences between the formation of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein government and the current efforts of some Arab...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Professor Baum delivers forty-eight 30-minute lectures tracing China's tumultous journey from the decline and fall of the 19th-century Manchu dynasty to its rise from the ashes of revolutionary Maoism to become an aspiring 21st-century superpower.
Author
Series
Op-center volume 20
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a plot ripped from today's headlines, America's elite task force must take down a group of ruthless domestic terrorists determined to paralyze the country through extreme acts of violence ... They are known as the Black Order. Self-proclaimed patriots and survivalists, they refuse to surrender their values and belief to the leftleaning cultural and progressive forces threatening their nation. Military veterans and high-tech specialists, they've...
1306) Tommy guns
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Portuguese
Description
The story begins in 1974, just one year before the country's independence from decades of Portuguese rule. Wealthy colonists are fleeing the country as Angolan revolutionaries gradually claim their land back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Another group of soldiers, completely cut off from the outside world, blindly follow the brutal orders of their commander in the name of serving their...
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach...
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Bookended by a foiled attempt on Simon Bolivar's life in Bogota in 1828, the film charts the story of the revolutionary leader's impassioned fight for independence from Spain and creation of a united South American nation, the great stories of love and loss in his life, the political intrigue and drama following his ascension to power and his mysterious death.
Author
Series
Publisher
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The emergence of new hybrid (state and nonstate) transnational criminal/terrorist franchises in Latin America operating under broad state protection now pose a tier-one security threat for the United States. Similar hybrid franchise models are developing in other parts of the world, making understanding the new dynamics an important factor in a broader national security context. This threat goes well beyond the traditional nonstate theory of constraints...
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Not just focusing on the history of African American civil rights in the United States, this new edition has been expanded to include other civil rights movements--the women's movement, the LGBT movement, the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, and the disability rights movement--while still maintaining a comprehensive overview of African American civil rights" --
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning nearly three thousand years of history-from the ancient Secession of the Plebs to the 2017 protests of the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham; from Sojourner Truth to Naoto Matsumura-the posters in Celebrate People's History pay tribute to the long-standing human legacy of revolution, activism, and grassroots organizing. In this book, contemporary artists imagine often-overlooked events and figures in movements for racial justice, women's...
1312) American eras
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
1997-1999
Language
English
Description
Includes essays on events, publications, lifestyles and individuals important to various eras in U.S. history.
Author
Publisher
Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Until the 1980s, Mexico enjoyed relative freedom from violence. Ruthless drug cartels existed, but they usually abided by informal rules of conduct hammered out between several capos and representatives of the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled the country until the 1990s. Relying on bribes, the desperados pursued their illicit activities with the connivance of authorities. In return for the legal authorities turning a blind...
1315) LGBTQ events
Series
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This set, like its predecessor, chronicles important historical events from around the world that have identified, defined, and legally established the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, queers and transsexual, transgender, intersex, and asexual persons."--Volume 1, publisher's note.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Waterworld: In a future where Earth is covered with water, the human race struggles to survive on dilapidated boats and makeshift floating cities called atolls. When a mysterious drifter/adventurer known as the Mariner gets caught up in the struggle between the evil Deacon and a young girl and her adoptive mother, he finds himself catapulted into an explosive war of good vs. evil.
Skyline: It was supposed to be a simple birthday weekend in Southern...